Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 10 "Bloody Mary"

Sun Hang originally wanted to find a random excuse to get away with it, but for some reason, when the words came to his lips, they turned into what 0401 had just said -

"Curiosity kills the cat."

"Are you threatening me?" 0398 raised his eyebrows, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

"I just said that. Don't be too nervous." Sun Hang smiled and ignored 0398, continuing to move forward with Captain Huang.

He had a very strange feeling in his heart. The person who had walked up to slap the middle-aged woman and threatened 0398 just now seemed not to be himself... or rather, it seemed to be another personality inside him.

Or was that the real me before I lost my memory?

With such doubts in mind, Sun Hang walked in silence... But as everyone walked deeper and deeper into the passage, they gradually smelled a strange smell.

It was a mixture of rust, sourness and fishiness. Just one sniff could make you feel your stomach churning. Even the sheriffs couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses with their hands.

Fortunately, they soon reached the end of the passage, and a wooden door with mottled paint appeared before them.

And that unbearable smell has become extremely strong here.

The trace expert's face had turned very ugly. He hesitated for a moment, then walked to Captain Huang's side and whispered, "It's the stench of corpses and a strong smell of blood... Those missing women may have been killed a long time ago... And the method of committing the crime may be extremely cruel..."

"I know." Captain Huang reached out to the wooden door, but he couldn't make up his mind to push the door open.

"Or, let's retreat quickly..." 0401 looked timid, "I always feel that... there will be some, uh, not so good things in there."

"Captain Huang, the guy is right. The Hunter should be arriving soon at this time." A sheriff also advised, "No matter what happens next, it has nothing to do with us."

Captain Huang stood in front of the door, caught in a dilemma - on the one hand, the truth he had been looking for was most likely at the back door, and he only had to push open the door to get the answer; but on the other hand, he was afraid to face the truth.

Just when Captain Huang was hesitating, Sun Hang walked over and put his hand on the door.

Sun Hang vaguely felt that there seemed to be something tempting him inside the door.

The disgusting smell, to him, apart from the initial fishy stench, actually contained a hint of fragrant aroma, just like the smell of nectar emanating from a blooming flower.

He suddenly felt a little hungry.

He pushed the door open while no one else was paying attention.

Behind the door was a hall with an area of ​​more than 300 square meters. The floor of the hall slowly sank along the steps. The suffocating smell of blood was useless even if you covered your mouth and nose. The tension seeped into everyone's nerves through the remaining pores of their bodies, and it seemed that even the air had become sticky.

Sun Hang walked down the stairs and at the end of the hall, he saw a square pool of blood.

This pool, which is as big as a swimming pool in an amusement park, is filled with bloody and sticky blood plasma. Broken and deformed bones are floating in the blood pool, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

Hanging above the pool of blood was a naked young woman, her body swollen as if it had been soaked in formalin for many years.

Her skin was a strange bluish-white color, and her body was covered with shocking wounds. Blood slowly seeped out from the flesh that was turned outward at the wounds, flowing down along her body surface and finally falling into the pool of blood at her feet.

Several thorns extended from the pool of blood and wrapped around the young woman. The sharp thorns pierced her skin and penetrated her flesh, as if they were feeding on her body, draining the little vitality left in her body.

Above her shoulder, a rose with extremely bright colors was in full bloom.

The young woman was still alive, and Sun Hang could detect that she was still breathing faintly.

But with every passing second, the woman became weaker, and the rose on her shoulder became more beautiful.

There was a sound of footsteps coming from behind, followed by a surprised whisper: "Xiao...Xiaojun?"

Obviously, the young woman hanging above the pool of blood was the trainee sheriff who disappeared last.

As for the other missing young women...Sun Hang glanced at the skeletons floating in the pool of blood.

But in the end, Sun Hang's attention was still attracted by the rose... An inexplicable desire arose deep in his heart: he wanted to tear the flower off, put it in his mouth, and chew it hard...

This thought grew wildly in his mind almost uncontrollably. Just when Sun Hang was about to take action, 0401's desperate voice rang out: "Bloody Mary?!"

Sun Hang regained consciousness.

Bloody Mary?
Is this the name of that rose?
Sun Hang suddenly remembered who the person in the oil painting outside was.

That was Countess Lee Kester in the Europa legend. It was said that in order to maintain her eternal youth, she had been bathing in the blood of pure girls.

Every time she took a bath, she would kill two girls and bury their bodies in the basement of the bathroom.

……

So, the reason why those young women disappeared was all to feed this gorgeous "demon flower"?
"Is it a strange creature?" Sun Hang turned his head and looked at 0401 and asked.

"Of course it is..." 0401 said with a bitter face, "Serial number Ding Thirty-Seven, 'Bloody Mary', it was its appearance more than ten years ago that caused most of the South City Development Zone to become a ruin... Why is it still alive? Hasn't it been dealt with by the Investigation Bureau?!"

"It's just a flower. Can it really destroy half of the development zone?" Sun Hang was a little confused.

"It was actually people who destroyed the South City Development Zone." 0398 continued what 0401 said, "Bloody Mary's thorns are all over the streets and alleys, and have penetrated every building with living things, wantonly absorbing all the flesh and blood it can touch... In order to completely eliminate it, the Xiazhou Federation had to drop a large number of napalm bombs on the South City Development Zone, burning Bloody Mary and the blocks it occupied together."

"So that's how it is... No wonder many of the ruins we passed by just now had signs of burning." Sun Hang nodded, "So, this thing is afraid of fire?"

"No...it's not the Bloody Mary from more than a decade ago." Captain Huang's voice rang out, "That Bloody Mary was burned to death a long time ago. I also participated in the operation that year, and I watched it turn into ashes with my own eyes."

"So what are we seeing now?" 0401 waved his arms hysterically, "It can't be my hallucination?!"

"Seeds, they are seeds... The Bloody Mary left its seeds back then." Captain Huang murmured, "The seeds of Bloody Mary need blood to germinate, and now..."

And now, it has blossomed.

(End of this chapter)