Chapter 172: Carbonization

While Cao Keyang was communicating with Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang Lan and the criminal police captain on this side, Jiang Yuan also sent a message to Brigade Captain Huang Qiangmin, explaining his idea of wanting to stay in Qinghe City for a few days of training.

Because it was nighttime and not his own case, Jiang Yuan felt it wasn't good to call.

As a result, a few minutes after the text message was sent, Huang Qiangmin's phone vibrated.

"Who sweet-talked you?" Huang Qiangmin's voice belonged to the rigorous yet positive type, just like the beginning stage of interrogating a criminal, ready to enter the offensive and defensive ends at any time.

Jiang Yuan naturally wasn't... that afraid of him, laughed twice first, and then said: "I haven't come into contact with a body that was murdered and then burned; I want to go over and take a look."

Huang Qiangmin listened to his answer, felt a bit stifled, and felt that his silly boy hadn't been sweet-talked away, and said earnestly: "They are asking you to work for free; there are many types of bodies, do you have to see them all?"

"Isn't that what forensic doctors do?" Jiang Yuan whispered.

"You don't have to do the work of a forensic doctor to do very well; don't pursue this deliberately." Huang Qiangmin said something insincere. On weekdays, he required his subordinates to strive for excellence.

However, words like this were originally like a night pot, used only when needed.

Everyone is a big livestock; if you want to talk about working, Huang Qiangmin himself also has to work. He is essentially a command-type large-scale investigator, belonging to the kind who doesn't seem to do much but ultimately plays the most important role—just like a pig.

As for Jiang Yuan, he is a horse that can do anything, so he is slightly detached from the environment of the village and county.

Huang Qiangmin therefore emphasized: "Don't let people take advantage of you. Working for free, what a loss."

Jiang Yuan laughed twice, glanced at Cao Keyang who was making a phone call, tilted his body slightly, and whispered: "I'm just broadening my horizons; working is working, it's nothing."

"Broadening what horizons? How many bodies have you seen that were killed first and then burned?" Huang Qiangmin said unhappily: "You come back, I'll get you a roast whole lamb."

Jiang Yuan laughed dryly twice, persuaded Brigade Captain Huang to be at ease, and before hanging up, said: "The state of the internal organs of a burned body is also quite important. I'll hang up first."

A hundred kilometers away, Huang Qiangmin squeezed his phone, his face full of gloom.

That group of big sweet-talkers in Qinghe City!

The autopsy in Qinghe City was also placed in the funeral home.

The rules were all set by the City Bureau, and there was nothing fresh—of course, there were requirements for the quality of the freezer.

Inside the funeral home, the most commendable thing was the environment.

The ground was usually clean and tidy.

Places where humans frequently pass by were mostly cleaned very carefully and meticulously.

Not only did the funeral home staff do it meticulously, but the quality of visitors in the funeral home was also extremely high. Very few people littered, and many people who came to pay respects, after cleaning their own family's area, would also conscientiously clean the public area.

Dense ancient trees were a common configuration in the funeral home, and they mostly grew strong and towering, covering the large open space below, ensuring that even at noon, visiting guests could feel the shade.

At dusk, the visitors had returned, and even the aunts in the cafeteria and small supermarket had finished work. Cao Keyang pulled Jiang Yuan, entered the parking lot, and walked to the autopsy room.

It was still a basement with a coolness level of MAX.

There was also a wailing wind in the corridor.

"You're here." Wang Lan heard the sound and greeted them at the door.

She was thin and dry, looking like a famine victim who had been starved to the point of being out of shape. If it weren't for her bright eyes, she would easily be mistaken for someone else in a place like a funeral home.

"Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang, sorry to trouble you." Jiang Yuan stepped forward and said.

Wang Lan smiled: "What trouble is there? I'm even happier to have someone willing to help. Um, this is Niu Tong, a forensic doctor from our district bureau."

Jiang Yuan noticed a short and thick man beside the thin and dry Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang, standing on a small stool next to the autopsy table.

Having seen so many forensic doctors, he inexplicably missed his master, Old Wu.

At least his master was still a bit normal.

Niu Tong looked up at Jiang Yuan. He had heard the introduction before he came—a young forensic doctor who had won new merits repeatedly. He didn't have much hope, so he just chatted: "I've met Wu Jun a few times; Old Wu is retiring soon, right?"

"Master will retire in two years." Jiang Yuan answered.

It was quite good to have someone to help.

The district bureau in Qinghe also had the position of forensic assistant, which was roughly equivalent to basic labor without a certificate.

Niu Tong, Wang Lan, and a forensic assistant doing an autopsy on one body was considered relatively easy.

However, who could refuse an extra forensic doctor to help?

After two sentences of pleasantries, several people quickly entered the autopsy room.

Jiang Yuan was also fully armed; he even brought some equipment with him.

Cao Keyang felt a bit embarrassed to leave, mainly because he didn't want to leave Jiang Yuan. Plus, it was late, and thinking about walking through the road composed of eerie ancient trees back to the parking lot alone, it was better to stay and face a charred body and several living forensic doctors with different shapes.

The body was indeed a bit charred.

To use a professional description, it was called highly carbonized.

To use a folk description, it was that the outside had been burned into a layer of black brittle shell.

It was still very terrifying; ordinary people couldn't accept this.

Watching the charred aroma of roasted lamb is one thing, but roasting a person is...

"All four limbs have some carbonization loss. The left upper limb is above the middle of the upper arm, the right upper limb is the forearm. Both lower limbs are from the middle of the thigh..." Wang Lan stood on one side of the autopsy table and introduced the situation to Jiang Yuan.

The body had already been burned and curled up. That is, it had shrunk like a shrimp.

And the so-called carbonization loss was that it was burned away.

In one sentence, except for the left hand which left half a forearm, the remaining forearm and two lower legs were burned away, and the hands and feet naturally didn't need to be mentioned; they couldn't be seen either.

The difficulty of handling such a body was much harder than an ordinary normal body.

However, as long as it was handled completely and the information that should be obtained was obtained, the killer was equivalent to leaving an extra piece of information for the criminal investigation personnel.

Jiang Yuan saw that they had just straightened the body. Because all around, many black charcoal blocks had fallen, some still connected with a bit of human tissue.

Some parts were too crispy and fell off with a touch.

Wang Lan performed more calmly than Jiang Yuan and Niu Tong, with a calm face of a dry corpse, and continued to introduce to Jiang Yuan:

"The body was found without clothes, the skin on the back was relatively complete, and no self-defense posture was adopted..."

"There were wounds on the waist and abdomen, with characteristics of sharp weapon stab wounds."

"The perineum was also carbonized, and the vaginal swab could no longer be extracted."

Jiang Yuan listened to Wu Wu Fa Yi Wang Lan's description, and in his mind, multiple questions and multiple images were gradually gathered.

Now, Jiang Yuan, who had mastered LV4

But he wasn't the protagonist today, and he wasn't in a hurry to start the autopsy, so he followed the progress of Niu Tong and Wang Lan, starting from scanning the body surface.

Step one: pick up the large pieces of charcoal that had fallen off and put them into the basin.

Step two: record the condition of the corpse's expression from top to bottom:

"Forehead and facial carbonization."

"Facial carbonization with tissue loss."

"Skull carbonization."

What surprised Jiang Yuan the most was that the corpse's brain tissue was exposed and appeared solidified.

From this point, one could actually judge the degree of burning.

The temperature inside the room should have been just enough to burn and shatter the skull. Or, there were external objects, such as other shattered fragments, that broke the carbonized skull, and the residual heat then burned the leaking brain tissue until it solidified.

Jiang Yuan casually wrote down a few times in his notebook, still not saying a word.

The information he had just deduced needed to be verified and tested on one hand, and on the other hand, it was highly likely to be useless.

During an autopsy, a lot of information can be obtained, but that doesn't mean all of it needs to be spoken aloud.

For example, during an autopsy, it's easy to determine if the corpse has gallstones, but if it's not an autopsy related to a medical malpractice case, stating this answer isn't necessarily meaningful.

Of course, if the deceased did indeed have severe gallstones and someone claimed to have had dinner with the deceased, eating a large bowl of twice-cooked pork, then it would be meaningful...

Jiang Yuan still wasn't very experienced, so he just wrote down whatever came to mind.

It wasn't until they were dissecting the chest cavity that Jiang Yuan stepped forward with extra attention, squeezed the lungs, and said: "There is a snow-crunching sensation."

Niu Tong, who had been performing the autopsy in a routine manner, stopped, squeezed the lungs as well, and nodded: "Indeed, there is a crepitus sensation."

Both crepitus and the snow-crunching sensation are evidence of the presence of extra air, and they mean similar things.

But as far as the autopsy is concerned, it proved one thing: the deceased, before death, likely did not die from burning, nor did they die from a sharp weapon!