Chapter 8 The truth emerges
Lin Xinyi has escaped the predicament of being regarded as a criminal suspect.
No one could even question him.
Because his proof is always step by step, and each step is based on the evidence shown by the corpse.
This process is not like the imaginative and changeable reasoning of famous detectives, but more like an unpretentious statement, a simple and direct report.
Such report statements have the most irrefutable persuasiveness.
"It seems that Mr. Lin Xinyi is indeed not suspected of committing a crime."
Officer Megure finally agreed with this conclusion.
He completely put down his hostility and looked at Lin Xinyi with curiosity in his eyes:
"As you said, the deceased died of drowning and was immersed in water for more than 3 hours."
"But this doesn't prove that the deceased committed suicide, right?"
"More importantly, how did the shredded corpse form?"
"Also, how should we explain the blood waves witnessed by Brother Kudo and Xiaolan?"
The Mumu Police Department asked the most critical question.
"We will analyze the suicide matter last."
Lin Xinyi replied calmly and orderly:
"Let me first talk about the cause of these broken corpses and waves of blood."
Hearing this, Kudo Shinto immediately pricked up his ears:
This is the place that troubles him the most!
He could easily see the cause and time of death of the deceased, but he could not imagine how a drowned person could become a corpse three hours later.
And he and Xiaolan witnessed the blood wave phenomenon more than ten minutes ago:
Since the body parts had been soaked in water for three hours, the blood should have been washed away by the river long ago, and the large area of blood waves should not be visible at all.
"The reason why Kudo saw the blood wave is actually very simple."
Lin Xinyi gave the answer calmly:
"That's because the time of death of the deceased and the time when the body turned into pieces are actually different."
“Not only different, but very different.”
"I understand!"
Kudo Shinichi suddenly had an idea in his mind and suddenly realized:
"It is true that the deceased drowned three hours ago, but her body has been floating in the river since then."
"The body remains intact during this process, so there is no large loss of blood in the body into the water."
"And ten minutes ago, when Xiaolan and I discovered the body."
"The body just happened to be cut into pieces for some reason!"
"A large amount of blood in his body was also lost into the river during the process of dismembering the body, which caused Xiaolan and I to see a wave of blood that seemed like the body had just been dumped."
"What?"
After hearing this famous detective's reasoning, the Memu Police Department was a little puzzled:
"Brother Kudo, what is the reason why the deceased turned into a corpse?"
"Is there a second person involved?"
He suddenly turned to look at Lin Xinyi:
"Mr. Lin Xinyi said that there seems to be no second person involved in this entire case."
“So, how on earth did the deceased ‘dismember themselves’ after death?”
This question lingers in the hearts of everyone present. Even the famous detective Kudo Shinichi is struggling with this.
In an instant, countless blazing eyes focused on Lin Xinyi.
The scene was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Lin Shinichi unknowingly replaced Kudo Shinichi and became the star that attracted much attention.
"The answer is simple."
Lin Xinyi said calmly.
But he did not give a direct answer.
This is his professional habit, give evidence first, and then draw conclusions:
“Everyone can see it”
Lin Xinyi gently moved his position so that everyone could see more clearly the hideous body parts placed on the plastic sheet:
"The body parts placed here currently include the head, torso, right upper limb with hand, and left lower limb and thigh."
"And on these corpses, that is, the face, chest, forearms, and legs of the corpse, there are large areas of scratches and scratches that are basically parallel, linear, arc-shaped, oblique, and closely spaced. hurt."
"At the same time, there are large areas of epidermal loss in these areas."
"Everyone can imagine"
"What kind of attack does a person have to be subjected to so that his whole body is scratched all over?"
"This" onlookers subconsciously began to think.
But it was Police Officer Mu Mu who had the most experience in handling cases and was the first to react:
"Is it a traffic accident?"
"I have seen many corpses of people who died in traffic accidents before. Their bodies had more or less large-scale trauma caused by collisions with the car surface and the road."
"But"
As he talked, he felt something was wrong again:
"Brother Kudo, didn't you theorize that the body of the deceased was always soaked in water after death?"
"There are no cars in the river, so how could a traffic accident happen?"
"No, it's possible"
The speaker was Kudo Shinichi.
After Lin Xinyi reminded him to this point, he immediately reacted:
"Boat!"
"I remember that before Xiaolan and I found the body, there were several cruise ships passing by on the river!"
"In other words, the corpse had collided with those ships?!"
"That's right."
Lin Xinyi nodded seriously:
"It's just that because the speed of the cruise ship is limited, just a collision with the ship will not cause such serious scratches."
"Not to mention, the intensity of the damage is enough to turn a complete corpse into pieces."
"Everyone please take a look"
He pointed to the section of the deceased's severed arm.
The flesh, blood, and bones were rotten and broken, and the red, white, and yellow things were all mixed together, making one look at them with cold sweat and stomach acid churning.
But Lin Xin has long been accustomed to this scene:
"The most commonly used tools for human dismemberment are kitchen knives, sharp knives and other cutting tools that are common in ordinary people's homes."
"So when wounds are caused by artificial dismemberment, free flesh flaps are often visible on the edges of the wounds, which are traces of back and forth cutting."
"The chopping marks on the bones are generally short and shallow, and there are traces of repeated chopping."
"Scratches and fishtail-shaped knife marks are often visible on the skin, and more scratches can be seen on large joints."
"And if you use a saw, you can see obvious saw marks on the broken end of the corpse. The wound surface is uneven, and wavy or stepped sawtooth marks can be seen on the bone section."
"The traces of the axe are more obvious, and the shape of the wound cavity, which is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, is very easy to distinguish."
"These are the marks that the murderer will inevitably leave when he manually cuts up the body due to his lack of personal strength and limited tools."
There are only a few tools available for artificial dismemberment.
The traces of trauma caused by each tool are distinctive.
As an experienced forensic doctor, Lin Xinyi can distinguish the differences from the wounds on the dismembered bodies at a glance:
"The wounds on this corpse are messily distributed and of different shapes. The wounds on various parts of the body have different shapes."
"The edges and walls of the wounds on the head are neatly distributed, similar to cuts."
“There are multiple arc-shaped wounds arranged in the same direction and roughly equal intervals in soft tissue-rich areas such as the abdomen and thighs. The wound edges and walls are irregular, the wound angles are not very sharp, the wound cavity is generally deep, and the soft tissue layers in the cavity are uneven. ——This is the result of high-speed and repeated cutting of the corpse with some kind of sharp instrument."
"And most importantly"
"Obvious signs of twisting, tearing, and rupture can be seen in the muscles and tendons of the severed limb."
"And there are repeated and relatively smooth scars from cutting with sharp instruments on the bones at the broken end. Some of the bones exposed at the bottom of the wounds show the characteristics of depressed and comminuted fractures."
Lin Xinyi's voice became much deeper:
"There's no way a human chop could cause this kind of damage."
"This kind of damage requires some kind of 'weapon' with high-speed rotation, huge chopping force and cutting properties to do it."
"It's like throwing someone into a meat grinder."
At this point, everyone present understood what Lin Xinyi meant:
To put it simply, the wounds on the corpse were too messy, too deep, and too heavy.
Humans with limited strength simply cannot cut such wounds. Only powerful machines like meat grinders can cause this phenomenon.
In this case, the machine that turned the deceased's body into fragments was
"propeller?"
After being reminded step by step by his "opponent", Kudo Shinichi finally found the truth he wanted:
"The body was caught in the propeller of a passing cruise ship!"