Chapter 1052: This is homicide

"What?"

"Salt?" Dr. Misumi, who had taken the autopsy tools, stopped her movements and turned to look directly at Kaze Akaso, "Are you sure?"

"I've seen similar cases before, but it's hard to say until the test results come out."

Kaze Akaso let go of the girl's hair and turned to face everyone in the autopsy team.

"This is homicide."

The autopsy began. Except for Kaze Akaso and Officer Mouri, everyone in the autopsy room was busy.

An autopsy team consists of a lead surgeon, a recorder, an assistant, and auxiliary personnel—about 5 people per team.

Because of the collaboration between the 2 teams, the scene wasn't full, but the work was still very smooth.

"We are observing an autopsy at the scene now, and it's a continuous autopsy of 4 corpses," Kaze Akaso looked at Ai, who was watching intently, out of the corner of his eye, "It may involve a homicide case."

"It's over, let's suture." Another lead surgeon in the autopsy room had just finished the autopsy of the 3rd corpse, his gloves covered in blood.

"51-year-old Kyoko Hamura?"

"The carbon monoxide concentration in the blood is 71%."

"No problem. The cause of death for the 3 deceased is all carbon monoxide poisoning. The only one left is this girl." The lead surgeon turned to look at Dr. Misumi on the other side.

"Only her identity is unknown, the young lady without a name."

Dr. Misumi, wearing a transparent mask, examined the girl's mouth: "There are no wounds inside the mouth, the cavities haven't been treated, and the tooth wear is small. Estimated age is around 20."

"Died so young."

"Lord Akaso," Dr. Misumi looked up at Kaze Akaso, who was still on the phone outside, "We are going to start the autopsy!"

"Okay."

Kaze Akaso put away his phone. Do they have to call him specifically for an autopsy?

"Pericardial incision, give me the forceps."

Dr. Misumi leaned over the girl's chest cavity, frowned, and called out to Kaze Akaso, "The blood accumulation in the heart is a bit strange. The color of the left ventricle is bright red, and the right ventricle is gray and dark. The color difference between the left and right ventricles is obvious. She died of freezing."

"Died of freezing?"

The autopsy room suddenly went quiet, and everyone followed to look at Dr. Misumi.

"Of course," Dr. Misumi affirmed, "The skin of a frozen corpse will also turn orange-pink, but you can immediately see the difference by looking at the blood accumulation in the heart."

"But frozen to death in a room for charcoal-burning suicide??"

"The carbon monoxide concentration in the blood is 3%. Only the nameless young lady did not inhale carbon monoxide. There's no mistake; her cause of death is freezing."

"Remove the stomach contents."

"Yes."

"Capacity 127ml."

Kaze Akaso stood on the side watching Dr. Misumi operate.

"In other words, is this murder?"

"Lord Akaso, you were indeed right," Dr. Misumi examined the girl's stomach alone with tweezers, "There seems to be something else in the stomach. Is it paper?"

"Paper?"

Kaze Akaso watched Dr. Misumi unfold a paper ball with tweezers; two lines of text were written on it.

"Snowman's" and "Save Flower"—the latter half of the note was torn off, and the complete meaning couldn't be understood.

However...

"The handwriting is sloppy. If that suicide note was really this girl's, it should have been written in quite a hurry, or while frozen."

"There are no wounds in the mouth and esophagus," Dr. Misumi looked at Kaze Akaso, "She swallowed this herself before freezing to death, right? Can it be considered a death message?"

The female assistant put down the forceps in her hand and looked sadly at the girl's corpse with a peaceful face: "Is the nameless young lady named Hana?"

"If she swallowed it herself," Kaze Akaso said after a moment of silence, "there is another person, a girl named Hana, who might be imprisoned by the culprit or has already been killed."

"No way?" Officer Mouri said blankly, "Lord Akaso, could it just be that she swallowed it because she was hallucinating? Isn't it said that there will be hallucinations before freezing to death?"

"Hallucinations?"

"This is indeed not a simple suicide. Is it compulsive suicide then?"

Officer Mouri hypothesized, "Shoichi Sato might have had a conflict with this girl named Hana, and then used some method to freeze her to death. Sato wanted to die with her but didn't succeed, so he gathered others who intended to commit suicide."

Kaze Akaso looked strangely at the self-hyped police officer: "Officer Mouri, I feel you don't just share the same surname as Detective Mouri."

"Is that so?" Officer Mouri said happily, "I also have the potential to become a famous detective? Come to think of it, Lord Akaso also agrees."

"Not at all," Kaze Akaso interrupted Officer Mouri, his gaze turning back to the girl's corpse.

"If she were found by the culprit, it would be thrown away, so she hid it in her own body. After the corpse was discovered by the police, there would be a chance for an autopsy. She must have been trying her best to save another companion."

"Eh?"

"The message was only torn in half. It's not strange in a cold and dark place. Is there any freezer near the scene?"

"This," Officer Mouri's scalp tingled, "The Mitaka Aquatic Products Company where Shoichi Sato worked seems to have one."

"To freeze someone to death in the aquatic company's freezer and then transport the corpse out, it's almost impossible for an employee who was asked to retire early to do it. However, one could check refrigerated trucks or something like that. Another thing is..." ===== CHAPTER 1054 =====