Solving the case: Combining the police dog's olfactory genes at the beginning

The team members immediately dispersed and searched carefully within the vast Taoist temple.

Soon, Wang Feifei exclaimed in surprise from a side hall room.

"Brother Fei! Come quick!"

There are corpses here... there are still corpses here!

Luo Fei and the others rushed over immediately.

On the floor of the room lay three bodies side by side! They were the young couple who had disappeared at the party venue, and the nanny who had opened the door for them!
Like the girls outside, they had no injuries and even wore a peaceful yet eerie smile, as if they had seen some blissful scene before they died. Their deaths were also short.

Just as everyone was feeling heavy-hearted about the successive discovery of corpses, Zhou Xiaobei's shocked and urgent voice came from the next room.

"Brother Fei! Sister Xuanran! Come quick! Look at this...thing!"

Upon hearing Zhou Xiaobei's urgent and shocked shouts, Luo Fei and the others tensed up and immediately rushed out of the room where they found the bodies of the couple and the nanny, quickly arriving next door.

Pushing open the slightly ajar wooden door, the scene inside the room once again made everyone's pupils shrink.

This room was smaller than the previous side hall, but its layout was even more bizarre. In the center of the room, there was also a slightly smaller circular altar, but instead of incense burners or statues, it held a huge, dark-colored, ancient bronze coffin covered in green patina!
The bronze coffin lay silently in the center of the altar, reflecting a cold, eerie light under the glow of the cell phone, giving off an incredibly oppressive and unsettling feeling.

"coffin?!"

Chen Fan frowned, stepped forward, and pressed his hands against the heavy coffin lid, trying to push it open.

However, the coffin lid remained completely still, clearly indicating its extreme weight.

"let me."

Luo Fei stepped forward, gesturing for Chen Fan to step back.

He took a deep breath, gripped the edge of the coffin lid with both hands, and his [Super Power] instantly erupted!
"Creak—Bang!"

With a sickening metallic scraping sound, the heavy coffin lid, which seemed to require machinery to pry open, was forcibly lifted by Luo Fei and slid to the side with a dull thud.

All eyes instantly focused on the inside of the coffin!

Inside the coffin was a dark red silk lining, and on the silk lay two young girls dressed in plain white clothes, side by side!
Their eyes were closed, their faces were as pale as paper, and their lips were bloodless. They were Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui, who had been missing for a long time!

"It's them!"

Chen Xuanran cried out in disbelief.

Luo Fei immediately bent down and reached out to check Guo Mengyun's breath—it was extremely weak, almost imperceptible! He then touched her carotid artery and could feel a faint, almost imperceptible pulse!
"He's still breathing!"
They're still alive!

Luo Fei suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with a sharp light, and his voice rose eight octaves with excitement.

"Quick! Save them! Get them upstairs immediately! Call an ambulance to prepare for resuscitation!"

This unexpected discovery greatly boosted everyone's spirits! After overcoming countless hardships, they finally found a survivor!

"Quick! Give me a hand! Be careful!"

Chen Fan immediately called Wu Peixiong and the others, and they carefully lifted Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui out of the cold bronze coffin.

The two girls had soft bodies, but extremely low body temperatures, as if their life force could be extinguished at any moment.

The special task force immediately sprang into action, working as quickly as possible to transport the two critically ill girls down the long staircase to the ground.

The team members on standby on the ground and the medical staff who arrived later were already prepared. They immediately lifted them onto the ambulance, turned on the siren, and sped towards Haizhu First People's Hospital.

……

Outside the operating room at Haizhu First People's Hospital.

Chen Xuanran and forensic doctor Yuan Bingyan stood anxiously in the cold corridor, awaiting news from inside. The rescue operation had been going on for several hours, the red light was still on, and the atmosphere was heavy.

Meanwhile, inside the underground passage of Hequan Mountain Villa, Chen Fan and others were assisting a large number of local police officers who had arrived at the scene to handle the massive situation.

The bodies were carefully placed into body bags, lifted onto stretchers, and transported to the ground.

The twelve "human demon" girls sitting cross-legged in front of the altar, the missing couple, the nanny... their lives were all frozen in this dark and sunless underground in an extremely bizarre way.

In a secluded side room of the Taoist temple, the police made a major discovery—it had been transformed into a modern planter equipped with a constant temperature and humidity system and special lighting!
Inside, a densely packed herbaceous plant closely resembled "henbane." After initial identification and subsequent testing by accompanying experts, it was confirmed that this was not ordinary henbane, but rather a highly toxic herb, a "magic herb" thousands of times more potent!
There was also a set of professional chemical extraction equipment in the room, which was obviously used to extract high-purity scopolamine toxin from these magic herbs.

When the news reached Luo Fei, he immediately understood the source of the astonishing dose of toxin in Su Qiao's body—it was planted and refined by Xie Junshan himself!

……

To get to the bottom of the truth, Luo Fei went to the forensic department of the local police station.

An experienced female forensic pathologist dissected the body of a "human demon" girl in front of him.

During the autopsy, the forensic doctor solemnly told Luo Fei.

"Scolophonine was detected in the deceased's body, and based on the concentration and metabolites, she had been using this hallucinogenic toxin for at least two years, and a large amount of toxins had accumulated in her blood."

She pointed to the girl's well-preserved body and said.

"This is also one of the important reasons why their bodies did not decompose normally even months after their deaths; the large amount of toxins inhibited bacterial decomposition."

Of course, the unique low-temperature environment of this underground space is also a factor.

Luo Fei stared at the tiny needle mark on his forehead and asked a crucial question.

"If a person inhales this toxin for a long period of time and in large quantities, besides experiencing hallucinations, is it possible for...their mind to be artificially controlled?"

The female forensic doctor hesitated for a moment before answering cautiously.

"In theory, potent hallucinogens like scopolamine, when combined with specific psychological suggestion and guidance, can indeed greatly influence or even control a person's thoughts and behaviors."

If the practitioner is highly skilled in hypnosis, then... it is possible.

Upon hearing this, all the clues in Luo Fei's mind instantly clicked!

Those so-called "human demons" are not evil beings born with bad luck at all! Rather, they are the work of Xie Junshan, a demon who began plotting against them when they were children!

He has been poisoning these girls with extremely yin destinies for a long time, using the toxins of the magic herb to erode their minds, and then using sophisticated hypnosis to control their minds, making them kill their parents or close relatives in an unconscious or semi-conscious state, thus artificially creating "heinous monsters" that meet the requirements of his evil magic!
The accident that happened to Guo Mengyun's parents back then... was probably not an accident at all! It is highly likely that under Xie Junshan's hypnosis and manipulation, young Guo Mengyun, in a hallucination caused by the toxin, pushed her mother into the water... Thinking of this, Luo Fei felt a chilling and furious feeling!
However, some questions remain unanswered.

The twelve girls all had needle marks on their foreheads from the extraction of their souls. If Xie Junshan had already absorbed the Yin souls, why did he not appear to have "successfully cultivated immortality"?
Why was Guo Mengyun, the thirteenth person, placed alone in the bronze coffin instead of in front of the altar like the others? Gong Xiaorui was not born with an extremely yin destiny, so why was she in the bronze coffin with Guo Mengyun?
The answers to all these questions will likely only be found when the two girls wake up.

……

Luo Fei left the police station and returned to the hospital.

Chen Xuanran and Yuan Bingyan told him that Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui had suffered severe damage to their bodily functions due to long-term inhalation of large amounts of the "magic grass" toxin. Although their vital signs had been temporarily stabilized after emergency treatment, they were still in critical condition and under observation in the intensive care unit.

Just then, Luo Fei's phone rang; it was Chen Fan calling.

"Brother Fei, Xie Junshan is awake."

He...he said he wanted to see you.

Luo Fei's eyes turned cold.

"I am coming over now."

Upon arriving at the temporary command center, Luo Fei went straight to the conference room where Xie Junshan was being held. Pushing open the door, he saw Xie Junshan sitting in a chair, his hands cuffed in front of him. He was looking down at the table, seemingly asleep again.

Luo Fei walked over and sat down opposite him. He didn't say anything, but simply tapped the table lightly with his knuckles.

"Knock, knock."

Xie Junshan slowly raised his head.

His face was somewhat pale, but his eyes were unusually calm, even carrying a detached indifference, completely unlike a demon who had just planned and carried out a series of murders and whose hands were stained with blood.

He looked at Luo Fei, his lips twitched slightly, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"Luo Fei?"

Luo Fei nodded.

I've heard of you.

Xie Junshan actually smiled, a smile that carried a hint of something that was hard to tell whether it was admiration or mockery.

"You truly live up to your reputation. You're very capable to have found this place so quickly and broken my trap."

Luo Fei ignored his "praise," staring at him with eyes as sharp as knives, and asked directly.

"Is it worth it to harm so many innocent lives and destroy so many families for a vague dream of immortality and cultivation?"

"worth?"

Xie Junshan seemed to have heard something amusing and let out a cold sneer.

You ask me if it's worth it?

He leaned back slightly, his gaze unfocused, as if lost in some memory, and began to speak in a flat, yet extremely arrogant tone.

"I learned to read at the age of three, and by the age of five I could recite hundreds of Tang and Song poems."

By the time I was seven, I had already taught myself the entire elementary school curriculum. In my final year of junior high, feeling bored, I casually took the college entrance exam and became the top science student in our area, highly sought after by Tsinghua University.

"At nineteen, I graduated from Harvard University and started a small project with a few classmates. In less than three years, the company was valued at tens of billions of US dollars by top international investment banks."

At twenty-four, I sold my company and had billions in cash, achieving financial freedom that most people could only dream of over several lifetimes.

He paused, then refocused his gaze on Luo Fei's face, his eyes so empty they were chilling.

"What do you think of my life? Does it seem like a game with cheat codes? But for me, it's too slow, just too slow... My life is moving too fast, so fast that my soul can't keep up."

All the challenges and achievements seem like child's play to me, utterly tasteless.

"It's like playing a video game. If you can kill 999 enemies with one hit, and everything in between is useless, would you find it fun?"

He spread his handcuffed hands, his face showing an almost morbid confusion and fanaticism.

"Therefore, I need a new instance, an ultimate challenge that is difficult enough, exciting enough, and mind-blowing enough! Cultivation...immortality, ascension to immortality! Is there any game more grand, more challenging, or more exciting than this?"

"I've poured all my wisdom, resources, and energy into this, simply to enter a completely new world and continue my exploration. As for the 'materials' and 'resources' needed in this process..."

He smiled contemptuously and didn't say anything more, but the coldness in his unfinished words sent a chill down Luo Fei's spine.

This Xie Junshan is not a simple madman at all.

He is a monster with extremely high intelligence and abilities, but because his life has been too "smooth" and "invincible", he has completely lost his humanity and fallen into extreme nihilism and selfish desires!

He viewed real human lives as "resources" and "data" that he could freely consume in his "new world" game!
Listening to Xie Junshan's twisted logic that treats human life as a game resource, Luo Fei could not agree with it, but seemed to understand the madman's way of thinking—he lived in a "high-dimensional world" that he had constructed himself, detached from worldly morality and emotions.

However, Xie Junshan changed the subject, and the feigned calm and detachment on his face vanished instantly, replaced by an excitement and anger at his near failure!
He slammed his handcuffed hands on the table with a loud bang, leaned forward, and stared intently at Luo Fei, his eyes filled with resentment.

"Do you know what you've done?! Do you know what you've done?! You've ruined my life's work! Just one step away! Just one last step away! I could have pushed open that door and stepped into a whole new realm! Ascension! Immortality! You've destroyed everything!"

Despite his roar, Luo Fei remained unmoved, his tone cold and authoritative.

"Xie Junshan, look carefully, I am a police officer! No matter how high you claim to be, no matter how great your goals seem to you, you have broken the law and harmed innocent lives. This is an undeniable fact!"

A "celestial being" who achieves their status by consuming the blood and souls of others, even if they truly exist, doesn't deserve the title of celestial being; they are merely a demon!

"Law? Heh..."

Xie Junshan seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, but then he seemed to have all his strength drained away, and slumped back down, his face showing an indifferent indifference.

"The victor is king, the loser is villain; it has always been so. Now that I'm in your hands, you can do whatever you want with me."

He surprisingly cooperated and began to confess his crimes.

“That’s right, I killed those twelve girls. I also dealt with the young couple who broke in, and the meddlesome nanny.”

When he mentioned the couple and the nanny, his tone was as indifferent as if he had crushed a few ants. (End of Chapter)