The Book of Death by Heart Poison

When Hua Chong and his party arrived in Qishu Town, it was just at sunset, and the golden-red sunset reflected the snow-capped mountains in the sky, spread out on the boundless rapeseed flowers, like an oil painting that used colors to the extreme.

But no one has the heart to appreciate the unique beauty of this plateau.

The news of the discovery of the dead body has already spread in Qishu Town. There are almost no people in the bustling flower fields in the past, and the farmhouses and restaurants that have been noisy for a year have become depressed again.

A cordon was pulled around the morgue, and two fat police dogs were lying outside the cordon to bask in the sun.

Qishu Town belongs to Xiling City.

The economy of Xiling City is relatively backward, and the police force is hard to compare with that of big cities such as Los Angeles. In addition, the victim's death is strange.

The police car was bouncing on the dirt road, and what could be called scorching sunlight poured in, filling Hua Chong's slightly frowning brows.

"The body was found by two vocational school students. The girl was frightened and talking nonsense. She is still in the hospital."

Ke Yong is only in his thirties, but he has been working in a small plateau town for a long time. The pressure and hard work have left deep marks on his face, making him look like he is close to fifty. "We asked the boy repeatedly, before and after what he said. There is no inconsistency, combined with the monitoring in the town, I basically believe that they found the body by chance."

Hua Chong took the tablet and browsed through the detailed photos of the corpse taken by the local forensic doctor.

The reason why this case alarmed the special operations team was entirely because of the state of the corpse.

The deceased was a woman whose age could not be determined for the time being.The skin and muscles of her two legs were incised with sharp instruments, and the wounds were on her ankles, knees, and heels.Her two arms were also cut open at the joints. Although the cervical spine was not broken, the major arteries, trachea, and muscles were all severed, as if her head had been beheaded.

However, all the cut places have been sewn up. If you ignore her ferocious face, people who see her may still think that this is a work of art with cruel aesthetics.

Why would the murderer do this?

Or is it one person who committed the murder and another person who stitched up the wound?

When scrolling to one of the photos, Hua Chong zoomed in on the details and asked, "Has the forensic doctor removed this suture?"

In addition to the limbs, there was also a suture in the middle of the deceased's abdomen and pelvis.The murderer seemed to have disemboweled her once.

Ke Yong defines himself as the grassroots in the grassroots. He has been a policeman for more than ten years and has never cooperated with the elite. When Hua Chong opened his mouth, he felt a little stage fright, sweated on his forehead, and began to stutter, "No, no , The conditions here are not good, Lao Li doesn’t dare to dismantle it casually, for fear of destroying the clues and affecting your investigation.”

Hua Chong noticed the other party's nervousness, raised his head, paused his slender fingers, and immediately handed the tablet back, smiling humbly, "Team Ke, you've worked hard. Leave the rest to us, don't worry."

Ke Yong was stunned for a moment, looking at Hua Chong with some surprise.

He was just an ordinary policeman who couldn't be more ordinary.Due to the poverty of Xiling City, the population loss is getting worse every year. Young people who have some ideas have all gone to the big cities to fight, and almost all the people left behind are old people and children. There are not a few vicious cases throughout the year.The most complicated case he handled was a poisoning case.

For the criminal police in a big city, this kind of case is not worth mentioning.

Facing the special operations team, Ke Yong couldn't hide his inferiority complex. He always felt that the other party would look down on him and command him to do this and that. Can't you detect it?"

Hua Chong said "Thank you for your hard work" to him.

It's like taking a sip of hot tea, the temperature spreads in the lungs, although it is slow, it really exists.

Ke Yong was both surprised and moved.

This flower team who came from afar was only two years younger than him, so he could be regarded as his peers, but he was already one of the heads of the criminal investigation detachment of the special operations team, which showed his high ability and rich experience.

Such a person did not look down on him, but spoke softly to reassure him.

The dark-skinned man actually had his chest vibrate, and even his nasal cavity was sore.

Hua Chong didn't intend to continue asking about the case, and turned to look out the window.

He has seen too many grassroots policemen like Ke Yong.They really don't have any outstanding talents, but it is not unreasonable to protect one side all the year round and let the people under their jurisdiction live and work in peace and contentment.

What he said to Ke Yong just now was not out of face, but from the heart.

Two police cars stopped outside the cordon, and the sleeping police dog immediately stood up, wagging its tail and barking.

The door of the police car parked behind opened first, and a man in a special forces uniform carried an investigation box and quickly got into the cordon. A shorter man behind him shouted, "Losing money, wait for me, can you die?"

Ke Yong showed a shocked expression.

When he was picking up people at the airport before, he wanted to ask, how come there are special forces in your special operations team?

Sitting in the back seat, Liu Zhiqin, who had been silent all this time, put the tablet that Hua Chong handed over into his bag, got out of the car and said, "You said that you should send Pei Qingqing to the special police detachment and let him stay with Zhaofan for ten and a half months." , will he still be so obsessed with cos special forces?"

"Come on, the special police detachment doesn't need a forensic doctor." Hua Chong closed the door and handed out the latex gloves to Liu Zhiqin.

The special operations team came with six people this time, not to mention Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin, forensic doctor Pei Qing, trace inspector Hai Zi, field officers Xu Xiaozhou and Yue Yue.

The one who chased Pei Qing out just now was Hai Zi. These two were high school classmates. They competed with each other when they were studying and regarded each other as rivals. Later, one studied forensic medicine and the other studied scar inspection. They interacted with each other, but they didn't expect to be recruited to the special operations team at the same time, and they became colleagues who hated each other.

As long as this pair of friends is there, Hua Chong's criminal investigation team will be in trouble.The forensic doctor and trace inspector should have been the most closely cooperating technical team members, but Pei Qing and Hai Zi are keen to make trouble for each other, and take pleasure in making each other suffer.

Liu Zhiqin even wanted to send them back, at least one of them.

Shen Xun assured her that the ones for the flower team were the best, and that although Pei Qing and Hai Zi were distasteful, they were professional and trustworthy.

Before this trip, Liu Zhiqin told Hua Chong that he felt that the two monkeys from the circus were not the two technical team members who were brought out.

The forensic doctor in Qishu Town did not dare to move the corpse rashly, so the victim still maintained the posture when he was discovered at night.

Although the brick house leaks everywhere, it is a relatively closed area after all. Let alone walking in, people can smell a strong corpse smell just by standing at the door.

The scene was not seriously damaged, and the informants Liu Sheng and Li Quan did not approach the body, and the local police had also paid great attention to it during the investigation.

But even so, there are still not many effective traces that can be extracted.

Haizi didn't need to say anything, Hua Chong had already discovered that there were a lot of messy and arc-shaped sweep marks on the sandy ground in the brick house, which indicated that after committing the crime, the murderer had intentionally removed the traces.In this way, the possibility of the murderer leaving footprints indoors is very low.

As for the outdoors.

Hua Chong turned around, his pupils were clearly illuminated by the sunset.

The tails of his eyes drooped slightly, an unusual shape for men.Women's drooping eyes usually make people feel pitiful, while men's drooping eyes are somewhat nondescript.

But his eyes are bright, and there is a ray of heroism in his eyes, which makes him look gentle from a certain angle, but not feminine.

The stronger the man is, the more gentle he is - this sentence is vividly displayed in his eyes.

He inhaled slightly and looked down at his feet.

It rained in Qishu Town 3 days ago, and the rain is the suspect's best helper, enough to remove important traces.

"A small part of the victim's skin fell off in the shape of a glove, and it is still impossible to take it off completely. The temperature in Qishu Town has a large temperature difference. Recently, the temperature during the day has been between 28 and 30°C, and it has dropped to 6 to 10°C at night." Pei Qing is After a preliminary examination of the corpse, after seeing the victim, he calmed down almost instantly, with an extremely focused expression, "judging based on the temperature and humidity, the time of the incident was more than 10 days."

"Ten days." Liu Zhiqin said: "Ten days ago, the rape blossoms in Qishu Town hadn't bloomed yet. Isn't this person a tourist? Team Ke, is there a case of disappearance in the town?"

Ke Yong shook his head, "Qishu Town is only this big, we have already done the first round of mopai, this person is not from our place."

Hua Chong looked around.

According to Ke Yong, there are quite a few brick houses like this near the rapeseed fields, which were built by the farmers themselves for the purpose of resting nearby and storing farm tools.

Although the brick house is not beautiful, it looks harmonious and simple in the snow-capped mountains and flower fields, so occasionally tourists will go to find out, and even take a nap inside.

The victim was not a local, did he take the initiative or was induced to enter the brick house?

The victim was completely naked, and nothing belonging to her could be seen in the brick house.Apparently someone took all of her personal belongings after her death.

This person may be the murderer, or it may be someone else.

If personal belongings cannot be found, it is not easy to determine the identity of the victim, and it is necessary to go back and do DNA and fingerprint comparison.

Liu Zhiqin walked to the corner, squatted down, and poked the dirt, "Hai Zi."

Haizi turned around, "Huh?"

"Look at what this is?" Liu Zhiqin held the soil closer, "It seems to be wrapped in something."

The soil near the victim was soaked in blood, and it rustled when pinched, but the lump in Liu Zhiqin's hand was different from other soil, as it seemed to be mixed with human tissue.

Haizi looks very young, a skinny kid, but her actual age is almost thirty.

He observed for a while, and denied Liu Zhiqin's guess, "It's not skin tissue, it's like debris."

"crumbs?"

"Brother Liu, your eyes are too sharp. Maybe this is the debris that fell out of the killer's shoe grain. I'll take it back for inspection later, maybe it's a big clue."

Liu Zhiqin hummed, and turned to Pei Qing and Hua Chong.

"Judging from the splattered blood, there is no doubt that this is the first scene." Pei Qing pressed the victim's arm inch by inch, observing the stitched place, "The murderer is too cruel."

Hua Chongdao: "Because the victim was cut while alive?"

Injuries on the corpse are divided into antenatal injuries and postmortem injuries, and the basic basis for judging is whether there is a living reaction.

Although Hua Chong is not a forensic doctor, he has seen a large number of corpses and can distinguish two kinds of injuries of different nature.

"Strange." He raised the victim's foot, stared at it for a moment and said, "There is a living reaction, but there seems to be no sign of struggle."

"It shouldn't be. When the muscles are cut, the instinctive reaction of a person must be to struggle." After Pei Qing finished speaking, she immediately thought of a possibility: "Unless she can't move! It's not the kind of restraint, it's unconscious!"

Hua Chong raised his eyebrows: "Injected with anesthesia?"

Pei Qing immediately turned the corpse over and skillfully held down the spine.

The corpse was decomposing, and the smell of the corpse became stronger after turning over.

But the team members have long been accustomed to it, and they didn't even frown.

The victim was so thin that the shape of the spine could be clearly seen without bending the body into an arch.

"Sure enough!" Pei Qing pressed a piece of skin on her lower back, "Flower team, there is a large-caliber needle hole here. For surgery under anesthesia below the waist, the anesthetic injection site is here."

"The murderer injected anesthesia into the victim and cut her legs open after it took effect..." Hua Chong raised his eyes and noticed the injuries to his arms and abdomen.

Compared with the legs, there were obvious signs of struggle around these wounds, and the wounds were larger, indicating that the victim was conscious at the time and had suffered huge extremity pain before death.

"What is the murderer's purpose for doing this?" Hua Chong said: "From the modus operandi, the murderer has great hatred for the victim. In this case, injecting anesthetics is purely superfluous."

"It's more than that." Liu Zhiqin came over, "It's unnecessary to sew up the corpse."

Hua Chong: "Stitching can also be understood as an essential ritual for the murderer, but I don't understand whether anesthetizing the lower body does not anesthetize the upper body. By the way, Pei Qing, I now have two inferences - the murderer It is the same person who stitched the limbs together; not the same person. Can we make a preliminary judgment from the situation of the stitches?"

"The life reaction at the suture is the weakest in the abdomen." Pei Qing pointed to the centipede-like suture, "This is the last place to be sutured. The victim was already dead or dying at that time. I think the time alone Look, it should be the same person, if the stitching is not for another purpose, it is to satisfy the murderer's evil taste."

Liu Zhiqin said: "I also tend to think that it is the same person. Assuming there is another person, there will be more illogical places."

Hua Chong just nodded, without immediately drawing a conclusion.

"I have to take the corpse back for an autopsy." Pei Qing howled at Hai Zi, "Student, please help me."

Haizi rolled his eyes, "I asked you to wait for me, but now you think of me when you move the body? Tell you——No, door!"

Liu Zhiqin is used to the rivalry between the two monkeys, "Let me do it."

But Pei Qing said: "Brother Liu, you can't spoil him! If you let him move, he has to move!"

Liu Zhiqin paused, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "I... used to Haizi?"

No.

Not so much.

The word "used to" is too emotional. If you have to say who he is accustomed to, it is naturally the other person present.

Hua Chong took off his gloves, turned his head and met Liu Zhiqin's gaze.

The conscientious flower team did not participate in the bickering just now, and they have no talent in the matter of verbalism, and did not notice the word "used" at all.

Liu Zhiqin's gaze was gentle and profound, Hua Chong was stunned for a moment, "Huh?"

Liu Zhiqin smiled and shook his head, "It's fine."

Just look at you.