As they approached, the person in charge paused and said, "Gentlemen, I was there once just now, and the scene over there... wasn't very pleasant."
Team Leader Hu frowned: "Not good-looking? Then is the case still going to be solved?"
The person in charge smiled awkwardly and led the group to the cordoned-off area.
Huanbo and Fuheqing followed behind. Before they even got there, Huanbo stopped, frowning, and covered his nose with a look of unbearable discomfort.
"What's wrong?" Fu Heqing asked.
Huanbo said in a muffled voice, "It's gone bad."
Fu Heqing was stunned for a moment, then took a few steps forward and peeked out. His face immediately turned pale.
Team Leader Hu frowned deeply. The person in charge glanced at it a second time, held it in for three seconds, then turned away, covered his mouth, and vomited. Like a chain reaction, people around him followed suit and vomited.
Amidst the jagged rocks, a large pit, two meters in diameter and three meters deep, was dug into the mudflats. Inside, large patches of soft, rotten body tissue, a mixture of red and white, were found. Not a single piece was intact; all of it had been torn apart and pushed together. Most of it had decomposed and rotted, and some, having been soaked in seawater, was even more unsightly.
Amidst the rotting flesh lay countless white, broken bones. Several incomplete skulls were embedded in the decaying flesh; faces with only one eye remaining were already rotting and decaying, the exposed tops of the skulls emitting a putrid, yellowish-white pus.
All the rotten flesh, broken bones, and organ fragments were piled up and mixed together in the pit, a scene too gruesome to look at.
Fu Heqing had been to the battlefield and seen the horrors of war, but he had never seen a human body so mutilated. How could one even discern a trace of its former human form? He tried to hold back, but couldn't help running to the side and vomiting violently.
Huanbo, whose sense of smell is countless times more sensitive than that of humans, had already contorted his face and immediately ran to the side.
As a demon with a spirit, he had also hunted with raw meat and blood. The scene was indeed disgusting, but he was not afraid. It was just that the smell was unbearable for him.
Of those present, only Team Leader Hu and his team's forensic doctor Jiang were still examining the area around the pit.
Jiang, the forensic doctor, squatted down by the pit. He had a cold and aloof demeanor, but his voice was sweet and soft: "Judging from the appearance, there are at least three groups of people who died at different times and in different ways. The preliminary estimate is that there are nearly twenty bodies buried here."
Jiang's voice brought a sense of calm, and Team Leader Hu, suppressing his nausea, asked, "Can you determine the specific cause of death and time of death?"
Forensic doctor Jiang nodded: "Yes, but we need to categorize these first, which will take a lot of time because most of them... are not very complete."
Not only was the skull clearly damaged, but many bones and organs were also obviously deliberately destroyed.
Team Leader Hu first brought in people to clean and sort the waste.
Because this step is time-consuming and labor-intensive, we can only temporarily set up camp nearby and stay here for the time being.
They worked until nightfall, and all the body tissues in the pit had been transferred to a special tent and roughly sorted.
After getting used to the situation, Fu Heqing went in to help Jiang the forensic doctor and the others. The group didn't sleep a wink all night, and by the next morning, they had identified and separated all the identifiable cases.
Team Leader Hu and others, along with Uncle Huan, came in.
Inside the tent, there were two long tables and a dozen or so body storage pods. On the long tables lay incomplete skeletons, while the storage pods contained other body tissues.
Jiang, the forensic doctor, looked exhausted but remained perfectly lucid, recounting the events one by one:
"On the table are the earliest victims, almost completely skeletal. Based on the bone fragments found at the scene, there were about six victims in this group, and the deaths occurred 45-50 days ago. Because the remains showed signs of being soaked in seawater, marine microorganisms would accelerate the decomposition of the bodies, so the time of death may be later, possibly around 45 days. In addition, we found soil material on these remains that does not belong to the Triangle Harbor, indicating that this is not the primary burial site."
Huanbo nodded: "The timing basically matches the start time of the disappearance case. The patrol dogs search every day. If it was buried here before, it would have been impossible not to find it. The body must have been buried here between last night and this morning."
Team Leader Hu carefully examined the six bodies that could barely be counted.
It's a stretch because all six corpses were incomplete.
Some are missing their skulls, or only half of their skulls remain; some are missing several segments of the spine; some are missing a section or the entire femur. In addition to the missing parts, other bones such as ribs, pelvis, sternum, and tibia also show varying degrees of tearing and fracture marks.
Jiang, the forensic doctor, said, "After testing, we found that the injuries on these six bodies are basically consistent with those caused by the beast-like ability."
She then pointed to a dozen or so storage pods and said, "And then here, there are two batches. The earlier batch died around 30 days ago, with no more than three days between the deaths. These earlier bodies had been submerged in seawater for a long time, and there were signs of long-term abuse on their bodies. Through examination, the traces that could be identified were confirmed to be caused by human whipping, burns, etc."
Furthermore, judging from the body tissues found at the scene, in addition to the same conditions as the previous group—exposed bones, missing spines, and partially or completely missing femurs—this group of people also primarily lost their brains and hearts.
Huanbo frowned: "What do you mean? Are you collecting human bones and internal organs?"
"To verify this, we also conducted preliminary examinations on the third batch," said Forensic Doctor Jiang, pointing to the relatively newer bodies.
"This is the third batch, consisting of five people, who died approximately 5-10 days ago. The bodies show no signs of being soaked in seawater, but the presence of bruising and adhesions indicates that the five bodies were piled together and decomposed. Similarly, these five victims are missing the same bones, as well as their brains and hearts, and other parts of their bodies have also been abused."
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