The Divine Hunter Chapter 4: Skeletons, big cats and spiders

The cold morning wind roared into the open door on the west side of the temple, blowing past the two human skeletons lying side by side on the ground, covered with tattered, yellowed and rancid cloth. A full body was placed between the bones. It's a **** and patched, dirty doll.

The puppet's two dark button eyes stared straight at the empty ceiling, as if silently telling a secret.

Karl wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned his eyes to the three stunned temple managers beside him.

Facing the results of a night of hard work, their silence has lasted for five minutes, and the shock on their faces does not seem to be a disguise, or maybe their acting skills are amazing.

Karl coughed and drew the three people's attention back from the corpse. "As I guessed before, two night monsters can be born only by burying corpses in the ground and using them as nutrients."

"Night demon?" The priestess looked at the demon hunter with a questioning expression.

“If a person has strong unwillingness, resentment, and anger before death, and the death is painful, the soul may turn into a night spirit next to his corpse or a personal belonging that contains deep emotions. , they appear with the moonlight, station in a certain place, vent their endless resentment to the nearby lives, torture and kill them, and create more of their kind. As long as the corpse is buried inside for a day, the night demon spirits cannot be completely eliminated!"

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Karl paused and carefully observed the expressions of the three people, but could not see any trace of guilt or guilty conscience, only normal fear.

"As expected of a professional, he found the source of the trouble in one night! For such a dirty thing to stay in the temple for one more minute is an insult to the prophet!" Daisy complimented, took a deep breath, "Without further ado, how should we purify them now? Burn them on fire, or transport them to the woods for landfill and throw them into the river?"

"Be patient, purification is not as simple as you think." Arkham sneered inwardly when he heard this, and exchanged glances with Karl.

The fox's tail is finally exposed.

When a corpse appears in a home, shouldn’t a normal person’s first reaction be to get to the bottom of it? But she was anxious to destroy the body and eliminate all traces.

"Before I take action, I have some questions to ask. The temple is not a cemetery in the wilderness, and the sage Lebiuda is not the **** of death."

He raised his voice, his face was cold, his voice was like thunder, and his eyes were so bright that it was scary,

"Why is there a body buried under the cellar? What is the relationship between the deceased and you? What happened to the puppets? You denied it to me at first and swore that no one died down there!"

The three of them were startled by this attitude of raising an army to accuse them.

The priestess' face suddenly turned pale, she retreated to the center of the two big men beside her, and then she solemnly said, "In my memory, no one has ever died in the temple. I don't know them!"

"Really? Why do I think you can't remember it? How about I help you recall it?" Akam squatted down and held up the white pelvis on the left with both hands. The pelvis is wide and short, with smooth pelvic walls. Thin, round at the top, wide at the front and back...

He quickly concluded,

"The deceased is a woman!"

He looked at the overall outline of the skeleton, then grabbed the skull, rubbed the yellowed teeth with his fingertips, and turned the dark skull eyes towards the three people, as if he was issuing a silent question, "Between the ages of 10 and 15, death The time...is unclear."

The judgment of the time of death is greatly affected by the environment, and the young demon hunter has little experience and cannot draw a definite conclusion.

The three of them didn’t respond. Arkham continued to check and let out a startled sound.

"The ribs, leg bones, and arm bones suffered multiple fractures due to external pressure..."

"There is a row of circular paw prints on the sternum, extending from the left clavicle to the right floating rib, with four toes. It is not a canine...or an ogre...some kind of big cat?"

Arkham's expression quietly became solemn. The murderer was not a human being, which meant that there was another story behind the demon spirit.

"The left shoulder was bitten into pieces by sharp teeth. There were twenty-five to thirty teeth in a row in the tooth marks. The length and bite force of the teeth were quite amazing."

"According to this analysis, the murderer is larger than a cheetah."

The three managers held their breath and looked at each other, their expressions becoming extremely exciting.

The two demon hunters took a deep breath at the same time, and a terrifying and **** scene emerged in their minds. A large beast with a streamlined body similar to a cat suppressed the skinny little girl, biting and ravaging it crazily.

And she was wailing, her bones were broken, her body was convulsing, and the blood splattered in her wounds turned into cold roses, staining her clothes and the ground red.

Her screams and roars became lower and lower, blood piled up into a pool of blood, and she finally died in agony.

But the marks on the bones don’t stop there.

Karl glanced at the waist of the skeleton, reached out and touched it, and actually pulled out a "rope" from it.

A large area is milky white, and a small area is reddish brown after being infected by blood and dried.

It is about as thick as an index finger. If you look closely, you can see that the rope is covered with dense fine hairs. It is a bit sticky when you pinch it. This is because it has been buried in the ground with the body for a long time and its stickiness has been greatly weakened. Down.

Clench the two ends with both hands and stretch them hard, showing strong toughness and elasticity.

"What is this?" Karl looked at his companions in confusion.

"Spider web!" Arkham took a breath of air and guessed, "Ordinary spiders cannot weave such a thick web. Could it be that a deformed spider once lived in this cellar?"

The shape-shifting spider is about the size of a calf, has amazing speed and jumping power, can spit venom and super sticky webs, and can easily prey on lions and even a Skellige man.

The priestess tightened her pretty face, her expression dim in the shadows.

"This is impossible. The climate in Povis is cold and does not belong to the habitat of the shape-shifting spider." Karl immediately denied this speculation, "Even putting this aside, if they lived in the temple, the children would have been made long ago. A human flesh pouch filled with spider eggs. So I think it is more likely to be some kind of mutated, gigantic spider creature."

Gulugulu.

Clear sounds of swallowing came one after another.

The word "human pouch" made the two big men and the priestess have chills on their faces and goosebumps all over their bodies.

Arkham checked the expressions of the three of them out of the corner of his eye, and then turned his attention to the more petite bones on the left. "The girl... is younger and has the same cracks on the surface of her bones... with a small amount of cobwebs wrapped around her."

After saying that, he fell into a long silence.

First the big cat beast with sharp teeth and claws, and then the mutated spider insect. How much sin and pain should these two poor children have suffered before they died? ,

That’s why they turned into night demons and lingered around.

But why were they the only ones killed while the rest of the temple was safe?

Logically speaking, it is impossible for such a big thing to just hunt two little girls and then sneak away quietly.

Arkham has all kinds of doubts in his heart, and he can’t figure it out for the time being.

"Ms. Daisy, after all this talk, haven't you thought of anything yet?"

"Two deceased people appeared in the house, but you, as temple stewards, didn't know anything about it? Isn't this a lie with open eyes? Is this reasonable?"

"Answer my question!"

"My words are not even half false. The big spiders and big cats you mentioned are simply unheard of!" The priestess licked her dry and cracked lips, raised her head and shook her head stubbornly, "If they had ever appeared in the temple, How much noise must be created? Someone must have seen it with so many pairs of eyes. This terrible news must have spread to every household in the Pine Forest District!"

Arkham rolled his eyes, lost in thought. Along the way, they never heard any relevant rumors.

"You ask this, don't you think we have anything to do with the murderer?" The bald man asked in surprise and anger,

"Only the gods know the answer."

Arkham muttered softly.

Dino defended with a red face,

"Your Excellencies, it is clear that this poor child's death has nothing to do with us! If we had harmed them, how could we dare to lure the two masters down and help you find the body? Isn’t this just digging a hole and jumping into it?”

Karl couldn’t help but nodded.

"I have always regarded the children as my relatives. I care about them with all my heart and soul, and give them meticulous care and care. I am reluctant to hit or curse them on weekdays. How can I hurt them?" Daisy blinked innocently. Beautiful big eyes, "When I served the prophet in the temple, I had eighteen children from beginning to end, one too many!"

Arkham thought for a while, looked at Karl, and silently uttered the word "sigil" with his lips moving.

The latter shook his head.

The two are young and energetic, and the seals they practice the most are Igni and Alder~IndoMTL.com~Yaxi, who confuses the mind, cannot learn it well. It can make people lose consciousness temporarily, and it can be used for torture. But not enough.

What's more, Roy once warned them not to use hypnotic seals on devout believers of gods, otherwise there will be unpredictable dangers.

"Calm down, you three have misunderstood. We don't think you have any connection with the murderer. We are demon hunters, not vigilantes or sheriffs. We have no obligation and no interest in judging humans!"

Karl walked around in a circle,

"We just want to complete the commission and find the two murderous monsters! Only by getting rid of them can the bones be purified smoothly. If we can't get the right medicine before tonight"

Karl deliberately threatened,

"The demons at night will come back."

In fact, as long as the bones are taken away, the demon spirit will naturally leave the temple at night. However, the three people did not know the inside story, and their expressions suddenly changed.

"I repeat, we have been guarding the temple every step of the way for the past six months, and we have never seen the so-called big spider or big cat beast that you call it."

The priestess gritted her teeth and said,

"So these two corpses can only be bad debts left over from the time of the previous priest Xinni."

"Tell me carefully about this priest. Did she leave any instructions or a few words of written record before she went out to travel? Hurry up!"

The priestess pondered for a moment and began to speak in detail.

"Grandma Xin Ni has always been a good person..."

Dino and Bruzzi chimed in to add something from time to time.

Arkham listened for a while and felt that there was no point in asking. He glanced at Karl, looked at the children outside the door, and put the puppet in his arms.

"You guys talk first, I'll go out to pee and feed the horses, so that Wilt and Scorpion won't get thirsty!"

The priestess turned her head and glanced at the back of the witcher as he stepped into the courtyard.

She continued talking as if she hadn't seen him before.

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