Pervert

Bai Ge immediately covered his nose and stared at Shao Yuan in horror.

They had played together since childhood. Although Shao Yuan was somewhat older, the two of them were extremely close brothers.

It could be said that Bai Ge knew him extremely well. If Shao Yuan said he had killed a few small animals, Bai Ge would take it in stride.

After all, Shao Yuan studied medicine, and surgery at that. He had an instinctive indifference toward corpses.

Shao Yuan had destroyed corpses before, directly burning or burying the assorted animal carcasses he called practice subjects.

But now, inside the barrel filled with aqua regia, there was a person...

"What exactly happened? Who is this?"

Shao Yuan looked at Bai Ge. "Wang Qian."

Bai Ge froze. He knew Wang Qian, who could be considered a small-time leader of an illegal syndicate.

He said this because Wang Qian's father ran a debt collection company. Unlike a lone operator like Bai Ge, that company claimed to have over a hundred strong, able-bodied employees.

It not only helped people settle debt problems, but also lent money and ran underground gambling operations.

"How did you get involved with him? How did this person die?" Bai Ge asked.

Only after Bai Ge pressed him repeatedly did he finally understand what had happened.

Shao Yuan had always believed that Bai Ge had a terminal illness. Bai Ge had explained the matter to him last time, but because he could not produce any test results, Shao Yuan had not believed him.

However, he had not forced Bai Ge. Instead, he had silently tried to find a way to help Bai Ge get money.

He had not been raising money for Bai Ge's sister, but for Bai Ge himself. He knew that unless Bai Ge resolved his sister's problem, he would never accept treatment, even if it killed him. That was why he wanted to get more money, then lend it to Bai Ge so he could undergo surgery.

But Shao Yuan was only a poor doctor running a shabby clinic, and even his home was rented. If he had been able to obtain a large sum of money, he would have done so long ago, and his life would not have ended up like this.

Under those circumstances, Shao Yuan chose to borrow money from Wang Qian.

He wanted to borrow a million directly and accept the high interest, letting Bai Ge undergo surgery first.

But he was penniless. The clinic was rented, his home was rented, and he had nothing to use as collateral or anyone to guarantee the loan. How could Wang Qian possibly lend him so much money?

It would have been fine if he simply could not borrow the money, but Wang Qian happened to set his sights on Shao Yuan's surgical skills.

He pulled Shao Yuan into the operation, specifically to help that group remove organs.

That group collected debts. When people could not repay them, they used their organs to settle the debt.

Such work was obviously illegal, but after thinking it over, Shao Yuan agreed.

He handled a scalpel with exceptional skill. After years of practicing on animals, he had reached the point of absolute mastery.

He also had a thorough understanding of the human body. Although he had only performed human dissections a few times at school, he seemed to possess an astonishing talent in this area. After one or two attempts, he could already skillfully cut people open and remove their kidneys.

He had always liked doing this sort of thing. If he went a day without using a scalpel, his whole body felt uncomfortable. Otherwise, he would not have dissected small animals at home out of boredom and earned the mocking nickname "the veterinarian."

Shao Yuan knew it was illegal, but it let him make money quickly while experiencing living dissection, something he had never previously had the chance to do.

Besides, everyone whose kidney was removed was either someone who owed Wang Qian's company a huge sum and could not repay it, a gambler who had abandoned all conscience, or someone who had voluntarily sold a kidney to raise money.

For such people, if Shao Yuan did not do it, someone else would. Rather than letting an unprofessional person cause lasting complications or even death, it was better for him to do it.

For Bai Ge's sake, he turned a blind eye, thinking that he would quit once he had earned enough money.

Thus, over the course of two months, his exquisite skills led him to perform more than forty operations.

He earned a total of six hundred thousand from Wang Qian.

Actually, by then, he no longer wanted to continue. For one thing, there were not that many people who needed their kidneys removed. For another, once he added his savings and borrowed a little from others, he would have almost enough money.

But Wang Qian refused to let him leave the operation. Instead, he threatened him and began making him participate in even more ruthless activities.

For several days in a row, he was kept under close watch. Wang Qian's company had people stationed both at his home and at his clinic.

Then, last night, Shao Yuan was taken to a secret operating room, where he found an unconscious person already lying on the operating table.

Wang Qian ordered him to remove every transplantable organ from that person, including the heart.

A person whose heart was removed would inevitably die. This was ordering Shao Yuan to commit murder.

There was no such thing as consent in a situation like this. Even if the person had volunteered, they would not have come here. Naturally, Shao Yuan refused to carry it out.

Wang Qian told him that Shao Yuan would do many more things like this in the future and had to get used to it.

After saying that, he directly threatened Shao Yuan with a knife. If Shao Yuan did it, he would become one of them. If he refused, then, having learned so much, Wang Qian could never let him leave.

Shao Yuan did not explain what happened afterward.

But from the hatred and self-mockery in his eyes, Bai Ge knew the result.

Something major must have happened that night. In the end, Shao Yuan had compromised. Otherwise, he would not be standing here.

Shao Yuan finally said, "After I got out, I didn't go home. I went straight to my alma mater and took 0.5 grams of sodium cyanide. I had secretly hidden it back when I helped a teacher with a demonstration at school. It had been sitting in the place where I used to bury small animal carcasses. I'd forgotten about it after graduating. I never thought it would come in handy now..."

"You poisoned him?" Bai Ge asked.

"I went straight to his house to demand last night's recordings. He knocked me down without hesitation, so I deliberately kept provoking him. He took me to the company in his car. On the way, I used a syringe from the back seat to inject the sodium cyanide solution into him. He died very quickly..."

Bai Ge interrupted him. "Wait! On which road did you do it? No—which cars were on that road?"

As he spoke, he opened his computer and immediately hacked into the road surveillance center.

Shao Yuan said blankly, "We got into the car at Hongguang Garden. I did it on Qingshan Road and left him in the back seat."

As he worked, Bai Ge asked, "Around what time?"

"Noon."

Bai Ge nodded. "Found it... Yes, the intersection camera caught you driving his car, and then..."

Bai Ge brought up multiple camera feeds in succession. Seventeen surveillance points had captured Wang Qian's car, all the way to an intersection near Bai Ge's home.

However, Bai Ge quickly deleted the data and copied in footage from the same time several days earlier, editing it into the record.

"When did you learn this kind of technology? Sorry, I really had nowhere else to go, so I put the corpse in the barrel and brought it to your place to destroy it," Shao Yuan said apologetically.

Bai Ge smiled. "It's fine. My place is secluded, and hardly anyone comes to this decrepit building. You also used chemicals to cover the smell. I couldn't smell anything without going inside. By the way, where did the money come from?"

Shao Yuan pointed at the money box. "When I went to buy concentrated nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, I found one and a half million in the trunk of his car. The other six hundred thousand was what I earned from him over these two months."

After speaking, he let out a long sigh. "His company has video evidence of my crimes. Even though Wang Qian had many enemies and they would never suspect that his disappearance was connected to me, I still can't escape that company."

Bai Ge sneered. "Are you stupid? If they hand the evidence of your crimes to the police, they'll be exposing their own crimes too. All they really have is the force to intimidate you. The recordings and such are only meant to scare you."

Shao Yuan smiled bitterly. "Even so, I can't fight their force..."

Bai Ge asked, "Do you regret killing him?"

Shao Yuan blurted out, "Not at all. He deserved to die!"

Bai Ge smiled. "Then that's enough. Actually, you did a very good job. You destroyed the corpse extremely cleanly. As long as they can't find the body, it's only a disappearance..."

After saying that, he looked downstairs through the window and spotted a car.

"That car is the real trouble. But leave this to me. I'll also deal with this barrel of filthy water. I'll wipe away every piece of evidence that could harm you."

Bai Ge looked at Shao Yuan and patted him on the shoulder. "I told you, I don't have a terminal illness at all."

Shao Yuan frowned. "An MRI doesn't make mistakes."

Bai Ge smiled. "Who said that? I have hundreds of ways to interfere with an MRI's results. Even if there's a tumor in the brain, it won't appear as a purely black shadow on an MRI."

Shao Yuan nodded. He had indeed found that purely black shadow strange at the time, which was why he had strongly urged Bai Ge to undergo other tests for confirmation.

"You're really not sick?"

Bai Ge said, "I'm really not. I just threw away the test results."

Shao Yuan stood up in agitation and punched Bai Ge in the chest. "Damn it, I really thought you were going to die! I even went and got money for you!"

Bai Ge smiled. "Did you really work with Wang Qian just to get money for me?"

The corner of Shao Yuan's mouth twitched. He said in shame, "I'm sorry. Actually, I became fascinated with human dissection too. It was much more interesting than dissecting animals."

"You're a complete pervert!" Bai Ge said.

Shao Yuan asked somewhat blankly, "Really?"

His gaze was extremely bewildered, as if he were seriously asking Bai Ge.

Bai Ge actually nodded solemnly. "Yes!"