Chapter I

An extra finger

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Case: Ghost Crusher.

Time: March 21 - April 13.

Convict:...... XXX！

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March 21. On the tenth day of the third lunar month, the first day after the spring equinox, everything is not appropriate!

This is the eighth day that Lin Fei has entered the North District Bureau, and the first day that a corpse mutilation case occurred in Chengnan City.

Early that morning, Lin Fei, who had just gotten up and didn't have time to get dressed, received a call from the bureau, asking him to go to the morgue immediately and wait for orders!

After receiving the notice, Lin Fei was not the only one who hurried from his home to the morgue, the first to arrive was his master Lao Hu and Captain Zhang of the first team of the sub-bureau, and even Captain Zhang's apprentice Liu Yang arrived one step earlier than him.

When Lin Fei arrived at the morgue in the shortest time, he happened to bump into Liu Yang, who was pale and covered his mouth with indescribable frightened eyes, escaping from the morgue and running to the toilet. Seeing this, even if he didn't ask Liu Yang, he had already guessed that there was a new product in the building, and it was a new product that would make the police vomit when they saw it.

The so-called new goods do not refer to people in their case, but to new corpses that have been brought to the morgue. Because Lao Hu taught him: "To do the same thing for us, we must remember the four words: 'respect the corpse and respect the way'." The most taboo thing is to say the word "corpse" in the morgue with your mouth closed. ”

Lin Fei once asked Lao Hu, why is it taboo to say the word corpse?

Lao Hu told him: "The dead are great! Every corpse is a person in front of it, and if you are a human being, you have a temper! It's like you call a blind man a blind man and a hunchback a pot, it will make them unhappy! ”

"Does that mean dead people have tempers?"

"That's right!" Lao Hu said: "Although there is only a pair of skins left after death, who can guarantee that there are no things hidden under this skin that we can't explain with science? ”

It's hard to imagine that this kind of godly chatter will come from the mouth of an old forensic doctor who has been in the police for many years, although Lin Fei has great doubts about whether Lao Hu has a big doubt about the "things that can't be explained by science", but he at least knows that Lao Hu is a really capable person! For example, Lao Hu's ability to perform an autopsy, Lin Fei can say without exaggeration: "Even a professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine may not be able to have half of Lao Hu's ability!" ”

Lin Fei's eyes swirled back and forth on Liu Yang. He was very curious about what kind of "new product" it would be, which made Liu Yang, an official criminal policeman, feel nauseous and vomiting. So the steps under his feet suddenly accelerated unconsciously, and when Lin Fei rushed into the morgue and saw a pool of bloody severed limbs and stumps on the iron bed used to place the corpses in the room.

He finally realized what Liu Yang felt just now!

"Hmm!" A sour and spicy thing began to flow back into his mouth from his stomach, just when Lin Fei was about to vomit. A hand suddenly covered his mouth, blocking those impurities in his mouth, the spicy, sour, and bitter taste was extremely uncomfortable!

Lin Fei just puffed out his eyes and glared at the person who covered his mouth, but he was immediately exchanged for an angry scolding: "What a stare!" How many times have I told you! Don't do anything unclean to them! If you want to vomit, get out of here and vomit! ”

The one who could say this to Lin Fei was none other than his strange-tempered master Lao Hu! Only he will use this way to teach Lin Fei who has not fulfilled the requirements of 'respecting corpses'...

The next moment, Lin Fei, who was already bitter to the point of tongue, covered his mouth like Liu Yang and rushed to the toilet.

After spitting out the impurities in his mouth, he felt much better, and then went to the faucet to rinse his mouth hurriedly. At this time, Liu Yang also just finished spitting, and was constantly inhaling a mouthful of tap water in his mouth to "gurgle" a few times, then spit it out, then sucked again, and spit it out again......

After Liu Yang was completely comfortable, he said to Lin Fei with an exhausted look: "This new product, it's really heavy!" ”

"Indeed!" Lin Fei held a few handfuls of water and rubbed it on his face a few times. After all, he is in this business, and his ability to accept these things is slightly stronger than Liu Yang's. When the two of them returned to the morgue after recovering a little, Liu Yang still looked like he was ready to vomit at any time. Lin Fei had to put on a white coat, a mask and white gloves, and stood beside his master Lao Hu to prepare to give Lao Hu a hand at any time......

"Look at your little bit of talent!" This is a sentence that Lao Hu often laughs at Lin Fei, but this time there is an additional sentence of praise for Lin Fei that is not too obvious: "However, it is much stronger than a few days ago!" At least I didn't faint! ”

Lin Fei stood aside and wanted to say something! But looking at the new goods on the bed in front of him, he suddenly didn't dare to speak, for fear that he couldn't help but vomit again......

On the contrary, Lao Hu is a battle-hardened veteran after all, and not only did he not have any regurgitation when he looked at the new goods in front of him, but there was also a trace of excitement in his eyes.

This kind of excitement is only available to a weirdo like him, where can a normal person observe a corpse like him is like watching a big girl take a bath, not to mention that the pile in front of him is actually a rare commodity that has been cut into piles of pieces by some sharp weapon......

Lao Hu carefully looked at the wounds on each fragment and said, "This knife work is not very good!" ”

Liu Yang, who was provoked on the side, immediately complained in Lin Fei's ear: "Your master's old mistake has been made again!" ”

Looking at Lao Hu, who was gradually getting excited, Lin Fei just smiled faintly: "It's good to get used to it!" ”

He watched Lao Hu carefully stitching together the corpses that had been chopped into pieces, and curiously lowered his head to observe the left arm that had been put together, and couldn't help but count silently in his heart: a total of five knives, cutting the entire left arm into six pieces of different sizes and lengths!

I was secretly shocked in my heart: how much this murderer must hate the dead! Cut people into this virtue!

Then he looked at his right arm, which was even more bloody and fleshy! He could barely count how many knives this arm had inflicted on the murderer to make it look so miserable!

He saw that Lao Hu was constantly rummaging through the pile of corpses, finding the corpse and a few severed fingers in his right hand.

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It took more than half an hour, and Lao Hu put together a rough appearance of the corpse that was dismantled, but no matter how hard he put together the head that was seen by sharp weapons, I am afraid that he would not be able to distinguish the appearance of this person before his death!

"Female, 1.65 meters tall, age in the range of about 21 years old! The time of death was roughly around one o'clock in the morning today...... "Listening to Lao Hu report his preliminary test results to Captain Zhang.

Lin Fei on the side looked at the corpse that had been dismantled and sighed secretly: "It's a pity that he died at the age of twenty-one!" ”

At this time, Liu Yang on the side seemed to be in a much better state than just now, although he still didn't dare to look at the female corpse, but he was already able to joke with Lin Fei on the side as before: "Hey, Xiao Fei!" Let's make a bet! ”

"Bet on what?"

"I said this case is a love killing!" Liu Yang said in a low voice: "It must be some kind of boyfriend and girlfriend who broke up, and then the man was unwilling, he loved and hated, and he gave the girl to the ...... in anger Chopped! ”

I have to say that not only Liu Yang thought so, but Lin Fei also thought so at first. There have been many such cases in the society back then, and it seems that as long as the case of the girl in the flower season being crushed is mentioned, it is easy for people to associate it with the aspect of "love killing"!

"If you two are really idle, wipe the floor for me!" Hearing that Lin Fei and Liu Yang were here, Lao Hu chatted as if he was nothing, and immediately became angry.

The next moment, Lin Fei and Liu Yang hurriedly took the rag and squatted under the bed, rubbing it back and forth on the floor with the rag, pretending to be pretending......

"Xiao Fei, what do you think it is?" Liu Yang asked in a low voice, as if he had found something under the bed. Then he put his hand in and touched it a few times, and when he took it out, there was a broken finger in his hand!

Liu Yang was instantly frightened, and sat on the ground, his whole body seemed to freeze.

Even Lin Fei was really surprised, but fortunately it was just a finger, after all, it was common to see this kind of thing here in the morgue!

When Lin Fei's heart eased up, he hurriedly picked it up, and took a closer look at the finger with a ring on it, and his first reaction was that he thought that this finger should be the female corpse on the bed. He stood up and carefully compared the left and right hands of the female corpse......

"That's not right! She doesn't miss her fingers, huh? So who is this for? ”

Lin Fei trembled, he looked at the female corpse left and right! The next moment, I realized that this severed finger probably really had a different origin...... Hurriedly ran to Lao Hu with a severed finger: "Master, there is an extra finger here!" ”

"What?!" When Lao Hu heard this, his face was first shocked, and then sank. took the severed finger I handed to him, took a look, and immediately scanned the whole body of the female corpse with Captain Zhang again.

When it was confirmed, Captain Zhang lost his color and said, "Why is there one more?" ”

"This should be someone else's!" Lao Hu's face became extremely ugly, and he fixed his mind and seemed to think of something?

Captain Zhang said anxiously: "Hurry up to the scene, there is likely to be another corpse nearby!" ”

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What the? And a corpse?

Lin Fei didn't know what this meant?

I only remember that Lao Hu looked like a storm at that time, and after changing his body, he rushed to the scene with Captain Zhang in person. Before leaving, he instructed Lin Fei to check some details on the corpse again. And Captain Zhang generously left Liu Yang by Lin Fei's side and asked him to give Lin Fei a hand.

When the rest of the people were evacuated and only Lin Fei and Liu Yang were left in the morgue, the atmosphere in the whole room suddenly felt a little chilling.

Liu Yang made a pitiful look and said to Lin Fei: "Brother Xiaofei, buddy, I'm timid!" Otherwise, you study here yourself, and I'll wait for you at the door! ”

"No way!" Lin Fei decisively rejected him.

One is that he really needs someone to be on the side to give him a hand; Second, in the face of such a chopped corpse, Lin Fei himself was afraid! Not to mention on your own!

But when people want to save face, they always have to put fear aside first!

Turn on the shadowless surgical lamp hanging upside down on the bed and shine the light on the female corpse. The feeling of "unloading" suddenly became more pronounced.

Lin Fei secretly complained in his heart, and kept scolding in his heart: Lao Hu is also inhumane! I've only been here for eight days, and it's good to have me examine the body, and not to be scared to death! Not to mention how long I can get back to eating normally after the fact, that's what matters......

For Lin Fei, a novice who has not obtained a formal license at all and is a novice. The relationship between this bloody female corpse and him is like that of Di Renjie and Conan...... Don't the two have a common topic at all? You can't let Di Renjie ask Conan: "Conan, what do you think of this female corpse?" ”

Lin Fei's name is like crying without tears! After thinking about it for a while, I finally decided to check it out a little and put it on a show. After all, some important places, such as: the time of death, the age of the deceased, the gender! It's all been checked by Lao Hu, and there won't be much left out......

As for the last...

When Lin Fei finished doing it, he planned to move his muscles and bones. For some reason, the two eyes flickered to the extra finger that had been placed on the tool table in the morgue.

He walked over, took out the severed finger that had been sealed into the vessel by Lao Hu, and returned to the female corpse again......

"What are you doing here?" Liu Yang watched Lin Fei approach with his severed finger, and was very puzzled.

Lin Fei explained: "I'm just going to try it and see if this finger is this girl's!" ”

"Isn't it extra?" Liu Yang said.

"Many, definitely many! But not necessarily, which one was misspelled by my master! This root is this girl's, and that root is extra! Lin Fei said as he took the severed finger and compared it back and forth between the left and right hands of the female corpse! After reconfirming that this finger really did not belong to the female corpse, but was extra. I was going to put my finger back into the vessel I had just put and seal it again......

But at this time, Lin Fei's mind didn't know what suddenly flashed?

It's a taste!

A fishy smell!

It's a lot like the smell of dead fish that has been left out for too long and rotted.

In order to confirm that it was not his nose that failed, Lin Fei hurriedly asked Liu Yang on the side: "Did you smell anything strange?" ”

Liu Yang just shook his head vigorously, looking at him like that, I'm afraid he really didn't smell it.

Strange! But I can smell it, and the smell is getting clearer and clearer...... It seems to have come out of Lin Fei's own hands.

He hurriedly looked down and saw that there was only the severed finger in his hand!

Don't... Is it the taste of this finger?