In the empty and tidy corridor, two figures walked forward one after the other.
At the end of the corridor, there is a metal automatic sliding door. Next to the door is a young man sitting, leaning against the wall and yawning.
Seeing two people coming, he immediately perked up and stood up from his seat.
"Please show me your ID." He said seriously.
Lin Qiye took out the emblem and handed it to him. The latter took a closer look and said in surprise:
"So you are the new night watchman. Excuse me." He bowed slightly to Lin Qiye and returned the emblem with both hands. At the same time, he looked at the man behind Lin Qiye with some surprise.
"Brother Lin, this is..."
"Oh, he is the expert I invited. Come and take a look at the corpse." Lin Qiye put away the emblem and said calmly.
"Okay, I'll open the door for you."
The young man opened a small box next to the metal sliding door and entered a dozen-digit password. The metal sliding door then opened, revealing the passage inside.
An Qingyu, who was wearing a shirt and a mask, followed Lin Qiye into the room and spoke in surprise:
"Is the security here so lax? I thought they would search me and register my identity."
"This is just a morgue. There's no need to go through so much trouble. You don't even know if it exists, let alone walk in so brazenly." Lin Qiye replied.
In the end, he brought An Qingyu with him, not because of anything else, but because An Qingyu's ability to interpret corpses was absolutely top-notch in Daxia, and even the most powerful forensic doctor might not be able to match him.
With him around, maybe we can really find some clues.
The two men pushed the door and entered the morgue. Compared with the morgue in the police station, this one was obviously much smaller. After all, only bodies related to mysterious incidents would be stored here, and such incidents would not happen many times a year.
After showing his identity to the forensic doctor, the other party immediately gave Lin Qiye an autopsy report and, at the same time, in response to Lin Qiye's request, took Sun Xiao's body out of the cold storage.
Lin Qiye simply glanced at the autopsy report and focused his attention on the body in front of him.
Judging from the report, this corpse is the same as the previous three, there is nothing special about it. If we really want to make a breakthrough, we still have to start with the corpse.
An Qingyu had completely entered the state, examining the entire corpse with an absolutely indifferent and precise attitude, with a faint gray light in his eyes.
After thoroughly examining every detail of the corpse, he subconsciously reached into his pocket and pulled out a sharp scalpel...
Lin Qiye held his hand and shook his head, "You can only look at it, you can't dissect it."
An Qingyu nodded helplessly, looking down at the corpse, the lenses of his glasses reflecting the pale light, and said in a deep voice:
"Overall, it looks like the previous three bodies, with the fatal wound on the chest, and all ten fingers cut off. There are no other injuries except the nail wounds."
He took the autopsy report from Lin Qiye and continued, "The ten fingers have active reactions, which means they were cut off while they were still alive. This is the same as the three bodies before..."
"So, there is nothing unusual?" Lin Qiye asked with some regret.
"Yes!" An Qingyu nodded heavily, "There is one thing about this corpse that is different from the previous three corpses!"
"where?"
"The direction of the broken fingers!" An Qingyu's eyes were extremely bright. "The direction of the broken fingers of the previous three bodies was from top to bottom."
An Qingyu pressed his body against the wall and positioned his left hand as if it was nailed to the wall, with his palm facing the wall and the back of his hand facing outwards.
At the same time, he made his right hand into a knife shape and gently cut his fingers.
"Generally speaking, if the deceased is nailed to the wall like this, if you want to cut off his fingers, you can only cut from the back of the hand towards the palm, because the knife cannot cut out from the wall. This is also the direction in which the fingers of the three corpses were cut off.
But this body is different!"
He used his right hand to draw a horizontal line on the fingers of his left hand from bottom to top.
"His fingers were cut off from bottom to top! From the palm to the back of the hand! But I can't do this with the way my hand is positioned now, so when his fingers were cut off, they must have been in this position..."
An Qingyu turned his left hand over. It was also nailed to the wall, but his palm was facing outwards and the back of his hand was facing the wall.
Lin Qiye's eyes lit up, but then his brows frowned again.
"But in the video, the body was too far away and the light was blurry, so we couldn't really see the direction of his palms. Could he have really been nailed there like that
What can you tell from just the way the nails are placed on the palm of your hand? "
"From this alone, of course, we can't tell anything, but this is exactly the problem." An Qingyu walked to the corpse, pointed at the two wounds on the palm of the corpse's hand, and continued,
"A nail driven into the palm of a hand and a nail driven into the back of a hand will create wounds of similar shapes, but they are actually different. The wound on this corpse's hand... was caused by the nail being driven in from the top to the bottom."
An Qingyu used one finger as a nail and pierced through the back of his other hand and palm, and said seriously:
"That is to say... the direction in which the nail was driven in is opposite to the direction in which the finger was cut off! This means..."
"This means that his fingers were cut off first, and then he was nailed to the wall." Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes slightly and continued with An Qingyu's words.
An Qingyu nodded, "That's right."
"But the process shown in the video is inconsistent with our reasoning." Lin Qiye frowned, "and after identification, there is no trace of special effects processing in this video, which means that the scenes captured in the video are indeed real."
"In this case, there is only one possibility left..." An Qingyu spoke slowly.
"The person who died in the video was not Sun Xiao!" Lin Qiye and An Qingyu spoke at the same time.
Due to the distance and light, the picture captured by the video camera was not clear, and the face of the deceased could not even be seen clearly. After all, the reason why everyone judged that the deceased in the picture was Sun Xiao was because of the waiter's uniform!
Moreover, the next day they did find Sun Xiao’s body nailed to the wall, exactly the same as in the picture.
No one ever doubted the identity of the deceased in the videotape.
"That is to say, there was another person wearing Sun Xiao's clothes and was 'mysteriously' nailed to the wall, but after the video recorder ran out of power, someone replaced the original person with Sun Xiao, whose fingers had been cut off?" An Qingyu frowned, "But... why on earth is this happening?"
"There is still a fatal problem in our reasoning!" Lin Qiye took a deep breath and continued,
"According to our reasoning, the two people nailed to the wall should be two different people, but... from the bloodstains at the scene, we only detected the DNA of Sun Xiao!"