The moonlight tonight was particularly bright, and the cold wind blew through the high-rise buildings. On such a harsh winter night, the whole of New York City seems to have fallen into dead silence, and the city that never sleeps all night in the past is particularly gloomy tonight.
Two black bats glided slowly through the dark clouds, their sharp claws hanging upside down from the façade of the New York State Hospital.
Blood-red eyes full of bloodthirsty desire stared at the streets in the distance with eerie indifference.
A lone taxi drove by on the corner, opened the door with a bang, dropped the passengers in the back seat outside the door of the New York hospital, and then sped away. The vampire bat was awakened, flapped its wings, and flew over the woman's head.
The woman covered her mouth and nose with her hands, sobbed softly, and barely supported her body and walked to the hospital. The cold and biting evening breeze blew on her body, as if it was about to take away the last bit of heat from her body.
It's like taking her brother's life, cold! Ruthless!
She anxiously came to the morgue of the New York hospital, where the doctor in a thick coat had been waiting for her for some time.
"Doctor, my brother..." The woman looked at the doctor with pleading eyes, begging not to get bad news out of his mouth. No matter what Mr. Police said on the phone, the woman did not believe that her brother, who had always been timid and cautious, would be murdered in the suburbs.
She will believe it only if it is confirmed from the doctor's mouth! The doctor's expression was cold and numb, as if he was wearing a stiff and rigid mask.
He shook his head and handed a report from his hand: "I'm sorry, Ms. Melissa, we did our best." "
Melissa's gaze rested on the first line of the report, and the bold letters formed a line: "U.S. State Hospital, Death Notice..."
"Dear Mr. Anna, Yu ... On the same day, he was sent to our hospital for treatment. The diagnosis is ... After rescue was ineffective, Yu ... If you die on the same day, please come to the hospital to take care of the funeral arrangements and go through the relevant procedures with this form..."
Melissa sobbed, reading the message on the death notice intermittently, and couldn't help but gasp and finally shed tears.
The doctor lowered his head, as if he couldn't bear to see this young and beautiful girl sad in front of him.
"This—how is this possible, my brother has always been very low-key and honest, why did he run to the outskirts of New York for no reason? He didn't hold a grudge against anyone, so how could anyone hurt him..."
"I'm sorry, Ms. Melissa, but he stopped breathing when the New York police took Mr. Anna to the hospital. By the way, we checked that he seemed to have died because his spleen was pierced by some sharp weapon, causing organ failure. "
The doctor shook his head, reached out and patted Melissa on the shoulder, and walked out. He had faced too many things like this, and he knew that what Melissa needed most now was to cry alone, and it was inconvenient for him to be present.
The morgue door closed behind Melissa, as if the world had completely lost its color. The room was plunged into darkness and tranquility, which was a heavy and oppressive atmosphere.
In Melissa's eyes, there was only a melancholic white mist that made her unable to see reality clearly.
If she can bring her brother back to life, Melissa is willing to pay any price, even if it means making a deal with the devil.
"Da Da Da" from far to near, heavy footsteps echoed in the corridor. Chillingly, a man appeared out of thin air in the corridor of a New York hospital, and he appeared so suddenly.
Silently, it appeared out of thin air like a ghost, as if it had come out of the air. Just as the man was taking his first steps in the world, a thunderclap sounded on the ground outside the New York hospital.
The sky outside was cloudy and thunderous, as if trembling for this devil who had crawled out of hell.
The wind and rain mixed with rain and snow violently hit the New York hospital building. The man walked in the hospital, and the white fluorescent lamp was disturbed by some special disturbance and made a "squeak" sound, and every time he walked, the fluorescent lamp would explode with a "bang".
The man slowly walked towards the morgue where Anna's body lay, and all the electrical appliances that could emit light in the entire corridor were inexplicably damaged.
There was only darkness left, which reflected the man, his thin figure, gray but meticulously combed, dressed in a fine dark blue gentleman's suit inlaid with gold buttons, his face gloomy and arrogant.
Leaning on the cane in his hand decorated with crystal skulls, he walked forward step by step, pushing open the morgue door: "Anna, Anna Freddy Longinus..."
The man called out the name of Melissa's dead brother and stood at the door of the morgue.
"Are you?" Melissa gently wiped the tears from her face, and when she looked up, she thought she was Anna's friend during her lifetime. But soon Melissa reacted, look at the old gentleman's gray hair, Anna doesn't have friends this old.
"It seems that I'm late..." The man looked at Anna's corpse lying in the morgue, which had lost its breath of life, shook his head and introduced himself: "Mephisto Ferrus, you can call me Mephisto." "
He slowly walked to Anna's body and stroked it with his hand, as if he was rubbing a rare treasure: "It's really weird, he shouldn't have died." I don't feel his fate, what happened? "
Melissa was startled by the light in the man's eyes, but when she came back to her senses, she found that the old gentleman's eyes were only brighter than ordinary people, and he didn't emit any fire.
Her voice trembled, she shook her head and said, "I don't know, it was the police who informed me that they found my brother's body outside New York." "
"Oh!" Mephisto pondered for a moment, he put his hand on the wound on Anna's abdomen, and muttered in a whispered voice, "This is impossible, this is the wound caused by the gun of Longinus..."
But the Gun of Longinus has long since disappeared in this world. Although Anna and Melissa are both surnamed Longinus, they may be descendants of the centurion in ancient Rome, but in their hands, it is impossible for there to be a gun of Longinus, what is going on?
Mephisto looked at Melissa, his eyes suddenly changed, and he had another idea: "Perhaps, it doesn't matter." Melissa, I was going to come to your brother, but now, we can talk about it. "
Brother Anna has such a big thing, where is Melissa still in the mood to chat with others? With tears in her eyes, she apologized to Mephisto, "I'm sorry, old sir, I don't think I'm in the mood today." "