Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 208 Two Lives in One Corpse

Changyue Garden.

The residential area was built only a few years ago. There is a small grove of trees in the middle of the area, and an artificial lake around the grove.

When Zhuang Yanzheng and his group arrived by car, the nearby police station had already cordoned off the area around the grove, and many residents were gathered around.

Su Miaoyi got out of the car and saw an excavator parked by the grove of trees.

Zhuang Yanzheng showed his identification and asked, "What's going on?"

"Several trees in this grove died, and the property management sent people to cut them down. When they dug up the roots, they found human bones," said a police officer from the local police station. "We just took a look, and it looks like a tibia. Our local police station doesn't have a forensic doctor, so we contacted our superiors."

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded and turned his head slightly to look at Yan Cheng, Su Miaoyi, and the others.

The group entered the grove and looked around first.

Several tree roots nearby have already been dug out, there are three that haven't been dug out yet, and one that has been dug out halfway.

Half a tree root lay on the ground, half a shinbone was wrapped in the thin roots, and there were some sponge-like things on some of the roots.

Yan Cheng picked it up and looked at it. It seemed that the excavator had broken the bone when it was pulling the tree roots out.

Lu Zhishen touched the fine sponge fragments on the root system.

"The body is roughly around here," Su Miaoyi said, pointing to where she was crouching.

The tree roots that were dug up had very long root systems.

The body was located some distance from the tree roots.

It was the tree roots that grew later and became entangled with the bone.

“Go ahead and dig,” Yan Cheng said.

They dug very deep before they found the object.

They carefully dug some more, and after the things underneath were almost completely exposed, Yan Cheng and the others used their hands to remove the soil on top.

It is a rolled-up sponge pad.

The sponge pad is quite thick, but the side closer to the tree roots has been pierced by them. The sponge pad is damaged because the roots are being pulled outwards.

"Which side is the head?" Chu Xingrou cleared away the soil and pulled on both sides of the sponge, but couldn't pull it apart.

Su Miaoyi and the others took shovels and dug around the area again.

Then a few people simply carried the rolled-up sponge out.

"Place it carefully, gently, be careful the sponge doesn't bounce off," Yan Cheng kept saying.

Several people carefully placed it on the ground, then observed the situation inside, pressed down on the bottom of the sponge, and slowly opened it up.

Because it was wrapped in a sponge, there wasn't much soil on the skeletal remains, and they were relatively intact.

The clothes worn by the skeleton resembled a nightgown, which looked very dirty due to the decomposition of the corpse.

Judging from the nightgown, it should be a woman's.

Moreover, the nightgown had many holes, and the edges of those holes were somewhat blackened.

“It’s blood.” Su Miaoyi looked at Yan Cheng.

Yan Cheng nodded: "The tear in the clothes looks like it was cut or slashed with a knife."

The body lay flat. Su Miaoyi counted the seven cuts in the front of the clothes.

First, he took a picture of the nightgown. Then, Yan Cheng used scissors to cut open the side of the nightgown, lifted it up to the side, and examined the skeleton.

Su Miaoyi first examined her pelvis to determine the gender.

But when I looked down, I saw a small skeleton below the pelvis, or more precisely, between the pelvis and the knees, between the legs.

"This is..." Su Miaoyi exclaimed in shock. As soon as she spoke, everyone followed her gaze.

Yan Cheng examined the tiny bones: "It's a baby."

"Birth after death?" Su Miaoyi felt as if her voice was floating away.

The baby's skeleton was placed in this location after the birth, when the body was buried.

"This situation does indeed exist. After a person dies, the decomposition of the body and internal organs produces a large amount of gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and hydrogen sulfide. These gases cause a sharp increase in pressure in the abdominal cavity, squeezing the uterus and expelling the fetus from the body," Yan Cheng said. "However, since the mother is dead, the fetus will also have no vital signs. This usually occurs several hours or days after the mother's death."

After he finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

Look at that tiny skeleton.

One corpse, two lives.

"What's wrong?" Zhuang Yanzheng and the police officers from the police station finished understanding the case and walked over to see that everyone was silent.

Yan Cheng pointed and said, "Two lives lost, judging from the skeleton, it was probably full term."

Zhuang Yanzheng watched in silence for a while, then said, "Let's get back to work."

Everyone silently began their respective tasks.

Su Miaoyi assisted with the autopsy of Yan Cheng.

Lu Zhishen and Chu Xingrou inspected the sponge pad.

"There are wounds on the bone that correspond to the ones on the clothes." Yan Cheng touched the wound with his hand. "It looks like it was cut by a knife, with a lot of force."

"There are also wounds on your back." Su Miaoyi looked through the skeleton at the clothes below it; there were still tears in the nightgown on the back.

Yan Cheng nodded and carefully checked each part.

Su Miaoyi also gently touched the cut on the bone.

On her collarbone, on her ribs, and finally, when she touched the cut on her sternum, she suddenly saw something.

She was banging on a door.

The filming was quite a spectacle.

"Get out! Get out! You get out here! Kang Hong! Get out here! What are you doing in there again! You're doing drugs again! Didn't you promise me you'd quit? Get out here!"

"Come out! Come out here! The baby's due date is approaching! And you're not caring at all! What do you want? Get out here!"

She kept banging on the bathroom door, the banging getting louder and louder.

Suddenly, Kang Hong opened the door and came out, his eyes glazed over, a somewhat unreal smile on his face, and he swayed unsteadily.

Seeing him like this, she first took a step back, then stepped forward and hit him: "You're still smoking! Still smoking! Did you tell the doctor you wouldn't test for HIV and syphilis? Did you? Did you? I went to the hospital today, and the doctor told me to get those two tests done! They're positive! Positive! You bastard! Kang Hong, I was really blind to have fallen for you!"

She cried and hit him wildly as she spoke: "I should have listened to my parents and broken up with you earlier! Instead of hiding here from them! Telling them I went to work outside! That I can't go home! I can't even go home because of you! I can't even see my parents during my pregnancy, and you treat me like this! How could you do this to me!"

Kang Hong's eyes were completely unfocused, and he looked like he had lost his soul.

She was shoved by Kang Hong, and only managed to steady herself by grabbing against the wall. Then she went up to him again and hit him, yelling, "You pushed me again! You actually pushed me again! Kang Hong, I'm going to kill you! You ruined me! You ruined my life! What will happen to my unborn child?!"

While she was hitting the machine, Kang Hong suddenly ran into the kitchen.

She stood there stunned for a moment, and then saw Kang Hong come out with a kitchen knife.

Kang Hong walked unsteadily, his body swaying, but he still had a smile on his face.

She watched him walk towards her with a knife, felt a chill run down her spine, and then ran outside.

But as soon as I reached the door, a sharp pain shot through my back, one after another.

She knelt on the ground, a sharp pain shooting through her abdomen, and cried out, "Kang Hong! Kang Hong!"

Kang Hong grabbed her by the back of her clothes and dragged her to the ground. She lay there, watching the raised cleaver fall one slice at a time. The pain in her body was replaced by fear, and finally, she was plunged into darkness.
(End of this chapter)