Chapter 30: The Mystery of the Lotus Thirty
After Boss Chen escorted Du Yuan down, Qin Tai asked everyone to clean up the corpses, at least put these former comrades-in-arms aside for the time being, and not to hinder everyone's actions. Zhan Xiaoxiao and Qiu Xiaoqiu are responsible for finding the button or object that triggers the mechanism. It's been a while since they've been in, and the trap hasn't been triggered, which means the trap wasn't fired randomly. There may be a step that must be completed to trigger, there may be a certain position before it is triggered, and there is even a possibility that the mechanism has been destroyed or malfunctioned. Although everyone hoped that it was the last possibility, the mechanism was destroyed or malfunctioned, but no one dared to take it lightly. If the mechanism is triggered, the power is definitely not small, otherwise these previous batches of centaurs would not have none or come back. Zhan Xiaoxiao and Qiu Xiaoqiu are both careful people, and they try to be careful in every action, so as not to trigger the mechanism for no reason and harm everyone. And Qin Tai was sitting alone in a relatively safe corner on the side, opening the package to check the contents of it.
The package in Qin Tai's hand was not big, and it was not very heavy, but it was very tightly wrapped, which showed that the original custodian cared about this thing very much. However, Qin Tai always felt that the taste was wrong, there was a rancid smell. Sure enough, between the first and second layers of the package, there were several pieces of meat that had become rancid. Qin Tai knew that there was no food here, and it was impossible for him to have any pieces of meat. There is only one explanation, this piece of meat that is almost rotting and cannot be seen clearly is human flesh. Not only human flesh, but most likely raw meat, when the flesh was cut alive from the bodies of newly dead comrades. Although Qin Tai has been in contact with dead people for many years, and the dead people he has seen are not less, he is still a little disgusting. People are not animals, and even animals can't eat their own kind, these people are really disgusting.
Qin Tai had to use the first layer of cloth wrapped as gloves, wrapping these pieces of meat that I don't know which soldier cut them were and putting them aside. These pieces of meat were brought out by the soldiers who had already entered the second layer, so it can be seen that the corpses are not on this level. Qin Tai guessed that it was very likely that the corpse was gone, or that it was no longer recognizable. Just as Qin Tai was about to continue, a question suddenly appeared in his mind. It made Qin Tai have some doubts about his inference just now, and it also made Qin Tai feel a little uneasy.
Qin Tai thought back to the past, when Qin Tai was still a twelve or thirteen-year-old child. He went to play with his uncle Qiu Min, who was working in the autopsy room, and Qiu Min had warned Qin Tai not to enter the autopsy room casually. Not only are there many clues and evidence of crimes inside, but it is also terrifying. Qin Tai waited until his uncle Qiu Min came out, and after Qiu Min sent away several other colleagues, he quietly looked at his nephew Qin Tai. Qin Tai came to play with his uncle Qiu Min, Qin Tai's mother knew about it, but Qin Tai's father didn't know. The reason why Qin Tai's father was not allowed to know was because Qin Tai's father resolutely opposed his son Qin Tai's learning to solve the case. Qiu Min also saw that his nephew Qin Tai liked it so much, and he had a talent in this area, so he promised Qin Tai to teach Qin Tai these things without telling Qin Tai's father. Qiu Min asked Qin Tai seriously if he really wanted to learn these things, and Qin Tai replied firmly. Qiu Min brought his nephew into the coroner's room and let Xiao Qintai see the terrifying corpse. This is a test for Qin Tai, and it is also to see if Qin Tai is the material for this autopsy.
The enemy took Qin Tai into the autopsy room, where there were seven corpses. Qin Tai will never forget the events of this day in his life, Qin Tai came into contact with the autopsy for the first time, and also saw a corpse that he had never seen before. Qiu Min told his nephew Qin Tai that there were seven corpses of men, women and children, some of whom died of illness, some of whom were killed by others, and some of whom committed suicide. And some people have just died and have just been sent over, some have been dead for a long time and have become bones, and some people have been dead for more than ten days and have begun to stink. In order to give Qin Tai a warning, Qiu Min told his nephew Qin Tai that although the dead can't speak, they can also tell the living some important clues, so the living must have absolute respect for the dead and cannot destroy the remains of people at will. Qin Tai remembered this all his life, and he also passed on this rule.
In order to distinguish the time of death of the corpse, in order to determine the identity and age of the deceased, the enemy took Qin Tai to a small room not far from the coroner's room. It's all pork, but it's not in the same state. The enemy told Qin Tai that this was a method that the enemy himself came up with, and the purpose was to analyze the time and manner of the deceased's death. The enemy told Qin Tai that there were two kinds of pork here, one was the dead pork that the enemy bought from the pig killer at a very low price. Because this meat is not fresh and may be sick pork, pig dealers do not dare to sell it to everyone. The enemy bought it back for very little money, and it was possible to identify various types of states after death. Qiu Min told Qin Tai that pork and human flesh are relatively similar, generally starting to stiffen after half a day, starting to deteriorate after three days, rotting after seven days, maggots after ten days, drying out after thirteen days, and falling down the whole piece after about a month. It is possible to roughly judge the time of death of the deceased in this way, this method has been tried before, and it is really accurate. The enemy is now experimenting with it himself, and the purpose is to record the changes in each step, and then judge the time of death of each deceased person according to this. The second type of pork is more expensive. The enemy bought the whole pig and slaughtered it himself. Use different tools and different techniques to kill pigs. Then look at the wound for the first time, and according to the changes in the wound, imitate the killing process of the murderer, and you can determine how the wound on the deceased's body was caused. Thus, the process of the deceased's death is deduced in the opposite direction, and the state, method, and tools of the murderer are inferred from the murderer at the time of killing.
Qiu Min told Qin Tai that after a person died, the degree of decomposition of the corpse changed significantly due to the nearby environment and climate. For example, if the deceased dies in a fire, the body will be charred from the outside in. Not only is the skin scorched and loses its elasticity, but the further you go inside, the fresher it becomes. If you want to know whether the deceased was burned after death or died in the fire, you can observe the appearance of the deceased, and you can also judge by examining the internal organs of the deceased. Qiu Min told Qin Tai that there was a case three years ago in which the deceased died on the fire, but Qiu Min's final judgment was that the deceased was burned after being killed. First, the deceased was lying flat in the middle of the fire, with no signs of struggle or rolling. A living person will instinctively save himself even if he can't escape from a fire. I will never let the fire burn you alive. This deceased person did not save himself or struggle, is he a person who does not suffer? The only explanation is that the person was either dead, or he was knocked unconscious at the time, and he didn't know how to resist and struggle. Second, the enemy found that the muscles of the deceased did not change much. If a person is alive and encounters a natural disaster from the outside world, his muscles will instinctively change. However, although the muscles of the deceased have changed to a certain extent, they are not the reaction that the deceased should have at the scene of the fire. Therefore, the enemy judged that the deceased had lost his breath before the fire, or did not know that the fire had occurred. Thirdly, the enemy dissected the body of the deceased and found that the deceased's internal organs were a little purple. The enemy once experimented by throwing a live pig and a dead pig into the fire at the same time, but the internal organs of the live pig were not only black but also contracted after death, because it breathed into the black ash before it died, and the internal organs began to shrink and dehydrate after being burned by the fire. After the dead pig is burned, although the appearance is the same as that of the live pig after death, the inside is very different. Because the dead pig was dead before it was burned by the fire, the internal organs had begun to ossify due to insufficient blood supply. After being grilled over a large fire, the internal organs of the dead pig are not only not black and ash, but also do not shrink. And because it is burned after a period of death, the change of internal organs is accelerated, and the internal organs of the dead pig become purple and larger. Therefore, the autopsy report of the enemy is that the deceased was not burned to death, but was stunned and then set on fire.
If the deceased dies in the water, the body of the deceased will also change because of the flowing water. Water can soak the deceased and swell, and it can also deform some of the deceased's internal organs and skin. However, there are also ways to test the deceased who have been soaked in water, the first is to use the soaking time to calculate the time when the deceased is disappointed. For this reason, the enemy has tried many times, soaking them in dead pigs, testing them with live pigs, and cutting them off whole pieces of flesh from live pigs. Finally, the enemy made a table and recorded each situation. In addition, the changes of pork in each time period are also recorded as the basis for inference. The second method is to use the hair and bones of the deceased to deduce the cause and time of the deceased's death. Hair is not easy to swell, and bones are less affected by the outside world, so hair and bones can restore the appearance of the deceased at that time.
The most common is to hide the body in a secret room, where the body is discarded or hidden in a place unknown to outsiders. When a body is found, the most important issue is to determine the identity of the deceased and the time of death. The most common case that the enemy has done is to observe the changes of the dead under normal conditions. For this reason, the enemy spent at least half of the money, experimenting on live or dead pigs. No wonder Qiu Min always can't eat enough, Qin Tai's mother, who is Qiu Min's sister, often gives money secretly, Qiu Min is still destitute, it turns out that the money is used here.