demon godfather

Dominic and Chris sit in a café outside the airport.They had just arrived in this southern city by plane.Chris's father promised to pick them up by car, but they got a text message after they got off the plane, because of the traffic on the road, so Chris's father would be about an hour late and told them to wait.

It was raining outside, and the crystal rainwater slid down the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the coffee shop, like transparent rivers.Dominic rested his chin and asked heavily: "Do you have to wait for your dad to pick you up? Can't we just go there?"

Waiting for his father to contact him, Chris stared at the phone like it was a bomb that would go off at any moment. "It's far away. It's very expensive to take a taxi. And he entrusted us to do things. Isn't it reasonable for him to be responsible for the pick-up?"

"Oh, your attitude... is so businesslike with your father?"

"He doesn't regard me as his son anymore, what attitude can I have towards him?"

"We can go by bus," Dominique suggested.

Chris raised his eyes, then quickly turned his gaze back to the phone: "That's very troublesome and tiring."

"It's okay, I'm not afraid of trouble or tiredness."

"I'm afraid you're tired."

Dominic squirmed in his chair. "Chris, has anyone ever told you before that you're so #sexy when you talk serious about love?"

"you are the first."

Chris' cell phone rang.He picked up the phone, scribbled a few words, and then said to Dominic: "My dad has arrived, waiting for us at the corner ahead."

They paid the bill and were stopped by the heavy rain at the door of the cafe.

"Damn weather." Dominique muttered, "Wolfgang told me that you should always carry an umbrella even if it's sunny, but I always ignored his words."

Chris took off his coat and put it over the heads of the two: "Let's go."

They ran wildly in the rain with their coats on. To be precise, Dominic followed Chris in a daze.Chris knew the place well, but Dominic didn't even know the way.

There's an SUV parked at what seems to be the "corner ahead" as Chris calls it.Chris pulled Dominic and ran to the SUV, opened the rear door, stuffed him in, and sat in the passenger seat by himself.

"Let's drive," he said.

Before Dominique could react, the SUV started slowly.

"Sorry for being late for so long." The man driving said, his voice was deep and powerful, as if he was used to giving orders, "Because of a traffic accident on the road, there was a traffic jam for a long time."

"It's okay," Chris said.

"Who's the kid behind?"

"He is Dominic, my college classmate, a demon hunter, and also my boyfriend."

The SUV slammed to the brakes and Dominique almost flew out of his seat.He closed his eyes in despair, thinking that Chris's father was about to yell "Get the hell out of here, you two!"He opened his eyes tremblingly, only to see a dirty stray dog ​​bravely crossing the road. After it passed by the car, Chris' father restarted the car.

Dominique thought, should I say hello?Otherwise it would be too rude.So he said cautiously: "Hello, Mr. Morrison, nice to meet you."

Mr. Morrison gave a "hmm" and had no right to respond.Dominique thought he probably wasn't very happy to know him.

"Let's go straight to the cemetery," Chris said.

"That's what I mean too," said Mr Morrison.

The three of them were silent all the way, the atmosphere in the car was as cold as the South Pole, even if a penguin Dominique suddenly appeared from under the seat, it would not be surprising.

He sighed deeply.Before leaving home, he told his godfather that they were going to meet Chris's parents. Wolfgang danced happily: "You guys are meeting your parents so soon? Are you going to get married? Personally, I think it's better not to rush to get married, you guys You're still young, it's not too late to discuss this kind of thing after graduating from university and your career is stable... Ah, shouldn't you prepare some gifts for Chris' parents?"

—It's not as relaxed and happy as you say, Godfather!Dominic thought sadly.

The SUV passed through the city and drove to the suburbs. After about an hour and a half, it stopped outside a desolate cemetery in the suburbs that seemed to have been abandoned for hundreds of years.The cemetery is surrounded by rusty iron fences, and a few crows sit on top of the gate, acting as gatekeepers.When the three of them passed through the gate, they let out a "croak" that sounded like a hoarse jeer.

The rain had stopped, but the sky was still dark and gloomy.Mr. Morrison took the lead and found Jared's tombstone in the middle of the cemetery with ease.There are no extra words on the tombstone except Jared Morrison's name and the dates of birth and death.Compared with the dilapidated and old tombstones around, Jared's tombstone looked brand new, but it still made people feel very pitiful standing in such a deserted place.

Dominic hunched his shoulders and pressed against Chris, hoping to share some warmth from him.

"This place...is so desolate..."

The cemetery was deserted, not to mention the people who came to visit the grave, and there were no flowers placed in front of the tombstone, not to mention the wild grass growing wildly and the wild animals shuttling between the tombstones.The cemetery doesn't seem to be well managed at all, it's like a wasteland.

"Most people in the area believe in religion, and they are buried in the church cemetery after death." Chris explained, "But Jared committed suicide. According to the religious rules, suicides cannot go to heaven, and the church cemetery refused to accept him. So I can only be buried in this cemetery. But the management here is not very good."

"I see……"

The soil on the tomb was new, having obviously been dug up and filled with new soil.

"How did you find out that the body was missing?" Chris asked.

Mr Morrison sighed.Dominic found that the father and son looked alike, especially the green eyes, and he could almost imagine what Chris would look like when he was old.

"It's a criminal gang that relies on exhumation and extortion." Mr. Morrison said, "They dug up the body from the grave, and then extorted money from the family of the deceased. There have been several cases like this recently, so the police are in the cemetery. The criminal gang set their sights on Jared's grave, and they were caught by the police when they dug it up at night. They had already opened the coffin, and it was empty , the corpses disappeared.”

"Could it be that they have stolen the body, but in order to get rid of the crime, they deliberately said that the coffin was empty?"

Mr. Morrison shook his head, "They were caught on the spot, and there was no time to transfer the bodies."

Chris stared at his brother's tombstone with unpredictable expressions. "Since they are blackmailing by stealing corpses, the dead they choose must have passed away not long ago and still have family members who can be blackmailed. The number of people buried in this cemetery itself is not many, and many of them have passed away for decades , Jared is relatively new, and the cemetery is poorly managed and there is no night shift manager, so Jared was targeted. So is it possible that there are two criminal gangs that have no contact with each other before, and their respective Committing the case, the former gang had already stolen Jared’s body, and the latter gang was late and was caught by the police?”

"I've considered this too, but it's unlikely. According to the people who were captured, they investigated before excavating the grave. There was no trace of Jared's tomb being dug up, and the soil around it was old. Even if there were other It must have been a long time ago that criminal gangs stole the body first. But we have never received a blackmail message. That is to say, even if Jared's body was stolen long ago, the purpose of the body snatchers It’s not about extorting money.”

Chris fell silent, and Dominic shuddered, as if the skin wanted to peel off him and run away.If the purpose of the ghouls isn't extortion, what is it?Dominique knew several possible answers, all of which made stomach acid, such as the ghoul having a necrophilia, or needing a dead body to commit a crime, or... needing a dead body To perform some unknown and evil magical ritual.He felt that the final answer was the most likely. After all, the stolen body was none other than Chris' younger brother. Chris's family inherited the blood of demon hunters, and there was even an active demon hunter.Is the body stolen related to this?

Chris asked, "What leads do the police have?"

Mr. Morrison shook his head. "No. They think the body was stolen a long time ago, but they have no idea who it was or for what purpose."

"That's why you came to me?"

"I have a gut feeling that this case falls within your domain."

Chris sighed softly, and turned to Dominic: "Can you go to Limbo Prison?"

"Now?"

"Well. If the ghouls want to use Jared's body to perform some magical rituals, maybe there will be traces left in Limbo Prison."