The red moon returns

Chapter 399 Key Tips (Two Chapters in One)

Even though he was mentally prepared, Lynch still felt terrified.

What we see is simply a re-enactment of a classic scene from a movie.

The two people who were originally busy in the room slowly turned around when they heard the sound, and their bloodshot eyes looked at the people at the door.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, and the next moment, two bodies, one old and one young, suddenly burst out with amazing speed and strength and rushed towards the people at the door.

Damn it.

Lynch's hair was about to explode, but luckily it was the professional warrior Knight Terry who kicked the door open. His body reacted instinctively, and he slapped his old mother in the face with his shield. With a clear sound of bone cracking, he knocked her away. Then he raised his leg and kicked her in the chest, kicking Leonard backwards and hitting his mother.

Holy crap, crap.

Lynch's heart began to race at this moment. This was a childhood trauma engraved in his DNA. He was now extremely glad that he didn't go up and pat him on the shoulder, otherwise he would have gone to wash his pants now.

Roar.

The two lunatics screamed and tried to get up, but they were entangled with each other and struggled for a few seconds before they separated. At this moment, Dr. Swain, who was blocked behind Lynch, raised his hand, his lips opened and closed rapidly, and awkward and weird syllables came out of his mouth, and then he clenched his fist hard.

[Secret Technique, Black Goat's Grab]

A strange reaction occurred. Lynch only felt an invisible force passing by his side. Then the two lunatics who had separated and were crawling up seemed to be grasped by an invisible hand. They lay on the ground, squirming and struggling desperately, trying frantically to bite around, but they could not bite anything and could only keep making creepy roars.

It was only at this time that the group of people at the door had time to see the situation of the two men clearly.

Apart from being crazy, there was nothing wrong with the tall and thin man's body. However, the area around his mouth was covered in dried blood, making him look extremely hideous.

His mother was already covered in blood, with a big hole bitten on her throat, revealing the broken muscle texture, blood vessels and trachea inside. As her body struggled, the torn muscles rolled and squirmed, as if another big mouth was wide open, mocking the people in front of it.

Although he was definitely fatally wounded, he was still able to move freely.

Swish, everyone's eyes were focused on Lynch, as if Lynch was the dominant one at the moment.

This made Lynch feel tremendous psychological pressure instantly, as his words would decide the lives of two people.

[When you reach the highest level, your thoughts may determine the life and death of hundreds of millions of people.]

Hongyue's warning came into his mind. Although it was a terrifying word, it eased Lin Qi's troubled mood.

Yes, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. The pressure brought by the responsibility depends on the status you hold.

There is no such thing as enjoying something without paying for it, unless it is in a dream.

The entanglement and hesitation quickly faded away, and Lynch's expression became determined. He walked out of the door, picked up a pitchfork, walked silently to the old mother who should have died, and raised the pitchfork.

"I'm sorry, forgive me, I promise you, I will do my best to resolve this."

Even if it was just this time, Lynch added silently in his heart, and swung the pitchfork fiercely. Puff, the sharp pitchfork pierced straight into the brain through the roaring mouth, and the struggle and roaring stopped abruptly, and the crazy light in the blood-red eyes quickly dimmed.

"From dust to dust, from ashes to ashes, life is but a moment, only death is forever."

In the soul image, in addition to the pattern representing the power of death, there is another light spot.

【Power, Death, Ability, Purification】

Purifies a reanimated corpse, returning it to death, regardless of how it was reanimated.

Lynch took off his hat and held it against his chest, bowed deeply to his old mother, and then, under the complicated gazes of Officer Natalie and Miss Diana, turned to Leonard who was still pinned to the ground.

"This guy is special." Lynch stared at the bloodshot eyes for a long time before saying to Dr. Swen, "So far, all the crazy people have one thing in common. They have all been scratched and bitten by other crazy people, except for Kemet and Leonard. Although Kemet is the first case, he has wounds all over his body. We cannot rule out the possibility that he has also been bitten by a crazy person, so the only exception that can be confirmed is Leonard."

"Hmm?" Dr. Swen, a therapist, immediately thought of the key issue, "If he is the source of everything, then maybe we can find a solution to this incident from him, but we can't kill him."

"He may not be the source, but I guess he must be related to the source." Lin Qi thought for a moment, and suddenly frowned, "What about the bodies that were suspected to be killed by ghouls before?"

Knight Terry knew this best: "The bodies remained unchanged. They were buried in the public cemetery after being there for two days."

"I suddenly have a guess, but I suggest looking here first. I doubt there will be any surprises."

"Let's take care of him first." Doctor Swen looked troubled. "I can't control myself anymore."

Seeing that Lynch was in a difficult situation, Officer Natalie took a few steps forward, swung her long legs and smashed them hard on Leonard's calves. With a sharp sound of bones breaking, Leonard's legs were obviously deformed.

However, he seemed to feel no pain and continued to twist his legs desperately, completely ignoring the broken bones that had already penetrated from under the skin.

"I'll do it."

Seeing that Leonard was still struggling, Miss Diana sighed, walked slowly to Leonard, first stuffed a wooden stick into his mouth so that he would bite it subconsciously, quickly lifted his head to expose the back of his neck, then took out a long needle, and quickly and accurately stabbed it into Leonard's cervical vertebrae.

The crazy Leonard was still biting, but the roar and the struggling stopped, and the room fell into silence. Dr. Swen tried to interrupt the secret method and release his control over Leonard, only to find that Leonard could only twist his neck in place to try to bite, but his body could not move.

The soldiers subconsciously stepped back a few steps, their faces turned pale, and they looked at the weak Miss Diana in fear. But the Countess didn't care. She just turned back and smiled at Lynch and Natalie while twisting the steel needle. Lynch was so scared by her smile that he seemed to have seen his own head rolling in the bag.

Someone immediately stepped forward and blocked Leonard's mouth with a wooden stick, thus completely controlling this dangerous factor.

"Is there no one else in their family?"

A soldier who knew Leonard well answered, "He is an only child. His father died a long time ago. Only he and his mother live here."

Lin Qi nodded and said, "Then everyone please search here. Be careful. If you see anything suspicious, don't touch it casually and report it immediately."

Knight Terry heard the translation and immediately ordered the soldiers to begin searching, while Doctor Swain asked, "What did you say you had a guess about?"

"I think I understand why ghouls avoid witnesses when they kill people. The purpose is not to prevent people from seeing that it was a ghoul who killed people. On the contrary, the murderer is afraid that people will see that the murderer was not a ghoul, but a human."

"But the wounds on the body do match those of a ghoul," Dr. Swain said doubtfully.

"The human heart is scarier than a zombie. As long as they are willing, they can do anything. In my hometown, there is a set of models of vicious dog teeth to imitate cases of vicious dogs killing people. It is not impossible to imitate the claw and tooth marks of a zombie." Several people around showed thoughtful expressions.

"The murderer's purpose should be for experimentation, and the purpose of the experiment was this plague. However, it was inevitable that many people would die during the experiment, which would definitely alert the city guards. And there happened to be ghouls wandering around, so the murderer simply used the traces of ghouls to cover up his crime. There was nothing abnormal about the corpses in the previous few times, probably because the experiment failed and they failed to turn into this kind of... lunatic."

Dr. Swen's eyes widened, and he suddenly realized, "Until this time it finally succeeded?"

"Yes, I suspect that Kemet is the victim of the experiment, and Leonard is most likely the accomplice of the experiment." Lynch laughed sarcastically, "But he didn't expect that he himself was the real experimental subject and the main way for the disaster to spread. Kemet, who was killed by him, was just a backup. That's why he became the only infected person who became a madman without any injury, and the first victim he created was his old mother."

Knight Terry and Dr. Swain both looked unhappy. They had realized that if Lynch had not noticed Leonard's abnormality and the mother and son ran outside, the consequences would be disastrous.

"This guy isn't a professional criminal, so he probably wouldn't be so careful. If I'm right, we might find a lot of interesting evidence in his home. If we're lucky, we might even find clues to the real murderer, or even the source of all this." Lin Qi shrugged. "I'm not sure, so let's pray together. I hope we'll be lucky and find..."

dong dong dong.

Before he finished speaking, a soldier hurried over with a strange look on his face.

"Sir, everyone, come and take a look."

The few people looked at each other, and followed the soldiers out of the dilapidated house with trepidation.

When he went out, he noticed that a dozen auxiliary soldiers had followed him and completely blocked the area. Lynch couldn't help but glance at Knight Terry, realizing that he might have underestimated the confidant of the city lord. Perhaps due to the limitations of the times and regions, his knowledge was indeed a little lacking, but in terms of assessing the situation and adapting to changes, he was not inferior to the well-trained professional police in his hometown.

As an agricultural city, most families have small barns, and Leonard's family is no exception. His barn is just behind the house, a very simple cylindrical building.

As soon as he entered the door, a peculiar musty smell of a granary hit him in the face. Lynch just frowned when Officer Natalie suddenly took two quick steps and walked in front of him and Miss Diana.

Ok?
Lynch looked carefully and smelled a faint smell of blood from the strong musty smell.

It seems that this is what the soldiers discovered.

There shouldn't be any danger, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Lynch turned the ring on his middle finger to show his neighbor's compassion, and imitated the police officer, using his body to protect the other two ladies on the sides. After all, there was no real danger now, so there was no need to call out the real Judy.

After passing several straw piles, the group saw four auxiliary soldiers surrounding a firewood pile, which had been opened, revealing the things hidden inside.

Just as Lynch expected, hidden in the woodpile were two huge claws and a pair of sharp dentures in the shape of a wolf, made of metal, very sharp, and stained with blood and minced meat. The blood had dried up and was black on it, and there were a few flies hovering around it.

"really have."

Although I couldn't understand what he was saying, I could guess what he was talking about by looking at Knight Terry's expression. He trotted over to the two sets of strange props and looked at them carefully.

Lynch was also watching. The huge claws were a bit like the claws of a killer in a dream in a horror movie in his previous life. They could be put on the hands and leave huge claw marks. The teeth were very similar to the shape of the female reporter Maya, and matched the scars on Kemit's body.

"This thing has no combat power at all." Officer Natalie muttered beside him, "It looks dangerous, but it's completely impractical. If anyone uses it in battle, they will be the first to be killed."

"What about sneak attacks?"

"It's hard to launch a sneak attack with this thing, even after long-term training."

"Unless the target is fixed?"

"Correct."

While several outsiders were still discussing in low voices, Dr. Swain and Knight Terry had completed the examination of the murder weapon.

For now, we can determine that this is the murder weapon that left the scars on Kemit's body. As to whether the previous murders were also caused by this weapon, we cannot judge now. We need to dig the grave and perform an autopsy to confirm it. We can only say that the possibility is very high.

But what disappointed Terry was that apart from these two items, no other suspicious items were found. A group of people searched the entire house repeatedly until the afternoon, but in the end they found nothing.

"It seems that our luck is not very good." Looking at the people in the memories of these strange objects busy, Officer Natalie sighed regretfully, "We finally found this place, but we still couldn't find any evidence related to the real murderer. It's a pity. The real murderer is still hiding behind us. Who knows when he will make the next move. It's still very dangerous."

"It's already rare to discover these things." Miss Diana retorted dissatisfiedly, "Anyway, it's impossible for me to think that Leonard has a problem so quickly, and I can't realize that this matter is actually man-made. Can you?"

"Neither can I." Officer Natalie rolled her eyes. "I've just seen more amazing performances from him, so I have the highest expectations. And I'm just regretful, not complaining."

The two ladies glared at each other, then turned their gazes to Lynch at the same time.

No, you guys are having fun bickering, why are you looking at me? I won't answer this kind of question that will get you killed.

Thinking in his heart, Lin Qi shrugged: "I have found it, this thing is enough."

"what?"

At the same time, three exclamations were heard, including one from Ms. Judy who had been watching the fun from behind.

"At least it's enough for them."

Lynch smiled, and seeing that Knight Terry and Doctor Swain also looked regretful, he walked over, squatted in front of the murder weapon, and said casually as if nothing had happened:
"The workmanship is very crude. It's obvious that it was done in a hurry, right, Mr. Knight, Ms. Swain."

Dr. Swain was stunned, and nodded while translating for Terry.

"No wonder. After all, the ghouls have been haunting this area since seven days ago. The real murderer planned to use the ghouls to cover up his actions, and it should not have taken more than that. And the first victim appeared three days ago, which means that he only had four days to prepare the two murder weapons. The time was too tight, so it is reasonable that the workmanship was a bit rough."

Lin Qi flicked his finger with a smile, and the weapon made a crisp sound:
"Does it sound good? If it sounds good, it means it's good iron. Then the question is, what are you struggling with? In a city with a total of 8,000 people, are there many people who can do this kind of work? The murder weapon has been found. Isn't it common sense to trace the source of the murder weapon?"

"But this isn't Leonard's... That's right, unless Leonard was the one who committed all the previous crimes, but that's obviously impossible. So, the murder weapon could only have been given to him by the real murderer, and time was too tight for Leonard to return it. Then, as long as we find the source of the murder weapon, the identity of the real murderer can no longer be hidden."

Knight Terry's eyes lit up, and he muttered something that Lynch couldn't understand at all. He strode towards his subordinates, and did not forget to turn around and say to Dr. Sven:
"Ms. Swain, I will go track down the source of the murder weapon now, you..."

"Have someone send Leonard back to your barracks. I'll follow him. This disease is extremely contagious. Fortunately, we already have Leonard. I'm going to try to find out the root cause from him. If we can find a cure, we won't have to worry about the murderer's conspiracy again."

To use the words from my hometown, it was a wake-up call. For a moment, the two of them had a direction and immediately got busy, forgetting about Lin Qi.

Lin Qi was not angry, he just spread his hands to the three ladies and said: "I just said that this is enough."

(End of this chapter)