was suddenly stopped by him, and the river bank was slippery, Xu Xinger didn't step on it steadily, his body was crooked, and he fell.

The body bag he was carrying also fell to the ground, the zipper was opened, and a head rolled out of the body bag.

Yan Ruyu, who was helping to carry the corpse, hurriedly put down the back half of the body bag, stepped forward to help Xu Xinger, and picked up the head.

When he picked up his head, Yan Ruyu pulled the hair on his head.

"Curly hair? Still a little yellowish? ”

However, Yan Ruyu couldn't care about this discovery for the time being, and he said to the director of the sub-bureau with some annoyance: "What are you doing?!" ”

Xu Xinger had already confessed the intentions of the director of the sub-bureau.

No matter which sub-bureau can crack such a big case, it will be a commendable achievement in the year-end assessment.

That's why the director wanted to invite a few people from the Serious Crime Team to his own territory as soon as possible, as long as the case was solved on his own side, it didn't matter if he was supported by the Serious Crime Team.

I have been a criminal police officer for a long time, and this kind of thing is really common, Xu Xinger said directly: "You can do the case record and report on your side." ”

This is tantamount to giving away all the credit.

"Gotcha! Then you are busy, welcome to our branch to guide the work at any time......"

After packing up the body and returning to the city hall, it was already the beginning of the day.

In the dissection room, looking at the small corpses on the five corpse beds, everyone's hearts became heavy.

Pushing oneself and others, the children in the family have been so vicious, how sad the parents and elders must be! Even Xu Xinger, who had read countless corpses, had a very ugly face, and the hands of the two forensic assistants holding the scalpel were a little trembling.

"Let's get started." Xu Xinger took a deep breath and first observed the deceased's teeth, "First of all, the age of the deceased, judging from the teeth, the age of the deceased was 11 to 12 years old, and he was in the process of changing his teeth. and the lower third deciduous molars...... It's active, but it's not falling off yet......"

After examining one of the deceased, he went to look at the teeth of the other three bodies — one more whose head had not yet been found.

After determining the condition of the teeth, Xu Xinger came to a conclusion:

"The youngest of the five victims was only 8 or 9 years old, and the oldest was 14 or 5 years old, all of them were underage children, and the cause of death followed.

There are only six common causes of unnatural death in the human body: trauma, suffocation, poisoning, disease, electric shock, and high and low temperature. The internal organs of these corpses were all missing, and we can only confirm or rule out the cause of death based on the condition of the corpses.

First, the body parts are sliced and toxicological tests are conducted to check whether the deceased is using abnormal drugs. ”

"Got it!"

Under the command of Xu Xinger, two assistants began to prepare the materials required for the toxicology examination. One of the assistants said: "Section chief, I just observed this relatively complete corpse, there is no rose tooth phenomenon, can it be determined that the cause of death is not mechanical asphyxiation, right?" ”

Xu Xinger said: "Rose teeth are not an inevitable feature of mechanical asphyxia, is there petechial bleeding in the eyelid conjunctiva?" ”

"Nope!" The assistant looked at the eyelids on the four skulls one by one, "None of them!" ”

Xu Xinger nodded, "Mechanical suffocation can basically be ruled out." ”

Another assistant said, "Diseases can also be ruled out, right?" This cruel method of dismemberment must have been homicide. ”

Xu Xinger nodded, "Yes." ”

"Then there are only three ways of death that need to be investigated: trauma, electric shock, and high and low temperature."

The forensic assistant said, "The trauma is good...... It's not easy to identify, the body itself is dismembered, and even if there are wounds, you are destroyed, and there are no internal organs...... If it is an electric shock, and no electric spots are found on the existing corpse parts, can the possibility of electric shock also be ruled out? ……

Section chief, I think it's a bit messy......"

"What's the mess? Do you need my help? ”

Yan Ruyu wore goggles and poked her head out of the door.

Xu Xinger was feeling anxious, and was disturbed by him, and shouted to Wu Cuo behind him a little angrily: "Come and take care of your people!" ”

"Supernumeraries, theoretically speaking, are not under my control," Wu Cuo shrugged helplessly, "However, we are here to confirm a clue." ”

As they spoke, the two of them entered the dissection room.

Yan Ruyu rushed to the dissecting table and picked up the four heads one by one to observe.

Exactly, he was not looking at the head, but at the hair.

The corpse was swollen with water and could no longer be seen as it was, but its hair was still the same, just wet.

"What did you find?" Xu Xinger and two assistants also came up to watch.

"Curly hair, four heads, three of which have curly features."

As soon as he said it, the four of them took a closer look, and it was really the case.

Xu Xinger picked up a magnifying glass and carefully observed a hair of the deceased.

"It's not hot, it's a self-roll. If you look at a single hair, you can see that the thickness is uneven, which is characteristic of self-curling. ”

"That's interesting, four heads, three curly hair, isn't the probability of forwarding too high?"

"Could it be that several of the deceased are genetically related? Like they are brothers? ”

"It's possible, let's do a DNA test for the sake of safety," Yan Ruyu said, "However, I'm more inclined to another possibility." ”

"What?"

"Minorities."

"Huh?"

"Especially the ethnic minorities in the northwest region, with curly hair and big eyes, look a bit like foreigners, you must have seen it on TV, right?"

"But this inference ......" Xu Xinger put down his scalpel and took off his gloves, "this is too fanciful, isn't it?" What basis do you have? ”

"It's based on their hands, and I wonder why the hands of all five corpses are missing. If the killer threw all the body pieces into the river, there was no reason why he couldn't find his hand when salvaging it, so most likely, the murderer abandoned his hand elsewhere, but why did he do that? ”

"Could it be fingerprints?" Wu mistakenly said: "When I saw that the corpse had no hands, my first reaction was that the murderer was afraid that we would get fingerprints." ”

"It's close, the murderer may be worried about this, so think about it again, are the fingerprints of several children worth guarding again?"

"Also, the fingerprint bank is full of people with criminal records, how can there be several children...... Unless...... You mean, these kids...... Have a criminal record? ”

"It's incredible to think about, but you'll probably understand it after reading the news."

Yan Ruyu handed out his mobile phone, and on the mobile phone was the news page that had been opened.

Recently, thefts have occurred on many public transportation vehicles in our city, and from the surveillance footage, the criminals who committed the theft are all minors, and they are ethnic minority children from remote areas.

How did these children come to Keihoku? Are you an organized and disciplined juvenile delinquent? Or a child who has been trafficked into slavery?

No clear answer was given in the news reports.

"They're thieves!"