Chapter 783: Extreme Cruelty
There was one scene where the wife from the family of five had her head severed and then impaled through the neck opening with a long metal object, which was then tied to a rope.
The wife's head was hung from the living room ceiling, swinging back and forth.
Another scene showed the baby, who had been born only a few months prior, discovered inside a pot.
He had been boiled alive.
Just imagining this kind of thing, you could picture a cute, months-old baby being cruelly placed in a pot by the murderer, enduring the scalding water as he wailed and cried. Unfortunately, the cruel killer had no compassion at all.
The baby's heart-wrenching, agonized screams failed to awaken his conscience.
Instead, he stood by the side, watching with interest.
Just thinking about it would make any normal person's hair stand on end, filling their heart with immense hatred for the killer.
What grudge did you have against this family? What vendetta? To treat them like this?
"Sigh, if nothing unexpected happens, this is another unsolved cold case. Probably done by those people again."
Chief Pete shoved his hands into his pockets, hidden from view, so no one could see his fists clenched so tightly they were white-knuckled.
Michelle said, "Maybe you're right. We still need to catch those people hiding in this town."
Chief Pete looked helpless.
"But even if we catch them, so what? Send them to court? They've already been to court once. Maybe this second time they get caught and sent to court, not long after, that hidden hand behind the scenes will ship them somewhere else or send them right back."
Michelle pondered. "Unless... we resort to vigilante justice..."
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Michelle and Chief Pete thought the ones who committed this murder were the deranged criminals and serial killers hiding in Aisen Town. But in reality, they had nothing to do with this case.
The real killer was sitting on a bench in a small park by the street, eating vanilla ice cream.
He had an Asian face—a Hua Country person in his twenties, quite handsome, with a common hairstyle. The only memorable feature was his forehead, which was completely exposed.
The clothes Jiang Ran was wearing now were completely different from what he had worn an hour or two ago.
Because his previous outfit was covered in blood, so he had changed into a new set.
Now he sat on the bench, leisurely eating his ice cream, his eyes fixed on the men and women walking past him.
Extreme darkness and violence lurked deep in his eyes.
But a brilliant smile curved his lips.
Special Live Stream, live stream room.
The public chat section had exploded.
People from seven different countries were all talking over each other.
Mi—American Captain: [Cheating, this is definitely cheating! I'm reporting Hua Country Alice Apartment for cheating! This Jiang Ran is absolutely a degenerate among serial killers! The super perverted kind! If he really is a lab rat, even if he was discriminated against and retaliated, how could he be this brutally vengeful?]
Others didn't know who committed the murder, but the people in the Special Live Stream, live stream room had personally witnessed the entire crime. And because they saw it all, they were once again shocked by Jiang Ran, the killer.
If they had been shocked by Jiang Ran before, it was purely because of how tough and durable his body was.
But now, what stunned them was Jiang Ran's extreme cruelty—a cruelty even more ruthless than that of any serial killer.
The reason Jiang Ran targeted this family of five was simple: the husband from that family was the middle-aged white man he had encountered while drinking coffee, the one who had ridden a bicycle past him, racially discriminating against him by shouting "ching chong ching chong."
That middle-aged white man had sped away on his bike, leaving Jiang Ran far behind. No one in the live stream room knew how Jiang Ran had found the man's home.
When Jiang Ran found the house, the live stream audience assumed he would just go over and retaliate against the white man.
But when it came to retaliation, they figured he would just argue with the man, at most get into a fight, or maybe pull some sneaky tricks to piss him off.
After all, Jiang Ran was a lab rat, not a deranged criminal or serial killer.
Then they realized they were wrong.
That day, the entire family of the middle-aged white man happened to be home. After Jiang Ran infiltrated the house, he knocked out all five family members one by one and tied them up in the living room on the first floor.
Then he woke them all up, and in front of the husband, he cruelly tortured the man's wife, son, daughter, and the newborn baby.
The husband, tied up and awakened, saw himself and his whole family bound, and also saw Jiang Ran standing before him in the living room.
At first, he didn't take it seriously. His mouth was still viciously spitting out "ching chong ching chong," telling Jiang Ran to untie his ropes quickly, or else he'd be sorry, and things like that.
He thought Jiang Ran wouldn't dare do anything to him or his family. After all, in his impression, Asians were all nerds. Good little obedient kids.
But after he watched Jiang Ran chop off his wife's ten fingers one by one, he realized this person was completely different from those bookworm Asians.
He started to panic, to beg for mercy, pleading for Jiang Ran to spare his wife. But Jiang Ran acted as if he didn't hear a thing, slowly torturing her bit by bit.
After finishing with the wife, he started on the son and daughter.
The husband became even more terrified, crying, begging, saying everything was his fault, that if Jiang Ran wanted to torture someone, torture him, that his wife and children were innocent, that he was willing to use his own life to apologize. But Jiang Ran just pretended not to hear as he tortured the son and daughter.
In short, afterward, Jiang Ran performed inhumane acts on the man's wife, son, daughter, and the youngest infant, all right in front of the husband.
After that, he pulled out every single one of the husband's teeth.
Once the teeth were gone, Jiang Ran didn't kill the husband. Instead, he just left. This was something many in the live stream room hadn't expected.
Faced with Jiang Ran's bloody feast, many in the live stream room were shocked. But after the shock, some felt appreciation, obsession, fascination. They admired all the bloody acts Jiang Ran had carried out.
After all, the people watching this stream—while not necessarily twisted in the soul—weren't exactly pure and bright either. They craved this kind of gory scene.
These pure, violent, and cruel images actually sparked joy in their hearts and released dopamine in their bodies.
But some people couldn't handle it. Not everyone watching this stream had been here for a long time. There were also those who had only seen a little bit, or had just joined.