Chapter 23: Teaching Physicians
The screen flashed.
It is already after the great plague.
The plague did not defeat the man in the end, at least it left him with the last glimmer of hope, which was his daughter.
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After the plague, in Nanwei City, which was in dire straits, Robben worked harder than usual.
Two years later, he and his wife saved money to buy a shop and became a butcher butcher in the neighborhood. Due to his honest and honest nature, his shop had a good reputation among the neighbors.
The days are getting better day by day.
Robben is very glad that he did not give up everything during the plague. His daughter was his only spiritual support and supported him through the most difficult years.
Robben takes his daughter to the church in the city to worship every week. In his understanding, the church has single-handedly supported this broken family. Without the healing provided by the church, perhaps they would have lost their lives. The family has long since died.
Like most citizens after the plague, Robben became the most devout believer in the church.
Except for the part he saved for his daughter’s education, all his income was donated to the church.
Not only that, Robben abides by the teachings of the church very much. He keeps clean, does not smoke or drink, and does everything possible to reduce his personal expenses to provide the best living conditions for his daughter.
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But then one day, my daughter fell ill.
Robben took his daughter to find the church doctor who had been there during the plague.
After a series of examinations and treatments, the doctor told Robben that his daughter was fine and there was no need to worry too much.
After returning home, Robben found that his daughter seemed to be a different person. She did not speak or eat, and just sat in the room blankly. No matter how Robben and his wife comforted her, There was no response.
That night, it rained heavily in Nanwei City.
Robben transported the ingredients ordered by law enforcement as usual, and then hurriedly returned home in the rain.
The moment he opened the door, he saw a scene like a nightmare.
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Then, the daughter rushed towards Robben with a ferocious face.
Robben grabbed her and beat her to death.
From that moment on, he went crazy.
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He spent several hours cleaning up all the bloodstains in the house, processing and burying his wife's body.
Afterwards, Robben took his dead daughter back to the room and put her to sleep as usual.
Then he went to the church that night to find the doctor. He told the doctor that his daughter was ill and begged the doctor to save her.
The doctor went to Robben’s home to confirm the situation and told him to stay at home and wait for news.
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Late one night later, the doctor came to the door on his own initiative and took Robben to an abandoned shelter on the outskirts of the city.
In front of Robben, he dragged out the largest corpse from the pile of mummies and injected some kind of scarlet liquid into the corpse.
Soon after, the mummy came to life.
“See, no matter what the disease is, I can cure it, as long as you obey my arrangements.”
These were the exact words of the church physician.
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After that, Robben completely complied with the doctor’s arrangements.
He dug out a hiding place in the sewers, followed the list provided by the doctor, and cooperated with the Shroud monster to hunt down innocent citizens again and again.
In Robben's crazy understanding, his daughter is not dead, but just sick. He believes that as long as he follows the instructions of the church doctor, his daughter can recover.
Basically all murders are carried out by Robben and the Shroud Monster working together.
The Carriage Murder Case.
The person driving the carriage at that time was not the groom from the law enforcement station at all, but Robben himself.
The real groom has been buried on the outskirts of the city.
On the outskirts of the city, the Shroud Monster stopped the carriage and kidnapped Daisy.
As a butcher, Robben disembowelled the horses and distracted the hounds with the smell of their bloody organs.
In the previous series of murders, Robben showed no mercy to all the victims.
But that day on the suburban road, when he was about to attack Daisy, he saw the figure of his daughter on Daisy's body. In that moment of trance, the only thing in his mind was A trace of reason controlled the butcher knife in his hand.
In the end, he couldn't do anything and only ordered the weirdo to kidnap Daisy.
By the time he brought the smell of horse blood deep into the wilderness on the outskirts of the city, and then returned to the abandoned shelter, Milo and Rebecca had already rescued Daisy, and Robben was in vain.
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Then there is the murder case in the archives.
Roben has always been in contact with the chef in the kitchen of the law enforcement office. He regularly provides ingredients to the chef and visits the law enforcement office a lot on weekdays.
On the day Daisy was picked up by Rebecca, Rebecca specially emptied the second floor of the law enforcement office in order to prevent Milo from coming into contact with too many law enforcement officers.
It was precisely this arrangement that gave Robben an opportunity to take advantage of.
He sneaked into the law enforcement archives.
This time, Robben decided not to hesitate.
He repeatedly told himself that no one in the world was more important than his daughter. As long as he could save her daughter, he was willing to pay any price, even if it meant attacking innocent children...
But when he stood in the archives room facing the trembling Daisy, he hesitated again.
It was that moment of hesitation that missed the best opportunity to take action. Rebecca and Milo arrive at the law enforcement agency.
“Don’t make a sound.”
This is the threat from the ferocious-looking Robben to Daisy.
Then he hid in the gaps between the piled file boxes in the archives room.
Through the narrow gap, he saw Milo and Rebecca walking into the room and asking Daisy about the situation.
At that time, Robben was actually ready to fight to the death. Once Daisy pointed out his presence, he rushed out and left Milo and Rebecca in this room together.
What Robben didn't expect was that his threat took effect.
Daisy didn't say a word from beginning to end, just stared at Milo.
Even Milo finally left the room on his own initiative because he couldn't adapt to Daisy's weird gaze.
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What happened next was bloody and disgusting.
Robben, who had been hesitant twice before, was cruel this time, and he finally used the knife on Daisy.
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“Fuck!!”
“Cough cough cough cough!!!”
The gray picture slowly faded from Milo's field of vision.
He knelt in front of the graveyard and kept coughing and vomiting. He felt as if his whole body was being hung up and thrown around countless times, and his brain was spinning in circles in his skull.
The perspective he saw from Robben was finally fixed on the door he closed after he and Rebecca left.
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Milo didn't know why he could see the dead Robben's experience, but after reviewing the events in the archives that night from a completely unfamiliar third perspective, he My mind is filled with endless annoyance.
What if I had been less pretentious then?
What if I take Daisy out of the archives?
The ending should not be like that in reality.
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“Plop, plop, plop…”
Milo could hear his heart beating rapidly at this time, and he could even feel every blood vessel in his body swelling with the frequency of his heartbeat.
However, the psychological discomfort far exceeds the physical feeling.
Although Rebecca had revealed the news about Daisy to him, the little girl was completely out of danger, and she had no worries about food and drink in her life, but she was completely blind after all.
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At this time, the white candle in front of Robben's tombstone has been nearly half burned.
Milo destroyed it very cleanly this time.
Even if he knew that in the last month of Robben's life, he was completely crazy. At that time, Robben was not the same Robben who delivered materials to the shelter every day five years ago. Book.
But the fact is, as the motto of the Day of the Dead says, death is a reflection of life and a supplement to the meaning of life.
Robben's death cannot erase the sins of his lifetime.
Milo had no obligation to light this candle in front of his grave.
Suddenly, his eyes flashed.
“It’s this totem.”
After the candle was stepped out, the ferocious totem on the tile board under the shadow of the candlelight became clearly visible. This was Milo falling into a strange dream. The totem, which had been painted by hand before, was now covered with a new layer of dew, and the totem was gradually destroyed by the squeezed water droplets.
The real manipulator behind Robben, the vague-faced church doctor, what he really wants is this totem.
He used Robben to organize this ceremony.
Robben's daughter has already died completely.
As for the true usefulness of totems, Milo had already experienced it personally just now.
He saw the past of the deceased.
No matter what the principle is, Milo truly "saw" the tragic life of the tomb owner Robben.
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But the problem is that in this dream, Milo did not see the true face of the church doctor even when he was tracking him, because he always had a mask on his face and was wearing the cloak of a church official, making him unrecognizable. It can be said.
“At least it is certain that the church is not a good thing.”
Milo muttered to himself.
The truth behind this series of serial murders is more bizarre and tortuous than any possibility he had ever imagined.
Great plague, blood therapy, church, ritual.
These factors run through the entire event from beginning to end, and their shadows can be found if you consider it carefully.
Why has the Great Plague ended five years ago, and as a plague patient who had successfully recovered from blood therapy, Robben's daughter suddenly turned into a crazy beast.
“Hiss!”
As long as Milo ponders for a moment, the scene from Robben’s perspective that he just saw will flash back in his mind, followed by a burst of needles. of pain.
This was many times worse than the stinging feeling he had after dreaming about the murder scene.
"I can't stand it...oh my god."
He stood up staggeringly. At this time, people in the open space below the hillside had lit a bonfire, and many people were sitting around the bonfire.
Milo took a few steps towards the bonfire, then turned back and erased the totem on the tile board in front of the tombstone.
(End of this chapter)