Chapter 90: The Ice Cube in Shape

The earring that Conan had just found caused an uproar.

"Miss Yoko, are these earrings yours?" The Twilight Police Department asked.

"No, it's not." Yoko Okino looked at the earrings and said in surprise: "That earring, it seems to be Yuko." ”

"Yuko Ikezawa is a friend who debuted at the same time as me."

"That's right!" Eiichi Yamagishi hurriedly added, "She's always held a grudge because the main role of the drama was snatched away by Miss Yoko!" ”

The earrings were left at the scene, and I had a grudge against Yoko, so it sounded suspicious.

So, because he didn't find it at all, the Maori detective, who had been silent, finally found an opportunity to show his strong reasoning ability:

"I see, that Yuko Ikezawa must be the murderer!"

"You guys, go arrest her!"

Naturally, Kogoro Mori launched the second of the essential skills of a detective: commanding the police.

The policemen present were slightly stunned by the yelling, and they really listened to the order of this detective, who should be regarded as a "miscellaneous person" strictly speaking, and rushed out of the door to arrest people.

"Wait!"

Lin Xinyi spoke out in time to stop:

"That Miss Yuko really needs to come over and cooperate with the inquiry."

"However, remember that it was 'please', not 'catch' - there is a high probability that she is not the murderer."

"Huh?" Except for Conan, everyone was stunned.

"Supervisor Lin, do you—you already know who the murderer is?" Yoko Okino, who had been pale since the discovery of the body, couldn't wait to come up and ask.

"That's right." Lin Xin nodded.

He turned sideways, revealing the corpse lying in a pool of blood behind him:

"The murderer is here—"

"The deceased is the murderer, and this is a suicide case."

"W-What?!"

Yoko Okino looked incredulous, and everyone present also opened their mouths wide.

Only Conan glanced at Lin Xinyi thoughtfully:

Indeed, the modus operandi of this case is actually easy to see through.

The deceased died in an elaborate suicide, and Lin's conclusion is very consistent with his reasoning.

But now the identity of the deceased is still unclear, and even his name has not been investigated by the police.

Knowing the identity of the deceased, and not knowing the interpersonal relationship between the deceased and the owner of the house, Miss Yoko, how could Lin Xinyi directly determine that the deceased died by suicide when such clues were incomplete?

Don't... Just through the autopsy, Lin Xinyi was able to find enough evidence to prove his reasoning?

Conan thought so and couldn't help but look over curiously.

I saw Lin Xinyi deliberately stagger his position, so that everyone could see the hideous corpse lying in a pool of dazzling blood:

"The large pool of blood under the deceased's body, everyone can notice this, right?"

"Hmm." Everyone nodded in unison, and the pool of blood almost covered half of the floor, so that the blind man could not notice.

"First of all, there are pools of blood at the scene, which can often prove that this is the original scene of the crime."

"And there are no blood marks found elsewhere in the house, so it is almost certain that the deceased was stabbed in this living room and died on this floor."

Lin Xinyi paused slightly and continued to explain:

"And only when people are alive will the blood flow, will they bleed profusely."

"Therefore, the appearance of such a large pool of blood not only shows that this is the first scene of the deceased being stabbed, but also shows that the deceased bleed heavily after being injured and had a long bleeding time-"

"That is, the deceased survived for some time after being wounded by a knife."

"Judging from the location of the wound and the amount of bleeding, this process is about two or three minutes."

"Two or three minutes later, he didn't really die until he died of acute hemorrhagic shock due to excessive blood loss."

"This—" Maolilan frowned as he listened:

Her empathy is so strong that she can almost empathize with the horrific image of the deceased lying on the cold floor, struggling in pain in her own blood.

"It's too painful, isn't it?"

"Why did he choose such a painful way to commit suicide?"

"Could this really be a suicide... If it was suicide, why was it a knife in the back? ”

Maolilan struggled and asked the question everyone wanted to ask.

"Listen to me slowly..."

"First of all, we have to answer why suicide would be a knife in the back."

Lin Xinyi squatted next to the corpse and used his hand to pick up the deceased's clothes, which were completely stained red with blood.

The deceased's clothes were cut by him with scissors during the autopsy, and it was very easy to remove them again.

He lifted his clothes, then pointed to the left side of the corpse's waist, close to the skin on the floor, and said:

"Come closer, look, what's on the skin of the deceased?"

"What's there?" Everyone was asking, but few dared to really take a closer look.

Only Conan leaned over the bloody corpse with the face of a schoolboy on his face.

"This—This is goosebumps?!"

Conan reacted instantly and blurted out:

"This is a physiological phenomenon caused by the contraction of the erector pili muscle of the skin after the human body feels cold stimulation."

"The deceased had goosebumps on the left side of his waist and abdomen, but not elsewhere."

"You know, this room has the hot air conditioning on all the time, and goosebumps will go away on their own after a while as long as the environment is warm enough."

"This would indicate that in the last period of the deceased's life, his left waist and abdomen were likely to have been exposed to some kind of cryogenic object."

"Contact with this cold object gave him goosebumps on his left side of his abdomen, and because of his death in a short period of time, the goosebumps remained on his corpse."

Lin Xinyi was silent for a while when he heard this:

Although Conan's analysis is completely correct, but...

You're still a primary school student, do you want to pay attention to your personality?!

Seeing a dead person is like seeing a cow in red cloth, so sooner or later people will find out that something is wrong!

"Well, this little brother... That's right. ”

Lin Xinyi's face darkened, and he separated Conan, who almost threw himself on the corpse, back with his legs:

"Anyway, except goosebumps."

"You can look at the color of the corpse's left waist and abdomen."

It's like a car that stalls at the start of the subject 2 ramp...

After death, blood circulation stops, and the blood that has lost its power accumulates along the vascular network in the lower part of the corpse, forming visible corpse spots.

And now, the body was lying on the floor, chest and abdomen under pressure.

The blood does not accumulate at the lowest point where it squeezes the ground, so it retreats to the side of the waist and abdomen.

Therefore, in the left waist and abdomen where goosebumps have just been found, very obvious corpse spots can also be seen:

"Look at the color of the corpse spots here, and then look at the color of the corpses in the rest of the corpse."

"Can you find that compared to other parts, the color of the corpse spot on the left waist and abdomen is slightly lighter?"

Lin Xinyi guided everyone to observe and contrast the colors of the corpse spots.

And Conan took the initiative to come over again:

"It's true, though it's not obvious, but it's a little lighter in color."

"Why is that?"

"Haha... Little brother, you're so studious. ”

"I was so interested in corpses at such a young age... I can be a forensic doctor when I grow up. ”

Resisting the urge to throw Conan out of the door, Lin Xinyi barely kept a smirk and continued to explain:

"The color of the corpse spots will be slightly different, also due to the effect of the previously speculated 'cold object'."

"The color of the corpse spot depends on the color of the hemoglobin."

"For a certain period of time after death, some tissue cells will continue to consume oxygen in the blood, so that oxyhemoglobin becomes reduced hemoglobin, so the corpse spots formed are generally purple-red."

"But if it's at a low temperature..."

"Oxyhemoglobin is not easy to dissociate at low temperatures, and the color of the corpse spots formed will appear bright red and lighter."

The corpses of frozen corpses are basically distinctly bright red.

In this case, the deceased was only frozen on one side of his body, and after being frozen for a period of time, he got rid of the "cold object", so the color of the corpse spots was only slightly lighter.

And this is also fortunate that the body was found early.

Otherwise, if you continue to "thaw" at such a high temperature for a period of time, the slightly lighter color of the corpse spot will completely turn into a dark purple-red color exactly like the rest of the body.

"That's right—" Everyone vaguely heard something, but they never got to the point.

In the end, it was Lin Xinyi who came forward to summarize:

"There are goosebumps on the left waist and abdomen, and the corpse spots are slightly lighter in color, which can prove that the deceased was exposed to some kind of cold object for a long time before and after death."

"And this cryogenic object will certainly not disappear out of thin air, and the reason why I can't find it now."

"It's because it's... Melted into water. ”

"Melt? Then this cryogenic object is..."

Anyone other than Conan finally reacted: "Ice?!" ”

"That's right, the deceased was exposed to ice before he died."

"The ice clung to the side of his corpse and didn't melt completely until long after he died."

Finding the water on the floor doesn't mean much, after all, it's probably just water poured here.

Water is only speculation, not evidence.

Because of this, Conan thought about learning more about the identity and background of the deceased and the ins and outs of the case, rather than directly drawing conclusions about the case.

But now, Lin Xinyi has used scientific clues to prove the existence of ice cubes.

He caused the ice that had melted and disappeared to appear on the corpse.

With this core evidence, it can support the bizarre reasoning that followed:

"The ice cubes next to the corpse, the grooves on the floor that match the handle of the knife, the near-vertical angle of the knife, the chair standing not far from the corpse, the air conditioner that was deliberately turned on at a high temperature, and the corpse without any resistance or restraint injuries..."

"I can speculate—"

"The murderer fixed the handle of the knife in the ice, placed it on the ground, and then jumped backwards from the chair towards the tip of the knife, and completed the suicide with a back-jumping posture."