NOVEL NEXT Chapter 82
Chapter 82: Chapter 16 ‘Cult’
Translator: Doggotranslation
On the south side of the bus terminal’s courtyard, there is a former employee dormitory, and the infrastructure is fairly intact. Before the police arrived, Zach and Benjamin cleaned off the scent of carrion on their bodies. Watching a group of police officers covering their mouths with pale faces and rushing towards this side, the two of them kindly showed them the location of the toilet.
Coulson and Zach have seen each other, of course, the first time from the peephole of Room 202, and then it was buried by the hypnotizing eyes. The second time it was just as someone by Mr. Hermann’s side, so he didn’t have any impression. Only until now did he know Zach’s name. Coulson took the small notebook and asked what happened.
Zach said briefly. They are friends of Lola Barton, who came as volunteers to help her clean the bus terminal. Then after entering the warehouse, they found the scene, and noticed someone fleeing the scene. Because there were mainly teenagers and children, they only showed the situation to the only male teacher and asked him to call the police, and then dispersed the teenagers and children, but they waited here until the police arrived.
“Mhm, your decision is wise. But I still have a question. Why did you specify Rance when calling the police?” Coulson was puzzled about this, although it was a good thing.
“Mr. Hermann has a high opinion of Detective Rance.” Zach replied with the respect that a citizen should have towards the police, “Oh, Connor Hermann’s funeral was held at our Grande Funeral Home.”
“Oh.” Coulson replied softly, raising his eyebrows clearly. Of course, he would not say thank you to this guy from Grande, even if he was already extremely happy!
“Okay, that’s all.” Coulson waved to the ‘brothers’. From the interview, he already knew that they didn’t see the appearance of the escaped person, and he needed to visit the few high school boys who happened to be on the west side of the warehouse.
Although James did not need to be present, Coulson didn’t know their relationship, so he left Grande’s contact information symbolically and left the two of them.
Like ordinary people, Zach and Benjamin thanked the detectives, got back in their van, and drove to the Grande Funeral Home.
Detective Coulson watched the two leave, the smile on his face couldn’t be concealed. He stood between the old-fashioned buses washed out by the students and threw a punch into the air excitedly! It’s been a week! The ‘suicide case’ he investigated has finally made progress!
Coulson trotted into the main control room, went straight to the warehouse, and whistled to a group of police officers who were walking out pale faces with a happy face!
James was standing in front of the bus that didn’t have a cover, and his partner’s slap on his back almost made him fall into a pile of corpses!
“Hey! Rance! We are so lucky!” Coulson’s voice was very loud, completely ignoring the few policemen rolling their eyes when they heard his words while taking photos for evidence nearby.
James steadied his body and came back from the daze, his eyes were still a little confused, “What did you say?”
“This!” Coulson pointed at the ground, “This is the place! The place where suicide was kept after he was kidnapped! Look at this! What do you see?”
The confusion in James’ eyes disappeared and became sullen. He really didn’t understand what Coulson was happy about. James uttered two words: “Corpses.”
“Yes! Corpses! Lots of dead bodies!” If Coulson could, he would really want to dance on the corpses! “Look here!”
Coulson pulled James toward the other side of the bus, beside a pile of corrupt bodies in various poses, a sack was flattened and placed on the ground. The cloth surface was covered with unknown symbols using unknown blood. Besides the sack, a naked man still kept his legs curled up, lying on his side.
Unlike those corpses that had obviously been corrupt for a while, this man’s body still retained the freshness of a new corpse.
Coulson put on his white rubber gloves, squatted down, pressed the man’s shoulders, and turned the man’s body to face upwards with a little force. Pulling away the arms and feet, the corpse unfolded completely unreservedly in the eyes of the police.
“Look here!” Coulson’s gloved fingers pressed directly on the left chest of the male corpse. The neat cut just formed a slanted cross — X. Coulson looked at James excitedly: “Do you know what this means? !”
Of course, James knew what it meant. The vampire had said it, and the Gale couple had also said it, but could he say it?
This is Papa Midnight’s contract, and it is half-done!
If it is completed, the X-shaped will would disappear, leaving only a mark on the heart! Then this guy will be resurrected like a ‘miracle’ and live in the crowd like ordinary people! It is just that he will be very lucky! In the end, he will be ‘persuaded’ by the Gale couple, and then kill himself. When his soul goes to hell, it will turn back into a corpse!
But can James say this? !
Therefore, at this time, James could only have a sullen face, “What does it mean.”
Coulson raised his voice with satisfaction: “Cult! Didn’t you see it? This is a cult! ”
Please understand Detective Coulson’s nonlinear thinking. Remember how Coulson reasoned about ‘David’? A murderer who wants to spread his crime style through telecommunications… (Volume I, Chapter 23)
What made James really helpless was that the faces of the policemen in the warehouse showed an expression of ‘So it’s this’!
And we know that the Coulson detective really captured the essence of Papa Midnight.
When Zach and Benjamin returned to the Grande Funeral Home, Lola was still with Alice. Because they didn’t know what was going on, their imagination began to run wild. Although they tried to comfort each other, in reality, it looked like they tried to scare each other. The only thing Alice could be sure of was that no one would die, but like James, she cannot say.
Seeing the return of the two Grande brothers, both of them were relieved. Alice was okay, but Lola pestered Benjamin, she must find out what happened before she left.
In fact, Lola didn’t need to ask. Maybe tomorrow, people from the police station would collect evidence from the organizer of this event, but they would not disclose too many details for protecting minors. Benjamin didn’t want to add a psychological burden to Lola, so he used the Barton Police Department’s request as a reason, and refused to answer her question.
“Lola, the boys at the west door of the warehouse today, tell me their names.” Zach was not as gentle as Benjamin and directly used the hypnotizing eyes.
After a few moments, Lola said a few names.
Zach curled his lips, let’s put it this way, Lola’s social circle fits her ‘Barton’ surname, the only exception is probably ‘Grande’.
In this regard, Zach doesn’t have to worry about the dangers of those boys. He could leave them to James. Anyway, James would share the police information with them.