Death sentence turned into acquittal? Who told him to be a detective!

Chapter 97 The Truth! [Come in if you have something urgent, I'll say more at the end]

Have you ever eaten fried meatballs?
This is a street food, usually found at gatherings in rural areas.

The owner would set up a large pot by the roadside, put a lot of cooking oil in it, and it would boil when the oil reached a certain temperature.

At this point, you drop a dough ball into the boiling oil.
The meatballs float on the surface of the hot oil, rolling around as they fry, and the white dough visibly turns into golden meatballs!

What Xu Liang saw before him was the same, except...
The iron pot was transformed into a boiler made of cement.

The boiling oil was replaced by an alkaline solution.

And the meatballs inside
Xu Liang's face was ashen; he stared at the scene before him, unable to recover for a long time.

"Guru Guru~"

And after the first one surfaced, the second, the third, and the fourth followed immediately.
All four people were completely naked, with no clothes on, under the cement boiler.

Xu Liang looked up.

in the dark.

There are four identical boilers in total, running alkaline dissolution.
Xu Liang opened his mouth, and then he walked step by step to each of the boilers and opened the lids.

His legs felt like they were made of lead; every lift required all his strength, and he felt like an iron man.

After all four pot lids were opened.
"Beast. Beast!"

Xu Liang was completely disheartened and weakly uttered two words.

Standing among the four boilers, Xu Liang closed his eyes, feeling utterly exhausted from the inside out.

He now knew what kind of business Liu Shengjie, Zhang Mang, and Wang Hai were in.
what business?
You might not believe it when I tell you.

Human bones!!!

Yes.

Human bones can be sold for money!!!

When someone is kidnapped, you might think that what attracts the killer is their labor value, or that the person's family is rich, or even just their organs.

But what if none of the above fits the criteria for attracting the killer?
And you can't extract any benefits from gender or age!

Then you should be careful, they might be eyeing your bones!
Most people might not care, after all, how much are human bones worth? They can't be eaten or sold.

Not like organs or the like.

How could someone of Wang Hai's stature possibly be interested in something like this?
First of all, you need to know that even crimes operate within a normal business framework.

The entire crime chain is roughly as follows: raw material costs – processing and export – final retail.

In the retail sector, Xu Liang recalled that in his previous life, someone abroad had openly established a company and sold goods at clearly marked prices.

The price they quoted was $3,000 for a single baby skull, $2,000 for a complete skull, and a whopping $7,000 for the entire skeleton!

And what about the cost?

Almost zero cost.

A complete body worth nearly 50,000 Dongguo coins!
Don't treat money lightly. Fifty thousand yuan is more than an average person can earn in a year!

And this type of crime.
They often come in quantities of several hundred!
In 85, customs officials in the Lizard Kingdom seized a container containing 1500 skeletons, all of whom were extremely young.

In 01, five trucks loaded with bones were discovered in an abandoned factory in Gaddafi.
In 24, a female intern doctor in the Lizard Kingdom was raped and murdered, her body was dismembered, and her skeletal remains flowed into the black market.
"madman!"

Xu Liang's face was now terribly gloomy.

But he knew he didn't have much time to hurl insults, so he went back to the boiler.

Xu Liang squatted on the steps and took off his shirt, wrapping it around his hands.

He then used one hand to straighten the face of a corpse, and with the other hand, he used the faint light from his phone to illuminate it, constantly observing it.

"The hair has no hair follicle residue, the root is pointed and hollow, and there is no complete hair follicle tissue."

“Signs of decay remain on the abdomen, thighs and other areas.”

"Our initial guess is that he had been dead for a long time before he arrived at the boiler room."

Xu Liang remained remarkably calm, his gaze lingering on every part of the corpse.

In the blink of an eye, the origin of the corpse became clear to him.

"Dig up graves and exhume corpses!"

If I'm not mistaken, Wang Cuiping should still be alive.

Xu Liang murmured.

He finally understood the logic behind Zhang Mang and his associates' crimes.

First, they would impersonate police officers to arrest people who wouldn't warrant a police investigation, then force them to extract profits for them.

Such acts include prostitution in welfare institutions, being beaten by others to relieve stress, and drug testing.

And the boiler room itself
That is their final destination. It's the place where their bodies end after death from prostitution, drug testing, and other such acts!
After they die, their bodies will be taken to the boiler room to destroy the evidence and squeeze out every last bit of profit!
"Extracting oil from bones"

A glint flashed in Xu Liang's eyes.

"Hehe, this kind of business won't last long."

He finally understood why Zhang Mang and others would risk the Supreme People's Procuratorate's approval to commit crimes.

It wasn't that Wang Hai wasn't afraid.

It could even be said that it was precisely because Wang Hai was afraid that Zhang Mang took such a risk!
Judging from the construction time of the welfare home, the boiler room must have appeared several decades ago, in the 80s.

Criminals during that period, whether they were kidnapping people or committing murders in the wild, were very difficult to detect, so criminals were far more rampant than they are now!
The number of deaths in the major cases is in the double digits.
Therefore, at that time, the boiler room business was more profitable than risky.
However, as time went by, Wang Hai must have realized that the security situation in Dongguo was gradually improving, the risk index of the boiler room was rising, and the profits were declining.

In addition, the impact of the Lizard Kingdom on the human bone market has led to a sharp drop in profits.
The arrival of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, in particular, put Wang Hai under pressure, as the other party was 100% looking to clear their name and get out of trouble!
But if he wants to clear his name, it means he has to cut ties with the past.

Problems arose as a result.

His subordinates lack his foresight!

All they know is that after this, there won't be another chance to make this kind of quick money.
This led Zhang Mang and his associates to not only not restrain themselves, but to become even more eager to make as much money as possible in the final stretch!

Ever since.

Without any investigation or confirmation of her identity, Wang Cuiping was forcibly taken away in Ronghua Street.
"Heh, trying to whitewash your image?"

Xu Liang guessed Wang Hai's intention, sneered, and then took out a small camera from his shoulder bag.

"Crack!"

The sudden burst of light illuminated the entire scene.

The corpse, its eyes wide open in death, was covered with a layer of paleness and then frozen in the photograph.

"Crack!"

"Kaka!"

Xu Liang used this information to gather evidence in multiple locations, while also exploring the rest of the basement.

The basement contains a complete facility that turns people into skeletons.

He even found several skeletons that had been prepared in the last few rooms!

"That's about right, we've had enough time."

Xu Liang glanced at his watch and realized that two hours were about to pass, so he didn't linger any longer.

He retraced his steps.

"Da da."

Footsteps echoed again on the steps.

Before long, Xu Liang pushed open the basement door and went upstairs.

"Squeak~"

The sound of the door hinges rang out again.

Feeling the fresh air, Xu Liang took a deep breath and then walked towards the main entrance, preparing to return the way he came to call for help.

However, he had just arrived at the main entrance
In a daze, a group of figures walked from outside to the main entrance and bumped into him.

Xu Liang was stunned.

The figure in front of them also paused for a moment.

In an instant, an eerie silence fell over the scene.

until
"Chi~!"

The clouds obscuring the moon moved erratically without wind, and the cool moonlight illuminated the abandoned building.

Liu Shengjie's eyes darted around, looking at the basement door.

Basement door lock
It's been opened.

In an instant.

Liu Shengjie exuded a chilling aura; his expression was gloomy, his eyes were dark, and he stared intently at Xu Liang.

Mr. Xu, you

"They've gone into the boiler room?"

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