7Chapter 11: The Missing Heads part 1
3 June 1813
A man held a cube on his hand. He went to his computer. He pressed on a switch and a connector came out of the cube. He connected it to his computer. He waited for the files to be loaded.
Connecting…..
Downloading….. Download completed.
Select a file.
The man watched the list of files. He searched for the one he was looking for. On the background, he heard the news.
"Another Victim has been found with his head missing. Andre Alerandro remained was found near the game store with his head missing. There is no explanation of why only the head was missing, just like the previous cases. The Police aren't certain if it is a serial killer or an Outsider who is causing all of those murders."
The man selected the file: The Head Hunter.
Select a file:
Autopsy.
Camera's Recording.
Police Files.
→Victims List.
Loading…
Access Authorisation…..
The man quickly searched for something as it continued to search for the authorisation. He connected a separated file to the data from the cube.
Authorisation accepted.
Victim List:
The man began to read them, "Jimmy Asemburb. Male. Age 24. He was found dead near the mall with his head missing. He was the first victim of the Head Hunter. The autopsy revealed that decapitation was post-mortem after being stabbed in the chest four times. The owner of a small restaurant found him when he took a pause cigarette. Nothing else stood out. Nos suspect found. Note: Not certain if the knife wounds were actual knife wound or the claws of an Outsider."
He put his hand over his eyes and grumbled, "This is just the first of the victims. There are four more and-" he noticed something that stood out from the fourth victim. He decided to focus on the second and third first. It was two more adults, one man and one woman who ended up with the same fate. Post-mortem decapitation after stabbed in the chest. The man five times and the woman 24, "The killer seems like it hates woman."
The last victim wasn't a human at all. It was an Outsider. The head was missing. The bit of some kind of tube with transparent liquid that was on the ground. It wasn't white. The man knew it was the liquid that formed the inner of their 'bones'. He frowned and wondered why one of them lost their head. The Outsiders weren't cannibals. Unless it was an exception.
"That Head Hunter is more dangerous than I thought. If only that killer was out of my sector… Maybe that's why it was calm and that no one just disappeared. With the Outsider gone, there was none of them who used this place as their hunting ground. Still," he glanced at the window, "A new one replaced him."
Select a file:
→Autopsy.
Camera's Recording.
Police Files.
Victims List.
The man read the autopsies report from the four victims. They were put there, "Each of them had their heads cup post-mortem. They are still the wounds on their chest. The autopsies revealed… The three humans were drugged by the SDS… The Sweet Dream Substance? Remained of it was found in their bloods. The Outsider had many bruises under his clothes. From the looks of it… Hum… He fought against his assailant. They didn't find any traces of SDS. Guess they are immune to this drug. Anyway, let's keep going."
Select a file:
Autopsy.
Camera's Recording.
→Police Files.
Victims List.
He scripted once again the recordings obtained from the cameras. He wanted to know what the reports were first. He was sure that the cameras would have little of importance. If it managed to get the serial killer, the news would talk about it already.
He began to read the police files. He grumbled as it was a bit of the same information he read before. There was almost nothing new. He scratched his chin as he searched for something new. Anything new. It took a while, but he managed to find something.
The head were cut by a saw. The type of saw couldn't be identified. Still, it wasn't a saw that could be obtained publicly. With the fourth victim, the saw that could be obtained in the market couldn't cut the flesh of an Outsider. Only some special saw made by the OCCS could cut their flesh and their 'bones', which were soft and hard enough to avoid damage from an ordinary saw.
A little message was added at the end.
I have been ordered by my superior to remove any fact or elements from the saw used by the killer or they would put me in jail. This information won't be public.
"The OCCS has something to do with it… Maybe it's an ex employe or an Outsider managed to get it. I think they have some kind of saw like that in their truck. I wouldn't be surprise if the later is the case. Still, the former is saying a few scary things. Anyway…"
Select a file:
Autopsy.
→Camera's Recording.
Police Files.
Victims List.
"Let's see what the cameras managed to record. Or… one camera?" the man wasn't certain if there was a typo mistake or not. He hoped they were many cameras and not only one.
He played the video.
2 may 1813: 23h24
The video began to play.
It was a dark night and only a soft source of light shined through it. It was an alley behind the mall. The source of light couldn't be seen as it was above the field of view from the camera.
The man frowned as he remembered this was where the current victim died. He knew, from the news, that two of them died behind the video game stores. He scratched his chin as he watched. There was nothing going on for a while.
3 may 1813: 00h13
There were three people who walked in the alley. They were three man who talked together. There was no voice that the camera collected. It went on for a while. The three stopped. One of them rested against the wall as they continued their conversation.
One of them took out a cigarette and began smoking. He watched the other two. He listed his cigarette and puffed a small circle from his mouth.
The two took a step back and commented about something. The three men stopped when they heard something suspicious.
One of them had his hand in his coat. They looked around. They waited for a few seconds. They realised that nothing dangerous was coming at them and relaxed.
"They didn't get an hallucination. I guess they thought it was the Outsider who targeted them… Could this be the killer? They are three of them. I don't recognise any of their faces from the victims list."
The men continued whatever conversation they had, but were a bit more cautious. They glanced around from time to time. Eventually, the three continued their walk.
For a little more than an hour, nothing stood out. No one came.
3 may 1813: 01h17
A man walked on his own. He held a pistol in his right hand. It was for protection if a man-eating monster tried to get him.
He was alone and vulnerable. He accelerated his pacing a bit. It seems that either something or someone stalked him, or it was in his mind. The man went on.
"That's Jimmy," the man commented when the face was visible enough.
The man suddenly stopped. He saw something in front of him, outside of the camera view. He heard something and suddenly turned around. He raised his gun to fire at something. He took a step back in surprise. He put his hand on his throat and slowly raised his head. His legs gave up and dropped on the ground, face first.
"What happened?"
Someone else came into the view of the camera. The person or the Outsider wore a black coat with a black hood that hid its face for a few seconds. The new individual raised its head and watched the camera. The face appeared through it, but it felt wrong. The skin was far too stretched. The lips of the mouth far too large. It looked like a human, but a disfigured one. The face didn't seem to go all the way back, as if it was a mask and not a face.
"A fake face. An Outsider might be twisted to do something like that. Still…"
The new individual went towards the unconscious man. A knife came out of the coat and stabbed his victim four times. After this, he grabbed the legs of the deceased victim and pulled it out of the view of the camera.
"He decapitated him afterward. Maybe a she. Still, a psycho who used a mask to kill his victim and avoid being recognised," he put his hand on his face as he ended the recording. There wasn't anything else in it. Still, "This is all I got. I didn't have the chance to see the saw," he sighed loudly. He rested on his couch, "I guessed this is why the police cannot progress. It's not just because of the OCCS."
He decided to disconnect the cube. He would continue his search tomorrow.
AC: This is the end of the introduction of this arc.
Next Part: The Outsider Schatten passed some times with the community of Outsiders and grumbled his frustration against the human he wanted to eat.