Chapter 31: Hunting for the puppeteer. Part 3
,,Even a real hero makes mistakes and then has to pay a terrible price for it."
kriuswer
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After realizing that revealing myself to the inhabitants of the house I lost precious time. I felt uncomfortable, unpleasant because I am in the middle of a serial killer hunt. And in this matter time is the most important thing, and I've lost too much of it.
Then, I turned towards the window through which I had entered earlier. I approached him and took the door handle to open it. When I did that,I looked a trace appeared on the lower window frame (MC has an active ability to see the aura and stuff.) The trace, or rather a handprint, though it reminded me more of imprint a robot's hand. Maybe denture, I don't know, I've never seen dentures so it's hard for me to say that. This imprint, from my perspective, looks as if it were woven from black fog, or a trace seen through the ultraviolet, but without the ultraviolet lamp.
From the appearance of the trail, I concluded that whatever touched this frame did so from the outside of the building.
(MC goes through the window again, out. Then he turns to the window and looks at the imprint of the mechanical hand again.)
Thanks to the active ability to see the aura of things and people around us, which I decided to call "Void Vision". I noticed that from the mechanical imprint the hands run, a clearer trace left by the person who left this imprint.
I suspect that this person was probably the villain who was investigating the victim. I may be one of Dollmaker's minions, they only wrote in the article that he was in charge of an "army of murderous dolls." Whatever that means.
From the place where the doll's handprint was, I can probably say that. There is a dark aura floating in the air that shimmers with red colors, a large amount of strong yellow color, but with a predominant amount of black.
The feeling I feel when looking at this trail is not very pleasant. And even makes him angry, not on the person who exudes this aura, but on the person who caused that person emanates it. In a way, I feel that this person is not responsible, although I do not know why I think so. I will probably find out when I get to the source of this aura, because unlike the first use of "Void Vision", now you can feel in which direction the aura flows. (and always heading in the opposite direction from the source). So it's time to move and make order.
(MC straightens his wings and leaps to the ground with a strong jump. Then, already in the air, he heads to the source of the dark aura.)
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Few minutes later...
When I followed the trail of hostile aura I did not know that it would blow me that far. Not that this was a problem, but I don't see the end of this trace. At first it went smoothly, I maneuvered between the residential buildings, that's because my goal was apparently a scout or something. I think so because the target was moving between residential buildings and was probably researching and gathering information about the child. After all, Dollmaker is hunting them, as far as I know. Just thinking, my blood is boiling.On thinking about it.
Returning, I maneuvered between the properties until I left the built-up areas completely. This trail led me to a border road that went out of the city into areas south of the city of Gotham.
What would be more interesting, I discovered that to the place where it is now (on the road going south from the city of Gotham), in addition to my trail that brought me here. There are even more such traces, only from different directions of the city than the one from which I came. This means that my goal had friends, and that means there is more than one Dollmaker minion. Fuck, I'm Genius.hehe. I'm kidding myself. Okay, this is not a good time for jokes.
All right, all traces leading out of the city converge in one place. More precisely, on the side of the road, a bit distant from the city. Then these traces merge into one, larger and denser.
So you don't have to be Batman to guess what happened here. According to my deduction, it was like that. With all these dolls, they were supposed to track down and locate new targets for Dollmaker. And after they gathered information, they went to the meeting point, which is the roadside. Where most likely there was a truck that they returned to base after the mission was completed. And that's where I'm going, getting there is basically a formality. Because now even a person with a demo version of my "Void Vision" power would easily track down their base. So South Direction, Dollmaker get ready.
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Fifteen minutes later...
Strong dark aura led me to the nearby town of "Ichabod". A small town with several houses and a church. Unfortunately, the city fell victim to natural disaster (flood) as a result of which the city was deserted. And the only intact building is the large factory "Schott's Toys" which is probably my goal.
Reaching the main entrance to the factory took me a while. Because I tried to search the city with one of my skills, but the only living things I could find in the city. There were fish and nearby birds, which is nothing that caught my attention.
When I was about to land in front of the main entrance to the factory, my sharp senses detected (heard a noise) that something was moving in the part of the factory that looked from the outside from the warehouse. So instead of to the main entrance, I flew to the entrance to the warehouse. The warehouse was connected to the main part of the factory, so I can start from this page and finish there.
The entrance to the main warehouse was more like a hangar door. And this is because the door was very high and wide, it covered the entire wall, almost. I think that they are opened mechanically, which is rather obvious. Unfortunately, I am not a hacker or a specialist in such systems. So from breaking into and by interfering with the mechanisms of opening the door, nothing will happen.
On the other hand, why should I play in the follower of Batman, Arrow, in short, heroes who use technology. Although I would not despise the system that informed me about the crimes committed. I wouldn't have to patrol the city to detect a new victim.
I decided to enter the magazine in my own way, i.e. by force. With the help of the "Devil's flame" skill, which I concentrated in my right hand, I cut out a perfectly caricature of myself in the warehouse door.
But after a while I regretted it, because the metal from which the door was created. It has melted and the molten metal stuck to the sole. Fuck, I just bought them. But it was worth it, I always wanted to do it. Cut out your caricature in the wall, like in old Daffy duck cartoons. Ehhh ... Memories.
However, the pleasant mood I had, thanks to the memories. He was swept away and replaced by anger and a bit of fear. Why fear, because now I see dolls spread out on shelves, so old and scary. With cut faces, no faces. Almost all were destroyed and in a terrible condition. And something tells me that the marathon of the Annabelle movie series. On the last day before the Christmas break in college, it wasn't a good idea.
"I will never watch horror movies again, because with my luck after watching such a movie, the next day I will meet villains who will resemble the character from this movie." - I thought.
And so I went through the bleak gap between the shelves on which the broken dolls lay. Memories from the movie come back, terrible. And for dessert, when I looked up, I saw that some dolls were hung on the ceiling as hanging bodys.
It was terrible, but now it should be better. (it will be even worse.)
When I entered the next room, the view took my breath away. And it is not in the good sense of this phrase, I saw a row of square cells, set towards the center of the corridor created by them. It looked something like "I I"
, four frames on the left and four frames on the right.
I walked slowly and checked the contents of these cells, almost all of them were unconscious but still alive children. I said in almost everyone because one cell was empty. But the aura in her was still fresh, which suggests that the child was taken recently. And from what I was able to deduce, answer what happened to the child from this cell, waiting in the next room. I do not intend to wake up the children now because I risk the opponent being able to take them hostage. From what I see they are safe for now, so let there be moments. When I beat the villains I'll come back and free them.
This time, a normal single door leads to the next room. I approached them faster and opened them. I crossed the threshold and ....
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POV third person...
When Krius entered the next room, which was another warehouse, part of which was separated by hospital curtains. thus creating a small operating room. You've heard the operating room so well. Numerous organisms were used in this room, which Dollmaker used for brainwashing and operations aimed at creating a minion, a doll. Of kidnapped children who had already abducted their martyred children.
But not the medical apparatus caused Krius, a state of deep shock combined with growing fury. It was caused by the fact that he had failed, thoughts that blame him about what he saw something that hit him wandering through Krius's head intertwine. He had already seen the dead girl he had been looking for before. (The one on the poster.) The girl was lying on the operating table, without her right hand and both legs. And not far from the bed lay bloody "dentures," well, the legs were normal. Made of solid metal, but the prosthesis of the hand did not resemble her. As a hand prosthesis, Dollmaker wanted to mount a small impact shield. But going back to MC.
Krius looks at the dead remains of the girl he was supposed to save.
I suddenly face Krius, it begins to fade. Literally, the complexion becomes slightly brighter, and the hair once black turns white. They slowly change color.
When Krius took the first step towards the girl, a red tear spilled from the eye. When a tear came out of the eye, Krius frowned and whispered in a voice that gradually changed color. From normal to demonic.
"It's my fault," he said in a voice full of pain that gradually began to take on the color of a demonic voice.
With each subsequent step Krius, his face changed. More specifically, the left half of his face that gradually began to transform, and the right that began to crack. [Author: I will insert a photo in the comments, then you will understand.] The right corner that once protruded and was curved towards the field of view of MC. He began to transform and instead of running his body, he began to entwine the right side of the head, like a writhing snake. . The skin of the left half of the head became darker, almost completely black. The teeth of the right half of the head have changed, the one closest to the center of the head, where the mouth is, only transformed into small fangs. But gradually to the left, the fangs grew larger and some, destroying the skin and tissue at the left side of the jaw. They replaced it with a row of large, strong fangs. [Author: Sorry for the low quality of the description, but somehow it turned out.]However, the right half of the face did not change much, only the hair changed its color to white. And unnatural-looking cracks appeared on the skin.
These changes are moving more and more (the one on the left half of the face), they pass further into the hand. Which took its demonic form.
Krius utters sentences with every step, which was accompanied by incredible mental and physical pain. Physical due to changes in his body and mental due to remorse, the fact that he did not save someone he had.
[5 steps left to the operating table with the girl]
-,,It's my fault"
[4 steps left to the operating table with the girl]
-,,If only I didn't ... waste my time with these people."
[3 steps left to the operating table with the girl]
-,,She would probably still be alive."
[2 steps left to the operating table with the girl]
-,,Instead, I played the hero. Like those idiots from Batman."
[1steps left to the operating table with the girl]
-,,(voice becomes more and more demonic)Since I could not save you, I will avenge you. And you can be sure that I will never make this mistake.I will not rest until I finish hunting and the earth does not turn red from the sinner's blood which he shed innocent blood."
Then Krius promises the girl's body, hugging her from behind. Then he looks at the ceiling of the hall and screams. And when it does it, the lower jaw lengthens unnaturally. [Author: just like in the movie 'Drackula's story unknown']
- ,, Roaarrrrr ".
Krius didn't notice three people looking at him from the hole in the roof.
As a result of Krius's roar, a number of steps reach his ears. Most of them are heading in his direction, while only one is running in the opposite direction.
Krius puts the girl's body gently away and run towards the sound sources.
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