Chapter 59: Starving Ghost



"demon?"

Except for the people from Countermeasures Team 2, Ren Suo, Chen Kun and Wu Jianming were all stunned.

"You know that this world has spiritual energy, awakened people, and practitioners. So... there are inhuman monsters. Is that surprising?"

Yao Fei pointed to a place in the room. Everyone looked over and saw five clear claw marks on a three-door refrigerator.

The five claw marks were of varying depths, but they were obviously made by one hand. The refrigerator door was even curled up after being scratched, showing how strong the force was.

"Generally speaking, only large cats, such as lions and tigers, can cause this type of damage. But after comparing the mitochondrial DNA in the claw marks and other hair left in the house, as well as the nail clippings in this wound, we found that it was not a cat at all, but..."

Yao Fei looked at them and said with certainty, "People."

Then she looked at Wu Jianming: "You want to find the murderer, and so do we. The reason we allowed you to come back this time is that we hope you can provide some assistance so that we can know what property the murderer has damaged in your home before, so as to infer the murderer's purpose, identity and whereabouts."

Wu Jianming didn't say anything, but just nodded with red eyes.

Seeing Yao Fei taking Wu Jianming inside, Ren Suo and Chen Kun subconsciously wanted to follow them, but were stopped by Li Shuanghe and Fang Jun.

"Don't worry, with the captain here, even the awakened ones will be in trouble." Li Shuanghe said with a smile.

Ren Suo and Chen Kun understood in their minds - they didn't want their Countermeasures Team 3 to interfere in the matter.

In fact, these days Ren Suo has basically understood the differences between the teams in the Countermeasures Bureau. To be more precise, the differences between Countermeasures Teams 1 and 2 and the other teams.

Countermeasures Teams One and Two are responsible for matters related to superpower crimes, and are truly "special crime countermeasures specialists." As for the other teams, it is more of a prevention than a countermeasure - they count the potential practitioners and awakeners in the city, archive their files and observe them secretly. If there is an awakener who hides his strength and behaves honestly, they will send someone to keep an eye on him and stop the awakeners in time when conflicts occur.

In addition, they are also responsible for cleaning up the mess and doing logistics for Teams One and Two. For example, Countermeasures Team Two pushes this kind of "running errands" work to Countermeasures Team Three.

This is also the reason why You Jilong was previously responsible for the training of civil servants - the training of civil servants is a logistical matter.

But Ren Suo and the others didn't care, so they rested against the wall in the room. Ren Suo subconsciously wanted to take out his phone to play, while Chen Kun asked curiously: "Your captain just said it was a demon... Is this a joke?"

"Those claw marks look powerful, but an awakened person can also achieve a similar effect. Why don't you suspect it's a human, but suspect it's some kind of... demon?"

Li Shuanghe and Fang Jun looked at each other, and Li Shuanghe smiled and said, "Are you curious?"

Ren Suo and Chen Kun nodded.

"Well, we are all colleagues. In theory, you don't have to abide by confidentiality regulations... but..." Li Shuanghe shrugged.

Chen Kun understood: "Brother, what do you want?"

"I heard that there are beautiful girls in your team three. Would you like to have a social gathering some other day?" Li Shuanghe said immediately.

Chen Kun immediately responded: "If it's a social gathering, would your captain be willing to come?"

"Ken!"

"Leave it to me then!"

The two men clapped their hands solemnly, representing a great promise engraved in time, and history turned a new page...

Fang Jun was speechless: "When the captain blames me, I will say I didn't know."

"It's okay." Li Shuanghe waved his hands and calmed down. "But don't tell anyone. This is a confidential matter. If it gets out... Hey, at most I'll be scolded by the captain, but it's hard to say for you two."

"We've all entered the Countermeasures Bureau, who dares to leak the secret?" Chen Kun said with a smile: "Don't keep us in suspense."

Li Shuanghe looked at the messy house inside and whispered, "In fact, when this place was first discovered, we also thought it might have been done by an awakened person."

“But after reporting the matter, we discovered the problem.”

Li Shuanghe watched them and said, "This kind of crime has happened more than 20 times in just half a month across the country! The victims include not only humans but also cattle, sheep and other poultry."

Ren Suo and Chen Kun felt a jolt in their hearts.

Chen Kun pondered for a moment and asked, "Could it be... that someone created a new spiritual energy technology and spread it privately? After some practitioners learned it, they killed people wantonly?"

"It's not that simple." Li Shuanghe said: "If it was murder, it would be fine, after all, people kill people. But the murderer not only killed people, but also..."

Li Shuanghe paused for a moment, as if he couldn't think of an adjective, but Fang Jun said, "Chewing people."

"Yes, chewing people!" Li Shuanghe nodded affirmatively.

Chen Kun was very confused: "What is chewing people?"

Li Shuanghe opened his mouth and pointed at his neat teeth: "Chew. Fortunately, you don't have to work as part-time police officers like us. When we saw the bodies of the deceased, we vomited out the food we hadn't eaten the night before."

Ren Suo asked: "Could it be cannibalism?"

Li Shuanghe shook his head: "No, it was chewing people. Almost all the deceased in the cases seemed to have been 'chewed' and then spit out. When we saw the body, the body had been pieced together. It is said that every piece of meat had traces of chewing by teeth. It looked more like minced meat than a corpse..."

Ren Suo and Chen Kun swallowed their saliva and felt that they would never eat meatballs with meat filling again.

Li Shuanghe continued, "More importantly, after inspection, we found that these meats contain salivary amylase, pepsin, etc., but no aminopeptidase, α-glucosidase, β-glucosidase..."

Chen Kun scratched his head: "What do you mean... what enzyme? I think I saw it in high school..."

Li Shuanghe said: "Well, I don't understand the details, just know the conclusion."

"To put it simply, the perpetrator chewed the meat and swallowed it, passing through the esophagus and stomach but not the intestines."

"Generally speaking, even if the perpetrator chokes the victim and spits out the meat, it will still be contaminated by intestinal enzymes. Moreover, even if there are stomach enzymes, the chewed meat will not be broken down into minced meat..."

Ren Suo's heart was moved when he heard this, but Chen Kun still didn't quite understand: "What do you mean?"

Li Shuanghe said: "What this means is that the perpetrators have no intestines, and most likely no stomach. After they chewed and ate a person, the meat fell out of his stomach... That's why they used such a weird method of committing the crime, leaving behind a body that looked like minced meat."

"Wow……"

Chen Kun exclaimed in a low voice: "No wonder they say it's a demon... It's too... inhuman."

Indeed, even if the perpetrator resembled a human, he could eat humans alive, had no stomach, and might not even have much sense - otherwise how could he have performed such a futile act?

In any country in the world, such a perpetrator must be a "demon".

In other words, it is an existence that cannot be tolerated by the world and must be killed by humans.

When Ren Suo heard the news, he was naturally surprised.

Li Shuanghe and Fang Jun were not surprised. Even they were so frightened when they heard the news for the first time that they lost their appetite. They now felt pity for the two members of Team 3 in front of them, because eating would become something these two people hated in the next few days.

However, Ren Suo was surprised in a different way than Chen Kun.

When he heard about demons before, he had a strange premonition.

Now after listening to Li Shuanghe's description, he connected this demon with his memory - to be precise, a monster in the game!

Sharp hands,

Likes to eat human flesh,

No belly,

So the eaten meat will fall out,

Turned into minced meat,

This monster is an enemy that Ren Suo can encounter at any time throughout the early, middle and late stages of "Over My Dead Body"——

Starving ghost!


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