Sun Zhengqi normally had a very flamboyant personality and enjoyed being the center of attention, but today he felt very uncomfortable being watched by so many people. It was to the point that he wanted to throw away the hand that did not come from a human at all, but the devil, and made him feel as if he was grasping a hot branding iron. If no one was watching, he would have thrown it far away, and then ran outside to wash his hands frantically.
Even with the gloves on, it was as if he could feel his skin being eroded.
Liao Fang and the others were all still stunned. Only the veteran Liu Tao quickly removed his gloves and took a clean evidence bag out of his pocket. He raised his voice and said, “We finally found this pair of plastic model hands, so we can give them back to their owner. Come on, pick them up and give them to me.”
“What plastic model? What owner?” Sun Zhengqi couldn’t wrap his brain around it.
Liu Tao turned his back to everyone and winked at Sun Zhengqi. Coupled with the shocked and frightened expressions of the plant workers, he quickly came back to his senses and nodded. “Oh, yes, yes, yes. The raw materials for this plastic model were all imported, and it’s too expensive, a small fortune of 10,000 yuan, or else we wouldn’t bother making this effort. Captain, you should put it away so that we don’t break it. I don’t know who was evil enough to throw away such a detailed model, and even cut off its hands.” As he spoke, he carefully placed both hands into the evidence bag.
The worker who first discovered the severed hand patted his chest and said, “I told you, they must be fake. How could someone have hands like that?”
“Are you sure they’re fake?” his colleague asked dubiously as he bumped his shoulder.
“Of course I’m sure. It’s firm to the touch and wrapped with a layer of leather. Let me tell you, the quality of the leather is too poor. It’s wrinkled and peeling, which makes it look fake to me.”
“Oh, we spent half a day looking for a silicone model. Why didn’t you say it earlier, my heart just experienced a rollercoaster of emotions.”
Several workers descended the garbage mountain while whispering. Lui Tao also descended with the heavy evidence bag, before turning to the chief and asking for a black plastic bag to wrap up the terrible objects so that no bystanders would see them. Liao Fang and another police officer brought down the entire bag of garbage where the severed hands were found. After sending it to the forensic department, they would be able to identify their source.
After cleaning up briefly, the group of people walked to the parking lot in silence. The members of the criminal investigation team were tired, but Sun Zhengqi and the others were frightened. Their faces were all white and their pupils were shaking, obviously suffering as their three views were destroyed and rebuilt.
As the director said—one’s three views were originally made to be overturned!
After getting into the car, Hu Wenwen looked at her boyfriend, who was sitting in a daze in the driver’s seat, and asked in a hoarse voice, “Was that thing real? Are you sure?” She wanted to see them, but Captain Liu Tao wouldn’t let her look while they were outside, for fear of causing the public to panic.
“They’re real, I’m sure of it! I saw the cut, and it was very neat. They were severed by a knife, and the person who did it was very experienced. Their movements were neat and clean, and there was not much blood loss. Inside the cut were bones, muscles, and blood vessels. All the tissue that humans should have was there, and they had blood. I also touched them, and the muscles were indeed firm and strong, similar to silicone, but with a different elasticity. I, I wanted to wash my hands.” Sun Zhengqi looked down at his hands, which he had just washed multiple times, and his voice trembled.
Hu Wenwen didn’t speak, but she was breathing rapidly. She had suffered too many blows today, and needed to calm down.
Sun Zhengqi pursed his lips and added, “Don’t you think Fan Jialuo is scary? How did he know that there was a pair of severed hands at the waste treatment plant? Did he throw them away?”
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Sun Zhengqi wanted to nod, but his whole body was stiff and unable to move. Yes, if that bag of garbage and hands had nothing to do with Fan Jialuo, it would be even more terrifying, because that would prove exactly how incredible and unimaginable the other party’s ability was!
In a daze, Sun Zhengqi suddenly remembered the director’s strange attitude and the words he had naturally spat out—”Fan Jialuo has come, so this case definitely won’t be small.”
What kind of person could make a battle-hardened veteran police officer say such illogical words? Fan Jialuo has come, so this case definitely won’t be small. In other words, you can only ask him for help on such an unsolvable case? Because he was a genuine psychic, he could discover the truth that ordinary people could never discover?
Sun Zhengqi did not dare to think further. He always thought he lived in a world ruled by science, but now there was someone telling him: there is another side to this world, and not everything you see is real. His world might be an illusion created for you by others, just like how those plant workers instantly accepted Liu Tao’s explanation of the so-called silicone model. You’re alive, but you’re living in a one-sided world, only capable of seeing a small part of the truth. You are not unique, just another self-absorbed being……
This belated recognition completely destroyed Sun Zhengqi’s worldview. Cold sweat slid down the edges of his eyebrows and stung his eyes, but he didn’t raise his hands and wipe it away, because he simply did not dare to use his hands until he had washed them hundreds of times.
Seeing that he was in a really bad state, Hu Wenwen said thoughtfully, “I’ll drive back. You can lie in the backseat and sleep for a while. Let’s go back, and we can discuss any of your doubts later.”
The two silently exchanged seats and followed the police car ahead of them.
The forensics department was full of people, and the technician even took several deep breaths before he began to examine the unusual pair of hands all over. The director stood by the door to the laboratory with a stony expression. When he caught a glimpse of Sun Zhengqi, he called him aside and instructed, “None of you can say anything about what happened today, including to your colleagues in the bureau! Call all of your team members to my office later, I need to have a meeting with you all.”
Sun Zhengqi looked at the members of Criminal Investigation Team One and asked with certainty, “Director, have Liao Fang and the others also attended such a meeting before?” He was not a fool, and he could tell how calm Liao Fang and them were. They must have been mentally prepared to find a bizarre pair of severed hands, and they believed in Fan Jialuo’s words. Thinking of Fan Jialuo’s involvement with the case of Gao Yize falling from the building and the death scene sketches he posted, Sun Zhengqi finally understood his actions.
“Fan Jialuo is a real psychic, right? Did he help you solve the Gao Yize case? Were his death scene sketches also accurate? All the mysterious things he said in ‘The World of Strange People’ were all true, right?” Sun Zhengqi saw the director’s constipated expression and finally stopped asking questions as he lowered his head and said, “I will warn them, of course this kind of thing has to be hidden from the public.”
The director heard the sarcasm in his tone, so he calmly explained, “What can we do other than hide it? Have you ever thought about how much panic this would cause if it spread? Our mission is to defend the people. ‘Carrying the burden for the sake of the people’ are not just empty words. What the people cannot bear, we must bear for them, so that they can live and work in peace. You should have understood this on your first day as a police officer.”
Sun Zhengqi held his neck and didn’t say anything. After a while, he said with red eyes, “What else should I believe? It took me more than 20 years to realize that the world I live in is false.”
The director patted him on the shoulder and sighed. “Son, you’re still too young, and your way of thinking is one-sidedly. You’re not living in a false world, you were simply close minded. Yes, we must advocate for science, but at the same time, we must also accept and tolerate the unknown. Our cognitive ability is inherently limited, and it’s impossible to find a scientifically reasonable explanation for everything in the world. It’s far-fetched to be able to explain every unknown phenomena with science, and looking at it from another angle, isn’t it also a type of superstition?”
Sun Zhengqi was stumped by his question.
The director patted him on the shoulder again and said earnestly, “If you face the world with an open attitude, are tolerant and accepting of the unknown, and acknowledge that you will not understand everything, you will find that everything that happened today was not a setback at all. Your heart is too narrow, and you have to relax a little. In our line of work, we will encounter increasingly strange things in the future.”
The director slowly walked away with his hands behind his back, but Sun Zhengqi just stared at him blankly, his mind in a mess.
At this moment, the technician’s exclamation came from the laboratory, “I found a small receipt in the vegetable soup, wait, the handwriting is a bit smeared, I’ll deal with it first.”
Only then did Sun Zhengqi return to his senses and hurriedly walk to the door of the laboratory, craning his neck to look inside. The area near the door was already crowded with people, heads on top of heads and shoulder to shoulder. The smell was strong even after showering, so the chief of the forensics department tried to kick them out.
However, no one wanted to leave, so they waited eagerly for the results.
The section chief of the forensics department was personally responsible for examining the hands, and he frequently asked, “Although it doesn’t look like it, it’s a human hand. The cells are human cells and the blood is also human blood. Didn’t you say you were looking for the relevant DNA samples? Where are the samples? Where are they?” It was like a cat was scratching his heart, and he wanted to know who the owner of these hands was.
Liao Fang hurriedly called Xiao Li, who they had sent to collect the suspect’s hair because he was smart and good at acting.
As soon as the call went through, the other side hung up, and soon the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the corridor. Xiao Li appeared at the door holding a transparent evidence bag and said breathlessly, “Fangfang, I’m back. Here, this is what you asked for. I asked my friend from the Food Hygiene Supervision Bureau to accompany me to the suspect’s restaurant and pretend to check the hygiene of their kitchen. Then, I pointed at the suspect’s chef hat and asked to take a look. You don’t know, but the lining of his hat was yellow, as if he hadn’t washed it for several months, and there was a lot of hair on it. I held the hat and scolded him, then left while pretending to forget to return it, so I was able to bring his DNA out. Don’t you think I’m smart?”
“Smart, you’re smart, now quickly give it to me!” Liao Fang took the evidence bag and handed it over to the section chief, who used tweezers to carefully pick out a few hairs.
Xiao Li was so tired that he was gasping for breath, and he coughed violently after taking two breaths. He covered his nose and exclaimed, “Oh my god, what’s this smell? It stinks to death!”
Liao Fang and the others, who couldn’t wash the stench off even after several showers, could only glare at him.
At this moment, a technician exclaimed, “The handwriting showed up, this is a receipt from the Sixi Hotel.”
A short while later, another technician said, “The garbage sample results are also out. They’re all food scraps, but by no means are they ordinary home-cooked dishes. They’re fancy dishes made with exquisite ingredients, which can only be made in hotels. I’m sure that this bag of garbage was thrown out from the Sixi Hotel. If necessary, I can also restore these scraps into a menu so that you can compare it with the Sixi Hotel’s menu, it’s actually very easy to do.”
Liao Fang nodded while asking, “Section Chief, when will the results of the DNA test come out?”
“I’ll do it as quickly as possible, it’ll only take three hours,” the section chief said firmly.
“Good, then we’ll wait for you at the bureau.” Liao Fang turned to her colleagues and clapped her hands. “Everyone should go to rest. After collecting the evidence, we will have a tough battle ahead of us tonight.” The so-called tough battle would be the arrest. Everyone knew this, so they spread out to find a quiet corner to sleep.
Only Xiao Li clung to the glass door, looking at the pair of severed hands with astonishment and curiosity.
Sun Zhengqi walked down the long corridor while lost in thought. Hu Wenwen followed him silently, and the rest of their team members were also in a trance, with confused expressions.
After a long time, one of the officers whispered, “The suspect works at the Sixi Hotel, so the hands should have been thrown out by him. It has nothing to do with Fan Jialuo. Fan Jialuo is really psychic, he’s not fooling people. You guys, say, what the hell is with the suspect? Is he still human?”
The long corridor, which was already quiet, fell into dead silence because of his question. No one could answer it, and those who could actually answer it had already been mocked by them.
“Let’s get some sleep first. We’ll know everything after we catch them,” Sun Zhengqi said dryly, “The director said that this matter can’t be spread, so you all must keep your mouths shut. After we catch them, we have to meet with the director, and this case will likely be recorded in a secret file. You understand what to do, right?”
“We understand, we won’t talk nonsense.”
“Brother Sun, do you think that Criminal Investigation Team One has also been silenced? Otherwise, how come they never discuss the case of Gao Yize falling from a building? The rumors were crazy, but they never gave a proper explanation.”
“They must have been ordered to stay silent, or else Fan Jialuo would have long since been famous. No wonder the director’s attitude is so strange. As soon as he heard that Fan Jialuo was involved in this case, he immediately disbanded our team and handed the case over to Team One. It turns out that this really is a big case, and us rookies simply cannot handle it.”
“This world is so scary! I used to believe in Meteor Street Coder’s post and gave him a like.”
“I also always firmly believed that Fan Jialuo was a liar. He never explained himself and was too low key.”
“I’m panicking now.”
“Don’t think about it and just get some sleep. You might feel better after resting.”
“Tomorrow night at 7 o’clock, the second episode of ‘The World of Strange People’ will broadcast. I’ll have to take a good look.”
“I’ll have to watch the first episode a few more times. Now that I think about it, all those so-called plots that I thought played according to a script were all real. My heart is so shocked.”
“I’ve been shocked enough today. My world view was turned upside down.”
Everyone slowly dispersed while discussing enthusiastically, while Sun Zhengqi continued to stand there for a long time. Accept the unknown, acknowledge that you won’t understand everything, and relax your heartstrings? He pondered this sentence over and over again, as if by doing so he could finally recover from that suffocating feeling.
The world was so vast, how much could a small human being know? Human beings have not even understood the mysteries of their own bodies.
They just got their faces slapped oof✋
Thank you for the chapter❤
Thank you for the chapter!
So curious as to how the creepy hands are relevant… but I miss our mcs
The suspect was previously ruled out because his hands were always visible but if he had two more hands hidden under his baggy clothes, he could have stolen the phones with those. I guess the hands fell off or he cut them off once he had enough money. I wonder how he unlocked the phones passcodes though.
Always so satisfying when the truth bomb hits them 😌 Especially when they see that the other department isn’t faced at all. They dared to call my girl crazy, now look who’s the real fool