Chapter 92: The Dead
Based on the above reasons, the police station characterized the case as a murder. The superficial conclusion is that there is, but the woman's identity is like a blank piece of paper, no one in the residential area under the jurisdiction of the entire police station knows her, and she has no documents on her body that can prove her identity, not even a key, and finally the case has no choice but to return to the starting point.
After a long time, the surrounding masses talked a lot, saying everything, some were afraid to go out, some were suspicious of each other, some questioned the efficiency of the police station's handling of cases, and some suspected that the bungalow was haunted.
After listening to Officer Xu's handling of the case, there was silence in the office, and after a while, Mo Wen asked, "Are there any traces of the murderer in the bungalow?" â
Officer Xu's words came to his lips and swallowed them back, and he looked sideways at Director Mao, as if he didn't dare to say anything.
Director Mao's original sad expression turned into an embarrassed smile, and it was the same spit.
"Why, treat us as outsiders, don't you say we can go." Long Yiming was about to leave as he spoke, but was hurriedly stopped by Director Mao's hands.
Director Mao was helpless and said: "Please slow down, please slow down, I didn't want to say it originally, since the three leaders insisted on mentioning it, I also have something to say, huh...... Yes, some places at the scene have been destroyed, leaving a lot of shoe prints, we have compared, except for the shoe prints of the three of you, only the deceased remains, and other places have also been touched, including the inside of the house, the damage to the walls and the location outside the door, so it is really difficult to determine that there are traces of the suspect's entry and exit. â
Long Yiming and the others were speechless for a moment, this time it was their turn to be embarrassed, these words were obviously "blaming" them, but between their identities, the words were still polite, they didn't realize the impulse of the moment, and they forgot to protect the environment at the scene.
Mo Wen and Mo Wu glanced at each other, drank tea by themselves, and stopped talking.
Long Yiming was depressed for a few seconds, and said strongly: "Who ...... Who knows, isn't it, we were here to save people, where did we take care of so much, isn't it, besides, we don't understand, isn't it ......"
Long Yiming reasoned randomly, which made the atmosphere extremely embarrassing, and Mo Wen made a look at him to stop explaining, but Long Yiming didn't care about this, and finally let Mo Wu pull it back.
Mo Wen asked, "Then why don't you go farther away to find the identity of the deceased?" â
Officer Xu answered: "We have also thought about it, but time and manpower do not allow us to search for it without clues." â
Director Mao nodded yes, thought about it, and asked: "From the confessions of several of you, there was another person who also appeared at the scene at that time, wasn't it, who is that person named Wu Santong?" â
Mo Wen then remembered the unknown mysterious person, and said: "We are not very familiar with the specifics, it should have nothing to do with him, but ......"
Before Mo Wen could finish speaking, a crisp phone rang suddenly, and it was from the telephone on the desk.
Director Mao took the microphone and said "Hey", then his face was gloomy like the bottom of the pot, his eyebrows were furrowed, and finally after hanging up the phone, he looked at everyone with wooden expressions, and it took a long time to hold back an unbelievable sentence: "The deceased may not be dead?" â
Everyone was stunned, and Mo Wu jumped up all of a sudden, and said loudly: "Impossible, I was the first to find out, I checked her pulse at that time, and she was indeed out of breath, how could she still be alive?" â
Others were equally puzzled and hoped to get an explanation from Director Mao, because his call lasted more than ten minutes, and there must be other information revealed.
Director Mao reminded everyone to talk while walking. The group rushed to the hospital.
According to Director Mao's later statement, the caller was Dr. Hu, and the body was temporarily stored in the morgue of ZĂ i Hospital, and although a preliminary autopsy had been conducted, the case had not yet been closed, and the body would continue to be preserved according to regulations. In fact, power outages occurred three or five times in a month, which were common, but they were rare at night, because it was not the peak of electricity consumption, and the voltage was relatively stable.
There were very few instruments that needed electricity in those days, so the consequences of power outages were minimal, except for the morgue. Dr. Hu's hospital is a hospital of the Nationalist government before the liberation of China, which has been built for more than 20 years, and the facilities in it are relatively old, including the freezing facilities of the morgue, once the power goes out, the corpses will decompose at an accelerated rate, and even in winter, there will be a decomposition reaction in a closed environment, especially the corpses involved in criminal cases, which will affect the collection of evidence in the case.
After receiving the news of the power outage, Dr. Hu rushed to the morgue in the middle of the night to see the condition of the female corpse, but as soon as he entered the morgue, he felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong. Because in normal times, the morgue is guarded by a special person, but now the old master who takes care of the morgue is gone, and he can't see anyone for a long time, so he has to check it alone. With no light source, the flashlight in his hand became the only means of illumination. It was not the first time he had come to the morgue, but it was indeed the first time in this time period, and he was inevitably a little apprehensive. He opened the sliding door of the morgue, did not go in, and shone a flashlight inside, a corpse covered with a white cloth was not unusual, and the female corpse was also lying quietly on the corpse bed, but the relative temperature was a little higher, so it was not good for the corpse to go on like this, so he wanted to go back and ask the hospital to temporarily seconded the backup generator.
There are several small generators in the hospital, and there are not many opportunities to use them, so they are usually kept in the warehouse and taken out when they are needed.
As soon as he wanted to turn away, he heard a sound similar to "click" coming from inside, which was very rapid and strange in the silence.
Years of medical work and atheist education told him to be rational, so he did not leave immediately, but listened carefully outside the door for a while, and after thinking about it, he realized that it was a bit like the sound of grinding teeth, but only the living can grind their teeth, but can the dead also grind their teeth?
This thought made his heart "chuckle", frozen on the spot, not to go, not to go, and finally driven by a sense of responsibility, he used a flashlight again to find the source of the sound.
This search made his scalp tingle for a while, he was really afraid of something, and the source of the sound was not elsewhere, it was the murder female corpse. If he left at this time, there would not be many things in the future, but he was a stubborn person, and he had to figure it out, so he went straight to the female corpse.
When he got closer, he found that the upper and lower jaws of the female corpse were colliding up and down regularly, and the white cloth covering the whole body was also torn apart.