Sun Zhengqi said that he was going to complain to the director, and he really went. Several police officers who usually hung out with him also followed, wanting to see how the director would handle this matter. A dignified police officer did not properly solve a case, but instead went to find some kind of psychic medium. This was a huge joke! As long as the director’s brain was not flooded with water, Liao Fang would certainly be removed from her position as task force leader, allowing someone else to assume the heavy responsibility. As for who this person would be……
Thinking up until here, several team members looked at Sun Zhengqi and his girlfriend Hu Wenwen, who were walking at the front of the group. Both of them came from a family of police officers, and their parents held important positions in the public security department. They were assigned to the city of Beijing just after graduation, and were very eager. However, your assignment was your assignment, and to truly stand firm and rise in the ranks in Beijing they had to rely on their own strength. Quickly solving a few major cases was undoubtedly the quickest way.
Seeing that a small case of theft had become a huge case involving millions of dollars and was difficult to solve, the pair’s desire to collect merits caused them to grow impatient. Naturally, they couldn’t tolerate Liao Fang’s brainless approach.
A group of people approached the director’s office in a mighty way, but only Sun Zhengqi and Hu Wenwen dared to knock on the door.
“Yo, it’s Xiao Sun and Xiao Hu, what’s wrong with you two, why are you upset?”
“Director, we are here to report on our work, and inform you of how the investigation is being handled……” Sun Zhengqi recounted Fan Jialuo’s original words regarding gods and goddesses. Although he was disgusted by such people, he still remained professional and didn’t embellish the story. His girlfriend occasionally added a couple sentences, but the focus of her words was on how Liao Fang was fooled and manipulated by a charlatan.
“Director, as soon as he came in, he sat down and looked through the photos. He didn’t listen to our case analysis, didn’t look at our clues, and didn’t ask for evidence. He just opened his mouth and selected a suspect we had already ruled out long ago as the thief. Do you think this is okay? What qualifications does he have to participate in solving the case? When did our police station become a marketplace who anyone can enter? Is the suspect a vegetable from a street vendor that he picked as suspicious looking? What’s even more ridiculous is that Liao Fang actually believed his word, and immediately ordered us to find his hair and severed hands. I have never heard of such an absurd method of solving a case! This simply overturned my three views!” The more Sun Zhengqi spoke, the redder his face grew. It was clear that he was angry again.
The director didn’t say a word, and just kept rubbing his bald head.
It was only after Sun Zhengqi and Hu Wenwen had finished speaking and looked at him with burning eyes that he reacted, opening his mouth to say, “One’s three views were originally made to be overturned.”
“What?” Sun Zhengqi and Hu Wenwen were both taken aback.
The director realized what he had just said and laughed awkwardly as he patted his chair’s armrest.
At this moment, Liu Tao pushed the door open and said excitedly, “Director, I have something to report to you.” Seeing Sun Zhengqi and his girlfriend, he grew even more excited, and raised his voice to say, “Yo, you really came here to complain? Director, you should know about what happened just now, right? Our criminal investigation team is now formally applying to take over the case. While you’re still chatting, we are rushing to find the DNA and severed hands. It’s almost three o’clock, and time is running out.”
He pointed to the clock on the wall with a worried expression.
The director looked up with an anxious expression, and he waved his hands and exclaimed, “Go, go, hurry up! This case belongs to your criminal investigation team!”
“Okay! We’ll be on our way!” Liu Tao arrived and left in a hurry, and he didn’t even bother to acknowledge Sun Zhengqi and Hu Wenwen with a glance. These two stinky kids had not seen enough, and needed to exercise more restraint.
Sun Zhengqi, Hu Wenwen: ……
“Director, what do you mean by this? The case has been assigned to Team One? Don’t they only take on major cases? Why would they steal a small theft case from us?” Sun Zhengqi had finally grown nervous.
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Sun Zhengqi and Hu Wenwen did not dare to quarrel with the director, so they could only walk out of the office with ashen expressions. The other officers waiting outside had heard Liu Tao’s words, and they looked at the pair with embarrassed expressions. The case was not resolved, but the task force was already disbanded. What happened to the director and the others? It was as if Fan Jialuo had drugged them and captured their souls.
“Just now, Duan Xiaozhou also followed the Criminal Investigation Team One out of the office. He said that he believed in Fan Jialuo and Dr. Song’s judgment. Sister Liao seemed to appreciate him and took him along,” a police officer whispered in Sun Zhengqi’s ear.
Duan Xiaozhou was the first member of the task force to welcome Fan Jialuo.
Sun Zhengqi was so angry that he grit his teeth and sneered, “What bullshit about severed hands, I can’t wait for them to come back in disgrace. Have they lost their minds? The director is also old and confused……”
Hu Wenwen grabbed him and warned quietly, “Stop talking, let’s go! We don’t have to work overtime today, so everyone can go back early.”
However, these police officers were reluctant to leave. They wanted to stay to see the final result. They wanted to know who was wrong, learn the truth about the case, and catch the rampant thief. This was not about a desire for merit or honor, but a natural instinct that arose after wearing their police uniform. It was their mission.
Sun Zhengqi originally wanted to go to the locker room to change his clothes, but the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he grew. He punched the wall and exclaimed, “Damm, I still don’t believe it! I’m going to the Luyi Waste Treatment plant.”
“I’ll go too!”
“Let’s go! I’ll drive!”
“Wait for me!”
Everyone immediately followed him, but Hu Wenwen stood still with wrinkled brows. After a couple minutes, she gave in, cursing her boyfriend as she ran towards the parking lot. She knew that Fan Jialuo’s words were absurd and completely unbelievable, but she couldn’t stand by and watch while her companions struggled. They were a team with the mission to uphold justice.
Meanwhile, Criminal Investigation Team One stood in a stinking garbage heap, at a loss.
The chief of Luyi pointed to the mountain of garbage bags and said, “Team Leader Liu, this is the garbage we collected today. Luyi is responsible for processing food waste in Beijing, which is made into organic fertilizer after processing. Look, the machine in the back is our shredder. At four o’clock, we typically throw all the garbage into it. Today’s situation is special, so we will postpone this until you find the evidence.”
“There’s so much garbage! How long will it take us to find it?” Liao Fang asked in a discouraged manner.
“And this is just a small portion of it.” The chief laughed.
“Stop talking nonsense, let’s get started!” Liu Tao rolled up his sleeves and put on gloves and a mask.
“Got it, let’s start working!” The big guys rushed up as if they didn’t feel dirty and tired. Through Liao Fang’s description, they already knew what they were looking for, but they were also very curious about the sinful hands. They were too different from a human’s hands. Was there really such a thing in the world?
Everyone wanted to know the answer to this question, as if they were curious about the first, second, and third victims of a murderer Fan Jialuo was speaking about.
“I’ll get some workers to cooperate with you. There is too much garbage, I’m afraid there is too much work for you all,” the chief took the initiative to propose.
“Thank you so much!” Liao Fang almost cried with joy.
The chief asked again, “What are you looking for? Can you describe it in detail?”
A drop of cold sweat fell from Liao Fang’s forehead.
Liu Tao said vaguely, “A pair of severed hands, stumps.” He did not describe what the hands looked like, because even if he said it, no one would believe him.
The chief was so frightened that his face turned white and he stammered, “Severed, severed hands! I don’t know if my workers dare to help, I’ll have to ask them.” After speaking, he ran away.
In the end, there were only five workers who volunteered to help, and all of them were reluctant. It was apparent that the chief had used a great deal of effort to persuade them. The dozen or so people began to rummage through the thousands of garbage bags. Since Luyi only dealt with kitchen waste, the smell was particularly unpleasant. The sour scent of spoiled meat and pungent liquor converged in the air and had brewed into a stench strong enough to blow their minds. To make matters worse, it was summer and the temperature was very hot, so the stench had been repeatedly steamed and fermented, like atoms compressed in a pulsing machine, until it was as lethal as a nuclear warhead.
Liao Fang grew dizzy and couldn’t stand after a while. Liu Tao and the others were also very uncomfortable. Sweat had long since drenched their clothes, and stuck to their bodies like a layer of grease. Duan Xiaozhou, who had followed them forcibly, quickly ran down the mountain of garbage, took off his mask, and threw up while leaning against the wall.
According to their current speed, they were afraid that not only would they not finish after a few days and nights, but someone would fall ill.
At this moment, several police cars pulled into a nearby parking lot, and Sun Zhengqi approached with a bunch of people. They took off their jackets as they walked, as if they were preparing for a big fight.
“Sister Liao, we’re here to help you!” Hu Wenwen waved at Liao Fang, who was on the mountain of garbage, with a bright smile, as if their previous discord did not exist. Their three views were their three views and work was work, and she would never mix them together. Since everyone thought that searching through garbage was the right action, she would follow it, even if she didn’t agree in her heart. It was not too late to criticize and reflect after finding nothing. She didn’t mind being tired for one more day, since as a police officer, she was already tired.
“Why are you here?” Liao Fang said in surprise.
“Don’t speak nonsense, are there more masks and gloves?” Sun Zhengqi impatiently rolled up his sleeves.
The chief found them masks and gloves, and without saying a word, they climbed up the mountain of garbage and began sorting through bags patiently. For a case, they could forgo sleep, and naturally they were not afraid of becoming dirty or tired.
Time slowly passed four o’clock, and then flowed until five, six, seven……
Seeing that they had not found the evidence, the chief began to grow anxious and mumbled, “Team Leader Liu, how long are you going to look for it? We deal with all this garbage every day, and we can’t allow it to pile up beyond our capacity or it will cause secondary pollution. Team Leader Liu, you see……”
He pointed towards the workers who had been waiting for half a day. If the police didn’t leave, the workers weren’t able to finish their work and leave, which was equivalent to them working overtime.
Liu Tao replied in a loud voice, “Wait a little longer, we’ll finish soon.” However, the truth was the exact opposite of his words. They had only searched a small portion of the garbage, and more was piled up behind them like a large mountain.
Sun Zhengqi asked impatiently, “Team Leader Liu, where is this legendary broken hand? Where is it? We’ve been looking for more than three hours!”
“Keep looking, keep looking, be more patient boy!” Liu Tao said with a snort and a dry smile.
Sun Zhengqi gritted his teeth. He felt like he was about to suffocate, because he never believed Fan Jialuo’s words from the beginning. Therefore, this rummaging task seemed incredibly ridiculous and meaningless. He felt that he must be brain dead. Why should he suffer just to gamble on someone’s speculation?
“Huh, what’s this?” At this moment, a worker from Luyi Waste Treatment Plant not far from him pulled out something similar to a human hand from a garbage bag, and looked at it with astonishment. They thought that it must not be the evidence the police were looking for, so they casually threw it aside.
It fell at Sun Zhengqi’s feet, and he almost bit his tongue. His eyes widened, his breathing quickened, and his heart began to beat violently, because although it was in the shape of a human hand, it didn’t look like a human’s hand at all.
Sun Zhengqi stared at it blankly, and Fan Jialuo’s words echoed over and over in his mind—I saw a pair of hands, bones as thin as dry branches, that were wrapped in gray charred skin. Densely packed, thick black blood vessels lay under the skin, providing nourishment for the extraordinarily strong and firm muscles, and short blue nails appeared like sharp blades……
The hand in front of him looked exactly the same as the pair of sinful hands described by Fan Jialuo! Gray, thin, and seemingly weak, but with unusually developed muscles and blood vessels. If someone else saw it, they would think it was a fake plastic model. How could there be such a bizarre thing in the world? Impossible! It couldn’t exist!
Before this, Sun Zhengqi thought exactly the same as the worker who threw the hand away, but now, his three views had been overturned, his beliefs had collapsed, and he didn’t know what to do as he looked at the hand.
After a while, the worker pulled another hand out of the bag and also treated it as plastic, throwing it at Sun Zhengqi’s feet while muttering angrily, “It’s been so long since garbage sorting was implemented, how come there are still people who don’t understand how to sort it! Plastic toys are recyclable waste, don’t they know that?”
Only after hearing the worker’s words did Sun Zhengqi wake up from his daze. He stretched out a trembling hand and picked up the other severed hand, looking at it with an expression of fear and disbelief. He discovered that the hand felt similar to a silicone product, a little harder than a human hand, but extremely elastic. This was likely because of its extraordinarily strong and dense muscles. He could see its thin bones through a fracture in the hand, surrounded by a hazy layer of flesh and blood. If you set it on the ground without saying anything, nine out of ten people would think it was a toy, a hand that fell from a model of Gollum.
Sun Zhengqi was unable to imagine what it would look like attached to a human body. Could a person with these hands still be considered human? He stiffly turned around, held up the severed hands, and said in a trembling voice, “Team Leader Liu, Sister Liao, I found them!”
Everyone looked at him, and were immediately dumbfounded.
Hu Wenwen, who was closest to him, looked at the hands and then fell onto her butt amid the garbage! It was true, Fan Jialuo’s words were all true, the pair of sinful hands actually existed!
Haha the three views are to be overturned indeed!!
Thanks for the chapter~
Faces slapped oof✋🤣thanks for the chapter!❤
Thanks for the chapter!
thanks for the chapter!! ❤️❤️❤️
OMG!!! Finally, their faces have been slapped LOL. Thank you translator-san for the hardwork❤️
Cliffhanger-san also working hard too today😆😆
thank you for the chapter! 🥰