15: Are you Hannibal Lecter, anchor?

“No, immediately seal off the scene!”

“Notify the Forensic Doctor from the Police Bureau to come over and have him produce the appraisal results as quickly as possible!”

Cold sweat streamed down Officer Hong's forehead.

According to the description by the sanitation worker, the Old Man, this garbage station has had spoiled meat discarded in it for nearly a month.

Nearly a month... If the final Forensic Doctor appraisal result truly confirms it is human flesh, as Su Yun said... then... this case is highly likely to be a serial murder and dismemberment case!

Furthermore, the severity of the case is enough to alarm the high-level officials in the provincial capital!

“Tsk...”

Officer Hong couldn't help but sigh, *Why did something have to happen at this critical juncture?* Su Yun, Wang Fan, and the Old Man were kept at the scene as witnesses to cooperate with the investigation.

Within a few minutes.

Police cars blared their sirens, quickly sealing off the area around the garbage station and setting up a cordon!

The Forensic Doctor, wearing a white coat and carrying a toolkit, entered the fray once more.

At the scene.

Many passersby and members of the public who heard the commotion gathered to watch the excitement.

From far away, as the garbage piled at the bottom of the station was turned over, an overwhelming stench assaulted them!

“Ugh...”

“What is that smell? Why is it so foul!”

“It smells like dead rats, even worse than my girlfriend's armpit after a month without washing!”

Eighty percent of the people were leaning against trees, vomiting, including the police and the onlookers.

Even the sanitation worker, the Old Man, who personally managed this area, looked pale.

The scene was truly disgusting.

As the garbage in the station was turned over, water seeping from the concrete floor at the bottom slowly flowed out, revealing chunks of moldy, continuously rotting flesh before everyone.

The chunks of flesh, already invaded by various fungi, bacteria, and viruses, resembled pools of fat and microorganisms; soaked in sewage and blood, the meat had long since decomposed into a yellowish-brown color!

On the bones and entire slabs of meat, countless white maggots writhed and chewed.

These filthy and disgusting creatures crawled out in large patches from the bottom of the garbage station... most notably.

At the very bottom of the trash pile were bones—ribs, shin bones—gnawed into pieces by maggots; through the hollow marrow, one could even see the maggots struggling to tear their way out.

“Ugh...”

“I can't take it anymore, if I keep vomiting, I'll start throwing up bile!”

“This scene is too repulsive, I need to see a psychiatrist!”

All of this felt like an epic thriller or horror movie.

The scene was a mess.

Some newly arrived onlookers, and even the experienced veteran police officers from the Police Bureau who had gathered, were all leaning against trees, facing away from the garbage station, and vomiting.

Sounds of retching rose and fell continuously.

Of the dozens of people present, only the Forensic Doctor, who was still taking photos and collecting evidence, and Su Yun, who had found the meat chunks, remained calm and composed.

At this very moment, in the Number 54 Su Yun livestream room, cries for help filled the screen with bullet comments.

The “vomit” emoji was constantly spamming the screen...

— [Holy crap, I can't take it! I'm going to throw up!]

— [I'm done for, I've already thrown up ten times, one more time and I'll be drained...]

— [Oh my god! I just wanted to watch the Streamer pick up ordinary junk!]

— [Devil! This Streamer is definitely a devil!]

— [He doesn't pick up junk, he specializes in picking up human flesh, right?]

— [What normal junk collector finds either a corpse or human flesh every day?]

— [Production team, I suggest thoroughly investigating the Streamer's ancestry for three generations; his understanding of human flesh is terrifying...]

— [Streamer, admit it, don't you also go by the name 'reference to Hannibal Lecter'?]

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... At the garbage station scene.

The police's search operation was still underway.

In order to conduct a unified, comprehensive, and meticulous appraisal, the Police Bureau deployed a large amount of police force.

Enduring the foul odor and suppressing their physical and psychological discomfort, they searched through the overwhelmingly smelly garbage pile for the bones and chunks of flesh.

“It's not easy being a police officer...”

Wang Fan sighed.

Having already thrown up more than ten times, breaking his single-day vomiting record, his face was ghastly pale.

“Little Wang, are you alright?”

“If you really can't handle it, find a place to rest for a bit; don't die here.”

Su Yun handed him a few tissues he carried with him.

“I'm fine, bro...”

“I can still...”

“Ugh...”

Before he finished speaking, Wang Fan turned his head, leaned against a tree, and began supplying fertilizer to the grass again.

It was truly too foul, dozens of times worse than the corpse they had dug up yesterday.

After the body was chopped up, it naturally had a cadaverous smell.

Having soaked in a place like a garbage station for so long, where microorganisms, fungi, and viruses were abundant, the stench skyrocketed due to decomposition and fermentation by numerous microorganisms.

Most importantly.

As the police carefully turned over the trash pile bit by bit, the chunks of flesh already covered an area the size of a living room!

Chunks of brownish-yellow rotten flesh, bones, and even many maggots fell onto the ground.

Half an hour later, all the garbage in the station had been completely turned inside out.

All the rotten chunks of flesh and bones were laid out before everyone.

The sheer quantity covered an area the size of a two-bedroom apartment!

“Officer Hong, look at that bone. It should be a human severed finger...”

Su Yun glanced over and immediately recognized the bone, which had a unique shape unlike the others.

The severed finger was very obvious, and after Su Yun pointed it out, gasps of astonishment suddenly erupted at the scene.

“A severed finger! Oh my god! This is a human severed finger!”

“It's confirmed. I'm starting to believe what that young man said!”

“The severed finger is human, so those chunks of meat...”

Needless to say, the onlookers outside the cordon already had their suspicions.

Meanwhile, the police officers responsible for maintaining order and handling the case all adopted grim and solemn expressions.

Officer Hong and the Forensic Doctor gave Su Yun a grateful look.

They did not rush to draw conclusions.

Police work always requires evidence, and everything must be based on scientific proof... For example, at this moment, the Forensic Doctor was gently picking up rotten chunks of flesh with tweezers and placing them in a container, and using a scalpel to cut open some larger pieces to observe their internal structure.

The Forensic Doctor even picked up a few maggots and collected a small spoonful of the bodily fluid from the ground to take back for testing.

Just like that.

Another half hour later, the crowd of onlookers at the scene grew larger.

Until the Forensic Doctor provided the appraisal report.

“Hong Sir, prepare to notify the Director. This situation is very complex and severe!” The Forensic Doctor's expression was grim.

Hearing this, Officer Hong nodded: “Forensic Doctor Wang, tell me. I am mentally prepared.”

Taking a deep breath.

Forensic Doctor Wang stated his appraisal results.

“There are eight victims... both male and female. Based on the condition of the muscle tissue and the state of bone growth, the victims were mostly between 20 and 40 years old.”