Chapter 165: The Woman Who Turned into a Pig (1/2)

When we reached the workshop, we saw a guy dancing in disheveled clothes. He shouted at us, “You’re all going to turn into pigs! And then you’ll get slaughtered like an animal!”

“Why is he so affected by this?” asked Xiaotao.

Old Li sighed and replied, “Xiaosheng was dating a girl a while ago, but when she found out that he worked at a slaughterhouse, she called him cruel and inhumane and dumped him. He’s been unhappy ever since. Seeing what he did this morning probably broke him because he was already vulnerable in the first place.”

“Silly girl,” scoffed Xiaotao. “Doesn’t she eat meat?”

“There was a monk in my hometown,” said Dali, “who’d hand out these pamphlets that said those who slaughter pigs would reincarnate as pigs themselves in their next life!”

Slaughtering pigs might be seen as a dirty and cruel job by many, but it was necessary in order to cater to the demands of pork consumed every day. Needless to say, butchers and those who worked in slaughterhouses were essential to society.

Xiaotao asked a female police officer to escort Xiaosheng to the car and calm him down. We might be able to get some statements from him later, although the chances of that happening looked slim.

The entire assembly line had been stopped. Rows of dead pigs hung on the iron hooks. There was a huge chainsaw in the middle, and the ‘pig’ that had been cut in half was hanging beside it. All its internal organs fell into the blood tank below. Dali rushed out while covering his mouth the minute he saw that.

“Would you like me to take it down?” Old Li asked.

“No,” I replied. “This is the murder scene. It’s better to keep everything as is.”

Xiaozhou handed me a pair of latex gloves. I put them on and began to examine the internal organs. Grandpa had trained me about the inner organs of human beings, so I was very familiar with how they looked. To test me, Grandpa would show me photos of the internal organs of different animals and asked me to pick out the ones that belonged to human beings.

“It’s a human being,” I said after glancing at the organs. “In fact, I’m pretty sure it was a female. Look, here are the womb and the ovaries!”

Everyone was stunned. I asked Old Li to get me a step ladder. I climbed up and examined the cross section of the ‘pig’s’ body. What I found was shocking.

There were many surgical sutures on her body. Her forearms and calves were cut off and connected to pig’s trotters. Her pelvis was modified so that she could stand on four limbs like a pig. Her body was also filled with a large amount of fat, which caused her weight to increase dramatically. This meant that her broken limbs had to support extra weight, causing the joints between her limbs and the trotters to be infected. She must’ve been in excruciating pain before she died!

Her coccyx was also attached to a pig’s tail, using the muscles on the back of her neck to connect them. The muscle’s tensile force made it impossible for her to lower her head, so she had to lift up her head permanently. The bridge of her nose was broken and her cartilage, fat and skin were used to connect that part to a pig’s snout. Even her ears were cut off and a pair of pig ears were attached. Her tongue had been removed too.

In short, this woman had been turned into a pig by plastic surgery!

Everyone’s expressions changed when they heard my findings. All of the police officers gritted their teeth, trying to hold back the fury. Even I was barely able to keep calm.

Cosmetic surgery was often used to change a person’s appearance. In theory, a human could be transformed into another animal, but it would require a long and complicated operation and a lot of patience to modify the structure of the human body while using drugs and anaesthetics to prevent them from dying.

This cruel procedure would be comparable to the ancient torture method called Lingchi. The murderer in this case could be said to be extremely psychopathic!

Xiaotao clenched her fist tightly. Hot tears welled up in her eyes as she gnashed her teeth.

“I don’t know what your name is,” she said to the corpse, “but I swear to you that I will hunt down whoever did this to you and beat them to a pulp so that even their mother can’t recognize them!”

I could see everyone’s anger in their eyes. I was afraid that their emotions would get out of control, so I quickly added, “Come on, let’s examine the body and collect evidence!”