Chapter 10: The Human Bone Puzzle

The cave is pitch black and visibility is very low.

The fear of the unknown makes our nerves highly strained, and the more I don't find anything strange, the more dangerous it feels. At this time, forensic doctor Li Gong suddenly shouted: "Come here, human bones have been found here!" ”

We hurriedly gathered around, and by the light of the flashlight, we saw a skull on the ground.

"Judging from the size of this skull, it should be an adult, and it seems that this is indeed the place where the corpse is stored." The forensic doctor, Li Gong, took out a sack from his pocket, which he had found in the village committee.

There are a total of 206 human bones, and the amount of work is not small, especially for particularly small bones such as phalanges, which are even more difficult to find. Everyone immediately expanded the scope of their search and searched for suspicious human bones in a carpet manner.

Soon, I found a large accumulation of human skeletal tissue in a corner, and the deceased was supposed to have been abandoned here. We collected pieces of human bones and put them into sacks after Li Gong numbered them, but we soon discovered something that shocked us.

We were able to pick up two skulls.

This means that there are two people who died......

The two bodies have a total of 412 bones, and under Li Gong's number, we have collected a total of 405 bones, except for the one tibia that has been found, and 7 bones are missing, but no matter how we search, we have not found them.

Perhaps the remaining seven bones were no longer in the cave, but were taken out by the dog like the shin bone of the village committee, and it is likely that they had entered the dog's stomach.

However, the specific situation of the two human bones will have to be restored by forensic doctors after we return to the village committee.

The matter of carrying a sack full of human bones was left to Little Stone. It was clear that Little Stone was very resistant to this, and what a terrible thing it was to carry two corpses on his back, but he looked at us and hesitated, as if it was not appropriate for either of us to carry them.

It took him five minutes to mentally build up his back in defiance.

As soon as we walked out of the cave, we met two villagers who had entered the mountain, staring at us in a daze, especially at the sack on the shoulder of the small stone, as if they were treating us as prisoners. If the two deceased were really related to the villagers, they must have figured out the purpose of our trip.

For his own safety and for the case to continue to be solved, Xu Huan, the village party secretary, immediately changed the topic and said very officially: "Several leaders, this is an air-raid shelter in Snake Mountain, and this bag of grain is also the material left here back then, which also proves the historical situation that the villagers came here to take refuge in order to avoid the intrusion of the Japanese invaders, and there are many more air-raid shelters like this." ”

After listening to him, I immediately cleared my throat and raised my voice: "Well, we must remember history, the alarm bell will ring for a long time, and we must cherish this hard-won peace!" This bag of grain is a witness of history, I want to bring it back to the province and put it in the provincial museum, this is the people's determination not to be afraid of the atrocities of the invaders and resist the invaders! ”

Everyone also understood the meaning of our conversation, nodded their heads in agreement, and clapped their hands.

"A few leaders, I'll take you to visit Dong'an Village again." Xu Huan continued.

In this way, a few of us walked down the hill with a few talking to ourselves, and the two villagers behind us watched us leave.

I didn't look back at them because I had murderous energy in their eyes.

We quickened our pace and hurried back to the village committee, Xu Huan locked the doors and windows, and drew the curtains again.

This picture makes me feel a little ridiculous, we are policemen, but we have to solve cases like thieves.

"Judging by the size of the skull, both skulls are adult, and the sex is to be judged according to the pubic bone."

All of us squatted on the ground and cooperated with the forensic doctor Li Gong to restore the bones in the sack.

Two corpses, the workload is not large, and it is the first time we have done this kind of thing, and everyone quickly became interested and very motivated to devote themselves to the game of human bone puzzles.

But the actual operation is much more difficult than we think, except for the skull, ribs, pubis and other large and easily recognizable bones, many bones are extremely similar, just the humerus of the arm and the tibia of the lower leg let us distinguish for a long time.

The most difficult thing is that for two corpses, we need to restore the same bones to the exact deceased according to subtle clues such as bone thickness, length, and thickness. Intuitively, the two bodies were so close in size that we had to compare them repeatedly to determine which bone belonged to which person.

Forensic doctor Li Gong is a professional, for people who have been dealing with corpses all year round, it is still easy to make human bone puzzles, and I am also okay, under the influence of my old partner Ren Qiushi, I can be regarded as entering the door of anatomy. Li Meng is a girl who has a natural advantage in observing subtleties, and she majored in psychology and has a good ability for spatial thinking.

If you really can't say it, it belongs to Xu Huan, Xiaoshi and Liu Jingyuan, they can't help at all except squatting next to us to join.

Everyone worked together for about an hour, and the two corpses had begun to take on human shapes, and the next thing to do was to identify the gender and age of the two corpses.

The pelvis, skull, and mandible are used to determine sex, but vertebrae and sternum can also be used as aids.

Among them, the gender difference between men and women in the pubic bone is the most obvious, and the final result of the development of the male and female pelvic bones is usually quite different because of the growth and development, especially the physiological needs of female fertility.

The difference is mainly in the inferior pubic angle, which is the angle at which the bilateral inferior pubic rami meet. The angle here for men tends to be around 90°, which is relatively narrow, while the angle for women may be around 120°, which is relatively wider.

After careful identification, Li Gong determined that both bodies were male.

Once the gender has been determined, the next thing that needs to be determined is age.

The method of judging age is mainly based on the development of bone toughness and hardness, and it is also a very good way to identify through the degree of wear and tear of teeth.

Generally speaking, the higher the degree of wear and tear of the teeth, the greater the age, because the degree of tooth wear is greatly affected by dietary preferences, so it needs to be assisted by other bones in the human body, and the error is usually between five years old.

After identification, the two deceased were both male, and they were also of similar age, and should have been around thirty-five years old.

"My leg is numb...... "Little Stone stood up and staggered to rest on the square folding table beside him.

He turned his head and saw a shin on the table......