Cold Water

Part 05 - That's strange

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Narration
"Conversation"

❗Warning❗

(Graphic description of a murdered victim. If you are uncomfortable with it, open the comments before the warning sign then click on '>' to safely skip it.)

Thank you.

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A telephone rang loudly on Zoey Meng's desk. The atmosphere of a conducive Western division office made the telephone sound like the sound of a fire alarm. The phone on Division head's desk will only ring when something big has happened. All the people in the office who were busy doing their respective jobs, focused all the attention now on their leader who was picking up the phone with a serious face.

"Yes sir. We will be there soon. Thank you,"

Zoey Meng hung up the phone. She exhaled a heavy breath, as if she felt some heavy burden.

"All of you who have been appointed to handle the case of Mr. X. Get ready. We must go now. We lost to him once more" Zoey Meng said firmly.

"Ehh? You mean there's another victim, Jie?"  Paul Yu asked in alert.

"That's right, the police found a corpse of an unidentified woman on the riverbank. Allegedly was the action of Mr. X" Zoey Meng heaped her hands on the table.

"Then we should go there immediately Meng-jie," Zhan said enthusiastically.

Zoey nodded. The entire team of the Joint Division then headed to the scene where the body of the woman, who was allegedly the other victim of the case, was found. On arriving the scene, they found it was very crowded, there were many people around something in the police line. Some police are also securing the location to remain sterile.

Zhou Cheng who was assigned to lead the joint team immediately walked in front of the team and showed his ID card. The police, who knew who they were immediately invited them. The joint team also worked on their respective assignments while Zhuo Cheng was still talking to the police.

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Zhan approached the corpse, looked carefully. Wang Yibo stood behind him, watching closely. The sound of shots came from Fan Xing's camera, while Guo Cheng looked at the other side of the scene with Paul Yu trying to find the details of the incident.

Zhan cringed in horror at the corpse of the woman. Her naked white body showed clearly that the woman's chest was split in an X shape as if he wanted to remove all of its contents from her body. There is a red line on her neck as if she was strangled by a large rope. It seems that the police suspicion is true, the cause of this woman's death was Mr. X, again and again each of his victims were killed in a very sadistic way and the letter X was marked on the body.

Seeing the woman's situation it can be concluded that the woman had been harassed and abused before being killed. Her whole body seemed to be covered with purplish red bruises. It can be estimated from the situation that, this woman died around last night or early this morning.

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"Really sadistic, he even hurt a woman as beautiful as this" Said Zhan, standing up. Yibo could only stare in silence, closing his mouth with reddened eyes and slightly trembling body. Zhan who saw that feeling worried immediately patted Yibo's shoulder.