The officer helped the unconscious policewoman into the car and gave Dean a general idea of what had just happened.

After hearing that he was attacked by the truck monster, the male policeman scolded for being perverted, and picked up a few lumps of dead skin on the ground and returned to the car.

He obviously didn't believe in the idea that some monster was standing on top of a car and attacking, and he just wanted to wake his teammates up and ask about the situation.

Dean didn't force the other party to accept it, and after turning the mental system and repelling the "dead skin", the progress reached twenty-five percent, but it was still far from completing the event.

He then pulled out his spear, axe, and five crossbows from the road and examined them carefully.

Sharper than the slabs and dogleg knives he had, the slightest touch could cut through his skin that was tougher than cowhide, and it was resistant to wear and tear and lightweight.

Dean figured out that these weapons should contain bones and other unknown materials, and the bones naturally came from the hundreds of corpses in the cellar.

Holding these special weapons, Dean had a gut feeling that they could all penetrate the ghost armor to defend against his main body.

Think of the lathes and anvils in the cellar that Daley described.

"These weapons must have been made by 'Dead Skin', and Dead Skin is a master of weapon forging."

At the thought of this, a strong desire rose in Di'an's head, he had hunted many supernatural creatures, but the utilization of the materials on the corpses of these creatures was basically zero.

If he learns Deadskin's ability to craft weapons from biological materials, it will greatly enhance his combat effectiveness, and he will be considered a true supernatural hunter at that time.

"Dead skin, your technique, I booked it in advance."

Subsequently, in the spirit of the enemy's principle, it is one's own.

Dean tries to put the captured weapon into the fantasy space, but unexpectedly fails.

"What's the situation, are they alive and can't make space?"

"Dude, it's time to go!" Daley poked his head out of the car window, "I feel like that song is going to play again!" ”

“OK。”

……

The two cars re-embarked on their way back to the police station.

In the heat of battle, Dean didn't sweat a single drop, and sat calmly in the back row, stuffing food into his mouth to replenish his consumption while checking his newfound weapon.

And the two siblings kept peeking at him through the rearview mirror.

"What's wrong?" Dean was a little uncomfortable with the two of them.

"Although we didn't see exactly what happened just now..."Cui Shi, who was driving, stroked the blonde hair in his ear and smiled back, his eyes curved into crescents, "But you fought off the perverted serial killer 'Dead Skin' and protected us again, you have saved us twice." ”

"When it's over, let's visit our house in Pavina County and try my mother's roast chicken."

Dean smiled and nodded.

"It's like a dream! Dude, how did you do it just now," Daley's eyes flashed with excitement and excitement, as if he saw a superhero alive, "Jumping out of a high-speed car, a normal person will be seriously injured if he doesn't die, why don't you have anything at all?" ”

"I've specialized in the art of jumping out of cars."

"Can you teach me?"

"Then you've got to get some work out first." Dean looked at Daley's thin arm and puffed out his well-developed biceps again, "You need strong muscles to withstand the impact of the outside world." ”

Daley gritted his teeth, "Okay, I'll go home this time and start working out for two hours a day!" ”

"Who wouldn't brag?" Cui Shi glanced at his brother with disdain,

"I swear that if I don't keep going, I'll never get married!"

"Hmph, outside the church pipe before, whoever swore it was like a fart."

"Then who said that all actions in the future will let me make up my mind!" Daley's eyes widened and he looked at his sister,

Trish laughed, "You can lie, and so can I!" ”

"You stinky woman with a mouth full of lies!"

"Fart dog!"

"Stinky woman!"

"Fart dog!"

……

The two siblings complained to each other for a while, and finally they both looked back at Dean and said sincerely,

"Thanks, man."

"Don't rush to thanks, the danger isn't over yet, we haven't caught the dead skin yet..."

……

Half an hour later, the wind and waves were calm, and several people finally arrived at the county police station, a multi-story building, much more spacious and more imposing than the Hawkins police station.

As soon as he entered the door, the male policeman couldn't wait to help the unconscious policewoman rush to the medical room, and by the way, the dead skin left by the attacker was sent for examination.

The Cui Shi sisters and brothers took notes on the bench outside the reception room at the door.

And Dean God swept the police station building, and instantly noticed that one of the floors had been specially converted into a prison, holding dozens of prisoners, and the county police department was quite busy.

He lifted his perspective and walked to the notice board not far from the door, which was plastered with various missing person notices.

Hundreds, far more than what you see in auto repair shops, not only the missing people in the last half month, but also the missing people a year ago, or even 20 years ago.

Dean furrowed his brows to see some pattern in it, but all he could see was a mess.

"Give..."The two siblings handed the completed transcript to the middle-aged police officer Tubbs at the reception, and the other glanced at it, "Hundreds of corpses hidden in the church cellar?" Now it's probably all barbecue. ”

"Trace?!" In the middle of the shout, a black lady in a denim jacket, black hair with slightly curly, and a fat figure suddenly pushed open the door of the police station, and walked in menacingly, her dark and bright eyes swept over the two siblings, and the two siblings looked confused.

Who is this?

"Tracey and Daley, right?" The fat black woman asked,

"Jesse, what are you doing here?" Tubbs was speechless, his expression was like looking at a neurotic, "These two children have just met with misfortune, don't bother them." ”

The black lady approached the two siblings regardless of it, and her fat belly swayed with her footsteps, like a bucket.

"Daley Jenner?" She suddenly reached out and grabbed the boy's hand, shook it tightly, and introduced herself, "I'm Jesse Guy Hartman..."

"The mysterious lady who called them in the restaurant to warn them?" Dean walked over and put his arm around the trembling shoulders of the two siblings,

"Yes, I called."

The two siblings suddenly realized.

"Very well, I'm Dean," Dean couldn't help but grab the black woman's hand and shake it, "Nice to meet you, I want to talk to you about dead skin, since you reminded them, you must know something!" ”

"Wait, who the hell are you?" The black woman looked at Dean with a surprised face, as if she had seen something incredible, "I don't know you at all, I didn't see you in my dreams, you shouldn't be at the police station!" ”

Dean raised an eyebrow, a little unincomprehensible to her.

"Hey, three, don't believe Jesse's nonsense." Tubbs walked over and grabbed the black woman by the shoulder, "She thinks of herself as a psychic in the police station, and has given us advice in several disappearances, but those suggestions are useless, and she likes to say meaningless things to scare people." ”

"Don't disturb our chat," the black woman turned angrily and pushed the officer away, "you can't help the old lady find the cat and do something useful!" ”

"Don't worry, Officer Tubbs, we'll handle it." Dean also persuaded the helpless police officer to return to the reception.

The black woman ignored his kindness and looked directly at the two sisters and brothers who were silent, "You don't need to treat me as a medium, or a friend or an enemy... But I feel like I have something to tell you. ”

The two siblings looked at Dean inquiringly, and the latter nodded at them.

"I've seen the corpses in the cellar, too," the fat woman continued, "but not in reality, I've seen them in my dreams... I dream every day, I dream about a lot of things, and it turns out that most of these things will become reality. ”

Dean rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought,

The black woman shouted in a speech, "I dreamed that you broke into a restaurant in terror and called for help, and that you broke into the house of an old lady with dozens of cats on your way to the police station. ”

"Wait!" Trish raised her hand to interrupt the woman and retorted unceremoniously, "What cat?" We didn't see the cat, you're talking nonsense! ”

The fat woman's brain was suddenly stunned for a moment, and the little fat hand waving passionately hung in the air, and her brows were tightened.

"Why didn't you see the cat? What changed your course? ”

"It should be my reason, I saved them in advance." Dean took a step in front of the two siblings, staring directly at the dark circles and tired cheeks of the black woman, "If I'm not mistaken, Ms. Medium, you should have a superpower to see the future, you can see a fragment of the past in your dreams, or a possibility of the future. ”

"This ability tortures you very badly, makes you sleep badly, and often loses sleep, so you become a little neurotic, too direct, and don't speak logically, which makes people think that you are playing tricks."

"And you dreamed of what happened to your two siblings, out of a sense of justice and kindness, you called them and rushed to the police station to remind them to be careful of dead skin."

"You, you... How do you know? ”

The black woman opened her mouth slightly and pointed at Dean's chest, shocked as if she saw God,

And the two sisters and brothers looked at each other, their expressions became very exciting, the monster "dead skin" who had never seen their true faces before had already made them wonder, what superpowers have appeared now?

They suddenly had the illusion that their worldview had been reversed, as if they had lived in a false world for the past ten years!

"Oh God!" Tubbs, who was eavesdropping at the reception, shouted, "Our psychic lady at the police station has actually found a confidant!" Predicting the future, what an amazing ability, Jesse, I am about to go bankrupt after seeing the dentist for my child, please, activate the ability of foresight, tell me what the winning numbers of the next lottery will be? ”

"Don't interrupt!" Jesse turned to yell at the teasing officer, then looked at Dean and nodded in agreement, "You described it accurately, and perfectly explained my current predicament. You're like me, you have some unusual qualities, and you want to protect the siblings from the demon. ”

Dean nodded.

Jesse continued, "Then we are on the same page, and there is no need for any hypocrisy and politeness. Listen up. ”

Dean pulled the two siblings to sit down on the bench and made a gesture of deafness.

"The one who drove the truck, dumped corpses in churches, and tracked down the monsters that attacked you, as you said before, is called 'Dead Skin'."

The fat woman's deep voice echoed through the hall, "I don't know where it came from, but there is a fixed pattern to its movements, and every 23 years, it appears in the world and stays in the world for 23 days. ”

"Why 23?" Dean calmly watched the skyrocketing progress in the system, realizing that this number was also an important clue, "What does 23 have in particular?" ”

"I don't know." Jesse shook his head,

A look of absurdity appeared on Cui Shiqiao's face, and she asked, "What about the rest of the time outside of these 23?" Where is the dead skin, it doesn't kill? ”

"Sleep, perhaps, in a place far from the world." Jesse continued, "In short, for 23 days of its activity, it will be constantly foraging for food. ”

"Foraging?" Daley swallowed, his face pale and incredulous,

"Think about the corpses that have been stitched up, the mutilated parts, you should know what dead skin eats." Jesse stared into his eyes with deep fear in his tone, "But it's a picky eater, it only chooses the best parts, and it eats these parts to have the corresponding abilities, hearing, smell, sight..."

Jesse's tone paused, and there was a hint of pity in his eyes when he looked at the two siblings,

"It's been following you siblings, not because you've discovered its secrets, but because it's obsessed with what is inside one of you, so it's tracking you until you get it."

"You're deliberately making up a horror story to scare us, right?" Cui Shi raised his head to block in front of Daley, who had a stiff expression, and glared at the woman and retorted dissatisfiedly,

"Believe it or not, I'll say it."

"I trust you, but how is Dead Skin tracked? Take advantage of scent? Dean's eyelids jumped, and the perception of the tracking bullet that had always existed suddenly disappeared, and the dead skin was nowhere to go.

And the progress has jumped to 35 percent.

"It has to frighten its prey, track the smell of panic from it, and then it can smell if there's something in the prey that it desperately needs." ”

"That's why this devil haunts the highway and scares people out of the way to smell it," Daley said, "and that's why it drove the truck and deliberately rear-ended us to intimidate us." ”

"God, Daley, do you believe that kind of funny statement?" Trish grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him, as if to shake him out of his nightmare.

Daley shook his head at his sister and said timidly, "Let's face it, so many corpses in the church are real, and Dean's previous battle is also real, we got into trouble with something we shouldn't mess with!" ”

"Don't worry too much, if you want to deal with you, you must ask me about the gun in my hand first." Dean looked at the two siblings and smiled, deliberately said to comfort him, "If it dares to come, I'll beat it out of!" ”

The horror on Daley's face eased slightly.

"But you can't kill it." "When it hurts one leg, it eats the other leg and immediately grows it out, and the same goes for missing its head." It has no vital injuries all over its body, and 'eating' quickly heals all injuries. ”

The progress bar is at forty percent.

Dean listened with a strange light in his eyes,

What kind of superpower is this?

There is no vital point, and any part of the body can be replaced by eating, so which part of the body of dead skin is it?

Or is it not an entity in nature?

Dean asked, "Can the flames, the strong acid, and the venom kill it?" ”

"Nothing can destroy it directly, at most expel it temporarily." "It's been around for more than 200 years, and its first appearance dates back to the 18th century. And it is reincarnated every 23 years, and when it comes out to do evil, no one can stop it! ”

"More than two hundred years?" Dean pondered, "So the hundreds of corpses in the church cellar have been accumulated over the past two hundred years..."

In the past years, science and technology were underdeveloped, reconnaissance methods were backward, and the dead skin would disappear for a long 23 years after each crime... It's not surprising that it can be hidden from the world.

Progress jumped to 45 percent.

The Cui Shi sisters and brothers listened to everyone stupidly.

A man-eating monster for more than two hundred years?

Tubs at the door sneered, thinking they were talking about some horror story,

"Then there's a question," Dean looked at the black lady with a blazing gaze, "why do you know so much about it, and you see it in your dreams?" ”

"Part of it I found in the old antique literature of the county library. The other part is innate. ”

Jesse stared at the glass door of the police station, his voice fearful and hateful,

"The police call me a psychic because I always perceive something strange. When I was 1 or 24 years old, I felt the awakening of dead skin, as if there was some kind of connection between me and it. I could see it committing crimes, intimidating, torturing, dismembering, dissecting the poor prey, and then deriving supreme satisfaction and pleasure from the horror of the prey. ”

Jesse clenched his hands into fists in front of his chest, his eyes began to redden, and every muscle on his face trembled at the same time, revealing an extremely heart-wrenching expression.

"I can also feel the extreme fear of those prey before they die, as if I had become them, and there was an endless stream of ice water washing over our souls... I'm tormented by this... I've always wanted to get rid of it, but I can't! No one believed me, they all thought I was a madman. ”

"Can you understand the pain?"

Progress jumped to fifty percent.

There was a brief silence in the hall.

The Tsz siblings both felt deep helplessness and despair from the hysterical description of the woman, and couldn't help but feel a little more sympathy for her.

And Dean summarized the clues he had collected, which Jesse described in his mouth, that obviously touched the change in progress:

Dead skin is a monster that has existed for more than 200 years and cannot be destroyed, according to the behavior pattern of once every 23 years, each time for 23 days, using the smell of fear to hunt humans, picking the parts they like and eating them.

It deliberately placed the five or six hundred dead hunted on the walls around the cellar and arranged it as a "madman's version of the Sistine Chapel Dome".

It may have some kind of hidden relationship with this Ms. Jesse Gay Hartman.

One of the tables in its collection is painted with the image of "a woman being grilled on a wooden stake".

……

Dean is sure that these clues must hide the origin of the dead skin and the way to eliminate it once and for all!

"Well, ma'am, can you lend me the ancient documents you've read?" Dean looked at Jesse, "Also, I need you to answer some questions, and if we get them all figured out, maybe we'll be able to kill the dead skin forever!" ”

"I'll take you to the literature tomorrow," Jesse nodded heavily, "Now, just ask any questions!" ”

"Don't forget us." Trish grabbed Daley's trembling hand, took a deep breath, and looked at Dean, who still questioned the fat woman who was chattering, but she believed in the man who saved her twice, "If you need help, please feel free to say it." ”

Dean nodded, just about to comfort him.

Suddenly it darkened, the lights above the head were completely extinguished, and a group of surprised voices sounded around at the same time.

The entire police station was without power, and darkness came flooding in.

"Are the lights and phones broken?" Tubbs at the reception shouted, "Who's going to explain!" ”

Jesse looked at the three Dean with a solemn face, and said in a trembling voice, "It's coming." ”

(End of chapter)