Chapter 350

"We've been in the car for two hours, when will we finally arrive?"

……

After driving through a muddy path, the car finally stopped at the entrance of a village.

Because a murder had occurred, the villagers were all gathered at the crime scene.

Of course.

There were some nosy children who wanted to run over, but they were all stopped by their parents.

Chen Fan and the others got out of the car and headed straight for the crime scene.

The place where the incident happened was a house made of rammed earth; just looking at it, one could guess it had a history of several decades.

A group of people gathered at the door of the house, and the police who had arrived earlier had protected the house.

And inside the house, the deceased had been laid flat on the ground, and the deceased's father was wailing.

"My son, why did you pass away like this? Our family has had only one son for three generations; what am I, an old father, supposed to do..."

The man was crying very sadly, and the police next to him couldn't stop him no matter how they tried.

Chen Fan and Li Tian entered the door.

Li Tian waved to one of the police officers: "Come, tell Chen Fan about the course of the case."

The officer said: "The deceased was thirteen years old, currently in the first year of junior high at the town's No. 1 Middle School, and was a left-behind child."

"He lived at school while studying and only returned to this house during holidays. There was usually no one at home; his parents were both working at construction sites in the city."

"Usually on weekends, the deceased would go to the city to ask his parents for the next week's food money. But this week, the deceased called his father and said he wouldn't go this week, asking his father to return to the old house in the countryside to bring him money."

"On Friday, because the deceased's father's phone was broken, he hadn't been able to contact the deceased. The parents were a bit worried at the time, but the deceased was always obedient, so they didn't think too much of it."

"It wasn't until Sunday that the deceased's father returned here to bring his son his living expenses."

"When he first arrived at the door, the deceased's father found the door locked. He was very worried, knocked on the door, and no one answered, so the deceased's father went to the back door and kicked it open. That's when he found the deceased had hanged himself."

The officer quickly finished explaining the course of the case.

Chen Fan came to the deceased's side, and the camera also focused on the deceased, but because the deceased was a minor, it was blurred.

But this did not prevent the audience from seeing the faint outline.

On the uneven cement floor lay the deceased, wearing a red dress.

His body was tied with ropes, a weight was tied to his feet, and there were very obvious ligature marks on his neck.

It looked like death by asphyxiation.

And the moment he saw the body, a scene flooded into Chen Fan's mind.

It was what the deceased saw three seconds before his death.

Still this room, it was very dark outside the window, and there was only one electric light in the room.

There was no one else in the house; it was empty. The deceased did not struggle, nor was there any sound.

The scene only lasted three seconds, but it seemed to pause like a photograph.

From this point of view.

The deceased was indeed tied up by his hands and feet, or he had already lost consciousness at the time.

Chen Fan asked: "What did the deceased's father see when he came in?"

The officer next to him replied: "What he saw was the deceased's hands hanging from the crossbeam, and a long bench was overturned on the right side below the deceased, with the legs of the bench facing the deceased's side."

"Then the deceased was wearing a red dress, with a weight tied to his feet."

"Just that?"

Chen Fan asked.

The officer nodded: "Because the forensic scientist hadn't arrived, we didn't dare to perform an autopsy lightly."

Chen Fan put on gloves and began to perform an autopsy on the body.

During the examination, his apprentice Liu Mengyan stood by and recorded.

While performing the autopsy, Chen Fan said: "The deceased is wearing a red dress; under the red dress is a black women's one-piece swimsuit. There are many circular wax drips on the front of the swimsuit, which should have fallen after the candles were lit."

"There are also two black velvet balls on the deceased's chest, which look like they were folded into two fake breasts."

"A black rope is looped around the back of the lower part of both legs, going from back to front, then passing through the perineum and going backward and upward, passing through both sides of the buttocks, the waist, and the armpits."

"Then it comes out from the neckline of the outermost dress, and finally reaches the hanging hands to tie a knot, eventually forming a loop."

"The wrists are wrapped with another rope in multiple lines, with several circles both horizontally and vertically, and there are circles passing over the roof beam."

"Finally, the lower part of the legs is wrapped in multiple circles by a third rope, with a one-kilogram black weight tied to the end."

"The deceased is barefoot."

"..."

Listening to Chen Fan report so many examination results of the body, the barrage in the livestream room flew rapidly.

"Damn? What kind of killer is this, so perverted, to commit such a cruel act against a small child."

"No, does this killer have pedophilia? Actually dripping wax on a child's body? This isn't normal! Isn't this often used in SM?"

"Didn't you notice that the way this boy died is very strange? It feels like it's not an ordinary case."

……

While Chen Fan was performing the autopsy here, Xiang Qinqin, Li Tian, and Old Song, who had come along, were checking the house.

After a while.

Everyone gathered together to share the information they had found.

"There are three old rope friction marks on the crossbeam, which can determine that this kind of thing should have happened more than once."

Li Tian said.

"I carefully examined the scene just now, and there are no traces of the killer committing the crime. Except for the deceased's own traces, there are no traces of anyone else having been here."

Old Song said, "We also found many of the deceased's things on the bed, including some anime discs, quite a few manga and women's magazines, as well as half a candle, a learning machine, and a rusted iron chain."

As for Xiang Qinqin, she hadn't found any hidden clues yet.

Back to Chen Fan's side.

Chen Fan had already cut open the deceased's clothes and began a further autopsy.

"The deceased already has livor mortis, which is dark red. There is relatively widespread putrefaction on the hands, feet, the upper side of the ligature groove, and the abdomen."

"From this point, the deceased's time of death was approximately twenty-four hours ago."

"There are mild abrasions on the forehead and other parts of the body, but they are not obvious. The rope has compression phenomena on some parts, all of which have vital reactions."

"The deceased's bilateral conjunctiva has pinpoint petechial hemorrhages, and there is dust on both the main body and the toes."

"The rest will have to be taken back for further autopsy."

After Chen Fan finished speaking, Liu Mengyan had just finished writing.

Li Tian also walked over and asked Chen Fan: "How is it? Can you determine the cause of death?"

Chen Fan immediately replied: "For now, I can only tell you that a large part of it is positional asphyxia."

"The rest requires further autopsy."

Li Tian nodded and said: "Alright then, I'll have someone send the body to the autopsy room. When there are any results, you must tell me immediately."

Chen Fan asked: "Did you find any other clues?"

Li Tian had the person behind him hand the recorded clues to Chen Fan to look at.

"These things should all belong to the deceased, but there is one thing that is very strange, and that is the candles on the deceased's body. Could it be that this deceased had masochism and liked to do this?"

Li Tian suspected.

Chen Fan replied: "Not necessarily. A teenage boy is in puberty; he might be pursuing something, who knows."

Li Tian nodded. Everyone has had a puberty; during this period, whether male or female, they will have special feelings for certain aspects.

At this stage, men and women are also most prone to accidents.

"But there is one thing that is very strange: the ropes tied to the boy's body, were they tied by someone else, or did he tie them himself?"

Li Tian asked.