"What's wrong with you? Is there something on your mind? Fang Yuan frowned, feeling that Dai Xu's current appearance seemed to be a little wrong, although he said that he had always been very lazy about his work, but that kind of laziness was just a disguise of inertia, in fact, from the bottom of his bones, Dai Xu had always been focused and enthusiastic about his work, but now he looked as if he was being pulled by something.

Dai Xu smiled when she asked him this, as if Fang Yuan had just asked him something stupid, he reached out and rubbed Fang Yuan's hair, and said while looking away, "What's the matter, what can I have on my mind." ”

"You're not worried that my dad will continue to mess around, right?" Fang Yuan thought about it, the recent situation that could be regarded as a peaceful situation in the world, it seemed that there was only one thing that could make Dai Xu feel troubled, if it was really because of this matter, that Dai Xu, who had always been calm and calm, could not concentrate on work, then she would really feel guilty, "I don't think he will spend so much effort on me, don't worry, and if there is anything, the responsibility is also on me, I won't let you be dragged down by me." ”

"Silly girl, it's not your business or my business, it's our business, no one is dragging anyone down." Dai Xu smiled and sighed, "And I didn't bother about that, and I wasn't too worried about what your father would do, I thought of something else, so I accidentally got a little distracted." ”

"What's the matter?" Fang Yuan couldn't help but ask curiously, she wondered what could distract Dai Xu.

Dai Xu didn't intend to answer her question. Just waved his hand, took out a pair of shoe covers and handed them to her: "It's nothing, it's just a mess of little things." Let's go, let's go in and have a look. ”

Since Dai Xu made it clear that he didn't want to say anything, Fang Yuan had no choice but to nod, put on his shoe covers and walked into the door.

The area of this house is not large, only about 50 square meters, and the structure is also very old-fashioned. As soon as you enter a small living room with a decent door, there is no lighting in the living room, so even if it is daylight. You also need to turn on the lights, and the furnishings in the living room are so simple that there is not even a small sofa, only two old-fashioned folding chairs. There are also a few old newspapers in the corner. From the yellowed color of the newspaper, it seems that it is not recent, even the last year or two is not necessarily, it is estimated that it has long been piled up there, and no one has been cleaning it up, one side of the living room is the bedroom, and it is opposite the small area, a small kitchen of narrow type. In the opposite direction of the bedroom was the bathroom, and Fang Yuan and Dai Xu originally thought that the corpse would be in the bedroom. So I went to the door of the bedroom and looked inside, and found that there was only an old-fashioned wooden single bed in the bedroom, and the single bed was a dirty coconut mattress, no sheets, no bedding, and no pillow bedding.

Since the corpse is not in the bedroom, nor in the small kitchen that is clear at a glance, the only option is naturally the bathroom, so Dai Xu and Fang Yuan turned their heads and came to the door of the bathroom, sure enough, Forensic Doctor Liu had already checked the situation of the corpse inside, the area of the bathroom was larger than the kitchen, smaller than the bedroom, and the ground and walls were pasted with the most common white square tiles in the eighties and nineties, without any floral patterns, there was a washbasin, a toilet, and a bathtub, These three things took up more than half of the area of the bathroom, plus the forensic doctors and other staff who were examining the corpse, the bathroom was already quite crowded, and it was almost impossible to turn around, Dai Xu and Fang Yuan simply stood at the door to see the situation, and they didn't intend to squeeze in to make trouble.

The corpse was lying on its back in the bathtub, and he didn't wear a single piece of clothing on his body, just lying in the bathtub with a red [river crab], looking like a man of medium stature, his length was obviously more than the length of the bathtub, so the two legs were stuffed in the bathtub in a curled posture, I don't know if the corpse had been soaked for a period of time before, although it has not yet reached the point of decay and stinking, the color looks a little whitish, of course, This cannot be ruled out as due to excessive blood loss.

The most important thing is that the face of this male corpse is exactly the same as that mentioned when Yang Cheng notified them before, it was completely smashed by someone, smashed beyond recognition, except for a constern head, it was almost impossible to distinguish the original appearance, although Fang Yuan had also heard of the kind of situation of destroying the face when he was studying some cases in the past, but the destruction was so complete, and the murderer was so ruthless, she really saw it for the first time, if it wasn't for the fact that she had experienced some storms before, I don't know if I see it now, or I'll vomit a mess, or I'll have to have nightmares for days in a row when I go back.

The deceased's head was not only smashed to the ground, but also tilted to the side at a very awkward angle, this scene, with a suitable background music, is probably a very perfect horror movie shot.

"Forensic Doctor Liu, how's the situation?" Dai Xu waited for Forensic Doctor Liu to finish a little busy, and then took the time to ask.

Hearing the voice, Forensic Doctor Liu looked up at them, nodded and smiled at them, and said hello, and then did not waste time to do any greetings, and directly introduced them to the general situation that can be mastered at present: "The deceased male, needless to say, the face was hit with a blunt object, the degree of damage was relatively large, there was an obvious fracture in the neck bone, and no obvious traces of trauma were found elsewhere on the body, so before further autopsy, the fracture of the neck bone was temporarily regarded as the most likely cause of death, After going back and dissecting it, you can know if there is a possibility of poisoning, or drowning. ”

"Is it possible that this corpse has been soaked in water for a long time before?" Fang Yuan glanced at the male corpse in the bathtub, except for the fact that his face was smashed beyond recognition, and the blood had already dried up, turning into a dark red and black color, the rest of the place was pale and dry, it seemed to have a certain degree of swelling, but it was not very obvious, and the skin of the deceased's fingers and toes also looked a little wrinkled. There was no blood staining on the surface of the corpse, and the bathtub itself was not very large, so the corpse curled up in it blocked most of it. There was no way to see if there was any residual water underneath, so Fang Yuan had no way to tell whether the paleness of the corpse, as well as the folds in the skin of his hands and feet, was caused by the fact that he had lost a lot of blood when he was killed, and had been carefully cleaned, or whether he had been soaked in water for a period of time before.

"Speaking of which, that's interesting." Forensic Doctor Liu said "interesting", but judging from his tone and demeanor, what he really wanted to express was probably the word "tricky". "This corpse must have been soaked in water before, not only soaked in water, but also heated."

"Heat?" When Dai Xu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned. "What do you mean?"

"It's just cooking." Forensic Doctor Liu raised his head as he spoke. It was not surprising to see the surprised expressions on the faces of the two people, "When we were examining the corpse just now, we found that this corpse below the neck, almost the entire torso and limbs, are not quite right, it is not a normal post-mortem appearance, but it seems to have been heated in water and boiled to a half-cooked or even half-cooked state." When we usually cook. Have you blanched the meat with water? After blanching the meat until it is half-cooked or even fully cooked, the color of the meat will be slightly whiter than when it was raw. So we're just talking about it. After the deceased was put into the bathtub by the murderer, he was supposed to have been heated, boiled until it was almost cooked, and then drained the water in the bathtub. The heating and insulation of this house itself is not very good, and the temperature inside the bathroom is lower than the other rooms, so it does not decay so quickly. ”

Soaking a whole person in the bathtub to heat and cook it is so weird that in addition to being incredible, it makes people feel goosebumps crawling all over their bodies when they think about it.

"That'...... How can such a big person cook it when he soaks in the bathtub? Fang Yuan glanced at the bathtub that was fixed on the ground, there was not even a gap between the bottom and the bathroom floor, it was really impossible to imagine how to heat such a big guy.

"If you can't heat it from the outside, you have to leave it from the inside. Look around the house for a while, and maybe you'll find the answer. Dai Xu expressed his judgment, and then asked Forensic Doctor Liu, "How familiar is it?" ”

"There's no way to tell you this," Forensic Doctor Liu shook his head helplessly, "I can only come to a conclusion when the body is transported back for autopsy and examination to see the condition of the organs and bones inside." ”

"What about the time of death? How long has this man been dead? Fang Yuan asked.

Forensic Doctor Liu still shook his head: "I just told you that this case is interesting, and this is what I mainly refer to. As you know, there are only a few points used to judge the death event through the information presented by the corpse, including the factors of corpse temperature, corpse morture and the degree of decay, normally speaking, the appearance of corpse mortis after death is a slow process, but the behavior of heating this behavior will accelerate the appearance of corpse stiffness, breaking the original formation law, corpse temperature is not of much significance now, the temperature of the corpse has already dropped, and the water in the bathtub has also been cleaned. However, as mentioned before, the temperature inside this house is relatively low, not much warmer than outside, so it may be difficult to determine the specific time of death of the deceased. ”

Dai Xu listened to Forensic Doctor Liu's words, nodded hurriedly, and expressed understanding: "It's better to talk than nothing, and it's okay to have a range." ”

Forensic Doctor Liu sighed: "This is really a thousand worlds, how long has it been since the end of the year, there is such a new thing, I used to listen to a crab in the advertisement and ask another crab, 'What's the matter, buddy, let people cook', I didn't expect that this time we really met a person who was completely cooked!" ”

A whole corpse was heated in water and boiled to a half-cooked or even worse, which was indeed enough to make people stunned, but Fang Yuan was more concerned about the face that had been smashed beyond recognition.

"Forensic Doctor Liu, the deceased's face was smashed into this appearance, can it still restore the previous appearance?" She asked, after all, for them, in addition to the time of death and the cause of death of the deceased, the identity of the deceased is also very important information, which directly determines the direction and scope of their next investigation, and may even have a great impact on the nature of the case.

Forensic Doctor Liu looked at the deceased's face, which could hardly be called a face, and was also more difficult: "To be honest, this is really not easy to do, it is a little too hard, if there is only a bare skull left, the accuracy of the restoration may be much greater, and now this is smashed, and the parts that can be used to judge facial features have almost been destroyed, and the difficulty of restoration is estimated to be relatively large, which is really a bit difficult to say." It seems that the murderer's hatred for the dead this time is also big enough, our human bones are actually quite strong, and it is not particularly easy to smash a face to such a level of destruction, if it weren't for the hatred of the red eyes, as for how to make it look like this! ”

Although this sentiment of Forensic Doctor Liu is not necessarily 100% true, it is also the most likely hypothesis, just like most of the murderers who stabbed several times were in a sense of renegade and anger at the time of their actions, if it is just to cover up the identity of the deceased, it is completely possible to find other ways to deal with the body of the deceased, so that this murder case does not surface for the time being, instead of letting the corpse of the deceased with the body of the deceased red [river crab] in the bathtub in such a high-profile manner. It took a lot of effort to smash the deceased's face to such a level of destruction. It is obviously not smart enough to make such a move simply to disguise the identity of the deceased, and unless the murderer is an impulsive and careless person, this assumption makes some sense at all.

But would an impulsive and careless person choose to put a person in a bathtub and cook it until it is half-cooked?

Fang Yuan was deeply skeptical of this.

"Let's go see what happens elsewhere." Dai Xu saw that Forensic Doctor Liu and the others were already preparing to further dispose of the corpse, so he didn't plan to stay here any longer, and turned his head to Fang Yuan and said.

Fang Yuan nodded, and the two of them gave up the space at the door of the bathroom and went to the rest of the house to continue checking. (To be continued.) )