Chapter 3500: A Study of Cats and Dogs (59)

Watching Betty eat something, Schiller left Aisha upstairs to play with her. Schiller went downstairs to prepare to deal with the corpse.

Ma'alefa'ak might come at any time, but Schiller wasn't panicked.

If Ma'alefa'ak still had his sanity, combined with his strong body and telepathic ability, it would indeed be a bit troublesome. But now he is just a pervert whose mind is clouded by evil desires. Schiller is best at dealing with such people.

Before going to the backyard, Schiller had already seen a small warehouse there specifically for gardening tools. He walked over and indeed saw a set of raincoats, which should be worn when spraying with a water pipe.

Schiller put on the raincoat, then first carried the mother's corpse out of the cellar. After wrapping it well with waterproof plastic sheeting, he put it in the trunk of his car. Then he went to the gardening tool room and took a shovel.

Three days had passed, and the corpse had rotted quite severely, emitting an extremely rich odor. It must be dealt with as a priority.

Schiller didn't intend to dismember the corpse either. This is not a city, but a wilderness everywhere. Just find a place to throw the corpse, and it might not be found until next year.

On the way Schiller drove over, he saw a wasteland nearby. And from the growth of the vegetation there, it could be seen that there were rabbits there.

The Great Plains in the United States are not all good for agriculture. In addition to the unobstructed tornadoes, the over-breeding rabbits are also very headache-inducing.

They not only destroy plant roots but also dig holes everywhere, and even connect the underground for several miles around. And they reproduce a litter at a time, and the speed of flooding is extremely fast. The land occupied by them basically cannot be farmed.

But unfortunately, animal protection doesn't allow the use of modern weapons to fight rabbits, so they can only introduce biological control. But if you recruit wolves, aren't people in danger?

So when land is not in short supply, everyone will fence off this piece of land. Drive the wire mesh several meters underground, and no matter how powerful the rabbit is, it can't climb over.

Schiller got out of the car and saw that this place was fenced off with wire mesh. However, the wire mesh on the side was broken, which should be someone sneaking in to fight rabbits.

Schiller carried the corpse and walked swaggeringly toward the gap, first sent the corpse in, and then walked in himself.

Friends with experience know that digging a pit to bury a corpse is the least efficient. Anyone who has done the work of digging a pit knows that it is basically unrealistic to dig a pit overnight by hand that allows an ordinary adult to lie in it completely.

Even if it can be dug out, it can't be dug very deep, at most it can only cover a shallow layer of soil on the surface. To dig two or three meters deep underground, one must have modern machinery assistance.

However, that must be ordinary land, not land that has already been drilled by rabbits, with the entire underground being a rabbit hole network.

Digging a pit here is much simpler. Find a rabbit hole, extend the shovel into it to probe, and then knock off the top along the direction. Immediately find the fork, and then dig off the layer above along the fork.

The rabbit holes under the soil layer are not flat, but have deep and shallow, intertwined and complex. As long as you follow a path down, you can always find a deep place.

Discovering that the tunnel begins to deepen, you can start digging a pit. At this time, digging a pit again, the soil inside is not solid, but has long been penetrated by rabbit holes into a honeycomb. It is much simpler to dig.

Schiller dug like this for more than two hours and successfully dug a pit that could barely accommodate an adult woman. He buried the corpse in it, and then filled in the soil that had been dug out earlier.

Although it is not particularly deep, this place is located in the center of the rabbit infestation area, and generally no one will come.

Moreover, rabbits are not vegetarians.

This is not an adjective, but a fact. Although in most people's concepts, rabbits are herbivores, there is no animal in this world that can refuse protein that falls from the sky.

All herbivores known in the world, unless there is a problem with the feeding structure, can eat meat to supplement protein. For example, the most common cows, horses, and sheep, although they cannot use meat as a staple food, can all eat meat. Some will even supplement meat powder when feeding to improve the immunity of herbivores.

In the case of rabbit flooding, the time the corpse remains will inevitably be much shorter than normal decay. Even if someone discovers it, the specific characteristics may have been blurred and difficult to identify.

After doing all this, Schiller returned to Tan Da's house. Aisha walked down from upstairs and said, "Someone knocked on the door just now, but I didn't make a sound. I took a peek, and it seemed to be a police officer."

"It's okay," Schiller rubbed Aisha's head and said, "You can go upstairs and sleep for a while. Later, we'll go out."

"I'm not sleepy, I'll go tell Betty a story," Aisha said, "She likes me very much. Just now she was still holding my hand and wouldn't let me go."

"No one doesn't like you. Go, go accompany her."

After Aisha went upstairs, Schiller began to deal with Tan Da's corpse. This was not as simple as dealing with that mother.

To put it bluntly, Betty's mother was just an innocent victim. If she had agreed to come to Tan Da's house to stay, there might still be the responsibility of not being vigilant enough. But if she was controlled by a telepath, she was completely innocent. Schiller would respect her corpse as much as possible.

But Tan Da is different. Although he died a bit rashly, fortunately, the corpse is complete. It is time for Ma'alefa'ak to re-recognize his partner.

By the time Schiller prepared the tools to be used, it was already dark. But he still waited patiently for a while, until Aisha coaxed Betty to sleep. The two left Tan Da's house under the cover of night.

Tan Da's house is not far from the large pit in the wheat field, and it can be walked directly. Schiller wrapped Tan Da's corpse with plastic sheeting and came to the center of the large pit in the wheat field under the cover of night.

Although the pit is a bit small for the size of an alien spaceship, it is more than enough to accommodate an adult.

Schiller placed the corpse in the center of the large pit, and then let Aisha go to the side to keep watch. He began to get busy.

The smell of blood drifted away with the evening wind, but soon hid in the wind further away. Schiller was busy for most of the night. It wasn't until late at night that he called Aisha to go back.

After returning to the house, the raincoat with bloodstains was burned. Although there was nothing on his body, Schiller still took a shower and cleaned the floor.

There were no bloodstains left in the house because Tan Da died of cardiac arrest. There were no wounds on his body, so naturally there was no bleeding. And the places on the floor that might have been stained with hair were all cleaned by Schiller. There is no evidence to prove that this is the first crime scene.

By the time everything was done, it was almost dawn. Schiller took out his mobile phone and dialed the police. He had seen the phone number of the town police station on the missing persons notice before.

"Hello, hello. I am Rodriguez, currently staying at the Tan Da farm. But late yesterday, Mr. Tan Da said he had something to go out, left the farm cabin, and hasn't returned yet."

"A police officer came to warn us earlier that missing persons cases have been frequent recently. Let us be more careful, I don't know if Mr. Tan Da is missing, can you come and take a look?"

"Okay, I'll wait for you in the house now. See you later."

Schiller hung up the phone. Aisha, who had just woken up, said with some worry, "They will search the house, what about Betty then?"

"Is she awake?" Schiller asked.

"Yes, we slept together last night, she woke up when I woke up. She looks much better."

"You should be able to knock her out, right?"

"Yes, you want to..."

"You knock her out first, let her change back into the clothes she wore yesterday. Hurry up, the police will be here soon."

Aisha nodded and ran upstairs quickly. It was done soon. The clothes Betty wore before were a bit dirty, but fortunately, they didn't touch the abrasions on her body.

Schiller carried her back to the cellar, found a clean piece of ground in front of the bathtub, and placed her there. Then he cleared all traces of his appearance in the cellar.

Just after leaving the cellar and returning to the living room of the main house, the police car drove over. Two police officers got out of the car and knocked on the door of Tan Da's house.

Schiller opened the door to let them in and briefly explained the situation. The police officers' expressions looked a bit heavy.

"We can't contact him either," the female police officer said, "We called him before coming, but no one answered. I'm afraid he has already met with misfortune."

"It seems that my daughter and I can't stay here either. We are preparing to leave in a while. If you have anything else to ask, just ask quickly."

The female police officer was about to say something when her communicator rang. She took off the walkie-talkie on her waist and went outside to say something, and when she came back, her face had become significantly paler.

"Tan Da's corpse has been found," the female police officer said. And her partner was more straightforward, directly taking out his gun and looking at Schiller vigilantly.

Schiller hurriedly stretched out his hands and said, "I don't know what's going on, I only know he didn't come back all night. I stayed with my daughter all night."

At this time, Aisha pretended to have just woken up and ran down from upstairs. She sniffed and said, "Dad, I think I saw an alien last night."

"What?" Schiller looked at her with some curiosity.

"It was last night. It seems like an alien landed outside the window. There was a sound. It seems there was also the sound of a spaceship engine."

"Okay, we won't talk about this now," Schiller said, "Officer, Mr. Tan Da, he has already..."

"Yes, he is already dead. And..."

"No, we won't talk about this here," Schiller glanced at Aisha, and the police officer also realized that now is not a good time to talk about this. The female police officer said, "A murder case has occurred. And you are the last person to see Mr. Tan Da, I'm afraid you can't leave now."

"Okay. I also expected that this might happen. Am I going to town with you?"

"Yes, you must go to the police station with us. However, we will send someone to take good care of your daughter... forget it, I will take care of her myself, I won't let anything happen to her."

"I hope she doesn't leave my sight," Schiller said.

"No problem," the female police officer nodded.

The police took Schiller away from the house. Before leaving, Aisha kept looking at the warehouse. At this time, the male police officer couldn't help but stop. He rubbed Aisha's head and said, "What are you looking at?"

"The alien took off from there yesterday. I heard the sound. But my dad said there are no aliens in this world..."

The male police officer looked at the warehouse thoughtfully. The wind blew the warehouse door, making it sway a bit. The dust at the door seemed to have been cleaned by someone. Only the weeds growing in the cracks of the floor tiles swayed gently with the wind.

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