Li Chao naturally would not miss this opportunity. It was a chance to meet the number one leader, so he definitely wanted to fight for it.
If he could build a connection, it would bring glory to his ancestors for the rest of his life.
But when Li Chao knocked on the door and walked in, he was instantly stunned.
Lu Chen? Li Chao became extremely embarrassed at once.
He was now wearing waiter clothes.
You know each other? Wang Weiguo asked casually.
He is my high school classmate.
By the way, were you not here to eat?
Were you not here to eat?
This was awkward to the extreme.
At this moment could he say that he was indeed here to eat?
But he had already changed into waiter clothes, and the number one leader was right here.
The leader came here often to eat and knew his background well.
He could not lie in front of the number one leader.
Li Chao’s face instantly turned red with shame.
I invited Mr Lu to dinner. Bring out some of your signature dishes. Wang Weiguo said.
These words shocked Li Chao even more.
The man really was here to eat, and he was invited by the number one leader himself.
At this moment Li Chao wished there was a hole in the ground for him to crawl into.
When taking the order, Li Chao’s hands were almost shaking.
Just looking at Wang Weiguo’s attitude towards Lu Chen showed that he treated Lu Chen as a distinguished guest.
After taking the order, Li Chao almost fled the private room.
Inside the private room.
Tell me, what do you want from me? Lu Chen did not believe that Haidong’s number one had invited him to dinner just to get to know him.
I cannot hide it from Mr Lu after all. Then I will be direct. This time I need to ask Mr Lu for a favour.
And this matter can probably only be solved by you, Mr Lu. Wang Weiguo said with a bitter smile.
This matter is extremely tricky, and it is even more bizarre and terrifying than the dismemberment case from many years ago.
Dismemberment case?
Lu Chen also remembered it. There had once been a dismemberment case in Haidong that shocked the whole country. The killer’s methods were so cruel and the nature so horrifying that it was simply unheard of.
It caused extremely bad influence at the time. Many young people, especially women, were scared to go out at night.
The victim was a university student under twenty years old.
It was said that a cleaning woman found a bag early in the morning, opened it and discovered more than five hundred pieces of minced flesh. The woman did not think much of it at first and took the meat home to cook and eat.
Only while washing it did she suddenly find a finger, realise it was human flesh, and immediately report it to the police in fright.
After that the police began their investigation and gradually found many more wrapped packages, all containing slices of flesh.
The most terrifying part was that all the meat had been cooked before being cut into thin slices.
And from Wang Weiguo’s mouth, Lu Chen learned that it was not the folk legend of more than one thousand pieces, but actually more than two thousand pieces.
Killing a person, cooking the flesh, slicing it, and then dumping the body, just thinking about it made one shudder.
This new matter was actually even more strange and terrifying than the dismemberment case?
For such things you should go to the criminal police. Why come to me? Lu Chen asked with a smile.
Sigh, this matter should not have me intervene directly, but a meeting is coming up soon from above, and this incident is even more bizarre with very bad influence. So I can only ask Mr Lu for help. Wang Weiguo said with a bitter smile.
He was forced by circumstances, otherwise he would not have sought Lu Chen’s help.
With the meeting from above approaching, if such an unsolved case appeared in Haidong, he would be in trouble.
Moreover not only had the killer not been caught, but the killer had become even more arrogant.
Tell me about it first and let me see what the matter is. Lu Chen was quite curious.
Wang Weiguo handed a newspaper to Lu Chen. Lu Chen looked at it and saw that a murder had occurred in the west district of Haidong.
The victim was also a young woman, but the strange thing was that the body was not found. Only a sheet of human skin was discovered at the scene.
Wang Weiguo then handed over a set of documents to Lu Chen.
Lu Chen opened it and found detailed information about the victim and the scene report.
The victim was an ordinary female worker in a textile factory, in her early twenties. According to her dormitory colleagues, the girl had gone to the toilet in the middle of the night.
The factory dormitory toilets were shared, and the dormitory was at the end of the corridor.
At the time the girl had wanted to pull another female worker from the dormitory to go with her, but the other girl was sleeping soundly and did not go.
But the girl went and never came back.
From the surveillance it could be seen that before the girl entered the toilet, there was no one inside.
After the girl went in, no one else entered either.
It was not until early morning when someone else went to the toilet that they discovered it, got scared, ran out and only then reported to the police.
In between, no one entered or left the toilet, and there was no trace of any killer or suspicious person in the surveillance.
Most importantly, there was no body at the scene, only a sheet of human skin left behind.
The human skin was completely intact, with even the eyebrows and eyelashes still on it.
But the flesh and bones were gone.
There were no fingerprints at the scene, no murder weapon, and no suspicious items at all.
The toilet was on the fifth floor, and the downstairs door was locked at night.
Mr Lu must have noticed it too?
Normally the people in the factory should be the most suspected. Wang Weiguo said.
But what is even more strange is that on the same night, similar human skins were also found in the south district of Haidong and in a place outside the second ring road. Wang Weiguo spread his hands.
Judging from the crime scenes, they should all have been committed on the same night.
So the biggest possibility is gang crime. Wang Weiguo’s face looked very helpless.
I also know a bit about criminal investigation, but if we analyse it, there is no motive for the crime. It is not revenge killing, nor robbery. These victims have no connections or people they know in common. Wang Weiguo looked at Lu Chen helplessly.
Lu Chen opened the second report. The victim was a male, a white-collar worker, who died inside his own car. The car doors were tightly closed, and it could even be seen from the community surveillance.
From the time the victim got in the car until he was discovered, no one else got in the car, and no one got out either.
Similarly the flesh and bones could not be found, only a sheet of human skin.
The third victim was a middle-aged woman, killed inside an elevator.
There was no capture in the elevator either? Lu Chen frowned.
Wang Weiguo shook his head.
There was originally a camera in the elevator that could capture it directly, but after the victim entered the elevator, there was a five-second power outage. That is, the killer used those five seconds to kill the person and remove the flesh and bones. Wang Weiguo directly pointed out the key point.
It was this third case that made Wang Weiguo feel that this matter definitely could not be handled by ordinary people.
Mr Lu, I originally did not believe in these things, but I have also seen some things that science cannot explain. In this world, some things exist whether you believe in them or not. Wang Weiguo said with a bitter smile.
This is simply not something a human can do, killing a person and removing the flesh in five seconds.
And this is only from a few days ago. More than ten people have been killed one after another. Last night’s three victims, two of them, speaking of it, you actually know.