A person goes to evil not because he yearns for evil, but because he mistakes for evil as the happiness they pursue.

——Mary Shelley

1

"Can't the case be solved without a special case team? I'm reckless." I pretended to be calm.

"Isn't this the master not here either?" Dabao said, "The master went to the case was a nationwide robbery and murder with guns. I guess the Ministry of Public Security will not let him come back if he didn't solve the case."

"Is the corpse dismemberment case difficult?" I said, "How many cases of the corpse dismemberment cases we handle have not been solved? Don't be afraid, let's work hard and go!"

Dabao and I walked a few steps and found Lin Tao still standing at the security door in a daze. I turned back and pushed him, saying, "Do you want me to shout for your soul?"

The scene is located in a trash can at the entrance of a dilapidated community in the downtown area.

"Did you find the body?" asked a policeman holding a notebook.

The old man in the cleaner uniform closed his eyes and shook his head hard, saying, "No, no. I saw a bloody thing inside and called the police."

"We received the order from 110 and came over and found that there were human corpses inside." said the police in the jurisdiction.

There was a white plastic film on the ground, and the forensic doctor from the Municipal Public Security Bureau was cleaning up the corpses from the garbage dumped out of the trash can.

Dabao and I approached the forensic doctor of the municipal bureau, nodded, and joined the ranks of cleaning up the bodies. Lin Tao took out a multi-band light source and observed the traces around the trash can.

There have been many large and small pieces of body parts on the white film.

"You guys are moving very fast, so you have collected so many." I put on gloves and picked up a piece of corpse tied with ropes.

"Yes." said Dr. Han, the Forensic Medical Officer of the Municipal Bureau. "Other brothers are cleaning up the rest of the trash cans in this community. I guess I have found almost everything except the head and internal organs."

I said "um" and continued to observe the two largest pieces in the pile of corpses. One piece is the pelvis and upper thighs of the corpse. The upper end of the corpse is neatly cut along the lumbar intervertebral disc, and the lower end is the middle section of the femur on both sides. The other big piece is the upper torso without arms. The rest of the small pieces should be the remains of the chopped arms and legs.

These two large corpses have the same characteristic, that is, on the outside of the corpse, the murderer cut the circumferential wound with a knife, which was several centimeters deep. A rope as thick as a thumb wrapped around the wound on both sides and tied a knot. The wounds on both sides were like rope grooves on both sides.

"Brother Han, you see that this way of binding corpses is quite unique." I said.

Forensic Han nodded: "Yes, this kind of trough is tied to facilitate carrying. If there is no such trough, the rope tied up will easily slip off."

"No need to wrap the items, just carry the body and throw it to the residential area." I said, "The psychological quality of this murderer is really good."

"So I think the murderer should have transportation," said Han forensic doctor, "or it would be too easy to be exposed."

"If there are transportation, why do you have to cut the trough and tie it up?" Dabao asked.

I pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe it's to improve efficiency. You think that you can't cut off a large corpse with one hand that he can't cut off, and you can discard the main parts of the two corpses at a time."

Forensic Han stopped working, wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with his forearm, and said, "There is one thing I can't understand. So many small bodies should be wrapped in packaging, but no packaging was found here. I guess I carried it with packaging and then poured it into the trash can. Why did he pour it in without throwing it in with the packaging?"

"The big corpse is not wrapped," said Dabao. "That, I guess he is just to let us discover it."

Forensic Dr. Han and I were in a cold sweat and did not make any noise.

"The head has been found." Forensic Doctor Wang ran over from a distance, holding a black bag of physical evidence in his hand.

"Is there any packaging?" I asked in unison with Forensic Doctor Han.

Forensic Doctor Wang shook his head and said, "No, just throw it in a trash can at the back door of the community. And after confirmation, the internal organs of the body should not have been abandoned in this community."

"The head was thrown at the back door," said Dr. Han. "All other corpses were dumped into the trash can at the front door. What does this behavior mean?"

"Spread far away and buried near," said Dabao, "this is the rule."

This is a common method to analyze the distance of the murderer. Generally, there are hiding corpses, such as burying the corpses, which means that the burial place of the corpses is closer to the murderer; and if the corpses are abandoned and there is no obvious hiding behavior, it means that the murderer comes from another place.

"You mean, the murderer is far away from here?" I asked.

"Absolutely, otherwise he doesn't even need packaging?" said Dabao.

I nodded and said, "But this does not explain why it is abandoned in the trash can at the front and back doors."

"I guess this is the murderer's driving route." said Dr. Han, "There must be a means of transportation."

"Since the corpse has been basically found, why did the murderer abandon his internal organs here?" I asked.

"That's hard to say." Lin Tao interrupted, "Is it true that the murderer killed someone for his internal organs?"

Everyone's face turned pale.

On the dissection table, a complete male body is gradually being pieced together by us.

The sternum of the corpse was cut open, and it was a corpse whose internal organs were hollowed out. Looking at the cut of the chest and abdomen of the corpse, and recalling Lin Tao's words just now, cold sweat broke out on our backbone.

"There are often rumors on Weibo that people can kill people and take internal organs for transplantation," Dabao said, "but this is an unreliable rumor. Without matching, the body is cut open in such a rough way. If the internal organs removed can survive, they will not be aseptic."

"It won't be this," I said, "this basically takes away the entire set of internal organs."

"It won't be..." Lin Tao looked disgusting, "It's a human-eating person?"

Everyone gave him a blank look.

"Why did the murderer take out his internal organs?" Lin Tao said.

"I don't care much about this." I said, "If the murderer is for the internal organs, why should he break the body? Wouldn't it be better to just have a caesarean section?"

Forensic Han pursed his lips and said softly: "Looking at the cut marks, the murderer should have a little understanding of the human body structure, but he doesn't know how to cut the body from the intervertebral disc, but he doesn't know how to cut the body from other joints. After so much effort, he must have abandoned the body to make it easier to."

"The murderer is very strong." Dabao said, "This large piece of corpse is dozens of pounds."

"The point is not here." I said, "What everyone means is that if the murderer hides the corpse and throws the corpse, it means that the deceased and the murderer are familiar with each other. If the murderer breaks the corpse to obtain the internal organs of the human body, then the murderer may not know the deceased."

"Then your conclusion now is that an acquaintance commits the crime?" Dabao asked.

Everyone nodded together, which was considered to be a unified thought.

"Apart from the internal organs, all the corpses have been found?" I asked.

The intern looked at the body, shook his head, and said, "There is a piece of soft tissue in the abdomen, and there is still an ear. Basically everything else is complete."

"Normal." Lin Tao interrupted, "There are so many wild dogs and wild cats. Take away two pieces and eat them. No matter how capable you have, you will not be able to find them. By tomorrow, it will become the end product of the metabolic products of cats and dogs."

"I am quite handsome and always have such a heavy taste, which is not suitable!" I looked at Lin Tao and smiled.

Lin Tao raised his thick eyebrows and said, "Who said that, look at my words so elegant."

"There are no signs of damage or suffocation on the body," said Dabao. "It is currently impossible to confirm the cause of death."

"There are no internal organs and cannot collect enough blood. What kind of test materials should we take for toxicity testing?" said Han Forensic Medical Doctor.

"Haha, there is no way out." Dabao raised his forearm and pushed his glasses, saying, "The bladder is still there, and there is urine!"

"It is rare to kill people by poisoning, and it is usually a means of killing women," said Han forensic doctor.

"I don't think it was a woman who did it." Dabao said, "Can a woman carry such a heavy body?"

"If the car is driving next to the trash can," said Dr. Han. "It can still be done by moving a seat."

"That's impossible." Dabao said, "Who can do such a ruthless hand, cut off the caesarean section, dig up the internal organs and smear the body. The woman's mentality is not as strong as that."

"That's not necessarily true." said Dr. Han. "Look at the broken sections of the long bones of the limbs, they were cut by repeatedly slashing with choppers. The cross section is very neat, which means that the bone-cutting knife is very sharp. But looking at the broken bones, it must have been cut at least dozens of times. If it were a man, it should have been cut in just a few times."

"Have you ever seen a woman dismembered herself?" said Dabao.

"You can't say it, I've really experienced several times." Forensic Han smiled and said, "Times are different. Women are not only half of the sky, so women can also do corpse-breaking work."

While squatting beside the pressure cooker, I listened to the debate between Dabao and Lao Han. What they said made sense.

"The pubic junction will be cooked right away." I interrupted their argument, "Find the source of the corpse and everything will be solved."

The pressure cooker squeaks under the high temperature of the induction cooker. The air permeable hole on the lid of the pot sprays out "puff puff puff puff", and the entire dissection room is filled with a "meat fragrance".

However, it can be imagined that this "meat fragrance" is disgusting.

"Since I cooked bones myself," Dabao frowned, "I have never drunk bone soup again."

"As for it?" I weakened the power of the induction cooker, slowly opened the lid of the pressure cooker, and used hemostasis tongs to turn over the bones in the pot. "I use the nervous system to do my work, and the digestive system to eat, so the well water does not interfere with the river."

"You have automatic transmission and high displacement," said Han forensic doctor. "Can you change gears?"

The bones are cooked to make the muscle tissue, cartilage and periosteum that are closely attached to the bones easier to peel off. This way, the bone surface can be fully exposed for observation.

I took out the pubic bone from a pot of milky white "bone soup" and peeled off the soft tissue bit by bit with hemostatic forceps. Soon, the shape of the pubic joint surface was exposed in front of me.

"It's probably in my thirties." I said, "If you take it back, we will calculate the specific age. Also, you have to do it quickly, otherwise you will not know how he died after fighting for the body for so long."

"Dear teachers," a trainee in charge of the corpse block suddenly interrupted our thoughts, "Why are there eleven fingers here?"

When a few of us heard this, we quickly gathered to the dissection table. If the deceased was a "six-fingered man", it would play a very important role in finding the source of the corpse.

"But," the intern continued, "we have finished playing with the palms, this person is not Liu Finger."

I didn't react for a long time: "What...what does it mean?"

The forensic doctor Han continued: "It means that there is a finger in these corpses that is not the deceased."

"Oh," I said, "I understand. The case we just cracked was that two people died. No matter how we tried to fight the corpses, we felt that they were inconsistent. As a result, DNA tests showed that there were two corpses."

"But, this is not the same," said the intern. "There is no problem with this corpse, except for the extra finger."

The anatomy room suddenly became silent.

Cut the internal organs, multiple fingers, and tie them up. All of this makes the monk confused.

"That..." Dabao broke the silence, "No matter what, the deceased is a male, 1.75 meters tall, medium-sized, about 30 years old. We can already confirm that when the DNA results come out, I believe that the source of the corpse will be found soon."
To be continued...