"Ms. Shen Lanzhou, I understand how powerful you are, but the Shanhai Base has been very turbulent recently. You are just an innocent passerby who has simply come here to settle down. I don't want it to affect you in the end."
Helan glanced around the room and said, "Especially with a child."
"Are you referring to the bag of body parts downstairs?"
"Yes. This is the third case. The atmosphere in the base is very strange. Since the autopsy results showed the teeth marks of some kind of carnivore on the remains, people like us who have carnivore mutations are constantly stared at with strange eyes."
Helan said in a heavy tone, "It might be very dangerous in the base from now on. If possible, take the child and leave."
"I see..."
This was another incident I had never heard of in my previous life. However, considering that I wasn't particularly familiar with the Shanhai Base itself, at most I was just a tourist, this was understandable.
Shen Lanzhou looked at Helan thoughtfully: "Miss Helan, are you craving blood or raw meat now? For example, your teeth are itchy and you yawn frequently."
"I don't feel that way."
Helan's emotions are very stable. He doesn't look like a wild beast at all. Instead, he looks more like a fairy-tale creature from Disney animation. He is gentle and polite, and his voice is charming.
"Um……"
Shen Lanzhou squatted on the chair, his long tail sticking out from the gap in his black robe, swinging unconsciously: "Miss Helan, thank you for your reminder. Normally, I should leave here and stay away from trouble. But——"
Under the hood, the girl showed a helpless smile: "I don't plan to run away anymore."
After the incident at the Amu Temple, Shen Lanzhou understood one thing - facing those indescribable existences, he could not escape.
Just like the Monkey King who made a big fuss in Heaven five hundred years ago, he thought he could escape to the ends of the earth, but in the end he could not escape the Five Finger Mountain of Buddha.
So why are you running? Just do it!
The monster under the black robe swung its tail excitedly, and the protruding spikes between its scales scratched the tile floor beyond recognition.
"I respect your idea." Helan opened his mouth and ate a piece of osmanthus cake. The sweet taste made Miss Brown Bear's eyes light up. She quickly picked up another piece and threw it into her big mouth. Her short round tail shook unconsciously from side to side.
In the room, Lily was lying on the bed, holding the little mouse in her hands: "Sister looks much more lively now, much cuter than her old-fashioned look before~"
Then, the little fellow sighed sadly: "It's a pity that Lily can no longer parasitize on me... Although because of the oath, Lily can no longer hurt me, hehe..."
It's hard to change your nature, kid... But can any creature really overcome its instincts?
Putting aside the worries about how to educate the child for the time being, Shen Lanzhou began to ask Helan about the news related to the murder case.
Since she has decided to step into the vortex of events, of course she has to take the initiative.
"Ms. Helan, can you tell me more about this serial murder case? I've been out hunting these past few days and don't know what's going on in the base."
"Of course." Helan picked up the teacup with a pair of big bear paws and carefully put his long snout into the cup to drink tea: "The story starts three days ago..."
The first person to die was in the sewers of Black Street.
Heijie is considered the slum of the Shanhai Base, where vulnerable groups such as the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled live, and their houses are old and dilapidated.
However, thanks to the unique geographical environment and natural resources of the Shanhai Base, the residents of Heijie can still get enough food and clothing through labor.
It rained heavily on the day the incident occurred, and the rainwater flowed into the sewers, causing the water level to rise and eventually rush onto the streets, carrying the remains of the bodies with them.
The discovery of the mutilated corpse caused a huge commotion, especially after the autopsy revealed that the wounds were caused by some kind of ferocious beast.
Unfortunately, Helan and her younger brother Hebei lived in a black street. The siblings, a bear and a wolf, were both classic predators, so they were considered the primary suspects.
Fortunately, the siblings had an alibi for the time of death given in the autopsy results... They had spent the entire day in a Black Street orphanage.
The siblings had never left the orphanage and had no contact with the deceased. The children and managers in the orphanage were able to testify for them.
Although they successfully cleared their suspicion, the Helan siblings still suffered from strange looks, and every time they went out was a torment.
The story was not over yet. On the second and third days, the remains of the corpses, which had been eaten into pieces, were found in different places every day.
"Wait a minute, I have a question."
Shen Lanzhou raised his paw and asked humbly:
"By inferring the tooth shape from the bite marks, we should be able to make a preliminary determination of the killer's species. Also, the body should still contain the killer's saliva, so we should be able to identify the killer through appropriate testing, right?"
“That’s the problem.”
Helan shook his head gravely. "The forensic doctor in charge of the autopsy immediately proposed this plan, but during the test, they couldn't extract any saliva samples. The bite mark investigation is even more bizarre."
"How do you say that?"
"The bite mark findings are consistent with any creature having canine teeth."
"That shouldn't be the case. You can always tell by the size of the teeth, right?"
Shen Lanzhou frowned and devoted some of his attention to observing the remains of the body in the plastic bag downstairs.
The body was packed in a red plastic bag, with various debris piled up in a mess inside the bag. The outside of the bag was greasy, and it looked like the pig offal that a butcher with greasy hands gave to an old lady buying vegetables at a country market.
Wet, greasy hands with a fishy smell.
Damn, why do eyes have a sense of smell!
Shen Lanzhou squinted his eyes, feeling as if his eyes were smoked.
At the same time, the results obtained from the remains of the body made her suddenly realize the truth. She and Helan said the results in unison: "There are no fingerprints or hair traces on the packaging bag, and the bite marks are not uniform, but include teeth bites of various sizes."
Helan nodded: "Indeed, the murderer is more cunning than expected. He did not commit the crime on impulse, but rather a premeditated murder and a malicious frame-up."
Shen Lanzhou: "Unfortunately, ordinary people don't care about these things. They just need to know that the person who was killed was a human like themselves, and the killer was a beast. That's enough."
"yes……"
Helan sighed, this was the fundamental reason why they were excluded and feared.
If a dog half a man's height walks towards you without a leash, even people who are not afraid of dogs will feel scared.
If you see related incidents of vicious dogs attacking people on the Internet, your fear will quickly turn into fear and anger.
In addition, the relationship between the orcs and the ordinary people in the base was not harmonious, which further exacerbated the estrangement and conflict between the two sides.
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