Charles saw the dried blood spreading along the sheets, all the way to the end of the bed, and even the cracks in the floor seeped into the ominous black-red color.
The crow is still crowing outside the window.
Charles did not find this scene scary because he did not experience the atmosphere of terror here. The blood even turned into ordinary things like the decorative patterns on the sheets, which proved that Eric had never been afraid of it.
But it is indeed something to be afraid of. Charles frowned. He could even clearly see a woman screaming on the bed. She had a big belly and was frightened during the birth process... It must be fright. There is another person here.
A faint smell of fear.
Charles took two steps inside, and sure enough, he saw messy footprints on the balcony. Someone broke in when Eric's wife was giving birth. They frightened the pregnant woman, which eventually led to dystocia.
Charles had a medical education background, so he could tell that the birth process was not going smoothly. In the end, the doctor who was half-kneeling in front of the delivery bed chose to perform a side incision, which caused a lot of blood and turned the place into a pool of blood.
The condition of the pregnant woman and the child must be very bad. Although Charles didn't know much about obstetrics, he also knew that in this case it was very likely that one would die and two would die.
Perhaps this is the main reason why Anya died when she was less than six years old. The failure of the birth made her heart and lung function inherently weak, and she needed to use a ventilator for a long time.
What about Eric's wife? Did she survive? Charles was a little confused. In this case, it was unlikely that she could survive, but if the doctor was professional enough and could not be beaten in such a chaotic situation,
It is still possible to suture the broken wound.
"Magda is still alive." Eric's voice appeared behind the door, and Charles turned to look at him. Eric's face looked a little nostalgic, but not very moved. He said, "She just died three years ago.
"
"Has she seen Anya?"
"I've seen her before, but she was already a grandmother at that time, so she didn't have a deep impression of this little girl who was taken away just after birth. Although she recognized it in the end, she just regarded that aspect as an ordinary dream."
"The midwife you hired must be very powerful." Charles sighed: "I can imagine how critical the situation was at that time. At least five people came in."
"In fact, there are seven, belonging to two different factions, and they are all armed."
Charles looked up at Eric. He didn't ask anything, but he knew Eric knew what he wanted to ask.
"I killed them and tore them completely apart in front of Magda. This was the main reason why she was frightened."
"The doctor completed the suturing perfectly, but she lost too much blood and needed to go to the hospital immediately for a blood transfusion. Anya stayed with me. I have never seen her since then. The doctor told me that she did not want to see me.
, she left."
Charles sighed softly and said: "I know you can't control it, but this would scare any ordinary person."
Eric looked at him silently, and Charles looked a little confused. He heard Eric ask: "...Is it really uncontrollable?"
Charles' heart tightened, and he immediately thought of how out of control he was. Yes, was he really out of control at that time? No, he just wanted to win Magneto's attention.
"Did you do it on purpose? Why did you do that?"
Eric shook his head and said: "No, at least not this time. I didn't think they would come. The anger swallowed me up. I killed seven people in an instant..."
"Wait." Charles realized something was wrong, and he said: "If you are really out of control, there should be ten people, not seven, including your wife, your children and the doctor. None of them
It’s possible to survive, but what part went wrong?”
Eric was silent.
His figure disappeared by the door, and Charles did not stay in this room for too long. He turned around and went to another smaller room next to it, which was where Anya lived.
This is a typical children's room. Although there is no cartoon wallpaper, it still has a white and bright soft bed that is completely inconsistent with the style of this old house, as well as many dolls and toys.
Charles saw a group photo. There were three people in the photo, it was him, Eric and Anya. He and Eric were both young at that time, and Anya was only about four years old. Her face was pale and weak, but she had a bright smile.
When he thought of the little girl's painful expression while lying on the hospital bed, Charles felt that his heart began to hurt. Fortunately, now that she had gotten rid of the painful body, she could always be carefree in the spiritual world.
to survive.
Charles went downstairs and sat back on the sofa. Seeing the ashtray with the ash that had just been flicked off, he smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to smoke here. Aren't you afraid of being discovered by Anya?"
Eric stared at his homework and ignored Charles. Charles seemed to be used to it. After a while, he stood up again and began to patrol the walls of the room.
The wall to the right of the fireplace is covered with old and yellowed wallpaper, and you can see a lot of Anya's graffiti. On the left is a wall of newspaper clippings, all of which are newspapers from that era.
Because it was posted too densely and the newspaper would lose ink, for the sake of his own eye health, Charles never read it carefully, but this time he browsed the news as focused as possible because he wanted to know about breaking into the house.
Who is the uninvited guest here?
In fact, there were too few people to choose from. Charles was also from that era. Although the situation in Britain had always been relatively stable, he could always hear news on the radio that the Soviet army was attacking Berlin step by step.
But the newspaper headlines posted on this wall were different from what was written on the radio. It recorded that the Soviet army was retreating steadily and was almost returning to Stalingrad. The German army was like a divine help and could not wait to plant the swastika flag in one go.
On the Kremlin.
Suddenly, a message caught Charles' attention. It read, "The mysterious church killer has made trouble again. The secret team has identified the possible suspect and will publicly execute him in the near future."
Looking further down, there is another piece of news about the Church Killer, but it also says that the Gestapo has locked the identity and residence of the Church Killer, and they will catch him soon. If you look further down, you will still catch him soon. Keep reading, still
It's right now, right now and right away.
This series of newspaper reports mainly focused on a promising future. Anyway, it said that the secret army was unstoppable and the church killers were frightened by the news. However, in the end, Charles did not understand who the church killers were, so he knew that these were just stupid propaganda.
Trick, if you were really caught, wouldn't you post a photo?
Charles looked at it very carefully, so he found that the method of pasting this series of newspaper clippings was different from the others. Eric was actually a very careful person. When he pasted something, he would definitely paint every corner.
Apply glue and stick it on extremely smoothly, leaving no gaps. It must be perfect.
This series of newspaper clippings doesn't look so thoughtful. Not only are they made of paper, but they are also glued in the middle. There are also two sheets in the middle that are glued and wrinkled. This is not Eric's style.
Although Charles discovered it, he did not tell it. He speculated on the relationship between the church killer and the people who broke in. Generally speaking, serial killers cannot have a group of people. Most of them are one or two people who cooperate in committing crimes.
Could it be that the Gestapo came here after the Church Killers? Then why did the Church Killers come here?
During this period, Charles also considered that the church killer might be Eric, but he quickly rejected his guess. Although Eric was usually a jerk, he was not such a jerk that his wife was about to give birth and still had time to go out and have sex.
Serial murder case.
Eric did not have the conditions to attract the Gestapo because he escaped from a concentration camp in Poland. People in Berlin did not know him. The fact that he could live here proved that he had completely escaped the pursuers.
The newspaper clippings on the wall were not posted by him, and the ash in the ashtray was probably not flicked by him, which proves that besides Magda and Eric, there is another adult in the house.
Who is the one?
Without too much in-depth thinking, Charles also knew that the only person with a motive to appear here was the doctor who delivered Magda, and it was this doctor who was watching the church killer.
Eric said that there were two groups of people who came to the door, and one of them must be the Gestapo. This group of people was getting more and more crazy in Berlin in this era. Even Charles in England had heard about it, and only they would rush into houses like this.
inside.
What about the other group of people?
Charles couldn't think of a result for the time being, so he had to walk back and sit down opposite Eric. Now he had forgotten the short video and just wanted to know what was going on.
"What happened at that time?" Charles couldn't help but ask. He saw Eric's look a little distant.
A pale woman's hand tightly grasped the flower stem, and the blood spattered soaked the freshly dried petals. Schiller was suturing with concentration, and at his feet were seven corpses.
The corpses were complete, with no wounds on the surface, but the completely broken internal organs were spit out from their mouths and mixed into the blood, like a bloody feast.
Standing by the door was a somewhat pale Eric. He stared at Schiller, but Schiller turned a blind eye. While he was sewing skillfully, he said: "They may have come for me, but the reason must be the same as you imagine."
It’s different.”
Eric seemed to have calmed down a little. He stepped over a corpse, stood next to Schiller and said: "How is Magda?"
"The incision is not very long. Apart from a little bit of bleeding, everything is fine. However, I'm afraid she needs to go to the hospital immediately for a blood transfusion. If you don't break the bug, we can contact someone who can do all this more efficiently."
people."
Eric frowned deeply.
"I killed a scientist named Artur because he was the only one who could figure out whether Hydra retained atomic bomb-related technology. Another group of people who wanted to stop Hydra have been staring at me. They are natural
ally."
"As for rushing in today." Schiller's tone was accompanied by a slight sigh. He said: "People who want to stop Hydra will stare at me for this reason. Of course Hydra will also, but I didn't expect them.
He found me so quickly and brought a bunch of reckless idiots with him."
Eric looked at the corpses with swastikas on their epaulettes and couldn't tell which ones were Gestapo and which ones were Hydra, but Schiller seemed to hear what he was thinking.
"They are indistinguishable from each other, or in other words, the current Hydra is indistinguishable from the entire Berlin. Anyone you see may be a Hydra."
"What do we do next?"
"I think you have memorized the signal of the bug, and followed that signal to send a message to a man named Nick Fury, asking him to send Magda to treatment and take care of Anya for us."
"What about us?"
Schiller put down the suturing needle, turned around and stood up, looked at the corpse in another place and said: "I have to admit that you are very efficient, but then we can do some delicate work."
