[Ten Deadly Crimes] Strange Tales of Corpses and Bones

(PS: The original poster does not create nonsense, the original poster only acts as a transporter of nature~) ＿＿＿＿Tales of Corpse Bones I believe in your love, let these words be my last words——Tagore A sixteen-year-old blooming girl, dressed in a red dress, walked in a long and lonely alley. Roses bloomed, the evening drizzle was soft and fine, she was full of sorrow and resentment, her heart tangled with countless knots. She plucked a rose, turned the street corner, and disappeared… After an unknown amount of time, the girl found herself in an iron cabinet, which terrified her. She didn't understand why she was there, only vaguely remembering that she had turned the corner and then a hand covered her mouth and nose, after which she fainted. The girl wanted to scream but found a towel stuffed in her mouth. She struggled and discovered that her hands were bound with wire behind her back, and her feet were also tied. First, the girl smelled a strong stench of animals. The iron cabinet's lid was opened, and immediately, many rats were dumped into the cabinet. The girl shrieked in fear, shivering all over. The rats multiplied, covering her body, leaving only her head exposed. Every time the helpless and desperate girl struggled, it would stir noisy movements among the rats around her body, and the swarm rolled like waves. The lid of the iron cabinet fell, followed by the sound of a lock clicking shut. A man sat in front of the iron cabinet and spoke in a deeply affectionate tone: I will gaze at your photo all night, kiss you through the glass frame; if I don't put your photo in a glass frame, my kiss would wet your image, wet your red dress. I miss you, I've always loved you, I cross cities, traverse thousands of mountains and waters, just to find you. Just being near you makes my heart race. I can only occupy you with fear, find you, and the only thing I want to do is——kill you! Red dress girl Bai Jingyu: Xiao Mei, how is your injury? Su Mei: It's healed. I just won't wear strapless or off-shoulder dresses in the future. Bai Jingyu: As a police officer, you should pay attention to your appearance. By the way, the special task force this time is going to a water town in Jiangnan, Utang Town. Xiao Mei, remember, don't wear a red dress in that town. Professor Liang: What major case happened in Utang Town? Bao Zhan said: What's wrong with the red dress?Bai Jingyu: Within a month, three girls went missing in town, all wearing red dresses.

Hualong looked at the case files and said: Damn, the last missing person's report was actually filed by…

Bai Jingyu: That's right. It's a bit hard to believe, but the report wasn't made by a person—it was made by a big rat.

This small town in the water towns of Jiangnan is famous for its silk production. Normally it is quiet and peaceful, with weeping willows swaying gently. In every alley paved with bluestone, there is a woman wearing a qipao and holding an oiled paper umbrella. The local houses all reflect classical aesthetics. Life in the town is very leisurely; there are no vehicles, not even bicycles are common, and the residents travel by boat.

The mayor of Wutang Town introduced the incident to the special case team at the local security station. On the morning of July 16, 2008, several members of the security patrol team were listening to opera in a teahouse. The woman performing was wearing a red traditional long dress, and her singing was pure and gentle, melodious and charming, full of the rich charm of the water towns of Jiangnan. However, the woman on stage suddenly stopped singing, staring at the door in panic. When a few patrol members turned to look, a rat boldly walked into the teahouse.

It was a very large rat, with a belly as big as a pot, dragging a long tail, and its body was more than twice the size of an ordinary rat.

What was even stranger was that the big rat was red, and its body was wet, as if it had just crawled out of a paint bucket.

A brave patrol member picked up a straw hat and quietly approached. The rat seemed to have eaten too much; its round belly made it unable to escape, and it was caught by the patrol member with the straw hat. Everyone gathered around to look. An experienced patrol member pointed at the rat and said:

This is blood! The rat's body is covered in blood!

The patrol members found a completely ruined red dress by the river outside the teahouse. Using a bamboo pole, they lifted the blood-dripping dress and saw several holes in it and many bite marks. They began searching along the river. Among the fishing nets in the river, they found two more red dresses.

All three dresses had bloodstains, and two of the red dresses were of the same style.

After investigation, the mayor and the security station confirmed that three girls in town went missing, each wearing a red dress at the time of their disappearance.

Su Mei: Has the blood type been tested? Is the blood on the rat the same type as the blood on the red dresses?

Bao Zhan: What did the rat eat in its belly? What are the results of the autopsy?The mayor said: It has been sent to the city for identification. This is a small town, there is no forensic doctor, and it will take at least until tomorrow to get the results by boat.

Professor Liang said: This case might involve a large rat eating the little girl. Let's talk about the three missing girls.

The mayor told the special case team that on July 1st, a girl named Huanyu left a cross-stitch shop in town around 8 p.m., and after that, no one saw her again. On July 15th, two girls studying painting left the gallery, one named Mofei and the other Zhao Qianqian, also around 8 p.m., and after leaving, mysteriously disappeared. On the morning of the 16th, joint defense team members discovered a large rat covered in blood, as well as a skirt that had been dredged from the river. The three girls went missing—alive not seen, dead no corpse found. Based on the investigations, a common point was discovered: all three girls were wearing red skirts!

Bao Zhan looked at a map of Wutang Town and said that all three girls went missing on the same street!

Professor Liang said: By the end of the month, it is estimated that another girl in a red skirt will go missing and be harmed.

The mayor asked: How do you know that?

Professor Liang said: Huanyu went missing on the 1st, Mofei and Zhao Qianqian went missing on the 15th. The interval is half a month. They all disappeared around 8 p.m. The perpetrator follows a certain pattern. Most likely, in another 15 days, that is by the end of the month, another girl in a red skirt will be targeted!

The town has insufficient police force, only one public security station chief, a few local police, and some joint defense team members. Professor Liang gathered them together and made specific work assignments.

Su Mei and the mayor are responsible for visiting the families of the missing girls, focusing on checking suspicious individuals, especially whether there were any unusual situations in the days before their disappearance.

Bao Zhan and the station chief will re-investigate the cross-stitch shop and the gallery studio, as well as map out the street where the three girls went missing, including detailed layouts of the nearby rivers and alleys.

Hua Long and the joint defense team are responsible for catching rats, carefully checking dead corners near the tea house such as trash bins and drains to see if there are any more blood-covered large rats.

The mayor said: We have already done all of this work once and did not find any clues to solve the case.

Professor Liang said: Then do it again, until we find a clue to solve the case.

Su Mei and the mayor re-interviewed Huanyu's parents.Huan Yu was only 16 years old and in the first year of junior high. After her parents divorced, she followed her mother to remarry in Wutang Town. Her stepfather treated her very badly, often beating and scolding her. Classmates and neighbors described her as a shy, sensitive, and insecure little girl. On her birthday, her mother gave her a red dress, and she was very happy. However, her stepfather argued with her mother over it, and Huan Yu, feeling sad, ran out of the house. Due to financial difficulties, she also helped her mother with embroidery. That night, on her birthday, she cried while taking the embroidery to a shop on the street and then disappeared.

Su Mei and the town mayor then went to Mo Fei's home. Mo Fei's mother was an educated woman with refined manners, but she appeared extremely anxious and kept crying due to her daughter's disappearance. The mayor had visited once before but could not get to the bottom of things, only obtaining some basic information. Mo Fei had been talented since childhood, skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Her mother raised her well and sent her to a painting studio in town during the summer vacation to learn painting. She did not return home on weekends. After the joint defense team discovered the blood-stained dress in the river, students at the painting studio identified it as the dress Mo Fei was wearing when she disappeared. The chief of security also asked Mo Fei's mother to identify it. She carefully examined the dress and then fainted…

Su Mei deliberately distracted the mayor and asked Mo Fei's mother: There are some private questions, and I hope you can cooperate.

Mo Fei's mother wiped her tears and nodded.

Su Mei asked: Your daughter, Mo Fei, does she have a boyfriend, and is she still a virgin?

Mo Fei's mother thought for a moment and said: My daughter Fei'er is very outstanding. Many male classmates like her, but she is only seventeen. Our family is very strict, opposing early romance, and my husband is doing business out of town, so it's just the two of us.

Su Mei said: Then think carefully. Have you noticed anything unusual?

Mo Fei's mother said: I remember something!

One night before the incident, the air conditioner in Mo Fei's room was on all night. Her mother, worried about her catching a cold, got up and went to turn it off. She heard faint voices coming from her daughter's room. She listened closely for a while, thinking Mo Fei was talking in her sleep. She knocked and entered… (to be continued...)