Chapter 2972

Pamela used the roots of forest plants to turn over the ruins of the middle school and elementary school departments that Shiler had mentioned, and finally turned up more things—the other body parts of that man.

Because several years had passed, other tissues were definitely not to be found, but Pamela found most of the bones and brought these things back to her house.

This was the first time Shiler had come to Pamela's house. Originally, Pamela should have held a housewarming party after moving, but it happened to coincide with the Great Depression. The mortgage had already made her overwhelmed, so of course, she was in no mood to hold any party. The others also understood her and didn't propose this matter.

Fortunately, the windfall allowed Pamela to pay off her mortgage, and she was already preparing for her housewarming party.

Pamela bought a small house in an ordinary community in the South District, not a villa. It was just a very ordinary American-style small house, with two floors, a front yard, and a backyard. The decoration style was biased toward modern, and Pamela used many plants to decorate it, which instead looked like it had a bit of naturalistic charm.

Of course, although it was just an ordinary house, because it was in a wealthy area with relatively good security, the price wasn't cheap, plus various decoration adjustments, it cost Pamela more than 200,000 US dollars one after another. This was 200,000 dollars around the millennium, which was already considered very expensive.

But this made the gold content of the 5 million dollars Greed gave her even more apparent. Even after paying off the mortgage, most of it remained.

In the backyard of the house, Pamela said while piecing together bones with Shiler: "I have already agreed with Luo Yi. This money counts as my investment in him. Added to the part of liquid capital he can come up with now, it is already enough to carry out preliminary greening transformation for Cat Getan."

"What ideas do you have?"

"It's unrealistic to transform the current roads directly. However, the Wayne Group has very mature roof garden technology, which has been applied on a large scale by him in the buildings in the East District. Now we intend to popularize this technology in the other four districts."

"Is the money enough?"

"Added together, it's close to ten million dollars, which is barely enough. But this way, there's no way to carry out the cooling plan. Fortunately, just like the mosquito incident last time, as long as we endure these few months, it will naturally be cool. It will be much better next year."

Shiler nodded and then began to focus on the work at hand. Two skilled workers soon pieced the bones together. It was about what Shiler had expected: an adult male in his 30s, who had been engaged in physical labor for a long time, with nothing special.

Then only the broken skull remained. After the two of them pieced the skull fragments together, they found that the place where it was hit wasn't the top of the skull, but the back of the head.

This verified Shiler's conjecture, that is, this man wasn't actually smashed to death by something falling from above.

There is a piece of trivia that many times, the injuries of people smashed to death by falling objects from a height are not on the top of the head, nor on the back of the head, but precisely on the forehead.

Because once humans hear movement above their heads, they instinctively look up, so unless this thing teleports to the top of their heads and smashes down directly, many people are smashed to death while maintaining the posture of looking up.

So in many TV shows, the situation where people smashed to death by flower pots falling from above are lying on the ground is actually not very scientific. The situation of corpses smashed to death lying on the ground is much more than those lying prone on the ground.

Of course, there are also some people who react relatively slowly, and there is no reaction even when things are about to smash onto their heads. These people have a probability of being smashed prone, but it is more likely to be smashed on the top of the skull. To be smashed on the back of the head, one must ensure that this person keeps their head down. The probability is really too small.

This kind of injury that appears on the back of the head is generally created by humans, that is, hit from behind.

Pamela and Shiler looked at the traces of the skull breaking, and their views were consistent, that is, this man died of murder.

Actually, blunt objects are the main force of murder weapons in daily life. The back of the human head is very fragile. Even a wine bottle has the possibility of smashing someone to death. Therefore, in crimes of passion, many corpses have traces of being hit on the back of the head.

Some people try to throw corpses smashed on the back of the head down from buildings to fake suicide, but in fact, modern criminal investigation technical means can perfectly judge the specific form of the murder weapon that smashed the back of the human head. Whether it was smashed or fallen is clear at a glance.

Forensic doctors can even perfectly restore the form of the murder weapon, the angle of the smash, and even the way the murderer exerted force through the skull cracks. Even the murderer's height and dominant hand can be judged. This method simply doesn't work.

Pamela and Shiler actually didn't have such professional technical means, and the corpse wasn't fresh, leaving only bone fragments. Many detailed texture trends could no longer be seen.

Even so, Shiler could see that the person who smashed this worker to death had great strength, and only smashed once. After this man fell, he didn't make a follow-up strike.

This proved the most important thing, that is, the other party wasn't panicked.

Many people, even if it is a premeditated crime, will be very worried that the victim hasn't died thoroughly, so one stab isn't enough, and they have to stab the other party into a sieve. Smashing the head is the same, fearing that one smash won't kill, and even after the person falls, they have to smash a few more times with force.

Once a follow-up strike trace is discovered, it proves that this person isn't an old hand. On one hand, they are relatively panicked, and on the other, they have no clear judgment of their own strength and the other party's physique, not knowing whether they can kill with one strike. Experienced killers won't make such mistakes.

Because it's still that saying, the more traces left on the corpse, the easier it is to provide clues to the police. Forensic doctors aren't vegetarians. With enough wounds, even the exhaustion method can infer height and dominant hand.

Shiler said his thoughts. Pamela pondered for a while and opened her mouth to say: "I think he didn't smash a few more times because he knew that even if he didn't make a follow-up strike, this person wouldn't live."

Shiler thought about it, and it was indeed so. If this were on the street, then it might indeed need a few more smashes to prevent the other party from coming back to life and calling the police. But the location where this man died was in the deep mountains and old forests. Even if it was just one stab, as long as he lost his ability to act, it was definitely a death.

Moreover, the murderer finally buried this man in the ruins of the school. Even if he wasn't smashed to death, he was suffocated to death. There was indeed no need for any follow-up strike at the time.

This can also show a very important clue, that is, the other party wasn't worried at all that the corpse would be found.

But this actually isn't very normal. Although the place where this man died was a forest, there was a high school not far away. What did he rely on to think that no one would approach here?

Where did this kind of confidence of his come from?

Shiler had already deduced some things. He looked at Pamela and said: "Brand performed a soul-summoning ceremony. Before this man died, the ruins of the two buildings still existed on the ground, but when we went, the traces of the buildings could basically no longer be seen."

"You mean, after this man died, someone carried out secondary cleaning of the construction site ruins."

"Yes, ten years ago, the two buildings were demolished, but many construction wastes and foundations remained in place. And a few years later, a man died there, and someone brought these construction wastes and foundations away, restoring that place to the appearance of a forest."

"This man must have discovered something," Pamela looked at the bones on the ground and said: "Otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly returned to the school ruins, and someone wouldn't have chased him and killed him, and then carried out secondary cleaning of the ruins."

"But you didn't find anything there, right?"

Pamela nodded and said: "The other party was very cautious, otherwise they wouldn't have killed him the moment this man arrived... Professor, if you continue to investigate, they will definitely target you."

"Why are you suddenly worried about me?"

Shiler indeed felt a bit strange. Couldn't Pamela understand him? What could the other party do to him?

"Professor, you aren't a super-powered person now," Pamela reminded: "If the other party is indeed just a serial killer driven by hobbies, they might not be able to cause any harm to you. But if this matter involves interests, then I'm afraid they will dare to use any low-down tricks."

Shiler stared at Pamela. Pamela looked left and right, then walked to the corner of the backyard under a tree, and beckoned to Shiler. After Shiler walked over, Pamela shoveled down, and Shiler saw a complete scapula.

"Do you know who he is?" Pamela was slightly indifferent. Shiler could hear that she didn't need an answer. Sure enough, she answered herself: "He was a plant protectionist who firmly opposed the existence of someone like me in this world who can make plants breed and revive at any time, because with me here, they can't attack other people's methods of raising plants at will, and they can't do their environmental protection business."

"When I went to the laboratory, he secretly slipped into my house and wanted to set a fire. Fortunately, the vines I arranged in the backyard caught him, otherwise my house wouldn't have been saved."

"A few months after the economic crisis began, my house, car, and even my job were threatened by this group of people. Have I said it? That black Ford car I had before spontaneously combusted for no reason, and I had no way to do anything."

"Professor, they are people from two worlds with you," Pamela was clearly referring to serial killers and this group of people driven by interests. She said: "That set of rules of yours can only prevent gentlemen, but can't prevent this set of villains of theirs. Even if they can't kill you, they can think of every way to make you suffer property losses. There is a thousand days to be a thief, but no thousand days to prevent a thief."

After leaving Pamela's house, Shiler seriously thought about these words of hers. He felt that Pamela's words made sense.

The Cat Getan of the past was relatively pure. Everyone was purely crazy. I kill you for personal enjoyment. If I can't enjoy it or if I'm inferior in skill, then I'll admit it.

But it's different now. After Cat Getan's situation got better, it could be said that the door was always open. Isn't the hard work to save Cat Getan just to let this city return to normal? People are here to do business, why not let them in?

It was precisely because he considered this point that Shiler didn't go to find trouble with Williams. People are serious businessmen, using legal and compliant means to get land, and also building resorts within the scope allowed by law. Their temper is bad, their attitude is bad, but they don't break the law in the end. Why don't you let them build?

Or rather, isn't the hard work of everyone in Cat Getan just to let Cat Getan have bosses like Williams come over to develop?

However, a normal world for normal people doesn't mean it's not sinister. It's better to say that compared to madmen, the interest struggles in the world of normal people are more complex and dangerous. Interest groups embrace each other tightly, and extreme means emerge one after another.

And besides interests, they have no other pursuits, which means they will have no bottom line. Because they are pure, they are powerful.