Seonghwah was feeling very anxious yet excited as he sat with his small team of investigators as the driver took them at full speed towards the location of the call.
"Lets get this case solved right now team!", said Seonghwah; feeling pumped.
"Yes sir!", said the whole team in almost perfect unison.
"We're here!", called out the driver from up front.
***
The lights coming from the factory were indeed scary, but there were no screams issuing from the building.
"Guns out everyone, stay vigilant", said Seonghwah quietly.
The whole team took out their government issued pistols and tensed as they moved towards the entrance of the factory, sticking to the wall all the way.
The gate of the factory was huge, even moving it without making a lot of noise was practically impossible.
"Hmph, our cover will be blown even if we stay silent when we open this door", thought Seonghwah; then he hit a creepy smile.
"BE LOUD, GUYS", he said as he kicked the huge and heavy door open with seemingly zero effort. And the whole team moved into the factory to an unexpected sight.
***
The whole floor was covered with blood. All the lights in the factory were turned on, there were several cracks in the floor and the whole place smelled of burnt flesh. As the team moved further into the factory, they realised that the horrors had just begun to unfold. They found a dead body with patches of deep green all over its body. It was heavily mutilated, all the nails on its finger were long and sharp but half hanging out of their places. it had several cuts and contusions on its torso, their was no hair on its head; just strangely smooth dark green skin. Then, Seonghwah's eyes ventured to the lower part of the corpse, but, what he saw was even more horrifying than what he had imagined. One of the legs had been ripped off and the pelvic bone was showing through a very thin muscle. the other leg, was completely green, but was impaled on several black, horn like structures.
Two officers in the back of the formation started to puke.
"Sir, look up front!", said an officer, sounding horrified.
***
There was a huge cuboidal pillar right in front of them engraved with the dreaded symbol of the kidnapping group which had now been proved to kill its victims, but what was the reason behind the mutilation and green patches on the body?
Seonghwah was in shock, he couldn't think properly; what was that horrible group planning now? Why was it doing this? How was that body so mutilated and why was it green?
All of these questions were making Senghwah's head spin, for the first time in his perfectly successful career of solving crimes he was experiencing this intense emotion to just give up, to let it be, to just leave the whole search.
He was feeling utter frustration for the first time, and it felt crippling.
He told the team to move on forward, he planned to let himself be alone for a while, calm his mind and investigate in the back of the factory. He didn't know that he really didn't have any peace in his destiny.
***
Seonghwah was slowly walking towards the back of the factory, eyes half closed, taking deep breathes and all the while trying to regain his focus. He kept walking for a few minutes when he suddenly heard a squelching sound from a doorway on his left. He instantly became alert, sweat beaded his forehead and it suddenly started to burn, but he was so filled adrenaline that he didn't really feel it.
Seonghwah took out his pistol and moved through the doorway, it opened into a high ceilinged stairwell that went towards the second and third floor of the building. He moved cautiously forward all the while looking around, there was no blood on the floor here, a relief. When he finally moved to the centre of the big stairwell, he heard a strangely strong yet, feminine voice.
"OI, HAVE YOU FINALLY NOTICED ME OR WHAT?"
Seonghwah swiftly turned his gun towards the direction of the sound, but there was no one there. He suddenly heard soft breathing near his ear and saw a slender, fair hand turn his gun downwards. A Chinese looking girl in a pinkish white hanfu suit came up from behind him, she was beautiful with big blue eyes and a small petite nose.
She extended her hand towards him for a handshake and smiled genially, "I'm Xinyue."