Fortunately, in the game world, no matter how much I eat, my weight doesn't change at all the next day, as if there's a black hole in my stomach.

These past few days, Liu Chaoque has had a great appetite and has been urged by Mu Li to learn martial arts. He has to eat a bowl of white rice every night when he gets home.

If it weren't for her studies, Mu Li would have loved to go to Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts.

"I'm a woman!"

"You can dress up as a man."

"you sure?"

"I'm sure you have to believe in yourself, no one will find out."

Muli received a sharp rap on the head.

However, he himself has recently started to increase the intensity of his training, so Liu Chaoque did not complain too much.

Before the matter of the Southern Chu being breached could be resolved, the city was plunged into another crisis.

The incident began when an aunt went to the landfill to dispose of garbage and found fresh blood clots in a plastic bag. The flesh and bones were clearly separated, and there was frost on the flesh, as if it had just been taken out of the refrigerator.

She sniffed the air: "It doesn't smell bad."

Then she took it home, and as she cooked it, she started to feel something was wrong. The taste was off, and why did it have that bloody smell that only humans have?

She was so frightened that she threw away the lid and called the police.

Police arrived quickly and confirmed that the cooked meat was indeed human ribs.

Later, the police launched a thorough investigation and confirmed the ownership of the human bones and the information of the missing persons. However, before they could catch the murderer, another set of human bones was found in another area. The bones were chopped into small pieces and thrown into the sewer. It is unknown which water pump broke down and caused the bones to rise to the surface, which is how they were discovered.

Later, it was human flesh that was minced into meat paste and thrown into the sausage factory.

Then it spread to steamed buns and other foods with meat fillings.

When Liu Chaoque heard the news, he was eating a steamed bun from Muli Bao and almost threw up.

"It's okay, I bought it from the market, not human flesh."

The price of pork and related meat products has begun to plummet. Pork that people would have been reluctant to buy before is now sitting on the chopping board, even if it's given away cheaply, nobody wants to buy it.

Even if it was chopped off from a whole pig, even if it had a pig's face on it.

After vomiting, Liu Chaoque began to ponder why his minced meat had been discovered, since the presence of human tissue in a meat processing plant was not unusual.

She had even eaten meat made from dead rats.

But if it's made of human flesh, it might have been caught in the entrapment before, it's just that it's fresh.

She felt like throwing up again after hearing that.

The case is still under investigation. Police are reminding citizens to be careful when going out recently, because the victims announced include men and women, young and old, making it impossible to identify a specific victim, or in other words, the perpetrator committed the crime randomly.

This is truly appalling; they don't even know each other, and the only difference is that the two children are students at the same school.

The two were only 9 years old.

Liu Chaoque sent a message to everyone, reminding them not to open the door if someone knocks recently. Even in the school, there is a risk of someone breaking in. The security guard will not guard against everyone. What if the person is a student's parent and then makes an excuse to get something for the child?

Liu Chaoque looked at Nan Chu's chat history, which was still stuck on the day she had her nightmare. She hesitated for a while, but before she could type anything, the other party showed that they were typing.

She stopped worrying and started to see what the other person had to say.

The two remained locked in a silent stalemate, even though they were separated by an internet connection.

Finally, Nan Chu typed out a line of text: "Isn't this a game? Why are there cases?"

Nan Chu woke up early in the morning to find that several of the boys she was trying to woo had sent her a link. She thought it was some kind of scam, but the risk of several of them having their accounts hacked was too low. Even if she were really that unlucky, she would have a few others to take the fall with her.

Legally, it could even be considered a gang crime.

She took pictures of the profile pictures and links, took a deep breath, and then clicked on them. There were no beautiful women with big breasts or dealers counting cards. All she saw was an official document and the most eye-catching words: "A large number of dismembered bodies have been found in Hangzhou. The suspects are under investigation. Residents in the vicinity are advised to take protective measures to ensure their personal safety."

Minimize going out and meeting with others, and always carry protective gear.

This is even worse than being scammed; she was on the verge of a breakdown.

"You still don't know the full name of our game?"

"What's the full name?"

"It's probably called 'Criminal Buster: The Female Lead and Her Five Useless Male Leads'."

"..."

“You’ve been going out less lately, and without the protagonist’s halo, you could really become a victim.”

If someone wants you dead.

Although the content of her typing was a bit unpleasant, Liu Chaoque's intuition told her that she still had to remind this person that she might end up becoming Tieguai Li when she returned from Nan Chu.

Whether the person listened or not, she felt she had done everything she could.

At most, he would find a familiar girl to keep an eye on her safety every day, and of course, that girl's fighting ability would be no problem for ten strong men.

For ordinary citizens, it's good enough if the police don't hold them back when they're investigating cases; they can't be running to the forensic lab as often as she does.

"Have you found anything?" He Yanzhi, whom I hadn't seen in a long time, looked at the forensic doctor and asked, "The criminal's organization or the primary crime scene?"

He Yanzhi called Liu Chaoque this morning to ask her to come and help. She originally wanted to decline on the grounds that she had to go to school, but he directly contacted the counselor to ask for leave for her.

So she reluctantly came, pinching her nose.

Looking at those corpses that couldn't even be pieced together from scraps, she felt disgusted with minced meat for the first time. She already disliked the bloody smell of meat when cooking, but now the smell of human blood, combined with the stench of decay from people who had been dead for so long, made Liu Chaoque feel as if she were in a room full of rotting garlic.

I feel like my whole being has been elevated.

He Yanzhi took out a small green bottle and let Liu Chaoque smell it. He thought it was some kind of mint perfume, but when he opened it, he groaned and found it was cilantro.

But cilantro really does feel refreshing and invigorating in this environment, and it even has a subtle fragrance.

While vomiting, she frantically sniffed the cilantro, feeling a nauseating sensation, like a dog pooping on her floor while she was eating.

Fortunately, the agonizing ordeal in the forensic room finally ended after ten minutes.

He Yanzhi was deep in thought, and when she couldn't concentrate on their conversation, she seemed to see him lift a corner of the white cloth.

"The first piece of body parts thrown into the trash can was the easiest to pinpoint the location of, but because the police weren't called immediately and the body parts were frozen, which slowed down the decomposition process, the forensic doctor could only determine the approximate time frame."

"And the body parts found at the second meat grinder..."

“I have a question,” Liu Chaoque suddenly asked.

"explain."

"How did they know that human flesh had been mixed into their flesh?"

"It seems that the inspectors found that the proportion of other substances in a batch of meat buns was too high compared to the previous batch, so they conducted a detailed analysis of the other substances and finally found a large amount of human flesh in them, so they reported it."

"Oh~" That's easy to explain. The main problem is that she only knows there's a quality inspection, but she's not very clear about the specific procedures: "Actually, we're not sure about one thing: whether these manufactured body parts were done by one person, a group, or a copycat crime."

“What you said makes sense,” He Yanzhi thought for a moment. “But if it’s a copycat crime, is it copying that dismemberment case?”

Both of them knew what he was referring to, but the case remained unsolved because surveillance was not advanced in the past, and the Sky Eye could not cover the entire area. In addition, due to the passage of time, those who wanted to reopen the case no longer had the energy to do so, and it was shelved and became a cold case.

The thought that such a deranged serial killer could simply disappear without a trace, or change his identity and blend in with ordinary people, perhaps even becoming incredibly wealthy or gaining a reputation for charity, is somewhat terrifying.

She shuddered.

He Yanzhi didn't know what Liu Chaoque was thinking: "But we need to consider this from multiple perspectives. Let's assume that the perpetrators were a gang, one person killed the body, one person disposed of the body, and one person buried the body. They must have a refrigerator and a car at home, which would allow them to avoid surveillance and dump the items in these places."

"Is it possible that this person is impersonating a sanitation worker, a meat processing plant employee, or a auntie at a garbage disposal site?" Liu Chaoque boldly speculated.

He Yanzhi nodded and said, "Or perhaps it's a garbage truck driver who transports garbage, or a driver who unloads goods at a meat processing plant?"

"Employees who bring food into the factory?"

"Checking for unfamiliar faces in the delivery?"

"I don't think it'll be food, because the quantity is large. Unless that person always carries a sack of things, and that person is generally very slovenly, no one would want to touch his things."

"Check both."

he said.

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