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The bodies appeared floating in the river but disfigured. As there were no reports of the missing, Oto, a young university student, decided to investigate the case. He had read countless books in which an amateur detective could sense the footsteps of criminals.
Oto went to the priest of his parish. He was an occult scholar.
Now the priest said that he was sure that the dead were from the invisible part of the city.
"Do you ever notice that there are no slums in this city?" When people occupy a plot of land and start erecting miserable houses, the government soon creates a park and drives people to another city. face as guinea pigs. "
He sought the city coroner. The man was not at all sympathetic, but he insisted and told her to tell him something strange. Finally, he revealed two things: the bodies seemed to have marks of violence, and one of them seemed to have a vibrating movement on his tongue and hand.
He remembered what the priest said, that the public executions had created a taste for the grotesque among the city's residents. "Insensibility became a rule, I saw a boy playing with a rotting body that was left on display in the square," he had once said.
Oto decided to stay the night near the head of the river. It was the most accessible place for any such act. Hidden among the trees, he watched the moon and the strange sounds of the animals. I was not asleep. But she was not afraid either.
In fact, he saw on the third night a man dressed in a black overcoat approaching the car, and pulling a bag into the bag. He tried to see more accurately, luckily the night had a full moon.
It seemed as though the bag was moving. He felt a cold spine.
The other day, a little tired, he went to the priest. The man poured her wine and whispered,
"I had not imagined that. You know I've been studying these things for a long time. The Chinese already talked about it. The Egyptians learned from the Indians the same techniques. But it was in the eighteenth century, in Germany, that a sage began to create the theory. He studied in Newton the concept of universal gravity and postulated the presence of a universal energy. He was famous for healing pains with a magnet. According to the scientist, it would be possible to transform the invisible energy of the ether into magnetic force and this into organic force. Some men have long wondered what the limit of death is if a body can be kept alive through cold or any energy. Someone has gone back to studying animal magnetism.
Oto left with a strange sensation that he could not define. Why did he want to know about such somber things? He ended up falling asleep in his bed on a book. He dreamed that the mutilated prisoners were taken to a macabre laboratory and kept alive for a few hours, then returned to silence in the river.
Afonso Jr. Ferreira de Lima
2016
https://afonsojunior.blogspot.com/2016/10/o-caso-dos-corpos-sem-nome.html
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