Red Moon Returns

When banker Will Trevor escapes, Officers Lynch and Natalie almost become saviors.

But Lynch and the police officer still exchanged wary glances.

This guy was walking too fast, so he must be moving.

However, his matter can be put aside for the time being. Driving him away is equivalent to successfully buying more than ten days of time, and the pressure of losing land is no longer so urgent.

At least the townspeople would stop frantically attacking Milt's house in the short term and were willing to cooperate. This gave them room for further investigation.

However, Lynch did not drink the good wine they really prepared. Instead, he took a group of people to go to four breeding farms where all the livestock died for a field trip.

Not all of the hundreds of townspeople followed, only the leading few followed, accompanied by a few formal gentlemen from the town government.

"Your excellencies, thank you very much."

The speaker was a short, fat man, in his forties or fifties, with a round face that looked quite kind. His double chin trembled when he walked, which made Lynch want to hold it up twice.

This is the mayor of Wilson Town, Mark Palin. They are officials sent by the Rhine City. Naturally, they are worried about causing a civil unrest and affecting their career, so they are particularly grateful to Lynch. The mayor holds Lynch's hand and is about to cry. When he came out, he answered almost every question he asked, explaining the whole incident to Lynch along the way.

It started eight days ago.

Eight days ago, each family's livestock, including cows, dogs, chickens, and cats, suddenly became a little strange. They were uncharacteristically unwilling to leave their pens and only stayed in their own nests.

But this was not a sign of illness, and it rained heavily in those two days, so the townspeople didn't pay much attention to it.

Then the day before yesterday, suddenly all the livestock of the old Werther family died overnight. Old Werther lost everything and hanged himself in the square yesterday. Also yesterday, the livestock of the other three families were also wiped out, and they lost everything.

At this time, other townspeople remembered that the livestock refused to go out. They quickly checked their livestock and found that no matter how hard they were driven, the livestock refused to leave the stables. Even if they were forced to take them out and close the stables, the livestock acted like crazy. Bash the door until you kill yourself.

This is why the old gentleman was sure that someone was not poisoning him before. Such a strange reaction does not look like poisoning, but rather like some kind of strange disease.

As a result, everyone in each family fell into fear, but there was nothing they could do about it. Their last sanity was finally defeated by Mike's bell tower jump, and today's conflict emerged.

While talking, the group of people had already arrived at Mike's house. The pasture of Mike's house seemed to be particularly fertile and the grass was quite lush.

As soon as he got close to Mike's house, a foul smell wafted over. It was the smell of corpses.

It's summer now, and the body that has been dead for a day has begun to rot. The scene should be quite exciting.

When a group of people entered the barn, they found dead cow carcasses on the ground. They had obviously died suddenly overnight. The scene was horrific, but Lynch and the police officer were shocked when they saw it.

Something wasn't right, all the bodies were skin and bones, like they were severely malnourished.

Are you kidding? Even if you starve for eight days, you can't lose weight like this, and you can call everything normal?

Lynch quickly looked at Mayor Mark, who had just introduced the situation to him, and found that the short fat man also had a surprised look on his face. He looked at each other with other public officials. He was stunned for a while and then asked: "Mrs. Mailing, I never heard you say that livestock It’s become like this.”

Mike Mailin's wife was even more surprised. She stayed where she was with her two children in her arms, and stammered: "I, I don't know. When I chased Mike out at noon, they were all normal corpses. , How, how did it become like this?”

has a problem.

Lynch winked at the police officer. It was not convenient for him as an 'official' to come forward. Officer Natalie immediately understood, raised her hand and said loudly: "Don't move."

Then he cautiously approached the corpses on the ground. After inspecting them for a while, he returned to Lin Qi and whispered: "There are no external scars, just like a normal dead body."

"And you lost weight only after you died?"

"……Um."

This sound made Lin Qi feel a chill creeping up his back. Anyone who is used to seeing corpses knows that it is impossible for corpses to become thinner. This situation either means that these corpses are still alive or that they are still alive. This thing is a mysterious incident.

"You." Lynch pointed to the beaten townspeople, "Go next door to see if there are any changes in the still-living livestock. Mayor Mark, take us to the other three houses to check."

Only then did everyone come to their senses and immediately obeyed the order and started to take action. As soon as they got halfway, the beaten townspeople ran back.

Living livestock are normal.

Lin Qi pursed his lips. This was not a good sign. The information bombardment in his previous life had made him come up with more than twenty possibilities, each of which was tragic.

The second house was not far from Mike Mailin's house. The livestock died suddenly half a day earlier than Mike's. The male owner of this house was a little stronger and did not choose to escape. He was leading the way at the front of the team. He ignored his wife who came out and rushed straight to the house. Entered the animal shed.

The ground was littered with healthy... carcasses of cows, but slightly rotten.

Without stopping for a moment, Lynch left the animal shed directly.

"Go to the next one."

"The next house is Old Werther's," the mayor explained.

"go."

This time it was a bit far away, and it took us fifteen minutes to walk there. The smell of decay in Old Werther's house was stronger, and there were signs of decay on the skin of the corpse.

His family was the first to die, so it took the longest to decay. In other words, the four families began to turn into mummies at about the same time.

"This is... something is sucking the life force or strength, even the corpses are not spared."

Lynch said softly, and Officer Natalie nodded slightly. It seemed that the mutation had already begun, but it was not yet known when it would end. Moreover, this meant...

"Have you ever seen a mysterious thing that only works on livestock? Natalie."

"Yes, but not necessarily this time."

"But at least the wife from that family is still alive." Lynch thought for a while, then suddenly frowned and asked Mayor Mark, "Old Witte died yesterday. Where is his family? Did they show up today?"

"this……"

"Forget it, let's go to their house together. Who else is there in his family?"

"His mother and a pair of children."

"Walk."

The old Werther residence was nearby. A group of people rushed over in a chaotic manner, but no one came out to greet them. This made people wonder if they were not at home at all today.

But Lynch was not so optimistic. At this time, he had an ominous premonition.

“Remember the livestock that didn’t want to leave the house?”

Lynch whispered beside the police officer. Officer Natalie responded softly, quickened her pace and rushed in front of everyone. She kicked the door open without knocking.

"police."

Very familiar, Lynch subconsciously rubbed his arm, but the police officer didn't notice the enemy, so she put down the sword she was protecting in front of her.

no one.

try to find.

A group of people quickly rummaged through the room, but found nothing. They even searched the basement, but could not find Werther's family.

Where are people?

The farmer and gentleman who entered the house looking for someone were already a little panicked, with ugly faces and wandering eyes. At this moment, a scream interrupted these people's rummaging.

Someone found a bloody handprint in the dark utility room, which was a secret door leading to the attic.

For a moment, everyone gathered outside the utility room, staring blankly at the strange and eerie bloody handprints.

Except for Lynch and Officer Natalie.

Lynch blocked everyone outside the utility room, while the police officer was approaching the bloody handprint with her sword in hand.

"This isn't pure blood, it's a mix of pus and mucus."

Pus and mucus often appear along with dangerous mysteries, which is not a good sign. As he spoke, Officer Natalie opened the attic door and signaled to Mayor Mark outside the door.

"Aunt Werther, are you in there?" the fat mayor shouted to the dark attic stairs, "we're here to see you."

"We are here, we are all here." A reply came suddenly, making the townspeople outside the utility room let out a long sigh.

It seemed like the worry was in vain, they were fine.

However, just as the fat mayor was about to go up the steps, the old woman's voice suddenly came from inside: "You can't come in."

"Huh?" The fat mayor was stunned, "Are you okay?"

"We are fine, very fine." The old woman said quietly, "Let us stay here by ourselves and not come in."

The police officer had a sullen face, pulled the mayor away, and climbed up the steps with her sword. Lynch thought for a moment, raised his cane to protect the police officer's back, and followed with a lantern.

The attic was quite empty, with some grain piled up, but the person who had just spoken was nowhere to be seen.

It's not a recording, right? A gramophone?

Lin Qi held up the light and looked around, but still didn't find it... Damn it.

When he turned around, he saw an old face appearing on the wall in the shadow of the corner, staring at the two of them with emotionless eyes.

What the hell?

Lin Qi's hair stood on end, but he was no longer a rookie who was frightened by strange phenomena. He was Lin Qi, the soul changer.

"Natalie."

He used a cane in his left hand to protect his body, and took out a revolver in his right hand and pointed it at the man's face. At the same time, the police officer had returned to his side and protected half of her body in front of him, making way for the shooting path.

But Lynch didn't fire, he just pointed at the opposite side, his face became very ugly, he pursed his mouth tightly, resisting the urge to vomit in his throat.

The lady police officer also had a tense expression and tightly grasped the handle of her sword.

It's hard to describe what the mass is on the wall.

It was like the bodies of several people were piled together. The bodies dissolved like wax, then fused together, and then solidified again and stuck to the wall.

Several human heads grew around the pieces of meat. Some of the noses and eyes had been half melted. The remaining eye kept moving around, staring closely at Lynch and Officer Natalie.

"Out there, we're fine, we've never been better."

The old voice was emotionless, and his eyes were as cold as stone.

"Back off, Lynch."

Without wasting even half a second, Lynch exited the attic instantly.

He saw that the mass of flesh and blood was squirming, expanding, and trembling ominously.

Before he even landed, the police officer jumped down and fell into his arms. He didn't care about anything else and rolled out while holding Officer Natalie, all the way to the entrance of the utility room.

There was a muffled bang, a crackling sound upstairs, and then a strong smell of blood floated down.

They looked at each other with the lady in their arms, nodded to each other, turned around and signaled to everyone not to come near, and then climbed up to the attic again.

Sure enough, the strange mass of flesh and blood had exploded, and the broken flesh and blood covered the entire attic.

Lin Qi felt that the blood vessels in his forehead were pulsing, and he pressed his mouth hard, feeling terrified.

Fortunately, Officer Natalie reminded me just now, otherwise he would have been covered in flesh and blood. The damage might not be great, but the mental impact would definitely not be light.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"It is a sign of deep mysterious interference. It is similar to the withering of your arm at that time, but the mental state is not. It is probably related to the mysterious incident they encountered."

The police officer looked at the mess all over the floor and sighed. The two quickly checked the attic. There was only flesh and blood, but no living people. The last few living people in the Witt family had already finished their work before Lynch arrived.

"Remember, no one is allowed to go up, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences." The police officer strode down the stairs and closed the attic door tightly.

"Master, then our cattle..."

The police officer clenched her fists and stared at the leading farmer with a stern face, "Now that a massacre has occurred here, are you worried about your cattle?"

"But, we..."

"You don't have to worry." Lin Qi raised his hand and made a calm gesture, "We have to at least look at the goods before deciding whether to buy it or not. It's going to be dark now, so let's do it. We will definitely spend the night in the town tonight. , We will continue to look at the goods tomorrow. It just so happens that we can find out the reason why the cow is like this tonight, otherwise we won’t be worried about buying it.”

All the farmers were quite disappointed, but what Lynch said was indeed reasonable, and even though the dead cow had such strange changes, he still expressed that he might be willing to buy it, which made the farmers can only nod in agreement.

This kind of thing still needs you.

The police officer secretly glanced at Lynch's back from behind, bit her lip and hit her head in a self-deprecating manner. She quickly gathered her emotions and ordered to the fat mayor: "Find two townspeople and go to the city quickly. Report the crime, a murder occurred here."

"But we don't have horses, madam." The mayor said with a wry smile, "All the livestock in the town are huddled in their stalls, including the stage horses."

"Huh?" Lynch quickly interrupted, "The horses in your town government are also affected?"

"It was left at home by the townspeople to take care of it."

The police officer frowned and said, "It doesn't matter. We brought the horse and hitched it to the car. You can leave now."

"No, madam." The leading farmer rubbed his hands and said in panic, "It's almost dark. We can't leave the town, otherwise the road at night will be difficult and too dangerous."

"Yes, ma'am."

Other farmers also echoed, but a few gentlemen couldn't stand it anymore and yelled at the farmers to obey. But this time the farmers seemed to have made up their minds and would never leave the town at night to go to the city to call the police.

"Or you can send someone there." Lynch said to the fat mayor and a kind of gentleman, "Anyway, it's less than two hours away, so it won't be too late."

"We don't know how to ride a horse." Several gentlemen said in embarrassment, "We can't go either. Why don't you go by yourself? We won't leave and will wait for news from you in the town."

"That's not possible. We have to guard the crime scene here, and such a bad incident happened here. I can't leave until it is solved. Lynch, why don't you go there?"

"I don't know how to ride a horse anymore. I can't go either. I'd better let..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Qi was suddenly startled and suddenly grabbed the police officer's hand.

It was so hard that the police officer frowned, but Lin Qi's expression suddenly became extremely ugly, his face turned pale, and even his movements were a little stiff, and he whispered in a cold voice:

"Have you noticed? Everyone is looking for excuses to refuse to leave this town."

"Everyone is the same, just like the cows and horses are reluctant to leave the stable. No matter how weird and ridiculous these excuses are, they are not aware of it and cannot control it."

"Including...us."

The two people's eyes met, and they felt a chill running down their spines.