after waking up.

Chapter 14 In The Despair
The feeling for Leo, his brother, is almost an instinct of Mulan. In addition, he has been getting along well recently. When he heard the news, emotions such as worry and anxiety rose involuntarily.

Although it didn't rain in Valentine in the dark, the arrival of the storm seemed to bring the severe cold in winter ahead of time. It was only the difference between day and night. Based on the physical sensation, the temperature dropped by more than ten degrees.

There was no carriage waiting outside, and the three of them were struggling to advance in the wind with their legs. During this period, the policeman also told Mulan and Buck what he knew.

Recently, the police station received a task assigned by the top to investigate the disappearance cases. Leo is one of the police detectives in charge, so he has been busy recently. This evening, they organized an operation based on the clues, but they did not expect to encounter a major setback. , Several police officers were injured, and Leo suffered a serious stab wound.

In this bad weather, they arrived at Valentine's Hospital more than half an hour later. They said it was a hospital, but it was actually a larger hospital with more medical staff, and there was no qualitative difference.

Two police officers stayed here at the police station, and there were two family members who were brought in because of their serious injuries. One of them had already entered the ward, and Mulan and the others naturally went straight to the ward when they arrived.

The five injured police officers were all in a larger room. Five beds were lined up in sequence. There was a bloody smell in the air. Some people groaned in low voices, some people were talking to their families, and Leo was lying alone. The innermost bed.

There is almost no good anesthesia technique in this era, which Mulan has experienced personally. If surgery or serious injuries are needed, he often just feeds the patient a little alcohol to forbearance. In addition, the sanitation conditions are not good. Increased mortality from serious injuries.

Leo was lying on the hospital bed with a pale face, but his consciousness was still awake. When he saw Mulan and Old Buck coming over, he forced a smile.

"I told them not to inform you."

"Master Leo, how are you!" "You bastard, I was almost scared to death by you!"

Old Buck rushed to the hospital bed, and Mulan looked at Leo and then looked at the police officers who followed, and he was slightly relieved. At least Leo's condition didn't seem to be life-threatening, but his sheets and clothes There's blood everywhere, it's really scary.

A doctor was brought over and told Mulan and others about Leo's injury. He was cut open on his chest by a knife. Although the wound looked scary, it was not fatal. It has been sutured now, but the blood loss was a little serious.

After understanding Leo's situation, Mulan asked Leo in surprise, and deliberately exaggerated.

"I heard that the other party is only one person?"

Leo, who would often playfully bully his younger brother on weekdays, would also often talk about his work achievements, which would make him feel a little embarrassed in front of Mulan. Even if the wound is very painful now, he still insists on grinning and explaining. .

"Hey, that maggot-like slug, hiding in a dark corner and doing disgusting things, let me see him again, and his head will bloom!"

"Okay, okay, you're amazing."

Mulan made a perfunctory sentence very obviously, and then focused his eyes on Leo's wound, which made his brother on the hospital bed a little ashamed, but thinking of the scene he saw before night, he slowly clenched his fists.

"When my injury is healed, I will definitely execute that beast with my own hands, I will definitely do it!"

When Leo gritted his teeth and said this, Mulan also looked at the other hospital beds, and some of the police officers showed expressions of anger and fear.

"Leo, what happened?"

"Telling you will only scare you, or not."

Leo paused in the middle of his words. He remembered that his younger brother was an officer before, a retired soldier who really experienced brutal wars and left terrifying wounds on his body. Mulan has grown up.

"That's a lunatic, no, a devil."

The investigation was originally a disappearance case, but when we investigated the place according to the eyewitness clues, in the basement of that house, I saw several corpses that had been dug up and dismembered. All of them were children who disappeared during this period, even more The police department knew two more, and the killer was trying to kill another child.

The emotions of Valentine's police officers were mixed with shock, disgust, fear and anger. At that time, they were ready to arrest the murderer immediately, but the other party was extremely agile and terrifying to use a knife. If it weren't for Leo and the police behind him If the gun is fired, some police officers will die.

A dozen Valentine police officers, eventually five, lay in the hospital while the killer escaped, not even knowing whether he was shot or not.

Although Leo said stubbornly that he would smash the criminal's head, but thinking of the ghostly action of the other party at that time and the cruel scene in the basement, the cold air would continue to rush to his head.

Of course, Mulan felt unfortunate for what happened to the missing children, and he could imagine the situation at that time to a certain extent. Presumably the police officers were a little confused, but even if the marksmanship was greatly reduced, in the face of more than a dozen Valentine police officers with guns Retreat all over, this is a bit exaggerated.

And Mulan was thinking about another question, and he couldn't help but ask it.

"What the hell is he doing in the basement?"

"what?"

"That murderous demon, what is he doing in the basement?"

"Ghost knows what that disgusting guy is doing, he's a pervert!"

"Maybe there is a mental problem." "He must have been a lunatic!"

The answers of several police officers in the ward were not the answers that Mulan wanted to hear. He thought of what happened on the Princess Neshurier, and thought of Ai Wen's words, that disgusting criminal was probably a cultist.

"Oops, I came out in a hurry and forgot to turn off the stove!"

Old Buck has always handled everything in an orderly manner. Today, because he was in a hurry, he realized that he had made a low-level mistake.

The stove in the kitchen is used for making tea at any time, but also for heating. Although the current stove has a certain degree of safety, it may cause a fire if it is left unattended, even in the 21st century.

"Don't worry, Grandpa Buck, I'll go back and turn off the stove. You're here with Leo."

After instructing a few words, Mulan nodded to Leo and got up and left. It was impossible for him to let Old Buck run back in such a cold day and such a strong wind.

As for not going back to turn off the stove, it's not appropriate. The Joneses' poor family is all in it, and I'm not afraid of [-] just in case. If there is a fire, it will be bad.

Mulan's footsteps were fast and steady. Although he wasn't as anxious as when he came, he was faster because he didn't have to take care of Old Buck.

Valentin, who was roaring in the gust of wind, was both noisy and eerily quiet, and some of the gas street lights were also malfunctioning. Mulan grabbed the collar of the windbreaker with one hand and put the other in the bag. The corner of the light suddenly froze for a moment.

A vigilance and crisis response trained on the battlefield is activated in an instant.

Mulan's body reaction was almost faster than his thinking speed, and he fell forward in an instant, feeling a subtle whistling sound behind him, and his body rolled around in front of him and got up.

But Mulan didn't have time to turn around and a faint light was already in front of him. It was a blade with a faint reflection from the street lamp in the distance.

Mulan stood upside down, his back was hot, and he fell backwards at the critical moment. He supported the ground behind him with both hands, and kicked up with one foot, but the kick was empty.

Mulan immediately turned back and tried to distance himself, but the blade that came after was like a pressing poisonous snake
Swish swish.
The speed of the knife is very fast, or the speed of the person holding the knife is very fast, his body has not fully emerged from the darkness, the knife has launched a deadly offensive, and in just a few breaths, the battle-hardened person on the battlefield is almost gone. Mulan was cornered.

It's too late to pull out the wheel light, and it's too late to aim and shoot!
The moment this thought crossed his mind, the deadly knife light in front of him has struck again.

'I need something, I need to resist his attack, otherwise, I will die! '

The threat of death was so strong that Mulan's spirit was highly stressed and at the same time highly concentrated. At this desperate moment when the spatula light was almost unavoidable, his right hand seemed to grab something.

"Zheng~"

A touch of silver light was pulled out by Mulan and waved away.

"when--"

The silver sword collided with the blade, and the cane containing the silver sword should have been lying on the table at home!
(End of this chapter)