Chapter 404: A Little Sour

"33 to 36-year-old woman, height 163 cm, weight about 110 catties. Type A blood, long hair, 34-year-old woman, has given birth, often works bending over, often climbs mountains... should be a resident of the upper township or village..."

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai's forensic anthropology foundation is very strong. When he worked with Jiang Yuan last time, he revealed a Level 2 plus level. This time, coming to Longli County, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai concentrated his energy and did his best to show his best side.

The 8 young forensic doctors who came to receive training listened and took notes, all looking serious.

Some who could speak, took advantage of Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai finishing speaking, and smiled

and said: "Division Chief Zhai is really awesome. With just such a bone, staring for a few minutes, it is a series of judgments based on anthropology, strong and invincible."

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai, a little old man, and also dealing with corpses all year round, had few opportunities to be praised, and smiled embarrassedly: "What strong and invincible, I can't understand the words of you young people now."

"You can understand what the corpse says, which is really amazing." The forensic doctor on the side patted two flattery shots "pa pa".

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai was quite happy, put down the bone, and smiled: "Everyone says that forensic medicine is listening to the corpse, but it is not that easy. However, the technological innovation is fast now. By the time you reach my age, I don't know what step forensic technology has developed to..."

"It won't really let the corpse speak." Another forensic doctor said.

"To tell the truth, some corpses, if you let them speak, they might not be able to explain clearly how they died. Finally, we have to help look."

"Chatting with the corpse while dissecting? It's quite exciting."

"Many surgeons are like this, giving patients local anesthesia, doing surgery while chatting with patients, and later being praised, saying that the surgical attitude is good."

"Reasonably speaking, even if the corpse feels that our attitude is not good, it shouldn't be able to complain."

"Then it shouldn't have the energy to complain, solve the case by itself."

Cough cough.

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai started to listen happily, but couldn't listen

The crowd gradually quieted down, watching Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai pick up the bones and talk about them.

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai himself was also using this method to re-evaluate his judgment.

He had been looking at the bones for two days, but he still hadn't been able to make a breakthrough.

Fortunately, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai was older and knew that failing to make a breakthrough was the norm—sometimes, an ordinary person's body is just a common corpse by the time they die, with no unique points to be found, and not even many special features left on the bones...

There are many residents upstream of the Lishou River, and several villages and towns were built along it. As for the location where the body was found, the area 10 kilometers upstream is relatively densely populated. Moreover, one must also consider the possibility of body dumping.

If the victim had ever broken a leg, had bone nails inserted, had dental implants, was missing half an ear, had broken two ribs, or suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis combined with gout, it would generally be easier to find them...

"Let's talk about this patella today." Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai casually pulled out a kneecap:

"The value of the patella in forensic anthropology should be considered second-tier. Everyone knows that for a forensic doctor, the pelvis is of the highest value; it can accurately and easily determine sex, age, a woman's reproductive history, and can also be used to estimate height and even weight through various calculations... Generally speaking, if you have the pelvis, there's no need to look at the patella. However..."

"We are forensic doctors, and we will always encounter some special cases, such as dismemberment cases where the criminal police only found the lower body, or just one leg. What do we do then? The most common cases are actually explosions—not just explosives, but also gas explosions, pressure cooker explosions in restaurants, all sorts of things. In explosion cases, it's very easy for the upper body to be blown away, leaving only the lower limb bones."

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai, while holding the corpse's kneecap, said: "For the patella, determining sex is relatively difficult. First, you have to measure the bone's height, the width of the inner and outer articular surfaces, and the volume, among other

indicators. Then, there's a series of regression formulas... As for age, it's mainly about observing some changes in the bone quality on various bone surfaces..."

The more he spoke, the more excited he became. After all, patellar assessment is highly technical and very fitting for the status of a provincial forensic doctor.

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai looked at the young forensic doctors listening attentively below and felt slightly satisfied.

As long as they are willing to listen carefully, these young forensic doctors can pick up some common knowledge of forensic anthropology. When they encounter cases in the future, even if they can't solve them themselves, they will at least know who to ask for help, how to preserve evidence properly, and where to take photos...

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai, who is above level 2.7 in forensic anthropology, might be able to display level 2.8 or 2.9 skills today, appearing completely at ease.

To put it another way, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai is also half a step away from level 3. In terms of forensic anthropology skills alone, apart from Jiang Yuan, this is the peak for forensic doctors in Shannan Province.

In fact, Jiang Yuan's forensic anthropology is only level 3, but having worked on cases in the province for so long, he hasn't met anyone of comparable skill. Of course, this also has to do with his other skill configurations becoming

increasingly comprehensive. Level 3 forensic clinical medicine, level 4 forensic pathology, level 4 forensic physical evidence, as well as level 6 time-of-death

estimation, plus the current level 3 skull reconstruction technique, all certainly have a boosting effect on forensic anthropology.

If you calculate it, Jiang Yuan's forensic anthropology must be level 3.7 plus.

However, for the young forensic doctors coming for training, they still cannot understand the gap between Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai and Jiang Yuan in forensic anthropology, and because of Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai's age and air of authority, everyone defaults to assuming Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai is at least a cut above.

Only Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai himself frowned while touching the bones.

His original idea was to see if he could use forensic anthropology techniques to push this case forward. Even if he couldn't directly solve such a low-probability event, if he could narrow it down to a range and then enter a level where effective screening could be conducted, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai felt that would be quite good.

Jiang Yuan needs time for skull reconstruction. If it were the hand-sculpted skull reconstruction that Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai is relatively familiar with, it would take at least a month. Now that there is computer-aided skull reconstruction, the time might be shortened to one or two weeks.

But Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai believes that if he can delineate an effective screening radius, even if it's an area of tens of thousands of people, or even 100,000 people, as long as the specificity is sufficiently clear, Longli County would be willing to conduct the screening.

In terms of the political correctness of the police system, when you encounter clues to a homicide, you just charge forward head-on; there's no need to consider so much. Even if the leaders have many thoughts, they can only think about them more in private.

However, thoughts are thoughts, and practice is practice...

"You all ponder it yourselves; I'm going upstairs to take a look." Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai let the other forensic doctors take over, and with his hands behind his back, he walked out the door.

They were examining the bones in the basement of the Longli County Criminal Police Team.

There was originally no autopsy room in the criminal police brigade's office building. Some units have them, but the Qinghe City police station doesn't have similar facilities.

However, Unidentified Corpse 122 had already been boiled down to just bones, meaning it was in a completely inactivated and very clean state. To accommodate Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai from the provincial bureau, as well as Jiang Yuan and the young forensic doctors from various places, Captain Hou had a room cleared out in the basement, also taking into account everyone's needs.

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai went upstairs, took a deep breath, stretched his shoulders, and then slowly headed up.

When he was almost at Jiang Yuan's office, he heard lively noise coming from inside.

"This is..." Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai, like a little old man, poked his head in through the door.

"Oh, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai is here." Hou Xiaoyong shouted, which served as a reminder to Jiang Yuan.

"Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai. I can't easily get out from here, come and sit." Jiang Yuan, sitting inside, greeted him.

Only then did Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai see clearly that in the small room, several tables had been pushed together. Several police officers from the Criminal Science Squadron, as well as Hou Xiaoyong and a group of police officers from Jiang Yuan's cold case task force, were sitting around chairs, busily eating pork intestine and tripe

chicken, as well as hot pot boiled with pork intestine and tripe chicken.

"So lively, what's going on?" Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai asked as he entered the door.

"Team Leader Jiang has reconstructed Unidentified Corpse 122, and we're celebrating." Hou Xiaoyong said with his mouth full of grease.

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai was stunned: "Reconstructed?"

"Yes. Captain Hou has already led a team to make an arrest." "Gone to make an arrest?" Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai turned into a tape recorder.

Hou Xiaoyong nodded: "The reconstructed photo, when scanned with the police terminal, immediately brought up an ID card. It's a woman from a village upstream, Yu Guang Village, a farmer. She hasn't been reported missing for so long, so it's eight or nine times out of ten a crime committed by someone she knew."

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai couldn't spare the time to listen to Hou Xiaoyong talk about the details of the case, only asking: "Where's the photo?"

"It's on the table next to the computer desk." Jiang Yuan said.

Tang Jia, sitting at the head of the table, hurriedly stood up to help Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai find it.

Hou Xiaoyong picked up another piece of pork intestine, chewed it with a smack, and shouted: "Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai, eat something with us."

"No need, I'm not hungry." Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai was a little hungry, but had no appetite. He walked to the computer desk himself and saw that piles of photos had already been placed there, and not just finished ones, but many photos that were in a semi-finished state.

Although Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai doesn't know skull reconstruction, his half-step level 3 anthropological knowledge was enough to see the progressive relationship between these semi-finished products.

From 3D reconstruction, to referencing skull models, referencing human face models, then to the calibration of skull feature points, the calibration of human face feature points, then starting to produce the human face model to be reconstructed, followed by local deformation, overall deformation, and finally forming the human face model to be reconstructed, as well as the final human face model...

This process, looking at the photos alone, is plain and simple, and you can't see any Gauss, Laplace, Lagrange, Fourier, Maxwell... behind it.

And without those eyesore formulas, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai's artistic style also received a simple and direct sublimation. From hard bone to cartilage, from cartilage to muscle, from muscle to glands, and then to fat and skin...

"So it's finished." Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai sighed, unable to help but feel a sense of inferiority he didn't want to admit.

"This one isn't finished. The finished ones are in this stack." Tang Jia took a finished photo from the pile of photos nearby and handed it to Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai.

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai was stunned again: "What do you mean?"

"I did three skull reconstructions at the same time." Jiang Yuan shouted from across the table, and added: "Come and sit, let's eat

and talk."

He wasn't very willing to talk about specific techniques with Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai. The difficulty of skull reconstruction is too high; at Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai's age, trying to popularize new knowledge to him... Jiang Yuan felt tired just thinking about it.

But as far as Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai's current situation is concerned, if he were to explain the specific technical details to him, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai would basically be equivalent to a Muggle.

At Jiang Yuan's signal, several people pulled Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai to the table.

"You guys started eating already." Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai was helpless, turned back into a tape recorder, and asked the same question as before: "You said three skull reconstructions, what do you mean?"

"When I started using the computer to trace the outline for Unidentified Corpse 122, I had nothing else to do, so I started two more cases." Jiang Yuan said simply.

"I didn't even know about this." Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai blurted out.

Jiang Yuan smiled and said: "I asked Wu Wu Fa Yi Ye to go over and boil them. It's only been a few days since they were boiled. One of them had fast progress and the image came out, the other one is still being traced. You happened to catch it at the right time today; 122 just got results, and Captain Hou and the others left."

Jiang Yuan starting new cases naturally didn't require him to explain or report to Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai.

He did it to save time. Skull reconstruction is a tiered workload, so he simply started a few more cases and repaired them on an assembly line, one skull at a time.

And he didn't need to report any of this to Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai. They didn't have a subordinate relationship.

Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai also realized his slip of the tongue and said awkwardly: "Then I see, that picture just now is already about done. That means another case is about to be solved."

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Whether it can be solved, I don't know, but in another two days, the second picture should be usable. Come, come, come, eat something..." Jiang Yuan greeted Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai, and they ate with great enthusiasm. Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai had no choice but to join in.

The pork intestine and tripe chicken were extremely fresh, and Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai also liked the rich flavor of the pepper inside, although the soup was a bit sour.