I told Xiaotao that we should take the body back to the station first. I then asked Dali to get some things for me like a spatula, bone powder, mung bean flour, slaked lime, fish gelatin, and a sewing kit.

“Bone powder?” asked Dali. “What the hell is that? Where can I buy it?”

“It’s animal bones ground into fine powder,” I explained. “You can look for it where they sell bone carvings, or maybe even some plant nurseries. Some people use it as fertilizer.” 

“What about fish gelatin?”

“It’s usually in the gelatinous fatty part of the belly of a fish,” I answered. “You can get it at the fish market.”

Dali then left and Xiaotao called for the forensics team to deal with the internal organs, but there was bad news. The coroner could not work on this case because he was busy performing autopsies on the bodies of the gangsters. At that point, the Black Panthers gang and the Blood Wolf gang were still at each other’s throat, and...