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

Chapter 218 The gates to the old town were opened

Lu Zhishen and Su Miaoyi went back after reaching the door of the dissection room.

Su Miaoyi entered the dissection room.

As soon as she entered, she saw the heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, stomach, and intestines laid out inside.
The body was completely opened.

Even though I was mentally prepared, I was still startled when I suddenly saw it.

Su Miaoyi approached and examined the organs: "Is this considered fatty liver?"

"Mm," Yan Cheng replied.

Su Miaoyi took a look and saw that the organs had been sliced ​​and sent for testing.

The autopsy is almost complete.

"Did they freeze to death?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"Yes." Yan Cheng looked at her. "Come over here."

Su Miaoyi walked to his side.

Yan Cheng pointed to the exposed scalp of the deceased and said, "This area... was struck before death."

Su Miaoyi looked at the spot he was pointing to: "She was knocked unconscious and then put in the freezer?"

"Hmm," Yan Cheng said, "There's no bleeding inside the skull, so the blow wasn't fatal."

“Liu Shitang was struggling to take off his clothes inside the freezer; he woke up inside the freezer,” Su Miaoyi said.

"After the frost in the freezer melted, the blood also mixed with the ice water. The blood was matched and it was Liu Shitang's blood. Liu Shitang also had wounds on his hands." Yan Cheng said, showing her Liu Shitang's hands.

Both of his fingernails were broken, and there were wounds on the fingertips.

"There seems to be something else in the blood under his fingernails," Su Miaoyi said, looking down carefully.

"Yes," Yan Cheng said. "When we did the external examination of the body, the contents inside were already sent for testing."

Su Miaoyi nodded: "After being knocked unconscious, she was put in the freezer. When she woke up, the freezer was tied up and the lid couldn't be opened, so she froze to death inside."

"When a person's body temperature is below 33 degrees Celsius, they may experience hallucinations of feeling very hot. This is because, in order to ensure sufficient blood flow to the brain, the body reduces the blood supply to the limbs and torso. This regulation of bodily fluids excites the hypothalamus's heat dissipation center, causing the blood vessels around the head to dilate, which creates a sensation of heat that is inconsistent with the actual environment," Yan Cheng explained as he described Liu Shitang taking off his clothes.

Su Miaoyi listened attentively.

Yan Cheng said, "Moreover, this heat sensation can cause the face to turn red, and with the expansion of facial muscles, the expression looks like a smile."

Su Miaoyi had seen records of people who had frozen to death in his notes, and some phenomena that would appear on their corpses, but she did not know the reason for them.

I probably didn't know that before; I didn't have that knowledge in my head.

“These are all things from the stomach,” Yan Cheng said, walking to the side.

Su Miaoyi followed her over, and she could smell the alcohol even through her mask.

"What are these? Chives? Enoki mushrooms?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"Lamb and beef," Yan Cheng said.

"Barbecue?" Su Miaoyi looked at him.

Yan Cheng nodded.

"Barbecue and drinking," Su Miaoyi said. "With the stomach contents like this, he must have been murdered shortly after the meal."

"Yes."

Su Miaoyi thought about it in silence for a while, and then decided that it was too smoky, so she quietly walked to the side.

“If Kang Hong is involved in this case, I think there must be someone else besides Kang Hong who assisted in the crime,” Yan Cheng said.

This viewpoint is the same as theirs.

As the two were talking, Yan Cheng's assistant pushed the door open and came in: "Teacher, the test results for the extract from the fingernail crevices are in."

Yan Cheng was wearing gloves, making it inconvenient for him to handle the results report.

The assistant showed it to him: "In addition to Liu Shitang's DNA, another set of DNA was also found."

Su Miaoyi also came over to take a look.

"The DNA didn't match Kang Hong's, and there was no match in the DNA database either," the assistant said. Liu Shitang must have struggled before being knocked unconscious; his fingernails scratched the killer, leaving behind the killer's DNA.

Yan Cheng and Su Miaoyi exchanged a glance.

As they guessed, there were others besides Kang Hong.

But we don't know who it is.

Su Miaoyi felt as if the case led to various intersections, but when she followed one of them, it turned out to be a dead end.

After leaving the dissection room, Su Miaoyi walked towards the office area.

As she approached the office area, she saw Chu Xingrou walking towards her. Just as she was about to raise her hand to greet her, the scene before her suddenly changed.

Chu Xingrou came out of the office area, intending to take a stroll to clear her groggy head. After walking a few steps, she saw Su Miaoyi standing not far away.

"Sister Miaomiao." Chu Xingrou approached.

Su Miaoyi stood still, one foot in front of the other, in a stepping motion, her hands hanging down, her eyes half-closed.

"Sister Miaomiao?" Chu Xingrou thought she was doing some kind of performance art to amuse her.

So I observed her for two seconds, stood next to her, and did the exact same thing as her.

Still, motionless.

One second, two seconds, three seconds. Thirty seconds have passed.

Su Miaoyi didn't move, and neither did Chu Xingrou; they simply turned their eyes to look at her.

After another ten seconds or so, Su Miaoyi's phone rang.

Chu Xingrou was startled and immediately stood up straight.

Su Miaoyi still didn't react, and Chu Xingrou realized something was wrong: "Sister Miaomiao? Sister Miaomiao?"

The phone kept ringing, but Su Miaoyi still didn't respond.

"Sister Miaomiao?" Chu Xingrou grasped her hand, looking at her with some concern.

Just as she was about to let go of her hand to call for help, Su Miaoyi suddenly grabbed her hand.

"Sister Miaomiao!" Chu Xingrou immediately shook her hand back and looked at her.

After Su Miaoyi pulled away from the image, everything was still pitch black in front of her, and she even staggered back a step.

Chu Xingrou immediately supported her: "Sister Miaomiao, what's wrong?"

Su Miaoyi looked at her and blinked: "It's okay, I just lost my balance."

"But you've been standing here for quite a while," Chu Xingrou asked, expressing her doubts. "Did you fall flat on your face?"

"Uh," Su Miaoyi patted her shoulder, "Don't worry, I'm fine. I'll explain to you later when I have time. I have to go see Captain Zhuang first."

"Oh." Chu Xingrou followed her toward the office area. After a few steps, she said, "Sister Miaomiao, your phone just rang."

Su Miaoyi took out her phone and saw that it was Ge Yu calling.

She stopped and immediately dialed back.

Ge Yu responded quickly: "Wonderful."

"What's wrong, Auntie?" Su Miaoyi asked anxiously, hearing her voice.

“Miaomiao, Aunt Wang from the old town just called me and said the door to our house in the old town is open,” Ge Yu said. “Your uncle and I remember very clearly that we locked the door when we came downstairs.”

Su Miaoyi remembered Aunt Wang; she lived upstairs from her and was a bit of a homebody, only going out every two or three days.

“Auntie, don’t worry, I’ll contact someone to go and check on things,” Su Miaoyi said.

“Okay, you must be careful. Don’t go over there unless it’s absolutely necessary. It’s just an empty house, nothing’s there, so there won’t be any loss.” Ge Yu said, “Your uncle said that someone might have come looking for you, so he asked me to tell you to see if it could be a clue.”

"Ok, I know."

　Let's keep it as one chapter.

　　good night
　　(End of this chapter)