18. The devil in my heart
At about ten o'clock on the night of the fifth day, the voice of the police officer guarding the monitoring room finally came from the intercom, and he told us that a rat came out of the sewer on the side of Building 3, and as we had speculated before, the rat went straight to the back door of Building 3.
There is no doubt that this mouse is the leather walker we are waiting for!
In the past few days that the leather walker has been hiding, the entire No. 3 hotel building has been filled with cameras, and all the movements of the rat are under the supervision of the police in the monitoring room, and its every move is also transmitted to us through the walkie-talkie.
In order to make the trick more realistic, I deliberately separated from Qiao Wei and the two policemen who accompanied the operation, and ran to the opposite room to wait for the leather walker to deliver the door. I guess this guy probably didn't even think anyone would know about his weakness, so he wouldn't have noticed it was a trap. Sure enough, it did come to the room I was in.
The sound of the intercom reminded me that the rat had arrived at the door of my room, and I took another deep breath after checking that I was wearing all the silverware I was wearing, and that the UV lamp was working properly.
When my nerves had calmed down, there was a soft knock on my room door, followed by a pleasant woman's voice from outside the door!
"Is there anyone in the house, please? Can you do me a favor? ”
I immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and asked softly, "There's a woman outside the door?" ”
"Nope! There is only one mouse! The officer in the monitoring room responded.
Now it's even clearer! This leather walker disguised the voice of a woman to make the people in the room let their guard down, and the moment it opened the door, it launched a surprise attack, and then took the people out of the house through transformation, no one would have thought that the big living person could turn into a mouse and leave the building!
I walked cautiously to the door, holding the UV searchlight in my left hand and gently resting my right hand on the doorknob. After taking another deep breath, I slammed the door open and shone the UV searchlight that had been turned on into the doorway.
At the same time, the door of the opposite room suddenly opened, and Qiao Wei and two other police officers rushed out and shone several ultraviolet lamps at the door of my room with several ultraviolet lamps in their hands.
The mouse at the doorway was instantly covered by several beams of light, and it suddenly let out a piercing, sharp wail, and at the same time, the fur on its whole body instantly caught fire! Immediately after that, the little mouse quickly expanded and transformed, and Zuihou turned into a red monster nearly three meters tall, with a pair of curved horns on the top of its head and a bald tail behind its buttocks!
The monster's body was covered in blood blisters from the burn, and its emaciated body looked more like a carrion.
The minotaur was in great pain under the intense ultraviolet light, and it turned to flee in the direction of the back doorway, but it only took half a step before its tail tripped itself, and then it began to curl up and roll in the bright light, and black smoke came out of it.
At this time, Qiao Wei took half a step closer and threw the silver table knife in his hand at the monster's body, and the other two police officers also went over and threw the forks, knives and other weapons in their hands at the monster.
The cutlery wasn't sharp, and it was soft, but it was the seemingly innocuous cutlery that could easily stab into the monster's body, and even a spoon could dig into its flesh.
Soon the red monster stopped struggling, and the originally bulging chest cavity also fell down all of a sudden, and then the lower abdomen and limbs also collapsed together, as if all the bones and flesh had vaporized, and Zuihou left only a pool of black blood on the ground and a few pieces of burned skin.
The whole raid didn't even take ten seconds, and we didn't have time to ask it any questions.
Who was it before it became a skinwalker? How did it lose its humanity and become a demon? How many people is it going to kill? These questions will never be answered with the death of the skinwalker.
This trip to Hubei was definitely not a success, although we found Xia Xue and Xia Bing, but we were unable to save the sisters. Not only them, but also two employees of the insurance company and a police officer were killed because of our unprofessionalism.
The police did not disclose everything about the skinwalkers, they only claimed to have killed the killer. But the local police have already mastered the method of dealing with this kind of monster, and if there are other leather walkers hiding in the mountains, even if Qiao Wei is not there, the local police alone can deal with it.
At this point, the serial abduction and murder case that occurred in Huilong Bay Resort has ended, but there are still many difficult mysteries in Shennongjia. Where did the original Materia Medica, which records the word "longevity", go? What exactly is a wildling? Who was the one who took away the pigs and sheep that the villagers had hung outside when the blood moon rose?
Perhaps these are the work of leather walkers, who use immortality as bait to trick people into the mountains and then skin and bone, or there may be other mysterious and strange species hidden in the deep mountains of Shennongjia. We can't solve these puzzles, and maybe it's a good idea to keep it a mystery forever.
On the way home, Qiao Wei told me that he planned to go back to England for a while, and that he felt that it was entirely his responsibility to have five people die at the hands of the devil this time. Although the two sisters may not be able to save them, if he can think of the leather walker in the first place, at least we can prevent the next three people from dying.
So Qiao Wei wants to go back to England to find his father to learn everything about exorcists in detail, not only the skills of exorcists, but also all the monsters that the Harrington family knows.
Qiao Wei realized one thing, just as people can live without borders, some malicious things will also invade the living areas that do not belong to them.
If these strange things are considered to be a special species that also lives on the earth, they may also exhibit different evolutionary trajectories and different characteristics in different regions. With human activity, these species, which only exist in certain areas, also begin to wander around, and when they come to a new place where there are no natural predators in the area, they will become a disaster.
I don't know how the skinwalkers got to China, and I don't know if there are other skinwalkers in China. Maybe one day vampires, werewolves and the like will come to China one after another, which is probably the importance of Qiao Wei.
When more and more unknown monsters enter China, it may be difficult to deal with it with only traditional onmyoji and feng shui masters, and Qiao Wei obviously has an innate advantage, that is, his family.
A week later, Zhu Yue sent me an article she had written about Haode in honor of the two sisters, Xia Xue and Xia Bing.
The legend of the Skinwalker is mentioned in the article, but it also raises a question, a question about the demons that exist in people's hearts.
The two Xia sisters, two employees of the insurance company, and Officer Mu Xiaotian, all five of them were faced with the same choice: whether to live in the form of demons or die as people. They all made their own choices, and when that choice is in front of us, how do we decide?