I was about to get in the car, but a call from Officer Yang forced me to go back to the hospital. From the tone of Officer Yang's call, it seemed that the matter was very serious. Besides, I just saw several policemen carrying a stretcher upstairs. Perhaps the person lying on the stretcher was the main cause of this incident.
I came to the ward where we were before again, and found that everyone was standing at the door of the morgue. Judging from the situation, the person they carried up just now might have already become a corpse.
When I arrived at the door of the morgue, I once again felt the inexplicable cold atmosphere of the morgue. At this time, in the morgue, Officer Yang, Li Hua who had left earlier, and the new forensic doctor Yuan Hao were standing around the bloody stretcher I had just seen. When Officer Yang saw me come in, he immediately said, "Close the door! No one is allowed to enter without my order!"
I didn't know what was so mysterious, but I still closed the door, walked closer and asked, "What happened? Just now when I went downstairs, I saw someone carrying this body upstairs. Is there another murder case?"
Officer Yang nodded slightly, then said to Yuan Hao: "Begin to examine the body."
Yuan Hao smiled slightly, and without hesitation lifted the blood-stained bed sheet above the stretcher in front of him. Suddenly, the corpse under the bed sheet was completely exposed in front of me.
The deceased was probably a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, with blood all over his body. But when I looked closely, I felt like his head had exploded! I had never seen such a weird corpse before!
This middle-aged man was only wearing very thin clothes in the middle of winter, and his body was covered with blood holes. A large amount of flesh was missing from each hole. Although I am not a forensic doctor, just by looking at the blood holes, I felt that the wound seemed to be caused by a bite from something, and the missing flesh might have been eaten by the thing that bit the middle-aged man to death.
The extremely strong smell of blood, coupled with the stench of the dead man's intestines, made me feel my stomach acid constantly rising up. I immediately went to the window and took a few deep breaths, only then did I suppress the urge to vomit.
Looking back at the remaining few people, Officer Yang seemed to be unable to hold on any longer. He covered his mouth and kept dry-heaving. However, Yuan Hao and Li Hua seemed to be looking at something very ordinary and did not react at all.
Finally, Officer Yang couldn't bear it anymore and ran to the window to take a deep breath. I asked, "What happened? Was he bitten by a tiger?"
"Does a tiger have such a small mouth? Wait a minute, let me catch my breath."
Officer Yang's words reminded me, because when I looked at the wound on the corpse just now, although the wound was indeed very hideous, the amount of flesh lost was not very much. At least it didn't look like it had been eaten by a tiger. Could it be that it was eaten by a wolf or a wild dog
But then I thought, if it was really a wolf or a wild dog, Officer Yang would not have been so anxious to call me back. Thinking of this, a terrible idea came into my mind.
Could it be that the one eating the dead body was not some other animal, but a human
Officer Yang had almost finished his rest by then. He reached out to wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth, glanced at the body on the stretcher with lingering fear, and then said to me, "This is a bit weird. Let me explain it to you slowly."
Just after I left, the policemen carried the body upstairs and told Officer Yang what had happened. Officer Yang then realized that strange things happen every year, but this year there are especially many!
The body was discovered by the Binhe Police Station after receiving a report of the case. According to the reporter, he was playing games in the house at night when he suddenly heard a baby-like laughter coming from outside the window. The laughter continued and seemed to have no intention of stopping.
The person who reported the case was having a great time playing games when he was suddenly disturbed by the noise. He became unhappy immediately, but then he thought that the other person was just a baby and there was no need to argue with him, so he continued playing the game and automatically blocked out the baby's laughter.
But what he didn't expect was that after the baby laughed for about ten minutes, he suddenly heard a shrill scream from downstairs! The sound sounded like that of an adult man, and the sound was extremely miserable, as if the owner of the sound had suffered some kind of great trauma.
The reporter was getting a little impatient now, and immediately climbed up to the window to look down. However, it was too late, and it was so dark that he couldn't see a single hair. Originally, the reporter wanted to pretend he didn't hear anything, but the miserable screams just now would not go away in his mind. After the game was over, the reporter decided to go out to take a look and buy a pack of cigarettes.
However, when the reporter went downstairs and looked in the direction where the screams were heard, he found a person lying in a pool of blood in front of him, his body still twitching slightly. It seemed that he could still be saved. The reporter immediately called the police, but before he could finish his words, he had already seen clearly the person lying in a pool of blood in front of him, and he was so scared that the phone in his hand fell to the ground!
Because he saw that the man had bite marks all over his body. What was even more strange was that in the pool of blood on the ground, there was a pacifier used by a baby that was stained with blood!
Seeing the scene in front of him and thinking about the sound he had just heard, the reporter was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot. When the police arrived at the scene, the middle-aged man had already died, and the reporter was so scared that he couldn't speak clearly. The police asked for a long time before they told him what had happened.
After listening to Officer Yang's narration, I finally understood why Officer Yang attached so much importance to this case!
First of all, the wounds on the body of the deceased were extremely strange. Assuming that the baby's laughter heard by the reporter was the real murderer, this would be a horrifying incident, a case of a baby murder and corpse cannibalism!
But in my opinion, this is simply impossible. However, if you think about it carefully, the first thing the reporter heard was the baby's laughter. Although babies' voices are generally relatively loud, if the reporter could hear this sound clearly, then no matter what other sounds there were, he should be able to hear them. But this is where the problem lies.
According to my thinking, the murderer could not possibly be a baby. Perhaps it was some large animal that he raised that committed the crime. However, if it was a large animal, it would surely make a unique animal roar when eating the corpse. However, this sound did not appear in the reporter's description.
In addition, the reporter only heard a scream from the deceased, and no other sound was heard from the deceased afterwards. This proves that the murderer killed the deceased with one fatal blow. It is obvious that he must have a deep hatred to do such a ruthless thing. But why did the murderer put a baby's pacifier next to the deceased? What is the truth
I racked my brains but couldn't figure it out. Finally, I decided to keep my own thoughts to myself and wait for Yuan Hao to finish examining the body and then hear his conclusion.
Thinking of this, I once again looked at Yuan Hao who was staring at the corpse, and found that he was fundamentally different from Li Hua at this moment.
Li Hua had a frown on his face, and it was obvious that he was concentrating on examining the corpse in front of him. Yuan Hao, on the other hand, still had a cynical smile on his face, as if the corpse in front of him had nothing to do with him at all. He seemed very casual and he even turned around and smiled at me from time to time. This behavior made me doubt his identity even more. Perhaps he knew nothing about forensic knowledge.
"Yuan Hao, can you be more serious? If you continue like this, forget about getting a permanent job!" Police Officer Yang couldn't stand Yuan Hao's behavior anymore and immediately spoke to him angrily with displeasure.
Yuan Hao stuck out his tongue and said, "I have always been very serious, but there are no tools I can use here, and I can't do any further investigation."
Faced with Yuan Hao's attitude, Officer Yang could only show helplessness and said, "So what have you found now? What was the time of death of the deceased?"
Yuan Hao said helplessly: "Didn't the colleagues who sent him here just now say that he died half an hour ago? As for the cause of death, he must have been bitten to death by something."
As a forensic doctor, Yuan Hao's conclusion was a bunch of nonsense, which made Officer Yang furious again. He gritted his teeth and said, "What else? Tell me everything you know!"
Before Yuan Hao could speak, Li Hua on the side spoke first: "Look, there is a large piece of flesh missing from the deceased's throat. Judging from the wound, his Adam's apple and trachea were bitten off by something. When I was in the special case team, I learned some forensic knowledge from Ding Yang. This should be the deceased's fatal injury. It also explains why the deceased only screamed once, because he couldn't make a sound after that. In addition, the deceased's clothes didn't look too wrinkled, so he shouldn't have struggled violently before his death!"
After Li Hua finished speaking, I finally had a preliminary outline of what I wanted to know, and Yuan Hao smiled and said, "You are amazing. You know more than I do. It seems that you should be a forensic doctor."
Li Hua would not pay any attention to people like Yuan Hao. Without even looking at him, he turned to me and said, "Ji Wen, do you know what the problem is?"
I nodded and said, "Yes. Judging from the sounds at the scene provided by the reporter, the possibility of a large animal committing the crime is very small, but the possibility of a baby committing the crime is definitely zero. The most important thing now is to find out what caused the wounds on the body, and whether there are fingerprints left by the murderer on the body."
Li Hua nodded and said, "Yes, it is just as I thought. Officer Yang, I'll ask you to take this body back for examination. You must thoroughly check the key points that Ji Wen mentioned just now. This is very important."
Before Officer Yang could speak, Yuan Hao at the side smiled and said, "In my opinion, this corpse was most likely eaten by humans. The size is about the same as a person's mouth. If you don't believe me, I'll give it a try."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Hao made a move that almost made me faint! I saw Yuan Hao completely ignored how disgusting the corpse in front of him was, and directly opened his mouth, aimed at one of the bloody holes on the corpse and bit it!