Chapter 64: Hell is empty, the devil is on earth
"The murderer was arrested half a month ago?"
Su He heard a horrifying story from Officer Hou.
A cartoonist drew ten cartoons. The themes of the cartoons were horrific murders. Each cartoon showed a woman being brutally murdered.
The cartoonist uploaded his works to the Internet and launched an event called: Ten Cartoons.
There is no introduction, and there is a blank box next to the comic with an upload button.
Until one day, a photo appeared on the website, and the story of the ten comics began...
The cartoonist was arrested by the police, however, the influence of the ten cartoons gradually spread throughout Kunyang.
Is the murderer the cartoonist or someone bewitched by the cartoonist?
Who will be the next murderer?
Anyone who has read the comics could become the murderer. The first case happened in Kaohsiung City, and the second case happened in Jiufen. The entire Kunyang has become the cartoonist’s murder scene!
Su He's phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Director Yu Qing.
"What? Fan Xiaotong is missing?"
Su He stood up suddenly, and the coffee cup rolled on the table and fell to the ground.
"Where did you miss him?"
"Hospital…"
Su He and Officer Hou looked at each other and stared at a cartoon at the same time.
A murder case set in a hospital ward!
"I'll drive!" Su He grabbed Officer Hou's car keys and ran outside.
In the passenger seat, Officer Hou contacted the police station to send additional personnel to the hospital.
At five o'clock in the morning, there were only a few cars on the street. Suddenly, the roar of a car was heard, and a police car sped past, drifting with a harsh friction sound.
At the intersection, a sanitation worker was sweeping the road, and suddenly garbage was flying everywhere. The man was stunned and said, "What the hell just passed by? It made my blood boil..."
Inside the car, Officer Hou held the handle tightly. After Su He turned several turns, he breathed a sigh of relief .
"Su He, you are such a great driver, just like a professional racing driver..." Officer Hou couldn't help but sigh as the car stopped in front of the hospital.
"I know a little bit... After I return to the capital, I will go to the driving school to register..." After Su He got off the car, he ran to the hospital while talking.
No driver's license?
"Is he kidding?" Officer Hou's legs were a little weak when he got out of the car, but he quickly caught up with Su He.
In the hospital lobby, Director Yu Qing and several crew members were anxiously talking to the police. Su He walked up and asked, "Have you checked the surveillance?"
"Su He... we checked, and there are no surveillance cameras in the ward or the corridor... Fan Xiaotong was not found in other surveillance cameras, nor was Fan Xiaotong found leaving the hospital... We searched every ward, and it's as if Fan Xiaotong has disappeared from the face of the earth..."
Disappeared? How is that possible? Su He glanced at Officer Hou, who had the entire hospital sealed off and checked every room one by one.
Su He was extremely anxious at the moment. He and Fan Xiaotong had only known each other for less than 24 hours, but this little girl had already left a deep impression on him. If he could accompany her to the hospital, nothing would have happened to her!
Arriving at the monitoring room, Su He reviewed the video footage of Fan Xiaotong from the time she was admitted to the hospital to the time she was discovered missing.
At that time, Su He asked a man to take Fan Xiaotong to the ambulance. After the man checked into the hospital, he left. His leaving was captured in the video.
It was already early in the morning, and there were very few people and cars entering and leaving the hospital. The only car was a hearse carrying the body to the funeral home.
"comics!"
Su He looked up at Officer Hou.
Officer Hou took out the comics and Su He pulled out one of them. On it, a coffin was filled with ice and a woman's body was lying on the ice. Looking closely, there was an obvious separation between the woman's limbs and torso, and her head was also separated from the body and connected with a wooden stick.
Ice water mixed with blood flowed all over the ground, and the entire cartoon was filled with a strange blood-red color.
The murderer is not in the hospital!
Officer Hou's men had searched the entire hospital but couldn't find Fan Xiaotong.
"Key!" Su He stretched out his hand and looked at Officer Hou.
Officer Hou hesitated for a moment, took out the key and put it in Su He's hand, saying, "It will be dawn soon, drive slowly on the road..."
Officer Hou sat in the passenger seat and gave Su He directions.
The funeral home was in a remote place. When he was almost there, Su He turned off the lights and alarms, walked to the door, and climbed over the wall next to it.
A body transport vehicle was still parked in the yard. The license plate was the same as in the surveillance video. Su He and Officer Hou split up and started searching in the funeral home.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
Suddenly, a sound was heard in the silent funeral home.
Su He immediately ran towards the direction where the sound came from.
When I pushed open the door, I saw a thin man carrying a large bucket full of ice.
The two men looked at each other, and the man turned and ran away.
Su He did not chase him. Fan Xiaotong was lying on the ground nearby, frowning from time to time and muttering: Su He... there is something fishy...
"Bang!" There was a gunshot outside. Fan Xiaotong turned over and continued to sleep.
There was a piece of paper on the ground. Su He picked it up and saw that it was the cartoon.
Inside the room, there was a coffin half-filled with ice, and in the corner, there was an electric saw.
…
When it was dawn, Su He fell asleep in the police car.
Hou Guangyi took off his police uniform, put it on Su He, then turned and walked towards the police station.
Of the ten comics, four have been completed and the fifth has been blocked. However, the case may happen again at any time.
In the interrogation room, the thin man still had a bandage on his leg. The doctor had already removed the bullet from his leg.
"Who is that 'he' in your phone?"
The thin man was called Tan Peng. He was responsible for transporting corpses at the funeral home. The police found a group chat called "Ten Cartoons" on his mobile phone. The content of the chat was extremely bloody and crazy.
And a person nicknamed "he" was live-streaming the murder process in the group.
"I don't know him..." Tan Peng looked up at Officer Hou and said disdainfully, "Officer, you arrested one of me, but there are thousands of me... We are creating art. Have you ever seen such an explosive photo?"
“Hahaha, we are everywhere…”
Officer Hou walked up to Tan Peng, put his hand on his leg injury, kept pressing hard, stared into Tan Peng's eyes and said: "You are just a bunch of disgusting rats in the sewer, I will pull you out one by one..."
The thin man refused to give in. He gritted his teeth and said nothing, staring at Officer Hou fiercely.
"Officer, I only attempted murder... You won't be in prison for many years!"
After walking out of the interrogation room, Hou Guangyi could no longer hold back his anger and shouted at the bathroom mirror: "Fuck!"
Hell is empty, and the devil is on earth!
