Chapter 22: Xue Ming's Legacy

Huang Qiangmin was in control of the overall situation. Hearing what Jiang Yuan said, he immediately walked over and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Judging by the form, it's a female pubic hair." Jiang Yuan picked up the hair with a pair of tweezers, observed it under the light, and then put it into an evidence bag.

The deceased was male, so a female pubic hair appearing suddenly was obviously a very important lead and evidence.

Bureau Chief Guan Xi walked over and asked, "You said judging by the form—can you determine it just from the form?"

"Female pubic hair is generally shorter, and it will also be rougher. Compared with the victim's, it is relatively easy to distinguish." Jiang Yuan explained briefly.

The Bureau Chief smiled inexplicably, coughed twice, and said, "Makes some sense..."

A young technician doing scene investigation next to him still had a desire to learn and asked, "Armpit hair and beard are also curly."

Old Yan, who was scanning fingerprints, laughed "pfft." He looked at the young man doing scene investigation and said earnestly, "Little Yang, you have little experience."

Everyone in the room revealed a mysterious smile.

Comrade Little Yang couldn't hold his face and said in a low voice, "Using experience to judge this is not steady; shouldn't we talk about science."

The Bureau Chief followed the trend and curiously asked Jiang Yuan, "Tell me, what is the scientific basis?"

"** will be more elastic, the cross-section of armpit hair is elliptical, the cross-section of beard is triangular, and the hardness is higher..." Jiang Yuan answered casually.

Comrade Little Yang was stunned on the spot: "Is there really someone researching this?"

The Bureau Chief smiled with satisfaction and then said to Captain Huang Qiangmin next to him, "Send the evidence to the laboratory as soon as possible; the chain of evidence must be made solid."

Huang Qiangmin nodded immediately. He was also worried about the evidence just now.

For the police, evidence provided by biological samples has always been high-end goods among physical evidence. Especially DNA and fingerprints, they have strong exclusivity and high recognition. In the litigation stage, physical evidence with DNA evidence will also have higher recognition.

Nowadays, judicial departments are required to value physical evidence and downplay oral confessions, which is also a disguised improvement in the importance of DNA evidence.

Jiang Yuan handed over the evidence bag and continued to bury his head in his work.

The Bureau Chief and others stayed for a while, then went out to the yard and spoke in low voices.

Scene investigators, trace evidence examiners, and forensic doctors also retreated from the scene one after another.

After sunset.

Jiang Yuan and another young police officer lifted the corpse onto the Iveco and pulled it back to the funeral home.

Wu Jun also followed the vehicle.

The funeral home at night was terrifyingly gloomy.

The dark pine trees looked sturdy during the day, but at night, they easily made people have many associations...

The old man watching the door rubbed his eyes and opened the door, pointing the way with a wicked smile: "Don't go left, there are many ghosts on the left."

The young police officer who came with him felt a shiver all over and couldn't help asking, "What's the logic behind this?"

The old man watching the door said listlessly, "If you don't believe me, go left. I don't care anyway."

"Go right." Wu Jun said solemnly.

The young police officer released the brake and turned the steering wheel to the right, but still couldn't help saying, "He opened the door for us at night, he must be unhappy and scaring us."

"Maybe." Wu Jun answered.

"Any other possibility?"

Wu Jun thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's the Bodhisattva blessing us?"

The little police officer was stunned for a long time before he understood that Wu Jun was making a pun, and he was speechless.

The three of them worked together and arrived at the autopsy room as quickly as possible.

When the bright white light flashed, the stainless steel autopsy table shone with silver light, which was exceptionally reassuring.

Wu Jun and Jiang Yuan busied themselves with preparations before the autopsy.

In big cities, some busier districts and counties, autopsy might have to queue. But for a place like Ningtai County, there is basically no civilian autopsy, and cases of homicide and unnatural death are also few. Having one corpse is enough to work with peace of mind.

As for staying up all night, facing a sudden homicide case, everyone tightened their nerves. Those who stayed up all night and those who were going to stay up all night were not just them.

Similar to the last autopsy, after letting the victim's brother-in-law who arrived later sign, Wu Jun still let Jiang Yuan operate.

He had the idea of letting Jiang Yuan practice, and of course, he was also so tired from the scene investigation that he couldn't straighten his waist.

Watching Jiang Yuan pick up the scalpel, Wu Jun said, "We forensic doctors cut corpses, paying attention to large openings and large closings. You can pull it open with confidence; it doesn't matter if the movement is a bit larger."

Jiang Yuan nodded and first lowered his head to observe the corpse.

When the corpse was at the scene, although it was also gradually cooling down, the feeling it gave people still had some temperature.

Now, moved to the stainless steel autopsy table, the human attributes of the corpse were instantly greatly lost.

Jiang Yuan also felt slight discomfort.

This was the second corpse he had handled since he started working, and it was a purely strange corpse... Looking back, Jiang Yuan felt that the Seventeenth Uncle's corpse was more intimate.

Jiang Yuan pinched the knife tightly and pulled it from the neck of the corpse to the pubic symphysis in one breath.

The raised skin and flesh had red, white, and yellow, and Jiang Yuan's emotions were instantly relieved a lot.

The victim's brother-in-law who came to witness couldn't do it. He took a look, and his expression was wrong.

The little police officer who was very energetic when lifting the corpse just now also lowered his head, his brow furrowed, unwilling to look closely.

Wu Jun handed a trash can to the victim's brother-in-law to avoid his sudden change of face, and said, "Nowadays, people eat and don't exercise all day long, the body fat rate is high, so there is more fat..."

In his tone, there seemed to be a bit of apology. The victim's brother-in-law listened, and his expression became even more distorted.

Wu Jun shook his head, returned to the autopsy table, and said to Jiang Yuan, who was separated by a corpse, "I'm also not good at comforting people. If only there were a female forensic doctor."

"Would a female forensic doctor be gentler?" When Jiang Yuan was studying, half of his classmates were female, but when they were looking for jobs, most chose to take the ordinary civil servant exam or interview for a judicial appraisal institute. The remaining ones often also took the forensic doctor of the Procuratorate as their first choice.

Wu Jun looked down at the incision of the deceased, helped Jiang Yuan pull it, and said, "Definitely better at talking than me. It's just that they are not useful when lifting corpses."

Jiang Yuan couldn't care about talking. He cut the scalpel along the ribs, finished lifting the sternum, and then along the back of the sternum, began to cut knife by knife.

Unlike the doctor's caution, the forensic doctor's movements pay less attention and are larger and more forceful, so that in the silent autopsy room, there is a sound of cutting meat.

The victim's brother-in-law didn't even dare to raise his head, wishing he could cover his ears.

"If you really can't stand it, you can stay outside the autopsy room." Wu Jun couldn't force people to watch the autopsy, and he disliked the smell of the family's vomit even more.

The victim's brother-in-law moved his feet twice and stayed still again: "There is no one outside, I... I don't dare either..."

"You make your own decision." Wu Jun's attention was always on Jiang Yuan's side.

He helped Jiang Yuan, and the cooperation was already quite tacit.

"One knife into the chest cavity. There are scratches on the ribs, it should be very forceful." Jiang Yuan opened the chest cavity, observed the situation inside, and made a judgment synchronously.

Wu Jun nodded in agreement: "One knife fatal. A little bit off, it might have hit the ribs..."

Jiang Yuan determined the fatal wound. After Wu Jun took photos, he flipped up the lifted chest muscle, found the skin wound on the other end, and continued to take photos.

Then, Wu Jun handed Jiang Yuan a soup spoon and said, "Scoop out the blood in the chest cavity and weigh it."

Jiang Yuan then took an ordinary ceramic soup spoon and scooped the accumulated blood in the chest cavity into a stainless steel basin bit by bit.

Almost scooped clean, then put the stainless steel basin on an electronic scale to weigh. The electronic scale was also non-dedicated. To put it another way, it was an ordinary electronic scale that Wu Jun bought from the market. The whole process, if you don't consider the corpse, is actually a scene that ordinary people can fully accept.

"About 850 milliliters. Plus the blood left in the room... How much blood will be in the room?" Jiang Yuan made a judgment while turning to ask Wu Jun.

"At least that much." Wu Jun said based on experience.

Jiang Yuan said: "Then add up to about 1700 milliliters, enough to be fatal. Then the cause of death is the sharp instrument piercing the aorta, leading to death from massive blood loss?"

"Hmm." Wu Jun watched Jiang Yuan clear the chest cavity, pointed to the black spots on the corpse, and said, "Estimate the time of death?"

"About 8 hours to 10 hours? That is, death around four or five in the afternoon?" Jiang Yuan pressed the corpse spots, there was fading but it could recover, indicating that the corpse spots had developed to the second stage of the diffusion period. Combined with the corpse temperature and other conditions, he gave a time judgment.

Judging the time of death is something that can be difficult or easy. Like today's corpse, in a room at room temperature, the time of death is short, and judging by various means will not be too difficult. But if the time of death is longer and the ambient temperature is more complex, the judgment of the time of death becomes a science.

The police officer who came with him was a young man sent by the Second Squadron. Hearing Wu Jun's words, he hurriedly sent a message to the squadron leader.

"Remember to state the cause of death clearly." Wu Jun reminded, and then said to Jiang Yuan: "Continue."

Jiang Yuan said "Hmm," and continued to open the abdominal cavity silently, then scooped out the internal organs and weighed them.

While scooping, a shiny dumpling fell out of the kidney.

Jiang Yuan had touched a shiny dumpling before.

Last time, what he got was the Seventeenth Uncle's legacy, LV3 special egg fried rice.

To be honest, Jiang Yuan felt that the practicality was quite strong. Even if it was his generation, everyone didn't need to set up a night stall to make money, and occasionally cooking for themselves was also a very good skill.

And this time...

Jiang Yuan touched the shiny dumpling lightly, and the system's prompt flashed before his eyes:

Xue Ming's Legacy: Camping (LV2) — This is Xue Ming's favorite hobby, and also his most proficient activity. Whenever he drives to a strange place, the thing Xue Ming wants to do most is to set up a tent and boil a pot of ordinary tea. However, in most cases, driving is Xue Ming's job, and he can only fantasize about the comfort of camping in his mind. And after changing positions, Xue Ming's opportunities for camping have become even fewer. Xue Ming's most proficient work is ordered as follows: using various tools to ignite, using various tools to judge wind direction, using tampons to stop bleeding, using various tools to fetch water, using various tools to set up tents...

Jiang Yuan smoothed Xue Ming's abdominal cavity with his hand, which was considered an expression of gratitude.

Turning his head, Jiang Yuan began to open the cranial cavity for the deceased.

In theory, forensic doctors can choose not to perform a full autopsy on a corpse with a clear cause of death. Just like today's corpse, the cause of death is basically determined, which is the rupture of the aorta caused by a sharp instrument, leading to death from blood loss. It is said that after opening the chest cavity, at most opening an abdominal cavity, the task can be completed.

However, Jiang Yuan is still a newcomer forensic doctor, and he does things according to specifications.

Wu Jun also has the intention to let him exercise more, preferring to accompany him for a few more hours.

After opening the cranial cavity, confirming that there is no cerebral hemorrhage, no skull base injury, there is no need to cut the brain into slices like cutting foie gras.

Even so, the time they spent was quite a lot. When several people came out of the autopsy room, the sky was already bright.

Hurriedly crossing a brazier, several squadrons also sent back news one after another—no progress.

Including the special hair in the special position found by Jiang Yuan, none of them could find a match.

The atmosphere inside the Criminal Investigation Brigade suddenly tightened. ===== CHAPTER 23 =====