Chapter 28: Intentional Homicide

Ishikawa's expression stiffened again.

Because Lin Xinyi's previous performance had already given him a feeling - he felt that his brain seemed to be transparent in front of the other party, and he couldn't hide secrets at all.

But even so, Ishikawa still stubbornly looked at Lin Shinichi again.

This is about his future life, even if there has been a hard stubble smashing the field, he has to stick to acting:

"When... Of course. ”

"Just think about it, killing Uchida will only give me trouble..."

"How could I have deliberately killed him?"

"Not necessarily."

Lin Xinyi retorted without hesitation:

"People sometimes forget their rationality, and it's normal to make the decision to kill."

"And as long as you knew at the time that your injury would result in death, that is not manslaughter."

"But, but..."

Ishikawa stiffened his neck and forcibly quibbled:

"I just accidentally killed Uchida..."

"Can you still find evidence that I did it on purpose?"

"Absolutely."

Lin Xinyi replied calmly and calmly:

"Because I can feel how the dead are suffering."

As he spoke, he crouched down next to the corpse again.

And everyone's eyes also converged on Lin Xinyi again.

Even Shiho Miyano, who didn't care about the case at first, was unconsciously attracted by Lin Shinichi's performance at the moment.

"Let me boldly reconstruct what happened to the deceased."

"First of all, we saw that the deceased had obvious restraint injuries on both hands and wrists."

"To a certain extent, this shows that Ishikawa may not have wanted to kill people at the beginning, but just wanted to teach Uchida a lesson."

"So, after taking Uchida into this no-man's alley, at the beginning of the bullying, the murderer's companion grabbed Uchida's wrist tightly and controlled Uchida so that he couldn't move."

"If I'm not mistaken, during the time that Uchida was under control, the killer bullied him."

"In order to prevent their bullying behavior from being exposed to the outside world, bullies often do not attack the exposed parts of the victim, so that they leave scars that cannot be concealed."

"They will only attack the victim's chest, abdomen, back, and other parts that can be covered by clothing, so just cut the clothes of the deceased..."

Lin Xinyi stopped explaining, reached out and took out a pair of scissors from the toolbox handed by Komatsu Patrol.

Then, with ease, he cut the deceased's clothes with scissors, leaving Uchida's chest and abdomen exposed.

"This..."

Onlookers let out a burst of exclamation.

Because there were too many bruises on Uchida's chest and abdomen.

His body was densely covered with irregularly shaped abrasions, intracutaneous hemorrhages, and subcutaneous hemorrhages, and there was no good skin from the neck down.

Without forensic knowledge, anyone with a discerning eye can see what kind of atrocities this poor young man suffered before he died.

For a moment, everyone's eyes were full of hatred when they looked at Ishikawa.

And Miss Maolilan, who has a strong sense of empathy, clenched her fists tightly, her eyes full of sympathy.

The image of painful repentance that Ishikawa had created before collapsed in an instant.

He simply broke the jar and broke it, gritted his teeth and shouted at Lin Xinyi:

"What's this, so what..."

"Didn't I admit that I bullied Uchida?"

"You yourself said that Uchida died of suffocation, not by fists."

"Don't argue with me."

"I'm just stating the facts."

Lin Xinyi ignored Uchida's clamor at all, and just continued to say in a steady tone:

"Uchida's chest and abdomen were violently beaten continuously, repeatedly, and repeatedly by the murderer."

"Injuries of this magnitude are likely to cause chest hemorrhage and organ damage within the human body, which seriously affects the body's respiratory function - which is also one of the important reasons why the deceased later died of asphyxiation."

"And during this time, as a victim of bullying, Uchida should have begged the murderer for mercy and begged his subordinates to show mercy."

"But the murderer didn't let Uchida go like that."

"Not only did he not let Uchida go, but even because of some of Uchida's performances, coupled with his own impulsiveness, his emotions intensified, which aggravated his bullying behavior."

"So at this time, the murderer stopped his fist and went further, choking Uchida's neck with one hand."

β€œ......”

Hearing this, Ishikawa's expression was already extremely ugly.

Only then did he know what Aoki meant when he said "that man saw it all".

What Lin Xinyi said is not wrong at all:

At the time, he did routinely teach Uchida a lesson – of course, in order to force Uchida to sign the letter of understanding, Ishikawa did "a little bit" more than usual.

But Uchida was very uncooperative.

He insisted that he had forgiven Ishikawa and the others, and that the letter of understanding had been handed over to the principal.

And Ishikawa, of course, would not believe such a clumsy lie:

Joke...

I didn't even come to beat you, and you obediently forgave me yourself?

This is just a delaying tactic, if you simply believe it like this, it is estimated that Uchida will have to complain to the police after he gets out.

What's more, even if you really understand?

I haven't counted the accounts of the last time I filed a complaint with the police!

If you don't beat this thorn who dares to resist, you can use Uchida Shu to kill chickens and monkeys, how can he Ishikawa mix in school in the future?

Only by beating Uchida can he realize his "mistake" and obediently become a slave in the future, not daring to run to the police like last time.

Therefore, as planned at the beginning, Ishikawa gave Uchida an incomparably profound "lesson".

After a violent beating, Ishikawa discovered that Uchida had been trying to reach for his pocket while being beaten to the point where he could barely speak.

Stopping his fist, he pulled Uchida's hand out of his pocket and took a look:

It's a mobile phone.

Uchida was holding his phone at the time.

This is clearly trying to sneak up on the police for help.

Thinking of Uchida's "criminal record" in filing a complaint with the police, Ishikawa became more and more angry.

He felt that the lesson he had taught Uchida was not deep enough, and only by beating him harder could he cure Uchida's old problem of finding people to complain at every turn.

So, Ishikawa began to choke Uchida's neck with his own hand, preparing to let Uchida experience the horror of what it means to "die if you don't obey".

"At this time, Uchida's neck was strangled by the murderer with one hand."

Ishikawa is recalling the previous events, and Lin Shinichi is also restoring the scene at that time:

"The pressure on his neck, combined with his previous injury, immediately made it difficult for him to breathe."

"Like all suffocators, Uchida began to instinctively struggle and resist."

"In the midst of the resistance, his hand grabbed Ishikawa's arm, leaving a deep scratch on it."

"And that's where things get completely out of control."

Saying that, Lin Xinyi looked at Ishikawa:

"Bullies usually have a pride in thinking of themselves as 'higher animals.'"

"They simply can't tolerate the resistance of those who are weak, and they can't accept that they will be hurt because of it."

So, he let go of the hand that was holding Uchida's neck and switched to a more brutal sadistic way.

"Huh?"

Kudo Shinichi on the side suddenly heard something:

"You're saying that the deceased didn't actually suffocate to death because his neck was choked?"

"That's right."

Lin Xin nodded:

"The strangulation on his neck is not obvious, indicating that Ishikawa's chokes were relatively limited in strength and time at that time."

"Of course, this is not fully illustrative, the important thing is..."

"Look, the outside of Uchida's right forearm."

He lifted the deceased's right arm so that everyone could see the scar on Uchida's right forearm:

"From the elbow to the wrist, on the outside of the ulna of the entire forearm, there are continuous, large bruise-purple bruises."

"It's rare to see this kind of continuous, large, elongated scar."

"How do you think it's going to be?"

"Uh..." Everyone hesitated for a while, but in the end, it was Mao Lilan who reacted first.

The beautiful attendant next to this detective can always be more sensitive than the detective when he feels the pain of the deceased:

"The outside of the ulna of the forearm, which is often used to block outwards during fighting."

"But the scars caused by the parry can't be in the shape of such a continuous large patch, this shape is more like being squeezed out of some hard plane, so I guess..."

"Uchida may have been pushed to the ground by the murderer before his death."

"And he was holding the ground with his forearms and trying to get up, so that's why he had this injury on the outside of his ulna."

Mao Lilan hesitated to say what he thought:

"But if you just get up from the ground, you don't need much strength at all, and you won't hurt people."

"So, I think, at that time..."

"It's likely that someone stepped on Uchida's back and suppressed him to prevent him from getting up."

Uchida tried to get up again and again, but the murderer stepped him back again and again... It was because he had been struggling in pain that the bruise on the outside of his arm was so obvious. ”

Speaking of this, as if empathizing, Xiaolan's expression became a little heavy.

"That's right."

Lin Xinyi looked at Mao Lilan with appreciative eyes.

This girl is much better than Komatsu patrolling, and she is very talented:

"The murderer once pressed Uchida to the ground for a long time, as evidenced by the bruises on the outside of his forearm."

"But thinking that Uchida died of suffocation, then, I'm afraid that the murderer stepped on not Uchida's back, but it should be..."

"A more deadly neck."

As he spoke, Lin Xinyi gently turned the body over, revealing the back of the deceased's neck.

The deceased's hair was not short, and the back of his neck was covered by hair, so that nothing could be seen at all.

However, just after Lin Xinyi stretched out his hand to pry the deceased's hair...

Suddenly there was another exclamation in the crowd:

"This、This is a shoe print?!"

Yes, there is still an incomparably clear shoe print on the back of Uchida's neck.

This shoe print is made of the flesh and blood of the dead.

As a result, Uchida's entire back of his neck was covered with extensive epidermal detachment and subcutaneous hemorrhage, which looked shocking.

"The stread mark on the back of the neck is noticeably heavier than the strangulation mark on the front neck."

"And the bruise on the outside of the forearm is more proof that the deceased was once pressed to the ground for a long time."

"So even without an autopsy, I can deduce that the deceased died of mechanical asphyxiation caused by compression in the back of the neck."

Lin Xinyi calmly stated his conclusion.

Then, he looked at Ishikawa deadly, and his gaze became sharp:

"The human trachea is in the front of the neck, not in the back of the neck."

"Strangling the neck from the front is the quicker way to kill someone."

"And if you step on your neck from behind, Ishikawa, do you know how long it takes to kill someone?"

Ishikawa's face was pale and silent.

"You should know."

Lin Xinyi said in a cold tone:

"Because you stepped on his neck for a few minutes."

"It's long enough for you to recognize the consequences of your actions and to let you know you're killing someone."

"But you never let go of your feet, no!"

"Because you've already made a murderous decision."

"It could be because of anger and impulsiveness, or it could be because of the pleasure of killing, and eventually..."

"You killed him - on purpose!"