The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 281 Bestiality

The technician manipulated the robot with a joystick to adjust its angle, and the black object finally revealed its true form.

The technician yelled, dropped the equipment in his hand, and sprang to his feet as if ejected, keeping a great distance.

All eyes were focused on the screen. In the dimly lit pipe, it seemed as if a ghost was lurking—it vaguely resembled the face of an infant, but the once plump face was now sunken, broken, and rotten, appearing especially terrifying on the screen under the lens.

Qi Fei's heart sank: "Huang Ruifen has an eight-month-old child..."

He looked at the robot's location on the interface; it was positioned directly below the recycling bin.
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At the police station, Wu Shanqiu sat at her workstation and said to Qi Fei, "Brother Fei, we checked the situation of the shop that the recycling station rented. It turns out that before the Sheng family rented it as a recycling station, it was a restaurant. There is a penalty record here. I sent it to you, please take a look."

Qi Fei clicked the mouse, and a penalty notice appeared on the computer screen.

Wu Shanqiu continued, "The shop where the incident occurred is not allowed to operate restaurants with heavy oil fumes. The previous tenant violated the rules and was reported, and the business was rectified once. However, not long after, the landlord terminated the lease early, and the Sheng family rented it to use as a recycling station."

"Heavy cooking fumes need to be vented," Qi Fei immediately responded. "Call that landlord to the recycling center!"

Inside the recycling center, as the rotting flesh was cleared away, the stench had mostly dissipated, and the landlord of the recycling center was summoned.

"I shouldn't have invested in this run-down shop in the first place," the middle-aged man complained. "I haven't made a single penny in the past few years, I've only lost money!"

Qi Fei had no interest in listening to his complaints: "We suspect that your shop has illegally connected to a residential exhaust pipe, and we need to find the entrance."

The landlord quickly waved his hand in denial: "I didn't break any rules. It was my previous tenant who did it. He was caught secretly running an illegal food delivery business, and I paid all the fines. I'm just too soft-hearted. I should have kicked them out when they were caught. Later, no one complained about the fumes anymore, but I discovered that they had set up an underground kitchen without my permission. They were incredibly bold, connecting the exhaust pipe to the apartment building behind my back. I was furious and kicked them out right then and there."

"An underground kitchen? Take us to see it," Qi Fei asked hurriedly.

“I’ve already sealed it off. What do you want with that place? This family who collects scrap doesn’t know this place…” The landlord muttered to himself, leading them around to the back door of the shop, to a place covered by a pile of debris. “Damn it, these scrap collectors have made this place so dirty.” He said, pushing aside the wooden boards and garbage bags, and saw something that looked like a manhole cover in the corner.

The landlord was startled when he saw the lid: "Didn't I seal it with cement? How come..." Qi Fei didn't care about that and hurriedly went forward to open the lid. A mixture of musty and fishy smells rushed out. He turned on his flashlight and shone it down. He saw that it was a basement several meters square. A rope made of torn bed sheets was hanging from a pipe near the opening. Filthy food scraps and mineral water bottles were scattered on the ground.

However, apart from these, Huang Ruifen was not seen here.

After much effort, the baby's remains were finally retrieved from deep within the pipe. A talisman for protection remained on the swaddling clothes, but unfortunately, it couldn't save the child's life.
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Xiao Tao deftly put on rubber gloves and focused his gaze on the unusual corpse before him.

The dissection table has never been as large as it is now.

He examined the body with a gentler touch than usual: "Severe skull damage, the wound was inflicted before death; in other words, the deceased was very likely lifted up like this and thrown to their death." He demonstrated the gestures as he spoke.

Qi Fei glanced at Sheng Tianbao's body lying not far away: "A large number of Sheng Tianbao's fingerprints were found in the basement, especially at the entrance of the exhaust pipe. Coupled with his unusual behavior of buying large quantities of pig offal, this child's death is inextricably linked to him."

"Oh, speaking of this," Xiao Tao suddenly said, "I conducted further investigations into Sheng Tianbao out of personal interest and made new discoveries."

"Personal interest?" Qi Fei looked at Xiao Tao curiously. Only Xiao Tao, a forensic doctor, could say something like having a personal interest in corpses without seeming perverted.

"Well, judging from his physical appearance, Sheng Tianbao is slightly different from ordinary people. He is tall, has exceptionally long arms, and his bones and joints are large. I suspect he has a congenital abnormality, so I examined his brain and gender characteristics. Sure enough, I found that his brain and organ development are abnormal. I sent his cell samples for chromosome testing, and I just got the results. All the cell samples showed a consistent karyotype with an extra Y chromosome. This is the 'supermale' syndrome that has become popular online in the last two years."

Of course, those online comments are all jokes, but Sheng Tianbao is a true "hyperandopath" in a pathological sense. He would have more difficulty controlling his temper than the average person and would most likely have violent tendencies.
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"You've been sullen ever since you came back from Xiao Tao's place. It seems like something has clashed violently with your values." Zhong Kui handed Qi Fei a cup of milk tea, speaking her words of concern in a unique way.

Qi Fei picked up the straw and popped the lid of the milk tea with a "pop." He said dejectedly, "The DNA comparison results show that the baby is Sheng Tianbao's child. Based on the current clues, the child was most likely killed by Sheng Tianbao himself. Xiao Tao said that Sheng Tianbao has 'hyperandrogen syndrome.' I've seen so many dead people; I should have accepted these cruel facts long ago. But this is a child, and the murderer is his biological father. I don't understand..."

“That’s because you’re a very socialized modern person.” Zhong Kui seemed completely unsurprised. “If you stretch the timeline long enough—oh, not too long, at least a hundred or two hundred years ago—many places didn’t really have the concept of children. People were just people, or rather, babies weren’t considered people by them. ‘Super-male’ is only one aspect; if they weren’t indifferent to human life, they wouldn’t have let Luo Yongmei die from her injuries, nor would they have launched such a despicable attack on Dr. Li. It sounds tragic, but you have to see that humans are tamed from wild beasts by civilization. That bestial nature is the source of those inexplicable fears in the dead of night. So-called demons and ghosts are just imprisoned bestiality, clamoring deep within their souls to break free…”

"Hiss..." Qi Fei looked up at Zhong Kui, "You sounded very inhuman when you said that."