Chapter VII

Romania, southern Carpathians. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are steep mountains and beautiful scenery, and of course there are many caves on the mountain. Home to European werewolves and vampires, it was inhabited by giant beasts such as bighorn deer, platetooth rhinoceros, protobulls and mammoths in the distant past. In the caves of the Carpathians, many fossils, cave paintings and ancient human remains have been found.

This is a beautiful spa valley that has been a health resort since ancient Rome and is now frequented by hot spring tourists. Just across the valley, the caves in the mountains are inaccessible and are usually less crowded except for backpackers hiking.

El Salvador is one such backpacker, and as a university student, his hobby is mountain hiking. And this time it was a little hike - he had been here several times, and every time he came to the hot springs for a small hike in the nearby hills. This time too, he walked the mountain road he had visited several times, admiring the magnificent Carpathian Mountains all around. He looked in the direction of his right—he knew that there was a gentle slope halfway up the hill, and that there was a rather large cavern with a straight mouth on it. There was a bison skeleton in that cave, which he had seen with his own eyes, and he had been curious to enter and see it in the past, this cave was not very deep, about thirty meters deep, and the inside was quite spacious, and the height was more than ten meters.

Whistling happily, Salvador walks along the path, where there are no trees, mostly grass and pebbles, so the view is quite wide. Suddenly, he seemed to hear something, like the sound of rolling stones, and Salvatore turned his head around and looked around, but found nothing out of the ordinary. However, in the following walk, Salvador always felt that something was not right, and his heart throbbed.

The path winds its way through the side of the cave, and the closer Salvatore gets to the cave, the more his heart beats, "Let's go back." Salvador decided to cancel the original plan, the plan to climb to the top of the mountain, and return to the hotel in the spa resort area to get a good night's sleep. Just as he turned to walk down, he heard a low snoring.

It's as if there's a big cat purring, and El Salvador has a pet cat at home, and he's familiar with it. He shook his head from side to side, trying to determine where the sound was coming from—he did see where it was...... But he preferred not to see anything. It was an exaggerated beast, and Salvador saw an unfluffed black mane and a raised tail with a hairball on the tip of the tail, and then he was most impressed by a pair of yellow eyes. The rest of the day he couldn't see clearly, yellow eyes and hot, foul air had enveloped his head, and a huge black shadow knocked him down, Salvatore felt only a tearing pain in his neck, and then he didn't know anything.

That night, Salvador did not return to his hotel. The managers didn't particularly notice this at first, after all, there were quite a few tourists like this in the past, especially young people. They usually hike in the nearby mountains with their backpacks after soaking in the hot springs, and only return to their lodge for rest on the second or third day. But on the third day, the manager also felt that something was wrong, and Salvador's mobile phone could not get through, and the manager had to call the police. When the police arrived, they first took notes, and then learned from the manager that Salvador had said that he was going to hike - El Salvador, which came on vacation almost every year, and that the manager knew his hiking routes better. The police manned the search along the route of El Salvador with police dogs. Of course, the police dog showed a sense of nervousness during the search, but it did not affect the search. The police dogs almost succeeded in reconstructing the itinerary of El Salvador, while police searchers also reconstructed the route of El Salvador based on the traces of footprints. They knew that Salvador had turned back a little above and then appeared to have been attacked near the cave - there were traces of dragging on the ground and that police officers had found blood.

Forensic personnel confirmed that the blood stains were human blood with reagents, and the blood samples were collected and sent to the police department's laboratory for DNA comparison, while the on-site personnel continued to search for the trails. They found El Salvador...... The poor college student collapsed on the side of the cave, and his whole body was torn to a pulp, if it could be called human...... In fact, all that was found was Salvador's head, half of his body, and one leg, and the rest of his body was missing. Police dogs expanded the search area, and then people found other parts of the wreckage in El Salvador. Experienced medical examiners confirmed at first glance that an animal had eaten Salvador's flesh and guts, and that the animal had left traces of attack and gnawing on the remains and bones of Salvador.

Such tragedies are staggering, and if you want to talk about murders, then Romania is not rare, but the cases of wild beasts attacking and eating people can be considered national news. At first, the police thought that brown bears were responsible, after all, there are brown bears in the Carpathians, and there are quite a few of them, and as for the attacks on people, there have been several incidents in the past. But some say it was done by local wolves, and some even say it's a lynx. However, the final result will only depend on the post-mortem report.

About a week later, the report came out - and before that the news had been so full of reports of brown bears eating people and wolves eating people and lynx eating people, the absurdity of which was simply ridiculous. But the officers in charge of the case looked at the forensic report and couldn't laugh at all. The wounds listed in the report were all caused by large sharp objects, and the model did not look like a brown bear or a gray wolf could have done it. Judging from the scars on the bones, the cause of death in El Salvador was obviously bitten open throat, and the massive bleeding and suffocation in the arteries quickly killed him, and the scars on the cervical vertebrae also indicated that this was obviously done by the feline, but the canine teeth were a bit exaggerated. It seems to be bigger than the Siberian tiger. The scars that gnawed on Salvador's muscles were also the work of some kind of feline cracked tooth, and it was probably the same animal in terms of size.

This is a headache for the police officers - whether it is Romania, or even the Carpathians as a whole, the largest cat is the Eurasian lynx. There are not even leopards here, let alone big cats like tigers. If the feline was the culprit, the killer would be very difficult to find - the officers would rather do it than a brown bear. But it is clear that the animals in this report are no worse than brown bears, and may even be larger - judging by the tooth prints and paw prints. Such a large carnivore is definitely a relatively difficult problem to solve - the first point is to stop the hot spring resort just a mountain away, or at least take 10,000 steps back to strengthen the vigilance. Then the police officer will go up the hill with the local hunters to find the giant feline, "which is the legendary werewolf hunt...... "This is the legendary werewolf hunt," one muttered - but there are tabloids who claim that all this is the work of the werewolf......