The closed elevator was silent, feeling a slight sense of weightlessness under his feet, Li Yezhi was stunned and looked at the indicator light on the elevator control board constantly flashing in a silent daze.

I don't know why a person takes the elevator, even if he is bored, Li doesn't feel anything, but if there is someone next to him, he will feel extremely uncomfortable.

Especially when he still knows that person, and even more so when the person he knows looks down at his phone as soon as he enters the elevator, making it clear that he doesn't plan to talk to him.

After yesterday's meeting and discussion, Li Ye was originally going to take Ye Mengying to Earl Edward's castle again today to inquire about whether what Bishop Paul revealed was true.

But just before leaving, Li Ye suddenly received a call from the forensic doctor Shen Qianxue, saying that there was a major discovery, so Li Ye took Ye Mengying to take the elevator to the inspection department located on the second floor of the basement at this time.

Ding, when the elevator finally arrived at the second basement floor "finally", Li Ye, who was already depressed, waited for the elevator door to open, and immediately walked out of the elevator as if he was running away.

And what made Li also feel angry was that Ye Mengying, who had been staring at the phone without blinking, seemed to have pinched the time at this time, just at the same time as the elevator door opened, he quietly put away the phone and walked out behind him.

Could it be that in addition to work, Ye Mengying and herself have a casual chat, is it so difficult? Li also felt speechless.

Walking through the quiet corridor, Li Ye quickly took Ye Mengying to the door of an autopsy room belonging to the identification department.

Pushing open the door of the dissection room, with the swishing cold wind blowing from the ventilation system, a strange smell mixed with foul smell and bloody gas immediately came to the face, making Li Ye and Ye Mengying frown at the same time.

"There is a mask at the door, and if you feel that you can't stand it, you can wear one. Shen Qianxue's cold voice came out of the dissection room, obviously she saw the expressions on Li Ye and Ye Mengying's faces.

When Ye Mengying heard Shen Qianxue's words, she immediately turned her head to look to the side, and sure enough, she found a pack of disposable masks on an iron shelf, she hurriedly walked over to open the packaging bag, and took out two pairs of masks from it, one for herself and the other for Li Ye.

Taking the mask from Ye Mengying's hand, Li also hesitated, as if he had some concerns, but finally put it on.

The layout of the dissection room is quite simple, even a little empty, except for the washbasin by the wall and a monitor hanging on the wall, all that is left of the dissection room is a dissection table in the center of the dissection room, and two rotating high chairs scattered randomly around the dissection table.

And on that dissecting table, there was a male corpse.

The male corpse has been dissected from the chest to the abdomen, and all kinds of organs and intestines are exposed, which looks quite infiltrating.

But what is even more shocking is the face of the male corpse, the tall nose is missing half of it, which should have been the position of the eyes, but at this moment, the two eyeballs have long been gone, leaving only two black holes left there, and even the mouth that is still intact, the teeth in it have been extracted clean.

Li Ye and Ye Mengying stared carefully at the ruined face of the male corpse for a long time, and then they vaguely recognized that the male corpse was the Earl Edward they saw yesterday.

Li Ye looked at the unrecognizable corpse in front of him, felt a chill, and couldn't help asking, "Qianxue, is it necessary for you to dissect Edward's corpse so thoroughly?"

"Vampire corpses are relatively rare! Of course I have to study them carefully!" Shen Qianxue looked at Count Edward's corpse with a pair of beautiful eyes full of fanaticism, as if what was in front of her at this moment was not a foul-smelling corpse, but a golden treasure.

"Of course, it's okay to research, but when the people of the Blood Clan come to ask for the corpse, they see that their lord has been made like this by you, and you will not be able to eat you at that time. ”

"Hmph! You don't care about me! I want to talk about you, Li Ye, you're too bad! Xiao Ye is her first time here, so it's okay to wear a mask! But how many times have you been here, and you're still like a rookie. In the face of Li Ye's kind reminder, Shen Qianxue rolled her eyes, and instead ridiculed Li Ye fiercely.

Seeing that his kindness was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs by Shen Qianxue, Li also shook his head helplessly, but with Shen Qianxue's poisonous character, Li also expected that she would complain about herself, so he hesitated just now before putting on a mask.

Li also knew that if he continued to talk, he was not Shen Qianxue's opponent, so he simply went straight to the point, he asked: "Okay, let's get down to business! You tossed this corpse like this, you should find out the time of death!"

"Nonsense! Of course!" may be because she is too familiar with Li, Shen Qianxue always talks to him with a gun and a stick, and she is not reserved as a beautiful woman at all.

"The time of the deceased's death was around half past four in the morning of the 13th. ”

"Half past four in the morning! That means that if Mutu and Dick hadn't lied, neither of them would have had time to commit the crime. After learning the time of Edward's death, Lee also muttered to himself while thinking.

"Forensic Doctor Shen, didn't you say last time that the vital signs of the blood clan are different from those of us humans!, then how did you estimate the time of Count Edward's death so accurately this time?"

"By contrast. ”

"Contrast?"

"That's right, although vampires can't compare their physical characteristics after death with reference to our human data because their body temperature and circulatory system are different from those of us ordinary people, I can reverse the time of death by recording the corpse stiffness, corpse spots, corpse temperature, and potassium ion concentration of vitreous humor on the deceased every once in a while, and finally make a table. Shen Qianxue explained to Ye Mengying.

"Qianxue, I know that the time of death can be inferred through the corpse zombie spots, but what is the potassium concentration of the vitreous humor you are talking about?" Although Li also knew that his question had little to do with the case, out of curiosity, he couldn't help but ask.

"Humph!"

Li Ye's "lonely and unheard" made Shen Qianxue snort lightly, and just as she was about to answer, Ye Mengying took the first step to speak.

"Team leader, I know this. ”

"You know, oh yes, you graduated from the Public Security University, and you should have attended a department of forensic science, so let's talk about it!" Li also looked at Ye Mengying and said expectantly.

In fact, not only Li Ye, but even Shen Qianxue wanted to see what Ye Mengying, a high-achieving student from the Public Security University, could say.

"Determining the time of death by detecting the potassium ion concentration of the vitreous humor of the deceased's eye is actually a new method for judging the time of death in the forensic science field in recent years, called the ophthalmochemical method. This method was discovered by the American physician John Coe, and its main principle is that after the death of the human body, the red blood cells in the body will continue to rupture regularly, and the potassium ions in the ruptured red blood cells will continue to enter the vitreous humor of the eye in a regular manner, so people can infer the time of death of the deceased. And because this method is completely unaffected by temperature, the measured time of death is relatively accurate. ”

Ye Mengying said everything she knew about the eyeball chemistry method, and then she looked at Shen Qianxue and asked carefully, "Forensic Doctor Shen, am I right?"

"Yes!" Shen Qianxue nodded in surprise, she didn't expect Ye Mengying to know so much about forensic knowledge,

Because it is usually difficult for girls to learn forensic science well, on the one hand, there are reasons why the subject itself is boring and boring, and on the other hand, most of the girls will inevitably feel frightened when they see corpses, so they will naturally not be interested in forensic science.

Compared with Shen Qianxue's surprise, after Li Ye listened to Ye Mengying's endless speech, he was still confused, and he didn't even understand half a word, which made Li also start to wonder if his IQ was in arrears recently.

However, he specialized in the art industry, so Li didn't bother too much, and he quickly returned his attention to matters related to the case.

"Qianxue, you called me and told me that you made an important discovery, can you tell me what you found now?"

"That's right, the murderer was killed with a sharp weapon such as a dagger or a saber, but through the autopsy, I found that the deceased had been poisoned in front of him!"

"Poisoned?"

From the wounds left on Count Edward's body, Li can also roughly guess what the murder weapon is, but Shen Qianxue said that Count Edward was poisoned before his death, which made Li also feel very surprised, because he really hadn't heard that vampires can also be poisoned?

"Yes!" Shen Qianxue nodded quite affirmatively, and then she pointed to Edward's corpse that had been cut open and said, "You can see that these organs in the deceased's body have obvious carbonization, as if they have been burned. ”

Li Ye and Ye Mengying listened to Shen Qianxue's words and found that it was true, for some reason, many parts of the organs in Edward's body had dried up due to dehydration, showing a pitch-black color.

"But don't look at the body of the deceased to become so terrifying, but in fact, with the vampire's self-healing ability, this kind of injury can be repaired in a while. Therefore, the poison in the dead can only cause him to suffer heavy injuries at best, and it is impossible to kill him. Shen Qianxue saw that Li Ye and Ye Mengying were staring at the corpse, and there was a look of horror in their eyes, so she added another sentence on the side.

"Then when did you find out when Count Edward was poisoned??"

"Not yet! I need more time to get tested, because I haven't actually found the poison in the deceased's body right now. ”

Shen Qianxue's answer made Li Ye's mind a little confused, he didn't understand what Shen Qianxue meant by this: "Qianxue, you didn't find poison in Edward's body, so how are you sure that he was poisoned, just because there was something strange in his body?"

"This is only part of the reason, but it is mainly because I have detected some strange mixtures in a goblet that I brought back from the scene. However, because the amount of these mixtures remains in the goblet is limited, it is difficult to pinpoint the ingredients. But I believe that when I have analysed the main components of these mixtures, I will be able to explain why I have not found any poisons in the bodies of the deceased. ”

Although Shen Qianxue didn't seem to be able to produce actual evidence of Edward's poisoning at the moment, she still swore in her words, obviously she had great confidence in her inference.

Goblet!

When they heard Shen Qianxue mention the goblet, Li Ye and Ye Mengying glanced at each other in unison, but the meaning revealed in the eyes of the two was completely different, one was surprised, and the other was proud.

Li was also surprised that Ye Mengying said that there was a peculiar smell in the goblet that he couldn't smell was true, and Ye Mengying was naturally proud that her discovery at that time was finally confirmed at this moment.

Originally, after a preliminary investigation, the suspicion of killing Count Edward mainly fell on Dick and the werewolf leader Mutu.

But with Shen Qianxue's discovery, it undoubtedly greatly weakened the possibility of Mutu committing the crime, and increased Dick's suspicion.

Because although Count Edward's castle cannot be said to be heavily guarded, it is obviously impossible for outsiders to sneak into the castle unknowingly and poison the goblet that Count Edward usually uses.

"Knock Knock"

Dick, who was sitting on the sofa in his bedroom, pondering something, suddenly heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!" Dick said in a slightly tired voice to the man outside the door.

"Master Dick!"

It was Oliver, the butler, who pushed the door open, but Oliver didn't enter the room, just stood respectfully in the doorway.

"What's the matter?" asked Dick.

"Master Dick, Elder Karl asked you to go to the halls!" replied Butler Oliver.

"What is the matter with Uncle looking for me?" asked Dick, puzzled.

The death of his adoptive father, Count Edward, had a great impact on the blood clan, so Carl, as an elder, should obviously have a lot of things to deal with in the past two days, how could he suddenly have time to come to him as an "idler".

"I don't know Master Dick, Elder Karl didn't say. Oliver shook his head.

"Alright then, you go tell him, I'll go down at once." Dick said and waved his hand at Oliver.

"Okay, young master. Oliver replied, and then respectfully exited the room, not forgetting to reopen the door before leaving.