But I clearly saw a strange person just now, and her clothes were completely different from He Xin's.
We had already changed back into our own clothes when we left the swimming pool. The person in front of me was dressed as He Xin, with blood pouring from her forehead, a large hole as if she had been shot.
And the person who shot her was me!
I killed my own daughter with my own hands!
Is that right?
"Hahaha, Detective He, do you feel regretful? But it's too late to reverse anything. I just love seeing the desperate look on your police officers' faces, killing your own loved ones with your own hands, doesn't that make you feel particularly sad? Don't worry, Liu Yuning and the others will soon follow He Xin, one by one, and then you can reunite with them! Haha, isn't that what you've always been looking forward to? Detective He!"
"Cardinal, is that you? Did you set this up?"
"It's too late for you to realize now, because He Xin will not be resurrected. Once you leave here, you will become a murderer, and the police will hunt you down. You will be disgraced and become a stray dog! Despair, Detective He! The edge of death is spreading towards you. The demon god will not show mercy to sinners like you, unless, unless you join our Polaris organization! Oh? Don't you have a pendant of our organization on your chest? Father Reynald must have given it to you. In fact, he has long intended to recruit you, but you still haven't woken up, you haven't woken up!"
"The priest is a good man. He only works in the organization to save you!"
"Do you really think so? Detective He, Father actually brought me into the organization. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be like this today. And you will soon be like us, controlled by the power of God, and become a believer of the demon god!"
"You are wrong! The reason I wear the Polaris pendant is not because I am like you, but because this thing can find you!"
I covered the pendant. In fact, I had already asked He Xin to research its internal structure. There was a mysterious chip inside the pendant. As long as it was connected to my bracelet, it could locate other people wearing the Polaris pendant. Now I have captured the Cardinal's position, and he should be on the fourth floor of the church.
But I killed He Xin, what should I do? Do I really have to become a murderer and be pursued by China's police as he said?
Holding He Xin, I was at the lowest point of despair. However, as someone patted my shoulder with force, I suddenly noticed that this strength was not coming from the front, but from behind.
I turned around abruptly, and He Xin hugged me tightly from behind: "Dad, I'm fine!"
"Ah!" I exclaimed, thinking I was hallucinating. But when I looked at the bloodstain in front of me again, I found no one there, only a large blood bag that I had shot.
I hugged He Xin tightly, lifting her up completely, just like before. I will never be separated from her again.
After a while, I held He Xin's hand and whispered a few words in her ear.
"I understand, Father. Let's go upstairs together!"
For some reason, after this incident, He Xin's address to me became much more serious.
I returned the gun to He Xin and pulled a leg from under a chair in the church hall to use as a weapon. Then we started climbing the stairs. Indeed, we found many laboratories here, with workstations, countless bloodstains, some human organs, animal skins and flesh, scalpels, iron beds, incomprehensible instruments, and some flesh. The lizard people and dragon people were all disfigured this way. That's right, this must be the laboratory mentioned in the previous letter.
During the process, the Cardinal must have discovered our whereabouts, and there was no need for us to hide. We passed through the laboratory and continued upstairs. When we reached the top floor, we found that he was already gone. The entire fourth floor was a vast sky garden, filled with countless strange flowers and plants. There were also some peculiar pillars decorated with entwined giant snakes. A red wooden chair was placed quietly in front of a flowerbed.
We came to the front of the chair and found that someone had just sat there. The Cardinal probably had just left not long ago.
Originally, I thought I would have to search for his traces in such a place, but the next second, on the corridor not far above, there were dense footsteps. Many men in black and nuns holding crossbows appeared above. Then the Cardinal stood in their midst and raised his hand, saying, "Welcome to Lost Paradise. This is your last challenge in the Valley of Lost Souls. Now, please look left and right. Do you see it? Behind every poplar tree, there is a cold storage room, and your people are inside. This time, you have 30 minutes to find a way to open these cold storage doors. If you exceed this time, with the rapidly decreasing temperature, these people will probably be in grave danger! You know, the temperature here drops by one degree every minute."
"Cardinal, don't run!" I shouted at him, as if I had lost my mind.
But he sneered, waved his hand, and countless crossbow bolts flew towards us. At that moment, He Xin and I thought we were dead. However, at this moment, two figures suddenly leaped out. With a flash of blades, all the crossbow bolts were cut apart. He Jinghui shielded me and said, "Young Master, you go find a way to open the cold storage, I will protect you!"
"Me too!" He Xiaoyu echoed. I didn't have time to ask where they had been. I nodded and started towards the first cold storage with He Xin.
As we faced the cold storage rooms, He Jinghui and He Xiaoyu leaped up and onto the corridor. Then there was another battle above, with screams echoing one after another. He Xin and I couldn't pay attention, because a password lock appeared in front of the cold storage. He Xin took out her bracelet, connected it, and entered some data. Soon, the password was cracked.
The door to the first cold storage opened. If she hadn't been by my side this time, I would have been finished.
After finishing with the first cold storage, He Xin and I rushed in immediately. Seeing that 5 minutes had passed, we were both trembling with the extreme cold when we entered the cold storage. When we saw Gao Mingqiang and some criminal police officers tied up, we desperately untied them. Gao Mingqiang looked at me weakly. This guy's legs were still immobile. I carried him on my back, and others followed. Fortunately, some criminal police officers slowly regained consciousness. Otherwise, with such delays, we would have run out of the 30 minutes for just one cold storage.