(PS:MORE) The daughter was not asleep and suddenly sat up, her face pale with fright from her mother's sudden intrusion. The mother asked if she had another nightmare. The daughter didn't answer, only trembling all over, perhaps afraid to speak out of some fear. The window in the room was open, and the mother began to feel suspicious. The daughter put her finger to her lips and made a shushing gesture. The mother was surprised. The finger on her lips moved away and pointed at the covers. She was sitting on the bed, still covered with a blanket, which was bulging and unclear what was inside. Morphe's mother tried to lift the covers, but suddenly someone jumped out of the covers, covering her mother's head with the blanket and jumping out the window to escape. Most windows in Wutang Town faced the water. With a splash, the person fell into the water and swam away. Mo Fei was so scared she cried loudly and hugged her mother. Mo Fei told her mother that when she was sound asleep, she groggily felt the window open. She turned over and went back to sleep. The air conditioning was on in the room, and she had the habit of sleeping with the air conditioner on and covered with a blanket. Mo Fei vaguely felt someone else in the covers. That person lay on her side beside her. Mo Fei opened her eyes and saw a pair of eyes looking at her, with no face visible in the darkness. Mo Fei wanted to shout, but the man covered her mouth and pressed a sharp screwdriver against her underwear—the area where she was in the vagina. When Morphe's mother came in, her daughter pretended to be calm, but at that moment, a criminal was hiding under the covers. Long after the incident, mother and son were still shaken. They thought a thief had broken in, but since nothing was lost, they didn't report it. The next day, the mother had someone install a railing on the window and cut down a tree by the wall. The special case team analyzed the clue provided by Morphe's mother. They believed this was a burglary or an attempted break-in rape, unrelated to the disappearance of the three girls. The assailant was holding a screwdriver, and their intention was theft, not murder. Bao Zhan conducted a detailed investigation into the studio training class. The studio was run by a somewhat well-known artist with long hair and a strong artistic temperament.According to this long-haired painter, the summer training class had just been running for a week. The students came from several nearby cities. Zhao Qianqian's parents lived abroad all year round, so she came to this small town alone to enroll in the painting course. She had a good relationship with Morphy, and both girls were wearing the same clothes. On the day they went missing, the two girls were also wearing the same red dresses.
The painter and the neighborhood watch did not catch the big rat. However, they dredged up a jar from the river where the bloodstained skirt was found.
The jar's mouth was wrapped in several layers of plastic bags and tightly tied with wire. The jar was heavy, and nobody knew what was inside.
A neighborhood watch member said: This kind of jar is used for storing wine, so maybe it contains wine.
Another member said: My grandma also used this kind of jar to pickle duck eggs. Could it be duck eggs inside?
The jar was sealed very well. After the special investigation team opened it, everyone was shocked and found it hard to believe. Curious, the neighborhood watch members privately asked the painter what was inside. The painter said, "Brother, it's not wine, and it's not salted duck eggs."
Neighborhood watch member: Then what exactly is it?
Painter: There is a person inside the jar!
Neighborhood watch member: That's impossible. The mouth of the jar is so small. Not to mention a whole person, even a human head couldn't fit.
Painter: When they opened the jar, they indeed saw a human head. As for how the head was put in, our special investigation team is still researching it.
Human Bone Jar
The special investigation team couldn't get the head out of the jar and couldn't understand how a human skull was placed inside. They devised several plans, even thinking of using X-rays to investigate the jar's secret.
Painter: It's strange, the skull is much bigger than the jar's mouth. How was it put inside?
Su Mei: This seems a bit like magic. Does anyone have a scientific explanation?
Bao Zhan approached the jar and sniffed it. He wrinkled his nose and said: Vinegar, it smells like vinegar.
Professor Liang said: I understand. Someone soaked the bones in vinegar.
In biological experiments, hard bones soaked in vinegar or other acidic liquids for around ten days become soft. A human leg bone can be bent into a knot, and once the skull softens, it can naturally fit into the jar.
The special investigation team took photos and then carefully sawed open the jar, only to find an entire human skeleton inside.The skull was placed at the very top, with the trunk bones, upper limb bones, and lower limb bones below. A complete human skeleton, after being softened in vinegar, was placed into this small jar.
The entire skeleton was compressed into the shape of a ball, slowly blooming in the air like a flower.
The skeleton was rushed to the city for urgent testing overnight, and compared with the bloodstains on the red dress. DNA identification showed that the bones belonged to the deceased Huan Yu. As expected, the large rat's stomach also contained human tissue, which was Huan Yu's flesh.
A sixteen-year-old girl in the prime of youth was eaten by rats, and the murderer then soaked her skeleton in vinegar, placed it in a jar, and threw it into the river to destroy the evidence. The method of the crime was extremely cruel and rare. This case shocked the city bureau. The leaders attached great importance to it and sent an expert team to Wutang Town to assist the special case team in solving it.
The special case team analyzed that the murderer must have experienced some kind of stimulus and harbored extreme hatred for girls wearing red dresses. He may not necessarily know the victim personally. The murderer followed the girl in the red dress on the street and used a certain method to abduct and kill her. He derived pleasure from tormenting the girl in the red dress. This is a psychologically twisted person whose crimes follow a certain pattern, and there is a possibility of him committing crimes again.
The street where the three girls went missing became a key monitoring area. Su Mei and the community defense team installed cameras to monitor the street 24 hours a day.
The town mayor and the police compiled a list of people in town with a criminal record and checked them one by one.
Hualong and Bao Zhan carried the photo of the jar and visited the residents. This type of jar was common in the town. As the community defense team members mentioned, it is a type of wine jar, often also used by residents of the town to pickle duck eggs or vegetables. Bao Zhan and Hualong entered the studio of the long-haired painter. At that time, the students were taking a human anatomy drawing class. The jar on the teacher's desk immediately caught Bao Zhan's attention—it was identical to the jar retrieved from the river by the special case team.
Next to the jar were several apples, and a nude middle-aged male model sat by the table, motionless. Embarrassingly, his crotch was erect. Most of the girls learning to draw in the studio were very pretty, and with the middle-aged man naked in front of them, he might have been constantly aroused in his mind.The long-haired painter was guiding a female student, and he looked at her painting and said: The sketch lines must be expressive, the structure of the human body and still life must distinguish between light and dark colors, and observe carefully the tonal proportions of light and shadow.
Hua Long walked into the studio and saw a naked middle-aged man with a bird between his legs, shouting, "Stop, stop, what are you doing?"
The long-haired painter was very angry at Bao Zhan and Hua Long for barging into the class, and a quarrel broke out.
Hua Long said: Some of these students are still minors, is it appropriate for them to study this kind of nude figure sketching?
The long-haired painter impatiently explained: Figure sketching is art, it is a painting training process used to learn art techniques, explore the rules of modeling, and cultivate professional habits. Do not look at it with a biased view.
Hua Long said, I have a few questions to ask you, your class is over for now.
The long-haired painter had no choice but to announce an early dismissal. The students packed up and left one after another, and the middle-aged nude model slowly put on his clothes. When he brushed past Bao Zhan, it aroused Bao Zhan's vigilance. This man had shifty eyes and a lecherous appearance. His eyes darted around as he stared at a girl in red in front of him.
The long-haired painter explained that the jars were bought, and the middle-aged model was hired. Bao Zhan exchanged a look with Hua Long. The two did not ask the long-haired painter many questions but immediately walked out and quietly followed the lecherous old man.
The lecherous old man was dressed as a laborer. He followed a little girl with a ponytail wearing red clothes to a secluded place, and shocking as it was, he unzipped his pants, took out that ugly thing, and fiddled with it with his glove for a while. Hua Long and Bao Zhan hid in the shadows, witnessing this disgusting scene. The lecherous old man returned home, ate dinner, and by then the streetlights were on. Hua Long and Bao Zhan patiently waited at a wonton stall. After eight in the evening, the lecherous old man, carrying a canvas bag, walked out of his home. The town residents had a habit of going to bed early, and the streets were quiet, with only some backpackers and travelers gathering in teahouses and bars.
The evening breeze was gentle, and light rain drizzled. The lecherous old man smoked a few cigarettes on a stone bench by the roadside. A woman in a red dress passed in front of him, and he stubbed out his cigarette and quietly followed her.This woman in the red dress was the same woman performing opera in the teahouse. She had removed her makeup, her long hair draped over her shoulders, and she wore traditional costumes, walking gracefully like a classical beauty. The classical red dress beauty walked into a street—the very street where the three girls had gone missing. Several large red lanterns hung along the street, dark alleys lined both sides, and many waterways. In the darkness, the streets were already empty-handed. The strikingly similar alleys looked like a maze, likely the best places for perverts to ambush. The classical red dress beauty walked gracefully down the street, while the sleazy uncle quietly followed along the wall, while Hualong and Baozhan followed carefully behind. Su Mei and Professor Liang also saw this scene on the surveillance footage. The light from lanterns on the street was limited, only illuminating a very small area. The sleazy uncle hid in those dark corners of the street. Behind a trash bin, he took something out of his pants, then quickly ran a few steps toward the woman in the red dress. Behind her, he breathed heavily and shouted, "Hey, look here!" The beauty in the red dress glanced back, her face pale. A sleazy uncle stood in the middle of the street, grinning wickedly. He quickly stroked with his hand, then his mouth twisted and his tongue stuck out. He came, then made a disgusting gesture—sticking out his tongue to lick his fingers, cleaning them clean. This whole sequence of actions was actually very quick. By the time the woman in the red dress turned around, he had already finished ejaculating and licking his fingers. The woman in the red dress screamed, the sleazy uncle chuckled foolishly, and Hua Long stepped forward, grabbed the sleazy uncle's hair, pulled him back, and handcuffed him. The sleazy middle-aged man was promoted to a suspect. Several patrol team members beat him up severely, but the sleazy man only confessed to a crime he had committed before. He once broke into a house at night, saw a beautiful girl, and quietly slipped under her covers. He had repaired air conditioners and blew bottles at a glass factory. He was fired for some mental issues and unemployed at home. Later, he saw a studio on the street recruiting nude models. This man had a fetish...... (To be continued... )
