Nani (ÒωÓױ)?!

The expressions of everyone present were basically like this, but they didn't look so cute.

Except for Shinichi Kudo, who had a complicated expression, shocks were clearly written on everyone's faces:

Hey, hey... Suicide mutilation?

It's a word you made up yourself, right?

How can it be suicide when they are all broken?

The crowd was in an uproar, but the police department was stunned for a while and then asked lively:

"That, Mr. Lin Xinyi, do you mean that..."

"The deceased was discarded by a second person for some reason after committing suicide?"

"Your guess is good."

"This is indeed a possibility of a 'suicide mutilation'."

Lin Xinyi nodded seriously, agreeing with Officer Twilight's conjecture:

He has encountered such cases in his career:

In order to fraudulently receive the pension of her husband who committed suicide, a woman is afraid that someone will find out if she disposes of her husband's body at will. So, after discovering that her husband had committed suicide, this person secretly divided her husband's body into several pieces and bagged them and discarded them. She then kept creating the illusion that her husband was still alive until the bag containing the body was accidentally discovered.

This incomprehensible maneuver confused the eyes of all the case-handling personnel.

If it weren't for Lin Xinyi, who was a post-mortem forensic doctor at the time, who confirmed through an autopsy that the deceased had indeed died by hanging, no one would have believed that there would be such a ridiculous thing in the world.

So, the world is big.

Don't be in a hurry to scold the out-of-context news headlines such as "The body was broken into three pieces, and the police confirmed the suicide", "The deceased was stabbed thirty times, and the police confirmed the suicide"...

These unbelievable cases actually exist, and if you want to scold, you should also scold those self-media who want to make big news every day.

"Still."

"Judging by the clues that the corpse has told me so far..."

After appreciating Officer Twilight's flexible thinking ability, Lin Xinyi said again:

"There is no second person involved in this case."

"From suicide to dismemberment, there was only one deceased."

"Huh?" This time, even Officer Twilight's chubby face had an expression of disbelief.

"How can this be..."Xiaolan endured the discomfort and quietly glanced at the tattered corpse on the plastic sheet, and then asked Kudo Shinichi uncontrollably: "Shinichi, will the deceased really commit suicide?" ”

“......”

Kudo Shinichi was silent for a while.

It was rare for him to show that not very confident expression in front of Xiaolan for a rare time:

"That's... There is indeed a lot wrong with the body of the deceased..."

"But, I haven't figured out that most critical issue yet..."

Saying that, with that unspeakable unwillingness and expectation, Kudo Shinichi once again set his eyes on Lin Shinichi:

"Mr. Lin Xinyi, can you start?"

In Kudo's view, this has become an invisible reasoning race.

It is a duel between a detective and a detective, a contest of brains and wisdom.

But Lin Xinyi didn't think so.

It's not a game for him, and it's not a competition.

It's a job, a responsibility.

"It's time to go."

His eyes grew deep and determined, like a piece of iron.

Lin Xinyi took the huge aluminum alloy forensic investigation box from Officer Komatsu's hand, and then silently squatted down and gently opened the forensic investigation box:

Magnifying glass, fingerprint board, hemostat, puncture needle, scalpel, pointed scissors, flat scissors, latex gloves, bone saw, bone hammer, bone chisel, bone scissors, scooping spoon...

A variety of forensic tools are neatly arranged in the box, which looks very comfortable for OCD patients.

But Lin Xinyi sighed helplessly:

The tools in the survey box are quite neat...

Qi is like he hasn't used it since he bought it.

After all, professional forensic doctors who have really run through the scene should know that dissecting tools such as bone saws, bone chisels, and scoops are not used at all in the preliminary investigation of the scene.

What can be used on site is nothing more than masks, gloves, rulers, tape measures, puncture needles, hemostats, thermometers, anal thermometers and other common inspection tools.

An experienced veteran forensic doctor wouldn't have put so much stuff in a field inspection box, unless he wanted to increase the weight to exercise.

It seems that this Officer Komatsu is indeed a good cook....

"Ugh..."

Lin Xinyi quickly restrained his emotions in the belly slander, and put on a mask and two layers of latex gloves with ease:

Masks must be worn as much as possible, after all, forensic doctors come into contact with all kinds of corpses every day, and no one knows whether the deceased has infectious diseases on them.

You also have to wear two layers of gloves, one layer is easy to seep in.

Then, Lin Xinyi walked to the deceased and squatted down.

Like Officer Komatsu in the past, he began to gently press on various parts of the body with his fingers.

"Komatsu's inspection is basically right just now."

"There is already a non-obvious generalized mortis on the corpse."

Lin Xinyi withdrew his hand, and generally turned around to get the tools in the survey box, while explaining carefully:

"But the time of death is not necessarily more than four hours:"

"Because people drowning in the water will struggle and convuls, muscles will move violently, and the ambient water temperature is low, so the mortis will occur much earlier than normal."

"Uh..."Komatsu's expression was extremely embarrassed.

He could see from the corpse that there was still a mistake.

"I'm sorry, I was mistaken..."

"Indeed, I remember writing in the book that people who drown do appear in advance... Alas, wait! ”

"Mr. Lin, are you saying that the deceased was drowned?"

Inspector Komatsu asked loudly as if he had suddenly woken up.

"That's right."

"And it's something that a professional should see at a glance."

Lin Xinyi looked helplessly at Officer Komatsu, who was in a hurry with his business ability, and then gently cast a slightly appreciative gaze to Kudo Shinichi next to him:

"I think this detective must have seen the problem with this, right?"

"That's true."

Kudo Shinichi nodded and echoed:

Although the body was in tatters, it was not difficult to see:"

"The deceased's skin was pale overall, and there were goosebump-like bumps on the skin on the outer sides of his arms and legs... These are all characteristics of the drowning victim's skin irritated by cold water, resulting in constriction of skin blood vessels, contraction of erector pili muscles, and bulging hair follicles. ”

"Moreover, the deceased's fingers and toes also showed that the stratum corneum was macerated, whitened and swollen."

"Considering the systemic mortis that Mr. Lin Xinyi just investigated..."

He paused slightly, and his tone became a little complicated:

"The body parts should have been soaked in the water for about three hours."

"My previous reasoning about when the murderer abandoned the body... I'm afraid it's wrong. ”

At first, Kudo Shinichi concluded that the body had only been in the water for a short time because he had witnessed the blood, and the murderer had just finished throwing the body.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Xinyi, who happened to be watching at the scene, was regarded as the first suspect.

And now, the signs on the corpse tell him plainly...

His reasoning was wrong.

He trusts his instincts as a detective so much that he makes judgments when clues are extremely limited.

Thinking of this, Shinichi Kudo, who rarely makes mistakes in reasoning, couldn't help but be a little silent.

But Lin Xinyi didn't notice the self-criticism that was almost written on the detective's face.

He seems to have unwittingly become a partner in cooperation with Kudo Shinichi, and began to methodically add details to Kudo's reasoning:

"Kudo is right."

"Pale skin color, gooseskin-like changes in the skin, and changes in the cuticle of the epidermis, which forensic science calls 'washerwoman's hands,' are the basic features of waterlogged corpses."

"But... These characteristics only prove that the deceased was immersed in water for more than a certain time. ”

"To prove that the deceased died from drowning, you usually have to check here first..."

As he spoke, Lin Xinyi showed the tool he had just taken out of the survey box:

"This is a finger straightener that is used to straighten the fingers of the deceased's fist."

"Drowning people, on the other hand, struggle violently before death, and the muscles of their hands spasm, and their palms tend to take on the shape of tight fists after death."

"So, just open the palm of the deceased like this..."

In the frightened, frightened, but uncontrollable curiosity of the complex gaze of everyone...

Lin Xinyi picked up the only severed arm from the plastic sheeting, and then slowly and steadily snapped the wrench into his fingers, straightening the fingers of the severed hand one by one.

The clenched palms were opened.

In the palm that was finally opened, everyone could see:

"That's... Plants? ”

"That's right, it's aquatic plants."

Lin Xinyi put down the severed arm and said in a deep voice:

"It's not just aquatic weeds, I noticed before I opened the palm of the deceased's hand, there was a little mud and sand between the deceased's fingernails."

"These are all evidence of the deceased's drowning—"

"Because only a person who drowned before his death could have caught the aquatic weeds and sediment in the water with his hands when he instinctively struggled."

"If the body is discarded after death, it is impossible for the corpse to have these things in the palms and fingernails of the corpse."

"By analyzing the species of aquatic weeds and comparing the types of aquatic microorganisms in the lung fluid of the deceased with the samples of the river water here, it should not be difficult to confirm that the deceased drowned in this river."

"And the time of drowning, as Kudo analyzed just now, was about three hours ago."

His voice was extremely serious, and his eyes were full of a different kind of concentration.

This kind of focused gaze is enough to conquer people's hearts.

Unconsciously, everyone forgot that Lin Xinyi was still a suspect in this case.

There was even admiration in their eyes:

"This 'Shinichi' is also so good at reasoning?!"

Someone sighed unconsciously.

But Lin Xinyi will not be complacent about the entry-level forensic knowledge he has just demonstrated.

The hunting drama in the eyes of the audience is just a daily routine that he is familiar with.

"Reasoning? Nope..."

Lin Xinyi said in a calm tone:

"Reasoning is a detective's job."

"And my job is to speak for the dead."