Chapter 315: Three-Party Joint Investigation! Shocking Speculation

Chapter 315: Chapter 174: Three-Party Joint Investigation! Shocking Speculation

“I know.”

Wang Tao grinned. Ever since Zhao Wei had poached from him, he’d kept that fact in mind.

“But…”

“An honorary team leader is still a team leader.”

‘An honorary… team leader?’

‘Is a special task force really worthy of having one of those!?’

“It’s settled, then.”

“We’ll appoint Zhang Liang as the team leader, and one honorary team leader.”

“The authorities will grant them every clearance possible. They are required to thoroughly investigate the case in the shortest time possible!”

….

….

A single case can truly reach the highest echelons of power.

Even a simple stabbing case, if the body count is high enough, will become known to those at the very top.

And once they know…

…what follows is a severe crackdown and an endless amount of overtime work for the police.

And that’s not even mentioning a case as widespread and vicious as this one.

「Meanwhile.」

Within Jiangsan City.

This was a hospital—the Fourth People’s Hospital, the best for surgery.

The hallways were filled with the smell of disinfectant, an unsettling scent.

In the inpatient building.

On the fourth floor, Xu Huo stood at the door of Room 402.

He peered inside through the window on the door.

Inside the room lay several extremely human-like ‘things,’ a deeply horrifying sight.

One was a baboon.

Or rather, a woman who had devolved. Her body hair had been shaved off, revealing the horrific scars hidden underneath.

Her ankles and knees were deformed; those people had twisted her limbs with inhuman cruelty to make her look more like a baboon.

The same was true of her lower body.

“Tsk, those animals.”

Li Jianye took a deep breath. Watching the doctors inside treating her private areas, he turned away and muttered sullenly.

“You don’t get an STD like that in a day. Even after a month, it wouldn’t be this severe.”

Xu Huo sat on a chair and sighed.

The skin of her private parts was festering, covered in disgusting, horrifying wounds.

Have you ever seen a wound from a venomous snake bite?

It’s full of pits like a honeycomb briquette, the fascia and muscle membranes underneath—red and purple—clearly visible…

Her condition was now about the same.

“She wasn’t violated just to turn her into a killer.”

“I’d guess that in that so-called ‘Celestial Kingdom,’ she suffered this kind of torment for a long time,” Xu Huo said slowly.

“That’s the only way to explain an STD of this severity.”

In other words, those people deliberately created a monster, and then they violated her…

It was, frankly, unbelievable.

First of all, the ones who could ‘enjoy’ something like this were almost exclusively the rich and powerful.

What beautiful woman or handsome man couldn’t people like that have if they wanted?

The entertainment industry was their personal fishpond; if they saw someone they liked, they could just reach in and scoop them up for a taste.

So why would they violate this devolved, facially deformed person who looked exactly like an ape?

This brought up the so-called matter of aesthetics.

What are aesthetics?

The term itself just means the judgment of beauty.

Does it define what the standard of beauty is?

No, it doesn’t. It’s entirely up to the individual to decide what they find beautiful.

Therefore, there is no standard answer. There is only the average aesthetic of the masses, which creates the illusion of a ‘standard’.

For example.

Some men like men. Take the case of a strong 20-year-old man who raped a 70-year-old gentleman.

This comes from a real case. The young man got drunk, went to a melon field, saw the old man guarding the melons, and because he’d just been dumped, he assaulted him.

Was it because of the alcohol?

No. After sobering up, he assaulted him three more times on different occasions.

Of course, for a more specific look at aesthetics, you could also check out Ah San over in Lizard Country.

That place will show you what a mind-blowing aesthetic is!

“Rich people are still people, and as long as they’re people, perverts will exist among them.”

“Perverse psychologies are often hidden deep inside. Maybe it’s a ten percent chance, maybe it’s a one percent chance.”

“But without a doubt, the wealthy aren’t excluded from that probability.”

“In fact, compared to ordinary people, their probability of being perverted is even higher.”

Xu Huo spoke again, casually mentioning two types of psychologies.

“Like zoophilia, or a taste for more extreme proclivities.”

Lucky Bead and Big Mao’s Roulette are examples of their games.

Only women? Men too.

Gender is no object!

Take the ‘unspoken rules’ of the entertainment industry. They don’t just target women; men are no exception. Gender differences seem to become irrelevant in that world.

“The STDs can be treated. Her injuries aren’t the most severe.”

“It’s the others who have been left with permanent injuries.”

Xu Huo sighed.

The baboon-woman’s injuries were mostly on the surface. Although her lower body was deformed, it didn’t greatly affect her ability to walk. The worst part was her eyes.

The others, however…

…had lost their ability to live independently.

Among them was a ‘human stick’.

This person had no legs, no arms, and even their ears were gone.

Their tongue was gone, their eyes blinded. Their body was essentially ruined, and every cell seemed to be begging for death. It left the hospital staff and everyone around them in silence.

There was also a dog.

The one Wang Chao had seen at the crime scene.

His deformities were the most severe. His entire body seemed to have been twisted and compressed, forcibly stuffed into a dog’s skin.

Peeling off the skin carried a risk of infection.

But not peeling it off… The dog skin was dead, no longer living tissue. Adhering to his body, it would only cause his own skin to rot underneath. The doctors could only try to peel it off, little by little.

As for the bones inside…

…even the most advanced medicine in the world couldn’t return him to a normal human state.