Female Forensic Bone Collector

Chapter 5 The Bone Collector

More than an hour later, Wang Yanan pushed the door open and walked into the dissecting room, and took a piece of work clothes from the wall to put on.When she came to the dissecting table, she stared at the unrecognizable pile of things in front of her without saying a word.Without the head, palms and soles, the internal organs of the deceased have been hollowed out, and all the bones of the corpse have been removed, leaving only an empty skin bag.It can be seen that the murderer's sword skills are excellent, he can hollow out the corpse and still leave the body.

"It's unbelievable, it's actually a person! How the hell did he do it today!" After a long time, Wang Yanan cursed fiercely.

Pan Jian handed Wang Yanan a toxicology test report: "Captain Wang, just sent it."

Wang Yanan glanced at the report hastily, frowned and asked, "What are these triazolam and Su'anning?"

"They are all sedative drugs. They were found in the body of the deceased. The dose is enough to make a horse lie down!" Zhang Tong said while moving the legs of the deceased outward, trying to expose the skin at the base of the deceased's thighs. Come out, "I haven't found the needle hole for the injection until now, and I have searched for it three times."

"Is there any possibility of death from a sedative overdose?"

"Of course, but the deceased did not die from an overdose of sedatives. According to the body's height and weight, the dose of sedatives in her body only made her fall into a deep coma, which may cause organ failure and eventually lead to death, but you must know , some of us are somewhat resistant to this sedative. And this deceased, at least she was still alive when she was dismembered!"

"What did you say?" Wang Yanan looked at Zhang Tong in surprise.

"Look," Zhang Tong stretched out his right index finger and pointed at what seemed to be the chest of the deceased, "I have carefully checked the wounds all over the body, and the muscle tissue at the incisions showed a certain degree of congestion, which shows that the deceased died at that time. , the blood in the whole body is still flowing, which means she is still alive. And here, in the middle where the third and fourth ribs should have been, if you look carefully, do you find anything unusual?"

Wang Yanan stepped forward to examine it carefully, raised her head after a while and said, "The wound here seems to be a little different! It's more irregular!"

"Yes, it was pierced with something similar to a steel hook. We can imagine that the murderer hooked this special part of the deceased with a hook, and the hook firmly hung the third and fourth parts of the deceased. and the position here is close to the left ventricle of the deceased. The hook may directly pierce the heart and enter the left ventricle. The blood flows out quickly and enters the lungs. If my deduction is correct, the deceased was kept alive by his own blood. Choking to death lasted for a long time, and during this time, the blood of the deceased was also drained quickly. I think this is the cause of the death of the deceased!"

"It's too cruel!" Wang Yanan's face was very ugly.

"Why does it sound so familiar?" Pan Jian, the assistant on the side, couldn't help muttering, and then saw Wang Yanan and Zhang Tong looking at him in unison, and quickly explained, "It's like this, my father works in the meat joint factory. I often went there to play when I was young, what you just said is very similar to the method of killing pigs there!"

"Go on!"

Pan Jian nodded: "Their general practice is to hook this part of the pig with a meat hook, hang the pig that has just been slaughtered, and then further disassemble it. Their movements are very skilled, and within a few minutes, the pig will be separated according to its part. Break it down into categories!"

"Is it a butcher we're looking for?"

Zhang Tong shook his head: "I don't think so, it's too one-sided, this person removed all the bones of the deceased very patiently, not a single one was left! I have carefully checked all the remaining parts of the deceased, and there is no place There are bones, not even a single piece! This man seems to have taken away a unique treasure! He is collecting bones! And these remaining dead bodies are equivalent to a pile of garbage in his eyes , was abandoned in the wilderness without hesitation! As for the head, I think it was because the structure was too complicated, so the murderer simply took it all away. And from the scars left on the body of the deceased, I can't see There was some sign of hesitation when cutting the knife. Generally speaking, when killing someone for the first time, there will be some drag marks left when the knife is cut, but the wound on the deceased was crisp and clean, and he was not messy. Obviously he is not the first time. It's time to strike!"

"You said this person collects bones from living people?" When she said this, Wang Yanan suddenly felt that the temperature around her became extremely cold. She couldn't help shivering, and then added, "This world There are still people in the world who will kill to collect bones?"

Zhang Tong looked serious: "If this person is obsessed with human bones, then in his opinion, killing a person is just a step that must be completed in order to obtain the collection he is looking forward to!"

Hearing this, Wang Yanan couldn't help but gasp.She realized that what Zhang Tong said was right, because it seemed that only this could explain why all the bones of the deceased had been taken away.

The title of "Bone Collector" spread throughout the Internet overnight, and the largest forum in Tianchang City - "Tianchang Tea House" was full of creepy conjectures about "Bone Collector".Of course, the ensuing dissatisfaction with the efficiency of the Tianchang City Public Security Bureau's handling of cases has also accumulated.

When Zhang Tong opened the door and walked into the conference room, Ju Li's gloomy face made her feel the seriousness of the situation.

"Everyone is here, let's talk about your views on this case! Xiao Zhang, you are the forensic doctor who will take over, so you come first!"

Zhang Tong nodded and stood up: "The deceased was a female, aged between 30 and 24 years old. She had never given birth to children. Her skin was delicate and well maintained. The subcutaneous tissue was very elastic and well-nourished. The cause of death is temporarily determined. It was due to excessive blood loss combined with lung infection. Since the bones, palms, soles and head of the deceased have not been found so far, I have no way to further determine the identity of the deceased. The time of death was [-] to [-] hours ago."

"Unknown corpse? If the source of this corpse cannot be determined, it will be very difficult for us to solve the case!" Zhao Yun, the deputy captain of the serious crime team, couldn't help closing his notebook and muttered.

"That's right, the determination of the source of the corpse is our most difficult problem at present," Wang Yanan said with a frown, "but for missing adults, our grassroots police stations generally have to file a case and report it to us after 48 hours. This is what we call How to find it?"

Li Ju sighed: "It seems that we can only find a needle in a haystack, and immediately post the "Recognition Notice"." He looked at the watch on his wrist, "There are still five hours until six o'clock in the evening, and there is still time for the evening news. Contact the TV station right away, Xiao Wang, and make a briefing for me immediately after the meeting!"

Wang Yanan nodded.

"Speaking of the 'Bone Collector' issue, we can no longer trace the source of this title," Li Ju said with a serious expression, "Your serious crime brigade must pay attention in the future, the scene must be strictly controlled, and no information can be leaked casually." , so as not to cause unnecessary panic among the masses! Even if today’s matter is over, I hope you must learn from the lesson, don’t make an example, and convey this request to me immediately so that everyone is clear! Do you understand?”

"Understood!" Wang Yanan's face turned red and white.

"Okay, this case is still in the charge of your Serious Crime Squad, Xiao Wang, solve the case as soon as possible, everyone in the city is watching us! If you have any difficulties, just come to me!"

Wang Yanan bit her lip tightly and nodded vigorously.

After the meeting was over, Zhang Tong deliberately stood at the door of the conference room and waited for Wang Yanan. Seeing her approaching, he stepped forward and patted her on the back comfortingly: "Yanan, don't worry, you still have me!"

Wang Yanan smiled bitterly, subconsciously hugged Zhang Tong's thin shoulders, and said with emotion: "You don't need to remind me, we are two grasshoppers tied on a rope!"

Zhang Tong smiled slightly, and the two walked out side by side.

"By the way, why haven't I seen your old classmate from the procuratorate for a long time?" Wang Yanan asked while walking.

Zhang Tong's heart skipped a beat. It was true that he hadn't seen Liu Chunxiao for a long time, nor had he received a call from him.She curled her lips: "He's a big prosecutor, so I'm busy, what's the matter, do you miss him?"

Wang Yanan blushed a little: "No way, what do I think he is doing?"

Zhang Tong stopped suddenly, turned around to look at Wang Yanan, and said word by word, "Yanan, we have known each other for a long time. It can be said that I know you best. I deal with death every day. As you My friend, let me give you a piece of advice, if you like someone, you should boldly pursue and confess, and believe in yourself, do you understand? There is not enough time in this life for us to regret it. At your age, you can't afford to delay Yes, Liu Chunxiao is a good man, a good man who can be trusted for life, as long as you are sure, I will support you."

Wang Yanan's nose was sore: "Thank you, Xiaotong!"

After returning to the office, Zhang Tong actually felt relieved.She nestled into her thickly cushioned office chair.Standing and working for a long time, working overtime day and night, made Zhang Tong extremely tired. Bending down and sitting for a long time would hurt, and it was a last resort to tie thick cushions on the chair and backrest.She looked up at the dusty white human skeleton model in the corner of the office, and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Almost everyone who studies forensics is fascinated by the human skeleton, including Zhang Tong.I remember when I was still in medical school, my instructor once said with emotion that the human skeleton does not represent death, but on the contrary, it is the most primitive manifestation of human life, with an average of [-] bones. Its balance, its meticulousness, It is simply the divine stroke of the Creator.Every movement of human beings, even the subtle trembling of fingers, is inseparable from the perfect structure of bones!When his thoughts returned to reality, Zhang Tong couldn't believe that there are still people in this world who kill people just to get the bones!
Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind, and she blurted out: "Golden theory!"

The Golden Theory is a way of calculating the perfect proportions of the human body.If the ratio of a person's height and weight, as well as the length ratio of the bones of the head, body and limbs, conforms to the legendary "golden theory", then this person is called a "perfect person"!At the same time, it also has a perfect skeleton!

Zhang Tong turned on the computer, found out the autopsy report he had just completed, and examined it carefully.Since the internal organs were completely lost, and the head, hands, and soles of the deceased did not exist, the autopsy report, which usually had at least five pages, was helplessly compressed to only one and a half pages this time.

"Weight...approximate height..." Zhang Tong talked to himself while calculating on the paper, and the result came out soon. Zhang Tong worriedly looked at the three numbers that finally appeared on the paper—2:2 : 3, as expected!Is the cause of the deceased's death really as simple as that she had a "perfect" skeleton?

At this moment, Pan Jian opened the door and walked in, and handed Zhang Tong an autopsy report: "Team Wang sent it."

The autopsy report was a fax, and the year marked on it was five years ago, that is, in 2006. The chief forensic doctor, Li Miao, a forensic doctor in Chenhai City, was filled in the column of the author of the report.

Wang Yanan attached a short note to the report, which read——after searching the database, only this similar case was found.

While flipping through the pages, Zhang Tong asked, "Did Team Wang say anything else?"

"She didn't say anything else, she just told you to call her immediately after reading it!"

Zhang Tong nodded, then spread out the autopsy report on the desk in front of him, and began to study it carefully.

"No. Chen 2006A45, date of submission April 2006, 4. Autopsy subject, female, about 5 years old, barren, identity cannot be confirmed. The remains are missing head and limbs, only part of the torso remains. Skeleton and breasts Absence, internal organs were completely emptied, leaving only a complete uterus. No obvious signs of sexual assault. Toxicology tests have been carried out, and it was proved that a large amount of sedatives were taken before death. A cut was found in the throat of the deceased, with a depth of four centimeters. Drag marks, showing that the wound was not caused by a single knife. The deceased was cut directly from the broken neck to the position of the genitals at the bottom of the abdominal cavity, with a length of 30 cm..."

Seeing this, Zhang Tong frowned tightly.She grabbed the phone on her right and directly dialed the forensic office of the Chenhai City Public Security Bureau. After some explanations, she finally found Li Miao, the author of the original autopsy report, who was working in front of the autopsy table.

"Forensic Doctor Li, I'm Zhang Tong, the forensic doctor of Tianchang City Public Security Bureau. I want to ask you a question about the autopsy report you faxed to us just now."

"you say!"

"According to your observation, are the knife marks on the neck of the deceased and the knife marks all over the body the same person?"

After a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone, there was an affirmative answer immediately, "I think there should be two people, because the knife marks on the neck seem hesitant, and the depth is not very deep, there are drag marks on the front and back, and the other The scar was very hard, without any sign of hesitation, it ran through the whole body, and it was very accurate! The knife mark did not shift!"

Several "very" in a row made Zhang Tong's heart beat violently.After thanking her briefly and requesting to see the original autopsy report as soon as possible, she hung up the phone and called Wang Yanan over instead.

"Yanan, I think what we are facing is a serial murderer! And there may be more than one person!" As soon as Wang Yanan arrived, Zhang Tong couldn't wait to tell her what he had learned.

"Then why is there such a short period of five years?" Wang Yanan was still full of doubts.

"I have no way to answer you, but the same knife, each of us has obviously different habits when using it." As he spoke, Zhang Tong picked up a No. [-] scalpel from the tool tray next to the dissecting table "Look carefully, the knives are the same, but as long as the people who use them are different, according to the strength and direction, the knife marks produced on the object under force are like the signatures of each of us. There will be subtle differences. You may not be able to see it, but it looks very different in the eyes of our professionally trained forensic doctors. I have just asked the on-duty forensic doctor of Chenhai City Public Security Bureau Li Miao, he affirmed my opinion. The first knife mark, that is, the knife mark on the neck of the deceased, was shallow and not made in one go. Dao, that is, the knife marks running through the whole body, from top to bottom, neat and clean. If the corpse was disposed of at one time, then, judging from the difference in the way the knife was used, there should have been two people at the scene. "

Wang Yanan nodded: "I never thought that this person would become so proficient in just five years!" She changed her mind and continued to ask, "Xiaotong, what do you think about murder weapons?" ? Can you determine the specific scope?"

"I have also notified Chen Hai to send over the original autopsy files as soon as possible. I will further compare the wounds on the two corpses. Judging from the current situation, I can only say that it was caused by a very sharp knife. Caused by it, and it is a special knife, not the kind of general household. I have no way of determining its specific length, I can only say that it is for professional use, because the blade is very thin, very sharp, and the head has a typical cone shape .This kind of knife is generally used in special fields used by medical or chefs. "

Reminiscent of Pan Jian's words before, Wang Yanan blurted out: "Boning knife?"

"There is a possibility, I will arrange for their trace identification team to compare! I will inform you of the results as soon as possible!"

"Also, I remember you said just now that the victim's genitals were the only ones that remained intact. So, is there any sign of sexual assault?"

Zhang Tong shook his head: "So far nothing has been found. Chen Hai's autopsy report also indicated that no obvious signs of this aspect were found."

"Then let's do this first! If there is any problem, I will come to you again!" Wang Yanan nodded.Just as she was about to turn around and walk out of the dissection room, she suddenly remembered something, stopped, turned her head and said, "Xiaotong, when I came to your side, the guard said someone was looking for you at the door, it was an old man!"

"Old man?" Zhang Tong frowned.

"Yes, he has been here for a long time, you should go and have a look, the line for calling you is always busy."

"Oh, I'm on the phone with Chen Hai. I'll go right away." Saying that, Zhang Tong stood up and followed Wang Yanan out of the dissection room.

Only a few seconds passed—Zhang Tong guessed that it was only a few seconds—she quietly watched the silhouette of the sixty-year-old man on the bench in front of her, as if time had flown backwards.She didn't move, she just stood there, nothing happened around her, she could be sure of that.But she knew in her heart that everything in front of her eyes was an illusion, and under the calm surface, an undercurrent was silently surging.

"Uncle Chen!" Zhang Tong greeted in a low voice.

The old man turned his head, and the afterglow of the setting sun formed a special silhouette behind him. Zhang Tong couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.He stood up.

"Tongtong, I haven't seen you for a long time. You've grown up so much!" The old man's voice seemed to transcend the gap between time and space, except for his old age and hoarseness, nothing had changed.

Zhang Tong's heart thumped inexplicably, and he was a little afraid of his approach.

The person who suddenly came to visit was Uncle Chen whom Zhang Tong was looking for. His full name was Chen Haijun, a retired neurosurgery expert, and also a friend of Zhang Tong's father during his lifetime.

"Uncle Chen, you... why are you here?" Zhang Tong asked hesitantly.

"I happened to be passing by your house, so I stopped by to have a look. Your mother is much older!"

Zhang Tong nodded, hesitated for a while, and chose to sit down on a bench not too far from the old man: "After my father died, my mother raised me alone, and she worked hard all her life!"

Chen Haijun sighed heavily: "I didn't expect your father to choose such a path in the end. Sigh..."

Seeing the sadness shown by Uncle Chen, Zhang Tong felt a little sad, so he couldn't help letting go of his guard and uneasiness, and comforted him instead: "It's okay, Uncle Chen, you don't have to be too sad, my father chose his own path, blame him No one else. Besides, my mother and I have survived, and the hardest days are over."

"By the way, I heard from your mother that you are now a forensic doctor following your father's career." The old man's tone became much relieved, "I think your father's spirit in heaven will also be proud of you!"

Zhang Tong smiled slightly: "Uncle Chen, how long are you going to stay in Tianchang this time? I want to invite you to my house for a meal!"

"It will stay for a while, and some ancestral property needs to be dealt with. I have immigrated to the United States now. Tongtong, uncle forgot to ask you, have you got married? You are not too old!" The eyes of the old man are full of Zhang Tong's deep memories The long-lost look.

"Forensic medicine is more difficult!" Zhang Tong sighed subconsciously, "So I don't think about these personal matters for the time being, and I will talk about work first. Uncle Chen, where is Meimei? Is she also in the United States?"

The old man's face changed slightly, and there was a dry taste in his words: "The car accident is gone."

Zhang Tong's heart couldn't help but tighten.She knew that Meimei was Chen Haijun's only daughter. She often came to Zhang's house with her father when she was a child. She was almost the same age as her. The two of them were like sisters: "When did she go?"

The old man sighed, "It's been eight years!"

Immediately, Zhang Tong's tears rolled down quickly. She bit her lips tightly and took a deep breath: "Uncle Chen, I'm sorry to bring up your sad things."

"It's nothing, it's been so many years, and I'm used to it. I think Meimei is also happy in heaven."

Zhang Tong felt sour, "I didn't expect Meimei to leave so early, God is so unfair! Uncle Chen, then you are alone now, do you have any plans?"

A strange expression crossed the old man's face: "Fortunately, I often give lectures everywhere, and I'm quite busy. When I'm busy, I don't think too much. Uncle is just like you, it's better to work!"

Zhang Tong nodded, she suddenly thought of something, raised her head and asked, "Uncle Chen, how long have you been here, have you ever visited my father?"

The old man nodded: "I have been there, a few days ago, his memorial day."

"What time did you go?"

"It's very early, it's just dawn," the old man smiled wryly, "I'm old and can't sleep, so I went early. My old friends for many years are like brothers! I'm ashamed to say that your father has been gone for so many years , This is the first time for me to see him." Speaking of this, the old man shook his head silently, looking very sad.

Zhang Tong didn't say anything more.After a long silence, the old man stood up, with an apologetic expression on his face: "Tongtong, Uncle is leaving first, you should be busy, I will visit your house another day!"

"Ok!"

In the distance, the lights are on.Watching the old man's disappearing back, Zhang Tong's heart suddenly felt sour, thinking that if his father was still alive, he must be so old.Zhang Tong's vision gradually became blurred. The old man seemed to have become a father, and tears rolled down his cheeks again.

When I got home, it was almost nine o'clock in the evening. Zhang Tong stood at the door of the dark house, and with the faint light exposed through the crack of the door, he reached out and fumbled for the door key in his satchel.The corridor was stuffy and hot, and Zhang Tong was covered in sweat after a while.After finally finding the keys, she stretched out her hand and was about to insert them into the keyhole. Perhaps because of her nervousness, she accidentally made a clang, and the whole bunch of keys slipped from her fingers and fell to the ground.Zhang Tong cursed secretly, and bent down to pick it up in the dark, but the index finger and middle finger of her right hand suddenly became numb. She gritted her teeth and tried several times, and finally had to stretch out her left hand to grope on the ground.

With the sound of the door lock opening, Zhang Tong's eyes lit up. It turned out that the sound of the key falling on the ground alarmed the mother who was passing by the hall.

"Come back! Just ask me to open the door in the future!" The mother smiled. These days, because of taking the medicine on time, Zhang Tong saw smiles on her mother's face more and more times.

Zhang Tong hurriedly picked up the keychain on the ground and stuffed it into the satchel: "It's okay, Mom, the time I come back is not certain every time, you don't have to wait for me, I will take care of myself!"

Walking into the house, Zhang Tong was attracted by the boxes of gifts on the coffee table in the living room at first sight.As she put down her bag, she asked, "Mom, who gave you the gift? Is it Uncle Chen?"

Mother came out from the kitchen with a bowl of cold noodles: "Yes, Uncle Chen came to visit us and brought you something by the way, and he said it was brought back from the United States. I also asked about his Meimei Well, why didn't I see her come together, that girl should be as tall as you! I remember she used to come to our house to play when I was young. "

Zhang Tong couldn't help but tighten his heart, and asked cautiously: "Then what did Uncle Chen say?"

The mother still had a smile on her face, "You Uncle Chen said that Meimei is married to an American, and she is busy with work, so she won't come back for the time being. This child, cough! I've been thinking about her!"

Zhang Tong suddenly felt like crying, and immediately understood Uncle Chen's painstaking efforts: "Oh, that's it, Mom, don't nag, people will always come back to see you!" Looking at his mother's busy figure, Zhang Tong really couldn't bear to expose this beautiful lie.

"By the way, Tongtong, another person came to our house this afternoon. He said he was your old classmate. The young man is quite nice. Tongtong, from his tone, he has a good impression of you. Tell mom, don't you?" Your boyfriend? Who is he? What's his name? Why don't you tell mom about it! Ghost girl!"

After hearing a series of questions from her mother, Zhang Tong almost choked on the noodles in her mouth. She stammered and asked, "Mom, stop thinking about it, I don't have a boyfriend!"

"You child, how old are you, why are you still hiding it!" The mother's words sounded scolding, but she said it with a smile.

Zhang Tong wanted to explain, so he opened his mouth, but after thinking about it, he closed it obediently.

It was late at night, and when he heard the sound of turning off the lights in the mother's room next door, Zhang Tong frowned and thought about it, hesitated for a long time, and finally gave up the idea of ​​calling Liu Chunxiao to question him.Of course she knew why Liu Chunxiao came to visit suddenly. After all, he still couldn't forget her sister's disappearance.Zhang Tong can't blame him, after all, Liu Chunxiao did nothing wrong, and his starting point is understandable, but in this way, Zhang Tong has no choice but to open up his gray memory that has been dusty for a long time.Thinking of this, she shook her head vigorously, habitually biting the nails of her right hand.Every time Zhang Tong was in a state of turmoil, she would gnaw on the nails of her right hand. She didn't know when she developed this habit.And only when she gnawed on the nails of her right hand would she feel more or less peaceful in her heart.

Early the next morning, as soon as she entered the Public Security Bureau building, the guard stopped her.

"Forensic Zhang, there is a courier from you, it's from Chen Haishi!"

So fast!Zhang Tong couldn't help secretly admiring the efficiency of the Chenhai Public Security Bureau.After hastily signing for the courier, she tucked the thick envelope under her elbow and walked straight to her office.

Just walking to the corner of the stairs, he bumped into Wang Yanan who was rushing out.Just as Zhang Tong was about to say hello, Wang Yanan interrupted her with a serious expression: "Go quickly, there is a case. The abandoned aluminum alloy processing plant in the east of the city, you will go there in a while. I will wait for you there."

Rewind time to about an hour ago——

Generally speaking, the harvest of this day should not be bad. It was only [-] o'clock in the morning, and the scrap aluminum alloy leftovers that Old Wangtou picked up had already filled a large sack.Seeing his rich fruits of labor, the old Wang couldn't help squinting his eyes full of gum, and his old bark-like cheeks trembled subconsciously, as if he saw a large pile of colorful banknotes being placed Waiting for you to get it in the distance.What kind of luck did I hit today, I must have met the God of Wealth!Old Wangtou is very glad that he accidentally discovered such a desolate and remote "geomantic treasure land". Thinking about his fellow villagers who collect rags and refuse to listen to advice, they insist on admitting death and making a fortune in one place, Old Wangtou's mouth is full of smiles Not close anymore.Since he discovered it by himself, then he will eat this piece of food alone without hesitation!

Suddenly, a violent cough came to his chest, and the old Wangtou had to drop the "scavenging pliers" in his hand, and coughed desperately, cursing the "earth cigarette" he had just smoked while coughing.People are old and useless, and they can't help smoking without smoking, but coughing to death after smoking, Old Wang couldn't help feeling extremely depressed.

He looked up and looked around while coughing, always worried that there would suddenly appear around him a bastard with malicious intentions who came to grab the land and make a fortune. After all, he had been picking up junk for so many years, so he had to learn to protect his fundamental interests carefully at all times. .

The cough finally stopped. He bent down and yanked the broken glass bottle at his feet, which had long been invisible, trying to pull out the palm-sized aluminum alloy waste that was pressed underneath. The bottle didn't move at all.

The old Wang tried twice more, but the glass bottle seemed to be difficult for him, it just didn't move.He couldn't help but get a little angry, "Why, you can't get along with me! Are you looking down on my old man?" As he spoke, he moved his hands and feet, and then exerted all his strength. Gritting his teeth, the bottle was finally pulled out like a carrot Out.

As the saying goes, "Pull out the radish and bring out the mud", the smile on the old Wang's face has not disappeared, and the waste and garbage mountain as high as a person in front of him collapsed with a loud "bang".

God only gave Old Wang two feet and ten toes. He was trembling when he was standing on the mountainside of this waste and garbage mountain, and there was no solid place to stand around. The direction plunged thousands of miles, and the old Wang's head suddenly fell on all fours, and he was still holding on to the damn broken glass bottle in his hand.

The movement around the ear finally disappeared, and the old Wang stood up with his left hand on the ground in disgrace. He was about to curse his mother when he suddenly noticed that something was wrong with his left hand. It was red, sticky, and smelled like rust.

The first thought in Old Wang's mind was that his left hand was cut by the leftovers on the ground, but then he felt something was wrong, because he didn't feel any pain on his hand. After looking at it, there was indeed no wound. So where did this bloody thing come from?Thinking of this, relying on the "curiosity" that he had developed over the years of picking up waste, he turned and looked in the direction of his left hand.

It was a black plastic bag, which can be seen everywhere in the trash cans in the city. Those red things came out of the trash bag that was accidentally squeezed and broken by his body.Old Wang frowned, opened the garbage bag carefully, and looked in under the sunlight. Before he could recover, an indescribable stench hit his face. Old Wang was dizzy and dizzy. Immediately afterwards, I felt a tumbling sensation in my stomach, and I vomited out the two big pancakes I ate in the morning.

The poor old Wangtou firmly believed that he had seen something that only appeared in the [-]th floor of hell where Lord Hades lived.He opened the garbage bag out of curiosity, and his bowels were green with regret.

The first thing Old Wangtou did after waking up was to run to the side of the road without looking back, take off the dusty public phone, and then trembled as if he had seen a ghost. He trembled for a long time before dialing. 110.

Zhang Tong and his assistant, Pan Jian, carefully opened the large garbage bag. From the damaged corner of the garbage bag, a viscous substance emitting a foul smell was still leaking out.

After just one glance, Zhang Tong's head grew bigger.She stretched out her hand to browse through the remains of the corpse, and then ordered with a serious expression, "Pan Jian, we're going to send these back to the dissection room of the bureau right now, there's no delay, the corpse's degree of decay has reached level three."

The highest level of rot is level three.At the beginning, the corpse was sealed in a black plastic garbage bag, but now under the sunlight, the decay of the corpse was accelerated, and the whole corpse was being swallowed by all-pervasive microorganisms at an unimaginable speed.This also means that the evidence on the surface of the corpse is also rapidly disappearing.Now it seems that time is more important than anything else.

After Wang Yanan settled down the old scavenger who reported the crime, he stepped up and walked towards Zhang Tong, and asked loudly as he walked, "How is it, what's the situation?"

Zhang Tong's stern expression made Wang Yanan stand still: "You mean that bastard did it again?"

"I found no bones in the trash bag!"

"Oh my god!" Wang Yanan frowned and looked at the garbage bag that Pan Jian and Zhang Tong were pulling together, "Could it be that in the eyes of this person, what he discarded is a bag of garbage?"

No one answered this question.

When the black garbage bag was carefully pulled out of the body bag, the entire dissecting room was filled with a stench.Pan Jian worked hard for a long time, trying to hold his breath to escape the initial smell, because experienced forensic doctors knew that after the first few minutes, his sense of smell would become numb later.However, it was obvious that this smell was not as easy to deal with as Pan Jian imagined. After a while, he was about to vomit.

Zhang Tong frowned and looked at the assistant with a green face: "What are you doing there stupidly? Do something quickly! Time waits for no one!"

Pan Jian couldn't help shivering. In order to slow down the decay of the corpse as much as possible, Zhang Tong adjusted the temperature of the central air conditioner in the entire dissecting room to the lowest level.He shook his shoulders and muttered, "This is disgusting!"

"You will see more disgusting than this in the future. If you want to be a forensic doctor, you have to learn not to be disgusting! Stop talking nonsense and take pictures!"

Pan Jian fell silent.

Under the crackling light of the flashlight, the yellow and round maggots on the surface of the corpse stared straight at the humans who had disturbed its dream, and some even raised their heads provocatively.

Beneath these ugly beings are bloody cell membranes and indistinguishable cartilage tissues.

The head and limbs are still missing.

Wang Yanan blew into the dissecting room like a gust of wind. When her eyes fell on the messy pile of meat on the dissecting table, she couldn't help frowning: "Is this a human? Why does it look like it just came out of a meat grinder?" from?"

"Of course it's a human. If it's fake, it'll be a mess if it's discovered 24 hours later." Pan Jian has completely adapted to the stench in the air at this moment, and complained angrily.

Zhang Tong raised his head and glared at him fiercely: "I knew you couldn't say anything nice."

"To be honest, your side is so stinky today, and it's freezing like hell! Are you letting people live?" Wang Yanan hurriedly pulled the work clothes hanging on the wall and put them on, "Is the air conditioner on your side turned on?" How many times?"

"Fourteen degrees!" Zhang Tong stretched out his finger and pointed to the remains of the corpse on the dissection table, "This is already the lowest. If possible, I really want to adjust it to below ten degrees."

Wang Yanan shook her head helplessly.She knows Zhang Tong very well, and knows that she, like herself, only has work in her eyes, and everything else is secondary.

"How? Can gender be distinguished?"

"Female," Zhang Tong pointed to the lump of flesh that could be vaguely seen to be a female breast, "At present, if you only look at the surface of the corpse, you can't count on the confirmation of identity for the time being. The skin is almost rotten, almost Not one piece is complete."

"Death time?"

"It's still hard to judge at the moment. I'm waiting for the maggot culture report from the biochemical test. Now we can only preliminarily determine the death time of the deceased based on the characteristics of the stages of development of the maggots, that is, the larvae of the blowfly on the corpse."

Wang Yanan nodded.

"Yanan, I want to show you something!" Zhang Tong signaled Pan Jian to bring over a small tray on the other side of the workbench. Inside the tray was a small ball of bloody stuff.

"What is this?" Wang Yanan looked surprised, "It was found on the body of the deceased?"

"I found it at the approximate location of the deceased's uterus," Zhang Tong picked up a pair of medical forceps and gently picked up the special blood clot, "This is a human embryonic tissue around four weeks old! That is Say, the deceased is pregnant!"

"One dead body, two lives!" Wang Yanan's face was livid, "It's too cruel!"

Zhang Tong thought for a while, put down the pliers and tray, walked around the dissecting table to the working table, took off the blood-stained gloves, picked up an inspection report on the table, and handed it to Wang Yanan who was following him: "We only have one clear clue now, that is, the deceased suffered from recessive Huntington's disease." Seeing the slightly bewildered expression on Wang Yanan's face, Zhang Tong continued: "Huntington's disease is a serious genetic disease. That is to say, among the immediate family members of the deceased, some people have already suffered from this disease, unable to control the movements of their hands and feet, and they seem to be dancing weird dances all the time. However, it seems that the deceased has not yet suffered from the disease , because in her gene group, the diseased pair has not yet undergone a complete mutation, and is still on the verge of normality. I suggest you search for all the patients with Huntington's disease in the city, and it should not be long before the deceased is identified identity."

"I understand, thank you, let me know if there is any situation on the trace identification side!"

Zhang Tong nodded, and continued to sort out the remains of the corpse in front of him.

Clutching the DNA test report tightly in his hand, Wang Yanan opened the door and walked out of the dissection room, unexpectedly meeting Zhao Junjie at the corner of the corridor.Seeing Zhao Junjie's weakness, pale face, and swaying walk, Wang Yanan couldn't help but asked with concern: "Reporter Zhao, why have you become so thin after I haven't seen you for a day?"

Zhao Junjie frowned: "It can't be helped, it's not because of the dead body by the sea. I don't know how many times I vomited these days."

"Where are you going?"

"The editor-in-chief said that the 'Bone Collector' case received a lot of attention. I want to look at the autopsy data in the autopsy room." Seeing Wang Yanan's thoughtful expression, he was afraid that she would question his actions. Zhao Junjie hurriedly emphasized again, "Don't think about it, this is what Li Ju personally agreed to!"

Hearing this, Wang Yanan immediately expressed sympathy: "Reporter Zhao, this time, even if Bureau Li agrees, I have to give you a piece of advice. It is best not to go to the dissection room now, otherwise, your life will be ruined." You will never forget what you are about to see.”

"Is it that serious?" Zhao Junjie had a dubious expression on his face.

"Believe it or not is up to you," Wang Yanan raised the DNA test report in his hand, "I'm busy, Reporter Zhao, so I won't delay you, see you later!"

Zhao Junjie stood there blankly, a little at a loss.

"Liu Chunxiao, where have you been these past few days, kid? I've been to the procuratorate several times to look for you, and you've been turned away!" Zhao Junjie stared angrily at Liu Chunxiao in front of him, grumbling in his mouth.

"Okay, okay, I have nothing to go out now. I came here specially to treat you to seafood today, wouldn't you still be angry? If I were you, I would take the opportunity to go downhill." Liu Chunxiao comforted Zhao Junjie with a smile, "Look You have a bad complexion, I ordered some delicious food for you to make up for!"

Zhao Junjie glanced at Liu Chunxiao, and forced a smile: "It's more or less the same!"

After three glasses of wine, Zhao Junjie started to talk more: "I said brother, you didn't make a sound when you left, tell me, where did you go?"

"I went to Shanghai. A few days ago, I heard from a friend that an American psychology professor came to their university for cooperation. This foreigner has a very unique view on the treatment of selective amnesia. No, I asked for leave and went to Shanghai to find him."

"Wait," Zhao Junjie swallowed a mouthful of shrimp forcefully, and then said, "Don't tell me that you accidentally forgot about your old classmate?"

Liu Chunxiao smiled even more happily: "To a large extent, I went there for her!"

Zhao Junjie couldn't help but widen his eyes: "I think you might as well switch to a psychiatric clinic! It seems like a big mistake for you to be a prosecutor!"

The smile on Liu Chunxiao's face disappeared, and he let out a long sigh: "I can't help it, sometimes what I want to do is not so easy to do."

Zhao Junjie thought for a while, avoided the topic, leaned forward and said seriously: "Tell me about your achievements. Are you confident that Zhang Forensic Doctor can restore his memory?"

"Although the drug injected by the murderer had a certain effect, after all, she was in a coma for so long. But according to my observation, she was very resistant. In fact, sometimes it is the subconscious that works, and she herself will not be aware of it. , Resistance is just a conditioned reflex. Usually, she looks mature and decisive, no different from a normal person, but as long as this memory is mentioned, her mental age will go back to 20 years ago. I think, at that time, she She must have seen something terrible, and she was alone and helpless. After she woke up, she forced herself to seal up this memory. In her view, as long as she doesn't wake up, then she is safe. But you must know that our human beings Memories will not disappear permanently. Even if you can’t remember them, it’s only temporary. And as time goes by, the blocked memories will be awakened. What I’m worried about is whether Xiaotong can bear it by then The brutal truth."

"Then have you told her what you think?"

Liu Chunxiao smiled helplessly: "I have been working hard, but there has been no result. The more she resisted, in fact, from another perspective, the scene she experienced at that time was more terrifying. This is the self-protection awareness in people's thinking It's working!"

"Then you have to think of a way. I have a feeling that if this continues, something will happen to her sooner or later. Now she is like a time bomb." Zhao Junjie's face was full of worry, "Do you have any problems?" Haven't considered talking to her head-on? Is there anything you can do to help her, if she's willing to face it?"

"There is only one way, and that is hypnosis!"

"Hypnosis?"

"Yes! On the premise that the patient fully trusts you, accept your hypnosis, so that she can truly recall every detail that happened at that time, just like going through it all over again, and many questions can be solved accordingly Open. If she does not open it, the contents of the box will become more and more inflated with the passage of time, until the day of 'explosion'."

"Then why didn't she receive treatment in this area after the incident?"

"At that time, she was still very young and her mind was not very mature, and recovery required a process of adaptation. If Xiao Tong had accepted hypnosis after the incident, it was very likely that her consciousness would stay in the In that horrible environment, he eventually developed into a severe autistic patient."

Hearing this, Zhao Junjie's face turned pale: "No wonder her mother tried her best to protect her from the media. Her sister has not been whereabouts until now, and there is no one alive or dead!"

Liu Chunxiao didn't say anything.

"Ju Li, this is today's newspaper." The secretary of the director's office nervously placed several influential newspapers, such as "Tianchang Daily" and "Tianchang Metropolis Daily", on a corner of Li Ju's desk.

Director Li didn't look up, he continued to carefully examine the official document in his hand.However, his gaze always involuntarily stayed on the words on the official document that the secretary had read before coming in, and never moved back.The mood became more and more irritable, and in the end, Ju Li sighed heavily and compromised.He leaned against the back of the chair behind him, looked up at the secretary who was still standing at the desk, and said, "It's all right, Xiao Zheng, let's go! I'm in a bad mood these days!"

The secretary nodded, turned and left the office.

Director Li is really in a bad mood these days. He doesn't need to read the newspapers in front of him to guess the content of the headlines on the front page - "The Bone Collector" is killing again, Tianchang Public Security Bureau may have encountered a series of murders The criminal, who will guarantee our safety... The most terrible thing is that the media actually published a photo of the remains of the deceased found at the first crime scene. Although the image is not clear, it is enough to cause panic.

Every word and every sentence in the newspaper seemed to describe the cruelty of the murderer, but the spearhead clearly pointed directly at the ineffective handling of the case by the Tianchang City Public Security Bureau.Director Li didn't dare to open the Weibo page released by the bureau now, and the overwhelming accusations made him feel tremendous pressure that he had never felt before.

The bureau offered rewards for eyewitness clues to 24 yuan. When the three reporting telephone lines were hardly idle [-] hours a day, the phone lights kept flashing and the phone rang one after another. But even so, there were no really useful clues. Still not found.

Thinking of this, Director Li couldn't help but let out a long sigh, is it really that difficult to catch this bastard?People are doing it, the sky is watching, and the sky network is not missing. Li Ju gritted his teeth and slapped the desk hard, cursing: "I don't believe it!"

"Team Wang, here are the information you want on all suspected Huntington's disease patients in the city, including the three affiliated counties."

Wang Yanan nodded, took the folder from his assistant Zhao Yun, and pointed to the chair beside him: "Sit down, and read it with me, there are too many materials, I'm afraid there will be too little time! We have to find the next target before the murderer." Go ahead and catch him as soon as possible!"

At this moment, the phone rang, and Wang Yanan immediately reached out to answer the phone.

"Which one?"

"It's me. Yanan, the biochemical team has the results. The deceased died two days ago, to be precise, 45 to [-] hours ago. In this way, the deceased we found in the abandoned aluminum alloy factory is the first One dead person, the one by the seaside should be the second one." Zhang Tong's voice was a little hollow, it sounded like he was talking above his head.Wang Yanan knew that the place where this sound could be made was in the dissection room, and Zhang Tong must have gone to the corpse again to find clues.

It was almost eleven o'clock in the evening, and everyone was deeply involved in this case.

Zhang Tong carefully touched the cold corpse on the dissecting table in front of him with his fingers - an empty skin bag, and described word by word: "The second incision, 29 cm long, cuts the left thigh from right to left; the third The first incision, 31 cm long, also cut the right thigh from right to left. The two wounds did not penetrate the corpse, and the purpose was obviously only to facilitate the extraction of bones from the thigh.”

"Forensic doctor Zhang, how on earth did you determine that the murderer cut it from right to left? I can't see it!" Zhao Junjie leaned over the dissecting table and carefully examined the wound on the leg of the corpse with a magnifying glass.

Pan Jian replied on the sidelines: "It's not that simple? If you look carefully at the knife marks, the deep ones are where the knife was cut down, and the shallow ones are where the knife was retracted. We usually cut things like this. When cutting the knife, I can't help but use a lot of force, because it needs to break through the dermis and fat layer; while closing the knife," Pan Jian stretched out his gloved right hand and gracefully drew a circle in the air, "it's very easy. You just pull it out, so in the end the strength will be relatively weakened, and the marks will become shallower! Don’t you understand the principle?”

"Okay, don't show off, hurry up and do something!" Zhang Tong couldn't help scolding softly.

Pan Jian pouted, but didn't say anything more.

"For the record, the murderer is left-handed because he is used to wielding knives with his left hand." Zhang Tong continued to look down, "The victim's kneecap, fibula, and tibia are all missing, and the sole of the foot is missing. There are cutting scars at the joints of each bone." Said. At this point, she stood up straight, frowned, and thought for a while, "He is very careful with the bones, and he is very skilled in removing the knife."

"What does he want bones for? Does he really want to collect them? How much will he be satisfied with?" Zhao Junjie blurted out the question involuntarily, causing the temperature in the dissection room to drop to freezing point.

"What is this?" After a while, Zhang Tong raised her head inadvertently, and the scene in front of her caught her attention.She pointed behind Pan Jian and said with a serious expression, "When we first did the X-ray full-body scan, why did we just ignore this part!" As she spoke, she quickly walked to the X-ray developing light box behind Pan Jian , "Look quickly, look carefully at the dead man's shoulders!"

Sure enough, on the X-ray film in the developing light box, there were three small black spots inlaid in the muscles of the left and right shoulders of the deceased, which were easily overlooked.

"Round, about 0.1 cm in diameter."

"What could this be?" Pan Jian asked with a frown.

Zhang Tong didn't bother to answer.After confirming the approximate location, she returned to the corpse, took the scalpel Pan Jian handed her, and carefully cut open the dead man's cold shoulder muscles.

After a while, a total of six small black objects on both sides were taken out of the deceased one by one, and put into a tray on one side.

No matter how you identify them, there is no way to recognize the true colors of these black substances.

Zhang Tong suddenly thought of another corpse found on the seaside plank road in the cold storage. Although the corpse was bloody and unable to form, it did not affect the search of the internal substances. Thinking of this, she went straight to the back of the dissection room cold storage.

More than half an hour later, the same six pieces of black matter were also found.

"Hurry up and take it to the trace identification room, I want to know the result immediately!" Zhang Tong has an intuition that these unexpected discoveries are likely to be a crucial key to solving the murder mystery in front of him.

Pan Jian nodded, turned around and left quickly.Now everyone is working overtime for this case, so he doesn't have to worry about waiting until tomorrow for the result.

"Judging from the scars on the surface of the corpse, the three holes on this side penetrated into the body very regularly." Zhao Junjie pointed to the X-ray film.

"Yes, it was punched in artificially. Judging from the recovery state of the wound, it can be confirmed that it was punched in after the death of the deceased, because there are no obvious signs of recovery around the wound, and the cell wall has stopped growing." Zhang Zhang Tong carefully observed under the microscope the complete piece of skin that was cut off when looking for the subcutaneous substance of the deceased just now, "The question now is, why did the murderer lay these things on the deceased? What are they? What function do they have? I just took them out. At the time, I felt that it might be metal, with a certain weight.”

As soon as the voice fell, the computer fax machine started up and made a creaking sound.Zhang Tong stood up and came to the fax machine: "We have the result."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Junjie immediately came over.

This is a computerized chemical composition identification report from the trace identification room.Since the trace identification room is on the other side of the Public Security Bureau building, it takes several minutes to walk. Therefore, when the work is too busy to leave, those young trace identification experts will use fax machines to run errands for themselves.

"Pan's forensic doctor is still very fast, and the results will be available in less than half an hour!"

Zhang Tong was disdainful when he heard the words.Of course she understood why Pan Jian had such a high efficiency in handling affairs, and if it was done by another person, it would be a miracle to get it done in an hour.So, at the moment when the report came, Pan Jian hadn't been seen yet. Of course, this was understandable.

"Gold, 0.1mg; Copper, 0.7mg; Steel, 0.4mg; Resin, 0.3mg." Zhao Junjie read out the ingredient list, but was still at a loss, "This can only prove that those black substances are metals, but what is it? There is still no result!"

"It's not difficult. We have a database here that records the chemical composition of many substances in detail. This will more or less help us determine the approximate range." At this time, Zhang Tong in Zhao Junjie's eyes was shining with excitement, The corners of his mouth were raised slightly, and a confident smile was written on his face.Zhao Junjie couldn't help being a little stunned. After staying here for so long, he has sadly developed an illusion, thinking that Zhang Tong, a woman who has dealt with dead people for too long, has long since forgotten what laughter is, but unexpectedly, Zhang Tong who smiled turned out to be so beautiful.

The computer quickly found the answer in the database, but it made people puzzled—the rivets used in the production process of fur and specimens played a role in fixing the material.

"Could it be that our murderer was a fur coat maker?"

Zhang Tong frowned and thought for a while, then resolutely shook his head and vetoed: "No, many leather garments now use machines, and besides, leather garments don't know so clearly about our human bones, and they don't know where they are. Cut the knife without damaging the bones. I think he is probably a taxidermist! This kind of rivet is only used by professionals, and most people don't know its existence. I have to inform Yanan of this clue immediately, now There are not many taxidermists, especially those who are highly skilled."

The sky outside the window has already turned fish-belly pale without knowing it. Although the light gray clouds still cover the sky, they can't hide the coming dawn at all.The street lights on the road are gradually going out in an orderly manner, and some early risers have already stepped out of the house to start their morning exercises.

This is a new day, Zhang Tong rubbed his sore shoulders, and wanted to pick up the mobile phone on the table to call his uncle, after all, it was his uncle who helped him take care of his mother these days.

However, the next scene made her a little scared. She was clearly holding the phone in her right hand, and just about to start pressing the keys, but she suddenly felt nothing in her right hand, and the phone also hit the floor tiles, sending out There was a crisp sound.Immediately, the battery of the mobile phone and the host were separated.

Zhang Tong was dumbfounded. When she opened the door of the house not long ago, the scene of accidentally dropping the key on the floor appeared before her eyes again. She remembered it very clearly. At that moment, her fingers suddenly lost feeling and became extremely numb. .

Zhang Tong subconsciously grasped the completely numb right palm with his left hand, his heart was beating wildly, and the mobile phone on the ground was staring at him pitifully.

What exactly happened here?Why is the right hand like this?Zhang Tong frowned tightly, feeling a sense of helplessness that he had never felt before coming to him step by step.

Policemen are human beings too, and people who grew up eating whole grains naturally have things to fear.Wang Yanan is not afraid of death. After being a policeman for so many years, she has never frowned in front of death threats.Last time, the robber who was waving a bright sharp knife at her recklessly thought he could make the thin and thin policewoman in front of her hide obediently to the side. Who would have thought that Wang Yanan would just go up and sweep her legs and leave him alone? He got down on the ground, and quickly put handcuffs on the robber in two or three moves.For this reason, Wang Yanan won the title of "Desperate Saburo".

But Wang Yanan was also afraid, that is, every time she called the victim's family to come and identify the body, she always hesitated for a long time on the phone, took a deep breath, and then picked up the phone.Fortunately, there are not many such times.

After sorting out the data all night, the scope of the No. [-] victim was finally roughly determined.Wang Yanan said: "I never thought that there would be three people with this strange disease in our small city of Tianchang! Isn't it a genetic defect? ​​I don't think the probability is very high!"

Zhao Yun leaned back and swallowed the last sip of the ice-cold coffee, and sighed: "Team Wang, I'm not a doctor, so I can't answer this question. But don't look at anything else, let's just talk about the things we eat now. How much of it is okay?" Don't worry? Those unscrupulous traders, their minds are broken, they put everything in the food!"

Wang Yanan glared, "Don't be like a broken-mouthed old man, hurry up and get to work." Then, she put the selected documents in the folder, "Let's go, let's go through it one by one!"

"Now?" Zhao Yun pointed to the wall clock on the wall, "It's only after five o'clock!"

"Does the murderer choose time? We are running out of time, so hurry up!" Wang Yanan urged impatiently.She was in a bad mood, because one of the three people on the list in her hand was the one who had to face and bring bad news. She didn't like the feeling of reporting a funeral.

"We have to go to Tianchang University today, and ask Professor Ding from the Department of Biology about the preparation of specimens." After getting in the car, Wang Yanan suddenly remembered the phone call Zhang Tong had made to him more than an hour ago.

Zhao Yun nodded, stepped on the accelerator lightly, and the police car slowly drove out of the compound of the Public Security Bureau. After a beautiful turn, it slid silently into the wide road in front of the Public Security Bureau.

(End of this chapter)