7: We found a body!

Su Yun poked with the branch in his hand.

He had an ominous feeling in his heart.

But he still gritted his teeth and continued digging down.

What the system scanned shouldn't be fake.

Since he had already dug, he had to figure out what was inside, right?

Holding this thought.

Su Yun pinched his nose, furrowed his brows, and squinted his eyes.

He looked at the "thing" gradually being dug out below... it was wrapped in a black plastic bag.

It was a little long, and the outline was quite large... He used the branch to "whoosh" tear open the black plastic bag.

Unable to see clearly, he bent down and looked carefully into the pit, which was more than a meter deep... a rotting body.

It was yellowish-brown all over, mixed with a foul stench, and terrifying white bones were exposed at the skull and joints... the entire body was more than halfway decomposed.

A finger-thick steel pipe was inserted into the skull, and countless maggots and ants scattered in panic... Looking at the whole scene from a distance, the body's head and limbs were all pierced by steel pipes!

Five steel pipes stood upright, firmly nailing the corpse into the soil!

This was a dead body!

The next moment, Wang Fan's miserable scream echoed throughout the construction site.

"A dead person!!!"

"Ugh!"

"Yuck..."

The loud, horrific sound attracted vendors selling water nearby the construction site... Half an hour later.

Looking at the rotting corpse.

The limbs and skull were all pierced by finger-thick steel pipes.

The manner of death was extremely gruesome!

Some bones and joints were completely twisted... Officer Hong, who had just rushed over from the Police Bureau, raised his head.

He looked at Su Yun and Wang Fan with a strange expression.

"You just said..."

"This horrific corpse was found while you were... picking up junk?"

"You accidentally dug it up?"

Photographer Wang Fan nodded.

He inadvertently glanced at the corpse.

Then he quickly turned around and dry-heaved again.

This was already his tenth time vomiting; he felt like he was about to throw up bile.

He looked listless, as if his body had been hollowed out.

Aside from the three police officers who came from the Longhai City Police Bureau.

A group of construction workers were also gathered at the scene, pointing and commenting on the corpse, their expressions grim.

Some even had the leisure to pull out their phones to take photos for check-in.

Maybe they were posting to Moments, or maybe to TikTok... Su Yun's expression was not very good either.

It wasn't just because he was startled by the suddenly excavated corpse.

Part of it was that he was angered by the system.

Damn dog system, this is the fortune divination you gave me?

Day one, I dug up a type 38 rifle, day two, I dug up a corpse!

Is this Minor Auspice?

This is Major Calamity, alright?

Thinking back to the dense red dots that appeared in his mind earlier... they must have been the steel pipes stuck in the corpse.

Incredible... the system really dared to scan this for him.

The key is, it dared to scan it, but he didn't dare to take it... Is it easy for me to risk this just for a few pieces of scrap metal?

Looking at the badly decomposed corpse.

Just as Su Yun was about to say something, a layer of information suddenly appeared in his mind.

[Name: Yang Qingshan]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 43 years old]

[Occupation: S-rank fugitive, wanted person]

[Crimes: Previously committed burglary and murdered a family of five! Once waited in a busy market to retaliate against passersby, resulting in ten deaths and three severe injuries!]

[Time: Died three months and eleven days ago]

[Method of Death: Steel pipes piercing the brain and limbs]

[Note: Suffered inhuman torture before death]

"Huh?"

Su Yun frowned slightly.

This is... the system?

This person was actually murdered?

But, if it's a murder case, who is the killer?

Could it be a revenge killing?

Su Yun's eyelids twitched.

He looked at Officer Hong and said, seemingly casually.

"Officer, judging by this person's clothes, he seems to have been a worker at the construction site."

"Also, with these five steel pipes, it looks like he suffered abuse before death. Could this be a murder?"

Hearing this.

Officer Hong was slightly surprised and nodded.

"It seems likely, but the specifics will have to wait for further forensic identification."

"It must be, right? Otherwise, who would stick five steel pipes into their body for no reason?"

Wang Fan said curiously.

Even if someone was cosplaying self-sealing, they wouldn't be this vicious, right?

"Currently, murder is highly possible."

"However, the details still require verification."

"Judging by the clothes, perhaps he was a worker at this construction site..."

"The face of this corpse is too decomposed to be recognizable. Identity cannot be confirmed by the face or clothes alone; we need DNA testing."

"Human life is paramount. We will handle a homicide case like this with the utmost caution."

"What we need to do now is secure the scene and wait for the forensic team to arrive."

Officer Hong explained to the onlookers.

Not bad... Su Yun curled his lips upward. To be able to analyze this information just from surface details, he truly deserved to be a Second Class Police Superintendent.

"Alright, unrelated people, please step back."

"What's so interesting about this corpse?"

"It's neither black stockings nor a beautiful woman, don't just crowd around."

Officer Hong waved his hand and had the area cordoned off.

He checked the time and asked, "How much longer until the forensic team arrives?"

A police officer beside him responded, "About ten minutes."

"Good, don't stand idle."

"Secure the scene, disperse the crowd..."

As he spoke.

The crime scene around the corpse was cordoned off on all sides.

However, this did not deter the onlookers.

On the other side.

Just as everyone was waiting for the forensic team, the head of the program's monitoring team was shocked.

He couldn't sit still anymore.

He rushed straight to the director's office.

"Director, Contestant No. 54 found a corpse while picking up junk!"

"Director, Contestant No. 54's popularity is rapidly rising; he's already entered the top 100!"

"Director, Contestant No. 54 has made it onto the trending list, and he's number one..."

The head of the live monitoring team gasped for breath: "Director, videos of the corpse have appeared across major short video social media platforms, someone is deliberately driving traffic!"

"Director, this is causing quite a stir. Will it affect the program?"

"Should we handle this?"

At the program headquarters, the live monitoring team was the first to panic.

After that, the head of the Photography Group also rushed in.

"Director! The corpse is too horrific!"

"Several children have been scared to tears!"

"People are reporting us..."

The head of the Logistics Team immediately retorted upon hearing this.

"Isn't it normal for children to be scared to tears?"

"They just need to get used to it; if they adapt more, it'll be fine..."

"Besides, if the impact is negative, we can just blur it out."

"If that doesn't work, a viewer discretion warning is fine, but absolutely do not shut it down!"

And so.

The program headquarters was split into two main factions.

Some believed that such a horrific scene appearing on the second day of the program would negatively affect its development.

Others, who were bolder, thought they could leverage the hype to make the program even more popular!

Of course... more often, there were shouts of abuse coming from the program headquarters!

Damn it! You're a junk collector, why couldn't you collect anything else but a corpse!?

Is this something you should be collecting?