Starting with dissecting ghost stories

Shen Yuan returned to her usual self, and even when Shen Xing wanted to talk to her about Wang Xinran after she finished showering, Shen Yuan seemed somewhat uninterested.

The fact that Shen Yuan didn't react as before when Wang Xinran was mentioned indicates that she has indeed recovered.

Shen Xing wanted to ask her what kind of emotions she was feeling when she clung to his arm all the way back. He was very interested in Shen Yuan's psychological changes during this period.

But he ultimately didn't ask, because he had a feeling that if he did, Shen Yuan would probably explode—she might not even know the answer herself, but it was precisely because she didn't know how to say it that she would explode.

Shen Xing felt that he had grasped some of his sister's characteristics, which, like her abnormalities, were governed by certain patterns.

After watching his younger sister drink the special milk he had given her, Shen Xing changed his clothes, took off his silver jewelry, and put his glasses back on.

At 11:30, after confirming that his sister was fast asleep, Shen Xing's facial muscles twitched, and he walked out of the residential area.

Shen walked to the garage.

When Shen Xing opened the garage door and was hit by a pungent odor, he immediately realized something was wrong.

Perhaps the internal organs had been left inside for too long, because the garage was filled with a strange smell—a smell of rust and earth, like walking into a factory.

Fortunately, those were dried offal that had been dehydrated and compressed into blocks.

He picked up the children's costume doll that was placed aside and began to do its final touches.

Shen Xing's goal was to close the case, not to arouse suspicion that someone was still dumping the body.

Therefore, what internal organs can be left inside a children's clothing doll is a rather delicate matter.

If dehydrated organs such as the liver and lungs are thrown back into the river, these organs, which were originally rich in water, will dehydrate and reabsorb water. When a forensic examiner cuts them open, they will show a honeycomb-like structure and a mud-like appearance inside.

This makes it easy to conclude that the organs had been dehydrated before the body was disposed of again, potentially implicating a second person in the case.

Internal organs that are not easily detected as having been dehydrated include the tracheal cartilage and major blood vessels such as the aorta...

The former, cartilage tissue, is mainly composed of matrix and collagen with very few cells, while the latter is composed of elastic fibers. It hardens when dehydrated and regains its elasticity when soaked in water, making it difficult to distinguish if it has been thoroughly dried.

But... neither of these is very stable, and they're not convenient for "storytelling".

Shen Xing chose the uterus and prostate.

They are clumps of smooth muscle that shrivel up after dehydration. If you put them in river water overnight, the muscle fibers will reabsorb water and swell, restoring a similar rubbery and tough feel. Even when you observe the cross-section, it is very similar to the soft and rotten texture of normal river water.

Why would "Li Ya" deliberately stuff his ex-wife's uterus and his cousin's prostate into a children's doll and then discard it?

The story behind this is left to your imagination.

As for Li Xiaohua's internal organs and other remaining residue, Shen Xing would physically crush them together with the other internal organs. The dehydrated internal organs are very brittle, and Shen Xing could completely crush them by hand with just a few layers of newspaper.

Pour this meat powder down the drain, and the sewage will wash everything away, leaving no residue, and no one will even realize what this pile of powder is.

You could buy alkali at a hardware store and throw it into a heated alkali pot for a more thorough destruction, but the act of buying alkali would arouse suspicion, so Shen Xing chose physical destruction.

It took Shen Xing about an hour and a half to get everything done, and another half hour to clean the garage.

Shen Xing took out the other two dolls and packed the [02-Doll] with its new body and the children's clothing mannequin doll into his suitcase.

Before putting them in, Shen Xing specially lined the box with gauze to separate the two ordinary dolls from the other dolls, so that the smells wouldn't mix too badly.

At least this way, when I'm carrying the box, the shaking of the box won't make the doll inside wobble.

The streetlights in the old town are now completely off, but when crossing the bridge, Shen Xing could still see water police on boats, searching along the riverbank.

Judging from the location of the water police boat, they planned to start from the bridge piers and search under each bridge one by one.

If the body parts were indeed washed ashore in the middle of the river, it would truly be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

After the incident of Granny Zhang's self-immolation, patrols will definitely be increased at night, so it's best to avoid going near parks and video arcades.

Shen Xing walked along carrying the suitcase, the night providing him with the best cover.

Under a banyan tree at the end of a street, far from the factory and residential areas, only Shen Xing was there late at night.

He opened the suitcase, took out the [02-Doll], and after it regained its "activity", he commanded it to hug the children's clothing doll.

This is downstream, quite far from the bridge, but very close to the nearest fish rafts. This is because even though these things are released, they need to be discovered before they are washed away.

He dragged his suitcase to the riverbank and, by the moonlight, looked down at the reeds below.

A scenic boardwalk has been under construction along the river, but it hasn't reached this point yet. The river level hasn't risen fully, so you can still see the shallows and reed beds along the riverbank.

Shen Xing raised his left hand, extended his left index and middle fingers and gently waved them forward. [02-Doll], holding the children's doll, jumped down and walked towards the fish raft.

The view from the riverbank was extremely wide, and he could control the puppet to walk nearly a kilometer, although Shen Xing's visual range was not that far at night.

The only thing they could do was to throw the doll containing the uterus and prostate into the reeds by the river and let it soak in the water.

This place isn't at the mouth of a river, so it won't be greatly affected by the tides. At least unless there's a heavy rain, the doll will stay here indefinitely.

Tomorrow, the information that I went out will disappear from the surveillance footage.

As long as there is no heavy rain in the next two or three days, whenever they find the doll, it can only mean one thing.

Moreover, based on the current search progress of the marine police, they should be able to find this area by tomorrow.

it is finally over.

Shen Xing carried the briefcase, clenched his left fist, and gently waved it in a circle. [02-Puppet] ran towards him. The two figures, one tall and one short, exuding eerie noise, disappeared into the twilight.

The following day, Thursday.

A fisherman's terrified cry drew the sound of sirens, and blue and red lights flashed across everyone's faces.

On Thursday, May 20th, the shocking "5.17 Massacre: Dismemberment of a Family" case rocked the entire province as a gruesome, headless, soaking wet body was pulled from the water.

The case has been solved.