Chapter 799: Bloody Scene
The cement truck's rampage lasted about ten minutes.
The rampaging cement truck suddenly drove toward an empty street, actually leaving Bar Street.
Jiang Ran had no interest in staying here any longer. He still had a few "lab rats" waiting for him to hunt.
He drove to an isolated stretch of highway with no one around and temporarily stopped.
The face beneath the mask was wild with madness.
He muttered to himself: "Cat-and-mouse games are my favorite, but if anyone gets caught in the crossfire during the game, don't blame me."
He lifted his head slightly, ready to step on the gas.
He believed tonight would surely be an unforgettable night.
But just then, a scene suddenly flashed through his mind: a street covered in blood and bodies lying everywhere.
The sky was filled with blood-red clouds.
He was on a rooftop. Looking down at the ground below, he saw someone who looked exactly like him, staring ahead in terror.
In front of that person on the ground was another figure—a blood-soaked man. The blood-soaked man turned his head. He had the exact same face as Jiang Ran. It was also Jiang Ran's appearance.
This sudden flash of imagery ended there.
Jiang Ran snapped awake from this brief fragment. After waking up, his hands gripping the steering wheel involuntarily tightened.
What was that? Wasn't this the dream of that main personality, the one who only had kind memories?
This should be a prophetic dream.
In that dream, the blood-soaked man was himself.
Everything he was currently doing was heading toward that prophetic dream.
But why, in this just-flashed fragment, was he not the blood-soaked man?
Instead, he was the one standing on the rooftop, watching the show?
"Then... wasn't that dream about arriving in Aisen Town, about the bloody storm that happened in Aisen Town?"
Jiang Ran was completely confused by this situation.
The next second, a mysterious force suddenly erupted in his mind.
Beneath the mask, his mouth opened slightly.
He seemed somewhat unwilling: "Now, all of a sudden, you're pulling me back?"
After a few seconds, his hands on the steering wheel slowly lowered.
"Forget it. That prophetic dream... I thought it happened in Aisen Town, but it wasn't Aisen Town. That blood-soaked man wasn't me either."
"You few... are really lucky! You just escaped this time! And... the people in this little town, I was planning to massacre the whole place for fun..."
...
At Bar Street, watching the cement truck disappear into the distance, the Deputy Chief walked over from the side to the center of the street.
He kept staring at the spot where the cement truck vanished, then turned his head to look around.
All around him, there was blood everywhere, broken walls and ruins.
Countless cries of anguish and painful sobs composed a mournful song of hell on earth.
He looked down. Gushing streams of blood flowed everywhere.
Forming pools of blood and tributaries.
He could even see, at the source of the blood flow, flattened corpses...
"Ugh!"
This scene, even for the experienced Deputy Chief, made him run to the side and vomit uncontrollably.
A completely physiological reaction.
At that moment, the backup had arrived.
It was Chief Pete, Michelle, Michelle's apprentices, Bai Xiaoliang, and the others.
They had learned about the situation here through phone calls.
Realizing the severity and urgency of the matter.
They rushed over immediately.
But when they arrived at the scene, they found that things were even worse than they had imagined.
Especially the thick, cloying smell of blood in the air, so dense it couldn't dissipate anytime soon.
Bai Xiaoliang and the others even had to cover their noses, grimacing in pain.
Of course, that wasn't the worst part.
The bloody sight before their eyes was what truly made them feel nauseous and want to throw up.
Especially when the black man accidentally stepped on something. He looked down and saw it was a human arm.
The Deputy Chief rushed over to Chief Pete and the others.
Once he arrived, he said anxiously, "It's not just outside! Inside that bar too—the situation inside that bar is just as bad!!!"
So, Chief Pete and the group all walked toward the bar where the incident occurred.
The moment they stepped inside, the traces of the cement truck crashing in sent chills down their spines. When they approached the middle of the bar's first floor and the wooden stairs going up and down, seeing the bodies one after another...
This group all gasped in shock.
Especially when they saw many people clutching corpses and crying bitterly.
The situation inside the bar was no better than outside—it was even more severe!!!
Bai Xiaoliang stood there dumbfounded, looking around the bar at this scene of evil.
He looked down and caught sight of something not far from him.
A young man from Hua Country was sitting collapsed on the ground, holding a young woman from Hua Country who was drenched in blood.
He screamed in heart-wrenching agony, "Xiao Shuang! Xiao Shuang! Wake up! Wake up!!!"
Bai Xiaoliang took a deep breath, then turned to look at other parts of the bar.
One, two, three...
Each body represented a life.
And the loss of each life wasn't just a single life lost—it was the cause of sorrow and pain for entire families.
Ambulances finally began arriving one after another.
White-coated medics got out of the vehicles and started working.
Because the number of dead and injured was too high.
The town's hospital clearly couldn't keep up.
So hospitals near Aisen Town were also urgently contacted to provide support.
In short, the scene was utter chaos, everyone scrambling to handle the emergency.
...
Special Live Stream, Day 5, 6:29 AM.
After a whole night of processing and rescue operations.
The chaos from last night had been temporarily calmed.
In short, all the dead and injured had been temporarily dealt with.
And currently, the total numbers were:
Injured personnel: 547.
Dead personnel: 172.
Among the dead, a large majority had been directly hacked to death with a blade.
And according to various eyewitness accounts.
What shocked Chief Pete, Michelle, Bai Xiaoliang, and the others was this:
The culprit responsible for such severe consequences was just one person, acting alone.
The weapons were a cleaver and a cement truck.
The cement truck had been found this morning.
On a wasteland at the edge of Aisen Town.
The killer wasn't on it, nor were the weapon and the mask the killer wore.
At the same time, the cement truck had been stolen. The original owner of the truck had also died long ago.
This was yet another cold case in Aisen Town.
This case had so many dead and injured.
Under normal circumstances, this would have already caused a nationwide or even worldwide uproar.
After all, this was an extremely heinous criminal case.
But strangely enough, this case seemed to be suppressed by some invisible hand.
It didn't cause the so-called uproar.
Even when Chief Pete reported the case to his superiors.
Their reactions were very indifferent, as if they just wanted to close the case as quickly as possible.
Instead of making a big deal out of it.
At this point, even if Chief Pete's brain had been filled with water, he could still sense something was wrong.
After all, from the beginning, when Aisen Town had so many cold cases, the higher-ups' reactions had been very indifferent, never sending more manpower to investigate the real culprit.
So, this kind of handling for such a vicious case wasn't really surprising.
But Chief Pete felt that the dark clouds above his head were really thick.
Regarding this vicious case.
During his free time, Lucas called Gates, wanting to ask if they were the ones who did it.
But Gates's phone was always unreachable.
Lucas was annoyed because tomorrow they had to leave Aisen Town by car.
They were running out of time.
...
9:12 AM.
A small Western-style house in Aisen Town.
A blonde, blue-eyed white girl walked out of the front door of the small Western-style house.
She was very beautiful, with supple, tender skin.
This white girl was none other than the lab rat Juliet.
Lab rat Juliet had come out of her rented small Western-style house to go to the nearby supermarket to buy ingredients.
Compared to eating out, she preferred cooking herself.
But the moment she stepped out and turned around, she saw a police car pulling up on the road not far in front of her.
Two German police officers in uniform stepped out of the police car.
The two German police officers walked up to Juliet.
They flashed their police work badges.
Then put them away.
After that, one of the officers said to Juliet, "Hello, are you Juliet·Lean?" (In English)
Juliet looked up at the officer, who was half a head taller than her, and nodded.
Then, the officer continued, "Hello, we need to take you to the Aisen Town Police Station to assist in the investigation of a case. Please come with us!" (In English)
Juliet blinked her big eyes. "Investigation of a case? What case?" (In English)
The officer said, "Suspected murder." (In English)
Juliet was silent at first, lowering her head.
Because since she had arrived in Aisen Town, she had never killed a single person.
Including those two people from that night—she only trapped them in the basement of the back garden, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Therefore...
"Are you really police? You're not fakes, are you?" (In English)
Juliet lifted her head again, her voice thick with suspicion.