The mastermind behind this started by creating a strange story

After a while, Simon left the cave where he studied. If nothing unexpected happened, he would come back.

After all, everything here is good stuff, and he hasn't finished learning it yet.

Not long after, Simon returned to the town. The town was much quieter than it was before the tragedy.

After the tragedy, many people left this remote town and moved to the city.

Even if they don’t have that much assets, most people would rather take out a loan and leave here. After all, money can be earned again, but life lost is gone for real.

The people who stay here are basically those who grew up in the small town and are elderly. They are already old, so they don’t value their lives too much.

But this made it convenient for Simon, as it allowed him to investigate freely.

Simon first went to the burial area of ​​the church to pay tribute to his parents and those ordinary people who died at the hands of the devil, and made a vow in front of everyone's grave that he would definitely kill the devil and avenge the dead!

Chapter 437 Looking for clues

Although he vowed to kill the devil, there were no clues now, so Simon had to start the investigation from the beginning.

However, more than half a month has passed, and Simon is not sure how many clues are left. But he is clear about one thing: no matter how clean the scene is, there will always be some clues left.

And it was a good opportunity to test the power he had now acquired.

After leaving the cemetery, Simon followed the path back to his home in the small town.

This house was previously cordoned off as a police investigation scene, but the tape has now been removed, so the investigation must have been completed.

Simon didn't know how many clues the police could find.

However, seeing the messy footprints on the ground, Simon could probably imagine the police's distress. After all, this was the work of a demon that they had never seen before, and the previous investigative experience was naturally invalid. This was a brand new case that required brand new investigative methods.

"Well... there were about five or six people. Judging from the size ratio of the footprints, most of them were men, and there was only one woman."

"Ok?"

Just after he finished speaking, Simon was suddenly stunned. He was not a person who liked to talk to himself, but how come he just spoke out the information he had checked unconsciously.

Could this also be one of the changes brought about by the mutation?

Although he was a little confused, Simon didn't care. This small change was not a big problem.

Anyway, he was alone and no one could hear him talking to himself.

"Judging from the messy footprints, the police had basically no clue. They just walked back and forth in a few places and didn't find the key at all."

"The only female should be the recorder. Her footprints only appear in a limited number of places. She should be helping investigators record verbal findings."

As Simon kept talking, his observations became more and more handy, and he soon analyzed all the information about the police who came to investigate.

Although we cannot know what each person looks like, we can basically guess their height and weight, which can be determined from footprints.

I wouldn't dare say that everything is correct, but if most of it is correct, there is definitely no problem.

"Hmm... I can see it clearly. As expected, the observation ability brought by the enhancement of the five senses needs practice to increase my observation experience."

Simon was very satisfied with his observations. In his eyes, everything here was so clear, even so clear that he could find those extremely tiny details at a glance.

In his eyes, those details seemed to have striking colors, like a few drops of ink on a white canvas, very conspicuous.

You know, this is a clue left behind half a month ago. If he had investigated half a month ago, he would definitely have seen more than he has now.

After warming up by observing the messages left by the police, Simon is now completely into the state.

He couldn't keep looking around all the time, otherwise it would overload his brain.

Everything in reality has its own unique information. What he needs to exercise is not only his observation skills, but also his concentration, focusing on what he needs and ignoring what he doesn't need.

Only in this way can he slowly master his mutated body.

After leaving the pile of information left by the police in front of him, Simon walked into the house.

Only there can he find information about the demon.

With Simon activating the skill of "focused observation", he only needs to take a quick glance to get large amounts of information.

While observing, his brain was also making logical judgments. He was not a stupid person, after all, he was able to be admitted to Jagiellonian University.

Moreover, through his studies in the Heritage Cave, he mastered a large number of observation skills, although they were all old tricks from centuries ago.

But he is not a fool who memorizes things by rote. As long as he uses those skills flexibly in combination with his own abilities, they will become skills that will never become outdated.

"Hmm... Although the friction marks on the windowsill are very shallow, it can be barely seen that the demon did not break into the wall directly, but secretly opened the window and used its limbs to support the windowsill to sneak in."

"Interesting... This demon actually knew not to alert the enemy and concealed its own sound to attack humans."

"here……"

Simon suddenly paused and looked at the blood splattered inside the kitchen. Because of the long time, the blood had dried and turned black, like large stains.

However, with his powerful sense of smell and vision, he was able to tell that it was blood.

"So at that time, we were preparing dinner together..."

Simon silently picked up a small piece of cloth. It was the clothes his father wore at the time, but now it has become a fragment.

The mother's clothes were not seen. It is very likely that she died before she could react, and the father struggled, so his clothes were torn.

"But... why did I see a dead body in the living room at that time?"

Simon looked at the fragments and fell into recollection. If his observation and guess were correct, his parents lost their lives in the kitchen, but he also caught a glimpse of the bodies in the living room at the main entrance.

Could it be that the devil had moved the body to the living room specifically? But why? Why did he go to such lengths?

Coming back to his senses from his thoughts, Simon clenched the fragments in his hand, his orange eyes flickering, he couldn't guess.

The mutated vertical pupils also shrank slightly inward due to the mood.

But since I can't guess, I'll go to the living room and observe again. He must have missed something.

Simon returned to the living room again, and this time he focused all his attention on the direction where he had glimpsed the corpse.

The range is not large, so the attention is more focused and extremely subtle differences can be observed.

"Wait...this is it?"

Simon, who was observing the floor inch by inch, suddenly stopped. He found another claw mark, which was covered by blood, so he didn't notice it at first.

Moreover, this was his shadow at that time, so he did not observe it carefully, but just glanced at it roughly and followed the trace to go somewhere else.

But now, after careful observation, he indeed discovered some subtle unusual things.

This paw print covered in blood doesn't look like the devil's paw at all. Instead, it looks like a mark accidentally scratched by a kitten while playing.

But this is impossible. They don't have a cat at home. He has also checked out the area and there are no people who have cats, but there are people who have dogs.

However, this paw print does not look like one left by a dog's paw. After all, a dog's paw cannot leave such a mark. Moreover, this paw print is more like that of an immature cub than an adult pet.

Kittens-sized cubs...kittens...

"Wait, that can't be!"

Simon raised his head suddenly. He had a bold guess, but he was not sure. If there was more evidence, he could confirm this guess.

Thinking of this, Simon got up from the ground and walked out of the house.

He has almost finished investigating this room. If he wants to get more evidence, he needs to conduct on-site investigations at more sites.

This was not difficult; after all, they were not the only family in the town to be attacked.

Chapter 438 Devil Cub

After determining the next plan, Simon left home and walked towards other crime scenes following the traces left by the devil.

Having said that, it is actually very easy to see where the devil has gone. After all, there are traces left by the police in those places, and even an ordinary person can see them.

Moreover, the escape of a large number of residents also greatly facilitated Simon's investigation. Even if the door was locked, he could just climb through the window.

As time slowly passed, the night gradually climbed up into the sky.

Simon also crawled out from the last crime scene. He didn't want to break the door lock. It didn't matter to him whether he went through the window or the door.

Although the investigation had taken longer than Simon expected, his quick-thinking mind was enough for him to remember all the details of the investigation, and there was no such thing as accidentally forgetting clues.

There were about a dozen families in the town that were attacked by demons. Most of them were ordinary families with only one or two people at home, and only three families had more than two people at home.

All this information can be guessed from the details left in the house.

Living habits and personal items left behind can indicate how many people are in a family. The simplest way is to look at toothbrushes; the number of toothbrushes represents the number of people in the family.

Although this method cannot be used as definitive evidence, he is not stupid and will naturally verify it from multiple sources before reaching a conclusion.

Hmm? Why does it feel like I'm doing math problems?

Simon shook his head, threw away the strange thoughts in his head, and then continued to confirm the details of the investigation.

He had indeed found those cat-paw-like scratches at other crime scenes, and he just recalled another detail.

That's what's left of the body!

Judging from the size of the attacking demon, if it was just for food, it would not have needed to kill so many people, and judging by the number of coffins buried, the bodies were almost all there.

That's strange, if it wasn't for their own food, why would they kill so many people!

This not only greatly increases the risk of exposure, but may also lead to unexpected situations.

That demon didn't seem to be unintelligent. It was able to kill more than 30 people silently, which showed that it was quite intelligent.

No, maybe it’s just because of eating that so many people need to be killed!

But that demon wasn't doing it for himself!

In order to verify the most likely idea, Simon went to the cemetery again.

He has some unethical things to do.

Soon, Simon arrived at the cemetery. Looking at the unfortunate people buried in the soil, he bent down and said sorry in his heart.

The darkness of the night concealed Simon's digging figure, and fortunately, almost no one came to the cemetery at night, so what Simon did was safe, at least for now.

A slight rustling sound echoed in the empty cemetery, occasionally mixed with the sound of wooden boards being lifted.

Generally speaking, the body of a person buried in the soil after death will decay very slowly, but if the burial place is full of moisture and the temperature is also high, then the decay of the body will be accelerated.

On the contrary, if buried in a dry and cold place, it will take at least several months for the body to completely decay.

The current season is neither summer nor winter, it is one of those seasons that is neither too cold nor too hot.

However, the bodies here were not buried directly in the ground, but were placed in coffins.

Although the body inside inevitably decayed due to the protection of the coffin, it was basically the same as when it was buried, and some of the results Simon had guessed could be seen.

When he checked the tenth underground blind box, Simon sneered, he guessed right.

The demon had a cub, which was probably born not long ago, so it needed a lot of nutritious blood to promote its growth. So where was the part that was both nutritious and easily eaten and absorbed by the cub?

heart!

Although Simon didn't quite understand why the devil chose the heart, through examining the buried bodies, he discovered that the hearts of these bodies had disappeared!

All disappeared without incident.

The bodies were also examined through random sampling, so there is no possibility of coincidence.

"Huh, as expected, now that there is a cub, everything that happened before can be explained!"

After figuring this out, Simon resealed the excavated coffin and buried it, while trying to figure out the whole process in his mind.

First of all, why would the demons come to this remote small town to attack instead of going to a big city with more people!

Because the demon was intelligent, it naturally knew that the more prosperous a place was, the more dangerous it was. And since it had a little cub with it, it could not take any risks.

In order to make its cubs grow up as quickly as possible, it can only look for remote towns. At the same time, in order to prevent its cubs from getting hurt, it kills the prey first, and then drags the prey in front of the cubs for the cubs to eat!

This was also the problem Simon discovered at that time, which was why the devil killed his parents in the kitchen but went to the trouble of dragging them to the living room.

That demon was trying to avoid getting his own cubs hurt while hunting!

"What a deep mother-son love!"

With a bang, Simon threw a sealed coffin into the pit with a gloomy face.

While gritting his teeth and speculating on the devil's actions, he buried the coffin!

The dead should be buried in peace, and he is not so unscrupulous as to just dig the grave and not bury it.