Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 3 003 Demon
The town of Ramde is more like a market than a town.

There is a not very grand church in the town. On weekdays, there is only one clergyman who serves as a priest and presides over the Sunday worship and mass.

At this time, the clergyman belonging to the Goddess of Night was not in the church listening to the prayers of the Goddess's believers. He was in the corner of the market, surrounded by stinking water and all kinds of garbage, with a not-so-good look on his face, looking down at a corpse with its internal organs disemboweled.

In the precarious Loen Kingdom, where the police profession hadn't yet emerged, cases of robbery and murder occurring in aristocratic territories were often handled privately by the nobles themselves. If there was a church or clergy in the area, sometimes trouble-prone nobles would occasionally donate a considerable sum of gold pounds to the local church, allowing the church's staff to handle similar cases on their behalf.

The Kingdom of Loen was only a newly established country not too long ago. The elders focused more on key cities like Backlund and Constant, and they did not pay much attention to places like the town of Ramde.

"Another one died."

"What number is this?"

In the corner of the market, at the entrance to a dark alleyway that ended at a wall, a knight holding a torch illuminated the area. He was a nobleman and the captain of the knights stationed in the small town of Ramde. His expression was also grim. He looked at the corpse on the ground and couldn't help but whispered, "Father Fidil, what's the situation?"

"Just like the body found a few days ago, the internal organs were removed. It looks like the victim of a serial killer." Father Fidel sighed. The white-haired old man closed the woman's eyes and prayed softly, "May her soul return to the embrace of the goddess after death."

This is the third murder that has occurred in the market.

The first incident happened ten days ago. The victim was a nightclub girl who was found in a cheap rental hotel, covered in blood and with her organs almost removed.

The innkeeper only realized something was wrong the next day and reported it to the Knight Guard stationed in the town, who quickly cordoned off the scene. Of course, they did not disturb the lord's life, but instead invited a priest from the Church of the Goddess of Evernight to conduct a preliminary inspection.

It is obvious that the girl whose internal organs were disemboweled had already died, and the murderer might be someone else who checked in that day.

The cheap rental hotel did not have an identity registration system, and apart from those who had not checked out the next day, no other suspects from that day could be found.

The second incident happened five days ago. Mrs. Giovanna Spin, the owner of the bakery, was murdered. She died in her bed at home. Her body, covered in blood, was also displayed to the public with her internal organs disemboweled. The male owner of the bakery, Hyacinth Spin, almost collapsed, as did their two children.

But in the end... the criminal's whereabouts were still not found.

This is the third case, and the internal organs are also hollowed out.

The knight captain was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should report the matter to the lord.

Honestly, the death of a few subjects or slaves in a noble's territory wasn't a big deal, provided it wasn't a major incident. Three people had already died, and they hadn't even found the killer. If more people died, he wasn't sure if the lord wouldn't be furious. After all, there was a serial killer in the territory... and they hadn't taken any action to catch him.

Not even a clue!

Tang used the Faceless Man's extraordinary ability to change his face into one that looked ordinary. At this time, he roughly pieced together what he wanted to know from the chatter of the merchants and guests in the surrounding market.

"Serial killings, with each body missing internal organs."

He pondered, "The promotion ceremony of the Apostle of Desire?"

If so, then the one here at this time should be a Sequence Six demon.

Just as he thought of this, Tang suddenly turned his head.

The spiritual warning told him that someone had just suddenly left and wanted to escape from here!

"That demon?!"

Come back to the crime scene to admire your own masterpiece? 'New mission posted.'

The system's voice also confirmed Tang's thoughts.

'Each demon is a terrifying extraordinary being, skilled in counter-divination and able to foresee danger in advance.'

'Kill/control demons.'

He just realized his own malicious intentions and immediately prepared to leave? What a quick reaction.

To deal with this kind of extraordinary person who can sense malicious intent in advance, it seems that the only way to eliminate the other party is by chance encounter.

After all, it was his own territory, and Tang couldn't possibly let such an extraordinary person with a previous sequence of being a serial killer escape.

He tapped his teeth twice, activated the vision of the spiritual line, identified the direction of the demon's escape, and made sure that the other party had not escaped from the range that he could control, then stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the void.

At the same time, he created a large number of illusions, blocking the perception of people around him, and used fire jumps to quickly dodge in the surrounding flames.

The demon sensed danger.

In this era, Extraordinary people are not uncommon, and these wild Extraordinary people never make any hidden moves to cover up the fact that they are Extraordinary people. At most, they disguise the rituals required for a series of promotions as what a madman or murderer would do, in order to deceive others.

Demons don't care how many people will die as a result of their actions. If possible, they would be happy to let these ordinary people take the blame for them.

When the demon suddenly started to flee, the people around him exclaimed and immediately scattered.

He quickly left the market. The knight captain behind him realized something was wrong and rushed out with his men, but they were obviously not as fast as the demon.

The demon's speed was not slow, but his speed slowly stagnated in the next second.

Through the spiritual thread, Tang initially gained control of the other person's body.

This process takes twenty seconds, and the demon can run far enough in these twenty seconds.

There weren't many people around here, and because of their instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm, people avoided the madly fleeing demons and inadvertently saved their own lives.

There was no flame around for Tang to jump over. He swung out the iron chain with a ruby ​​on the end that was wrapped around his left wrist. The chain flew towards the demon at an extremely fast speed. The demon was a little slow in controlling the movement of the spiritual thread and was hit directly by the chain.

The chain was not very thick, but it made the demon with thick skin and strong body stagger and almost fall to the ground.

He transformed rapidly, and the huge three-meter-tall monster, whose body was spewing magma like lava, suddenly turned around and rushed towards Tang.

Tang stood where he was, neither dodging nor evading.

"die--!"

The crazy demon language words rushed towards Tang's body at a terrifying speed. His body was suddenly covered with rust, but it gradually turned into a white paper man, and his figure disappeared on the spot.

'Warehouse props consumption: Paper figures remaining (11)'

(End of this chapter)