Chapter 005: Good Luck
Ruan Rong bravely broke into the yard. At first, she walked very fast, but after passing those coffins, her steps slowed down. Her big eyes rolled around, revealing her inner uneasiness and fear.
If Li Jiuming gave her a few more words of advice at this time, she might back down.
But although Li Jiuming was an expert at handling cases, he could not understand the little girl's mind at all.
He rushed up from behind and saw that the morgue was not far ahead. He shook his head helplessly and said, "Forget it, girl, since you insist on being stubborn, just come in with me."
Now Ruan Rong had no way out, so she had to bite the bullet and cross the threshold side by side with Li Jiuming.
As she stepped one foot in and one foot out, she felt a foul odor coming towards her. Even though Ruan Rong covered her mouth and nose in time, she still couldn't completely block it out. The disgusting smell penetrated into her nasal cavity and "scratched" in her stomach, as if it wanted to dig out all the overnight meals!
"What...what's this smell? It stinks to death!"
Ruan Rong suppressed her nausea and complained in a muffled voice. Then she heard someone behind her say, "You're right. This is indeed the stench of a dead person. But it should be a smell left over from the past. If there is a rotting corpse inside, the smell should be much stronger."
Corpse odor?
Much bigger?!
Before Sun Shaozong finished his words, Ruan Rong turned around and ran out of the yard, followed by a burst of intermittent vomiting sounds.
"This Rong girl!"
Li Jiuming sighed helplessly, but when he looked at Sun Shaozong again, there was more curiosity in his eyes. He had seen many desperate criminals who risked their lives on the edge of a knife, but it was very rare to see a young man who could tell the stench of a corpse in one sentence and could remain calm in the face of this smell.
As a result, he unconsciously increased his attention to Sun Shaozong.
"Captain Sun, please."
"Thank you, Captain Li."
Li Jiuming raised his hand to make way inside. Sun Shaozong thanked him casually and walked into the morgue.
It was around three o'clock in the afternoon, but there were more than a dozen candles lit in the morgue. The candlesticks were high and low, faintly surrounding a single bed covered with a white cloth.
Just to the left of the single bed, two coroners, one fat and one thin, were quietly cleaning knives. When they saw Li Jiuming and his men coming in, they just nodded slightly and ignored them.
Sun Shaozong knew that those who often dealt with corpses were often not very sociable, so he didn't take it seriously. He walked to the bed, pointed at the white cloth covering it, and asked politely, "Can I lift it up and take a look?"
The thin one raised his head and glanced at Li Jiuming. Seeing that he had no intention of stopping him, he showed a slightly mocking smile on his face and replied dryly, "It's up to you."
As he spoke, his triangular eyes were filled with gloating.
Although the fat man didn't say anything, he glanced over with a sidelong look, as if he was waiting to see a good show.
Facing these two sinister looks, Sun Shaozong was very frank. Without saying a word, he stepped forward, picked up the white cloth, and lifted it up completely!
Swish~
When the white cloth was lifted, a bloody corpse immediately appeared in front of Sun Shaozong. The man's head and limbs were relatively intact, but the chest cavity was completely cut open. The bright red flesh and white human bones looked like a huge bloody mouth ready to devour someone!
And in that 'mouth', the internal organs, intestines, esophagus and other miscellaneous objects were all wrinkled and tumbling outward, dripping with yellow-brown mucus...
If an ordinary person first saw this horrifying scene, he would probably be scared to death on the spot!
But Sun Shaozong has been a criminal policeman for more than ten years. What kind of corpses has he not seen?
Not to mention the 'fresh stuff' that had been disemboweled, he had seen more than a dozen of them that had been chopped up and then fried or pan-fried!
So he bent down nonchalantly, lay beside the corpse and carefully examined it for a while, then reached out and poked and tapped in the abdomen, then raised his head and commented: "It should be that a sharp knife stabbed in between the fifth and fourth ribs on the left side, piercing the liver and causing heavy bleeding and death. The blade was pointing downward when it was stabbed, so it left a cut on the fifth rib."
The fat and thin coroner and Li Jiuming looked at each other in shock.
After a long while, the fat coroner put down the knife in his hand and praised with a sound of "tsk tsk!" "What an expert! Which government office are you from, young man? You have such courage and experience at such a young age..."
“Ahem!”
Li Jiuming brought Sun Shaozong here secretly, so how could he dare to let him reveal his true identity?
He interrupted the fat coroner's questioning with two dry coughs and said seriously, "Since you know you are an expert, don't hide it. Tell this little brother the results of your autopsy."
The fat coroner didn't intend to delve into the details. He pointed at the bodies and said, "Three bodies were delivered in total. They were all killed by Ambassador Niu's guards during their resistance. After they were delivered, we asked the patrol officers on the street to take a look. None of them looked familiar. They were probably not from Qinglin Prefecture."
Li Jiuming added: "They didn't just come in the past few days. The city gate guards have no impression of them. This shows that they have been hiding in the city for a while. There are even people responsible for taking care of them. Otherwise, how could more than a dozen outsiders have lived in the city for so long without anyone noticing?"
After he finished, the fat coroner continued, "Based on the calluses on the corpses' limbs and the wear and tear on their teeth, these people usually lived a comfortable life and rarely worked. Instead, they spent the whole day wielding swords and guns."
The thin coroner said, "But judging from the strange wounds on their bodies, they are probably not soldiers or policemen. It is more likely that they are street knights."
The fat coroner took over the conversation again, pointing to a single bed in the southwest corner, and said, "The man lying over there originally had a tattoo on his back, but he recently used brute force to destroy it. He was probably afraid that the tattoo would reveal his identity."
Tattoo?
Sun Shaozong was moved when he heard this, and quickly cast his eyes on Li Jiuming. Li Jiuming shook his head slightly and said: "The knights of the six countries in southern Xinjiang often have the habit of tattoos. If the tattoo is still intact, I might be able to follow the clues to find out something, but now..."
Sun Shaozong was a little disappointed. He turned to the two coroners and asked, "Have you checked the food residue in the stomach? Did you find any clues?"
“You are indeed an expert!”
The fat coroner praised again, then took out a tray from under the knife rack. On the tray were three small enamel bowls. No one knew what was in the sticky bowls, but a disgusting sour smell could be smelled from a long distance away.
"This is what we took out of their stomachs." The fat coroner pointed at the paste in the bowl and said, "In addition to the common meat and noodles, there seems to be some fruits - they should not be the common fruits on the market. As for what kind of fruits they are, we two can't tell."
Sun Shaozong suddenly became excited again and asked, "Can we use this as a clue to find out where the remaining assassins are hiding?"
"this……"
The fat coroner and the thin coroner smiled bitterly at each other. Finally, Li Jiuming explained, "Southern Xinjiang is known as the land of fruits and vegetables. Now it is the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. There are at least hundreds of kinds of fruits. If we compare every one of them, I don't know how long it will take - and we have to eat them first and then spit them out before we can compare them. It's really..."
After a pause, he added, "Besides, this kind of fresh fruit cannot be stored for a long time. It may have completely spoiled by the evening."
That's true.
In the absence of scientific instruments, if you want to find the origin of these fruit residues, you can only rely on luck - but the iron rule of modern criminal police is that you cannot give up on the pursuit of even the smallest clues!
Therefore, Sun Shaozong still requested: "In this case, can you two share some of the fruit residue with me? Maybe I will be lucky and find this kind of fruit by chance."
This stuff doesn't last long, so what's the point of keeping more of it?
Therefore, the two coroners agreed to Sun Shaozong's request without hesitation, took a piece of oil paper, carefully separated nearly half of the fruit residue, packed it and handed it to Sun Shaozong.
Sun Shaozong still did not give up and discussed with the two coroners for a long time, but still got nothing. Finally, he had to say goodbye in disappointment.
Li Jiuming escorted him out of the morgue, then stopped and said in a deep voice, "I have official duties to attend to, so I won't send you off any further - remember to tell Rong girl not to interfere in this case in the future!"
Sun Shaozong nodded in agreement and hurried out of the courtyard. He saw Ruan Rong standing against the wall with a pale face. There was a large area of vomit beside her . It was estimated that she had even contributed her breakfast.
Ruan Rong also noticed Sun Shaozong at this time. Seeing that his eyes were fixed on the vomit, she felt a little embarrassed and scraped the ground with her boots, trying to cover the vomit with dirt.
But at this moment, Sun Shaozong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he excitedly rushed to the pool of vomit, squatted down and studied it carefully - he didn't expect that what he just said casually would really make him hit the jackpot!
