deformed bone

There was a lot of chaos in the shelter.

This kind of chaos does not come from the police officers and Adventist nuns and priests walking back and forth in the rooms and corridors. In fact, after entering the shelter, the situation in this house is far more orderly than Isaac thought. .The police and the forensic doctor shuttled through a room at the end of the second floor, and then four or five persons in charge of the shelter were being questioned by the police. Other than that, there were no other people, and there were seven people in the long corridor. There are eight rooms, but except for the room at the end that became the crime scene, the doors of all the rooms are closed.

When Isaac walked slowly through the doors of those rooms, he could vaguely hear the sound of prayers coming from the room.

Everything seemed to be fine, but the weird, chaotic and terrifying atmosphere spread in the cool air of the shelter.

Isaac found that even in the daytime, the shelter still needs to turn on the lights, and the light here always seems to be very dim.The faces of people passing back and forth were cast with heavy shadows by the light. Their cheekbones were pale, but their eye sockets and nasolabial folds were shrouded in shadows, which made them look like they walked out of a black-and-white movie decades ago. The people who come out are average.

There is an aroma that can only be found in churches, but it is more bitter.

Above the fireplace in the reception room was a huge oil painting. Isaac glanced down from the railing on the second floor, then turned his head quickly.The painting on that oil painting is the angel of the Adventists, the Son of Light, and his younger brother, Calvin... But the angel on this oil painting is just like the Calvin who grew up in the imagination of the Adventists, the one who was crucified The skin of the young man was pale, with blood dripping from the palms and soles of his feet, but his face showed a strange sense of terror. His purple pupils seemed to be staring at the people in the reception room, but his whole face was covered with a heavy dead air.

For some reason, Isaac felt sick just seeing the face similar to Calvin on the oil painting.

"It's brutal. You'd better be prepared."

Ivo's instructions brought Ai Zac back to his senses.They had already reached the door of the room at the end, and then Ivo gave Anna and Isaac a mask each.He looked more serious than before, matching his figure, the aura emanating from him made Isaac tense up.

What was unusual was that the door to the room where the crime took place was sealed with a translucent white film, the kind used by infectious disease control agencies.Everyone who came out of there was blue in the face.

"Wow. Judging from this posture, it is indeed cruel."

Isaac muttered, and quickly put on the mask.

Then Isaac followed Ivo into the room behind the film.

And at that second, he realized why Ivo would make such an order at the door.

The strong stench was like some kind of invisible monster rushing towards him. Even though he had put on a mask, the smell still rushed into Isaac's nasal cavity through the gap, his eyes immediately filled with tears, and his stomach The whole body is tumbling.

It was the smell of putrid blood and excrement and corpses.

To be correct, it is the smell of "death".

According to the information Ivo gave him before, Imogen Pain died within 24 hours, but Isaac swore that even a highly corrupted corpse after a long death would not have such a strong stench.

"In the end what happened."

He gritted his teeth and opened his mouth with difficulty, asking a question.

Anna beside him looked worse than a dead person. She blinked desperately, unable to speak a word due to the smell in the room.

Ivo seemed to be able to keep calm, and he took a step to the side so that Isaac and Anna could see the whole scene in the room clearly.

It was an unassuming room, at least for the Adventist High Priest.

Against the wall was a small bed, with ecru beech floors and white curtains that were drawn tightly.

On the wall to the south is a huge cross, but at this time the cross has been artificially turned upside down.

Reverse Cross—Obviously Red Deer doesn't eat the Adventist style, and is probably a devil worship fan...

Isaac secretly recorded in his heart.

Then he moved his gaze to the wall painted black and red on the other side——

Oh no.

Isaac was stunned for a moment, and he soon realized that he had made a mistake just now.

That's not a wall painted black and red, that's a blood-stained crime scene, or rather, a red deer killing art display.

The blood was spread very evenly on the walls, not a single drop of blood fell on the floor.

In the center of the wall, facing the cross, is a mirror as tall as a man.And that mirror was also smeared with blood, but because of the smooth surface of the mirror, the blood became strands, flowing from top to bottom, and finally formed a dense pattern on the mirror. Wisps of blood.At first glance, the mirror looks like it has been shattered.

That strong stench was emanating from the blood smeared on that wall.

"I still don't know what is the reason for such a strong smell of corruption." Ivo said to Aizhak.

"Where's the corpse?"

Isaac asked the question as briefly as possible, he only saw blood in the room.

Ivo raised his hand and pointed to a door in the other corner of the room, which led to the bathroom.

Isaac walked over.The small, windowless bathroom is completely lit by an old light bulb overhead.Probably because of the aging of the filament, the light looked almost red.

The bathroom is crowded with yellowed sinks, toilets and bathtubs.

The toilet seat had been turned up, and Isaac saw the victim of the tragedy, Imogen Paine, in the toilet.

The tall old man with gray hair curled up wrinkledly and was forced into the toilet.

His skin is wrinkled like the mummy Isaac saw in the Metropolitan Museum, the difference is that his corpse is more or less fresh, his wrinkled skin and muscles are a very light blue White.His head was sunken and crowded together, like a crushed orange.Two eyeballs hung on the side of the shattered skull, crumpled into tiny balls like dried chewing gum.

If Ivo hadn't told Isaac that this was Imogen Paine, he wouldn't have been able to see that the lump in the toilet would be a corpse.After all, the bathroom was very clean, not a single drop of blood.

The smell of excrement is more here - he will learn from the forensic report afterwards that the only internal organ in Imogen's body that still has water is his stomach, which is full of himself of excrement.

When he was still alive, he watched the murderer disembowel him and cut off his intestines, and then the murderer force-fed him by some means—the expensive caviar that Imogen once ate, The foie gras and truffle returned to his body after incomplete digestion or complete digestion.

He choked to death.

Of course, Isaac didn't know this yet, but what he saw was enough to make him feel sick.He heard a retching sound, and then saw Anna hurried out of the room.

Isaac almost ran out after her, but Ivo intervened and returned to the room. He stood in the middle of the room and kept scanning the mirror and the reverse cross.

"I think it's the red deer."

Isaac walked over and stood beside Ivo, and then he heard Ivo's quite affirmative words.

"Maybe it was a copycat," Isaac said weakly. "The time was too short. He killed eight people in one day—and in such a delicate way, it doesn't make sense."

Ivo gave Isaac a strange look: "I thought you would understand after seeing the situation here, no one can imitate Red Deer, his methods - that kind of tyranny and cruelty - no one can imitate him .”

Isaac's face turned paler.

He shifted his gaze to the cross, and then, his brows suddenly frowned.

"Wait, what is that?"

In the gap between the cross and the wall, a white line can be vaguely seen.

Ivo poked his head over there for a look, then he turned to let the others come over.A few minutes later, they found a letter behind the heavy cross.

【I know your dwelling place is where Satan sits. 】

It was written in a rather elegant style.

Judging by the color, this too was written in blood.

Isaac couldn't help but glanced at Ivo, and then they walked towards the door.

Even though there was only a thin membrane, the air outside the room was as fresh as if they had come to God's garden.

Isaac took off his mask and took a long breath.

"Red Deer didn't have the habit of writing letters before, but since he came to the City of Angels, this is already the second letter he left behind." Ivo said with a frown.Isaac knew that the first letter he was talking about was referring to the love letter in front of the corpse cake made by that unfortunate child. Thinking of this, Isaac felt his heart beat faster again.

"He seems to want to convey some kind of information, but we don't know who that person is yet, whether it is a specific person or a certain group." Ivo said again, rubbing his temples, "But whatever How to put it, what is certain now is that the Red Deer does have a lot of hostility towards the Adventists, and we can continue to dig into this point—”

Ivo suddenly paused, his eyes fell on the other side of the corridor.

"Hey, what is that guy doing?"

He lowered his voice and said coldly.

Isaac followed his gaze, and Anna was talking to a pale woman in a black robe.

The moment he saw the woman, Ai Zac's eyes suddenly became much colder.

"Madeleine..."

One word at a time, he said the woman's name coldly.