The morgue is forever surrounded by a sad aura, the kind of death that even the most powerful air conditioners cannot eliminate, like snow and iron, and like flames. The blue-black iron cabinet was opened, and the cold air inside seemed to flow out as if it were lying on the ground. The forensic doctor skillfully pulled out the inner pallet, and the body bag on the pallet appeared in front of Shen Yuan. He reflexively held his breath, then exhaled slowly.

The medical examiner unzipped the body bag, revealing a white face with closed eyes as if he had fallen asleep. As Shen Yuan had heard, it was a woman around thirty years old. The zipper stops when it reaches the point where the collarbone is exposed. Maybe it was because of Shen Yuan's presence, after all, he was still a student. Probably for his sake, he didn't want Shen Yuan to see the Y-shaped anatomical marks left on his chest for the autopsy. But the exposed skin was covered with marks of sutures and lacerations, which is enough to explain the tragic fate of the victim when he was dying.

"Are you alright?"

The medical examiner asked.

"It's fine."

Shen Yuan simply and quickly nodded to the forensic doctor who accosted him because he was worried about him, and replied. In fact, Shen Yuan's heartstrings did not vibrate at all, at most there was only a faint sense of disobedience. It's not that I'm used to seeing corpses, so I'm calm. Nor is he enduring the rising disgust. It's just that the heart is refusing to recognize all this.

“...... Don't look at yourself. ”

The middle-aged criminal policeman standing next to the forensic doctor also seemed to be concerned. He wasn't looking at the corpse, but at Shen Yuan. The hairy boy who is dangling on the stage of the experts, can he complete the work in a down-to-earth manner. He must have been evaluating me in his mind.

"If you feel uncomfortable, stop quickly, if you vomit on the corpse, you'll be in trouble."

The detective grinned and added a sarcastic line. It seems that the previous concern is more like mocking Shen Yuan. Although the criminal policeman advised him like this, Shen Yuan always felt that the criminal policeman wanted to see him make a fool of himself.

However, this is inevitable, after all, although it has been formally institutionalized, the existence of student assistants like Shen Yuan is still difficult to accept and recognize. Especially for a veteran like this criminal policeman, I am afraid that it will only be regarded as an eyesore to disrupt the scene. In addition, Shen Yuan still uses [Incredible Power Like Magic] to help with the investigation of the case. Before it feels annoying, it's already a very suspicious existence in the first place.

"Don't worry. More than that, please be quiet and not disturb his mental concentration. ”

I didn't expect the forensic doctor to be playing a round for Shen Yuan, no wonder, after all, he had met with the forensic doctor here several times, maybe he had already agreed with Shen Yuan's way of working. With the forensic doctor's words, the rest of the people also quieted down a little, and in this way, the tension on Shen Yuan's body eased a little.

"I'm going to do my best to meet your expectations...... So, I'm going to get started. ”

After Shen Yuan saluted the body, he slowly stretched out his hand. He had always touched his forehead before, but this time he chose to touch his cheek so as not to touch the wound that was stitched up. Shen Yuan stretched out his hand and touched the lifeless skin. The coldness of the dead cells seemed to suck the warmth of his palm.

“......！”

This is a creepy feeling of sadness, and you may not be able to get used to it no matter how many times. Shen Yuan's arm almost wanted to wither from the place of contact.

The moment he was confronted with the corpse just now, he deliberately blunted his feelings in order to protect his heart, leaving the existence of death behind. But now, there is no way to run away from it. I breathed softly, slowly accepting the realism.

“......”

This is not a delicate clay craft, but a person who should have lived a good life tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but because of the murderer's cruel blow, he lost everything and became such a cold corpse.

Suddenly, Shen Yuan's chest felt as if something had exploded. It was as intense as that feeling, and the depths of his soul suddenly became active. It was as if the white veil covering his head had been lifted, and everything he could see became clear. Then he listened to the roar from the depths of his heart:

"Absolutely going to catch you, arrest you, and make you atone!"

Not only the five senses, but even the feelings are boiling like gushing magma. Breathing is so hard that it even feels bitter. If this overly vivid feeling is [real], then the usual Shen Yuan may be no different from death. He closed his eyes silently, half in silence, the other half in order to finish his job. The next moment, I fell into an uncanny drunkenness that seemed like a slight sleep, and my body sank into the darkness that gradually widened from the inside of my eyelids.

In the abyss world where there is no front or back, left and right, and no sky and earth, let your body melt into the darkness, and keep sneaking and falling somewhere in the depths of the darkness. Finally emerge in the darkness, a path. The road shone with the color of pearls, but swayed delicately and erratically. Shen Yuan approached the crooked path and struggled to walk up as if he had found a light in the mist of the sea. This trail is the path of fate that the victim has walked. If you look around the area, you can see countless thin lines scattered all around. Those are also roads, but if you don't look carefully and don't set foot on them yourself, you can't see the clues.

Thin lines that are parallel and intersecting, and spread out while diverging, if you fly high into the sky and look down, you are sure to see the whole picture like a spider's nest. If it is compared to a spider's web, it is not one or two, nor can a spider of ordinary size weave it. Rather, it is a huge nest woven by thousands of spiders like mountains over the years, like a cosmic barrier.

Of course, Shen Yuan's vision was not as broad as that. What he could glimpse was only a very small part of the myriad possibilities that unfolded from the past to the future. It must have been a happy thing, the range he could track was not as wide as it would have been beyond his reach, but it was not as narrow as useless. Shen Yuan was looking for a target while following the path of cause and effect.

“... Ahh

The shadows that obstructed the view flew by, and the vision darkened for a moment, and then immediately recovered.

"Found it."

In the countless paths, the dreamy light swaying in the wind. Wrapped in black shadows, the weak light continued to tremble the red balls of light. The place where they were encased was where the paths now traced converged and then diverged. In other words, touching a red ball of light can determine one of the causes of the victim's death. This is the insignificant investigative work that Shen Yuan can carry out, "deep diving" one by one.

Shen Yuan's special ability is that as long as he touches the corpse, many images related to the deceased will appear in his mind. Although it is only fragmentary information, it can sometimes find clues that are difficult to find during ordinary investigations.

Shen Yuan imagined his own body that did not exist here, and desperately "flew" in the imagination of his mind. He stretched out his hand to the clusters of light that were enveloped in black shadows and were about to melt and disappear like the setting sun. After that, they seemed to pull Shen Yuan's body and pulled their heads out of the team. Although there was silence around him, Shen Yuan's hearing was still faithfully performing its duties, and his ears were moving with his body. If you take one step further, you will be able to reach a "destination" that does not exist in this world

However, as the heavy footsteps fell, another emotion called fear took over—a feeling of emptiness from the depths of the soul. It's like walking in the desert with a dry mouth but no water. When he realized that he only had one last bottle of water left—it was probably worse than dying! So which is more terrible, alive or dead?

But soon, Shen Yuan regained consciousness and persevered, he suddenly reached out and grabbed a ball of light.

“......！”

Returning from the "deep dive", he felt dizzy like a diver who suddenly surfaced. Began to gasp for breath constantly.

"Are you alright?"

"How, what do you see?"

Shen Yuan adjusted his breathing. Desperately suppressed the vomiting sensation that overflowed in his chest. When you close your eyes, the moment you touch a ball of light, it will flow directly into your mind. I depict it carefully in my heart. He opened his eyelids and saw the same scenery as before. The dazzling bright colors disappeared, and Shen Yuan felt relieved at the same time, but at the same time, he felt that something was missing, and it turned into some kind of strange mood.

"Seen"

"Then let's hear about it"

The detective tilted his mouth forward, and I could smell the body odor from his body due to fatigue. That's the smell of people who live a busy life and don't have any room to spare.

"What's wrong? Well? Don't worry. If you see the murderer's face, then everything will be settled. But it's not that convenient, is it? ”

Although it was commonplace for Shen Yuan to be suspected like this, such a provocative urge to open his mouth still made Shen Yuan feel heavy. He could already clearly anticipate the reaction of the criminal police when he conveyed what he saw at the beginning, but, I have to say. For that is why he was called here.

“... Be... A boy.... A boy around 10 years old appeared, and then one by one"

Shen Yuan spoke, and the flames that burned in his heart when he touched the corpse were still swaying in his chest. Presumably, this heat must not be able to get rid of it no matter where he escapes, and it will continue to burn in Shen Yuan's heart.