Volume Three: The Case of Hundred Ghosts at Night Chapter Sixty-Seven: Xu Hansan's Corpse
Duan Ming did not go to Xing Qianqiu, but took Xu Shizhong directly to the morgue.
As soon as Xing Qianqiu and the others arrived, they had already sent people to retrieve Xu Hansan's body.
At this moment, Xu Laizi's body was lying on the bed in the middle.
Duan Ming and Xu Shizhong came to Xu Laizi's body. Duan Ming looked at Xu Shizhong: "What do you think of this body?"
"I have seen Wu Zuo's autopsy record before, and it said that his head was cut off while he was still alive." Xu Shizhong said, "However, it was not a sharp knife that cut off the head, and Wu Zuo couldn't tell what it was."
"I know, I mean, what do you think?" Duan Ming asked again: "Do you think this is murder by ghosts and gods?"
"This... of course not!" Xu Shizhong hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "If it is true that ghosts and gods kill people, then all of us in the Mirror Division will go home and farm and let the people from the Immortality Cult come to catch ghosts."
"Haha, you're right." Duan Ming nodded, and then suddenly his voice dropped: "But, Lao Xu, there really are ghosts and gods in this world..."
After listening to Duan Ming's words, Xu Shizhong shuddered: "Mr. Duan, please stop making fun of me. I know I offended you last time, but that was just what I was ordered to do."
"Oh, I understand." Duan Ming nodded: "You mean, I should blame Xing Qianqiu, not you Xu Shizhong, right?"
"I..." Xu Shizhong's face suddenly turned pale, and he shook his head with a wry smile: "Mr. Duan, just tell me, how do you want to get over me?"
"You say this as if I am a villain." Duan Ming smiled and shook his head: "It's just that I just came out of prison, and there is a lack of food and drink in this prison..."
"I understand!" Xu Shizhong nodded quickly: "Starting tonight, Chunyu Tower, I will be the host, and I will treat you sir for three days!"
"How good is this? After all, I am from Linyang City. I should have fulfilled my duty as a landlord..." Duan Ming replied with a smile.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! I have been given many advices by Mr. Duan, and I am now in this position because of his support." Xu Shizhong said, "So, I should invite you to do it."
"Since you said so, if I don't go, I won't give you face." Duan Ming nodded: "That's it, I'll go."
"Thank you sir." Upon hearing this, Xu Shizhong breathed a sigh of relief.
"But what I just said was not a joke." At this moment, Duan Ming suddenly said in a deep voice: "There are indeed ghosts in this world."
Duan Ming pointed to his heart: "It's in this person's heart!"
"Xu has learned a lesson!" Upon hearing this, Xu Shizhong hurriedly clasped his fists and said.
"Okay, enough gossip, let's start the autopsy." Duan Ming patted Xu Shizhong on the shoulder: "This time, do it for me!"
"Yes!" Xu Shizhong said solemnly.
Immediately afterwards, Duan Ming gently opened the white cloth covering the body, revealing the body inside.
Duan Ming gently turned the body over, and then said: "The deceased is a male, about 170 centimeters tall. His left leg was injured. It should be that after the fracture healed, the recovery was not good. Compared with the right leg, it is ten centimeters shorter."
"There is a scar on the back, 20 centimeters long. It should be caused by a knife attack."
"He has no head. The neck is broken from the fifth cervical vertebra. The broken end is flat and smooth, and the skin is gathered inward. It should be caused during his lifetime."
"Did you remember everything?" Duan Ming looked at Xu Shizhong.
"Remember it." Xu Shizhong nodded: "Mr. Duan, what is the fifth cervical vertebra?"
"It refers to bones." Duan Ming explained: "There is a long bone on the human back, called the spine. It is composed of 30 vertebrae of different shapes."
"These vertebrae are also called the spine and are an important component of human body support."
"The spine is divided into five parts from top to bottom: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal. Among them, there are seven cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic vertebrae, five lumbar vertebrae, five sacral vertebrae, and one coccygeal vertebrae."
"The five sacral vertebrae have fused with the evolution of humans, forming a sacrum..."
"The rest will be discussed later. Let's talk about the cervical vertebra now. The first and second sections of the cervical vertebra are called the atlas and axis, forming an atlas and axis. The seventh cervical vertebra is the bulge at the back of our neck."
"This bulge is the spinous process of the cervical vertebra. Based on this, the location of the break can be determined."
"I..." Xu Shizhong scratched his head: "I should understand."
"It's okay. I'll tell you later." Duan Ming said, "You just need to remember this first."
"Thank you, Mr. Duan, for your advice." Xu Shizhong said with his hands clasped in fists.
"Mr. Duan." At this moment, Xing Qianqiu walked in from the outside: "So is this person Xu Hansan?"
"I have seen Xu Laizi in the past, and his body shape is very similar to this corpse." Duan Ming thought for a while and said: "I once heard someone say that Xu Hansan met a gangster while working on duty.
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"The gangsters had just stolen from a large household, and when they found Xu Hansan, they wanted to kill him."
"Although Xu Hansan escaped by chance, he was also stabbed in the back."
"Based on these facts, the corpse in front of me is indeed that of Xu Hansan."
"Yeah." Xing Qianqiu nodded: "Then, looking at the wound, could it be that someone cut it off with a knife?"
"Probably not." Duan Ming shook his head: "The human spine has a total of four bends, namely in the neck, chest, waist, sacrococcygeal area."
Duan Ming gestured as he spoke: "So under normal conditions, the posture of a person's cervical spine should be bent forward. If in this case, someone holds a knife to decapitate him, then the blade will inevitably destroy multiple joints and cause damage.
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"But the vertebral body of this corpse looks smooth and round, and has not suffered such damage."
"Of course, if Xu Hansan was lowering his head to pick something up at that time, his cervical spine would have been straightened."
"And if the murderer had stabbed him from the back, hitting the back of his neck, it might have caused this situation."
"But..." Duan Ming changed his voice and pointed at Xu Hansan's neck: "If this is the case, the knife should have struck from the back, and the skin at the broken end should have curled forward with the blade."
"But this is not the case with Xu Hansan's body. The skin at the broken end is curled toward the back."
"This means the attack started in front of him."
"It is almost impossible to decapitate someone with a knife in front of the body while lowering the head."
"So, Xu Hansan probably wasn't killed with a sword."
"If you put it that way..." Xing Qianqiu looked at Xu Hansan's broken neck carefully and said, "Then how did you kill him?"
