On a rainy night, a female body was abandoned in the mud on an unfinished construction site.
Both arms were broken at shoulder level, and the wounds were horribly flat. The corpse had been carefully cleaned and was eerily clean, except for the corner of the mouth, which was painted with a stiff and twisted smile. In her left hand, she clutched half a piece of faded "Send the King's Ship" talisman, and in the palm of her right hand, the mark of an inverted pentagram was deep enough to the bone.
Chen Mo, the criminal investigation captain of the Municipal Bureau, endured the dizziness caused by haemorrhage to investigate the scene. When the business card, stained with muddy water but still clear, slipped from the deceased's soaked pocket, the blood all over his body froze almost instantly - printed on the business card was his wife Lin Yue's name and title: Psychological Counselor.
Lin Yue's recent state is indeed not right. She has nightmares and is in a trance. Chen Mo tried to convince himself that this was just a terrible coincidence. Until that late night when it was also raining heavily, he saw Lin Yue standing in front of their wedding photos like a ghost. In the darkness, she raised her hand, holding a fruit knife that shone with cold light, and accurately and slowly cut along the lines of her own arm in the photo, which was wearing a white wedding dress.
The sound of the plastic covering tearing pierced the dead silence.
In the wedding photos, a clear scar was left on the "arm". The position corresponds exactly to the shoulders where the arms of the female corpse on the rainy night were broken.
The business card lay cold in his pocket. The glaring scratch in the photo is right in front of you. The real fear and confusion in his wife's eyes after she woke up made him even more heartbroken.
Ritual murder appears
