Chapter 40 - John has a situation
After Christmas, people are still immersed in the aftermath of the holiday. Because school is closed, there is no need to send 11 to school. Benny stays asleep until noon.
When he got up, he was the only one left in the house. Yesterday, on November 11, he made an appointment to go out with his friends. Benny knew about this.
I got up to wash, made myself a breakfast, and when I had eaten it on the first floor, the door was pushed open.
“NO! Hope!”
“You can’t just break into my house like this!”
Benny protested, but Hope did not quarrel with Benny uncharacteristically. He sat down across the table, picked up Benny’s breakfast, chewed, and said vaguely.
“The guy from the Lewis family is missing.”
“Maybe I was out with my friends.” Benny rolled his eyes, grabbed the milk and drank it.
“11 I made an appointment with your Will and the others yesterday, and I ran out to play early in the morning.”
“No, it’s not like that.” There was no milk, and Hope was choked with bread and rolled his eyes, and finally swallowed it.
“Lewis went home with his parents last night and disappeared at home.”
“Then you should search their home instead of grabbing breakfast with me. Please, I have only had a glass of milk today.”
“Oh, just right, from morning till now, I haven’t even drank water.”
With that said, Hope stuffed the remaining bread into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it.
“Where do you think I came from?”
“Joy’s bed?”
“Man, I need your help. Be serious!” Hope knocked on the table dissatisfiedly. “We found a few teeth in the fireplace of Lewis’s house. According to the dentist’s records, it was Lewis’s teeth. Man, thought Want to see, the fireplace can’t hold Lewis’s body at all, how could he get into the fireplace.”
“In addition, we also found a lot of blood in the fireplace, probably Lewis’s.”
“so what?”
“So?” Hope stared at Benny with wide eyes. Seeing Benny still looked listless, he couldn’t help but shake his shoulders. “Man, it’s been less than a month, and someone else was killed. Hawkins’ number of deaths in the second half of the year is comparable to what happened in the past fifty years. This is unusual.”
“so?”
Benny took Hope’s hand away, rubbed his sore shoulder, and asked with a frown.
In his impression, the frequency of such deaths is indeed unusual, but don’t forget, this is in the United States, where the number of deaths in a small town with a population of tens of thousands of people is less than 100 in half a year. This should be abnormal. Bar?
“Anyway, I need your help, man, I need to know what the **** is doing this.” Hope involuntarily took Benny and walked outside, “at least until the new officers come in.”
When the two arrived at Lewis’s house, it was already full of people. As Hope said, the worst incident in Hawkins Town in 50 years was that Merrill and Eugene poisoned each other. , Resulting in no harvest of two pumpkin farmers that year. Counting this down, the recent deaths are indeed very unusual.
Due to the excessive number of police officers killed by the old witch Mary, the new police officers are still on vacation, Hawkins’s police force is seriously insufficient, which has caused the incident to have happened for most of the day, and the investigation of the scene has just been completed. Hope’s operators were dispatched to the scene to take notes.
The two bypassed the cordon and entered the room. Hoplar, who was groaning hungry, was brought to the front of the fireplace. Hope put his head into the fireplace and buckled a few pieces of minced meat from the inner wall of the chimney. , Then waved his hands and looked at Benny.
Benny spread his hands and sat down on the sofa, complaining, “Even if this is indeed a ghost of a supernatural creature, we don’t know what it is or where it lives. Maybe it’s gone.”
Hope straightened up and looked out the window. “Yes, we don’t know, but maybe someone knows.”
Benny looked in the direction of Hope, and a familiar figure flashed past the crowd.
“John?”
Benny was still wondering if he had read it wrong, Hope had already ran out.
“Hey! Wait for me!”
The two ran out of the room one after the other, through the crowd watching the lively, chasing a street all the way, and stopped in front of a building.
“Argent”
The street sign in front of the yard reads the owner’s last name, and there is even a horse with its front hoof drawn on it. The horse is surrounded by an unknown wreath.
“Akins?”
Standing in front of the house number, Benny thought the last name was a bit familiar.
“Hey! Man, is John’s wife dead?”
Hope leaned in and asked in a low voice.
Benny recovered, nodded and said, “Yes, he has been taking the Dean brothers around looking for the demon who killed his wife for the past few years, and has never remarried.”
“I bet the relationship between the two of you is not as good as you think.” Hope said mysteriously. “At least he didn’t tell you this.”
Benny looked in the direction pointed by Hope.
In front of the window on the second floor, John was facing a blonde woman. I don’t know what he was talking about. A little boy about four or five years old was standing beside them. Then, the two got closer…
“His wife is resurrected?” Hope asked with wide eyes as they kissed each other in a strange way.
After John finished kissing the blond woman, he squatted down and hugged the little boy and gently kissed his hair, then stood up and left the eyes of the two.
“Do you know what’s going on?”
The two of them leaned back against the wall like thieves who came to step on them, whispering.
“No, I don’t know. Bobby also persuaded him to find another one.” Benny was still a little confused and didn’t understand what was going on.
“He refused?” Hope asked gossiping.
“No.” Benny shook his head, recalling the conversation that night, and said uncertainly, “I think he should have been silent.”
“Well, it seems that Bobby doesn’t have to worry about his lifelong affairs anymore.” Hope shrugged, then stood up, ready to go out.
“What are you doing?” Benny grabbed Hope and asked in a low voice.
“We came to John to find out what brought Little Lewis away, not to inquire about his gossip. Now, I’m about to do this.”
“Hi, John!” After speaking, Hope stood up and greeted John who happened to come out of the house.
“What a coincidence. Did you come back for Christmas? Dean and the others are back too? Where’s Bobby?”
Listening to Hope’s series of questions, Benny wanted to shove him into the sewer, so he stood up awkwardly and greeted John together.
John was stunned. Obviously he didn’t expect to meet an acquaintance here. After reacting, he hurriedly looked around and quickly took the two of them and hid in the car.