Chapter 326: Thrilling Footage

Chapter 326 – Thrilling Footage

Red high heels, red clothes, red hat…

Seriously? In the middle of the night you dress like this – are you trying to wake the entire world or shoot a movie?

Xiao Yu frowned, utterly baffled.

If the aim was to lure out a suspect in some case, would a pair of red shoes really suffice?

Then there’s the recording device… How scientific is that?

From Feng Xiuyun’s testimony, it was clear: the video opens with her already in a coma.

That middle-aged man was just about to do something to her when the red-dressed woman appeared?

This suggests that the recording device wasn’t brought in by the red-dressed woman, right?

It must have been there from the start.

But what if the device was actually brought by the red-dressed woman herself…

A chill of dread flashed in Xiao Yu’s eyes.

So, does that mean the red-dressed woman was originally inside the residence?

Could it be—like the ‘543’ theory—that the red-dressed woman and the middle-aged man are accomplices?

Xiao Yu’s thoughts tangled momentarily as he shook his head.

No, something’s definitely off – too many red flags!

And there’s one more crucial point…

If the red-dressed woman’s method of killing was truly as Feng Xiuyun described,

isn’t it downright terrifying?

Her technique bore no resemblance to how one would typically confront an adult man.

It was as if she were casually butchering livestock!

No ordinary person could pull that off.

I mean, is it even possible, when attacking someone,

to stab straight through the neck with a single slash?

And then manage to stab the victim dozens of times?

She even knew that a dagger alone couldn’t pierce ribs – she actually carried a hammer!

Using that hammer to drive the dagger into the man’s body, piercing his heart?

This method of killing… it’s just too professional, isn’t it?!

Xiao Yu’s mind felt like it was exploding; his brain was completely overwhelmed.

Every detail of the case had been recounted by Feng Xiuyun.

There were undoubtedly many aspects that still needed to be carefully examined.

All these clues alone are useless, no matter how sharp your logic is.

Let’s wait until Guo Qiang brings back the tablet.

Speak of the devil… Over forty minutes later, Guo Qiang returned with a tablet.

He pulled a memory card from the tablet and used a small tool to connect it to his computer.

There was only one video file on it.

Upon hitting play, Xiao Yu was visibly shocked.

And he wasn’t alone.

Other Criminal Police officers watching the video began to look terrified as well.

The camera angle in the video appeared to be from a high corner on the wall.

It captured the large bed and the entire layout of the room.

But what was it that made them so horrified?

The room had no windows, the furnishings were sparse, and it was lit only by dim wall lights that barely illuminated the space.

At that moment, the footage clearly showed a naked man about to do something to a naked woman on the bed.

Then, an eerie scene unfolded.

At the entrance of the room, a red silhouette emerged.

Slowly, it materialized from the murky light at the doorway.

The figure looked utterly inhuman, its movements strangely unnatural.

Her arms hung stiffly at her sides, and her body leaned forward in a rigid posture.

Step by step, she moved toward the bed.

Anyone who saw such a scene would immediately think:

“A red-clad female ghost has floated into the room, slowly drifting to the bed.”

That spine-chilling sensation was as if you were watching a horror movie…

The naked middle-aged man sensed something and suddenly turned his head to see the red-dressed woman.

At that moment, the red-dressed woman raised her arm.

A long, sharp knife followed the movement of her arm.

Thud!

It plunged into the middle-aged man’s neck.

One clean stab!

Xiao Yu and the other officers were left dumbfounded.

They all knew that without skill, one could never stab through a man’s neck with a blade.

Why?

Because the neck contains the trachea and other bones; to stab cleanly, you must avoid them.

That’s why the blade had to be thrust vertically rather than slashed horizontally.

Otherwise, the blade would get caught on the bone!

In other words, the red-dressed woman knew exactly what she was doing, evident even in how she gripped the knife.

From the video’s perspective,

the rest of the events unfolded exactly as Feng Xiuyun had described.

The middle-aged man was brutally slain.

Especially when the red-dressed woman stabbed his abdomen – her movements were swift and rhythmic.

A total of… twenty-six stabs…

Xiao Yu paused in disbelief.

He raised his arm and mimicked twenty-six stabbing motions in the air, his expression shifting once more.

Even mimicking those motions made his arm ache.

Not to mention actually wielding a sharp knife to stab a man’s abdomen…

Throughout the entire process, the red-dressed woman was methodical.

She dismembered the body’s flesh, even fetching a cutting board from the kitchen to chop it up repeatedly…

Then she gathered some bags, filled them with the remains, and carried them to the bathroom.

You could even hear the sound of flushing in the video…

In the end…

The red-dressed woman shattered the middle-aged man’s bones and stuffed them into a suitcase.

Throughout the ordeal, the video never revealed the red-dressed woman’s face.

But what was most horrifying was this:

From the murder and dismemberment to packing the bones into bags,

it only took… six hours.

The video ended!

“Hiss!”

The sound of sharp, cold gasps echoed beside Xiao Yu.

It was the collective intake of breath from seasoned detectives.

One can only imagine the shock and horror they felt inside.

After a long moment, Xiao Yu snapped back to reality and murmured to himself, “The surveillance and the woman’s method are indeed off!”

First, the surveillance.

The red-dressed woman seemed to know exactly where the cameras were.

So throughout the crime, she carefully avoided having her face caught on camera.

Secondly, her method of killing… is just too terrifying.

Why call it terrifying?

Perhaps ordinary people just wouldn’t understand.

Killing isn’t easy work – even slaying a pig requires effort.

The best butcher might take one to two hours to break down a pig.

But to dismantle a human, to carve away the flesh…

This gruesome work demands immense strength.

For an ordinary person, even six or ten hours might not be enough.

One more thing.

The surveillance video had been edited.

Xiao Yu didn’t have to guess – it was clearly the work of the red-dressed woman.

Familiar with the camera positions, she edited the footage before loading it onto the tablet, leaving it for Feng Xiuyun?

Xiao Yu’s pupils constricted.

What is she planning to do?