Chapter 718: Corpse Wax

"Clear out the hall."

"Unload a few beds and move them over. No need for autopsy tables. Besides, can you move them? Just the beds in the dormitory, move a few over. Forget it, no need to move the beds, just the bed boards, and get a few tables over to line them up."

The autopsy center was bustling. Center Director Li Zengyong heard about the situation, happily gave up his plan to spend the holiday with his wife, rushed to the autopsy center at the first opportunity, and first thought of ways to prepare beds for the bodies.

To be fair, even the capital's autopsy center didn't say it was prepared to handle a group of 20 bodies as a normal state.

Not to mention the capacity of the center, the center still had other bodies being autopsied. Besides the Zhengguang Bureau, there was also a squad from the district bureau and various other units, as well as individuals with needs.

Fortunately, most of the bodies had already skeletonized, so there was no need to worry about corpse water flowing down, and ordinary beds could handle this task.

In fact, normal autopsies don't require all bodies to be laid out. That's more of a plot in TV shows, also to pursue a visual impact and attract the attention of the audience. But to be fair, the audience are masters, but aren't the leaders masters too?

For such a big case, the possibility of leaders visiting the scene and even coming to see the bodies is very high. And things that the audience likes, the leaders also like; things that the audience thinks are cool, the leaders will also think are cool; the audience lacks knowledge, lacks common sense, doesn't understand business, lacks practice, is lazy to think, lazy to reflect, and is stubborn about comfort, and the leaders are too.

Li Zengyong set up his stall in the hall on the first floor. The rockery in the original large water tank was moved away, the water was drained to the bottom, a bunch of fat fish lay there pitifully and fearfully, and then were taken to an office along with the large water tank.

Two tables put together, then a layer of bed boards, covered with plastic cloth, became a simple morgue table. Row after row, column after column of morgue tables were neatly arranged, looking quite terrifying at first glance.

Li Zengyong only set up two layers of screens at the door to prevent people from accidentally breaking in and getting scared. As for why someone would accidentally break into the autopsy center, he didn't have time to consider.

By the time it was almost set up, the first truck of bodies entered.

"Rotten bodies go to the autopsy room, skeletons go to the hall," Li Zengyong directed enthusiastically, like a manager at a wedding scene arranging guests for both sides.

All who came were guests. Although they were all strangers, they still sat at the tables one by one.

Jiang Yuan returned with the last batch of scattered bones.

On the way, Jiang Yuan had already sorted the bones. When they arrived at the autopsy center, Zhan Kan and the others each held a large box and walked in.

"Sorted." Zhan Kan put down the box and started panting.

Human bones are not light either. According to the conclusion of sampling and weighing by China Medical University in Shenyang back then, the average weight of male wet bones is about 10 kilograms, and after drying, they still weigh 4.4 kilograms. Females are 6.8 and 3.2 kilograms. In addition, northern male bones are heavier than southern male bones.

Laid out, the bones looked thin and weak. From the body shape, it was hard to imagine that such bones could hang 100-plus jin of meat, or even two or three hundred jin of meat.

"If we can lay them out, let's lay them out from head to toe." Jiang Yuan saw that Li Zengyong was so well prepared, so he arranged it accordingly.

Doing this is also somewhat necessary. Not to mention anything else, starting from the skull, laying them out from top to bottom to the toes, totaling more than 200 bones, professional forensic doctors have to be careful. Non-professionals—here referring to those still blocked in the air-raid shelter—probably couldn't do it.

So, after they collected the bones, although they laid out a few skeletons that looked like the real thing, Jiang Yuan held a skeptical attitude as to whether the number of bones inside was correct and whether the bones belonged to the same person.

At this moment, the forensic doctors at the autopsy center went into battle to lay them out, and Jiang Yuan also washed his hands and helped out.

The main purpose was still to see the cause of death of the bodies and analyze the source and identity of the bodies.

At this time, identity was actually not that important. After all, they were not unidentified bodies in the wild. Even if mainstream religions used these people, most of them still had records or knew the identities of these people. When the time came to check, that would be it.

Therefore, the core task at present was still to see the cause of death of the bodies.

On this issue, one cannot count on the murderer to confess. Only by discovering the cause of death and determining whether it was homicide or non-normal death can there be a basis for interrogation.

From the bright side, the murderer was not too cautious in this regard. Among the previous 8 rotten bodies, four had obvious traces of being strangled, which could be said to be very casual.

In fact, with such good conditions in the factory and collective crime, they could have used more targeted killing methods and handling methods, such as... right. Although they were found, it was still easy to find clues, but the difficulty and risk were still vastly different.

"This person is relatively old, about 80 years old, and has bone cancer metastasis." Jiang Yuan picked another skeleton, and after making a judgment, couldn't help but walk to Liu Jinghui, who was checking notes, and said: "A cancer patient who can live to 80 should have relatives around. Where did the family go?"

"That's a good question." Liu Jinghui pointed at his notebook and said: "I was actually considering it just now. There are only four possibilities: don't know, know but don't care, know and want to care but can't, and participate in it."

"The number of relatives is likely to be large. Even if they know and can't care, the news will spread, right?" Jiang Yuan said.

"This is actually hard to say." Liu Jinghui exhaled and said: "This kind of non-mainstream sect is actually very patient compared to other money-making models. Moreover, they also choose people. You see an 80-year-old cancer patient, they might have interfered in his life when he was 70."

Jiang Yuan frowned when he heard this. He really had very little contact with this aspect.

Liu Jinghui smiled when he saw this and said: "It's okay. The people who know about this case are still all there. Even if the ones in the cave are all dead, 5 have been arrested outside. Maybe there are more. You can ask and find out."

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but smile: "I thought you would use reasoning."

"They are a non-mainstream religion. How could they do things according to the conventional model?" Liu Jinghui also laughed.

Jiang Yuan smiled, and his mood relaxed a lot. The case has progressed to this point. Although it seems terrifying and large-scale, it is actually close to completion.

As far as the present is concerned, the forensic doctors are mainly doing finishing work, including the criminal police. The screening teams have also been gathered at the first opportunity, and more tasks are on the shoulders of Tao Lu and the other white-shirted ones.

The forensic doctors in the hall seemed to feel this relaxation and slowly started chatting easily.

Doing puzzles for more than a dozen bodies is still a lot of work. It is not difficult to put most of the bones in the correct position, but it must be said that as technical personnel in the unit, putting them in the wrong place is really embarrassing.

Spending more time to check repeatedly is also reasonable.

In a while, the bones in the four large jars were also taken out bit by bit.

The bones of one jar were placed on one bed, still a puzzle process.

Jiang Yuan naturally strolled over to watch. Watching and watching, he picked up a bone himself.

"This is corpse wax."

Jiang Yuan pinched the stick bone and scraped it with his hand.

Oily, hard, and a bit dry. Looking at the gray color, it is indeed corpse wax.

Zhan Kan couldn't help but lean over, looking curiously. For forensic doctors, corpse wax is also not common. Theoretically, it is a derivative form in the process of corpse decay, a substance formed by the saponification of corpse fat. But because the saponification process requires an anaerobic environment, it only appears in the soil or water, and not necessarily.

Zhan Kan had seen many bodies, but didn't have many opportunities to see corpse wax, so he couldn't help but say: "Can I touch it?"

"Touch it." Jiang Yuan handed it to Zhan Kan and took another bone, which also had part of the corpse wax remaining.

Zhan Kan felt it while touching it and said: "Slippery, it really feels like soap. This feels different from what I've touched before."

"Let me touch it." The young forensic doctor next door also came over to rub it.

In a while, several forensic doctors put down their work, changed their gloves to look at the corpse wax. Those who had touched it before raised similar questions to Zhan Kan again.

Jiang Yuan was actually thinking about it just now. At this time, he pondered and said: "The reason for the difference, I think there are two points. First, this corpse wax has been artificially cleaned. Because of the existence of corpse wax, the preservation of the corpse might be much better. It is estimated that it has been artificially cleaned. This is like scraped soap, the touch is different."

Jiang Yuan paused and continued: "Another difference might be that the formation conditions are different. The corpse wax you have come into contact with before should be bodies in the soil."

"Yes." Zhan Kan nodded, then said in surprise: "This is a body in the water? How do you distinguish this?"

"It is relatively difficult to distinguish, but there is indeed a difference, mainly the degree of saponification..." Jiang Yuan talked about it roughly, and five minutes passed.

The brainpower of the forensic doctors around was also quickly exhausted. The problem of corpse saponification is a frontier problem, which belongs to the stage of still being studied, some conclusions have been studied, but it has not been studied clearly, and some conclusions are still in doubt. At this time, discussion and analysis naturally have to be extra complicated. After all, this field has no direct indicators or clear standards.

Liu Jinghui was also standing nearby, but he didn't listen to Jiang Yuan talk about technical things, but thought for a while, and waited for Jiang Yuan to pause before saying: "If it is a body in the water, is it certain? Are the bodies in these four jars all in the water?"

"I can only determine that this body with corpse wax has been submerged in water for a long time." Jiang Yuan gave the answer and added: "For the remaining three, what were the burial conditions at the time? If necessary, further analysis is needed."

"That is to say, these guys have submerged the bodies, at least one or some bodies, into the water." Liu Jinghui summarized, looked at Jiang Yuan, and explained: "Zhang Lizhen's body drifted over from the water, and there were dumbbells inside. The purpose should be to sink the body; otherwise, there is no need to put in dumbbells..."

"The one put into the water is in the transition period?" Jiang Yuan was talking about the transition between the overly simple and crude body handling plan and the relatively covert body handling plan that he had discussed with Liu Jinghui before.

Liu Jinghui nodded: "Zhang Lizhen's side is very likely to have some unexpected situation. If they can fish out the body even if they sink it here and put it in a jar, it means the body should have been under control... Call Tao Lu? If you can't interrogate anything here, I guess Old Xu will have to do it again."

The burial location might not really be interrogated, because the body might bring the death penalty, and the purpose of the interrogated personnel's leniency for confession is definitely not to seek death.

Jiang Yuan was also prepared and said: "You call Tao Lu, I'll tell Director Huang again." ===== CHAPTER 719 =====