The complainants were an elderly couple who worked at a garbage recycling station year-round.
The garbage collection stations on the outskirts of the city have been in place for many years. City waste is first transported here for sorting. Recyclable waste is sent to professional waste treatment companies for recycling. Hazardous waste is sent to another waste treatment plant for complete disposal.
Yu Hanjiang walked over and asked the person who reported the incident, "How did you find these body parts?"
The old woman stood to the side, head down, not daring to speak, clearly terrified by the horrific scene.
The old man coughed and said in a trembling voice, "This morning, my wife and I drove the garbage truck to work as usual. The garbage over there was almost piled up like a mountain, and we wanted to load it onto the truck and get it away as soon as possible. I didn't notice anything at the time, but my wife suddenly screamed and said there was a hand in the garbage pile! I turned around and, my goodness, there really was a dark hand!"
Recalling that scene, the old lady shuddered and said, "It was a charred hand, not an animal's, it had five fingers. When I looked, I thought, 'Isn't that a human hand?' I rummaged through the trash can and found another hand! I was so scared that my legs went weak and I didn't know what to do. Luckily, my husband reacted quickly and told me to call the police."
The elderly couple were clearly bystanders unrelated to the case. They stumbled upon the dismembered body in the garbage dump, were terrified, and are still trembling.
While taking a statement, Yu Hanjiang asked, "How often is this garbage recycling station cleaned?"
The old man replied, "About three days. There's too much household waste in the city; if it's not sorted and cleaned up in time, there won't be enough room here."
"So, this batch of garbage was delivered within the last three days?" Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly. He was shot three days ago. Was it a coincidence, or did the organ transplant organization suddenly dispose of the dismembered body parts after realizing something was wrong?
"I think so?" the old man said uncertainly. "My wife and I cleaned this area three days ago and didn't find any bodies. We only found them when we came over this morning. This batch of garbage must have been delivered within the last three days."
"Can you tell where the trash comes from?"
"This is too difficult." The old man frowned in distress and said, "All the garbage from the neighborhoods, streets, schools, and workplaces is sent here and piled up together, making it very difficult to identify."
Because this place is a dumping ground for the entire city's garbage, the exact source of the dismembered body is indeed difficult to trace.
Yu Hanjiang endured the pungent stench in the air, picked up a branch, and squatted down to carefully examine the pile of garbage. In addition to scattered charred body parts, the garbage pile was also mixed with a large amount of rotten vegetable leaves, fruit peels, and takeout containers and other household waste.
With sharp eyes, he found a paper takeout box printed with "Good Taste Congee Shop" in a pile of garbage, as well as disposable plastic chopsticks and tissue bags printed with Minions and "Spicy Rice Noodles".
He stood up and asked his colleague in a low voice, "Where is the largest vegetable and fruit warehouse in our city?"
My male colleague said, "I remember there's a farmers' market in the western part of the city where vegetables and fruits are sold by the box, and they're incredibly cheap. Vegetables and fruits from all over the city should be available there."
"That's where we get our goods."
Another female colleague whispered, " Captain Yu, do you suspect the body came from the vegetable market?"
"No." Yu Hanjiang stood up, his expression cold: "These bodies appear to have been disposed of hastily. There are charred marks all over the bodies. The other party originally intended to cremate them, burning the bodies to ashes to leave no evidence. However, halfway through the fire, something may have happened, and the bodies were not completely burned. So they hurriedly threw the bodies into the trash can, and the garbage truck transported them to the recycling station."
Yu Hanjiang pointed to the large amount of vegetable leaves and fruit peels in the garbage pile and said, "There should be a large farmers' market near the garbage bin where they dumped the body. It's hard for a city resident's home to produce this much vegetable leaves and fruit peels in three days. Besides, there are also so many cardboard boxes and woven bags, which look like they were used to store vegetables and fruits at the farmers' market."
His colleagues found his analysis reasonable and nodded in agreement.
The accompanying Forensic Doctor said with a bitter face, " Captain Yu, these bodies are too fragmented and have been burned. It's difficult for me to determine their time of death and identity, and I don't even know how many people are dead. I have to take the bodies back for genetic testing and compare them with the genetic data of missing persons. I'll give you the results by tomorrow at the latest."
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Thank you for your hard work. Everyone, let's call it a day."
Today's Criminal Police Detachment left the team members looking rather disheveled. After all, they had followed Yu Hanjiang through the entire junkyard searching for body parts, and everyone smelled quite unpleasant. Upon returning to the Police Station, they all went to shower and change clothes.
During his shower, Yu Hanjiang continued his mental communication with Xiao Lou: "I've identified a suspect area. If you can find a 'Good Taste Congee Shop' or a'Spicy Rice Noodles' restaurant within 5 kilometers of the agricultural distribution center in the western part of the city, the garbage bins nearby are the most likely places where the body was dumped. That organ smuggling organization is also likely to be in this area."
Xiao Lou was surprised by his efficiency: "You even found out the specific shops?"
Yu Hanjiang said, "We found the takeout containers from these two companies in the garbage dump."
Yu Hanjiang paused, rinsed the shampoo foam from his hair, and continued, "My current colleagues are all from Secret Room World. I don't know if sending them to investigate might alert the enemy. So I thought it would be better to have my teammates come and help as soon as possible. They're not police officers, so they don't need to do too much disguise. It'll be easier for them to conduct interviews as ordinary citizens."
Xiao Lou nodded and said, "I'll have Lao Mo, Long Sen, Qu Wanyue, and Ye Qi come over to help you. Lao Mo and Ye Qi can pretend to be grandparents and grandchildren; old people and children are less likely to arouse suspicion. Long Qu and his wife can play themselves; it'll be more convenient for them to go to the farmers' market to buy groceries."
Yu Hanjiang naturally agreed with Xiao Lou's arrangements, as he thought the same way.
Xiao Lou continued, " After CEO Shao is discharged from the hospital, should we have him go home and investigate his father's connection?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded and said, " Old Mr. Shao seems to be unaware of the source of the organs. He said that his assistant handled everything. The assistant who resigned needs to be investigated. This person may know the contact information of the organ transplant organization. Moreover, this person resigned half a year ago... Half a year ago was around the time of Shao Qingge's surgery. It's a bit strange that the assistant resigned suddenly."
"Okay, I'll find a way to get CEO Shao discharged from the hospital as soon as possible so he can go home and investigate that assistant."
Yu Hanjiang noticed that Liu Qiao had been overlooked and asked, "Xiao Liu, what are your plans? Will you stay and help you?"
"Hmm." Xiao Lou explained, " Liu Qiao's anemia is quite severe, and her condition is progressing. She can't travel too far, so I want to keep her at the hospital. Although I personally think that doctors Zhao Sen, Qin Changming, and others are unlikely to be involved in the case, we can't completely rule it out. I need to investigate all the organ transplant cases over the years and compile a detailed report for you."
Yu Hanjiang's idea once again coincided with Xiao Lou's.
The man smiled with satisfaction and said, "Okay, let's divide the work and be careful."
Xiao Lou was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "There's something I've been wondering about. The dismembered bodies you found in the junkyard were all limbs, not the torso. The torso parts are all organs, so they were disposed of separately. It's very possible that this dark organization captured people, removed their organs, and then disposed of the bodies. But... what about Cheng Shaoyu?"
Cheng Shaoyu, the victim in the first dismemberment case, was a wealthy second-generation heir.
Xiao Lou asked in bewilderment, " Cheng Shaoyu was a beneficiary of organ transplantation. Someone else gave him organs. There's no possibility that a shady clinic would take his heart and dump his body in a landfill. So why was he also dismembered?"
The most plausible theory at present is that organ transplant organizations secretly remove organs from people and dispose of their bodies.
However, Cheng Shaoyu clearly does not belong to this category.
Yu Hanjiang calmly said, "Have you ever heard of 'revenge copycat crime'?"
Xiao Lou was stunned, not understanding Yu Hanjiang's meaning for a moment. Yu Hanjiang explained in a low voice: "A used a certain method to kill B's closest relative. When B took revenge, he deliberately chose to use the same method to kill A. From the perspective of criminal psychology, doing so would make the person seeking revenge feel more psychologically satisfied."
Xiao Lou suddenly realized: "You mean, Cheng Shaoyu received a heart transplant, and his heart came from someone else. That person died after losing his heart, and his relatives found out about it and took revenge on Cheng Shaoyu by dismembering his body?!"
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "This speculation is quite reasonable. Because Cheng Shaoyu's dismemberment method is very similar to the limb fragments we found in the garbage dump, which is a copycat crime. The people in the organ transplant organization are naturally the murderers. They killed many people for money; and some of the relatives of the murdered people took revenge on the organ recipients after learning the truth. Cheng Shaoyu was one of those who were taken revenge."
This makes sense. Why was Cheng Shaoyu, a recipient of a heart transplant, dismembered? Perhaps it was revenge from the family of the deceased who received his heart.
Xiao Lou's heart skipped a beat: "Oh no, CEO Shao also had an organ transplant. Could someone be retaliating against him?!"
Yu Hanjiang also thought of this and immediately said in a deep voice, "Go and check on CEO Shao as soon as possible, and determine the source of his kidney!"
Xiao Lou's heart was about to stop beating, so he immediately took a deep breath and turned to head to the ICU ward.
He was constantly worried that Zhao Sen would harm CEO Shao during the surgery, completely ignoring the fact that CEO Shao might face retaliation from his family after the surgery, since Shao Qingge had also "bought" someone's kidney.
The ICU ward door was tightly closed. When Xiao Lou asked the nurse to open the door, a young nurse was standing by the bed, smiling gently at Shao Qingge. She grabbed Shao Qingge's wrist, seemingly about to give him an injection. However, there was no IV bag in her hand.
—Is she trying to inject air into Shao Qingge's veins?!
Xiao Lou's scalp was tingling. He strode over and demanded sharply, "What are you doing?"