Lin Jiangbei walked over and picked up the apple that had been bitten open, and the flesh in the gap had turned dark brown, which meant that the apple had been bitten at least half an hour ago. Because the flesh of an apple contains oxidized alcohols, as long as it comes into contact with the air, it will oxidize and then slowly change color. To completely become such a dark brown, it will take at least half an hour or more.

If this apple was gnawed by Ji Wenguang, it means that he was killed at least half an hour ago.

Lin Jiangbei walked up to Ji Wenguang, squatted down, broke Ji Wenguang's mouth open, and shone it in with a flashlight, and sure enough, some apple residues were found in Ji Wenguang's mouth.

This can basically be concluded that Ji Wenguang's death has nothing to do with Ruan Deyi. Because Nguyen Duc Yi came to the Los Doo Hotel a few minutes ago.

Then Lin Jiangbei will next examine Ji Wenguang's body and determine the cause of Ji Wenguang's death.

Lin Jiangbei held a flashlight and examined Ji Wenguang's corpse one by one. Soon, he found that something was wrong with Ji Wenguang's throat, he pressed it lightly with his hand, and found that Ji Wenguang's throat had collapsed, and it turned out that Ji Wenguang's entire throat bone had been shattered.

Could it be that Ji Wenguang was suffocated to death after being strangled by someone's throat bone?

But there's something wrong with that!

If Ji Wenguang was really strangled to death, then when he checked his mouth just now, there should be obvious tooth bite scars on his tongue, and there should be blood in his mouth!

Because when people struggle desperately when they are strangled by the neck, they will accidentally "bite" their tongues, resulting in obvious bites on the tongue and oral bleeding.

But when Lin Jiangbei opened Ji Wenguang's mouth just now to look for apple residues, he didn't find obvious blood stains in Ji Wenguang's mouth, and there was no bite on his tongue.

And in addition to the crushed throat bone, Lin Jiangbei did not find strangulation marks on Ji Wenguang's neck, which obviously did not meet the symptoms of being strangled.

Of course, in addition to using a rope to strangle the laryngeal bone, a sharp and direct hit to the larynx bone like a hand knife or fist tip may also cause the larynx bone to shatter, resulting in suffocation and death.

But in this case, very obvious traces of trauma will form on the skin outside the laryngeal bone, but now Ji Wenguang's throat looks intact and there are no traces of trauma. And if you really kill a person by smashing the throat, the person usually will not die immediately, but will struggle for at least seven or eight minutes or even more than ten minutes, and will suffocate to death when no one rescues him.

And judging from Ji Wenguang's prone posture on the ground and the shape of his nightgown, there is no trace of rolling and struggling on the ground at all, it is obvious that he died before the end, at least at the same time as the end.

Could it be that Ji Wenguang did not die of suffocation after the broken throat bone, but died of other reasons, and the murderer broke Ji Wenguang's throat bone, at least to cover up the real cause of Ji Wenguang's death?

Lin Jiangbei took his eyes off Ji Wenguang's throat and examined other parts of Ji Wenguang, but found no abnormalities in other parts of Ji Wenguang's body, and Ji Wenguang's death characteristics obviously did not match the characteristics of poisoning death.

So the only possibility is that Ji Wenguang did die of suffocation due to a broken throat bone.

However, the murderer did not strangle Ji Wenguang to death with ropes, wires, wires and other items, nor did he directly smash Ji Wenguang's throat bone with foreign objects to disappoint him, so in what way did the murderer break Ji Wenguang's throat and make him die immediately?

Lin Jiangbei pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered in his mind a method of killing people that circulated in the Japanese underworld in the previous life, that is, put a stone or coin in the middle of a soft cloth or scarf, and strangled the target's throat hard, and the target would die on the spot. This method is not only shorter and more efficient than the rope strangulation method, but even if you are stopped by the police on the road for inspection, you will have to be disqualified because you can't find the murder weapon.

It's March 3rd, and it's the time of spring in Los Angeles, and many people are wearing scarves to protect themselves from the cold. Therefore, the murderer came to Ji Wenguang wearing a scarf, which would neither attract attention nor arouse suspicion. Then he put a silver dollar in the scarf while Ji Wenguang was eating the apple, and strangled Ji Wenguang's throat hard, Ji Wenguang fell into a coma before he even had time to struggle, and then it was all over.

However, how could it have been possible in 1936 that the murderous method that only appeared in Japan in the seventies and eighties of the 20 th century?

Could it be that the murderer who killed Ji Wenguang is also a traverser? Or was this method secretly circulated in Japan until the seventies and eighties?

If this inference is correct, doesn't it mean that it is likely that the person who killed Ji Wenguang was Japanese?

Thinking of this, Lin Jiangbei couldn't help but feel shocked. If it was really the Japanese who killed Ji Wenguang, then it is likely that there was a Japanese spy organization in Los Angeles. And this spy organization Ji Wenguang also knows. The Japanese were afraid that Ji Wenguang would confess to this espionage organization after being arrested, so they killed Ji Wenguang and killed him.

Hehe, if that's the case, things get interesting!

Lin Jiangbei sneered and started the next step.

The next step is to make a rough judgment on the time of Ji Wenguang's death. According to the degree of discoloration of the apple pulp, it can basically be determined that Ji Wenguang died more than half an hour ago, but it is easy to judge how much it is compared to half an hour ago.

Therefore, to deduce the accurate time of Ji Wenguang, it is also necessary to judge according to the examination of Ji Wenguang's body.

Generally speaking, the most reliable way to determine the exact time of death of the deceased is to judge it based on the body temperature. According to the forensic knowledge that Lin Jiangbei mastered in his last life, generally speaking, within 4 to 5 hours after death, the heat generated in the body has not completely stopped, and the average temperature of the corpse has dropped by 0.58 degrees per hour; 5 to 16 hours after death, the heat production has completely stopped, and the average temperature of the corpse has dropped by 0.97 degrees per hour; and 16 to 24 hours after death, because the temperature difference between the corpse and the environment has narrowed, the temperature of the corpse has decreased slowly, with an average drop of 0.54 degrees per hour.

According to these conditions, an accurate formula for calculating the time of death can be established, and then a simple formula for the time of death can be derived according to the actual situation: that is, the elapsed time after death (hours) = 37 degrees - rectal temperature of the cadaver / 0.83 * coefficient.

The multiplied coefficient is 1 in spring and autumn, 1.4 in summer and 0.7 in winter.

But now that the incident happened in a hurry, Lin Jiangbei did not bring a mercury thermometer, so there was no way to measure Ji Wenguang's corpse temperature, so he could only roughly judge the time of Ji Wenguang's death based on Ji Wenguang's corpse.

Because after death, the muscles of the body will first appear in a state of relaxation and relaxation. After a while, the corpse will become stiff, which is called corpse stiffness, at which time the joints are difficult to bend, and the state of death will be fixed.

When Lin Jiangbei broke Ji Wenguang's mouth just now, he found that Ji Wenguang's mouth was still in a relatively loose state, and he didn't feel how hard it was, and when he checked the other parts of Ji Wenguang's body, he found that they were all in a relatively relaxed state, that is, Ji Wenguang's death time would not exceed two hours.

Combined with the degree of oxidation of the apple pulp before, the time of Ji Wenguang's death is basically between half an hour and two hours from now.

He stood up, turned his head and asked the waiter at the door, "When was the last time you saw Ji Wenguang?" ”

The waiter on the left replied, "At about half past seven, when Young Master Ji asked me to bring him a pot of boiling water!" ”

Lin Jiangbei looked at his watch, it was now nine o'clock, which means that the time when Ji Wenguang was killed was between half past seven and half past eight.

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