God-level Demon Hunter

"So what do you think..." Roy turned Aisha's body around and confirmed that there was no wound on her back. "Will the coroner and his assistants dissect the body you brought here that evening?"

"On that day, there were only two corpses of the businessman who was robbed and this one. According to what I know about the coroner, he will definitely finish the autopsy and rest in the early morning."

"Where is the merchant's body?!"

According to Quasimodo's guidance, the demon hunter looked through the roster in a drawer at the door of the room.

"Bed No. 12, wood merchant Aino..." Aisha was on the bed, on the left.

Roy took a deep breath, and suddenly lifted the white cloth, a 40-year-old man with a big belly, covered in medical antiseptics, a bruised body, and pale skin with a prominent suture line on his chest suddenly appeared in his vision .

Obviously, the deceased was passive.

"You did the autopsy for him?"

Quasimodo shook his head, "It's the coroner!"

Then, the death time of the coroner and the assistant should be between the autopsy of the timber merchant and Aisha.

But no wounds could be seen on the latter.

Roy thought, "Then they were attacked after the timber merchant was autopsied?"

Looking at the innocent face of the deceased, Roy could only think so—the coroner hadn't had time to autopsy Aisha and destroy the integrity, otherwise how could a flesh and blood body resist a sharp scalpel? !

"call--"

Suddenly a gust of cold wind blew in from the door.

The witcher couldn't help but tremble all over.

But time passed, and outside the morgue, the sun began to disappear on the horizon.

The temperature dropped further.

"Master, have you discovered something?" Todd temporarily diverted his attention from his relatives. He felt as if he had grasped a certain point, but he couldn't say it.

"About Aisha, I don't have a clue yet."

"But I know a lot about the coroner and assistants. The murderer who killed them was a humanoid creature! And there was more than one." Roy said with certainty, "The body surface and internal organs of the coroner and assistants showed signs of being bitten and swallowed." .”

"Judging from the traces, the perpetrators' teeth are between carnivores and herbivores, with canines, incisors, premolars, and molars, and are closer to herbivores."

"That must be an ordinary human being." Todd said, the basic human body structure is a compulsory course for mercenaries, and his fighting for more than ten years is not in vain.

"There are marks of fist beating and fingernail scratching on the two people, and these marks are also consistent with human characteristics."

Roy glanced at the female corpse, well, the nails were clean.

He continued to explain, "There are still a lot of wounds left by scalpels, scratches, cuts, and stab wounds... The murder weapon is exactly the same as the autopsy equipment here."

"Only humans and humanoids can wield a scalpel with such dexterity."

In fact, the demon hunter also discovered that most of the bloody smell was concentrated inside the morgue, and there was not much fresh bloody smell from the outside world, including near the door of the morgue.

The murderer who killed the coroner seemed to have been transferred out of nowhere from inside the morgue, leaving him no continuous traces that could be traced by a witcher's senses.

This was abnormal, but for a moment he couldn't figure it out.

Quasimodo shook his head, the effect of Aximo's seal was over, and he also came to his senses, just in time to hear Roy's analysis, and replied without thinking, "Yes, the results of your previous inspection are exactly the same as mine, the murderer should be human, madman."

Only lunatics, people on the verge of madness, use all means to kill a person cruelly with their nails and teeth like animals, and the process is accompanied by the act of devouring flesh and blood.

"This world is really getting worse." Quasimodo sighed, "There are evil spirits, water ghosts, and ghouls outside the city, and there are more terrifying monsters lurking in the city. Two, what do you think? Who is the murderer?"

"Not sure yet."

The witcher shook his head.

In some cases, the same kind is more cruel than the other kind.

And this time.

The sun sets, and the twilight completely merges.

Quasimodo, the gatekeeper of the morgue, looked at the sky hesitantly, said hello, and left after get off work.

The guardians of the Eternal Flame still haven't returned.

Only the witcher and the mercenary were left in the room.

……

"This guy." Roy recalled Quasimodo's performance, always feeling weird.

There are traces of performance in his every move.

But he's not a murderer, or a high-level vampire or something.

Roy couldn't figure it out for a moment.

As for Todd, his expression was solemn.

"Master Roy, you once mentioned a series of tragedies derived from the prophecy of the black sun. The warlock, the man with a vague face in the dream, is the prophecy poisoner, who captures and drives away girls born during the eclipse, such as my Aisha .”

"My daughter must have been caught by him as an experimental material, so she turned into this weird look."

Todd stroked the girl's side face, obviously the corpse had been cold for a long time, but it was as beautiful as a living person, and he was even more convinced that Aisha had undergone some kind of transformation, which came from the inside.

"That's right, what the warlock did to her must have something to do with the Black Sun prophecy."

……

"I, I want to examine her further to find out the cause of her death..." Todd quietly grabbed the sharp scalpel in the operating tray, and before the witcher could react, he gently cut the skin on the dead man's wrist .

Roy hesitated to speak. He originally thought that Todd would save Aisha a face.

But seeing Todd's crazy appearance, it seems that he doesn't care anymore.

Stopping it now will make him suffer, right?

Under the scalpel.

The white skin glides smoothly to the sides like cream.

But it was strange, her blood seemed to be solidified at the bottom of the skin, not a single bit of it penetrated, and it didn't even get on the scalpel.

Roy couldn't take his eyes off it.

"What kind of tricks did that bastard use on Aisha? I want to find out," Todd said with a sad face and hatred at other times, "and then repay it ten times and a hundred times."

"Puff, puff, puff..." There was a continuous sound of sharp weapons entering the flesh.

The gloomy underground morgue was blowing again, and amidst the flickering flames, a faint female voice echoed faintly, as if weeping.

Chapter 34 Matteo's Ritual

"Did you hear any strange noises?" The demon hunter looked around the dark basement, his eyes passing over the corpses covered by white cloths on the wooden beds, except for the "poof" sound of the sharp blade piercing the flesh, there was no sound around him. Everything was eerily quiet.

He pricked up his ears and listened for a moment, and the sound seemed to disappear completely.

Todd didn't respond either, and concentrated on operating the scalpel.

Is it my delusion?

Roy shook his head, kept an eye out, and came to the side of the corpse's head.

"I'll cooperate with you."

He lifted the eyelids of the corpse, and the pupils were completely dilated and turned gray. This kind of eyes would only appear a few days after a person died.

Then I moved the joints of the hands and feet of the corpse. They were not stiff like after death, but still very soft, but the body temperature was much lower than the environment.

The time of death is difficult to determine.

The demon hunter's ears, mouth, and nose were a little dusty, as if she had been buried in peat, although she couldn't tell from her clean body surface.

Roy emphasized in his heart.

"Pat, where can I find peat for heating and heating in Nordic City? This is a key location."

……

On the other side, Todd operated the scalpel to cut open the skin on the wrist, then along the forearm, elbow, and to the shoulder, drawing a bloody line, exposing the thin skin.The skin was peeled away on both sides, and there was a piece of scarlet muscle tissue.

But completely different from normal corpses, there is no tissue fluid and blood flowing out slowly.

The pupils of the demon hunter Dark Gold shrank, and all the blood in the field of vision was solidified into a jelly-like shape, tightly adsorbed under the skin.

"Have you ever seen such a situation?" Todd paused.

"The venom of the petrified cockatrice can have a similar effect," Roy recalled, putting down the other arm of the corpse, "but her blood smelled wrong. People who were poisoned by petrified cockatrice had a smell of poultry droppings in their blood. taste."

The demon hunter leaned close to the jelly-like blood, moved the tip of his nose, and a faint fragrance poured into his nostrils from the jelly-like blood.

Her blood seemed to be mixed with nectar, exuding a seductive fishy sweetness, and there was no smell of decaying corpses at all.

"If blood tastes like this, I think vampires will probably go crazy for it."

"In this case, Aisha probably swallowed some kind of witchcraft potion, or her blood has been transformed by witchcraft."

Todd heard his chest rise and fall, and he could imagine the pain Elsa was suffering.

After a moment of silence.

He proceeded to cut open the other arm and two thighs, and similar conditions appeared in the tissues under the skin.

Except for the jelly-like blood, the muscles, tendons, arteries and veins are quite intact, without obvious scars or traces of experimental torture.

Todd took a deep breath, and it was time to check the internal organs.

The scalpel lightly touched this softer skin, and suddenly trembled.

It was the voice of the witcher next to him that disturbed him.

"Hiss... so cold!" Roy couldn't help rubbing his hands, feeling that the temperature in the entire basement suddenly dropped by several degrees. It was originally about ten degrees, but now it is estimated to be only one or two degrees, or even close to zero.

Even though the demon hunter was much stronger than normal people, it was a bit uncomfortable.

But there was no wind, and the air seemed to freeze suddenly.

"Master, can you keep quiet?"

Roy shrugged his shoulders and stopped trembling, "Of course, I promise I won't bother you again."

Yet he was wary.

His eyes flicked around from time to time.

Also starting to miss Golfin Crow in the saddlebag.

Thinking about whether to call him over, to keep sentry for himself.

Todd controlled the scalpel and made a slanted cut along the uppermost parts of the left and right chests of the corpse. The two incisions met at the center of the ribs, and then dragged down along the central line until the navel, drawing out a deep and thin hole. line.

The incision on the front of the corpse presents a "Y" shape.

"Give me the rib opener."

Roy handed over the enlarged version of the lock scissors in the utensil tray, and Todd pointed it right at the ribs and squeezed hard.

"Crack-"

In the morgue, the torches hanging on the walls and columns went out without warning, and the two were taken aback. Roy tensed his body like a big cat, bent his knees, and made a defensive posture for a moment.

But in less than a second, the flames revived, and the light re-illuminated every corner of the basement.

Nothing changed, the corpse was lying quietly, and Todd was still holding the rib opener blankly.

"I feel very wrong, should we call Resor and Oakes, or continue tomorrow morning?" The witcher strongly suggested.

"It's okay, don't stop."

With a stubborn expression on his face, Todd put the cut half of the ribs on the side plate with great care, and aimed at the other half.

"Well, Aisha has been transformed by witchcraft experiments, and there must be residual chaotic energy in her body. Maybe it was just a phenomenon that this residual energy was released just now."

Roy said something to himself, and suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the house.

"Bang, bang, bang."

"Quasimodo? Isn't he off work?"

One door, two doors, three doors, the complex structure of the morgue is divided into several rooms from the inside out, and they are located in the deepest room.

Only the outermost iron gate was closed before.