Chapter VI: Preliminary Investigation
Redemption knew that Ciel and Harry were very lazy guys, but he didn't expect that the two of them would be so leisurely, he gave the two of them a full night's rest, but the two of them didn't get up at lunchtime, and in desperation, Redemption had to pull the two out of bed and force the two to investigate.
"Say it! Where are the corpses placed!? Hua Xu Yao put her arm around Hill's neck and held Harry's head with her hand, trying to make the two of them wake up, but no matter how hard Hua Xu Yao tried, the sister and brother still didn't wake up.
"Hua Xu Yao, you still use your ability." Redemption shook his hand, he really didn't have much patience.
"Understood." Hua Xu Yao nodded, and then turned on his mind control ability and collected information in Xi'er's head.
"Morgue No. 8, Basement 3rd Floor, Central Hospital"
Facing Xi'er's "answer", Hua Xu Yao smiled slightly, a strange color flashed in her beautiful eyes, and said with a smile: "If you are tired, you go to rest first, and leave the rest to us." ”
"Then please." Ciel raised her eyebrows, yawned sharply, and then took Harry's hand, and the two of them left for the bedroom.
Then, Redemption led his members to the morgue in a hurry, and despite the obstruction of the on-site staff, he untied the white cloth of the first corpse.
"This corpse looks like it should be a female white-collar worker." Ingrid said, lifting the white cloth of the first corpse. Lying in front of everyone at this moment was a female corpse, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, dressed in professional women's clothes, but her whole body looked a little messy, and there were some places where she was scratched, but there were no scars on her body.
"Such a bizarre way of dying is really rare, Ingrid, you check to see if he has been poisoned!" Void Salvation asked.
Hearing this, Ingrid frowned, he looked up and down, the lips on the deceased's body were bloody, Ingrid opened her hand, pushed the body from head to toe, shook her head and said, "The deceased did not have any poisoning. "Ingrid has the ability to manipulate time and space, and is responsible for the medical assistance of the team members on weekdays, which is naturally a piece of cake for checking for signs of poisoning.
"Hmm!" Void Redemption nodded slightly, and then said, "Xiao Ying will try your psychic ability, whether you can transform the soul of the dead and communicate." ”
Hearing that Xiao Ying didn't say much, he sighed and stepped forward, stretched out his hands, and closed his eyes tightly, it may be that the previous exercise made him mature a lot, and now he seems to be from the Netherworld Hell, at this moment Xiao Ying's body trembled slightly, and his whole body exuded a strong ability waveform, and the people on the side couldn't help but take a few steps back, as if they were looking at the arrival of death.
I saw that Xiao Ying's body was shrouded in death, and the shadows of the dead slowly flowed, but none of these shadows gathered into an entity, Xiao Ying tried his best, but he couldn't conjure any of the undead.
"No, the dead have no brains. Salvation, you know my abilities, I need to dissect the residual brain tissue to perform the conjuring, I can't do anything without a brain corpse. Xiao Ying shook his head, retracted his hands, and instantly stopped the release of his ability, and then, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Ying really felt a little lucky, although his will was a lot stronger, but torturing the souls of the dead was still something that was difficult for him to accept.
"Hmm" Void Redemption shook his head, if he lost his brain tissue, Hua Xu Yao's ability would be even more useless, and the investigation was at an impasse.
"Let's see what the other corpses have first." Saying that Void Redemption came to the second corpse, uncovered the white cloth, and saw that the outfit should be a cleaner, about forty years old, and a kind-looking man.
"This person also didn't have any internal or external injuries, and his brain disappeared out of thin air." Void Redemption observed for a while, and then he waved his hand to look at the third corpse, and the four of them understood.
The third corpse was a nurse, about eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a pink nurse's uniform, a pink nurse's hat, her appearance was even more picturesque, her nose was delicate, her cherry mouth was small, her skin was like jade, the two peaks on her chest were tall and handsome, pink and flawless, a pair of skillful hands were as white as jade, and a pair of jade legs were slender.
"Except that their brains are gone, do they have nothing in common?" Void Salvation asked.
"The common denominator is that they don't have anything in common. And just from the social status, they have no direct relationship. Ingrid said.
"Could it be that this is a collective crime? Indiscriminate kills? Hua Xu Yao looked stunned, and sighed in her heart, what was the purpose of the murderer? The deceased are all still young, and they all have different occupations and different social statuses, why did they incur such a murderous disaster?
"They don't have much to do with each other, but they do have one thing in common." Void Redemption pointed to the deceased's mouth and said, "Their lips are slightly swollen, and I observed their skulls, although they don't look like there is any change on the surface, their maxilla, mandible, and nasal bones all have varying degrees of bone damage. ”
"You mean they opened their mouths to the point of strain?" Hua Xu Yao asked incredulously.
"You could say that, but I feel like they're throwing their heads out." Void Redemption is analyzed again.
"Spit out your head?" Haidai was obviously surprised by this inference.
"Does salvation mean parasitism? Think of the brain as a breeding ground for growth? Ingrid analyzed.
Redemption added: "Yes, it's like a virus, it first parasitizes on a person, eats her brain, and then it comes into contact with another person, and it can parasitize on another person, and when the parasite leaves the body, then these people will become a brainless corpse." ”
"And in your experience, what kind of creature did it do?" Xiao Ying asked.
"It's not certain yet, but there are two possibilities." Void Redemption touched his chin and continued: "The first may be an unknown mutated creature that has the ability to gnaw on human brains, swallowing entire brains in one go, and then slipping out of the mouths of the dead. ”
"What about the second one?" Hua Xu Yao asked incredulously.
"The second possibility is that someone we haven't found has the ability to pull out the entire brain with precision, and the scars between the bones may just be some painful by-product." Void Salvation analyzed.
"What kind of capable person should he be, according to your judgment?" Ingrid asked.
Hearing this, Void Salvation shook his head and said: "It's hard to judge now, I'm just speculating, if it's the first one, then it's easy to do, at most it's a mutated parasite, but it seems that there shouldn't be a lot of it at the moment, just remove it." If it's the second option, it's not easy. ”
"Yes, if it's a capable person, they have a mind, we are in the light, he is in the dark, and I don't know how he makes moves and the level of ability, this matter is really tricky." Hua Xu Yao agreed.
"Now I'm just making a preliminary judgment, and I'll have to do a detailed autopsy of the corpse to learn more details." Void Salvation said.
"So when does it start and from whom?" Ingrid asked.
"Let's start with this cleaner, as for the time, we will have to wait for Harry and Ciel to be notified, after all, this matter needs the cooperation of their siblings." Void Salvation said.
"In addition, your task now is to disguise yourself as an ordinary person and investigate whether there are any suspicious mutated organisms or abilities, but remember that no matter what you see, investigate it first, and don't act rashly and startle the snake." Void Salvation said in a commanding tone.
"Yes! Understood," several of them replied in unison, and they briefly planned their tasks, and then went their separate ways......
Void Redemption looked at the backs of several people leaving expressionlessly, but Ingrid was still standing in place, he understood what was going on, and his tone became softer: "Ingrid, remember what I said to you, do what you have to do." ”
"Hey, hey, hey, hey!" Ingrid laughed, bowed slightly toward redemption, and walked out as well.
In the morgue, only one person remained.
"What are you going to do next? This case is quite mysterious. Marcel had been lurking in the shadows, and seeing that there was no one around, he talked to Salvation: "What's the plan?" ”
"No plan is a plan, so let's do what I can now." As he spoke, Redemption took out a set of dissecting tools: "Although I don't think there is any point in doing this, maybe I can find some clues." ”
With that, he dissected the corpse in front of him.
At this moment, Ingrid has come to the street, which used to be a bustling big city, but now it has long since declined, and Ingrid looked around, her face couldn't help but feel a little lost.
The streets are full of garbage and paper scraps and dilapidated daily necessities, some of the high-rise buildings are broken at the waist, some are dilapidated, the yellow sand is all over the ground, the breeze blows gently, setting off a wave, the dust is all over the sky, mixed with the smell of rancidity, this smell is particularly pungent, enough to make people sick.
Ingrid walked down the street, as if out of place with the desolate street, she could clearly hear her footsteps with every step she took, the street was not as prosperous as it used to be, only full of desolation, occasionally a head poked out of the corner, a shaggy and dirty hair, gray face, yellowish complexion, emaciated, and a foul smell, which was the result of not bathing for a long time.
"Big sister, you're okay, can you give me something to eat?" At this moment a little girl in the corner, unkempt and tattered, with a step of three steps, came only as promised, her words trembling, and looked at Ingrid with an expectant eye.
"Yes, little sister." Ingrid bent down and gently stroked the little girl's head, looking at his young cheeks, remembering her sister, Ingrid was a little melancholy, and took out a loaf of bread from her bosom. This is a place where the city is not like a city, a home is not like a home, there is just a group of hungry victims and a world of the jungle.
"Little sister, promise my sister, can you eat here?" Ingrid handed the bread she had prepared in advance to her little sister in front of her.
"Thank you, big sister, Xiao Ni is not hungry, Xiao Ni wants to give bread to her mother." The little girl smiled innocently and ran out into the street. But before he could run a few steps, a few big men came out of the corner, they were all unkempt and in tattered clothes, and several big men, looking at the bread in the little girl's hand, their eyes bloomed with greed, and they blinked their mouths, and they would pounce on the little girl at any time.
"Don't snatch Xiaoni's bread, it's Mom's, Mom is dying of hunger." Seeing this, the little girl put the bread on her chest and said in an almost pleading tone.
"Hey" Seeing this, Ingrid could only sigh, this is the reason why she just let the little girl eat the bread, this bread will definitely attract a group of people to rob it. Ingrid wants to teach these big men a lesson, but they are poor people, there are old and young in the family, they come out to forage for food, and they have to do it, and now this situation is a situation of artificial delusion.