Chapter 451 Smell Lolita New Corpse
Jack looked around curiously after hearing this. He usually would not open up his senses at will, especially his sense of smell.
In European and American countries, including even that island country in Asia 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 perfume is a must-have when going out.
Whenever 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 just 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."
The term allergic olfactory dysfunction was very familiar to Jack. He had watched a Russian drama in his previous life, in which a detective with a very sensitive sense of smell seemed to suffer from this disease. This guy could smell the smell of the things sitting on the plane. The smell of explosives from a passenger on the other side of the cabin.
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 play 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 once read some statistics. It is said that 90% of white people and almost 99% of black people in the world have it. Body odor problem.
It’s not that the Seris people are particularly clean and don’t have this problem, but in the long process of evolution, some Seris people accidentally lost small gene fragments, which caused serious degeneration of the apocrine glands, so these people became 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 the degeneration of their apocrine glands have lighter body odor, which makes the smell of pheromones more obvious, making them more popular with the opposite sex. Therefore, they gradually become the majority in East Asia. group.
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. Maybe many people will notice that 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 to them.
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. Person A can smell it, but Person B may not notice it. People of the same sex may not notice it. Not to mention between.
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.
After being reminded, Red stood up from the sofa and said, "Yes, I can make a list for Garcia. He will definitely need to use some laboratory equipment, beakers, and glass test tubes. Each one can hold a complete Ceramic or glass containers for adult female bodies, etc.”
At this point, he suddenly froze again, and suddenly excitedly hit the palm of his left hand with his right hand, "I also understand what happened to the removed 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 out a part of the raw material to take samples in advance, and compare them with the results. Such samples were 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."
Everyone then left one after another. Before leaving, Rossi read something familiar, to the effect of "Only the smell of familiarity can fully awaken the memories 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 Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. novel "Lolita".
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), after getting along for a long time, she actually sympathizes. Jack's.
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 the workout, Jack walked out of the bathroom after taking a comfortable hot shower with an innocent look on his 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, so walking around in the living room will make him feel natural. Once it dries, the bath towel is no longer needed.
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 Emily to work as usual in the Mammoth. 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 corpse wrapped in a blue waterproof plastic sheet, which was in exactly the same condition as the three corpses found before.
"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 been entered into 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 lost track of her. She did not appear at the interview location and did not go home."