Chapter 68: Mysterious Videos
by xennovelThe video continues playing…
The man who ate his finger still carries a smile.
His bloodstained, bright red face looks like a vengeful spirit!
Just wait until he devours all five fingers.
He picks up a dagger and plunges it into his chest and abdomen.
One cut, two cuts…
Xiao Yu, his scalp completely numbed, silently watches this gruesome scene in the video.
A total of sixteen cuts. The man finally stops.
Not because he wants to stop.
But because his body can no longer endure it, collapsing to the ground…
The video ends!
Xiao Yu closes his eyes.
He feels his brain is overwhelmed.
The sheer amount and variety of disturbing information is too bizarre.
Trying to analyze it only gives him a splitting headache.
First, Xiao Yu dismisses the video’s authenticity.
Who could be so ruthless as to carve hundreds of cuts into their own face?
Who could actually eat away each finger one by one?
What’s most outrageous is that while doing these things,
they proceed unhurriedly, as if indifferent to pain.
One must understand that such agony is beyond what any normal person can bear.
No ordinary human could ever do this!
Not ordinary?
This isn’t a movie – human bodies do register pain.
Okay, perhaps he encountered someone peculiar who was born without any pain sensation.
That much could be understood.
But the fact that two people do it? That’s absurd!
Xiao Yu is genuinely dumbfounded.
His face is blank, unable to believe anyone could go so far.
Because it utterly defies the limits of his understanding.
After a long pause to collect himself, Xiao Yu opens the third video…
Five minutes later, he nearly vomits.
He sees a man methodically slicing chunks of flesh and calmly eating them…
Until death!
The fourth video.
Again, a man is seen mutilating his own nose, eyes, ears, tongue, legs, and arms…
The fifth video.
In it, a person kneels on the ground, cuts open his chest and abdomen, extracts his organs, and places them into…
After all five videos are watched.
Xiao Yu’s scalp is completely numb, and his eyelids twitch uncontrollably.
If the first two videos can be described as eerie and horrifying,
the last three are truly beyond what any sane person should see.
They could easily inflict deep psychological trauma and lasting scars!
Xiao Yu, well-versed in criminal psychology,
employs psychological persuasion and regulation…
Until finally, an hour later,
he manages to calm the terror within him.
Xiao Yu no longer feels like going through the case files.
From those five surveillance videos alone, he deduced the basics.
One person resorting to such measures might be understood as committing suicide.
But when two people do it, it’s beyond comprehension.
Three, four, five people…
The answer is obvious – this is no case of self-harm or suicide.
There must be some unknown method, mechanism, or force… driving them!
Xiao Yu reopens the video to check the timestamps.
2022, 2021, 2020…
Does one appear every year?
Starting from five years ago?
Frowning deeply, Xiao Yu eventually opens the case file.
Classified C, Special A!
Xiao Yu: ???
At first he is stunned, then he gasps sharply.
Special Major C?
Top Secret A?
Major cases are assigned levels.
They range from S… A, B, C, D, to E.
For instance, Level E is the most common tier among major cases.
Cases involving more than three fatalities, massive sums, and enormous impact…
Like the brutal family massacre that Xiao Yu solved.
A family of three met a horrific end, their bodies nearly reduced to dust.
And that was just an E-level major case.
Take the recent corpse smuggling case.
It involved thousands of remains – so horrifying it barely reached D-level.
When such major cases occur domestically, if they’re D-level or above, local authorities have no jurisdiction – National Security takes over.
Local agencies merely assist.
That this case is rated as C-level…
means National Security is taking it very seriously – far more so than the corpse smuggling case!
That figures…
Those five videos alone speak volumes.
No wonder Wang Dong warned him not to leak the USB drive.
If these five videos were released, imagine the public panic!
Could a horror film dare to recreate something as gruesome as those scenes?
Xiao Yu focuses intently on the case details…
Summer, 2018, late at night.
City C received an emergency call.
The caller claimed that while out on a jog, he passed a park and witnessed a gruesome self-mutilation incident.
At the time of the incident, the caller had entered the open park.
He heard strange noises and rushed over to check.
He discovered a woman in white who looked like a ghost of the night, brandishing a knife and slashing her face…
Terrified, the caller fled in panic.
So shaken, believing he had encountered something unearthly, he waited several hours before reporting.
By the time the police arrived, the victim’s body had long turned cold.
Later, the police extracted the park’s surveillance footage…