Chapter 615 Blood Hand Print Killer
Liu Xing nodded, this place doesn't seem to have anyone, but there might be ghosts - Ghouls here.
At this time, Wesker re-entered the mansion, turned on a high-powered flashlight, and began to check the situation on the first floor.
It was obvious that the owner of the manor had not maintained the facilities of the manor for more than 20 years after leaving it idle, so everything in the mansion was covered in a thick layer of dust.
"No footprints, it seems that the first floor of the mansion has not been active for a long time," Wesker said.
At this time, the KP Time said to Liu Xing: "Now you can choose to conduct a difficult level Investigation Judgment, and if you succeed, you can get some information."
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, since the KP Time said so, it means there must be clues on this floor, which means there is a problem in this mansion.
Liu Xing, 31/37 (75%), succeeded.
Liu Xing breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately the Investigation value of the "Chris" character card is quite high, if it was "Watanabe Ryuusei", this Investigation Judgment would have been in vain.
At this time, Liu Xing suddenly felt his head uncontrollably looking up at the ceiling.
On the ceiling, countless blood handprints!
Licker?!
Liu Xing frowned and said, "Look at the ceiling! What are these handprints?"
Leon and the others immediately looked up at the ceiling, and were stunned by the blood handprints all over the ceiling.
After a while, the experienced Wesker immediately took out his mobile phone and said, "I'm going to request support from headquarters right now, you all temporarily leave the manor!"
Wesker turned and left without hesitation.
Liu Xing was a little surprised to see Wesker's reaction, but he and the others still followed Wesker to leave the manor.
After leaving the manor, Wesker called Liu Xing and the others aside and said seriously, "You must be wondering why I reacted so strongly just now. Let me tell you, in the past 10 years, there have been 9 extremely heinous murder cases in various parts of England, with a total of 33 victims dismembered, and the bodies of the victims were all missing hearts and some body parts, and our investigation found that the perpetrator of these 9 cases was the same person, and the missing hearts and body parts were most likely eaten by the perpetrator."
"We currently have no idea about the identity of the perpetrator, nor do we know why he kills people, but at the scene of each case, we found a large number of blood handprints on the ceiling, and these blood handprints naturally belong to the perpetrator, but we still don't know why the perpetrator would print blood handprints on the ceiling. As for why you haven't heard of this case, it's because the higher-ups have deliberately suppressed it, and we can't make the case public until it's solved, and only the relevant personnel in the police station know about it."
"But I don't know why, the higher-ups think this perpetrator is extremely dangerous, so they require us to request special support from headquarters when we discover a crime scene, and then wait obediently at the perimeter of the crime scene. If we don't follow this order, we will be immediately dismissed, regardless of the outcome, and there was once a local police officer who was dismissed for violating the order, so that's why I asked you to leave the mansion."
Leon frowned and asked with some confusion, "Since these are the perpetrator's blood handprints, we should at least be able to analyze the perpetrator's blood type through the blood handprints, and we should also be able to extract the perpetrator's fingerprints."
Wesker shook his head and said with a puzzled look, "I thought so too at first, but we soon found that the perpetrator's blood type is very special, so special that we've never seen this kind of blood type before, and the situation with the fingerprints is the same, we almost couldn't extract a single complete fingerprint from the perpetrator."
Because it's not human.
Liu Xing sighed inwardly.
"But aren't the higher-ups being a bit too cautious? This perpetrator may be a bit strange, but he's still just one person, and he probably doesn't have any automatic weapons, so as long as we're careful, we should be able to at least protect ourselves even if we can't catch him, right?" Jill asked.
Wesker sighed and said helplessly, "We just need to execute the decisions made by the higher-ups, it's not our job to consider the correctness of these decisions. Okay, Chris, you and Leon go check the back of the manor, and if you find anything, we'll contact each other by walkie-talkie."
Liu Xing nodded and walked towards the back of the manor with Leon.
Since the manor had been idle for a long time, the area around the manor, except for the road in front of the gate that was frequently used by vehicles, was overgrown with weeds, and in some places the weeds were even taller than Liu Xing's waist.
"Chris, do you think the reason why the perpetrator prints his blood handprints on the ceiling after each crime is?" Leon asked curiously.
Liu Xing thought for a moment and said, "I'm not sure, but we learned in the Police Academy that serial killers with such extremely cruel modus operandi often have certain mental illnesses, so their way of thinking is very different from ordinary people, so they may do some things that seem incomprehensible to us. But these behaviors are actually very important clues for us police officers, because they are so unique."
Liu Xing said this, but his thoughts were completely different.
Based on Liu Xing's speculation, the reason why the perpetrator's blood handprints appear on the ceiling is that the perpetrator's identity is very likely to be a mythical creature, and it also has the ability to climb walls, and it may have been lurking on the ceiling waiting to attack the victims.
This really made Liu Xing can't help but think of the Licker in Resident Evil...
Could it be that he really ended up on the wrong set this time?
"Chris, look here!" Leon suddenly shouted, interrupting Liu Xing's wandering thoughts.
Liu Xing frowned and looked in the direction Leon was pointing, and found that the manor's wall had been broken open into a hole large enough for an adult to crawl in and out, and what's more important was that the weeds around the hole were obviously recently trampled, indicating that someone had recently passed through.
At this time, Leon also reported the situation to Wesker through the walkie-talkie.
"The murderer is most likely to have just left this place, because if given enough time, they would certainly choose to hide this hole as much as possible, to delay the progress of our police investigation, rather than being discovered by us at a glance," Liu Xing deduced.
Leon nodded and said, "That's right, I have the same view as you and Chris, but by the way, Chris, why did you refer to the murderer as 'it'?"
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, just realizing that he was now playing the role of an Englishman, and the English "it", "he", and "she" are not as difficult to distinguish as in Chinese, as they are three completely different pronunciations.
Therefore, just now, after determining that the murderer was a mythical creature, he had unconsciously referred to it as "it".
This made Liu Xing relieved that it was only Leon present this time, if there were some people who knew about the existence of mythical creatures present, his words might have aroused their suspicion.
And those people should include the "higher-ups" mentioned by Wesker.
These people are obviously aware of the existence of mythical creatures, and have also determined that the murderer is a mythical creature, so they have issued those orders that seem very strange to ordinary police officers, and these orders are naturally to protect those ordinary police officers who are unaware of the truth.
After all, when facing a mythical creature, the standard-issue firearms of ordinary police officers are not very effective.
Of course, looking at Leon standing in front of him, as well as Jill and Wesker in the distance, Liu Xing felt that their team should be able to take down that mythical creature with their handguns, after all, with their strength, even with just a knife each, they could still defeat a Ghoul.
But speaking of which, Liu Xing is now also beginning to suspect that Wesker might be an Erwuzi...
Leon, looking at the obviously distracted Liu Xing, asked with some confusion, "Chris, what's wrong with you?"
Liu Xing snapped out of his thoughts and quickly made up an excuse, saying, "Oh, I was just thinking that maybe we're making this case too complicated, because it's possible that the murderer this time is just a large, ferocious beast, and as for the bloody handprints in the manor, it's possible that it's just the mischief of some hoodlums, I've heard before that some juvenile delinquents like to hold parties in abandoned houses, so it's possible that these hoodlums got high and made these so-called bloody handprints, after all, we still can't confirm that the bloody handprints in the manor are real."
Liu Xing's words made Leon ponder for a moment, and then he nodded and said, "No wonder you were always first in the Police Academy, while I was always second, because you think more thoroughly than me. We just saw the bloody handprints in the manor, but didn't have time to check the specific situation of the bloody handprints, and the body at the manor gate, although it died miserably, it wasn't missing its heart, which is different from the previous Blood Hand Print Killer's case."
Liu Xing was somewhat surprised to see that his random fabrication had been accepted by Leon.
At this time, Wesker, who had received Leon's report, came over with Jill.
Wesker examined the situation around the hole and then frowned, saying, "This hole is large enough for an adult to enter and exit, but judging from the surrounding weeds, it seems that someone has entered and exited this hole within the last few hours. Do you know why?"
Wesker's sudden question made Liu Xing, Leon, and Jill crouch down to examine the weeds around the hole.
This time, Liu Xing didn't need to make a judgment, and he found something unusual - some of the broken weeds had already "scabbed over".
For weeds with such vigorous vitality, if they are broken, they will immediately secrete a certain liquid to heal their "wounds".
Before Liu Xing could speak, Jill quickly pointed out this discovery.
"Jill is right, from the condition of these weeds, we can confirm that no one has passed through this hole in the recent period, so we now have reason to suspect that the last person to enter and exit this hole was the victim, and it is likely that we can find some broken bricks nearby, because from the cross-section of this hole, we can analyze that this hole should have been dug out not long ago," Wesker said with a smile.
Liu Xing couldn't help but look at the cross-section of the hole and found that it did look quite new.
At this moment, Wesker's mobile phone rang.
"It seems that the higher-ups are very concerned about the Blood Hand Print Killer, and the reinforcements have arrived so quickly. Let's go greet them," Wesker said, walking towards the manor gate.
Liu Xing and the others naturally followed closely behind.
Arriving at the manor gate, Liu Xing was somewhat surprised to find that the reinforcements were led by Chief Hause.
It should be known that due to the special nature of the London Police Department, the position of the London Police Department Chief is at the top of the police system in England and even the entire Great Britain Alliance, so Hause's arrival exceeded Liu Xing's expectations.
However, this shows that the "higher-ups" attach great importance to the Blood Hand Print Killer.
After receiving Wesker's report, Chief Hause directly entered the manor to investigate.
Soon, the bloody handprint on the ceiling of the first floor of the manor was confirmed to be left by the Blood Hand Print Killer.
But the most important thing is that Leon and Jill discovered a basement, and then found a pile of messy skeletons in the basement.
According to the preliminary identification of the forensic experts, these skeletons were all human bones, and they were able to assemble six complete skeletons, four of which were children.
Then, according to the information provided by the local police, the heir of this manor was a family of six, and this family of six also suddenly left the manor one night and never returned.
So, who was the "manor owner" that the local police had previously contacted?!
Chief Hause immediately arranged for someone to call back that "manor owner's" phone, and of course, no one answered.
"Damn, it looks like the fake estate owner is most likely the Blood Hand Print Killer," Wesker cursed under his breath.
Liu Xing nodded, now also very interested in the Blood Hand Print Killer.
Because in Liu Xing's view, the Blood Hand Print Killer must be a mythical creature, and for mythical creatures, they would not normally engage in this kind of "playing house" shenanigan with humans.
So, what is the purpose of this mythical creature?