Chapter 19 (2/2)

”... in the morgue of the church, it will be buried after purification.” the priest sighed, ”please follow me, or the guards of the church won't let you in.”

”Thank you so much.”

Following priest Draco, after the other party dismissed the two gatekeepers, the two entered the cold room together. In the narrow morgue, there were six coffins that had not been closed, all covered with a layer of white linen.

Loren went forward and opened one of them at will, and the dark pupil immediately contracted suddenly - there were only broken arms and legs smelling of corpse in the coffin, and the cross-section position had been completely rotten.

Obviously, I don't need to ask where the rest of the bodies go. Lauren looked up at the priest. ”Are all the bodies like this?”

Priest Draco nodded with difficulty. His blue face was obviously restraining the urge to spit out: ”some hands and feet, some... Other parts.”

So when these bodies were found, they had been ”enjoyed” by ghouls. It's no surprise that this rotten monster certainly won't waste any food sent to his mouth.

But here's the problem. Normal ghouls don't take the initiative to attack living creatures unless the other party takes the initiative to attack them. But how many fools will have nothing to provoke these monsters?

Of course, these are not the only questions - according to Loren's knowledge of ghouls, such monsters basically only appear in places with piles of rotten corpses, generally in mass graves in the wilderness, or in areas where plague and war have just erupted. In any case, densely populated villages and towns can not be the target of their attack.

So either this group of ghouls mutated, were affected and began to attack the living; Or someone deliberately attracts them here to kill the intended target.

But in either case, the evidence before us is too little, almost infinitely close to zero - it might be better if the bodies are still complete or there are some witnesses. But now all the clues have been completely eliminated by the ghouls.

”They didn't even find all the bodies. Didn't their family protest?”

”Of course... So we just tell them that these bodies have been defiled by the power of evil.” priest Draco smiled bitterly and couldn't bear it. ”Then we will cremate the bodies and bury them in the village cemetery behind the church - I know it's cruel, but it might be better not to let them know the truth.”

Lauren nodded to show understanding. Then he covered the white linen back: ”at least don't cremate the body now. Maybe there's some residual evidence that can help us find the ghouls.”

”In addition, I need information about the identities of the six victims and when they were killed - the more clues, the easier it will be to find out.”

”Well, I'll help you as much as I can.” priest Draco nodded solemnly: ”anyway, please find those ghouls as soon as possible and destroy them. Don't let more innocent villagers live in the shadow of these monsters.”

”I'll do what I can,” Lauren nodded and left the stinking morgue behind priest Draco, his dark eyes flashing back and forth, remembering what Dalton kand had said before he came.

”..... father Anthony of Gumu town is one of the Holy Cross priests who most resist and hate wizards, so he must not leave any academic handle on him to solve this matter as soon as possible.

In addition, I suspect that this incident was not an accident, but someone deliberately did it. Maybe it was to undermine the reputation of the college, maybe not. Anyway, find out the truth. ”