Chapter 333

Li Tian had his men go find an axe, and soon, the axe was brought over.

Chen Fan compared the front and back, then began to step backward, and told everyone around to step aside.

After retreating a good distance, Chen Fan lowered his head and began calculating.

Holding a piece of white paper, he tallied it bit by bit.

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The cameraman followed along, giving the camera a view of the blueprint in Chen Fan's hands; everyone felt as if they had gone back to college.

"What the hell are these? This looks like some physics theory, doesn't it?"

"No way, does Chen Fan Society know this much?"

"Good lord, nobody told me Chen Fan was a top student?"

"What are these things?"

After finishing writing, Chen Fan put the pen in his pocket, then set the axe down on the ground.

Chen Fan spoke with Zhang Tianxiong here, and laid out the position properly; Zhang Tianxiong nodded.

The car started up, and everyone watched in anticipation.

Then, once the car picked up speed and passed by, the axe was instantly flung outward.

It spun rapidly through the air, then landed directly on the ground.

At that moment, a briefcase on the ground was split open.

The axe, unhurried and at just the right size, smashed down onto the briefcase like that.

The angle, the position—everything was flawless.

And before this, that briefcase had been placed there by Chen Fan.

"See, that's how it is."

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No, wait, what on earth just happened?

Li Tian went over to examine the mark on the deceased's axe; clearly, it was indeed a tire tread mark.

"However, we still need follow-up examination. Only after that can we confirm all this."

These items were transported back.

Chen Fan didn't leave, but went to a nearby villager's home, found a stove, and started roasting sweet potatoes to eat.

Soon, Old Liu's side gave the answer: no extra wounds were found on the body, he was in good health.

On the axe, only this man's fingerprints were found, and traces of rubber/plastic were also discovered—clearly matching Chen Fan's earlier statement.

Then, the traffic police team located the vehicle and obtained the dashcam.

After slowing it down, they saw an axe flying out.

But the driver said he had no idea what happened at all—he was just driving normally, how would he know about this?

On a snowy day, he said he did indeed see this person hurrying along, but he hadn't hit this person on purpose; in fact, he had deliberately given them some distance.

The dashcam could prove this—at that moment, the driver was inside the car listening to music and on the phone.

Li Tian hung up the phone, peeled the sweet potato in his hand, and said: "Kid, do you know some kind of trick?"

Chen Fan said: 'I don't. Don't come to me, I really don't.'

At this point, the family pushed the door open and walked in; the village chief led them in and said: "Um, this is the man's wife and child."

The woman cried as she looked at the officer; Li Tian said: "Currently, our judgment on the case is that it was an accident. Yes, you may be surprised, but the video tells us it really was an accident—the axe was flung out by the car, and then split open your husband's head."

The woman was stunned; the child beside her, however, tried hard to steady himself and said: "Then, where is my father?"

"Um, he's at the medical examiner's. We did a second examination, found no other wounds, and confirmed the existence of the tire mark. Of course, if you don't agree with this result, you can continue to have someone investigate, or file an appeal, but based on the current evidence, that's how it is."

The woman cried as she looked at Li Tian; the man looked at Chen Fan and said: "I don't trust that person, I only trust you."

Chen Fan said: "It's true. I simulated it, and it really is so. From a forensic standpoint, it's very hard for a person to bring something down in a perfectly straight chop."

"I don't really get it. Explain it slower."

Chen Fan picked up the axe, brought his hand straight down, and said: "Like this—you see, a perfectly straight downward strike is very, very hard. Only an accident can be perfectly straight; a person can't do it, just like when you draw a straight line, you can't make it perfectly straight."

"I understand."

"Also, no test wounds were found near the injury, which means the axe fell straight down. And your father was 1.8 meters tall—for an axe to fall straight down onto the top of his head, unless your father was standing there and got chopped to death by the other party, he would have resisted, and that would leave some error."

"Also, this is the video. On this side of the video, slowed down, you can take a look."

The man looked at the enlarged image and said: "That's my dad's axe. My dad went up the mountain to chop wood yesterday, planning to save it for winter use. Uh, I understand now. What do I need to do right now?"

The child was not bad; he was quite calm.

Li Tian said: "If it's an accident, naturally we go through insurance. Menzhebian Society will issue some proof for you. The car is the direct root cause, so we'll process the insurance claim for you. Moreover, the driver said his car insurance coverage is quite large, and he's a decent person—if your family is willing to accept money, he's willing to personally add some more for you."

The man shook his head and said: 'If it was an accident, I won't complain. Let's just go through insurance. Our family isn't in the habit of clinging onto others.'

"Alright then, ma'am, you don't need to go. Let your eldest son go."

The woman nodded, supported by the neighbors around her.

The young man got in the car; Chen Fan handed him a cigarette, and the young man, trembling, lit it.

Li Tian was in the car, holding back and not speaking.

The viewers, meanwhile, watched this strong child—at this moment, perhaps, in this instant, the child was growing up fast.

"Why do you trust me?"

The child said: "I trust you because I've been watching your livestream all along. I'm a graduate of a medical university, currently preparing to intern as a forensic examiner. It was also because I watched your livestream that I changed my application."

The people in the car felt even more heartache.

Zhang Tianxiong was a bit speechless, and tried to drive a little faster.

The viewers were completely dumbfounded.

Damn, isn't this a bit of a cruel twist of fate?

Is this the grief that comes from an accident?

What's more, the grief brought by an accident pains the heart even more than the grief brought by killing.

The pain brought by killing, everyone can choose to shift it with hatred.

But the pain brought by an accident, everyone can only resist it from within.

In the observation room, Sister Yuanyuan wiped the corner of her eye and said, "I can feel that child's grief."

Teacher He said, "Sigh, accident cases are the most exasperating, aren't they?"

Qin Ming said, "Right, accident cases are very high-frequency cases. When the police arrive and start making judgments, it's the hardest — you need to combine various factors, and the family's opinion is also very important. Li Tian just said it too: if they're not satisfied, continuing the investigation is fine."

"It's just that this accident case, this time it counts as relatively good — the family members are decent, very rational. But if the family isn't rational, and we've confirmed it's an accident, the family will keep making a fuss. In the end, we'll even need to stand in court and lay out the case — the forensic doctor, the police, everyone has to go."

The boy walked into the room and looked at his father.

"Uh, why hasn't the axe been taken down yet?"

Old Liu said, "You're the forensic doctor, so you do it. Are you here to study, or for an internship?"

"Internship."

"Mm, get to it."

The boy looked at Old Liu, then changed into his clothes, put on gloves, and began examining the wound.

Looking at the clearly visible vertical slash mark on the wound, the boy instantly knew this case was an accident.

Just like Chen Fan said, unless his old man stood still and let the other side chop him down.

Unless the other party was someone with a very cold-blooded heart, cold-blooded enough that their hand wouldn't shake or anything.

And on top of that, the other party's hand not only didn't shake, but they were also extremely cold-blooded, and had a considerable amount of experimental foundation.

To meet all these conditions is essentially zero, so combined with the video, it's an accident.

0..... 0

The boy took the axe down. Here, Old Liu handed the boy a tray and said, "Suture it yourself."

The boy gritted his teeth, then suddenly couldn't hold it in and threw up directly into the trash can.

A few newcomers here wanted to step in and offer some comfort, but were stopped by Old Liu.

"Get up on your own."

The boy stood up, took the water, took a sip, and said, "I'm fine now."

Then he picked up the tray and, following the book knowledge in his memory, sutured bit by bit.

Old Liu said, "Here, and here, the needle is moving too fast, that's not right, slow down. Here, the placement is wrong — suturing like this won't close it properly. And over here."

The boy stared down under the pressure, and finally finished suturing the corpse.