Chapter 704: Chilling Investigation

Book Chapter 704: Psychological Endurance*Book! Group> by? Lin Fa – Self-Imposed Limit (Update 2)

Half a day’s time.

Under Xiao Yu’s direct search, a total of five wireless surveillance cameras were found within the villa.

This doesn’t mean that Team Two’s members are mindless tools.

Rather, it shows just how cunning the other side is.

Every camera was hidden within the walls.

Moreover, each one was wrapped in tin foil.

Only a tiny lens, barely larger than the tip of a cotton swab, was exposed, making detection nearly impossible.

What purpose does the tin foil serve?

Specially made tin foil possesses anti-detection properties.

A surveillance lens the size of a cotton swab tip?

This refers not to the overall size of the camera, but to the size of its lens.

The country’s most miniaturized surveillance lens is even smaller than a match head.

“Typically, wireless cameras need recharging every two to three days, though it varies by model,” one voice explained.

“But these mini cameras come with a 20,000mAh battery that can keep them running for at least six months without a recharge or battery replacement.”

“They support network transmission with an integrated data card, allowing them to connect anywhere, anytime.”

“They also feature remote control functionality through custom-made software, making it nearly impossible to trace their origins.”

“We even discovered a strange memory card in one of the cameras. It stored a video recording…”

A 647 Team Two member handed Xiao Yu a laptop.

Xiao Yu frowned and clicked to play the video.

The screen jittered with static.

It revealed a dimly lit room.

Faintly, a figure could be seen sitting on a chair at the center of the room.

In the murky light, the person on the chair appeared to be curled up, like a wounded beast struggling to move.

Suddenly, the room in the video burst into bright light.

The stark contrast made Xiao Yu’s pupils contract repeatedly…

It was a square room, roughly fifteen square meters in size.

Xiao Yu was disturbingly familiar with this room.

It was one of the seven rooms in the villa’s basement at the crime scene.

However, the room shown in the video was different.

From the camera’s angle, a series of metal pipes lined the walls.

But Xiao Yu’s attention wasn’t captured by the pipes—it was fixed on a bound man sitting in the center on a chair.

The chair was clearly fastened to the floor.

The man’s limbs were securely tied to it.

He was completely naked, his face twisted in terror as he desperately struggled, unable to break free…

Xiao Yu’s heart sank; he knew what was about to unfold.

It felt as though his premonition was being confirmed.

Then, his gaze shifted from the man to the metal pipes lining the wall.

Only then did he notice that some of the pipes had turned red.

The red hue was caused by intense heat burning them.

Heating?!

No guessing needed—the room must have been extremely hot at that moment.

The bound man continued his frantic struggle, sweating profusely…

Soon, the red tint on the pipes vanished, reverting to their original metallic color.

Yet, the man kept sweating and struggling, growing increasingly weak.

Suddenly, he shivered violently, his whole body trembling.

Xiao Yu turned his gaze back to the pipes on the video wall.

He noticed that a fine mist had formed on some of them, quickly frosting over.

Cooling?!

Xiao Yu’s expression shifted rapidly as he fixed his eyes on the screen.

He began calculating the timing.

What time?

After ten minutes of heating, there would be ten minutes of cooling.

What happens to a person under such conditions?

They sweat, cool down, sweat again, and then cool once more.

Three cycles of heating and cooling in an hour.

The man bound to the chair had clearly ‘lost’ a layer.

Water trails appeared beneath and around him.

And that wasn’t all.

A layer of grease covered his body.

The greasy substance, resembling wax, was white in color.

Miraculously, despite the torment of these thermal cycles, the man had not yet died.

Then, a terrifying surge of heat returned.

The ‘waxy’ coating on his body melted and began to drip.

But no more sweat emerged from him.

His body was slowly withering away.

Layer after layer of an oily substance started peeling off him.

Time dragged on.

Suddenly, the man went completely still…

While the room continued its relentless cycles of heating and cooling.

One hour, two hours, three hours…

Xiao Yu’s eyes never left the video.

He watched, in disbelief, as a living person transformed into a lifeless corpse.

From dehydration to the loss of body fat.

Eventually, the man became nothing more than a dried-up corpse.

This entire process spanned a full fifteen hours…

Xiao Yu had never witnessed such a bizarre and horrifying spectacle.

He coldly stared at the corpse and the pool of oily wax on the floor.

He watched as the melt ran along the floor into a drain like filthy sewage…

Then the video abruptly cut.

Darkness, then light. A second person, also bound to a chair, appeared in the footage.

Heating, cooling… their body was stripped of fats and wax, turning into a corpse.

Then came a third victim, a fourth…

In the villa’s hall, an eerie silence prevailed.

Wang Dong and the Team Two members struggled to maintain their composure as they watched the video with Xiao Yu.

No one moved.

No one spoke.

They appeared frozen in time.

A scene in the video deeply shocked this usually unflappable group of National Security personnel.

Until one team member could take it no longer.

With a startled ‘Wow’, he began to vomit.

Soon, the vomiting spread as if it were contagious.

The second member, the third, and in all, five members began vomiting uncontrollably!

No one would blame them.

It wasn’t that they lacked mental fortitude.

Each individual has a limit to their endurance.

Although that limit can slowly increase over time…

When something pushes them beyond what they can bear, nature takes its course.

The most instinctive bodily reactions set in.

Such as losing control of one’s bowels and bladder.

Or suffering from cramps and relentless vomiting.

Or even completely losing command of one’s body…

For an entire day, only Xiao Yu remained glued to the video.

Everyone else had long since left, unable to endure it any further.

Even though the day dragged on, Xiao Yu continued fast-forwarding through the footage.

He fast-forwarded to the moment when the last victim… turned into a corpse.

He slowly closed his bloodshot eyes.

A cold, emotionless voice then spoke.

It echoed in Xiao Yu’s mind…

【Ding: Case Triggered Successfully.】

【Police God Case Check-In Started.】

【Host, do you wish to check in?】

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