Someone's dead...
The police have unearthed a corpse!
June 4th, 00:16
In the dead silence of the midnight woods, as the police untied the burlap sack...
A corpse was unearthed!
No one slept all night; they loaded the body onto a car and transported it overnight to the funeral home.
The Hongfu Brigade doesn't have a forensic examiner. These days, forensic examiners are rarer than pandas and can't be standard for every brigade. The entire Hanhai City has only one, who is involved in other cases.
Therefore, the brigade doesn't have a dedicated forensic room. Encountering a corpse, it's temporarily stored in the funeral home!
And for the autopsy, when the forensic examiner is unavailable, Chen Changchun also needs to find a professional doctor.
However...
"Pay extra?"
On the way transporting the body, Xu Liang suddenly spoke from the back seat.
Chen Changchun was stunned, his hand holding the phone suspended in midair.
"What?"
"I said, pay extra?"
Xu Liang revealed a slight smile.
"Pay extra for a brand new autopsy report!"
He studied as a psychologist, fully understanding human anatomy, coupled with his past experience as a criminal investigator...
If he wanted, he could completely switch careers to become a forensic examiner!
Just...
"You have this skill!?"
Chen Changchun was stunned.
"I'm a lawyer, often encountering various unexpected events, especially criminal cases, with many bodies. It's quite normal to know how to perform autopsies."
Xu Liang said, suddenly his eyes serious.
"So... do we pay?"
Chen Changchun gritted his teeth.
"Pay!"
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June 4th.
Six o'clock in the morning.
"The deceased's decay has fully skeletonized, with the bone surface yellowing and some turning grayish-brown."
"Surface cracks increase and deepen, joint cartilage completely absent, initial cracks run through the skeleton, even showing fractures, but not clearly."
"Therefore, the weathering degree is determined between second and third stage."
"Time of death is seven years ago."
Inside the funeral home.
At this time, Xu Liang was standing in the morgue, in front of him was a morgue bed with a skeleton dressed in tattered clothes.
Some clay still staining the bones.
He bent down, eyes closely observing the details of the corpse.
"Pelvic inlet is circular, greater sciatic notch is wide and shallow, pubic symphysis...."
"Preliminary judgment, the deceased is female."
"The deceased's skull sagittal suture closed 1/2, coronal suture closed 1/3, lambdoid suture beginning to close, age estimated between 30—40."
"However, lumbar, thoracic vertebrae edges show no bone proliferation, the deceased should be below 40, within 35."
A wealth of information, various professional terms flowed from Xu Liang's mouth.
Beside him, Liu Jin and Chen Changchun quickly noted them down.
Eventually, a complete profile emerged.
"Deceased is female, height 163 centimeters, age about thirty-five, time of death seven years ago."
"Cause of death was a fractured skull leading to cerebral hemorrhage, wound sharp like a pointed object, resembling a corner of a brick."
"Judging from bone wear, the deceased should have engaged in heavy physical labor long-term."
Xu Liang shifted his gaze from the corpse, looking at the people around him.
A body from seven years ago...
The police have only now discovered it!
Even so, if not for Xu Liang realizing Chen Jian's couple had issues, or Chen Wei's incident... another seven years might have passed before anyone knew a person had died!
Thinking of this.
Chen Changchun's face turned extremely grim, his fists unconsciously clenched.
Even though the morgue was frigid, his heart grew increasingly restless.
"Now is not the time for anger."
Xu Liang glanced at him and said:
"Ask the clerical staff to check on missing persons cases, see the deceased's specific information."
On hearing this, Chen Changchun took a deep breath, suppressing the turmoil within.
No useful clues were left on the surface of the corpse.
But what Xu Liang said was enough to help them pinpoint the deceased's file!
He looked at Liu Jin, who then walked to the side to make a phone call.
After a long while.
A police car arrived outside the funeral home.
The person who got off the car handed a document to Chen Changchun.
"Based on the deceased's appearance information, the clerical staff quickly identified a missing persons case from seven years ago."
"Missing person named Zhang Cui, 33 years old, from Chen Family Village, same village as Chen Jian, mother of a son and a daughter, husband named Chen Hua."
"One day, a neighbor heard the sound of a quarrel and called the police. When the police arrived at the scene, they did not see Zhang Cui, Chen Hua was injured all over, emotionally low, claiming a conflict led to Zhang Cui leaving home."
Chen Changchun's gaze swept across the document.
While speaking, the surrounding air gradually solidified.
"When the police wanted to investigate deeply, Chen Family Village happened to be undergoing demolition, the buildings pushed down."
"As a result, the matter was left unresolved, recorded as a missing person's case."
"Only now it has been revisited."
After speaking, Chen Changchun's face already looked extremely grim.
Such a flawed case, not resolved at the time... most likely due to Chen Jian, as the village head, obstructing it.
In villages undergoing demolition, villagers won't let the police delay demolition because something happened to one household. Chen Jian tweaking it slightly, and the case couldn't be investigated!
"From what we see now, Zhang Cui should have been killed by Chen Jian."
"And Chen Hua should also be aware of this."
Wang Chao spoke thoughtfully, beginning to use his super brain.
Chen Hua's emotional low state strongly indicated he knew about Zhang Cui's accident. Otherwise, he should be extremely anxious, actively calling the police!
Considering their previous speculations, there exists a deep conflict between the deceased and the killer...
"Could it be Chen Hua killed the deceased!?"
Wang Chao's eyes widened, scanning the group.
Chen Changchun and others nodded slightly, not denying it.
"Highly possible!"
A man watching his wife die, being completely helpless himself.
Even when the police arrived, he dared not speak...
"Not only, there should be other reasons too."
Xu Liang suddenly spoke, staring directly at Chen Changchun.
The accumulation of long-term emotions leading to an outburst is because the conflict never disappears.
Otherwise, emotions should gradually fade over time.
Only a few ruthless people keep it in their hearts!
When Zhang Cui died, Chen Hua didn't explode, seven years later, the other party logically shouldn't have exploded either.
"You're right."
Chen Changchun sighed deeply.
He fetched another document handed over by the officer.
"The clerical staff found Chen Hua's name somewhat familiar and investigated deeply."
"Discovered that four years ago, Hongfu District had a suicide case."
"Deceased named Chen Qingqing, female, 22 years old, multiple self-harm scars on her body, once leaped off Hongfu Bridge, drowned by the river."
"Police retrieved the body downstream and returned to the station. The person who came to claim the body was Chen Hua!"
Another person dead!?
The crowd felt as if a nuclear explosion went off in their heads, their minds blank.
"Chen Hua is her father?"
Xu Liang frowned.
He remembered Zhang Cui had a son and a daughter. Considering rural marriage and childbirth at 17 or 18 back then, the age aligns.
Chen Changchun took a deep breath and nodded.
"How did another one die!?"
Liu Jin frowned, struggling to understand what really happened back then.
Thinking, he suddenly realized something.
"Related to Zhang Cui's death seven years ago?"
"She and Zhang Cui wouldn't have encountered issues at the same time. Zhang Cui died immediately, Chen Qingqing committed suicide four years ago, right!?"
No one refuted.
But if it was...
What happened seven years ago?
That led to one person dying instantly, one dying of self-harm four years later, and even now Chen Wei was retaliatorily killed!?
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