The young officers nearly stumbled backward in horror. The moment they had lifted the lid of the so-called "pickle jar", all hell broke loose.
Hidden beneath a thin layer of pickled vegetables was not some forgotten preserve, but a barely-breathing human being.
Gasps rippled through the crowd as the police hauled the frail figure out of the jar.
Gu Zi, standing at the very front, had the misfortune of seeing it all too clearly—the man's scalp was split open, and writhing maggots were crawling out of the gaping wound. Overwhelmed, Gu Zi turned pale and retched violently on the spot.
And then it hit them—this so-called piece of "evidence" Lin Miao had been shouting about wasn't some inanimate object; it was a person. A person so brutally tortured he was clinging to the last threads of life.