Extraordinary pedigree

Chapter 588 Flower of Blood and Bone·Trade Line.

13:20 PM.

Island City·Isati.

The sky in Isati is clear and cloudless, and the blue sky is like a huge sapphire. The sunlight shines on the ground, making the whole town look particularly bright.

The surrounding scenery is beautiful and picturesque, with the vast Millennium Lake sparkling, the willow trees beside the lake swaying in the wind, the green of the forest and the blue of the lake complementing each other, creating a quiet and peaceful picture.

After Xia Xiu said goodbye to the old man Joseph, he came to the city center.

The purpose of his trip was to destroy the human body trade routes hidden in this island city.

He has successfully caught the tail of the consortium and is now following the clues to find people.

The people in the consortium had obviously noticed something was wrong, so Xia Xiu guessed that they had planned to abandon the car to save the commander, and the strong man had broken his wrist.

At least now it is certain that the four major families have been sold out by the consortium, because he has not seen any extreme reactions from the four major families until now.

In response, Xia Xiu has contacted the Administration and the Federal Government’s Internal Revenue Service to handle the investigation.

The Internal Revenue Service, an agency within the Edici Department of the Treasury, is responsible for collecting federal taxes, enforcing tax laws, and handling taxpayer issues.

The Internal Revenue Service has a legal armed force, the Criminal Investigation Division. Under Edici Law, Investigation Division agents have the authority to conduct criminal investigations and law enforcement, including the use of force to enforce tax laws and related regulations.

For [Hermes] and the Edici political elite - sex, violence, drugs, chaos corruption and other related harms are not as serious as not paying taxes.

Edici federal citizens are still more afraid of IRS agents than FBI agents.

Just because the four major families secretly hacked the Federation's beast-control rationing resources and used clever pretexts to pay less taxes is enough for them to drink from it.

If you add in the human body trade, it goes without saying.

This cleanup of the Grant family, including my grandfather who was the president, was jointly enforced by special agents of the Administration and special agents of the Criminal Investigation Department.

Now the violent forces of the joint law enforcement forces are gathering towards the island city, intending to go on a killing spree, but the four major families are unprepared for this.

From this point, it can be seen that they were indeed divided directly by the consortium.

Xia Xiu stood in the square in the city center, thinking about his next action plan.

"Now I'm becoming more and more curious about the people behind the Hermes Consortium. They act decisively and act decisively. They reacted quickly after being caught. They probably also made a decision about the Holy Lake Orphanage. A big cleanup. But time is still too tight for them, and the hands and tail are still partially connected. "

He remembered that he had counter-hacked [Sirmi] before and intercepted the feedback of the data flow.

If this action had not been effective in time, it is estimated that the consortium's termination and subsequent work would have been faster and more thorough.

Unfortunately, they were targeted by the fourth sword holder in heaven.

If the consortium was given a week, they might be able to sacrifice some of their interests and clean up most of their tails under Xia Xiu's tracking.

Unfortunately, there is no if in the world.

"The cleanup work at the Holy Lake Orphanage, even if it is done, it cannot be completely traceless. But the current situation is to start from pushing forward another trade line, so that the people from the Administration and the Internal Revenue Service can search the house. ”

Xia Xiu's mind was rapidly thinking about the next plan.

The first thing is to find the body of Liszt Ove. There is a complicated connection between this man's suicide and the Holy Lake Orphanage. His death must be related to the human body trade.

Now, Xia Xiu easily bypassed the security outside the county medical examiner's office and arrived at the medical examiner's office.

The interior decoration in the medical examiner's office looks simple and serious, with white tiles on the walls and gray non-slip flooring.

The air was filled with a mixed smell of disinfectant and formalin, which made people frown.

There are several metal dissection tables placed in the room, and various dissection tools and reagent bottles are neatly placed in the cabinets next to them.

Several bright shadowless lamps hung from the ceiling, illuminating the entire room.

Xia Xiu quickly walked through the equipment and came to the filing cabinet where files and reports were stored.

He easily picked the lock of the cabinet and found Liszt Ove's dossier report and a list of all the responsible persons involved.

Opening the file, it contained detailed records of Lister's death, autopsy report, and various clues related to the Holy Lake Orphanage.

The file shows that Lister's cause of death was indeed suicide, but some strange injuries were found on his body, which seemed to indicate that he had suffered some kind of violence.

★★★【File number: PC-1591-0117】★★★

Case name: Liszt Ove’s suicide

Date of occurrence: January 17, 1591 in the Terran calendar

Location: Shenghu Orphanage, Isati City

Information about the deceased:

Name: Liszt Ove

Age: 40 years old

Occupation: Child Protective Services Worker

Birthplace: Edici Federation

Residence: Isati City (self-residence)

Event background:

Lister Ovi is a child protection service worker in the Edici Federation and has been in charge of the work related to the Holy Lake Orphanage for a long time. The relationship between him and his wife Marianne is becoming increasingly tense, especially because he adopted a little boy named Noah who was infected with peduncle disease, and the family conflicts are getting worse. On January 3 and 4, 1591, Lister had a fierce quarrel with Marianne, and Marianne asked to calm down for a while. On the evening of January 16, Lister transferred a large sum of money to Marianne, and committed suicide near the Holy Lake Orphanage in the early morning of January 17.

Cause of death determination:

Preliminary judgment: suicide

Death confirmation time: 4:43 am on January 17, 1591 in the Terra calendar

Body discovery time: January 23, 1591 in the Terra calendar

People involved in the case:

Marianne: The deceased's wife, who had serious disagreements with Lister on the issue of adopting Noah.

Lister's father: reached a financial compensation agreement with Marianne.

Lister's sister: questioned Marianne's behavior and widely spread the incident in society.

Analysis of suicide types:

Egoistic suicide.

({File-Note 1}, Egoistic suicide refers to suicidal behavior caused by lack of social support and sense of belonging when the connection between an individual and society is weak or broken. The individual feels isolated and helpless and loses the purpose and meaning of life. It is different from altruistic suicide, which only looks at social links.

{File-Note 2}: Altruistic suicide refers to the individual's close connection with society, sacrificing himself for the interests or values ​​of the group. The individual believes that his death is beneficial or necessary for the group.)

Social isolation:

Lister bears the dual pressure of work and family alone and lacks an effective social support network.

His relationship with Marianne broke down, causing him to feel extremely emotionally lost and isolated.

Emotional isolation: Before committing suicide, Lister transferred a large sum of money to Marianne and left a message saying "We are over", indicating complete despair of the relationship and loss of self-worth.

Loss of self-worth: Lister spent a lot of time, energy and emotion, but felt that his existence was not rewarded as it should be, and lost the purpose and meaning of life.

Suicide due to anomie.

Major life changes: From a long-term stable work environment, Lister faced tremendous psychological pressure and difficulty in adapting. The quarrel and breakup with Marianne caused a serious impact on the stability and direction of his life.

Economic instability: Lister repeatedly paid large expenses for the orphanage and family, including living expenses and medical expenses. The huge economic pressure and uncertainty made him feel that his life was out of control, further exacerbating the state of anomie.

File status: closed

Case leader:

Sponsor: Brown Harvey

Investigator: Johnson Grant

Psychological counselor: John Burton

Forensic doctor: Lisa Kane

File filing date: January 23, 1591

(This file is organized by the Isati NA District Branch)

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After reading the file, Xia Xiu's eyes fell on the names of the last few lines of relevant people on the list.

Of the four people on the list, three are from the four major families-members of the Grant, Harvey and Burton families are on the list.

"This suicide is too coincidental."

Xia Xiu couldn't help but sarcastically said in his heart. He knew that such coincidences often meant a deeper conspiracy behind the scenes.

Xia Xiu highlighted the names of these people. Now he needed to see Lister's body. If possible, he also wanted to meet the forensic doctor on the file: Lisa Kane.

He understood that a complete human body trade line involved multiple steps and participants, including illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, sale and use of human organs.

As long as there is a problem in any of the links, the entire line will collapse, and there will be a risk of losing heads and being implicated - no Terra regime will tolerate the survival of human body trade exposed to the sun.

The reason why the four major families dared to take risks is because the people of the Hermes Consortium gave them this dog courage.

They may have guessed that the financial capital behind the consortium may be supported by one or more of the giants of the Terra Financial Trust.

This speculation made them believe that they could walk in the gray area of ​​the law and escape punishment.

In this land, any country has white areas, gray areas and black areas.

These three areas are intertwined and influence each other in the structure of the country.

In the Edici Federation, the gap between the rich and the poor is getting worse and worse, and the people are complaining. Sometimes the anger of society is vented by hitting the black zone, killing the black to help the poor, hating the rich and jealous of the officials, and taking a breath of anger.

When the corruption of officials is rampant and the credibility of society is gradually collapsing, the world, which is used to it, will fight the black with the black, and the rule of man is lawless and the rule of law is untrustworthy.

This situation is particularly obvious in the dark world of human body trade.

The white zone symbolizes the field of law and order, the gray zone is those areas that wander on the edge of the law, which are vague, and the black zone is completely illegal and corrupt.

The Hermes Consortium wanders in the gray and black zones and obtains huge profits by illegal means.

They use institutions such as orphanages to trade in human bodies, hiding on the margins of society.

Some officials of the Edici Federation Government colluded with the criminals in the black zone because of greed and corruption, resulting in the failure of the laws of the island city and the lack of justice.

This kind of corruption and greed has not only eroded the foundation of the country, but also has the vague risk of losing control. That's why the top leaders of the federation are willing to cooperate with Xia Xiu to jointly suppress the increasingly expanding and collapsing ambitions of careerists and certain financial capital.

The forensic office was filled with the strong smell of disinfectant and formalin.

The white tiled walls and gray non-slip floors make the entire environment look cold and serious.

In the center of the room were several metal dissecting tables, with multiple corpses lying on them, exuding a cold aura.

Various dissection tools and reagent bottles are neatly arranged in the cabinet, and several bright shadowless lamps hang from the ceiling, illuminating the entire room.

Lisa Kane stood in front of one of the autopsy tables, working diligently on her work.

She is a woman of medium height, with blond hair neatly tied back. She is wearing a clean white forensic overalls, with her name written on the name tag on her chest.

Her face was calm and focused, and there was a professional coldness in her eyes.

Lisa carefully removed the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys of the corpse and placed them on the culture medium.

The culture medium is a transparent glass dish filled with light yellow liquid. The organs are soaked in it, as if they are frozen in time.

The heart still maintains its original shape, and its surface is covered with fine blood vessels; the lungs look soft and fragile, the liver appears dark red, thick and solid, and the kidneys are brown and compact.

She holds a sharp scalpel and moves skillfully and accurately, carefully observing the condition of each organ.

"Weighs nearly two hundred pounds, has brown hair, blue eyes, and full set of teeth. The provider's thyroid gland delivers appropriate amounts of hormones to the arteries and veins throughout the body, totaling twelve pints of blood.

He's six foot two, so he has long femurs and tibias, as well as strong connective tissue.

Both kidneys were functioning normally, and the heart was beating steadily at a rate of eighty-seven beats per minute. Calculated from the above indicators, it is worth approximately 250,000 to 300,000 US dollars. "

She paused and continued:

“The provider’s blood can be separated into plasma, red blood cells, platelets and clotting factors to save a patient’s life on the operating table or to stop the uncontrolled flow of blood in a hemophiliac;

The ligaments that connect joints can be scraped from bones and transplanted into injured knees of athletes; the hair on the head can be made into wigs, or reduced to amino acids and used as leavening agents for baked goods; bones can be used as the most popular materials in biology classes. A compelling presence.

The provider's major organs, such as the heart, liver, kidneys, etc., can prolong the lives of patients with organ failure; his corneas can be cut off to restore sight to blind people. And even after a complicated death, the pathologist can take out his sperm to help the woman conceive, and the baby the woman gives birth to is also valuable. "

Lisa looked at the other party and continued:

“Doctors and brokers in any country who transport my dissected body parts through the market can make a lot of money just by providing such services, and the amount of money they pocket is far more than me as the seller.

Whether in the organ market or other commodity markets, the global law of supply and demand is an unbreakable truth. "

Lisa Kane looked at the pale client in front of her. His face showed obvious paleness, as if all the blood had been drained.

His eyes were wide open, full of fear and anxiety, and some red bloodshot eyes were faintly visible in the whites of his eyes. His lips trembled slightly, looking bloodless, and his cheeks were tight because of nervousness.

His eyes were wandering, sometimes staring at Lisa, sometimes glancing at the organs on the table, his eyes full of helplessness and fear.

Lisa Kane took off her mask and said in a cold tone

"Desire is the measure of all things, do not be bound by the reins of morality; do what you wish, and treat those whom you wish."