S.C.I.谜案集 (Special Criminal Investigation) Book 2

Case 4. Love Murderer: Chapter 15. Monster

At this time, it was almost nighttime. "It's not people." The old man said. This made Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang unconsciously feel a cool breeze behind them.

Xu Bao swallowed his saliva and then said to his uncle, "What is it then if not human?"

"Well... It was a long time ago." The old man sighed and sat down in a rattan chair. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also moved a stool to sit down as they listened to the old man.

"How to explain... It was about 50 or 60 years ago." The old man sat in his chair and began to recall his memories.

"Has it been that long?" Zhan Zhao was surprised. "Wasn't it just liberated then?"

"Yep." The old man nodded. "The situation was not very good. At that time, we were also afraid, so everyone organized a military group."

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao nodded. Although that time was so long ago, their parents and grandparents were from that era, so they had heard a lot of things.

"Although the military group was organized, we were not very good with our weapons. We all had guns though. At that time, I wanted to fight against the US aggression and aid Korea. When I drove to the bank of the Yalu River, the war was won. When I came back, I was regarded as a veteran who took part in several battles. There were not many people like me in the village, so I became captain of the military group." Probably because the memory of that period was too deep, his train of thought was very clear despite his old age.

"At that time, there was nothing to eat, and there were some wild animals on the mountains. We all went hunting, but there was nothing big on the southern side. They were all wild chickens and hares. I occasionally met one or two jackals, but they were scared away when they saw people... Everything was going okay. I remember... It happened in the early spring of one year."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were silent, as they quietly waited for the old man to continue.

"It was very cold that spring. In the early spring, many animals in the mountains froze to death, and people went up the mountains to shoot a lot of rabbits or other small animals, as they had nothing to eat. Suddenly, a large number of birds and wild dogs came down from somewhere." When the old man saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's eyes wide open, he smiled helplessly and said, "you may not be able to imagine it at this moment. At that time, we were very happy."

"Happy?" Bai Yutang seemed to be a little confused.

"Haha." The old man was happy, as he looked at the pistol in Bai Yutang's holster, and said, "All men wanted to use a gun if they had one... You guys use pistols nowadays, but at that time, we used semi-automatic submachine guns. Shooting rabbits with shotguns all day was not something men should do. Think about it, every time we eat a rabbit, we will get over 100 bullets."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other. They could not help but smile. They remembered that Bai Yunwen and the others also liked to hunt when they were young. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao even followed along when they were younger, and the rabbits they ate also had shrapnel in them. It nearly made them lose their teeth.

"The military group seized the opportunities to sweep the wolves." The old man sighed and said, "we had a good time back then. After we had killed all the wolves, we went into the mountains to search... However, we didn't expect to find two people."

"People?" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were surprised and asked, "you mean the people who lived in the mountains?"

"Ah." The old man nodded and said, "It was two men. We don't know how they got up there. They were pretty much dressed in bark. At first, we thought they were foreigners who stayed behind and didn't run away. However, their age didn't seem like it. Later, we found out that they were brothers and their parents both died, and somehow they ended up in the mountains."