Chapter 150: Black Goat Of The Woods
Li Duojin was very certain that it was a human eyeball, and it was quite fresh, which meant that someone had once had their eyeball gouged out in Uncle Wang’s dormitory, and that person had probably already been killed.
This matter had a great impact, so Li Duojin notified law enforcement officers and Mysterious Group members to come investigate the case. After the relevant personnel arrived at the scene and conducted some investigation, everyone ultimately discovered the dismembered corpse, wrapped in a black plastic bag and hidden, in an amusement park garbage station.
Because the corpse was shattered very badly, especially the head part, it couldn’t be pieced together for the time being, so it was unknown what identity the victim had. Therefore, while the dismembered corpse was sent to the forensic doctor for autopsy and identification, the law enforcement officers and Mysterious Group members still had to infer the victim through investigation.
After screening, two amusement park employees failed to report to work normally today. One was contacted and found to be hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, while the other could not be contacted for a long time, so everyone locked their gaze on this person, believing he might be the victim.
The forensic doctor side acted quickly too. Just as the investigation here yielded results, they also found the victim’s information through the DNA database, confirming the deceased was that unreachable employee, whose identity was an amusement park maintenance worker.
However, the message from the forensic doctor side was far more than that; the victim’s death identification was released at the same time.
The victim was suspected not to have been killed by human force, but by some kind of creature with a net-like sharp structure, immensely strong, which in the moment the victim was completely defenseless, instantly chopped him into pieces. The forensic doctor found some biological mucus on the victim’s dismembered corpse, and in the mucus, cells resembling plant life.
“Wang Kui Shan may not have killed the maintenance worker, and his dormitory was not the first scene. What killed the maintenance worker was some anomaly.” A leader dispatched by the Mysterious Group synthesized the collected information and drew a conclusion. His gaze turned to the large woods behind the boardhouse dormitory, pointing to the shadowy depths of the woods, and said seriously, “This woods is likely the true first scene of the case, and that anomaly that killed the maintenance worker is probably still here.”
“How could that be!?” Boss Zhang’s face turned pale, and he immediately begged them to help solve this problem for their amusement park.
“Captain Zhou, what do you plan to do next?” Li Duojin inquired of that leader. This middle-aged leader’s original name was Zhou Shaobo, the captain of the Twelve Zodiacs Dog Group, and also Li Duojin’s assistance contact for this mission.
Zhou Shaobo glanced at Li Duojin and said, “Investigator Li, why don’t you just act together with us afterward? We need your assistance.”
Li Duojin readily agreed: “Okay.”
Due to suspicion of an extremely dangerous anomaly existing in the woods, the woods area behind the boardhouse dormitory was urgently cordoned off. A small number of law enforcement officers and most of the stationed mystic investigators were responsible for guarding the perimeter, while Zhou Shaobo’s Dog Group and Li Duojin, fully armed, entered the woods.
The Dog Group had a total of three members: Zhou Shaobo was the leader, and the other two members were also male—one named Zhang Chi, the other Huang Hua.
“Captain Zhou, are all the Dog Group members here?” Li Duojin asked doubtfully. There were too few people.
Zhou Shaobo nodded: “That’s right, we are all the current members of the Dog Group.”
Zhang Chi said with a cold face: “If not for a mission half a year ago, our Dog Group would have had more than this.”
“Half a year ago?” Li Duojin frowned slightly. As far as he remembered, there didn’t seem to be any reports of a particularly major malicious anomaly event in the Shenzhou Region during that time half a year ago. It must have been a secret mission.
Since it was a secret mission, the three Dog Group members naturally wouldn’t satisfy Li Duojin’s curiosity and provided no supplementary explanation about that mission that had left the Dog Group so depleted.
Li Duojin paid attention to the movements around them while casually asking: “In half a year, has the Dog Group not recruited any new companions?”
“It’s not that easy.” The Dog Group member named Huang Hua shook his head with a bitter smile on his face.
Suddenly, the environmental temperature seemed to drop several degrees, the temperature change obvious. It was as if they had suddenly stepped into another realm, and the four instantly became alert.
“Listen!” Huang Hua softly reminded everyone to perk up their ears. He slowly turned his head to probe the source of the anomalous sound and said, “Doesn’t it sound like an infant’s voice?”
An infant’s cry?
Hearing this, everyone was startled. They followed Huang Hua’s guidance, calmed their minds to listen, and gradually heard the infant’s wails, along with rustling sounds shuttling through the dense woods.
Perhaps because the four had confirmed and locked onto the sound, it brought a psychological feeling. They gradually felt the infant’s cries getting closer, and the sounds of that unknown thing quickly moving through the leaf clusters and grass were too.
Soon, Zhang Chi shouted sharply, “Get back!” Several indistinct black gelatinous objects shot out from the darkness in all directions.
Everyone quickly scattered, just in time to evade the attack of the black gelatinous objects.
Li Duojin looked closely and discovered that the black gelatinous object was like some kind of rough-surfaced colloid. When it shot out, it turned into something like tentacles, but clearly this thing could not be regarded as tentacles. When it scanned the ground and plants, fallen leaves flew up, and the flying plant parts all showed traces of being cut by something sharp; the ground was directly pierced with a hole.
“Is this what killed the maintenance worker?” Li Duojin guessed, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
These seemingly soft black gelatinous objects meant basically no chance of survival for humans if struck even once.
Immediately after, several more black gelatinous objects shot out from the darkness. The four dodged wretchedly in the forest, fleeing toward the source of the infant’s cries in the forest while evading.
As they got closer and closer to the source of the infant’s cries, the attacks from those black gelatinous objects became even more ferocious. The infant’s cries became louder, as if that evil creature hidden in the forest was stimulated into a rage.
Li Duojin suddenly stopped, hid behind a large tree, and held his breath. He widened his eyes and quietly poked his head out. His line of sight gradually focused on a hollow under a bush, where he saw a structure like an animal’s foot—that was actually plant roots like a goat hoof.
While evading attacks, the other Dog Group members hiding in other places in the woods also successively discovered that anomaly hidden near the bush.
There was only that one, but upon clearly seeing the anomaly’s appearance, everyone began to feel a chill in their hearts and their brains shaken.
“Black Goat of the Woods.” Zhou Shaobo gritted his teeth darkly. “It’s the offspring bred by the Inverted Creator, also His ‘representative image’ dispatched to walk reality.”
This event was indeed related to the Inverted Creator’s advent ritual. The soul summoning ritual performed by Zheng Yu had a summoning function attached, and now that ritual had summoned the Black Goat of the Woods.
