No such person [criminal investigation]

11:[-] p.m.Forensic Center, Dissection Room.

Qi Zang, Gong Nianci and Bu Qingyun discussed the case around the corpse on the dissection table.

Gong Nianci opened the mouth and said: "The person who made the knife wound was very disorganized. It can be said that none of the knife wounds were fatal. The overall bleeding volume of the deceased was less, and the death of the deceased was ruled out due to excessive blood loss. I checked all the wounds further. No blood clots or thrombi were found. In addition, all the wounds showed no signs of opening at all, and the contraction of connective tissue, muscles, and blood vessels at the margins of the wounds was very inconspicuous. I also took tissues from the wounds for biopsy and found no inflammatory reaction ...

"The wounds did not show any life response, so it can be basically determined that these stab wounds were all formed after death. And at least one hour after death."

Taking a deep breath, Gong Nianci's face became a little ugly, she frowned and said: "Besides...the lacerations on the lower body were also formed after death."

As soon as Gong Nianci said this, the expressions of Bu Qingyun and Qi Zang also changed.

What she meant was obvious—Xia Rong was raped after her death.The suspect raped a corpse, and then used a kitchen knife to slash it many times, cutting it into pieces together with the red dress.

After taking a few more deep breaths, Gong Nianci said, "The knife wound was formed after death. At the same time, there was no abnormality in the spots on the corpse. Any signs of mechanical suffocation death. Excluding excessive blood loss and suffocation—" Gong Nianci looked at Bu Qingyun, "Did you find any toxins in her blood?"

The range of poisons is too wide. If you observe the characteristics of the corpse through the autopsy, you can initially judge the direction of the toxin, and then it is relatively easy to conduct targeted poisoning analysis.But if you check directly and blindly without direction, it will be difficult to judge.

Bu Qingyun also deliberately extracted the body's blood, and shook his head at this moment: "We have done tests on the more common toxins, but there is no result yet. Let's do an autopsy and see the stomach contents."

Gong Nianci nodded, and called an assistant, the two of them habitually bowed to the corpse first, and then started the formal autopsy——

Firstly, a "Y"-shaped incision was made from the scapula, and then the skin was peeled off with a scalpel, and the chest flap was turned up to cover the face of the deceased, and then the lungs, stomach, liver, heart, and kidneys were removed one by one. Re-collect tissue samples.

Next is the appetizer check.

Gong Nianci did not wear a mask for the convenience of smelling the various tissues of the dead body to see if there was any special smell and to further confirm the cause of death.

However, the moment she opened her stomach, she didn't smell any other special smell that was different from gastric juice.At the same time, there is almost no residue in the stomach.It can be seen that Rong Xia was in a very hungry state when she died.She probably didn't have dinner after forgetting to eat and sleep to practice the piano.

Bu Qingyun left temporarily, taking part of the stomach contents for further examination.

Gong Nianci looked at Qi Zang again: "There is no sign of poisoning, maybe the possibility of her being poisoned to death can also be ruled out... Let me check her heart first. See if she has a heart attack. How are you doing?" Is there any information about her health problems?"

"I asked her husband and her aunt, and they said that she is in good health and has no heart disease." Qi Zang said.

"It's really a bit strange." Gong Nianci breathed out, "But let me check the condition of my heart first."

After a period of time, after pathological examination of the heart slices, Gong Nianci found the result - the subendocardial contractile zone of the deceased left ventricular free wall was extensively necrotic.Other than that, the deceased's heart showed no other problems.

When he heard the result, Qi Zang asked: "What does this mean? Is it still a heart problem? Could it be...a sudden heart attack? Sudden cardiac death?"

"No, that's not right. In the case of pure sudden cardiac death, through histopathological examination, coronary artery stenosis and hardening, atherosclerotic plaque formation, etc. can be found. But the heart of the deceased did not show these characteristics." Gong Nianci thought of something, and immediately Call Bu Qingyun.

She spoke very fast, probably a little excited because she felt that she was about to get closer to the truth. "Teacher Bu, put aside the poison test first, help me check whether there is a large amount of adrenaline in the blood of the deceased!"

After waiting for a while, Bu Qingyun returned to the dissecting room and brought the results——

The blood of the deceased did contain a large amount of adrenaline.

Hearing this result, Gong Nianci was really shocked, and was stunned for a while, until Qi Zang called her name. "So, Teacher Gong, what does this mean?"

"Sorry, I lost my composure. It's really... I have indeed heard of such cases, but I have never encountered them in actual situations."

Gong Nianci exhaled, took off the gloves in his hand, sprayed disinfectant, put on new gloves, and said: "People will secrete adrenaline when they are in extreme fear and dangerous situations. This hormone can help people in danger. Quickly respond to difficult situations, such as fighting with each other, or escaping from a scary or dangerous environment.

"The flashback phenomenon when a seriously ill person is about to die is actually due to adrenaline, which is caused by the body's release of adrenaline throughout the body in order to maintain its operation.

"But if this kind of thing is excessive, it will cause the heart to be too active, causing a large number of heart cells to be killed. The dead cells further affect and restrain the conduction function of the heart nerve fiber bundle... and finally the heart stops beating."

Bu Qingyun coughed lightly, and said, "In layman's terms... the deceased was frightened to death."

People were scared to death.Qi Zang had indeed heard of this kind of thing.In one case he had read, a man was strapped to a chair by gunmen.The gangster didn't do anything to physically harm him, but he died anyway.He was scared to death.

"Yes. But this case is quite special. Based on the cases I have seen before, the so-called "scared to death" deceased died of a sudden heart attack due to the surge of adrenaline and other reasons. For those who died suddenly, the forensic pathological examination will show that their hearts have stenosis of the left anterior descending and circumflex coronary arteries. Xia Rong did not this time..."

Gong Nianci said, "It's indeed the first time I've seen it. It's worth recording it and keeping it as a classic case."

After a while, Qi Zang frowned and said, "In other words... the truth is very likely that Xia Rong accidentally discovered a secret space in the house, and there was a wretched man in it, so she was scared to death?

"Mr. Gong, the result of the forensic examination is very important. If it is true, we may not be able to prosecute the murderer for intentional homicide. At most, he will be charged with illegal intrusion, illegal surveillance, negligent accidental death, and insulting a corpse."

Hearing this, Gong Nianci could not help frowning.

Ever since seeing Rong Xia's body, Gong Nianci felt sorry for her.

Now she suddenly found out that the murderer was probably "innocent" in a certain way, and he couldn't even be convicted of rape|rape, and could only be regarded as insulting the corpse. She really felt a little uncomfortable.

Bu Qingyun helped her with the words: "Hey, we have a forensic doctor and a physicist. The test results show that the deceased was indeed frightened to death. As for how to restore the scene and how to prosecute the murderer, that's up to you. "

At this point, he looked at Gong Nianci and said a word of relief: "Our job duty is to restore the facts and the truth about the death of the deceased. Others...don't put too much personal emotion into it. Just do what you want."

·

It was already 2 o'clock in the morning when Qi Zang returned to the office.

This time, he made an application through a special process, and his family member "Zhang Xiaoyu" was able to enter his office.

When Qi Zang returned to the office, he found that the place was tidy and orderly.And the person who did all this is leaning back on a chair and taking a nap.When he closed his eyes, Xu Ci's defensive, sharp, cold, and emotionless eyes disappeared, and he looked much softer.

Qi Zang walked in lightly, but Xu Ci still woke up.Yawning, he straightened up, looked up at Qi Zang, and handed him a glass of water. "Come on, have a drink."

"What is this?" Qi Zang took a rough look, and it seemed that the thermos bottle was soaked with wolfberry, astragalus and other medicines.

Xu Ci stood up. "Protects the liver, improves eyesight and soothes the mind. After staying up all night, you still need to sleep well when you go home."

Qi Zang smiled, and said, "Go back to my place today? Get closer."

"Well. Anyway, tomorrow is Sunday, I'm fine." Xu Ci said.

Qi Zang showed a little apology. "I originally proposed to live together just in case. Now it's..."

"It doesn't matter." Xu Ci pointed to the laptop he carried with him, "I also have a lot of work to deal with. Let's go, go home."

In Qi Zang's heart, the fatigue caused by overtime work, the sorrow caused by the death of the deceased, the labor of comforting the relatives and friends of the deceased, as well as the worry and depression that the suspect may not be punished as he should be, all seemed to be due to Xu Zang. The cup of hot tea sent by Ci disappeared because of the word "go home".

Smiling at Xu Ci, Qi Zang nodded: "Yes. Go home."

On the way back to Qi Zang's apartment and after returning home, Xu Ci didn't ask about the case, and Qi Zang didn't take the initiative to ask him, probably both wanted to let the other's brain relax for a while.

Qi Zang bought this house for a single apartment at that time, the overall area is relatively small, and there is only one bathroom, so Qi Zang let Xu Ci take a bath first, and then went in later.

After washing up, the two of them didn't talk too much, and took the time to fall asleep quickly.

At 6:[-] in the morning, Xu Ci woke up because of his biological clock, and when he was going to the bathroom, he bumped into Qi Zang.

Qi Zang asked him: "Why do you wake up so early? You sleep more. I will go to work overtime by myself."

Xu Ci shook his head: "It's okay. Save time, let's brush your teeth and wash your face together. Then I'll make breakfast and talk about the case by the way."

So the two of them brushed their teeth side by side in the small bathroom.

In the mirror, the two people's mouths were full of foam. Qi Zang used his right hand, and Xu Ci used his left hand, so the frequency of movements was very uniform.

Qi Zang had been following Xu Ci's footsteps eight years ago, but he not only failed to follow, but also lost him.

After eight years, at this moment, their pace unexpectedly reached the same level on the occasion of brushing teeth, spit out a mouthful of foam, thinking of this, Qi Zang couldn't help laughing.

Xu Ci also spit out a mouthful of foam at the right time, and took another mouthful of water to rinse.He asked Qi Zang, "What are you laughing at?"

A few days ago, they lived in Xu Ci's villa. The two rooms were far apart, and the bathroom was also used separately. The decoration style of the whole house was deserted.

Now that the two of them are squeezed in the dazzling gold bathroom of this local tyrant, they seem to be much closer, and Xu Ci doesn't seem so cold and untouchable anymore.

Qi Zang looked at Xu Ci, looked out of the mirror from the mirror, and then reached out to brush his hair again. "I think the local tyrant gold suits you very much."

Xu Ci: "...?"

Leaving the bathroom, the two went to the kitchen.While Xu Ci was making breakfast, Qi Zang insisted on going over to help.

The two of them bought all kinds of food and drinks to fill the refrigerator, bought all kinds of tableware and kitchen utensils to fill the cabinets.

When Xu Ci bought tableware, Qi Zang was by his side. For those he had never seen before, he would ask them what they were made of and how to use them. Xu Ci answered them one by one, and he wrote them down one by one. .Now that Qi Zang saw them, he didn't think they were strange, and he was quite confident that he could help.

When he was about to cook porridge, Xu Ci raised his eyelids and looked at him. "Still helping?"

"Where am I the kind of Shu Yan who is easy to retreat? To be a policeman, you must have the spirit of getting more and more courageous and not afraid of failure." Qi Zang looked confident, "This time I will definitely be able to stabilize the soy sauce bottle."

Xu Ci didn't answer, and took out a bag of vegetables from the refrigerator for him to wash.

Qi Zang turned on the faucet, washed things with a splash, and said, "I know you can do things well by yourself. But you are alone, and you will be tired after all. So I will do it with you, okay? good?"

Xu Ci lowered his head and took out a pan and put it on the stove, without looking at Qi Zang. "Cooking a meal, so many extensions?"

Qi Zang: "Eh? What I'm talking about is just cooking. Where do you want to go?"

Xu Ci: "...... Really..."

Qi Zang glanced at him and said with a smile, "Don't be angry."

"...you shut up."

"receive."

Breakfast is porridge, boiled vegetables, hard-boiled eggs, steamed buns wrapped in egg liquid and fried, and then served with kimchi made by Xu Ci himself a while ago.

Over breakfast the two finally talked about the case again.

Hearing Qi Zang talk about the progress of last night, Xu Ci slightly frowned. "This is indeed a bit strange. Under normal circumstances, healthy people will not die when they are frightened, at most they will be in a coma. If there are people who are frightened to death, they are suffering from high blood pressure, heart disease and other diseases...or just According to the forensic doctor Gong, it was a sudden death caused by a sudden heart attack, so the autopsy would show that the coronary arteries would be narrowed. And...

"The palace forensic doctor judged that the formation of postmortem injuries occurred almost an hour after death?"

Qi Zang nodded. "Yes. This is something I haven't figured out yet. Assuming that the murderer is really the voyeur, and Xia Rong found her and was frightened to the ground, she might not have died immediately at that time. Then about the voyeur's connection There are three possibilities for the next action——

"The first one is that he is still a conscientious person, so he should call 120 immediately, or call the police no matter how bad it is.

"Secondly, if he has no conscience and is afraid of taking responsibility, then he will immediately go to the secret space to clean up the things he left behind, and then leave quickly, as far away as possible.

"The third type is that he has a dark and perverted mind, and he has a paranoid love for the deceased, so he took over her body, and finally cut her body with a kitchen knife for some unknown purpose.

"He knows how to avoid the monitoring and escape from the window. He has no problem with his intelligence and looks very calm. Then the matter of him taking the corpse should happen immediately after he scares Xia Rong to death. After all, normally speaking, normal people You know, the sooner you get out of the death scene the better.

"These three possible occurrences are all reasonable. But the fact now seems to be that after the voyeur frightened Xia Rong to death, he did not call 120, did not call the police, did not run away immediately, and did not do anything to the corpse immediately. This kind of thing...he waited for more than an hour before invading the corpse, why?"

Qi Zang shook his head, "This is too weird. Didn't he hesitate for an hour in front of the corpse, wondering if he should take this last chance to take possession of the person he's been thinking about for a long time?"

After pondering for a while, Xu Ci said: "Following the idea of ​​'Xia Rong was scared to death by peepers', if there are all contradictions, then this idea can be temporarily overthrown—

"Well, although I still have doubts about whether Xia Rong was really scared to death, let's speculate on the basis of being scared to death for now... Xia Rong was either scared to death by voyeurs, or scared to death by other things, Afterwards, when it was time for her to sleep and enter the room, the voyeur hiding in the secret space never saw her through the single-sided glass...

"After waiting and waiting, the voyeur found it strange, so he went out to have a look, and saw Rong Xia lying motionless in the living room. After going up to find her dead, the voyeur raped her, etc. Behavior. At this time, almost an hour had passed since she actually died.

"If the truth is like this, it is relatively more reasonable. However, we still need to find the voyeur and wait for his confession. The advantage of our reasoning in advance is that we can know what we know and make the interrogation accurate and efficient."

"If the truth is true, we have to consider that Xia Rong was scared to death by something..." Qi Zang thought of something, and looked at Xu Ci, "By the way, didn't you think the appearance of the music score was strange yesterday? She When you die, you should be looking at this sheet music.

"The score, and where she fell, was between the piano and the bookshelf, and it's possible she took the book from the shelf and walked to the piano, or maybe the other way around... but she died on the way.

"Xia Rong fell to the ground, and the sheet music fell to the floor in her hands. The open page was written with twelve equal rhythms... Why is Xia Rong scared to death by twelve equal temperaments?"

Qi Zang's question is also Xu Ci's question.

Regarding this question, the two could not think of an answer for the time being.

Qi Zang said: "I asked Aunt Xia Rong about her mental state yesterday. Her aunt doesn't know. I will send someone to continue investigating her social relationship today. If she has seen a psychiatrist or something, it will help us. Big."

"Yeah." Xu Ci nodded and asked him, "By the way, where's the audio?"

"Oh, I copied it from the technical department. The computer is quite clean. There are no games, no video software, and no chat software. No one has even browsed the messy web pages, and all of them are piano music. The computer seems to be specially designed for listening to music."

After finishing speaking, Qi Zang handed Xu Ci a USB flash drive.

Xu Ci immediately opened his laptop, plugged in the USB flash drive, and found that it was indeed full of piano music, including Bach's and Beethoven's.He casually clicked on a song and played it, and he and Qi Zang had breakfast amidst the sound of the piano.

Listening to the piano while eating breakfast, the two people who had breakfast were still old friends. They hadn't seen each other for eight years, and now they finally reunited, and it seemed that many barriers had been eliminated and the distance between them was much closer.

This situation should have been a little warm, maybe even a little romantic.

But after all, this piano piece was played all night at the murder scene, and after all, it cast a layer of strangeness on the current scene.

Xu Ci asked Qi Zang, "Which song was playing at that time?"

Qi Zang said: "During the current survey, I checked the playback software immediately, and the list cycle mode was set in it, that is, one song followed by the next, and played next to each other. I asked Yuan Eryang yesterday, and he was very nervous at the time. Afraid, the first reaction was to unplug the audio, and later found out that the computer was playing, so he opened the playback software and pressed the stop button, but he did not touch anything else.”

"Well. The list loops... That is to say, if you know the exact time when Yuan Eryang pressed the stop button, and then move forward slowly, you can guess which music was playing here when Xia Rong died?" Xu Ci said.

"Could it be that she was scared to death by which song?" Qi Zang asked, "Is there any explanation for these songs?"

Xu Ci carefully read the title of the song again, and finally shook his head: "No. They are all very classic piano pieces. She plays the piano alone, so it stands to reason that she would not be afraid of piano pieces.

"You said that she was afraid of water when asked by her aunt... None of these songs have anything to do with water. And if it is really the piano music that conveyed water-related messages to her and made her feel scared, She could also unplug the stereo and turn off the computer. Why didn't she?

"Even if a person drowns, he doesn't die immediately, but there is a process of struggling and going upstream. It's the same when hearing things related to water. It's not like a ghost suddenly appears in front of you and jumps. This kind of thing Appearing too abruptly and unpredictable may cause the mentally fragile to be scared to death immediately, but from the sound of the piano to water, this kind of thing that triggers association through association, the brain will have a process of association... in During this process, she had time to save herself."

Qi Zang said: "Well, the piano music scared her to death... I also think it can be ruled out. I remembered that the playback software on her computer can see the number of times each song is played. I remember that the annual playback of most songs The number of times has been hundreds of times, and some songs have even been played five or six hundred times in a year. If the song can scare her to death, she will have been scared to death long ago."

The discussion between the two has not yet come to fruition.

The deceased was only found yesterday morning.

There are still too many clues that have not been investigated clearly.

Xu Ci helped Qi Zang serve a bowl of porridge. "Let's eat first. What's the plan for today?"

Qi Zang: "Ask Yuan Eryang for questioning. He has an alibi, but his lover may not have one. It's not impossible for the lover to kill the original partner. Besides, the identity of the voyeur needs to be further advanced."

Xu Ci said sincerely, "You have worked hard."

"Then..." Qi Zang looked at him, lowered his voice and asked, "Do you want to stay in my office as a family member?"

·

30 minute later.

Xu Ci turned into "Zhang Xiaoyu" and followed Qi Zang into the criminal investigation building again.

It never occurred to them that this time the two of them ran into Zhang Yunfu head-on, the bureau chief whom Xu Ci hated before.

Qi Zang greeted Zhang Yunfu first.

Zhang Yunfu nodded at him, asked a few words about the progress of the murder case, and glanced thoughtfully at Xu Ci next to Qi Zang. "Who is this……"

Qi Zang coughed lightly: "My family."

Zhang Yunfu: "Yo, changed?"

Qi Zang: "..."

Zhang Yunfu patted him on the shoulder, speaking quite earnestly. "It's good to change. This one looks much softer."

Qi Zang and Xu Ci: "..."

Saying goodbye to Zhang Yunfu, Qi Zang received the news that Yuan Eryang had arrived in the inquiry room.