"Mainly because the deceased didn't remember..."
Upon hearing Zhang Feng's words, Officer Hu's eyes widened instantly, and he exclaimed with full energy:
"What the heck?!"
"The deceased didn't remember?!!!"
Officer Hu was dumbfounded.
What does the deceased's memory have to do with the autopsy?
Seriously?
Are you saying the autopsy report was dictated by the deceased themselves and then recorded by you?
This is way too supernatural, isn't it?
Did I just see a ghost?
Zhang Feng realized the issue only because of Officer Hu's exaggerated reaction.
He couldn't let Officer Hu find out!
Otherwise, wouldn't his late reputation be ruined for nothing?
"Ahem!"
Zhang Feng coughed twice and said immediately:
"What are you saying about the deceased not remembering... Officer Hu, don't scare me like that. You don't have the same weird tastes as your daughter, reading those strange novels, do you?"
"I was saying the deceased didn't have records!"
"How could the deceased's body possibly have the murderer's ID number, right? There's no way they could have written the murderer's ID number on their own skin, right?"
"Oh~" Hearing Zhang Feng's explanation, Officer Hu came to a sudden realization:
"So that's what you were saying, no records? I heard it as didn't remember?"
"Looks like I've been too busy lately, my ears aren't working well..."
"Hahaha..."
Zhang Feng and Officer Hu exchanged glances and both burst into laughter.
Anyone could sense the awkwardness in their laughter.
To ease the awkwardness, Officer Hu asked:
"Young Zhang, aren't you into criminal investigation? How about helping me analyze why the deceased would obediently take sleeping pills while waiting for death?"
About this matter.
Zhang Feng knew.
Because the deceased indeed remembered this...
But Zhang Feng added a prefix:
"Since Officer Hu asked for my analysis, I'll just share my guess, of course, it's just a guess..."
Officer Hu nodded cooperatively and said: "Of course, reasoning through a case involves guessing!"
Zhang Feng nodded and slowly spoke:
"I guess only someone very close to the deceased could do this, namely... the deceased's wife!"
"Wife?" Officer Hu paused.
Then, Zhang Feng continued:
"The deceased's wife, for some reason, whether it was the deceased or dissatisfaction with her own life, led to a chaotic private life. She wanted to change her situation, so she plotted to kill her husband with her lover!"
"The murderer obtained a large amount of sleeping pills through improper means. To make the deceased take them willingly, the pills were crushed and mixed into flour, served as food for the deceased!"
"Or simply minced and stuffed into dumplings."
"After the deceased fell asleep, she called her lover to strangle the deceased and hid the body in a pile of scrap, disappearing without a trace!"
Zhang Feng's story ended there.
However, Officer Hu was looking at Zhang Feng with one eye big and one small, strangely.
I asked you to guess, not to make wild guesses!
"Do you even hear what you're saying?"
Officer Hu's mouth twitched violently:
"You've already identified the murderer as the deceased's wife? And that she had a lover?"
"Uh... of course, let's put aside these assumptions for a moment..."
"Even Pan Jinlian only mixed a bit of arsenic into the medicine, but directly in the food with sleeping pills?! Isn't that bitter?"
Officer Hu glanced at Zhang Feng, as if suspecting that Zhang Feng also read those strange novels and watched weird dramas?
"Ahem..."
Zhang Feng cleared his throat.
Although crushing sleeping pills and stuffing them into dumplings seemed absurd and nonsensical,
There was no choice. The corpse had said so earlier.
If it hadn't been for this tip-off, neither Zhang Feng nor Lin Rui could have possibly thought the murder case would unfold like this.
But Zhang Feng certainly wouldn't tell Officer Hu that the information came directly from the corpse.
So he laughed and waved his hand, saying:
"Officer Hu, after all, I'm a forensic specialist. These are just wild guesses. Solving the case requires you to do it personally."
"However, it's still necessary to investigate the deceased's wife."
"Uh..." Officer Hu paused, then nodded and said:
"Don't worry, we'll investigate everyone related to the deceased."
"Alright." Officer Hu raised the autopsy report in his hand and said:
"Young Zhang, thank you forensic specialists for your hard work. We'll take it from here."
With that, Officer Hu prepared to turn and leave.
Just as Officer Hu was about to turn away.
His pupils began to contract, with a dark thought crossing his mind:
"The words I just heard were definitely 'didn't remember' and not 'no records'!"
The story about the sleeping pills didn't make him forget Zhang Feng's previous 'slip of tongue'?!
Yes!
After all, Officer Hu had decades of experience in criminal investigation.
If he couldn't clearly hear that sentence, his professional competence would indeed be questionable.
And for this reason.
What his daughter Hu Huixin had mentioned earlier came to his mind once more.
"Zhang Feng had a fight with the corpse!"
"Hiss—"
Officer Hu took a slight breath, pondering to himself:
"Could it be true?"
His eye twitched slightly, muttering under his breath:
"Though a forensic specialist's job is to make the corpse 'talk', it doesn't mean they literally talk!"
Officer Hu turned his gaze back to Zhang Feng, standing there with a harmless smile.
A sudden chill ran down his spine, making him shudder involuntarily.
Quickening his pace, he left the scene and went to the criminal investigation department.
His daughter Hu Huixin sat at his desk with a face full of grievance, pouting and unwillingly writing a reflection paper.
Officer Hu walked directly to her side and said:
"Alright, you don't need to write your reflection paper anymore."
"Why?" Hu Huixin pouted, still annoyed: "You don't believe me anyway."
"I believe you!" With just one sentence, Officer Hu made Hu Huixin pause.
She looked up joyfully at her father:
"You believe me? Then why did you just..."
Before Hu Huixin could finish, Officer Hu interrupted:
"You have no evidence."
"I... " Hu Huixin was still very aggrieved: "They destroyed all the evidence..."
Officer Hu placed a hand on Hu Huixin's shoulder, lowering his voice:
"They destroyed their evidence, not the evidence in your possession. If you have it, how can they destroy it?"
"Keep observing Zhang Feng, and if there's any issue, don't come to me immediately. Take out your phone, record it, understand?"
Officer Hu's words were a wake-up call!
Hu Huixin stood up abruptly.
"Yes! I understand! I'll ensure the task is completed!"
Officer Hu nodded: "Alright, go on. You may not need to write the reflection paper, but to maintain the situation, remember to apologize to Forensic Doctor Lin."
"No problem!"
With that, Hu Huixin bounded out of the office cheerfully.
Standing straight, Officer Hu said in a solemn voice:
"Team one, take this autopsy report and compare it with the deceased's identity information."
"Team two, once we have the deceased's identity, start investigating everyone around them, and check if the deceased has a wife and her whereabouts!"
"Team three, be prepared to assist teams one and two at all times!"
"Yes!" The criminal investigation office was instantly bustling with activity.
Officer Hu nodded and was about to begin work when a subordinate hurried up to him, looking serious, and said:
"Sir, Captain Ma of City D called; there's an emergency!"
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