Chapter 12 11. The second plaster handicraft

On the second day after Dr. Pan Liu discovered the secret of plaster, a follow-up report on the tragic death of a female office worker was published in the newspaper. The headline spanning four columns filled the upper half of the society page. The details are as follows: A second living female thigh was discovered in the painting classroom of D Middle School Is it a human or a ghost?Shocking murderous crime The recently reported case of the murder of a female clerk in the Kanto Building was found under the investigation of Dr. Pan Liu, who was brutally murdered.The right arm of the body was made into a plaster cast and displayed in the window of a frame shop in Ocho, Kanda Ward.And today, another part of Fang Zhi's body appeared in the painting classroom of D Middle School.The murderer appears to have dismembered the victim, wrapped it in a plaster cast, and sold it as a sketchbook.In view of this boring and daring crime, the Metropolitan Police Department judged that the murderer may have suffered from a terrible mental illness, and is currently conducting multiple investigations, but no clues have been found yet.

The crack in the statue clearly shows the rotting human flesh One student's mistake leads to serendipity Yesterday, in Classroom No. 16 of D Middle School, class A of the second grade was in the third class. Student E accidentally touched a plaster handicraft for sketching. This plaster statue imitating a female leg fell from the pedestal and broke. E hurriedly bent down, but he just leaned over, and when his hand was about to touch the plaster statue, he suddenly screamed and quickly dodged, attracting everyone to look closely, but they saw rotting human flesh exposed through the cracks in the plaster.G, the painting teacher, was taken aback, and hurriedly sent the broken plaster to the infirmary. After careful inspection with his colleagues, they found that the object looked like a plaster statue, but in fact it was a human leg covered with a layer of plaster.After receiving the emergency report, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately dispatched Police Department S of the Forensics Division and Police Department Boyue, who was in charge of investigating the murder of the female servant, to the scene, brought back the plaster statue in question, and entrusted Dr. F of the Imperial University for further identification.On the other hand, an investigation was also launched against the salesman who had accepted Inagaki's instructions to send the above-mentioned plaster statue to D Middle School. D Middle School had to temporarily suspend classes and clean the classrooms carefully. In short, the school was in chaos.

Guess it's cloth crumbs Classmate E tremblingly described what happened "During class, I encountered a problem and wanted to ask the teacher, so I walked towards the podium, and when I passed by the plaster statue, I accidentally swept the plaster statue with my sleeve, and the statue fell to the ground with a loud 'bang'. I thought to myself Unfortunately, I quickly reached out to pick it up, only to find that the knee of the plaster statue was cracked, and a mouse-gray unknown object was exposed. At first I thought it was a dirty cloth strip stuffed inside the plaster statue, but after a closer look, it was not the case. At first I didn’t suspect that it was human flesh, but I just felt disgusted, so I jumped away with a yell. It’s the first time I’ve seen such a disgusting thing in my life, and I probably can’t even eat today.”

unheard of strange events Interview with Dr. Panliu The reporter interviewed Dr. Pan Liu, the first discoverer of the tragic death of Yoshie Satomi. The doctor tapped on his famous prosthetic limb while talking eloquently, expounding shocking insights. "I have long expected that the body parts will appear again soon, and I think the rest will continue to appear in the next few days. According to foreign cases, in order to facilitate the transportation of the body, the murderer usually decomposes the body into six pieces, respectively The six parts of the head, body, hands, and feet are probably also six yuan in this case. Therefore, the remaining four yuan should be scattered in other schools. I think this is really an unheard of strange case. The mentality of making plaster statues of corpses and sending them to schools cannot be measured by the normal thinking of the world. Judging from all signs, the murderer is very smart. The shattering of plaster statues will expose the hidden things, which must have already occurred to him. It was expected. But he still chose the act of exposing the corpse to everyone. This is because the murderer had no intention of hiding the corpse from the beginning. Instead, he played tricks with the corpse and teased the world. He showed off his cruelty and made the world fear. This This kind of mentality is not without precedent among foreign criminals, but the practice of making plaster statues and giving them to middle schools is really unprecedented. As the police said, the murderer must be a mental patient, but he is not a lunatic who has lost the ability to think logically. For evil, He must have intelligence beyond ordinary people. The following is purely my conjecture. I think this murderer killed not only Satomi Yoshie. Your newspaper also reported before that Hirata Toichi has been murdered by him. In addition, I am afraid there are many There are many female victims. This time there is really a terrible villain. I sincerely pray that the police can find the real culprit as soon as possible, and I will try my best to track down the culprit with my own methods."

The edge of the newspaper was stained with hot water, and it was limp and shapeless. The reader crumpled it up and threw it into a corner. This is a small but luxurious Western-style bathroom.On the floor covered with imitation marble tiles, there is a rectangular groove filled with milky white hot water, the water surface slightly rippling.The whole bathroom was filled with steam and a strange fragrance. Dr. Pan Liu's whole body was submerged in the milky white hot water, only his head was exposed above the water.Just now, he was reading the evening paper that published his talk. As mentioned earlier, Dr. Pan Liu has a weird personality, and bathing is also one of his eccentricities.He soaks in this bathtub almost every day, and is used to reading or meditating in the water.The time he spent intoxicated in the bathtub sometimes lasted for two or three hours, during which he would lock the door of the bathroom from the inside, and in case of emergency, he would use the indoor phone placed on the bathtub bookshelf to contact scholars or assistants.If there is a visitor, the scholar will call the doctor.

This place can be regarded as the palace of doctor's dream.Please forgive the author's next example for being disrespectful to the ancients. Just as the ancient Prince Shotoku handled state affairs based on his meditation in the Dream Palace, Dr. Banliu also used his meditation in the bathroom to capture academic inspiration or to detect murderers. spark. The reason for locking the door is to prevent people from disturbing his meditation, and on the other hand, he does not want others to see his ugly stump.Bathing with milky white medicinal soup is also based on the same reason. The doctor threw away the newspaper, soaked his whole body in hot water, closed his eyes tightly and did not move.Ten or twenty minutes passed, and the doctor's serene expression seemed to be falling into a sweet dream.

At this time, there was a slight "didi" sound, which was a call from the scholar. The doctor stuck his upper body out of the water, picked up the microphone on the bookshelf, and said with anger in his tone, "What's the matter?" "Mr. Bo Yuet came to visit and said there was something urgent." The scholar's voice was timid, because the doctor was particularly irritable when taking a bath. "Take him to the reception room." The doctor put down the microphone and immersed himself in the bathtub again.