Chapter 508 I know you even if I turn into ashes (two-in-one)
The seriousness on Miss Miko's face disappeared in a flash.
When she raised her head again, everyone saw another gentle and cheerful young girl.
"So, Mr. Lin."
"I have to prepare for the evening ceremony, so I won't be here to keep you company."
Shimabukuro Kime politely bid farewell to Lin Shinichi and others with her innocent smile.
And Lin Xinyi and others had no intention of retaining her.
They didn't get any valuable clues from Shimabukuro Kimie, so they seemed to have no choice but to find other ways to look for clues from other directions.
But at this time, Lin Xinyi had just finished asking about the business, and Shimabukuro Kimie was about to turn around and leave.
Naoko Kuroe and Hisumi Ebihara, two patients with late-stage superstition, couldn't help but get excited again:
"Wait a minute. Jun Hui!"
"Don't leave yet, you, you have to find a way to save us!"
"Huh?" Shimabukuro Kime turned around with a confused look on his face: "Isn't it a good idea to save you now? Who is giving you a hard time?"
"Yes, it's Lord Mermaid!"
Hisumi Ebihara swallowed nervously:
"Shazhi has already been cursed by the mermaid. Who knows if the mermaid will still be angry."
"What about us, uh, and other people on the island?"
"Yes!" Kuroe Naoko also rushed to say: "Kimi, please help me think of a way to calm down the mermaid's anger!"
"This" Shimabukuro June's expression became increasingly difficult.
This shrine maiden who lives in a shrine and holds a priestly position is quietly looking at her two childhood sweethearts with a strange look that says, "I am trying to persuade you to believe in science."
"Naoko, Hisumi."
"You and I have grown up together. Don't you still know how much this miko like me weighs?"
"Let me help you calm the mermaid's anger."
"How can this help?"
The miko lady's face was filled with helplessness.
But Kuroe Naoko said plausibly:
"Jun Hui, you must have a way!"
"Master Lin from Tokyo has said that we should come to the shrine to find you to eliminate disasters!"
As she spoke, she pointed seriously at Master Lin Xinyi and Lin beside her.
"Huh?" Shimabukuro June opened her mouth in surprise.
She turned to look at Lin Xinyi with a complicated and unspeakable look.
It seemed that he was shocked that his idol in criminal science was actually his colleague in the criminal career.
Lin Xinyi was speechless.
After this brief and awkward look at each other, Shimabukuro Kimie could only turn around helplessly and said perfunctorily to his two superstitious friends:
"Naoko, Sumi, you all know me:"
"It's not that I don't want to help, but I, a so-called witch, really don't have the ability to help everyone solve their problems!"
"It doesn't matter!"
Before Shimabukuro Kime finished speaking, Ebihara Hisumi pursed her lips tightly, took her arm and begged:
"Jun Hui, if you can't help it, please ask Grandma Changshou to help us!"
"She is a being who is cared for by Lord Mermaid. She will definitely find a way to save me."
Kuroe and Ebihara soon placed all their hopes on Shimabukuro Kimie's great-great-grandmother, the star of this mermaid shrine, a long-lived grandmother whose reputation spread far and wide.
Just look at the awe in their faces when they speak:
Perhaps because they knew Fa Xiao too well, they didn't quite believe in the power of Shimabukuro Kimie, a shrine maiden.
But for the longevity mother-in-law who sits at the shrine, the 130-year-old miracle in human form, she is convinced and respected from the bottom of her heart.
In the eyes of them, as well as most superstitious young islanders and foreign tourists, the longevity mother-in-law is the spokesperson of the mermaid in the world, and her power is enough to communicate with the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth.
Under the guidance of this superstitious thought, Kuroe Naoko and Ebihara Hisumi were like possessed, begging Shimabukuro Kimie to take them to see their longevity mother-in-law.
"That's okay"
Shimabukuro Kimie seemed to be unable to withstand the entanglement.
She agreed with some embarrassment:
"Then you go first to the shrine and wait."
"I'm going to talk to my great-grandma about this."
"She is still preparing to attend the festival in the evening. She may not come out to see you in a while."
"no problem, no problem!"
Kuroe Naoko and Ebihara Hisumi were overjoyed:
"We can wait, as long as Grandma Changshou is willing to help us."
So, they couldn't wait to follow Shimabukuro Kimie, preparing to follow into the shrine and wait for the reception of the longevity mother-in-law.
Lin Xinyi secretly cursed in his heart:
This so-called longevity mother-in-law is obviously played by Shimabukuro Kimie herself.
She said she wanted Heijiang and Ebihara to "wait patiently". I'm afraid she wanted to wait for her and secretly go into the back room to put on makeup, right?
He roughly saw through the miko lady's trick of playing a double identity.
But after all, this is the core selling point of the U.S. island's unique tourism economy. Lin Xinyi would not reveal this secret when he had nothing to do, and would cut off people and money for no reason.
He just watched Shimabukuro June and the others turn and leave, but when the two parties were about to say goodbye,
"etc."
Lin Xinyi suddenly thought of something:
"Ms. Shimabukuro, I have another question."
"What's wrong?" Shimabukuro Kime stopped and looked back in confusion.
"What you just said reminded me."
"Although the case three years ago was not the purpose of my trip, now that I'm here, I still have to try my best to solve this forgotten mystery."
"so."
"Mr. Lin, do you have an idea to solve that old case?" Shimabukuro Kime interrupted Lin Shinichi in surprise.
The expressions of Naoko Kuroe and Hisumi Ebihara on the side also became faintly exciting.
But Lin Xinyi shook his head:
"No, this kind of old fire case can't be solved so easily."
"I just thought that three years ago, the Fukui Prefectural Police did not perform a test that should be done. If it can be made up in time now, it might be helpful to solve the case."
"Testing." Shimabukuro Kimie said hesitantly, "What kind of test?"
"DNA identification."
"Although the Fukui Prefectural Police conducted an autopsy three years ago, they simply determined that the deceased was a middle-aged woman aged 40-50 based on the skeletal development shape, and did not try to conduct DNA identification on the body."
"And if we can get the DNA identification results of the corpse, at least we can have a strong help in confirming the source of the corpse."
Lin Xinyi spoke his thoughts calmly.
But this shocked Shimabukuro Kime:
"I understand what you mean, but Mr. Lin"
"When the body was discovered at the fire scene three years ago, the soft tissues on the body had been completely burned and charred, leaving only brittle and cracked human bones."
"The corpse was so badly damaged. The DNA of the deceased should have been degraded and denatured by the high temperature. There is no way to use it for DNA identification, right?"
Miss Miko is indeed a fan of Master Lin, and she speaks jargon as soon as she opens her mouth.
And she was right.
With the current DNA identification technology, in the eyes of the general public and even experts in related fields, bones burned at high temperatures cannot be used for DNA identification.
“But it’s actually doable.”
"DNA is more resistant to high temperatures than we thought."
"It is true that it will be severely damaged at high temperatures, but this does not mean that the DNA molecule is just 'dead', just burned and disappeared into thin air, leaving nothing behind."
"They will break at high temperatures and break into 'fragmented' pieces."
"The STR sequences we identify through forensic DNA analysis are inherently very small fragments, so even if the DNA is broken into pieces, the impact will not be significant."
Lin Xinyi simply took advantage of the situation and taught this fan girl a lesson:
"More importantly, our human bones' ability to protect DNA from high temperatures is stronger than we thought."
"Although soft tissues such as cartilage and muscles have been completely burned away, there may still be DNA fragments in the deep bone tissue inside the bones that have not been completely destroyed."
"As long as certain technical means are used, it can be extracted and purified from the burned bones."
The principle of this technology is not complicated at all.
To give an inappropriate analogy:
That is to first grind the remaining large bones into powder, then add "ingredients" to make "soup".
The essence concentrated and purified from the soup is the DNA fragment that can be identified.
The principle is as easy to understand as cooking, except that professional equipment and reagents such as refrigeration grinders, centrifugal filters, purification kits, amplification kits, decalcification solutions, bone lysis solutions, etc. are used.
Future forensic scientists have long since overcome this problem.
Not to mention the bones found in semi-open fires such as fires, even the ashes burned in high-temperature incinerators still have the possibility of successfully identifying DNA.
To future scientists, they will know you even if they turn into ashes.
Although this technology does not yet exist.
Lin Xinyi is just a cook who only knows how to cook. He doesn't know how to raise pigs, let alone produce pork.
But it doesn't matter.
It's good to be good at studying, but it's okay if you don't understand academics.
As long as there are people behind you, you will still be a pacesetter in scientific research.
If you go back and touch Haiyuan Ai's smart big head, and then carefully follow the helpless eyes of this talented scientific girl, the paper will be printed with Lin Xinyi's name and published in an academic journal in a few days.
"It is technically feasible to extract DNA from burned bones."
"I will publish another paper when I get back. If you are interested, you can find out for yourself."
"This" Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned by the idol's education: "Is this okay?"
"sure."
"But we have to analyze specific issues in detail."
Lin Xinyi thought for a while and asked:
"Miss Shimabukuro, the body was found in the warehouse of your shrine. You should have seen the bones."
"Then do you still remember what color the bones are?"
"Hmm" Shimabukuro Kimie thought for a moment with a complicated expression.
She seemed to not want to remember this.
But after a moment of silence, she replied: "It seems to be yellow or brown, a little black."
"Brown to black?"
Lin Xinyi felt confident:
DNA can indeed be detected in burned bones.
But this requires detailed analysis of specific issues, and the impact of factors such as incineration time, incineration temperature, storage time, humidity, microorganisms, pH value, combustion accelerants, and incineration methods on the DNA test of burned bones must be considered.
The most influential one is the incineration temperature.
Generally, the average temperature at which corpses are burned is above 500 degrees, so it is difficult to obtain comparable STR typing results.
And Shimabukuro Kimie said that the bones burned by the fire three years ago were brown and black.
"The color of the bone surface can reflect the temperature at which it was burned." "The white color indicates that the burned bone is basically composed only of high-temperature-resistant inorganic matter, so the higher the temperature, the whiter the bone."
"The surface of the bones is brown or black, which indicates that the burning temperature was between 250 and 350 degrees most of the time, and there may be organic matter."
“The temperature is not too high, it’s good”
"It seems that we still hope to get the DNA test results and try to compare them with missing persons in nearby areas to determine the identity of the deceased three years ago."
The more Lin Xinyi talked, the more confident he became:
With the DNA identification results, it is possible to determine the source of the body; and if the identity of the deceased can be confirmed, more clues can be dug out.
It seems that the old fire case from three years ago is not completely hopeless to solve.
So he kept asking:
"The information I found on the Internet shows that the so-called 'mermaid corpse' three years ago was brought back by the residents of the American Island from the Fukui Prefectural Police after causing a sensation and was buried on the island."
Normally, such unidentified and nameless corpses should be kept by the local police to facilitate subsequent investigation and processing.
However, the Fukui Prefectural Police themselves closed the case hastily in order to look good in the year-end summary.
Of course they don't care where the body is kept.
After this case hit the news three years ago, the unknown body found on the "Mermaid Island" with suspected missing legs became known as the so-called "Mermaid Corpse".
This mermaid legend caused a sensation all over the country, and attracted countless dignitaries to come to seek immortality and see the wonders.
So the active American island residents hit it off with the local officials of Fukui Prefecture.
They use the "mermaid legend" as a selling point to develop special tourism in a different way, which not only effectively promotes the in-depth integration of "folk customs + tourism + mermaid culture", but also promotes the rapid development of the local tourism industry.
Moreover, while the mermaid tourism industry is developing rapidly, we have not forgotten to be prepared for danger in times of peace, expand and innovate, and continue to enrich the mermaid legend IP on the existing basis to create new folk cultural products with local characteristics.
in short.
This "mermaid corpse", like the "longevity mother-in-law", is also regarded by the locals as a selling point to attract tourists.
Taking advantage of the popularity brought by the spread of the legend, they took advantage of the situation and described the unidentified deceased as a "mermaid". They regarded it as a "tourist attraction" and buried it on the American island.
Foreign tourists can not only see the living mermaid, the longevity mother-in-law.
You can also go to the "Tomb of the Mermaid" to pay homage to the dead mermaid.
"Where is this 'Tomb of the Mermaid' now?"
"Can you take me to see it?"
"This." The three ladies in front of them fell silent.
Kuroe Naoko and Ebihara Hisumi were already very arrogant and suspicious, so it was not surprising that they had such nervous and unnatural expressions on their faces.
But Shimabukuro Kimie's reaction is a bit concerning:
A trace of undetectable panic first flashed in her eyes, but she quickly regained her composure.
His expression was still as calm as before, but he pursed his lips nervously unconsciously:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Lin."
"I can't take you to see the 'Tomb of the Mermaid'."
"Huh?" Lin Xinyi frowned quietly:
This miko lady had always been very interested in the case three years ago, and she had the intention of consulting him.
Why is it that she wants to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy now, but she refuses to cooperate?
"Sorry, it's a long story."
Shimabukuro Kimie bowed deeply and apologized, then hesitated and replied:
"The unidentified 'mermaid corpse' was originally buried in our shrine."
"But later on, more and more tourists came to visit the Mermaid Tomb, to the point where the shrine was unable to accommodate them."
"The worst part is that there are some very restless fanatics among the tourists."
"They firmly believe in the legend that 'eating mermaid meat can lead to longevity', so..."
The miko lady's voice faltered.
Talking about these things seemed to make her feel very uncomfortable.
So she pondered for a while before continuing:
"So people often break into the shrine in the middle of the night to dig up the grave of the deceased."
"They want to get the so-called 'mermaid bones' and take them back to use as medicinal materials."
Speaking of this, Shimabukuro Kime's face turned very ugly:
"There's really nothing we can do."
"Later, it was my great-grandmother, also known as the longevity mother-in-law, who said:"
"She said this was disrespectful to the deceased, and even more blasphemous to the mermaid. In order to appease the mermaid's anger, no one should be allowed to disturb the peace of the mermaid's tomb."
"So she asked someone to secretly move the tomb and moved the mermaid's tomb to the mountains on the island."
"As for the specific location of the burial on the mountain, only the person who handled the matter at the time and herself know."
"This" Lin Xinyi had a strange expression when he heard it:
The longevity mother-in-law moved the tomb secretly?
But isn’t this the longevity mother-in-law you pretended to be yourself?
How could you not know where the bones of the deceased are?
"Miss Shimabukuro."
Lin Xinyi frowned and asked tentatively:
"Then can't you help us ask 'Grandma Longevity'?"
"You also know that we are not bad people who robbed tombs. We only went to see that tomb to make the deceased avenged."
"Even so, can't you take us to see it?"
"No, no."
Shimabukuro Kimie pursed her lips in confusion:
"It's not that I don't want to help you."
"But my great-grandmother said that if outsiders are allowed to disturb the peace of the deceased, they will attract the wrath of the mermaid and bring disaster to the American island."
Faced with the temptation, she not only did not change her story, she even came up with the incredible ghost theory to reject Lin Xinyi's request.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Lin."
"Perhaps you don't believe in the legend of mermaids, or my great-grandmother's warning."
"But I am the shrine maiden of the Mermaid Shrine after all. Since my great-grandmother has set such rules for us, I"
"I can't make a decision that goes against my ancestors."
Shimabukuro Kime used the ancestral rules as an excuse. Although his tone was gentle, his attitude was very firm.
"This" Lin Xinyi wanted to ask again.
But she had already turned around.
"Mr. Lin, I have to take Naoko and Hisumi to meet my great-grandmother, and I also have to prepare for the festival in the evening."
"Time is really tight, so I can only apologize for being rude."
With that said, without waiting for Lin Shin's response, Shimabukuro Kimie took Kuroe Naoko and Ebihara Hisumi and walked straight into the shrine.
The miko lady quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Suddenly there were fewer sounds in the courtyard, and it seemed peaceful and quiet.
But the silence was so strange.
In this weird silence, everyone could vaguely realize that something was wrong with this situation.
"Hattori, what do you think:"
Lin Xinyi looked at his companions seriously:
"This miko lady."
"Why are you lying to us?"