Around half past two in the morning.

A noisy phone ringing woke up Xue Shenzheng's half-asleep chaotic consciousness.

Get up quickly and press the answer button on your phone.

Usually calls that come at night can only be a case.

Sure enough, Feng Jin's indescribable eager voice came from the other end of the phone, accompanied by the sound of dripping rain, and the noise was very loud.

He was shouting almost at the top of his voice.

According to his account, there was an urgent murder in the deserted suburbs of Wenshan East District, and the body was being returned to the bureau.

I put on a trench coat and went out.

Xue Shen asked Feng Jin, what was the situation at the scene? Has the deceased been identified?

Feng Jin said that the traces of the scene were scattered by the rain, and the blood stains around the body were very shallow, almost none. The trace examination department is searching the scene, it is raining too much tonight, the Korean team asked us to transport the body back for autopsy as soon as possible, the identity of the deceased is still being investigated, and we will go to the bureau immediately.

Xue Shen snorted and hung up the phone. The basic situation is that there are no clues at the scene.

The wheels made a splash of water, and the soul returned to the land with a heavy soul.

Feng Jin walked back and forth at the door, and as soon as he looked up, he saw Xue Shen's car coming over, holding up a black umbrella to resist the torrential rain overhead, and taking Xue Shen.

"The informant is a male resident of Wenshan District, because he was having dinner and drinking with friends until two o'clock in the morning, but the children at home suddenly fell ill, and he couldn't get a taxi at night so he hurriedly chose to take a shortcut in the countryside. The time of discovery was around 2:07 a.m. The identity of the deceased has not yet been determined, and no one has yet reported the case to the police. Feng Jin confessed.

The end of the hallway.

Dissection room.

Xue Shen gripped the doorknob.

It seems that I can't remember how many times I've entered this door and dissected a corpse.

At this time, I always want to make a definition of life, but this definition is meaningless to the bearers and victims inside.

It's my job, but I've never done it with the consent of one of the bearers.

I am selfish.

Xue Shen thought.

"Sister Xue." Feng Jin leaned over, looked at Xue Shen's eyes, and whispered to Xue Shen, who hadn't opened the door for a long time.

Xue Shen raised his head and glanced at him.

"Let's go in!" ”

Feng Jin frowned, grabbed Xue Shen, who was pushing the door, and said seriously: "Sister Xue Shen, this corpse is a little strange. ”

Xue Shen was puzzled, but looking at Feng Jin's nervous expression, it didn't seem like he was joking.

"Just go in and see." Feng Jin and the other forensic assistants transported the corpse back overnight, naturally they had seen the corpse, and the strangeness of this corpse was obvious, it was precisely because it was so obvious that he felt a little mediocre and scared himself.

So it's hard to say. But for Sister Xue, whom he has always respected, he still wants to remind him of the abnormality of this corpse.

Xue Shen walked into the dissection room, and the air was filled with a faint smell of blood and chemicals.

At this point, there was a deathly silence.

Without the expected smell of decay, he reached out and pulled away the white cloth that had been spread on the corpse.

Xue Shen immediately understood the strangeness in Feng Jin's mouth.

She lifted the entire white cloth and placed it on the table behind her. Then came into view is the corpse, the appearance is a flower girl in ancient costume, looks about seventeen years old, judging from the bone shape, the degree of tooth wear, the age is about seventeen years old, the light blue skirt is covered with blood, the pale face is covered with mud stains and bloodstains, and there is a wound of about ten centimeters on the neck, which is preliminarily judged to be caused by a sharp blade. There are many blood marks on both arms and they are crossed into fists, which can be seen that the deceased was abused and beaten before his death, and showed a form of self-protection because of excessive pain and survival instincts. Judging from the cadaver shape, it should have died of hemorrhagic shock.

To be sure, an autopsy must be performed immediately.

Period clothes, ancient headdresses.

The profession may be an actor.

"That's what you call weird?" Xue Shen glanced at Feng Jin in the corner, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and quipped: "Since you think it's strange, why don't you transfer it to the museum first!" ”

Pulling the clothes off the corpse's neck and exposing his left shoulder in front of him, Xue Shen's expression trembled, and he suddenly said flatly, "Come and help undress." ”

Feng Jin was stunned, and sure enough, he still thought too much.

"It's not easy to do any kind of work, and you have to wear so many layers of clothes in the summer." In addition to the long shirt and skirt that had been taken off, Feng Jin was taking off the woman's trousers, and in the end only a thin layer of obscene pants remained.

The profane pants were wet with blood and rain, clinging to the woman's legs, Feng Jin was stunned and didn't take them off again.

At this time, he found that Xue Shen was also stunned in place, his eyes locked on the corpse in front of him, and his face was a little gloomy.

Xue Shen's movements were much faster, and he untied the woman's shirt early.

It's just that......

Feng Jin followed Xue Shen's line of sight, and the woman's left arm was covered with bloodstains, and the blood stains were shocking.

It is self-evident how cruelly the woman was subjected to during her lifetime, not to mention that she was still a minor child.

Xue Shen turned around and opened his lips suddenly: "Go find a clean towel and clean up the corpse." ”

Feng Jin was suddenly stunned,

"Towels? Sister Xue Shen, won't this destroy the clues? Will the fibers in the towel affect the judgment? ”

Xue Shen lowered his head, and the cool voice was particularly piercing in the dead room.

"Are you a medical examiner or am I a medical examiner?"

Feng Jin, who was pressed by one sentence, was speechless, so he had to lower his eyebrows and find two clean white towels.

Xue Shen soaked one of them in some water to wipe the corpse's left shoulder, and waited until the blood stains on his left shoulder gradually faded, leaving only a whip mark about seven centimeters long, and finally saw a round tattoo pattern under this whip mark.

It resembles a full moon and a tree sinking into the river.

Coincidentally-

This pattern is also found on Xue Shen's left shoulder.

And, exactly the same.

I remember three months ago, my grandfather, who had adopted me for many years, suddenly became seriously ill and drew a picture of his left shoulder on a hospital bed to leave his last letter.

Then the pharynge died.

Xue Shen didn't have time to see him for the last time.

There was a murder at noon that day, and she was at the scene. When she came back, the building was empty, and the hospital handed over the things left by her grandfather to her.

It also rained heavily that night.

The letter said that there are two in the world of this pattern, one life is extinguished, and one disappears the other.

……

"Huh? This man looked familiar. Feng Jin said suddenly.

Xue Shen squinted, the blood stains on the woman's face in front of him had been cleaned up by Feng Jin, and several knife marks had been scratched on her pale face.

It is not difficult to deduce - the murderer was either jealous of his appearance or did not want to be recognized.

Obviously, the former is more likely.

Xue Shenliu raised his eyebrows slightly, pulled the clothes on his left shoulder, stared at the moon-shaped pattern, and said:

"Do you look at this corpse, does it look like me?"