Chapter 60: Foot
Taking out the phone, Wang Ming noticed his body was trembling. He didn't understand how Qiao Meng could be as calm as she was in this situation. Calling the police emergency number, Wang Ming got a fast reply. After telling them to send an ambulance to the shop, the police officer on the other side wanted Wang Ming to tell him what Wang Ming was seeing.
Wang Ming wanted to give this job to Qiao Meng, but she was busy looking around for evidence the perpetrators may have left behind. Giving the job to examine the body to him.
What Wang Ming saw grossed him out and made him uncomfortable. Walking closer to the body, he finally recognized the person hanging from the ceiling. Weng Ting. His body was hanging on a meat hook, which is usually used to hold up pig or cow carcasses. Walking closer, Wang Ming could hear faint breathing from Weng Ting.
Seeing Weng Ting was still alive, Wang Ming urged the police officer to send an ambulance. Which caught Qiao Meng's attention, so she examined Weng Ting together with him. Wang Ming then wanted to lift Weng Ting's body off the meat hook to release him from the pain.
But stopped when Qiao Meng shouted and scolded him for being reckless. There was no bleeding coming from the wound in Weng Ting's shoulder, which meant that the meat hook was stopping the bleeding. If Wang Ming had pulled the hook out from Weng Ting's body, then he would most likely had bled out in only 5 minutes.
Wang Ming then kept examining Weng Ting's body while also telling the police officer on the line what he saw.
Looking at Weng Ting's body and its condition, it seemed like they had tortured him for at least a day could even be more. Pulling up Weng Ting's t-shirt, Wang Ming could see different sizes of knife cuts on his stomach. All the cuts looked different from each other, which suggested to him and Qiao Meng that the people who tortured Weng Ting had used different knives. The knife wounds on Weng Ting's body reminded Wang Ming of how some knife sellers would promote their knives, by using the knives to cut into a piece of meat showing people how sharp the knife was.
The worst part though was looking at the cuts Wang Ming could see a red color which didn't seem like blood. Weng Ting's wounds reeked of chilli. The people who had tortured Weng Ting had used chili oil, chili, and salt it looked like and smeared it over all the Weng Ting's wounds. To further the pain and discomfort, Wang Ming didn't understand how a person could be this evil.
While examining the wounds, Wang Ming also kept checking on Weng Ting's condition. Weng Ting was unconscious but still breathed, which eased him, but it kept growing weaker and weaker. Wang Ming prayed for the ambulance to come soon, even though Weng Ting had tried to mess with him last time. It didn't sit right with Wang Ming to just see him die like this.
Wang Ming saw bruises all over Weng Ting's arms and legs some spots had a deep purple color, which meant that they were most likely broken. They had beat him so hard that his skin tissue was breaking apart, leaving dry and cracked skin behind. But the worst part was even yet to come. As Wang Ming looked at Weng Ting's feet the sight of it made him nauseous.
Weng Ting's feet were bloody. At first Wang Ming thought it was because the blood from the wounds had bled down towards his feet. But it wasn't. The people who had tortured Weng Ting had pulled out all of his toenails and then used hot glue and poured them over his toes, glueing them together.
This made it so Weng Ting wouldn't bleed out but was a painful way to do it. Thinking about the pain Weng Ting would experience when the doctor would remove the glue, Wang Ming shuddered and hoped for Weng Ting they would knock him out first.
Seeing Weng at Ting's feet made Wang Ming felt uncomfortable. He had seen many dead things in his life which chef hadn't. He cooked with a lot of hideous things before, but seeing a human being treated like this was just unbearable.
Not wanting to do this anymore, Wang Ming told the police officer to hurry, then disconnected the call.
Regrouping with Qiao Meng, Wang Ming couldn't believe that she had found no clues.
"I've searched the whole place, but there's nothing here. These guys are definitely pros. Though do you remember the letter you found? It said something with leaving behind instructions, which means something has to be here. And the only place I haven't looked is on Weng Ting's body."
Hearing Qiao Meng mentioning Weng Ting's body, Wang Ming unconsciously jerked his body. Since he didn't want to see Weng Ting's body again.
Seeing Wang Ming's reaction, Qiao Meng remembered that Wang Ming is only a normal person, and not a police officer.
"I'm sorry, Wang Ming. I forgot you are only a normal person. Not a police officer. If you want to, you can stay here while I check out the body."
Walking up to Weng Ting, Qiao Meng also heard that Weng Ting was still alive. Which meant that she had to be careful not to hurt him anymore than he was. Examining the body, Qiao Meng found nothing different from Wang Ming, even though she was more thorough.
But looking at Weng Ting's feet, she found something odd. Where was his shoes? Looking around, she hadn't found them anywhere. It made little sense for the perpetrators to take the shoes with them. Which had to mean that his feet were the answer?
Crouching down to look underneath Weng Ting's feet, Qiao Meng finally found what she had been looking for. There were words which they had carved directly on Weng Ting's left foot, probably by a box cutter. Reading the words it said Fong storage 6 PM.
Seeing the name Fong storage, Qiao Meng recognized where the place was instantly. Fong storage 20 years ago was the biggest warehouse which stored wine in FenZhong city. But after a fire which killed over 20 persons, including the owner, no one bothered to take over, leaving it empty ever since.
Looking at the clock, Qiao Meng saw it was already 5.20 pm, which was close till meeting time. Wanting to get there before the meeting time to bust and catch the perpetrators. Qiao Meng then ran as fast as she could out of the shop and towards the parking. But before she did, she hurriedly explained to Wang Ming.
"Wang Ming, since you aren't a police officer, it's better for you to stay here. This is my golden opportunity to catch the perpetrators. The meeting is 6 o'clock at Fong storage. If I don't go now, then the other police officers coming will take over the case. This is my chance of promotion thank you and goodbye!"
Hearing what she said, Wang Ming didn't know what to do. He wanted to follow Qiao Meng, since he felt worried about her. But couldn't leave until the police arrived. Wang Ming felt intimidated by everything which had happened. Especially after seeing what they had done with Weng Ting, Wang Ming didn't want it to happen to him. But if they could do this to a man like Weng Ting, what would they do to Qiao Meng if she got caught? Wang Ming didn't think slavery and rape were out of the question.
Thinking about this, Wang Ming felt his heart and body boil with uneasiness. Every second he waited now felt like hours and minutes like days. Finally, after 5 minutes, both the police car and the ambulance arrived at the restaurant. Rushing to tell the police officers what had happened, Wang Ming then hurriedly ran out of the market to find a taxi.
The police officers didn't want to let him leave and wanted to take a statement, but seeing him like a crazy dog, they would take the statement another time, and let him go after taking his phone number, citizen identity number and address.
Usually at these times, there were always many people fighting for a taxi. But today Wang Ming had great luck as just when he got out of the market. There was a vacant taxi which stopped right in front of him asking if he needed a ride. Hurriedly telling the taxi driver the address, Wang Ming felt his mind and body starting to get stressed.
Along the way to Fong warehouse, Wang Ming didn't see Qiao Meng's police car, which made him even more worried. Wang Ming also looked around for any suspicious persons on the way, but didn't see any.
Finally arriving at Fong Warehouse, Wang Ming stepped out of the car. He got startled by a scream and a bat flying towards his face.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone