SEC Chapter 324 The Old Couple
Chapter 324 The Old Couple
The car drove for a long time, and Yan Xun realized that Koy hadn't lied; this place was indeed very remote.
Finally, Yan Xun saw the cornfield beside the dirt road. It was past the season, and the cornfield was just bare corn stalks, with several tall scarecrows standing in the middle of them.
“We’re almost there,” Levy said. “When you see the scarecrow, we’re almost there.”
"This entire cornfield belongs to them?" Yan Xun asked.
“They will hire people to help,” Levy said.
Soon, a house finally appeared on the right side of the road. It was a very common three-story wooden building with a fence around the entrance. What Yan Xun found strange was that there was a pig at the entrance of the fence.
Levy also saw the pig. "Why is it at the door?"
He opened the car door and got out, but to his surprise, the pig walked towards Levy. Just as Levy was about to look down, he discovered that the pig actually wanted to attack him.
Yan Xun was still in the passenger seat, and he was about to speak up to remind him—
Then Levy swiftly drew his side-switch knife from his lower back and stabbed the target more than a dozen times.
Only when the pig collapsed to the ground with a "thud" did he glance at the pig's blood on his hands, wipe his cheek with his clean sleeve, and only after cleaning the bloodstains off his face did he turn to Yan Xun and say, "There was a little problem just now."
"Detective, you can get off the bus now."
When Yan Xun got out of the car, Levi had already squatted down and wiped the blood off the pig.
He put the knife back on his lower back. "It's usually in the backyard."
Yan Xun looked at the pig. "It was trying to attack you just now?"
Levy chuckled a few more times, patting the dead pig. "It was probably hungry."
Can you smell it?
Yan Xun could only smell the odor emanating from the pig.
He looked at Levy and found that the other man's expression had become very "lively" and lively, losing the previous feigned calmness.
“Detective, perhaps you are right,” he said to Yan Xun. “Liam did encounter some issues that day, which is why he got off the bus.”
Yan Xun looked at the open door behind the fence. He didn't know if it was just his imagination after Levi's reminder or if it was really true, but he seemed to smell a foul odor.
Wearing rubber boots, Levi pushed open the fence in front of Yan Xun.
He didn't seem to be a first-timer to this house, so Yan Xun had no choice but to follow him.
As they approached the house, the stench became even more pronounced.
“There may be some disturbing scenes, Mr. Detective,” Levi said to Yan Xun.
“Just call me Ryan,” Yan Xun said, not used to Levi addressing him that way.
Levy nodded. "Have you ever seen a dead person, Ryan?"
“...I’ve met you before,” Yan Xun said.
He didn't need Levy to hint further; he already understood what had happened inside the house.
“That’s fine then,” Levy said, a visibly relieved look on his face. “If you haven’t seen it before, I’ll have you wait outside.”
He gestured for Yan Xun to follow him, saying, "Their bedroom is on the first floor."
Yan Xun looked at the floral wallpaper in the living room, as well as the overturned tables and chairs. His gaze swept around the house and he noticed a few feathers lying on the ground.
He walked over and picked up the few feathers.
Levy stood beside him. "I remember they didn't raise poultry."
He looked at the feather in Yan Xun's hand and said.
Yan Xun held up the few feathers that had been stepped on and deformed. "Koy should have told you about the recent news in the city."
"You mean those people who grow wings?" Levi looked puzzled again. "Isn't that a joke Koy told?"
"He often makes these kinds of jokes."
"And men get pregnant..."
Seemingly sensing something amiss from Yan Xun's calm reaction, Levi couldn't help but ask, "Is this true?"
"You're not joking?"
“Of course not,” Yan Xun said.
He briefly told Levy about the strange things that had been happening in the city recently, as well as the people who had grown wings. "The rich people in this city have also grown wings."
He looked at the half-closed room.
"He was lucky; he didn't die because he grew wings."
"But some people aren't so lucky."
He walked toward the half-open room. "Liam and I both saw the first man who grew wings. He died in the street not long after he grew wings."
He pushed open the door, and the stench of decay became even more pronounced.
The bedroom was a mess, with footprints and bloodstains on the floor, and even more shocking was the corpse lying on the floor.
He had huge wings on his back, but now they were broken and scattered.
Half of his body showed signs of being eaten, and judging from the footprints nearby, it wasn't hard to tell who the killer was.
“His pig ate him,” Levy said as he walked over.
He casually picked the man up and examined the wings on his back—he reached out and tugged at them a few times, managing to pluck only a few feathers.
He then used the knife at his waist to cut open the man's clothes, confirming that the wings were not a prank, but truly part of the man's body.
“He didn’t look that old before,” Levy said.
"Could it be that these wings absorbed his nutrients as they grew?" Levi asked Yan Xun, turning back to him.
Yan Xun looked at the other person's downcast face.
He was an old man, so old that you doubted whether he could walk and live a normal life.
"He didn't look like this before?" Yan Xun asked.
“He was at least 20 years younger than he is now,” Levy said, setting down the body and looking at the feathers on the ground. “Did Liam get out of the car because he saw this?”
Where is his wife?
The two exchanged a glance and then searched the rest of the room.
But the house only contained this old man with wings; his wife was not there.
“Perhaps Liam met them on his way back to the city,” Levy said. “They had a child living in the city.”
"They probably don't know about this yet."
"Information is relatively scarce here."
Yan Xun imagined the scene: perhaps on the night of the torrential rain, his wife suddenly discovered that wings had grown on her back. They didn't know what was going on, and their first reaction was to go to the city to find a solution.
They might remember that Liam had passed through the cornfield that night, so they thought they'd try their luck and hopefully flag down Liam on his way back to town and give him a ride.
Although Yan Xun didn't chat much with Liam, he could still sense that the other man was a rather enthusiastic young man.
In such a situation, one would most likely stop and check.
"Why didn't he go with them?" Levi looked at the dead old man on the ground.
“Perhaps he hadn’t grown wings yet.” Yan Xun thought about the truck’s driver’s seat. Normally, it could barely fit three people, but judging from the size of the winged truck, it could probably only accommodate two people in the driver’s seat.
Liam certainly wouldn't let them into the back of the truck.