Chapter 275: What Did He Do to the Cow?

Chapter 275: What Did He Do to the Cow?

Night.

2:11 AM.

In the pitch-black night, an eerie atmosphere prevailed.

It was as if thick, boundless ink had smudged the sky, leaving not even a glimmer of starlight.

In a narrow alley of an old neighborhood, a group of police officers were cordoning off the scene.

A middle-aged female forensic examiner was performing an on-site autopsy on a body.

If you could even call it a body…

Staying up in the middle of the night saps your strength.

It makes you hungry. Xiao Yu was very hungry.

He held a box of milk in his hand and slurped it up through a straw.

His eyes, dark as the night sky, were fixed on that corpse—

Calling it merely a corpse wasn’t quite accurate.

It was more like a stitched-together monstrosity straight out of a movie or video game!

A pair of severed hands had been stitched to a head at the broken wrist area.

It was as if a head sprouted a pair of tiny wings.

Or like antlers from a deer.

Creepy and horrifying!

Both the thigh and the calf had been cut off.

The severed calf was sewn onto where its arm had once been.

Meanwhile, the upper arm and the thigh roots were stitched to its back.

The corpse was turned over with its belly facing up.

The missing palms and calves now acted as four supports for this bizarre figure.

They almost looked like four pillars holding it up.

Lastly, consider the head with stitched-on palms.

This head had been sewn onto the chest.

At that moment, the arrangement of the corpse made Xiao Yu think:

Is it like some quadrupedal animal?

Or like one of those toy dogs that kids love, which can move on its own?

Gazing at the grotesque corpse, Xiao Yu felt a mix of terror and revulsion.

He also sensed that the killer harbored a perverse, twisted pleasure.

After another long slurp of milk,

Xiao Yu’s eyes shifted back to the corpse’s face.

That head, stitched onto the chest, looked truly bizarre.

It stared blankly with eyes that hadn’t yet clouded over with death.

This indicated that death had occurred no more than 12 to 14 hours earlier.

But that wasn’t the point.

The real shock was that the face bore an expression of bizarre satisfaction and pleasure.

That eerie mix of horror and incomprehension sent chills down Xiao Yu’s spine.

A strange thought took root in his mind:

Could it be that the dead person was somehow pleased with his own dismemberment, the sewing, the way he was posed…

completely satisfied?

Faced with that oddly content and delighted expression,

when you combine that face, that head, and the bizarre body altogether,

an indescribably unsettling feeling rose in the hearts of everyone at the scene.

Many officers from the Criminal Police struggled to hide their unease; their faces looked grim.

This wasn’t because they lacked nerves,

but because it was something hard to accept!

“How can you drink that?”

He Li, the middle-aged female forensic examiner, stood up, glanced at the little runt slurping milk nearby, and laughed.

“I’m hungry!”

Xiao Yu glared at the corpse and remarked, “It may be a bit disgusting, but it’s better than starving.”

With that, he pulled out another box of milk from his pocket and handed it to He Li.

“Milk at midnight is easy to digest and helps you put on weight.”

He Li shook her head. “I’m getting up there in age—I don’t want to turn into a fat lady.”

“Ha!”

Turning his head, Xiao Yu grinned at He Li. “How did he die?”

He was asking about the cause of death.

Though He Li hadn’t examined it personally, she had deduced the likely scenario.

Her question was simply to confirm her suspicions.

It was to verify the unsettling theory.

“Exsanguination, shock, organ failure… death!”

He Li’s expression turned odd as she stared at the corpse’s face and provided a professional explanation without hesitation, “It appears his limbs were first dismembered, then stitched back together. In his final moments, his head was severed and reattached to his chest, which is why his expression remains… like this!”

Xiao Yu nodded, confirming her deduction.

Yet… his own expression grew troubled and eerie.

A vivid image flashed in his mind.

A man watching another dismember himself.

The victim seemed excited, almost admiring his own grotesque masterpiece.

He saw his own hands being cut off.

He saw his calves being hacked off.

He saw his limbs sewn back onto his body.

And his hands stitched onto his head.

Oh… throw in some flowers…

He died in a state of perverse ecstasy.

Yet his head was also severed.

Until that very head was sewn onto his own chest.

Then his body turned into a… humanoid puppet.

Xiao Yu got goosebumps all over.

A complicated mix of emotions flashed across his eyes.

But he quickly regained his composure.

He just couldn’t fathom such twisted methods!

“The detailed autopsy will only yield answers after further dissection and lab tests.”

He Li shook her head. “We need to check for traces of any drugs in the body.”

“Mm.” Xiao Yu nodded.

It would definitely be confirmed by lab results.

Everyone knew this:

No one could bear the pain of having their limbs hacked off.

…… Oh.

The agony is enough to make someone pass out from pain.

If your mental stamina isn’t strong,

or if you have some heart condition or exceptionally sensitive nerves,

you could easily die from the pain!

It’s like biting your tongue to death.

A very few do actually die that way.

But for most people, a bitten-off tongue wouldn’t be lethal.

The real killer is the pain!

Yet an examination of the dead man’s face revealed no trace of pre-death agony.

That expression of pleasure and contentment couldn’t have been feigned.

Without any drug-induced numbness, how could he possibly have managed to wear such a look?

This was exactly what Xiao Yu couldn’t understand.

He Li and two other forensic examiners bagged the corpse and took it away.

Xiao Yu remained at the scene, squatting as he opened a second box of milk and continued slurping it up, his eyes scanning the crime scene.

“What’s on your mind?”

Guo Qiang, noticing Xiao Yu had been squatting for a while, casually asked.

“I’ve been pondering something.”

Xiao Yu’s expression turned very serious.

“Huh?”

Guo Qiang was taken aback. “What’s on your mind?”

“You see…”

Placing the empty milk box in front of him, Xiao Yu looked at the image of a milk cow on it and mused, “If the first person to discover that milk is drinkable… what exactly did he do to the cow?”

Guo Qiang: ……

He looked at Xiao Yu with a mix of exasperation and amusement.

A thought even crossed his mind:

The world is vast.

But knowing you, I feel truly unfortunate!