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Mai Chan, 27 years old, detective, captain of squad 01.
If someone is to ask why she chose her current job, she'll simply answer that kicking criminals' asses is her hobby.
She's in a graveyard. For work.
She crouches in front of the women's body. The head is gone. Clean cut. The small breasts and clear skin. The body is around 20 years old. She's been dead for several days at most. No visible sign of violence on her body. Then the only thing she can do is wait for the autopsy and make her underlings search for missing people list.
A lot of dead body she has seen. A headless one is a new thing.
She left the body and walked back to the tent. She sat on the tablet and rest her chin with her right hand and read the document on the body. Thinking about how unfortunate the newbie guy that will join her squad today. No only a murder case, but a headless body.
"I've bring him. This is the new guy." Her squad member, Sujong with the newbie come to her.
"Oh, Thank you, Sujong." Mai stands up and offer a handshake to the new guy. He took her hand and smiles, but quickly end the handshake. "Nice to meet you. I am Liam Nilsson. I'll be in this squad from now on."
A superficial person. But Mai know he is simply taking her hand because of the presence of Sujong. Typical treatment at her workplace.
"Where is the others? There's other two people right? Where can I meet the captain?" He looked around, searching for the captain. Since it is Liam's wish to join the squad one because he hears about the amount of cases they have accomplished.
Sujong patted Liam's shoulder and chuckles lightly. "It's only three of us at the moment. The old man John retired just last month because he's too old. We're lacking one member since last year, and you come. Lucky. We're short in manpower."
Liam is surprised. Who have thought this squad is a three men squad. Jobs will be rough. "I didn't expect you're the captain, sir. I'm sorry for my rudeness." Liam lowers his head a little on Sujong.
Sujong scratches his head nervously. "No. I am not the captain. But she is..."
Liam looks at Mai with face of disbelief. This woman is? What? For real? She must be promoted because the old man John retired. That must be it.
"Your thoughts are too loud, newbie. I'm in this position for years already." She said and she smirked. She sits down on again and continue checking the papers of the case. "Sujong, have you checked the missing people list?" she asks.
"No. I'm going for it now. Mai, are you staying here?"
"Yes. You can go back to the office. Newbie, you'll stay here with me."
Liam takes a second before replying. "Yes, Captain."
"Then I'll go back. Take care you two." Sujong said and left them together.
Liam sat down in front of her, nervously. It's awkward. I must have offended her earlier. Damn. He thought. "How can I help you, Captain?"
"What do you think about this?" Mai says and hands Liam the document.
"A headless body is bizarre. We need to catch the killer as soon as we can." Liam answers with a forced smile plastered.
"Are you single?"
"Pardon me?"
"I am asking if you're single." Mai repeat her question again, looking straight to him.
What? Is she trying to flirt with me? But she wears a ring. She's married. Is she into these stuff?
Damn I wish I didn't apply for this squad.
"I'm asking if you have a girlfriend or not. If not, I'll make you work to bones." Mai smirks at him.
"I.. have a girlfriend."
"Oh. Good for you."
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The next day, the autopsy result comes. In the office, they sat on the table.
"Apparently there's traces of semen found in the body." Sujong said, handing the results to Mai. "Apparently this is a rape and murder case."
"The killer raped her, killed her, and take her head so we can't identify her?" Liam asks, looking at both his seniors.
Mai shrugs. "That'll be weird."
Liam starts to hate the captain. He eyes the captain with not so friendly smile. "Why is that? It's clearly a rape case. Signs of forced penetration is confirmed."
"But there's no wound on her physical. It's weird. If it's true a rape, then there's at least visible wounds. No strangles, not marks. Nothing. She's not tied either." Mai answers the question.
"Errrr...." Sujong interrupts them. "Actually, we know who's the rapist. The sperm matches the database of criminals. It belongs to a man name Wilson Smith. He's an ex convict by rape case 10 years ago and got released 3 years ago."
Liam's eyes shines at Sujong. "Then this case is solved!"
Mai stares at the ceiling. There's something bothering her. No matter how many times she convinces herself, she can't take it. She can't believe that it's a simple rape case. Her instinct says so.
Mai stands up and picked her shoulder bag, putting the papers in it. "I'm going out. Newbie, you come with me."
"We're going to get that Wilson guy right?"
"The second squad already get him earlier haha" Sujong laughs.
"Then where are we going to?"
"Don't ask too much."
Sujong waves his hand to them. "You're visiting that guy again, Mai? Something is fishy with this one right? Good luck, newbie~"
Unhappy, but still, Liam follows Mai. She's still the captain afterall.
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They visit a housing apartment. An elite apartment. They walked into the elevator, goes to story fifty-four, and stops in front of room R-26.
What are we going to do here? Whose place is this? A lot of questions like that passes Liam's head.
Mai presses the doorbell. No answer.
She sighes and pulled out a key card and unlocked the door.
"Captain is this your house?" Liam asks.
"No. My friend's. We're here to visit him."
They opened the door, revealing a very dirty room. A bunch of plates left in the sink. Empty cup noodles are on the table. Just yucky. Not to mention it's so dark only with a TV on.
Mai turns on the lamp and off on the TV. Liam can't believe his eyes. There's pictures framed and hanged on the wall and on the table. Memes? It's memes. WHY WOULD ANYONE FRAME MEMES??? Is that pepe the frog? dat boi? yaoming? What I am seeing?
"You wash the dishes."
"What?"
"Just do it. I can't stand that smell."
I am a detective. Not a fu***** house keeper. I don't sign up to wash dishes. What do you think I am? Where is this? Who the hell hang memes?
"Okay capt." With another smooth smile, he looked the captain and proceeds to wash the dirty plates who knows how long it's been there. The funny thing is, Liam can find green fungus sticking on them. Whoever owns this place must be a lazy ass good for nothing.
And it's true. The owner is indeed good for nothing.
After he done with the plates, a man appears from the room next, more than appear, being grabbed by the captain and dragged by force is more appropriate.
"Is this the new guy? hmmm... He's even far more boring than what I imagined." He's a young man. Maybe at his late teens or early twenties. Skinny body with eye bags and messy dark black hair. He sat at the expensive couch with his blanket around him. He ask Liam to sit down with his hand. "Thank you for cleaning too. I only have pepsi and coffee."
"Thank you. But it's okay."
Mai hands him the papers about the body and the autopsy results to him.
"Captain, what are you doing? That's not for civilian to read!"
"Can you shut up for a while?" The dark haired man asks, and concentrates to what he reads.
Two minutes later he yawns and put down the papers. "This is so boring."
Captain Mai seriously asks him, "How do you think?"
"What do I think is like what you think. Wilson is not the killer. He's just a rapist. He fuck the dead body. I bet it's when the killer want to bury the body in the graveyard. But Wilson who is a worker at the morgue was there, and the killer flee without hiding the body. He's a necrophiliac. Must be fun to work at a place filled with what you love." The man says while chuckling.
"There's no way.... Are you saying the killer is still roaming around?"
"yeah"
"Bullshit. Then who is the murderer?"
"Go find some witness can you? It's your job right, mr. detective?"
"Then. We'll start looking for it. Thank you for your cooperation, En." Mai excuses herself. And they left the apartment.
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"Captain, Who is that person?" in the car, Liam asks.
"He was my classmate back at college. But even so, he's still 19." Mai answers calmly, looking at the road while driving.
"19?!"
"Yeah. He was 11 when I first met him at college."
"That's scary."
"He's what people call as 'genius'. He had helped me and the squad for many times. You should go to him if you have problems."
Liam fall silent for a moment before he spoke up. "But he's a freak.. right? He never cleans and on top of that he has memes framed and hanged.."
Mai also, took a moment before responding to him. "Yeah... well... Apparently he owns a meme blog and people in the internet calls him meme lord. As for that never cleans part, my wife used to be his housekeeper.. so when she stops working for him, he just left things like that."
Wait... did you just say wife?
Oh.
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Mystery / ThrillerA headless woman body is found. The police found traces of sperm inside her and convicted the man who raped her. The case is closed. But more headless body is found. And the social network of there dead people remains active as if they are still ali...
