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The victims of another horrific incident were a single mother and her child, both of whom had been hacked to death with a sharp weapon, their bodies chopped into several pieces.
In the corresponding photo, Yang Xiao saw the corpses of the mother and child, their deaths too gruesome to bear witness to. The child, roughly six or seven years old, was chopped horizontally, receiving three slashes across the neck, abdomen, and just above the knees of the lower legs.
What was terrifying was that the bodies had been meticulously reassembled, laid out on the bed to form complete human figures, and the child's face, stained red with blood, was eerily calm, as if he were simply asleep.
The other was the boy's mother, who had sustained only one slash, but this one slash had brutally bisected the poor woman lengthwise, splitting her entire body, from head to toe, with a ghastly crack.
Like the boy, the two halves of the woman's body were also put back together and laid on the bed.