Chapter 28
Wen Bei kept watching him turn around and close the door, but suddenly stopped. His heart was in his throat, and his face was still slightly confused and defenseless.
Cheng Jie had his back to him, and his voice was a little muffled: "Would you like to come in and sit down?"
Wen Bei readily agreed: "No need."
Cheng Jie suddenly turned around, becoming firm and unyielding: "I cooked something delicious, come and have some."
After saying that, he was about to reach out to pull Wen Bei, but when he was dodged, he just stared at his hand in a daze.
Wen Bei took a step back, his smile a little forced: "I've already bought dinner."
Cheng Jie stared at him. The bird beak that had grown out of the deformity made him look a little strange at that moment. He suddenly said, "You saw it, right?"
Wen Bei blinked: "What did you see?"
Chengjie's beak opened wide for a moment, then quickly closed: "You saw it!"
The sound was sharp and unpleasant.
Like a bird with its neck strangled.
Chengjie's pollution level increased a little bit, and some black crow-like feathers began to appear on the back of his hand, which were so fine and dense that they were a bit disgusting.
He repeated like a tape recorder: "You saw it."
Wen Bei didn't want to anger him, so he could only remain calm: "What did you see?"
Without waiting for him to react, she immediately added, "Didn't you just invite me in? I've changed my mind. Let's go."
Cheng Jie paused in astonishment. He hadn't expected Wen Bei to agree. After realizing what was happening, the aura that was about to explode returned to its original, honest demeanor. "Okay."
This person is very abnormal now. Wen Bei plans to follow his ideas first and then find a better excuse to leave.
After entering the room, the meaty smell became more pronounced, and this time he could clearly smell the smell of blood underneath the strong, pungent meaty smell.
But the moment he looked up and saw the whole room clearly, even someone as calm as Wen Bei was stunned.
Meat soup was stewing in a large pot on the small balcony. Scattered around it were some canned meat produced by the Snow Flower Factory, all of which had been opened and emptied. However, the ingredients of the large pot of meat soup were not just these canned meat. The corpse lying next to it, which had almost been drained of blood, was the main raw material of this pot of meat soup.
Even though the corpse was facing away from him, Wen Bei still felt that it looked familiar. He glanced at Cheng Jie, who looked normal, and felt a chill in his heart.
This person is crazy.
His silence seemed to make Chengjie uneasy. He scratched his head and asked, "Don't you like eating meat?"
Chengjie opened his beak and said, "The canned meat from the factory is delicious."
Wen Bei walked a little closer, pretending to look at the contents of the pot, but actually glanced at the corpse on the ground: "I'm not hungry yet."
This time he saw clearly that the body lying on the ground was Ruan Tiantian's.
Wen Bei's thoughts were very complicated. He never thought that half a day ago this person was telling him that Ruan Tiantian was not that bad, but now he killed him and used his flesh to make soup.
He never thought of suspecting Chengjie from the beginning, because no matter from which angle you look at it, he is a very honest person.
But he was a rare polluter in the Snowflake Factory, and he even deceived himself.
Suspicion immediately became apparent.
I came here with the idea of just taking a look, but I didn't expect to witness such a tragic scene.
Cheng Jie showed a regretful expression when he heard that he didn't want to eat it. He walked over and scooped a bowl from the pot: "Then I'll eat it myself."
When the soup was stirred with a spoon, a piece of scalp covered with hair floated out, and then the red and white flesh was scooped up.
Wen Bei almost felt sick, and her pretty little face turned slightly pale. She just watched him eat the bowl of broth mixed with human flesh with relish.
It feels like tasting some divine delicacy.
Chengjie's beak makes a slurping sound when drinking soup, and it sighs from time to time.
It feels like there is a real delicacy in my hands.
After he had almost finished his soup, Wen Bei asked, "Did you also cause the deaths of the other people in the factory?"
He chose to be straightforward, and although he didn't seem panicked at all, his hidden hand was actually gripping the gun tightly.
Cheng Jie didn't get angry as expected, but nodded calmly: "I took parts of their bodies. Of course, I can't enjoy this delicacy alone. I secretly added the meat to the meat source at the factory. They will be mixed in with the canned meat."
As he said these words, an abnormal blush appeared on his face, as if he had really done something great.
There was a coldness in Wen Bei's eyes, and his hand holding the gun tightened again. He was counting down the time in his mind.
Chengjie was still chattering about his mental journey on this path.
He confessed that the first person he killed was an accident because the man saw him stealing canned meat and bringing it home.
Cheng Jie: "I came to work in this factory because I love eating meat so much. Especially after becoming a polluter, I feel like my stomach is always clamoring for meat. Sometimes I can't help it and I sneak some home. I have been doing this for so long without being discovered."
"But that guy ruined everything for me not long ago. He threatened to tell my supervisor about this. If I quit, I wouldn't be able to eat such cheap canned meat often. So of course I had no choice but to kill him."
Cheng Jie paused strangely at this point, revealing a very satisfied expression: "I didn't expect his meat to be so delicious. I suddenly understand that the most delicious meat in the world is human flesh."
In this serial murder case, there was always a part missing from the corpse. He originally thought it was the perpetrator's unique hobby, but he didn't expect that the part was taken away and added to the canning process.
When the canned meat is sent to the packaging department on the second floor, it will be beaten into meat paste by machines, so it is naturally impossible to tell that other meat is mixed in.
Cheng Jie turned his head and looked at Wen Bei: "You can understand me, right? This person always bullied you, so I made him into soup."
Ruan Tiantian often scolded him, so he killed her for that reason...
Wen Bei took a step back and didn't want to accept such disgusting "good intentions".
At the same time, his countdown just ended, and very punctually, there were three polite knocks on the door.
Knock, knock, knock.
The person outside the door smiled elegantly, his eyes calm, "Excuse me, is my brother here?"
There had never been a moment when Wen Bei felt that Qiu Ting's voice was so pleasant.
He calculated the time and knew Qiu Tin would come back at this time.
This guy is like a big dog that can't leave its owner. When the time comes, he will quickly follow the scent and find you.
This was also the reason why he was not worried that Chengjie would detain him at the beginning.
Sure enough, as soon as he heard Qiu Tin's voice, Chengjie's eyes became a little nervous.
The more powerful a person is, the more difficult it is to conceal his aura.
As a person with superpowers, Chengjie knew that Qiu Ding was no ordinary man from the first moment he saw him.
He opened the door and returned to his somewhat silent and dull self: "Yes."
Qiu Ting leaned against the doorway, an unlit cigarette between his fingers, his bony fingers making them look even more defined. He raised his eyes lazily, his gaze passing Cheng Jie towards Wen Bei standing inside: "Have you had enough fun?"
Even though he deserves a beating, he is still much more pleasing to the eye.
Wen Bei took a step forward calmly: "Well, let's go."
Qiu Tin looked him up and down, then suddenly chuckled, "Why don't you even call me brother?"
There was a playful look in his eyes, and it was obvious that Wen Bei's sudden obedient attitude made him understand something.
Wenbei: “…”
His eyes were so cold that they looked like he wanted to kill someone.
After a few seconds of pause, under the man's gaze, she almost bit out two words with her teeth: "Brother, brother."
Qiu Ting narrowed his eyes. Despite the murderous intent in them, he was still in a very cheerful mood. His whole body felt as if a tiny electric current was running through it. "Let's go."
There was a faint black fog gathering behind him, as if a dark corner could swallow the young man up at any time.
Wen Bei obediently walked behind him, paused for a moment, and then gave Cheng Jie a not-so-forced smile: "Goodbye."
This was probably the last time they met.
...
After leaving Chengjie's sight, Wen Bei ran to the place where the Orderly Army was stationed without thinking. When the young man next to him heard that he was looking for Captain Lan by name, he wanted to send him away, but when he accidentally made eye contact with the man behind him, he felt a chill all over his body.
He nodded uncontrollably, turned around and strode inside to look for someone.
It seemed like if I was even a second slower, I would be killed.
Wen Bei didn't expect things to go so smoothly. He turned his head suspiciously and saw Qiu Ting with a bored look on his face.
He was speechless: "Why did you have to follow me?"
Qiu Tincture: "I'm your brother, of course I have to keep an eye on you."
He deliberately emphasized the word "brother" and looked at Wen Bei with a smile.
An inopportune voice suddenly interrupted them.
Captain Lan came over, dressed in his regular uniform, looking like he was just getting off work. "What do you want from me?"
Wen Bei roughly described what had just happened to him, hiding almost nothing.
Team Lan's expression gradually became serious: "I understand."
He suddenly picked up the walkie-talkie beside him and called back several team members in charge of this case.
Although the existence of the Lawful Army is controversial in the base, and some even call them the base's lackeys, Captain Arashi and his subordinates are very efficient in handling cases.
Not long after reporting the case in Wenbei, they arrested Chengjie directly.
Wen Bei originally thought that he would clean up the scene after he left and hide his tracks like he did when he killed those people in the past, but he never expected that according to Captain Lan's description, he had no intention of escaping at all.
Stay calmly with the corpse and wait for their capture.
The next day after the incident, Team Lan came to thank Wen Bei specially. Perhaps they thought that he was also a person related to this case, so they mentioned some details related to the case, which could not be disclosed to the public.
When talking about the motive for the crime, Wen Bei raised his head, his eyes clear and pure: "Do you know why he did this?"
Team Lan: "You mean eating human flesh?"
Team Lan laughed at themselves, "As much as I hate it when ordinary people accept the protection of the Polluters while looking at them like monsters, I have to admit that some Polluters are mentally unstable. People who were very kind before becoming Polluters can kill people without blinking an eye after becoming Polluters, as if it's not just their bodies that are deformed..."
And psychological.
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