Chapter 5: Dead corpse
After that Solomon went to call his crew to go back to the swamp again. When they received the order, they were not happy. They had gone to that swamp a lot and still found nothing.
However, they did not have a choice but to go since it was an order. They went to the sight and every one was given orders on what to do.
After Solomon re-read the case about Chipo, he saw something interesting that they had been missing. And that is during that time there was a heavy down pour and that swamp was bloated to the point that it looked like a small river.
This heavy down pour was due to a cyclone and if his guess was correct then it was possible that whatever that was in the swamp would be washed away. Thus, plan was to expand the perimeter that they were previously searching and maybe then they could find something.
He needed something that was logical that would accompany the absurd story he heard from the little before he took it to his captain. Thus, this night they would go and search for anything.
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He got to the location and they had been working for some time now. Everyone was tired and they knew that they could not half ass this investigation because the public was right up their ass because they could not find out what was going on.
After all it is in human nature to give blame to those who have certain power just to put their minds at ease. Around 9:30 pm a huge discovery was made, a body, a dead body that had decomposed. Though it was certainly in appropriate to celebrate finding a dead corpse but this situation was different.
After the initial excitement, it all dawned on them that maybe what the public were saying is the truth about this place, and they could not help but feel fear creep up their spines. They were standing on cursed land.
After that realization they wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Solomon was confused as to how they could not find the body all this while. He put those thoughts at the back of his mind and focused on what was in front of him. He called it in. and in no time the forensics team was on the scene. Taking pictures and everything.
The body was taken in for autopsy and they awaited the results. However, the news had caught wind of a body being found by the monster's swamp and it was already breaking news.
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In a luxurious house a woman was sitting on the couch with her legs on the lap of the man sitting next to her. The TV had been playing but no one was really watching she had been watching some vids on social media and the men next to her was reading a novel.
It was a harmonious setting and they were comfortable with their set up. When the news reporter said there was a dead body that was found at the swamp, she off handedly said it to her husband who seemed not to be paying attention.
At the mention of it he stiffened something that he did every time there was news about the swamp that was at the side of the road along the bridge that led to Brews Bay, and she always wondered what was wrong with him.
When he heard what his wife had said Peter looked at his wife eyes with vacant eyes and for a moment, he was blank. After he came back to his senses he just said "it seems so" and continued what he was doing.
At the back of his mind, he prayed that it was not her. He had been having nightmares a lot lately and he could not begin to explain what he saw. No one knew that he was the last person to be with Chipo but a lot of people knew about their affair and he was hoping nothing like that would come light.
He really loved his wife though he had affairs on the side but he did not want anything to come to light.