Chapter 394: Utterly Inhuman

"All four of them are dead?" Yu Dazhang asked in surprise.

He was starting to suspect Captain Hua had done it on purpose.

It looked like barely a few shots had been fired, yet every one of them had been killed — which meant every shot Captain Hua took was aimed at a vital point.

Far too ruthless!

"You think I wanted to?" Captain Hua's tone had changed:

"In that situation, I didn't have time to think at all. I fired entirely on instinct, and who would've guessed it'd line up so neatly — every shot hitting a vital spot."

That was the scariest part of all… Hearing his words, Yu Dazhang felt a chill run down his back, every hair standing on end.

"Coincidence" was nothing but an excuse.

Shooting and killing one person could be called an accident, but killing four in a row was beyond any accident.

It proved that somewhere deep down, Captain Hua had never intended to leave anyone alive — every shot was fired to kill.

Still, Yu Dazhang could understand his reasoning.

The situation inside the room at the time hadn't allowed Captain Hua to show any mercy.

The other side was armed — and with stun batons, no less, weapons that could subdue a person in an instant.

The moment they got the upper hand, he and Captain Hua would likely have been killed in the line of duty.

"Yesterday was all thanks to you too." Yu Dazhang sighed:

"If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would've already…"

"That's my line to say." Captain Hua cut him off:

"It was you who acted decisively and saved everyone. Later, when the SWAT bomb squad arrived, they confirmed that all the bombs and detonators were real."

What happened next wasn't hard to guess — Yu Dazhang had already reasoned it out yesterday.

After Zhang Chao and the others escaped, there was a very good chance they'd detonate the bombs to cause chaos.

If the bombs really had gone off, the consequences would've been simply unimaginable.

One thing was certain: not a single person inside the pig farm would've survived.

Yesterday, Captain Hua had still thought Yu Dazhang's actions were a bit rash.

But the moment he learned there was a secret tunnel as well, he immediately understood what Yu Dazhang had been planning — and broke out in a cold sweat.

That was the joy of having narrowly escaped death, but also the source of fear — after all, he had been only one step away from dying.

"How did the initial interrogation go?"

Yu Dazhang pulled the conversation back to the case.

When everyone was working a case together, there was no point in tallying up who saved whom — a couple of polite words was enough.

"Some of the guards started talking last night."

Captain Hua replied:

"The others won't hold out much longer either. Yang Jieru — that's Zhang Chao's wife — hasn't said a word, refuses to answer any questions."

Bringing the suspects back last night naturally meant an initial interrogation, to get the basic information on them.

Yang Jieru's refusal to talk was just what Yu Dazhang had expected.

The crimes she'd committed were enough to be executed ten times over — no amount of merit could spare her the death sentence.

With her intelligence, she'd probably long since figured out how it would end for her.

Yu Dazhang had actually been worried that the slap he'd given her might have caused a concussion, but now it seemed that worry was completely unnecessary.

Yang Jieru could take a beating far better than he'd imagined.

"What about Zhang Chao?" Yu Dazhang asked again.

"Still receiving treatment at the hospital." Captain Hua's expression was somewhat complicated:

"You snapped his forearm bone clean through. That kind of fracture counts as a minor injury — you're really something, strength-wise."

He didn't mention the shot he'd fired at Zhang Chao — by the time the shot was fired, Yu Dazhang had already been knocked out by the stun baton.

"In other words, he can't be interrogated anytime soon?"

Yu Dazhang was a little worked up as he asked.

In his eyes, Zhang Chao would be easier to crack than Yang Jieru — someone that single-minded was the easiest kind to deal with.

"Not necessarily." Captain Hua explained:

"Zhang Chao's injuries aren't life-threatening. From a physical standpoint, he can withstand interrogation."

Good… Hearing that, Yu Dazhang let out a breath of relief.

He'd been afraid Zhang Chao would hole up in the hospital and refuse to come out.

Still, from the perspective of the case, if conditions allowed, the police would naturally prioritize interrogating the main suspects.

After all, these people held the key clues and information.

Over the next two days, the interrogations continued.

Officers from the provincial bureau gave it everything they had, carefully combing through every detail.

Yang Jieru still hadn't opened her mouth — no matter how the officers questioned her, she kept her silence the entire time.

Zhang Chao's condition hadn't stabilized either; he needed an IV every day. Officers had gone to the hospital to question him twice, and both times he'd refused to speak.

Inside an office.

Yu Dazhang was flipping through the witness statements compiled over the past two days.

"Destroy the bodies, eliminate the evidence."

He muttered the line, then tossed the file in his hand onto the desk and pinched hard at the bridge of his nose.

Even though he'd been mentally prepared, the contents of the statements still shocked him.

Was there a perfect method for disposing of a body in this world?

Don't ask.

If you ask, the answer is no.

Those personnel in charge of watching over them — their duties are far more than simply guarding the mentally disabled.

In fact, they also shoulder an extremely cruel and inhumane task: dealing with those who die accidentally.

If someone is heavily injured or comes down with a serious illness, they choose to give up on treatment.

After the person dies, they first separate flesh from bone, then put all the meat and organs through a meat grinder, mince them up, and preserve them to feed the pigs in batches.

Pigs are omnivores with huge appetites, so it won't take long for this meat and offal to be consumed.

After a while, they slaughter the pigs, claim the animals fell ill, and bury them — that's all it takes.

Why not sell these pigs?

That would be walking right into a trap.

Pork has to pass strict inspection before it hits the market.

If you often buy pork at the market, you'll notice a blue stamp on the pigs.

That stamp is the inspection certificate, meaning the pork has passed strict inspection and quarantine.

If human tissue were found in a pig's digestive system, do you think the food regulatory department would call the police?

So killing these so-called sick pigs and burying them deep is the best method.

The bones are a bit more troublesome to handle — first they have to be smashed, and the finer the better.

Break them into the smallest fragments possible, then scatter them into the river in several batches.

Finally, the remaining blood has to be cleaned up.

Ammonia solution, used as a buffer, when mixed with blood can alter its chemical composition, making it easier to break down and remove.

It's also cheap and widely used — buying it in large quantities won't raise any suspicion.

As for the hair and teeth, those could actually be sold separately… Yu Dazhang's mind was in a bit of a mess at this point, and all sorts of wild thoughts were bubbling up.

It's truly inhuman.

According to the statements of those caretakers, over all these years they can no longer remember how many people they've handled.

What is certain is that the total number has definitely exceeded a hundred.

In Yu Dazhang's view, this closed-loop method is the most blood-soaked, the most brutal, and the most shameless.

Another two days passed.

Zhang Chao and his wife still hadn't talked.

During this period, Yu Dazhang also went to find their child.

After the parents were caught, the child had been taken away by Zhang Chao's mother.

Upon questioning, the child knew nothing about the parents' affairs.

But judging from Zhang Chao's mother's reaction, she likely had some understanding of what Zhang Chao and his wife had been doing.

Another day passed, and the case saw a major breakthrough.

Yang Jieru spoke up!

(End of chapter)