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- Herausgeber: via tolino media
- Kategorie: Krimi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
The museum of a university lost several boxes of butterfly specimen, then a night watcher was hired to guard the museum in night. One specimen each of polar bear and gorilla were added to the museum. About two weeks after the specimen were left at the corner of an exhibition room as they did not have appropriate cabinets to put them in, the specimen of polar bear was missing together with an ancient dagger. The window was bolted inside and the door was locked normally and securely of the exhibition room. There was no trace left in the room. The night watcher reported: four to five days after the specimen were put in the exhibition room, in one morning he noticed the position of the bear changed to another position; one week before the bear was missing, he heard feet stamping sounds, noticed the bear was caressing and slapping the gorilla through a keyhole of the exhibition room; in the night when the bear was missing, the night watcher said the museum was as quiet as a graveyard and he did not hear any abnormal sound. Next day after the bear was missing, someone noticed there was an irregular circle of footprints of the bear on the smooth muddy ground under the window sill of the exhibition room; a patrol policeman said he noticed a white thing with an opened mouth, was hit at the back of his head and fainted to ground near the university. A lot of newspapers reported about the incident with pictures of the museum and the gorilla specimen. Several days later a gambler met the bear outside of an underground casino, fainted due to fright, when he woke up, he found he had already lost his valuables. What really happened? How could the specimen of the bear act in such weird fashion?...
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Night Hunting
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.For permission requests, write to :[email protected]
NIGHT HUNTING
First edition. April 3, 2024.
Copyright © 2024 LiaoHong Sun.
Written by LiaoHong Sun.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Night Hunting
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Further Reading: Empress Wu Zetian 1
Also By LiaoHong Sun
HongLiao Sun
Translated by Bin Liu & Jirong Liu
Great Wall Publishing
A Weird Story About One Polar Bear Specimen
Chapter 1
Whenever I come across my friends, they would ask me to tell them a story.
When I come across the friend with a red necktie, I ask him to tell me some stories, thus I could relate the stories to my other friends.
He is an extraordinary person who has experienced a lot of strange things.
He often would talk to me about his strange experiences. Furthermore, he is an expert to tell lies, when he has nothing to tell, he would make up a story for me.
He said: The whole world is just a lie. The more extraordinary a person is, the more capable he is to tell lies; the more capable a person is to tell lies, the more extraordinary he is. In past, lying was a bad character; at the moment, lying is a virtue.
In order to cultivate his virtue, he has learned to lie.
Therefore, he told me a weird and nearly absurd story.
The story might be another lie of his.
I am reporting the story to you, it depends on you whether you believe it or not.
The story happened in the museum of a university.
The first character showed up in the story was the night watcher of the museum. The better part of the story was from his mouth in a quite lively fashion. You just listen to the story, maybe you could not help but feel tense.
In past, the museum had no night watcher. When the opening hour was over, they would only lock the gate. But several month ago, the museum lost some their materials, the materials they lost were boxes of butterfly specimens. To an ordinary person, the materials are valueless, but to the museum, they are a great loss for their scientific research. Who stole the materials? None was sure who was the thief as the thief left no trail. The people of the museum could not help but hire a night watcher to safeguard the museum. The night watcher is more than forty years old and an honest man. In night, he would sleep in a bed in the corridor of second floor, the entrance and the exit and several important exhibition rooms could be watched by him from the place.
Since the night watcher was on duty, sure enough nothing is lost again. It could prove that the materials lost before were taken away by someone in night. From then on, the museum has kept the night watcher.
Unexpectedly, after a while another thing which was even more bizarre happened. The thing was absurd and against common sense.
In the first place, the museum added two new specimens recently, one was a gorilla from Africa, another was a white polar bear from North Pole. When the specimens were taken into the museum, as they did not have proper cabinets, they could only put the specimens at the corner of fifth exhibition room in another floor.
The value of the white bear was quite high. The preparation of the specimen was quite unique too. For a common specimen of an animal, usually the animal would stand on ground with its four feet in a way as if the animal were running. But for the bear, it stood on its hind feet, just like a standing person, on a wooden stand, its front claws were stretching forward, as if it were rushing toward a man. Its long mouth opened slightly with its sharp teeth, there were a pair of false eyeballs, which were yellowish with a bit green. It looked quite ferocious.
Many visitors came to the museum to see the new specimens. But in less than two weeks, the bear was missing from the museum suddenly!
How could it be lost? None could not give a reason. Anyway, in the previous night, it was still standing ferociously on the wooden stand with its stretching front claws. In next morning at the corner of the fifth exhibition room, only the specimen of the gorilla was left there lonely, its white companion vanished completely.
The white bear was missing, but the wooden stand was left behind. On the wooden stand there were two erecting big nails, which were used to fix the feet of the bear. It seemed that the white giant bear liked its freedom, thus he struggled to get down from the narrow wooden stand, escaped from the room, and went out for fun!
In the night when the white bear went out for fun, a dagger of Shang Dynasty (* From 1600-1046 B.C.) from another exhibition room was missing too. The handle of the dagger is about nine inches, the edge was quite sharp, it could be used as a lethal weapon and did not look a bit like other ancient daggers or swords which were just a piece of rusted iron or bronze.
The night watcher said in the night when both the white bear and the dagger were stolen, the whole museum was quiet as if it were a huge graveyard, he swore that he had not heard any noise, furthermore, all the doors and windows including the fifth exhibition room were either bolted or locked. As a matter of fact, it was nearly impossible to let a wisp of smoke enter the rooms. In a sense, as someone stole that kind of a big thing, the thief should leave some trace behind, but the thief did the thing neatly and cleanly, he even did not leave a bit of thread from his clothes, nor did he leave any lead for investigating the case.
In a word, it was a weird and clueless theft.
No! There was a trail, but the trail was horrible!
In the first place, under the window sill out of the fifth exhibition room, there was an empty space among the shrubs. Several nights before there was a huge thunderstorm, which rained away the dust in the empty space and made the space appear as smooth as a mirror. In the second day after the bear was missing, someone noticed footprints in a form of the sole of a foot on the muddy ground in the empty space under the window sill; the footprints formed in a pair, some of them were with toes, some of them were with heels, some of them were complete with toes and heels. It was obvious that the footprints were left by the bear. The footprints formed an irregular circle on the muddy ground. It seemed that Mr. Bear was having a tap dance in the empty space for a short time! But except the footprints left by the bear, there were no other traces left in the place at all.
Based on above information, it seemed that the thing was not related to a thief who came to the museum in night and stole the bear away, rather it seemed that the bear ran away from the fifth exhibition room by itself and danced its farewell to the museum in the empty space!
Right, the thing was absurd, even a live animal could not escape from the zoo, as such a kind of thing has not been reported by media! How could a dead white bear escape from a museum! What kind of explanation would you offer for such a kind of strange thing?
What even more absurd will be reported below!
According to the night watcher: The white bear had been haunting the museum not in the night it was missing, but a short while after it was moved into the museum. As we mentioned before, the specimen of the white bear was moved into the museum with the specimen of gorilla at the same time. Both of the specimens were standing on wooden stands like a standing human. When people set the specimens, the white bear and the gorilla were facing each other in a manner as if a white giant were having a boxing match with a black native, it looked very funny.
One day—about fourth or fifth day after the specimens were set in the exhibition room—in morning, the night watcher unlocked the door of the fifth exhibition room (he also held a position as a cleaner), noticed the long mouth of the white bear was not facing the gorilla but its back. At that time, the night watcher did not give much attention to the abnormal phenomenon. Because he knew though the specimen of white bear looked huge and vivid like a nouveau riche, in fact its abdomen was filled with grass and wood dust, it was not that heavy. Maybe some curious visitor moved the bear a bit, thus the original position was changed. Thus, he just readjusted the position, did not pay much attention anymore. –That was the first time the weirdness of the bear was noticed.
Second weird thing happened in a night about one week before the incident.
The night watcher said he had a sleeping problem, though he went to bed early, he could not fall into sleep. In the night, it was around nine o’clock, suddenly heard some noises within the museum. He listened carefully, it seemed that someone was stamping his feet, it seemed also that someone was having a walk. As somethings were missing from the museum before, he had to have a check, got up hurriedly from his bed, walked around quietly, would pause at the door of each exhibition room, listened carefully for any abnormal sound, could not hear any noise in those rooms. In the end, he came the door of the fifth exhibition room, stood at the outside of the door to listen, heard the stamping sound coming out of the room. As the keyhole was quite large for the door, thus, he lowered his body to peep into the room through the keyhole. Unexpectedly, what he saw through the keyhole frightened him dearly, made his body be covered with goosebumps.
Then what did he see?
He saw the bear was dancing with its opened bloody mouth! The wooden stand under its feet were moved together with its giant body like a small boat in billowy waves! He noticed the bear sometimes would stretch its front claw to caress the face of the gorilla, as if it was showing its care and kindness, sometimes it would slap the face of the gorilla as if a master was showing its domineering attitude to a servant! What a pity, it seemed its opponent was a powerless and patient guy just standing there passively to accept the harassment.
In fact, the night watcher only watched the scene through the keyhole for no more than a minute, but his body was covered with cold sweats which drenched his shirt.
He was nearly frightened to death, almost could not find his bed through fumbling in night. It seemed that his lung caved in his chest, and he had difficulty in breathing for all the night.
The night watcher talked above things after the bear was missing.
At the beginning, none would believe in his words as they were merely nonsense. How could such a kind of unreasonable thing happen in the world, even for something which happened against logic, the extent for the unreasonableness was limited to some extent. As the above words, they were beyond reason! Someone thought: If the night watcher did not lie intentionally, then something was definitely wrong in his mind just like a machine which had not been oiled for a long time.
Though the words of the night watcher were absurd and weird, unexpectedly, another person confirmed his words, proved the words were not completely absurd. The witness was a patrol policeman around the museum in the night.
Therefore, the incident became even more difficult to investigate.
You should know the museum is with a large area. Its front gate is facing the Goose Lake Road, the wall at the left side of the gate stretches to Yellow Mountain Road. At the night when the bear was missing, there was a policeman patrolling in the area. The time was around twelve o’clock in night of mid-autumn, the sky was filled with stars, it was windless. He was walking slowly from Dawn Road to Yellow Mountain Road. As it was still very hot, he sweated a lot, thus he paused his walk to have a short rest. He happened to stand at the wall of the museum. While wiping away his sweats, he looked around aimlessly. He just turned his look from Goose Lake Road to the nearby area, suddenly noticed a white shadow at the side of Chinese parasol tree. At first glance, he only noticed its profile, as it was not bright at the time, he first thought it was a human with white shirts standing there. What was he doing at this hour? As it was suspicious, he wanted to go forward to have another look. He was about to move forward, got another look of the white profile, noticed it was a giant white animal standing there like a human, its front claws were stretching forward, its mouth opened widely with a posture as if it was ready rush forward to gulp him down alive while taking his unpreparedness!
You just think about it, in midnight in that kind of melancholy and quiet environment, if one comes across that kind of giant monster, no matter how bold he is, he definitely will be frightened dearly. While he was in his surprise and before he could figure out how to cope with the situation, suddenly, the back of his head was stricken once by something heavy, thus he fainted down to the ground under the wall of the museum!
Later, the policeman was found and sent to a nearby hospital by a passer-by. After emergency treatment, he woke up, but he still was with a murky mind, as soon as he opened his eyes, he shouted: “White demon!
