Jinguancheng Forensic Identification Center is located in Xicheng District, if it weren't for the sign hanging at the door, Lin Yang would probably be difficult to hook this green environment with the forensic identification center.

The place looks more like an old-fashioned residential area.

After walking through the ginkgo grove in the front yard, Bai Jie led Lin Yang to a small four-story building.

Someone had been waiting here for a long time, and when he saw the two of them coming, he hurriedly took two steps forward to greet him: "Teacher Bai, you are here." ”

Bai Jie nodded in response, and then asked, "What about Old Yuan?"

The Yuan Lao she was talking about was Yuan Ming, the person in charge of the forensic identification center, and also her mentor when she was a graduate student in forensic science.

"Yuan Lao is dissecting the body of one of the victims. The young forensic center staff replied: "This time, the municipal criminal police team sent a total of five bodies of victims with the same cause of death. The initial suspicion is that the same murderer or the same criminal gang committed it. Because there were no other clues, the city criminal police team wanted to start an investigation from these corpses. They were in a hurry, and there were many corpses, and there were not enough experienced anatomists on our side, so we could only trouble Mr. Bai to come and help. ”

After explaining the matter in general, the staff of the forensic identification center set his eyes on Lin Yang: "Who is this?"

"This is my student, working as my assistant. Bai Jie replied simply.

"Hello. The staff of the forensic identification center stretched out their hand to Lin Yang.

"Hello. While shaking hands, Lin Yang glanced at the work card hanging on his chest, which read, 'Chen Quan, two words, should be his name.'

After the two got to know each other, Bai Jie asked, "Where is the corpse that you want me to dissect?"

"Please follow me. ”

Under the leadership of Chen Quan, after Lin Yang and Bai Jie changed their clothes, they came to an autopsy room on the second floor.

Compared to the outside, the temperature in the dissection room is much lower, and there is a tingling and gloomy feeling.

Of course, Bai Jie will not feel like this. For her, the dissection room is not only where she works, but also her home.

As for Lin Yang, he also won't feel uncomfortable.

He was a person who had seen ghosts, and how could the eerie atmosphere in the dissection room scare him?

In the center of the dissection room, there is an operating table.

On the bed, a corpse was covered with a white cloth.

Before he could get close to the corpse, a pungent putrid smell rushed over him. Even though Lin Yang and Bai Jie were wearing masks, they were still frowning at the smell.

"How long has this person been dead?" Lin Yang asked.

The corpses stink like this, and people may not die in a day or two.

Chen Quan replied, "The people of the Municipal Criminal Police Team found this body this morning. The time of death is uncertain, but judging from the degree of decomposition of the body, it was five or six days, right? But one thing that makes people wonder that the place where the body was found was a bus stop in a downtown area. It is said that the body was fully dressed at the time, leaning on the route sign of the bus stop, and did not look unusual at all. It wasn't until an hour or two later that someone noticed a strong rancid stench emanating from his body and went up to check on him, only to find that he had long since died. What kind of person would you say would arrogantly abandon the body at a bus stop in the downtown area, as if you were afraid that others would not find the body?"

"It's really weird...... Lin Yang said with a frown.

Not only did he find it strange that the body was abandoned at the bus stop, but there was another thing that also made him feel very strange.

The body sat on the bus stop for an hour or two before someone smelled a strong putrid stench. So before, did the corpse not stink, or did someone smell the stench and did not make a sound?

If it's the latter, it's okay to say, if it's the former...... That would be counterintuitive.

While Lin Yang and Chen Quan were muttering quietly, Bai Jie strode to the operating table, reached out and lifted the layer of white cloth covering the corpse, revealing the face of the victim.

This is an office worker in his thirties, wearing a black suit and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, looking polite and elegant.

He looked serene, and there was no trace of pain on his face. The clothes on his body are also very neat, not only are there no traces of blood, but there are no traces of fighting. He didn't look like he had been killed and dumped at the bus stop, but rather like he was about to take the bus to work.

This is really weird

As Bai Jie's assistants, Lin Yang and Chen Quan stepped forward and took off the black suit worn by the corpse so that Bai Jie could perform the autopsy.

In the process of undressing the corpse, Lin Yang found that there were only two scars on the corpse.

One is a small hole in the back of the head, about the thickness of chopsticks; The other is on the chest, along the intercostal space, about five or six centimeters long.

Whether it is the small hole in the back of the head and neck, or the knife wound between the ribs in the chest, it is very clean, and there is no trace of blood.

I don't know if the corpse's blood has already been emptied, or if it's something else......

"Strange, this corpse is obviously rotten, and there is not a trace of decay on Weishenme's body?"

At this time, not only Lin Yang and Chen Quan, but even Bai Jie couldn't help frowning and muttering in surprise.

With all kinds of questions and confusion, the three of them began to dissect the corpse.

When Bai Jie used a scalpel to cut open the chest of this corpse, a rancid smell that was several times stronger than just now immediately poured out of the corpse's chest, making the three of them dizzy and sick.

After recovering and seeing the situation in the corpse's chest clearly, Chen Quan couldn't help but exclaim: "How can this be?"

Completely different from the situation where the surface of the body was intact, the inside of the chest and abdomen of the corpse was actually decomposed and unformed

Seeing this scene, even Bai Jie, who had rich experience in the field of anatomy, couldn't help but frown with a big change in his expression.

She had dissected so many corpses, but it was the first time she had seen such a corpse that had no problems on the surface at all, but was completely decomposed inside

This situation is too unreasonable, right?

However, there are even more perverse and surprising things

After removing the decomposing internal organs from the body's chest and abdomen, the trio found that the corpse's heart was missing

Other internal organs, whether it is the lungs, the liver, or the stomach and intestines, although they all decay to varying degrees, are always there. But the heart, but not even a shadow can be seen.

Although I was told when I came, the victim's death was very bizarre. But after the three of them witnessed this scene, they still felt shocked, and at the same time had a sense of horror that sent chills down their backs.

"How did the murderer take the victim's heart? In the victim's chest, there was only a five-centimeter-long knife wound, it was impossible to take the heart from here, right?" Chen Quan frowned, really couldn't understand how the murderer did it.

The doubts in Lin Yang and Bai Jie's hearts were no less than his. It's just that these two people are more able to stay calm.

As the dissection progressed, the surprise and doubts in the hearts of the three people became deeper and deeper.

Because they discovered that it was not only the heart that disappeared, but also the brain

There was not a single scar on the corpse's head. The only wound was the small hole in the back of the neck

However, with such a hole the size of chopsticks, how can a person's brain be completely removed?

According to the three people's dismantling of the corpse's head, it was found that the brain had been completely removed, and no scum was left.

How exactly did the killer do this?

How the hell did he take the victim's heart and brain?

What's the use of him taking these things?

Bai Jie and Chen Quan couldn't figure it out even if they wanted to break their heads.

Lin Yang's heart was also full of confusion. However, he also saw something unusual in this corpse......

After a few hours of busyness, the three of them finally completed the autopsy, and Chen Quan also sorted out the various circumstances found on the corpse and began to write an autopsy report.

While writing, Chen Quan asked: "Although the body surface of this corpse is intact, judging from the degree of decomposition of the internal organs, the victim's death time is at least more than five days, right?"

"That's right. Bai Jie nodded.

"That ......" After hesitating for a moment, Lin Yang still spoke: "I think that the victim's death time is not that long. He should be...... I just died today."

"How could it be that he died today?" Chen Quan immediately retorted: "The organs in the victim's body have already rotted like that, and it is not enough to say that he has been dead for five days."

Bai Jie frowned, but instead of reprimanding Lin Yang for talking nonsense, he asked, "Tell me your reasons."

Lin Yang said: "The scars on the victim's chest and the back of his neck are still intact and have not decomposed, so I think the time of his death should be ...... soon."

In fact, this is not the real reason why he concluded the time of death of the victim.

The reason why he thinks the victim died today is because of the three wisps of soul fire on the top of the victim's head and on both shoulders

If the victim had been dead for more than twenty-four hours, the three soul fires above his head and shoulders should have been completely extinguished. But now, although these three wisps of soul fire have become dim, there is still a trace of flame as thin as a gossamer that is powerless to shake. And this proves that the time of the victim's death was definitely not more than twenty-four hours

It's a pity that Lin Yang can't say this reason. As a result, he was only able to explain the injuries on the victim's chest and the back of his neck.

"The fact that you can spot this detail shows that you are very good at observation. Although Bai Jie praised him, he did not believe his judgment and explained: "But this corpse was obviously specially treated by the murderer. Otherwise, there will be no decay and deterioration of the internal organs, but the body surface has no effect at all, in such a state, we should judge the time of death according to the decay of the internal organs, not by the specially treated wounds on the surface of the body......

Although Lin Yang insisted that the victim died less than 24 hours ago, he could not convince Bai Jie because he could not produce strong evidence.

In the end, the time of death written on the autopsy report was still more than five days.