Chapter 479

Chen Fan said nothing but went to the second corpse and opened its mouth.

He then opened the mouths of the remaining corpses one by one.

Finally, he put on gloves and pulled something out from inside the corpses' mouths.

The object was always a piece of unburned paper, black in color, crumbling to powder at the slightest squeeze.

He connected this with the yellow talismans scattered throughout the room.

Chen Fan said: "I think this case is very likely the same as the doctor's."

Li Tian paused in surprise.

"Why say that?"

Remember, as a police officer, rigor is essential.

Chen Fan replied: "The doctor died of cyanide poisoning—no doubt about it. Just now, I smelled the same odor in the mouths of these five deceased."

"So I suspect these two cases are connected."

"Didn't you say you already checked everyone who had contact with the doctor?"

This reminded Li Tian.

That's right.

He had already interrogated everyone who had interacted with the doctor.

But except for one…

The doctor's friend whose phone call never went through.

Li Tian carefully examined the corpses on the floor and recognized one faintly.

It was the doctor's friend.

Li Tian quickly brought over the complainant—the deceased's husband.

"Was your wife close friends with a pediatric doctor at the city hospital?"

The husband nodded: "Yes, they were college classmates and often visited each other."

"My wife was also a pediatric doctor, but she quit after having a child."

"Also, I just discovered something—my wife withdrew twenty thousand yuan in cash yesterday."

Twenty thousand yuan in cash!

That's no small amount!

Chen Fan stood up and ordered the five corpses to be transported back for autopsy.

Even though he could confirm they died of cyanide poisoning, autopsy was still necessary.

They returned to the autopsy room together.

Xiang Qinqin asked Chen Fan curiously: "How could you guess these two cases were connected just from cyanide poisoning?"

"What if it was just coincidence?"

Chen Fan smiled and said: "There aren't that many coincidences in the world. Besides, I smelled the same perfume on them."

"And they died one right after the other, in the exact same manner."

"When two events share one coincidence, it's coincidence. But when they share two—or more—it's not."

"It's like a staged encounter, or someone pretending to sleep—you can never wake them up."

Xiang Qinqin never doubted Chen Fan's extraordinary abilities.

While they spoke,

Qu Yiling and Liu Mengyan had already begun the autopsies.

Though none of them possessed Chen Fan's innate talent, they performed the autopsies competently.

After testing,

it was confirmed: these five corpses also died of cyanide poisoning.

Chen Fan handed the report to Li Tian.

Forensic doctors only uncover clues; catching the killer and doing the reasoning? That's for more specialized people.

Six o'clock.

In one afternoon, they encountered two cases and performed autopsies on six corpses.

When everyone went to the cafeteria for dinner, they still had good appetites.

It was something they'd trained themselves to do.

Chen Fan was eating heartily.

Unexpectedly,

Li Tian arrived there too.

Chen Fan glanced at Li Tian, saw he had also taken a bowl of food, and asked: "Do you treat this place as your cafeteria? Why do you come here every day to mooch meals?"

Li Tian said: "It's because I have something to ask you."

Chen Fan replied: "Whenever you come looking for us, it's never good news."

"Aren't we already done giving you the clues from this afternoon's two cases?"

"Why aren't you going to catch the killer? Why are you here?"

Li Tian said: "It's because of the killer."

Lao Liu said: "Then spit it out already. Are you going to make us wait while we eat?"

Under pressure,

Li Tian said: "After investigation, we found out the deceased—the complainant's wife—suspected her husband of cheating, so she contacted a Daoist Priest through some channel."

"She believed he could make her husband change his ways, but the Daoist Priest, seeing how wealthy the family was, planned to murder her for her money."

"Put the cyanide into the talisman water and make them drink it."

"This wife thought good deeds should be shared, so she specifically set aside a portion for her good friend, who was that doctor."

"Unexpectedly, it caused the deaths of herself, her friend, the child, and her parents-in-law."

Hearing this.

Everyone sighed with emotion.

Chen Fan asked, "You've already solved the case; why come to us?"

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