Chapter two hundred and thirty fifth strange corpse
Jinguancheng Forensic Identification Center is located in Xicheng District. If it weren't for the sign hanging at the door, Lin Yang would probably have difficulty linking this yard with excellent green environment to the Forensic Identification Center.
This place looks more like an old-fashioned residential area.
After walking through the ginkgo forest in the front yard, Bai Jie led Lin Yang to a four-story building.
Someone had been waiting here for a long time. When he saw the two people approaching, he hurriedly took two steps forward to greet them: "Teacher Bai, you are finally here."
Bai Jie nodded in response, and then asked: "Where is Mr. Yuan?"
The Mr. Yuan she was talking about was Yuan Ming, the head of the Forensic Identification Center and her mentor when she was a graduate student in forensic medicine.
"Mr. Yuan is dissecting the body of one of the victims." The young forensic identification center staff member replied: "This time, the city criminal police team sent a total of five bodies of victims with the same cause of death. It is initially suspected that they are the same murderer.
Or it was the same criminal gang. Since there were no other clues, the city criminal police team wanted to start the investigation from these corpses. They were in a hurry, there were so many corpses, and we didn’t have enough experienced anatomy doctors here, so we just
I can only ask Teacher Bai to come over and help."
After narrating the matter in general, the staff member of the forensic identification center turned his attention to Lin Yang: "Who is this?"
"This is my student who serves as my assistant." Bai Jie replied simply.
"Hello." The staff of the Forensic Identification Center extended his hand to Lin Yang.
"Hello." While shaking hands, Lin Yang glanced at the work badge hanging on his chest, which read "Chen Quan," which should be his name.
After the two of them got to know each other, Bai Jie asked, "Where is the corpse you want me to dissect?"
"plz follow me."
Under the leadership of Chen Quan, Lin Yang and Bai Jie changed their clothes and arrived at an anatomy room on the second floor.
Compared with the outside, the temperature in the anatomy room is much lower, and there is an eerie feeling that makes people feel numb.
Of course, Bai Jie will not feel this way. For her, the anatomy room is not only a place where she works, but also her home.
As for Lin Yang, he doesn't feel uncomfortable either.
He has seen ghosts, so how could the gloomy atmosphere in the autopsy room scare him?
In the center of the anatomy room, there is an operating table.
On the bed, there was a body covered with white cloth.
Before they even got close to the corpse, a pungent rotting smell hit them. Even though Lin Yang and Bai Jie were wearing masks, they still frowned at the smell.
"How long has this person been dead?" Lin Yang asked.
The corpses were so smelly, it probably took more than a day or two for the person to die.
Chen Quan replied: "People from the Municipal Criminal Police Team discovered this body this morning. The time of death cannot be determined yet, but judging from the degree of decomposition of the body, it must have been five or six days, right? But there is
This thing is very strange. The place where the body was found was a bus stop in a downtown area. It is said that the body was fully clothed at the time and was leaning against the route sign of the bus stop. It did not look strange at all.
It wasn't until an hour or two later that someone noticed a strong rotten odor emanating from his body and went to check, only to find that he had already died. Who on earth would be so arrogant as to abandon the body at a bus stop in a downtown area?
, as if you were afraid that others wouldn’t discover the body?”
"It's indeed weird..." Lin Yang said with a frown.
Not only did he find it strange that the body was abandoned at the bus stop, there was another thing that also made him feel very strange.
The body was left on the bus stop for an hour or two before someone smelled the strong putrid odor. So before that, was it that the body didn't stink, or was it that someone smelled the stench and didn't say anything?
If it's the latter, it's okay to say, but if it's the former... then it goes against common sense.
While Lin Yang and Chen Quan were muttering in low voices, Bai Jie strode to the operating table, reached out and lifted off the layer of white cloth covering the body, revealing the victim's face.
This is an office worker around thirty years old, wearing a black suit and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He looks polite and somewhat elegant.
His expression was peaceful, and there was no trace of pain on his face. The clothes on his body were also very clean, and there were no blood stains or signs of a fight. It didn't look like he had been killed and dumped on the bus at all.
On the bus station, it looked like I was about to take the bus to work.
This look is really weird
As Bai Jie's assistants, Lin Yang and Chen Quan stepped forward and took off the black suits worn by the corpse so that Bai Jie could perform an autopsy.
In the process of undressing the corpse, Lin Yang discovered that there were only two injuries on the body.
One is a small hole about the thickness of a chopstick on the back of the head and neck; the other is an incision on the chest, along the intercostal space, about five or six centimeters long.
Whether it was the small hole in the back of the head or neck or the incision between the chest and ribs, they were all clean without a trace of blood.
I don’t know if the blood of this corpse has been drained out, or for some other reason...
"It's strange, this corpse is obviously very putrid, why can't there be a trace of decay on the whole body?"
At this time, not only Lin Yang and Chen Quan, but also Bai Jie couldn't help but frowned and murmured in surprise.
With all kinds of questions and confusions, the three people began to dissect the corpse.
When Bai Jie used a scalpel to cut open the corpse's chest, a putrid smell that was several times stronger than before immediately poured out from the corpse's chest, making the three of them dizzy.
Straight up nausea.
After he calmed down and saw clearly the situation inside the corpse's chest, Chen Quan couldn't help but exclaimed: "How could this happen?"
Completely different from the intact body surface, the inside of the chest and abdomen of the corpse was actually rotten and shapeless.
Seeing this scene, even Bai Jie, who has rich experience in the field of anatomy, couldn't help but change his expression and frown.
She has dissected so many corpses, but this is the first time she has seen such a corpse with no problem on the surface but completely decomposed inside.
This situation is too unreasonable, right?
However, there are even more unreasonable and surprising things
After removing the rotting internal organs from the chest and abdomen of the corpse, the three discovered that the heart of the corpse was missing.
Other internal organs, whether it is the lungs, liver or gastrointestinal tract, are rotten to varying degrees, but they are still there. But there is not even a shadow of the heart.
Although they were told when they arrived that the victim's death was very bizarre, after the three of them witnessed this with their own eyes, they were still shocked and had a chilling feeling down their backs.
"How did the murderer take away the victim's heart? There was only a five-centimeter-long incision on the victim's chest. It couldn't be that the heart was taken away from here, right?" Chen Quan frowned and really couldn't figure it out.
What did the murderer do?
Lin Yang and Bai Jie had no less doubts than him. It's just that these two people were better at keeping calm.
As the dissection progressed, the surprise and doubts in the hearts of the three people became more and more profound.
Because they discovered that not only the heart disappeared, but the brain also disappeared.
There was no scratch on the head of this corpse. The only wound was the small hole on the back of the neck.
However, how can a person's brain be completely removed with just a hole the size of a chopstick?
After the three men decapitated the corpse, they found that the brain had been completely removed, leaving no residue at all.
How on earth did the murderer do this?
How on earth did he remove the heart and brain of his victim?
What's the use of taking these things away?
Bai Jie and Chen Quan couldn't figure it out even if they thought about it.
Lin Yang's heart was also full of confusion. However, he also saw some unusual things on this corpse...
After several hours of busy work, the three of them finally completed the autopsy of the corpse, and Chen Quan also compiled all the conditions found on the corpse into a document and began to write an autopsy report.
While writing, Chen Quan asked: "Although the body surface of this corpse is intact, judging from the degree of decay of the internal organs, the victim's death time must have been at least five days, right?"
"That's right." Bai Jie nodded.
"Well..." After hesitating for a moment, Lin Yang still spoke: "I don't think the victim died that long ago. He should have died... today."
"He died today? How is it possible?" Chen Quan immediately retorted: "The organs in the victim's body have already rotted like that. Even if he died for five days, it is not a long time."
Bai Jie frowned, but did not scold Lin Yang for talking nonsense, but asked: "Tell me your reasons.
Lin Yang said: "The scars on the victim's chest and back of the neck are still intact and not rotten, so I think he died not long ago..."
In fact, this was not the real reason why he determined the time of death of the victim.
The reason why he thought the victim died today was because of the three rays of soul fire on the victim's head and shoulders.
If the victim's death time exceeds twenty-four hours, then the three rays of soul fire on his head and shoulders should be completely extinguished. But now, although these three rays of soul fire have become dim, there are still some
There was a trace of flame as thin as a gossamer, which was swaying feebly. This also proved that the victim's death time was definitely not more than twenty-four hours.
Unfortunately, Lin Yang couldn't explain this reason. So, he could only explain it by showing the scars on the victim's chest and back of neck.
"The fact that you were able to discover this detail shows that your observation skills are very good." Although Bai Jie praised him, she did not believe his judgment and explained: "But this body has obviously been specially treated by the murderer.
.Otherwise, there would not be a special situation where the internal organs are rotten and deteriorated, but the body surface is not affected at all. In such a state, we should judge the time of death based on the rottenness of the internal organs, rather than special treatment.
Judging from the superficial wounds..."
Although Lin Yang insisted that the victim died less than 24 hours ago, he could not convince Bai Jie because he could not provide strong evidence.
In the end, the time of death stated on the autopsy report was still more than five days.