The Asylum of All Worlds

Chapter 48 The Dead

The Criminal Minds faculty at the University of Rochester.

In order to better see the picture on the projection screen, the lights in the whole classroom were not turned on. With the help of the weak light, a man in his 30s was standing on the podium.

"The human brain can be subdivided into: frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and other different areas, and each part has its own functions. For example, the frontal lobe is in charge of our ability to analyze things, or emotional control, The parietal lobe is responsible for people's sense of touch, logic, attention and spatial recognition."

Following his words, a corpse appeared on the projection screen.
People who study criminal psychology always have to deal with dead bodies, but seeing the pictures on the screen, there are still a few unnaturally disgusting murmurs from below the podium.

It's not because of how disgusting this corpse is. For these students, they have seen many disgusting corpses. These mutterings are because this corpse has an extremely uncoordinated sense of incompleteness.

This is the corpse of a fat middle-aged man, with bright skin, without any spots or wounds, it can be regarded as intact. Just by looking at it, one can roughly guess that this corpse will never die more than 12 years old. Hours.

However, this person's skull was missing a piece. It wasn't the kind that was crushed by a blunt instrument, but it was very neat, and the entire ring was cut off one centimeter above the eyebrow.

"Name: Andrew Naber, a brain surgeon whose body was found this morning on the south bank of the Dorway River." The person on the podium continued: "No, to be more precise, when he was found, he was in the A coma, with faint signs of life remaining, he fell on the shore in a suit and tie, and the cause of his death was from infection during the transportation and rescue."

There was another commotion in the audience.

Instructor Will didn't ask everyone to be quiet, but just switched the photos on the screen, which was a close-up of the head incision: "...the incision of the cranial surgery was very smooth, there was almost no bleeding, the main blood vessel was tied, and other The blood vessels were locally anesthetized or sealed, and the blood vessels inside the brain were not damaged. Judging from the dryness of a small amount of blood at the edge of the incision, the deceased exposed the brain to the air for at least 6 hours. The most important thing is that the brain of the deceased had a large loss of area."

"Lost?" A student sitting in the front row was puzzled.

"Yes, lost. The deceased's frontal lobe, temporal lobe, and parietal lobe all lost a small part. This kind of incompleteness is very subtle. Pure brain tissue extraction avoids all blood vessels, and the damage is even worse than that of some brain tissue. The patients with the infarction were milder. Overall, this allows the deceased to continue to live without the brain tissue."

"The murderer must have extremely high surgical skills, which can eliminate many search directions." A student said again.

Will nodded: "That's true, but the deceased himself worked in the hospital, and there are too many people with this ability in the social circle, and there will be a big blind spot if only limited to the circle of "doctors", so the police There is no way to lock on a target yet."

At this time, another student raised his hand: "Then why did the murderer do this?"

Will was silent for a while. "This is the topic we need to discuss in this class. Why did the murderer do this?!"

This time the audience is no longer whispering, but a burst of exclamation.

　"I know this sounds absurd, but it's not a random guess. The murderer was very particular about the order in which the brain was cut. He cut the frontal lobe first, so that the cognitive ability of the deceased would be biased. Without the awareness of self-preservation, the parietal lobe comes later, which is very important for the murderer.

And at the end is a small part of the temporal lobe, this part of the brain manages some of the language ability, the murderer kept it until the end. Does anyone know why? "

"Does he want to hear this man talk?" said a student.

"Yes, talking to the dead all the time, giving us a sense of satisfaction beyond our comprehension.

The attire on the deceased was very formal, which was worn on important occasions. On his body, the autopsy personnel extracted a small amount of rosin powder, and there was a little chestnut crumbs left in the gaps between the teeth, but the mouth was very clean, so I I am sure that the murderer attaches great importance to etiquette. He sat opposite the deceased, and even asked the deceased to rinse his mouth with lemonade very carefully after the meal.

After that, the murderer let the dead man go, but at that time, the dead man was completely in a state of cerebral palsy, so he just opened his brain, walked in one direction, kept walking, Walked for a long time and eventually tripped over a small stone and lay on the bank with mud splashing on his brain tissue causing a massive infection."

As Will spoke, he seemed to gradually fall into a state of sleepwalking. He seemed to see himself walking aimlessly on the bank of the river.
"Then may I ask." A student suddenly interrupted Will's fantasy: "Why didn't the murderer just kill the deceased?"

"Why did he kill the deceased?" Will actually asked: "The murderer in this case is not a crime of passion, or a lunatic who seeks some kind of material gain. He knows exactly what he is doing, and he cut open the deceased's body." The head may be because he feels that the doctor's brain is fuller than other people's brains due to long-term operation.

He regards these as the necessities of ordinary life.Rather than slaughter, he even felt that for the dead, it was a kind of spiritual sublimation, so he made the dead dress so formal.

He believed that what he did was a gift and salvation to the victim.

Yes, if it wasn't for him, how many people in this world could do it? "

Will fell into some kind of thought as he spoke.

(Stop arguing, Mr. Jigsaw will come out next, arguing about a villain, are you all perverts? Hmph! ~Tsundere face~)

(End of this chapter)