Chapter 27: The Lurkers in the Sewers
At the Seattle Police Department headquarters in downtown, the crime investigation team received an internal call from Shirley Harber, and a large number of appraisers quickly ran to the parking lot.
Another body that was sent to the forensic autopsy office at 4 o'clock this morning, and more police officers also learned about the latest situation.
"What? Another headless corpse? Or was it found in the sewer!?"
In the murder group office, Claude Harber just walked in and heard this: "Soran Adams! Did this kid get lucky or was hit by a comet? Why is everything... Wait for what do you say? My baby girl called the police? Good guy, then I can forgive him, but... what did you say? My baby girl actually ran into the drain!? This bastard brat, is he the one who takes care of girls like this? Do you think my Shirley is this rookie??"
The one who was bombarded by Cloud's map was a young policeman with bangs, standing behind him at this time. This morning, as the new partner assigned to Cloud by his superiors, he needed the other party to lead him through his first year of internship.
"Sir, do we need help too? What did Miss Harber say?"
"Yes, what did my daughter say!?"
Johanna knew the situation, and she stood in place and rang the table and said, "Claude, calm down first. According to the officer receiving the police, Officer Adams has gone deep into the sewer to find the suspect's trace, while Shirley is staying next to the body. So according to the current situation, if Adams can really find any clues, the body will be solved together this morning!"
"Damn, this kid has caught up with everything! My daughter is guarding the body? Tsk... why are she still standing there? Let's go away!"
The old man who had been in the bureau for 30 years was heard and even Johanna could not ignore it, but it was impossible for all the members of the murder team to be dispatched. She quickly selected three people, and together she walked towards the parking lot with Claude and his new partner.
Then, in the sewer pipe.
Shirley has been standing in this deserted land for too long.
Yes, it only takes five minutes, but these three hundred seconds are as long as three hundred years.
She felt a wave of fear like a tide, but it was not because of the headless corpse guarding beside her. Although it was not a forensic doctor, and although it was just an intern police officer, she had received relevant training. Although the corpse was scary, after adapting, she couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
Fear comes from all around.
"Gugugugugu..."
It was not an illusion, Shirley warned herself in her heart that this was definitely not an illusion!
"Gugugugugu..."
It's like a frog singing, or a sound of bubbles when the toilet goes into the water and relapses. It's more like the female ghost in "The Curse", the sound of being squeezed out from her throat in a special frequency band.
It's fine if it's just a sound. Shirley can understand it as the movement from where she goes into the water. After all, this is the sewer pipe. But she really felt a feeling of being peeped, a trembling feeling of a thorn on her back. Her whole body tensed up and she didn't dare to scatter the gun in her hand for a moment.
"By the way... I'll inform Solan!"
This thought suddenly flashed through her mind, and she quickly went to copy the walkie-talkie. Because she was too nervous to hold the gun in both hands, her movements were a little stiff.
"Soran Solan! I have a feeling here! No, I have found it here!"
The walker didn't ring immediately and Shirley was not discouraged, but just continued to report: "I mean, it seems that the suspect is hiding near me, probably because we found the body, I didn't see him, but I felt like he was nearby!"
The walkie-talkie still has no sound, what's going on!?
Shirley subconsciously looked over her head.
The top of the head is a gray-white and yellow sewer dome, with dark orange eternal lights on both sides, and the light shines on the sidewalks on both sides of the tunnel and the sewage passage in the middle. This is a very spacious and enclosed environment, and the tunnel itself is also winding and twisting.
“Yes…no signal.”
Shirley secretly called herself a fool, and her eyes swept to a corner of the tunnel.
A black shadow flashed away!
"What's it!?"
The eternal light shines clearly, and a human-like black shadow is definitely flashing there!
"Is it...the murderer!?"
Shirley didn't think it would be a giant toad, but looking at the flashing black shadow, it really seemed to be on all sides!
"Soran Solan? Can you receive it?Soran Solan!?"
However, the walker shouted again and again, how could radio waves spread in this sewer environment poured by cement walls?
There is no way, it seems that she can only act. Shirley looked at the time. It was nearly eight minutes since she called the police. The entrance to the sewer was not very far from the police headquarters. Although it took a lot of effort to get here after getting off, twenty minutes was enough. If the twelve minutes of breaking up, there would be existence. Will anyone take the opportunity to move the body away?
She picked up the phony, held a gun in her hands, and ran towards the end of the tunnel where the shadows flashed. Under the orange and yellow light, the petite platinum-haired girl trotted all the way, wearing a police uniform shirt seriously, and her slender waist was constantly twisting.
The tunnel environment is closed, and the sound of rolling traffic on the ground cannot be heard at all. Shirley jogged on the concrete road, and her footsteps were extremely clear. She ran more than ten steps and realized this situation. The echoes of leather shoes taps spread all around, and she must be heard clearly from a distance, which would definitely expose her position.
However, she could not take off her shoes, so she could only jog as carefully as possible. At the end of the tunnel, the gurgling sound was always far and near, making her think that she had chased her, and she had to continue running forward every time. Unconsciously, a distance of more than a hundred yards ran out like this. She turned three turns and felt that she should have reached the bottom of Lake Washington.
Suddenly, the fear that had already gone far suddenly came back!
"Gugugugugu..."
It was the strange cry, like a high tremor in the throat, but it was definitely not easy for ordinary people to do it. Shirley thought about it and thought, and it seemed that only the legendary Japanese female ghost Kayako could do similar behaviors.
She let out a weak moan, not afraid of facing bad people, but this kind of haunted situation is not something an ordinary policeman should encounter!
Shirley looked at the surrounding environment and realized in panic that the position she was running to was not far from where she was originally. In other words, if she suddenly encountered danger, Solan, who was also running in the other direction, would probably take twice as long to come!
"But... it feels very close?"
But she didn't want to give up her goal. Although there was a strange sound, no matter how weird it was, it could be strange. Shirley walked slowly and walked to the turn of the current tunnel. The gurgling sound was there, just turn a corner.
“Geehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
But at this moment, the strange sound suddenly erupted, and it felt as if it was so close!?
"ah!"
Shirley subconsciously exclaimed and quickly retreated dozens of steps back. She wanted to run wider, but this was the sewer space, and she had no plans to step into the sewage about a foot deep!
The light in the channel was dim and seemed to produce strange refractions. Then, a figure appeared around the corner.
Chapter completed!