When Ethan Xie received the call from the Forensic Center, the little black cat had just been half washed. There was a thick layer of white foam on its head, and its fur had fallen flat, sticking wetly to its skin and bones. It looked funny and pitiful.
"What's wrong?" Ethan Xie asked, holding the phone.
"You can't sleep tonight, Xiao Xie. Pack up and come here quickly. Someone saw a lot of body parts in the bathroom on the obstetrics and gynecology floor of Kanghe Hospital. It's very strange, and we don't have enough staff. Come quickly!" The colleague on the other end spoke very quickly. The surrounding environment was very noisy. Such a scary situation must have alarmed many people.
Ethan Xie said "I'll be there soon" and hung up.
This irresponsible guy didn't even look at the cat with bubbles on its head. He put on his coat and scarf and strode out the door. After the door was closed, you could even hear him coughing faintly in the corridor.
The black cat in the sink obviously didn't expect him to be so stupid, it grabbed the edge of the sink with its two paws for a moment, then with a "snap", it slammed itself against the sink wall in despair.
With Ethan Xie's speed, it only took a blink of an eye for him to reach Kanghe Hospital. When he showed his ID, crossed the cordon and entered the bathroom, his colleague Jiang Haoran's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"Did you fly here, brother?" Jiang Haoran asked.
"I just happened to be eating across the street." Ethan Xie replied, putting on a gown and double gloves, and glancing at the sign on the ground, "Under maintenance? How long has this bathroom been out of use?"
"Three days. The body parts are in the inner room. Fortunately, the smell is not strong, but the visual effect is not very pleasant. Are you okay? Come in if you are." Jiang Haoran said, and wanted to pull Ethan Xie in.
Ethan Xie moved away from his hand by adjusting his mask and followed him into the inner room.
"A little uncomfortable, right?" Jiang Haoran saw Ethan Xie paused for a moment, thinking that he was frightened by the scene in the inner room, and sighed: "To be honest, I was a little... Linshi's public security has always been good, and this is the first time I've seen such a scene in my six years of work. It's normal to feel weak in the legs. Can you continue?"
Ethan Xie shook his head and said, "It's okay." Then he took two steps forward, walked around the half-dried bloodstains on the ground, and walked to several compartments inside.
The doors of the compartments had been opened one by one, and the tragic scene inside was clearly revealed - a large number of dismembered body parts were scattered in the four compartments, arms, legs, chests and abdomens... A quick glance showed that there were at least three victims. They were piled here in pieces, and not only were the cuts bloody, but each body part also had some blood holes of varying sizes, not many, but particularly eye-catching.
The blood flowed from the cubicle down the steps, along the cracks in the floor tiles, and meandered everywhere.
According to the hospital staff, this bathroom has been under maintenance for the past three days. There is a warning sign at the door, preventing people from entering. People on the same floor have been using the bathroom at the other end of the corridor. People are coming and going, and no one noticed the problem at first.
Until today, when someone passed by the door, he subconsciously glanced inside. Against the light of the corridor, he vaguely saw traces of water flow in the inner room. He thought there was a problem with the sewer and reminded the nurse on duty at the nurses' station.
As a result, when the young nurse came over and turned on the light, she was almost frightened to the point of having a mental problem. She is still resting in the emergency room in a daze, sobbing.
"How could that evil beast kill so many people in there so quietly? Apart from anything else, how could dismembering a body make a sound? Did he think bones were easy to saw?" Some people who were stopped outside the door had seen or heard about the situation at the scene before the police arrived. After they finally calmed down, they couldn't help but talk about it.
"Besides, this is a hospital. There are inpatient departments on the upper floor and emergency rooms on the lower floor. There are people coming and going. How can someone have the guts to commit a crime here? Are you afraid that we won't catch him?"
"I think they divided the bodies and brought them here to dispose of them."
The buzzing sound outside never stopped. Jiang Haoran and another colleague, Lao Chen, also shook their heads. They tightened their gloves and squatted down to carefully examine the body parts: "Everything else is fine, but the most strange thing is the smell of blood. So much blood has flowed out, but there is no bloody smell. The smell of grass and wet soil in the rain outside is stronger than this bloody smell. Otherwise, how could passers-by think it was a leaking water pipe..."
"Xiao Xie, you haven't recovered yet? Go have a drink of water?" Old Chen looked a generation older than Ethan Xie and was more concerned about taking care of young people. He saw Ethan Xie standing there with a frown and still had no intention of taking action. He thought that Ethan Xie was in great pain and wanted to let him go out to take a breath before coming in again.
But in fact, the reason why Ethan Xie frowned was because he found that there were Oliver Stork marks on these corpses.
The Oliver Stork seal is the identity mark of Oliver Stork throughout history, and also a symbol of status.
The newly-cultivated little Oliver Stork doesn't have much ability, and the Oliver Stork mark is quite obvious and not easy to hide, especially in the eyes of people like Ethan Xie. It is bright and conspicuous and can be seen from a long distance, making it impossible to ignore it.
But as its power grew, the Oliver Stork mark gradually faded. It was not dull, but blended more naturally with the hair and skin, extremely close to the skin's natural color. It was easier to hide. For some extremely powerful Oliver Stork, when they were disguised as humans, even Ethan Xie might not notice its Oliver Stork mark if he was distracted for a moment.
Ethan Xie glanced back and forth a few times. There were three different kinds of Oliver Stork marks on these scattered corpses.
In other words, these visually horrific corpses were not from ordinary people, but from three Oliver Stork, or three great Oliver Stork. Because these Oliver Stork marks were faintly visible in the already rigid and gray skin, they were not obvious.
Ethan Xie tightened the double gloves on his hands, squatted down, picked up the two nearest body parts, and carefully looked at the edges of the cut.
"This cut..." Jiang Haoran and Lao Chen were obviously doing the same thing. They had already looked through most of the body parts, and their faces were a little green.
"It's not a knife edge, nor a saw edge." Old Chen hesitated for a long time, swallowed his saliva, looked up at Jiang Haoran and Ethan Xie, and said, "Why do I feel like it's something like a rake?"
As he spoke, he bent his hand and gestured: "Just like this, each time there are several parallel claw-shaped wounds. When I think about it, the only thing I can think of is a rake."
Jiang Haoran pulled his mask and said in a muffled voice: "But the rake can't be separated so easily."
"Yes, when you rake it down, there will be tissue adhesion in the middle, it's not like it is now." said Old Chen.
The two were silent for a long time, and they didn't immediately come up with a more appropriate conclusion. Finally, they shook their heads and said, "This is Fcuking hell. Let's collect what needs to be collected first, and then send it back to the center for a detailed analysis of the wound."
Ethan Xie simply followed suit with a few "hmm"s, without saying anything special. His behavior was like that of a newcomer who had just been involved in a real case.
But in fact, after seeing the two body parts, he already had a plan in his mind---
Lao Chen's analysis just now was actually half right. Those wounds were indeed parallel claw-shaped wounds, one by one, with the texture running vertically downwards and the force directed inwards. According to common sense, it is indeed easy to associate them with sharp weapons such as rakes, because ordinary people would never imagine that bones and flesh can be torn apart by hands alone.
Ethan Xie stood up, thinking about sending the others away after the body parts were transported back to the Forensic Center, and then examining and disposing of these tragically dead bodies as soon as possible. He heard a familiar voice coming from outside the bathroom door: "Did you get a call just now? Yes, it was just as they said on the phone, the case has been transferred to us, thank you for your hard work, there are forensic doctors inside doing autopsies, right? Let's go in and check the situation."
If this voice isn’t Lidong’s, then whose is it?
"Yes, several people from our Forensic Center rushed here overnight and are still busy inside. I'll go call them out. The scene is a bit..." Someone answered Marcus Li. From the sound of the voice, he had already walked to the door and was about to come in.
"Yeah." Someone responded lightly.
Even if it was only a single syllable drowned out by a crowd of voices and extremely vague, Ethan Xie could still accurately distinguish it; it was Gabriel Yin.
People who haven't seen each other for more than a hundred years suddenly meet twice in one night. Isn't this change too sudden?
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