"How do you judge?" Dabao asked.

"These two metal objects are of the same size, length and height, placed parallel to the bottom of the corpse. What are the most likely these two things?" I asked.

Lin Tao frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Ah, I understand, it's the trolley of the suitcase!"

I smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, it's the trolley of the suitcase. Because this is a trolley made of textiles, it's just a metal trolley left. However, this thing tells us that the body was transported here in a suitcase and then ignited and burned."

"This can explain why the joints of the corpse are all highly curled up!" Dabao said excitedly.

I said, "Yes, it should be man-made curling the body and putting it into a trolley case. However, I think you shouldn't be so excited at this time."

"Oh, yes." Dabao's emotions immediately became depressed, "This is a murder case, and it's time to be busy."

"But, don't be too frustrated." I am full of fighting spirit. "Although I'm short of staff now, I believe we can do our best to minimize the scope of investigation and solve the case quickly!"

After transporting the corpse away, we still carefully collected all the ashes that could be swept up and put them in a bag of physical evidence. I said to Section Chief Hu: "Secretary Hu, take away some of the ashes and go to the physical and chemical department to check to see if there is any combustible material. I guess it is probably a combustible material if it is burned to this extent."

"Okay, I'll go now." Chief Hu said, "What about you?"

I said, "Lin Tao and Dabao go to the funeral home. You can leave someone here to see the traces on the scene. The body is burned like this, how to determine the source of the corpse is a problem. Although the scene is a gravel road, there are also soft mud roads, so I hope the trace inspection department can find some shoe prints, wheel prints, etc."

"It's already past ten o'clock, I don't know if they have finished watching the show." Dabao leaned against the car door and looked at the moonlight outside through the car window.

"It's all you said," Lin Tao said, "I have to say that I'll go home to hug my wife on the Mid-Autumn Festival. You are such a good and bad spirit."

Dabao smiled awkwardly, and the car slowly stopped.

The anatomy room of the funeral home was filled with moonlight, and there was no usual gloom. The funeral home staff yawned, dragged the body off the car, placed it on the dissection table, and then stretched toward the duty room while taking off their gloves.

I was about to turn on the lights in the anatomy room, but suddenly I felt that there was a rustling sound in the anatomy room.

There is nothing in this dissection room except the body that just put it on the dissection table, right? I thought to myself that the deceased could not pretend to die, it was already burned like that.

The more I was a little scared, the less I couldn't touch the switch of the light. I muttered to myself, took out my phone, opened the "Flashlight" application, and a beam of white light illuminated the walls of the anatomy room.

Before I turned on the light, suddenly, a dark shadow rushed out of the cabinet in the dark corner, flashed on the dissection table, and then disappeared from the window on one side. I was really scared, and my hand shook and my phone fell to the ground.

Lin Tao hugged me and said, "Damn it! Ghost!"

Dabao was also frightened. He stopped walking to the instrument table in the anatomy room and stood still.

Lin Tao's overreaction calmed me a lot. I tried hard to spread Lin Tao and hugged my arm tightly, and said, "Hey, can you be like a man? You are as brave as a man."

I picked up my phone, leaned against the light of the phone, and turned on the headlights of the anatomy room. In an instant, the anatomy room was bright and there was no corpse. There was a body bag on the anatomy table, which was uneven and the deceased was lying quietly inside.

I walked to the dissection table and looked at it, pointed to the dust claw marks on the side of the table, and said with a smile: "Haha, it's still a ghost. You're still making traces. You can't do a trace test? Let's see if the one who ran out just now was a wild cat?"

Lin Tao was a little embarrassed and scratched his head and said, "It's midnight, what are the wild cats doing here? They don't have any food."

A shocking little episode drove away our sleepiness and started the corpse examination in high spirits.

As soon as the body bag was opened, a burnt smell came to my nose, and the black burnt corpse appeared in front of me.

"Oh, I think the burnt corpse is more disgusting than the Giant View." Lin Tao said holding the camera in one hand and pinching his nose with the other.

"How could it be?" I was surprised. "How smelly is the giant? This burnt corpse smells like a fragrance. You can't even tell which smells like that, right?"

Lin Tao raised his hand to stop me and said, then he retching, saying, "How do you ask me to face those barbecues again in the future?"

The deceased is a man, and his age is not judged because his face is completely destroyed. When the deceased is burned, he should be in the right lying position. Because the right side is close to the bottom of the box, the skin on the right is not highly charred. The left side is up, so the skin on the left is severely charred. Because the body is heated, the skin and muscles are severely contracted, causing the body to remain in a curled posture. There is no other way to straighten the body. Only by cutting the skin and muscles in the joints of the corpse with a scalpel can we loosen the highly tense skin and muscles.

After spending all my efforts, the body finally straightened.

"Isn't it considered destroying the corpse when you cut it like this?" Lin Tao leaned over and looked at it, "Do you remember how many times you cut to loosen the limbs of the corpse?"

I nodded and said, "Remember. Moreover, the original damage of the deceased, whether it is a life injury or a post-mortem injury, can be distinguished from the wounds caused during our dissection."

"Oh? How do you say it?"

"It is very easy to distinguish between injury before death and injury after death. The skin injured before death will be stained with blood, so the wound is red; the skin injured after death will be yellow. This is a judgment on whether the wound has a life reaction, and it is easy." I said, "Look again, the wound before the deceased was burned, whether before death or after death, was stained with a lot of ashes in the wound of the skin due to burning, so the wound will appear black, and you can wipe it off with your hand. Moreover, because of the burning, the edges of the wound are heated and curled, and the skin texture becomes hard. The wounds cut when we dissect and loosen, the edges of the skin do not curl, exposing a yellow fat layer, so it is easy to distinguish."

Lin Tao nodded and made a "please" gesture, signaling us to continue.

The skin on many parts of the corpse has been burned, and it is impossible to judge the specific damage status. However, it can be judged from several wounds on the corpse's chest that the deceased should have been stabbed in the chest with a sharp weapon before his death. The cause of death is likely to be blood loss.

Because there is no corpse spots in the burned corpse, it is impossible to judge whether the deceased died of blood by whether the corpse spots are shallow. So Dabao picked up the scalpel and prepared to dissect the deceased's chest and abdominal cavity to see if the deceased's internal organs were ruptured.

"Wait!" I stopped shouting Dabao, and tried hard to spread the deceased's arms, and two cloth pieces fell out under the armpits on both sides.

I picked up the cloth piece, shook off the ashes stuck on it, and said, "Generally, most of the corpses that were burned will be destroyed because their clothes are flammable, but the clothes under the armpits are usually not burned because they are protected by limbs. The clothes of the deceased are gone, only these two pieces are left."

Dabao came over to see him, and Lin Tao brought a magnifying glass.

"This should be two layers of clothes, which are stuck together because of the burning and heating." I said, using tweezers to separate the two layers of cloth. "The inside is black and the fiber is very thin, it should be the kind of fabric like mulberry silk. The fibers on the outside are very thick and white, and the fabric seems to be very cheap."

"Be good, it's not cold." Lin Tao said, "Although Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, autumn tigers are still very powerful. These days it's been over 30 degrees, and it's the season for short-sleeved clothes. Who would wear two clothes at this time?"

"Yes." Dabao said, "From the well-preserved skin under the armpits of the corpse, it should be a fresh corpse, and it would not be pulled out and burned after being stored for a long time."

I smiled slightly and said, "Doctor!"

From the cloth piece under the armpit of the deceased, we easily judged the occupation of the deceased, which seemed to allow us to see the dawn of quickly solving the case. We were in a good mood, and the moonlight outside the window seemed to be brighter.

We dissected the deceased's trachea. As expected, there was no sign of congestion or ashes in the trachea. Because the deceased did not have hot respiratory syndrome, it can be judged that the deceased was burned after death.

The deceased's ribs became very brittle due to heat, and the scalpel easily cut the ribs, exposing the chest organs that were not burned and charred.

"Lin Tao, look, the human body is so magical." I said, "Although the corpse is burned severely on the outside, the internal organs are very clean. It can be seen how great the protective effect of our skin on the internal organs should be."

Lin Tao touched his chest with a dark look on his face.

"The aortic arch of the deceased was broken." Dabao used hemostasis forceps to pick up the aorta above the deceased's heart and said.

"When the aorta is broken, shouldn't there be a lot of blood in the chest?" Lin Tao asked.

I said, "Yes, but because the body was burned after death, the high temperature evaporated the blood, so we didn't see much blood accumulation. Of course, there was still some blood accumulation. In any case, it is possible to determine whether the deceased had been pierced by a sharp weapon to cause blood loss and death."

"The stomach is empty. It seems that the deceased has not had the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner yet." Dabao shook his head regretfully.

"For us, there is a lack of a basis for investigation." I said, "It is also a way to find clues of corpse sources through the contents of the stomach. Now that the stomach is empty, we have a lack of a way."

"Isn't there any pubic joint?" Dabao picked up the hand saw and raised it.

We put the pubic junction of the deceased into a high-pressure cooking pot in the dissection room and conducted routine inspections on the corpse. After we collected some of the ashes from the corpse, the pubic junction was also cooked.

"It seems that the deceased is only in his early thirties." I glanced at the pubic joint briefly.

The relationship between pubic zygote and human physiological age is very high. You can often look at the forensic doctors of pubic zygote and a brief look can roughly infer the approximate age of the deceased. But if you want to be accurate, you need to do some calculations.

"How many doctors can there be in that small village?" Lin Tao said, "With age and profession, I think the source of the corpse will be found soon."

I shook my head and said, "Not necessarily. Who said the deceased must be from several villages near the scene? Maybe which hospital it is from? Then it will be difficult to find."

"That's right." Lin Tao nodded and said, "The murderer used a box to hold the body, and it's impossible for anyone from other places to do so."

"No." I shook my head and said, "The place on site is not something that ordinary people can find, so I think no matter where the deceased is, the murderer should be not far from the scene and is more familiar with the geographical location of the scene."

"Then how do we find the source of the corpse?" Lin Tao said.

I took off my anatomy suit and looked at the watch. The hour hand was already pointing at one o'clock in the evening. I said, "Other, we will work harder and we will sift the ashes."

For the ashes at the fire scene, we usually use a sieve to sieve them, so that the tiny things will be filtered, leaving only larger things that can be recognized by the naked eye. These larger things are the possible valuable physical evidence we are looking for. Through the sieve method, the detection rate of physical evidence can be greatly improved.

The three of us put all the ashes bags in front of the door of the dissection room, and then each brought a stool and sat down under the light. Dabao and I were shaking with the sieve, while Lin Tao was responsible for pouring the ashes on the sieve.

After filtering, we found several zipper heads and a burnt card-like thing.

"There is a trademark on the zipper head." Dabao said, "Why are G-F-T-P, all of them are initials?"

"Initial Consonant? Haha." Lin Tao was amused by Dabao for a long time, "G-F-T-P is a pretty good luggage brand."

"It seems that there is a man among our partners who likes to go shopping, which is also good," I helped Dabao win back the game, "Otherwise, how can we know what famous brands are not famous brands?"

"What does it mean to like shopping?" Lin Tao defended himself, "This is called fashion awareness. Do you understand? Fashion awareness!"

"A good brand?" said Dabao. "Does this mean that the murderer is a person with good financial conditions?"

"Not necessarily," I said, "what if the murderer committed the murder at the deceased's house and then used the deceased's suitcase?"

"This at least shows that the deceased and the murderer have one condition. It is a waste to use such a good box to hold the body." Lin Tao twitched his tongue.

"Only one of the left side of this card is burned," said Dabao, "'Feng'?'P'? What does it mean?"

Dabao and I looked at Lin Tao with anticipation at the same time. Lin Tao smiled slightly and said, "This is not a problem for me."

3

"Did you forget the conversation we had when we were queuing up on the TV station before?" Lin Tao said.

I looked up and thought for a while and said, "Did you mean the girl who hooked up with you?"

Lin Tao hit me and said, "It means VIP is not VIP. I said we are VIP, you said we are P."

"Oh, yes, this is a VIP card!" I said.

Lin Tao nodded and said, "Anyway, this should be the VIP card of the Yinfeng Shopping Mall in the center of Longfan. Because only Yinfeng Shopping Mall can have this brand of luggage for sale."

"This card should be kept in the suitcase, which means I applied for the card when I bought the box, but I have never used it in the future. Does the VIP card there have user information registration?" I asked hurriedly.

Lin Tao said: "Some."

"That's great!" I said excitedly, "We have the capital to show off to the task force now!"

When we rushed to the task force, it was already three o'clock in the morning. Although the case had just been reported and there was no way to start, the more than 20 people in the task force were not sleeping, waiting for our arrival with their red and swollen eyes.
To be continued...