Cold Corpse

Chapter 3- Stalker

1989, September 15th

As they drive under the starry night, the wind blew coldly. The moon stalks them, watching their every move in the dark moment. Clearly, the sky has been taken over by the gloomy clouds. The detectives sat silently in their seat and entered a lonely bridge, no other people than them. The bridge is a ten minutes' drive before they could reach the forest.
Andee's eyes are gazing outside the window glass and their side mirror. She could see the city shine brightly from far ahead, it looks like little bricks with vivid colors twinkling. She smile at the view.

Reminding the times when she was young, the city was noisy and filled with toxic human beings. You can smell the pollution swirling around in every corner, in every street. You can barely see any life form trees in the city she used to live in. Most of them are made of plastic. Garbage stack on each and everything. Having a wrestle on whose stench going to win to dominate the people's nostrils. Animals like cats and dogs are wandering in the streets, helpless as they look like bones and just fur. Rats dashing to the garbage bags hunting for food they can manage to eat. The animals in the city, it's the survival of the fitness. The people in it made the city as their home. No. As their trash, where they can throw any waste they like and would not care a thing.

Andee's smile turned into a frown, shrugging off the horrible memory.
Sasha look forward and focus on the road when a figure caught his attention, he squinted his eyes and lean forward when he notice it was a woman beckoning her arms to the car approaching her. Sasha tapped Andee's shoulder as she already see what he's seeing. "Stop the car, Sasha. She's in pain." Sasha did so. She stepped out of the car when the engine stopped at the side.
The woman was limping and coughing wine blood, she has slashes stained on her face. Her clothes torn apart almost looks like she's naked. She found herself dropped to the cement but Andee managed to seize her. "Ma'am... what happened?" The woman's face was all beaten up and eyes were swollen with the shade of plump, she could barely see what's in front of her as her vision was blurry and skin blocking the view.

"He..." She gasped for air and tears forming in her eyes, streaming down her rosy cheeks. "He tried to kill me." She whimper like a child and cried like there's no tomorrow. The two detectives who were outside of their car, Sasha standing behind the female detective with his calm look but never take his dark retro shades off.
Andee comforting the girl and asked her what was he look like.
"I couldn't see his face because he was wearing a mask." She replied with a sobbing noise. "But... he was wearing... like one of those fancy guys... A suit and tie..." Her sentence quiver and her throat dried, she lick her bleeding lips with a few remaining saliva. Her tongue was almost seem like a brittle.
"He was tall and buff." The woman pulled Andee closer, wrapping her hands around the small detective. "I managed to escape though. I slit part of his clothes with a shattered glass while he wasn't..." Her sentence got cut off when they heard a car was approaching in the other direction, the car was speeding up.

Sasha withdraw his semiautomatic pistol from his back pocket and went to his position, he carefully watches who was driving for the window was open. He didn't take his eyes even for a moment but when the car stopped just across them he told Andee. "Stay behind me and watch her."
He slowly walk around his car without bringing down his weapon. The man stepped out of the car with his hands hanging up.

"Jesus, Sasha, put your gun down. You might hurt someone with that. It's just me." Sasha recognized the voice and placed the gun back.
"Nolen, brother, we need you to look after this young lady. Take her to the nearest hospital. Sasha and I will be investigating this place. Call for back up to secure this place." Andee assist the lady towards to her brother. "The suspect will probably still be around the perimeter." She patted Nolen's shoulder before turning back to face Sasha.