Ten minutes later, the group reached to the boundary of woods. Before that, there are just fields full of corn plants and also the surrounding lands are just fields full of various crops.
However, not a small scale woods strangely appeared in the middle of fields out of nowhere as the land expanded. Of course, the expanded lands are in various forms and not just woods solely.
Nearby residents would also explore these newly appeared lands due to curiosity and also to make sure that there would be no threatening object near their living space.
This medium size wood was also explored by local residents too when it appeared.
The four local men could not continue driving the vehicles anymore since there is no road ahead. Although local people have plans to build a road through the woods and connect the one with the other side, the plan has been paused indefinitely due to lack of construction machines.
They had no choice but to get out of the vehicles and follow Peter’s team on foot. Instead of waiting on the vehicles, they all felt that following these big guys might be safer.
Peter didn’t bother to spread out the team. He didn’t bother to look after the one with hostile look either. According to the information he got from local police station, there is an abandoned building in the middle of the woods. He is going to investigate that place first.
So, he just led them straightly towards the middle of the woods.
Combining with previous unknown hostile look he sensed, Peter has a feeling that there must be a connection between the abandoned building, the owner of hostile look and the mysterious creature which killed the two cops.
Nothing can stop these heavy armored men but just soft ground. Their original weights are already around 150 kg and it is even ridiculously heavier after combination of nearly a ton heavy armor and over 600 kg heavy square shields. That is still the case with gravity runes on these things.
These runes run all the time and they have reduced the real weights of these items to a very low level.
Even so, they are still that heavy. One can simply just imagine their real weights.
Due to their heavy weights, the land they stepped on have all sunk from several centimeters to over ten centimeters in deep and formed unique footprint shape pits along the way. This is still the situation of them carefully choosing the road ahead which the land they chose is not a soft soil.
But after rains, these pits will be filled with water and benefit the living creatures in the woods.
Besides occasional noises the dried branches made from being stepped on by seven big armored men, there is no other sound in the woods. There is not even sounds of insects calling and of birds.
It is so quiet that four local men felt uncomfortable from the silence of woods.
It is really unusual. As folks who grew up strolling around forests and mountains nearby, they know that there must be something wrong when you cannot even hear the sounds of birds in the woods or forest. According to what their parents taught them, it only happens in extremely dangerous places.
Especially, Blake and Bane looked at each other and held the shotguns in their hands tighter than usual. The two cops were also no better. There were already icy sweats on their backs.
After walking forwards cautiously for another ten minutes, two stories brick building appeared in their sight. There are no trees at its surrounding space and it makes it looking like the building has own yard.
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It is just a typical old western style building. Its age must be really old. The wooden windows are tightly closed but they’re weather beaten and damaged with cracks.
The walls are full of moss and algae but their existences somehow gives the old wall a pleasant image.
Peter put his shield back into tattoo and gun into space ring. He walked towards the old outer wall, scratched the it lightly with several fingers and said, “This building uses sixteen century old British bricks.”
Then, he raised his head to look at the overall appearance of the old building. But one side is not enough. So, he raised a fist at the team and jogged around the building in a fast speed.
After a moment, he got back to the original location and said, “I looked through the windows and I think that this is a school building built in 16th century by British. I may be wrong.”
Ben glanced at the woods and said, “Have you found the entrance? Let’s search inside first. We don’t need to know what kind of building this is.”
Their conversations were not heard by Blake, Bane and two police officers. Because they were communicating directly with built-in communicator of the armor, no sound came out.
So, they only saw that the one at the front rubbed the outer wall of the building, jogged a lap around the building and he paused in place while the rest were watching out for potential danger.
Regardless of what the four guys were thinking, Peter turned to nod at Ben and gestured them to follow him. Although Peter’s action showed them that the building was safe, Ben and the others didn’t put away their weapons.
Fortunately, the front gate is big and tall. It was also closed but not anymore after Peter opened it with a kick. Impressively, the gate flew to the inside instead of being broken apart or being made a hole.
Although Peter and his men are now as tall as 2.2 m with their armors on, they easily walked through the 3m tall gate. It is a spacious corridor with several doors on both sides.
Peter walked over and opened one to see a classroom. It also confirmed that his guess was right.
This is really a school building. Peter glanced around and suddenly raised a fist. The team stopped.
Peter crouched down on spot and looked at the floor carefully. He glanced along the gate and said, “There are traces of activity. Some people came here recently.”
Ben turned his body slightly, looked back at two local men and two cops and asked, “Do you think that it was the local people? After all, they explored these places.”
“May be.”, Peter said and stood up. He decided to follow along the traces and waved at the team to continue. Then, they saw the staircase in the middle. Fortunately, it is spiral stone staircase.
Otherwise, Peter would have to think about other ways to check the second floor.
He followed along the traces and led the team to the second floor. But when they reached the second floor, the unexpected scene unfolded in front of them.
It is a spacious waiting hall. However, it is not in normal condition.
Corpses of three women are seen being nailed on walls of three sides. In the middle of hall, there is a body of a woman. It is also in the similar condition of being nailed on the floor.
The rusted iron nails are as big as a ruler and they are very noticeable.
Each woman is nailed with five nails; one on each arm and leg and one on the head.
They were nailed with opened arms and legs so the overall looks looked like five pointed stars.
Especially, the dried blood of the corpse nailed on the flood really does look like a five pointed star.
Peter walked over and started checking the corpse at the left wall. The corpse should have been a good looking young woman before her death. Her overall body structure and facial structure all look great.
Peter sighed and turned to check the one in the middle of the hall.
“Did you find something?”, Ben stood up and asked. Although he didn’t touch the corpse, his experience told him that the victim might have been dead for at least three years.
But that is impossible because the woods only appeared several months ago. Of course, his guess still have a possibility of being true. But it is only if the building was near a human settlement before it appeared here.
Peter looked down at the victim and said, “They died two or three weeks ago. It is strange that nobody discovered this. But it’s also reasonable because that bald Sheriff told me that no one tried to check inside because the main gate was closed from inside.
However, the building appeared around two months ago. So, local folks must have seen the sinner.
We will ask about the sinner when we got back to Frendo town.
The victims lost their vitality at a very fast speed in an hour or so before they died. Due to their complete loss of vitality, no insects bothered to take the corpses as hatching site. This also preserves their corpses well. I cannot find any trace of negative energies remaining on them. Strange.
This is undoubtedly an evil sacrifice. I don’t know which one is this but I am quite sure that the sinner tried to breed something evil through this sacrifice. Now, it seems that he or she succeeded.”