Chapter 451 Smell Lolita’s new corpse
Hearing this, Jack looked around curiously for a week. He usually would not open his senses at will, especially his sense of smell.
In European and American countries, and even that Asian island country that has always wanted to leave Asia and join Europe, body odor is a common phenomenon, so most people here use antiperspirant or deodorant, and even perfume when going out. Essential.
If he dares to improve his sense of smell indoors, it will definitely be a nightmare-level encounter. But under normal circumstances, everyone around him pays attention to hygiene. As long as he doesn't deliberately distinguish, he can barely get used to it.
"So the murderer is sensitive to a certain perfume?" Taylor subconsciously put her arm in front of her nose and smelled it. She sprayed herself sweetly before going out today.
Rhett shook his head, "Perfume is an artificial smell, and the victim may be a woman who doesn't use perfume. I suspect that the murderer may have allergic olfactory dysfunction. He can distinguish some extremely special smells and pursue them fanatically. This is Motive for committing the crime. "
The term allergic olfactory dysfunction is quite familiar to Jack. In his previous life, he watched a Russian drama in which a detective with a very sensitive sense of smell seemed to suffer from this disease. This guy could smell explosives on a passenger sitting on the other side of the plane.
The detective was also troubled by various strange smells every day, which led to his eccentric personality and had to wear special nasal plugs when traveling.
This drama may have some artistic processing, but the sense of smell is too sensitive. It is not a particularly friendly talent in European and American countries. Jack has seen some statistics. It is said that 90% of white people and almost 90% of white people in the world 99% of black people have body odor problems.
This is not to say that the Seris people are particularly clean and do not have this problem, but in the long process of evolution, some Seris people accidentally lost small gene fragments, resulting in severe degeneration of the apocrine glands. So these people become a minority with almost no body odor.
The apocrine glands are mainly distributed in the armpits, external auditory canal, eyelids, navel and below. The fatty acids and some pheromones they secrete are excreted from the body with sweat, and under the action of bacteria, they form something similar to cumin mixed with cumin. It smells strange.
With the advancement of human civilization, those minorities who secrete less fatty acids due to degeneration of apocrine glands have lighter body odor, making the smell of pheromones relatively more obvious, making them more popular with the opposite sex. Therefore, Gradually it became the majority in East Asia.
As a result, among the Seris people, there are fewer and fewer people with body odor problems, accounting for only about 6.5% of the total population.
And Jack also discovered that body odor seems to be a picky thing. Perhaps many people will notice a certain person of the opposite sex they like in adolescence. The smell mixed with the sour smell of sweat after exercise is particularly unpleasant. Feel it yourself.
Usually in literary works, it is described as a girl's body fragrance or a boy's pleasant smell mixed with the smell of fresh soap. In fact, this smell is quite picky. A can smell it, but B can smell it. You can't even notice it, let alone between people of the same sex.
European and American women attach great importance to the management of armpit hair and even body hair in the three-point area, also to reduce body odor and make their own body odor more attractive.
"If the murderer wants to extract female body odor through chemical means, as Red said, does it require some special equipment?" Emily seemed to have some realization.
Reed stood up from the sofa after being reminded, "Yes, I can make a list for Garcia. He will definitely need to use some laboratory equipment, beakers, glass test tubes, a A container made of ceramic or glass that can completely hold an adult female body, etc."
At this point, he suddenly stopped and hit the palm of his left hand with his right hand in excitement, "I understand too. What happened to the removed part of the skin on the sole of the victim's foot?
When I was in middle school, I once did an experiment using methanol to separate chemical components. The teacher would ask us to cut off a part of the raw material for sampling in advance. The results are put together for comparison, and the sample is exactly 2X2 inches square.”
Jack put a portion of beef soup into a thermos bucket and handed it to him, "It's a coincidence that you can send some late-night snacks to Garcia. She should still be at the headquarters helping you track the whereabouts of the methanol and chloroform." Then everyone They all said their goodbyes, and before leaving, Rossi recited something familiar, to the effect of "Only the familiar smell can fully awaken the memory of the past."
When Jack started his daily exercise routine, he was still thinking about this sentence in his mind. It was not until the end of the exercise that he remembered it when he was taking a shower in the bathroom. This sentence comes from The novel "Lolita" by Russian-born writer Vladimir Nabokov.
At the same time, Emily was helping him tidy up the vegetable patch in the backyard. This eldest sister seemed to be very interested in gardening and liked playing with flowers and plants.
The two people's current cohabitation life in the form of pure friendship is quite harmonious. Although Emily occasionally jokes about Jack's behavior of having two boats (she only knows two boats), they have been together for a long time. Well, she actually sympathized with Jack.
After all, it is not an easy thing to be pursued by two outstanding women at the same time.
"But can you change your habit of wearing shorts and running around the living room after taking a shower?" Of course, Emily was also dissatisfied with Jack.
After exercising and taking a hot bath, Jack walked out of the bathroom with an innocent face. There was no one at home, but he didn’t even bother to put on his underpants. The temperature in Los Angeles is between 20 and 30 degrees all year round. In the living room After walking around for two times, my body dried naturally, so I didn’t need a bath towel at all.
Emily took a deep breath, and her nostrils were suddenly filled with an indescribable and particularly pleasant smell that was mixed with soap. She suddenly felt that she could empathize with the murderer. .
She tried her best to calm down, slapped Jack on the chest, gritted her teeth and said, "Put on some clothes, otherwise you may have another female suitor."
Is this a threat? Jack was dumbfounded and put on a T-shirt for himself. This eldest sister, like Angela, had a simpler relationship, and it was actually quite good to be friends. If it really got complicated, it would be uncomfortable for everyone.
The next day, Jack drove the "Mammoth" to take Emily to work as usual. As a result, halfway through the road, he received a call from Rosie and diverted directly to the Hollywood Hills. .
On a mountain trail not far from the "HOLLYWOOD" sign, two mountain bike enthusiasts discovered a female body wrapped in a blue waterproof plastic sheet, and the three bodies they had discovered before. The status is exactly the same.
"Same as before." Rossi lives in nearby Beverly Hills and arrived at the scene before everyone else.
"The identity cannot be confirmed yet. It is probably the same as before. Because the kidnapping did not exceed 24 hours, the missing report has not yet entered the system."
This place happened to fall under the jurisdiction of the Wilshire Police Department, and Jack saw many familiar faces, including John and Tim.
"I think we need to speed up." Tim walked up to Jack with a stern expression on his old face.
“Another girl named Anissa Goethe disappeared yesterday evening. Her roommate said that she went to interview for a new job, but then she disappeared. She did not appear at the interview location and did not reply. Home.”
(End of this chapter)