That Scarecrow did not continue harming the victims.
Instead, it stepped out of the surveillance camera's range.
But before leaving the camera's range, the Scarecrow flashed a vicious grin at the camera, its sharp mouth like jagged saw teeth.
The surveillance footage even showed that the Scarecrow's mouth was entirely made of straw!
Clearly, this footage had been deliberately left behind by the Scarecrow!
This was a blatant provocation!
Not long after the Scarecrow left, the two victims slowly crawled up from the ground, their faces twisted with shattered terror. They flailed their arms wildly at the air in front of them and screamed as they ran out of the camera's range.
But the many officers watching the footage were clearly not focused on the murderer's deliberate provocation!
Their attention was all fixed on the small evidence bag Gordon held in his hand.
Inside the evidence bag was a genuine piece of straw!
The room watching the footage fell silent.
Everyone wore stunned expressions. Even Gordon and Harvey had their worldview shattered by the scene in the surveillance footage.
Whether from the footage or the piece of straw in Gordon's evidence bag, it was clear.
The killer was not a lunatic dressed as a Scarecrow, nor was he a murderer borrowing the Scarecrow's image to commit murder.
It was a genuine, living Scarecrow!
This completely overturned the worldview of everyone present.
Especially in the United States, where almost everyone had heard scary stories about Scarecrows during childhood.
Now, a living Scarecrow had appeared before them. Almost everyone was reminded of childhood nightmares, and with the two officers who had already gone insane—
Fear spread among the officers.
This fear was not simply a fear of death. More than that, it was the helplessness and confusion of facing something unknown.
Fear