Chapter 17: Master, why don’t you come!
Zhao Xinli spat out a mouthful of rice, luckily it just spilled on the ground beside him. Xiao Liu jumped away in disgust.
"Brother Zhao doesn't do this."
Forensic Doctor Liu looked gossipy.
"Tell me what's going on? I haven't seen you for a few days. Is there something I don't know?"
Zhao Xinli was a straightforward person. Seeing that Zhou Ning had no expression on his face, he started to describe the story vividly. Zhou Ning even suspected that he had wasted his intelligence on just watching the fun, as he had never seen him have such an ability to retell stories before.
After hearing the last part, Forensic Doctor Liu patted Zhou Ning on the shoulder.
"Your reaction speed is good, young man, you ran well. If you delay this for a while, you won't be able to explain yourself. If you go to a place without surveillance, or a park, you will be falsely accused of indecent assault, and you will lose your clothes."
Zhou Ning nodded. This was also what he was afraid of.
"I'm done eating, Master, I'll go get some preparations, but why do you do the female deceased first?"
"Well, I praised you for nothing. First, make a highly decomposed corpse. The room will stink. Wouldn't the second one also be considered highly decomposed? Besides, start with the easy ones and then move on to the difficult ones. Do you understand?"
Zhou Ning suddenly realized that they had all finished eating. Xiao Liu cleaned up the food quickly. The old man in the morgue did not mind the leftovers and took them away. Then they walked towards the autopsy room.
Zhao Xinli and his team stopped at the door and handed the camera and survey box in the car to Zhou Ning.
"Let's wait outside. If you need to send it for inspection or pass on a message, just give me a shout."
Forensic Doctor Liu did not object and took Zhou Ning back to the autopsy room .
"Master, we don't need to wait for the family members to sign the consent form this time?"
Forensic Doctor Liu waved his hand.
"No need, just take some photos and get started. The identities of the two deceased have been confirmed, and it's such a serious homicide case, so we can just do an autopsy."
"Master, I didn't find any injuries other than the groin on the female victim. I just think that if a person regretted committing suicide after killing someone, they would have died a long time ago. There would definitely not be such a long wait. But don't her family members have to wait?"
Forensic Doctor Liu waved his hand.
"Don't worry, I've already told Xu Da that if the family members cause trouble, he will solve it."
Zhou Ning heaved a sigh of relief after getting a positive answer.
He helped forensic doctor Liu change his clothes, handed him the high chair with wheels, dressed himself, and then stood by the autopsy bed to take pictures and clean the deceased's clothes.
The surface autopsy began, still starting from the cornea, and checking one part at a time, constantly reading out the results. Forensic Doctor Liu took notes, and samples were taken from between the fingers, the mouth, and the vagina. Finally, the instrument cart was pushed over.
When everything was ready, he held the scalpel in front of Forensic Doctor Liu.
"What are you doing for me? You do it. The neck dissection of this deceased person needs to be extra careful. The area of the dissection should be larger. I want to see if the subcutaneous injury corresponds to the groove."
Zhou Ning didn't waste any words. Forensic Doctor Liu took the initiative to speak, so he naturally had no objection. After all, he had little experience in hands-on work, so he still needed to do more and gain more experience. He would also be given fewer electric shocks when he was tortured by simulated cases at night.
He raised his hand and started the knife directly, carefully separating the skin on the neck and fixing it with a retractor. He did not rush to deal with the chest and abdomen. He held a magnifying glass and checked the subcutaneous marks while matching the grooves.
Forensic Doctor Liu also came over with a magnifying glass, observed carefully for a while, and suddenly uttered an "eh". Zhou Ning quickly stopped what he was doing. To be honest, he didn't see anything wrong.
"Look here, there is a larger bruise. Although it is light and partly overlaps with the ligature, it is still distinguishable. This is the mark caused by the right hand strangling the neck. It was done in a short time with great force."
As Forensic Doctor Liu drew circles with his fingers, Zhou Ning looked carefully and it seemed to be true. Forensic Doctor Liu quickly took a photo to record it.
"Master, is the autopsy still going on?"
"continue."
Zhou Ning moved quickly, clearing the sternum and ribs, and discovered a subcutaneous hemorrhage on the chest that was similar in shape to a footprint. Such trauma further confirmed Zhou Ning's initial judgment.
Then they took blood from the heart, took out the stomach and cut it open. The stomach was empty. This discovery made Zhou Ning a little stunned.
"Empty state?"
"Well, the deceased had been hungry for a while. There are bleeding spots on the stomach wall mucosa, and the mucosa is damaged."
Taking note of it secretly, he continued with his hand movements. When he reached the pelvic area, Zhou Ning discovered that the deceased's uterus was a little large. He took it out and measured the size, which was 12 centimeters in length. After cutting it open, he was stunned and looked up at Forensic Doctor Liu.
"Master is pregnant!"
The splint in Forensic Doctor Liu's hand hit Zhou Ning on the head with a snap.
"Master is pregnant? I have that ability? Why are you so excited? Take it out, weigh it, and sew it up. This is the end of it."
Zhou Ning was a little embarrassed. He was so nervous that he couldn't speak clearly. He quickly weighed and reported the number, then sorted the samples and started to sew them up.
Zhao Xinli and others were called over, and Zhu Meifeng's body was sent away.
After Forensic Doctor Liu finished recording, he hopped on one foot and moved towards the table, talking non-stop.
"Quick, quick, turn on the exhaust fans first, both of them. This is not a high-corrosion autopsy room. There is no ventilation function. Open all the windows. Help me put on the protective clothing."
Zhou Ning was startled, it seemed that he was too careless, and quickly helped Forensic Doctor Liu change his clothes, and put them on himself, put on goggles and a gas mask, and put on three layers of gloves. At this time, the door was opened.
The sound of Zhao Xinli and others retching was heard first.
The little old man in the morgue was quite resistant to the smell, so he pushed a cart in. Seeing that Forensic Doctor Liu was staring at him, Zhao Xinli walked in quickly, asked Zhou Ning for gloves and masks, and prepared for the four of them to work together to put the body bag on the dissection table.
At this time, the corpse was still lying prone. Forensic Doctor Liu moved closer, took a closer look at the knife, and waved at Zhou Ning.
"Don't leave yet. After taking the photo, I'll pull out the knife and then help us turn the body over. My feet are not strong enough."
Zhou Ning moved closer to take a picture. In fact, the knife had already been photographed at the scene, but he still followed Forensic Doctor Liu's instructions and took pictures from all angles.
Forensic Doctor Liu grabbed the handle of the knife and lifted it up, and the knife moved away from the deceased's body. However, with this action, several maggots also jumped along with it. This sensory stimulation made people's stomach and intestines seem to be dancing.
Zhou Ning tilted his head slightly and suppressed his nausea, but Zhao Xinli's retching sounds caused some chain reactions, and the sounds outside also started to rise one after another.
"Don't scream, hurry up and do it together. Don't touch the body. Just pull the body bag towards you and then lift it up. We'll push it this way, and Zhou Ning will take over. Everyone cooperate well, otherwise I won't be responsible if you get it on yourself."
Several people nodded at the same time. It was obvious that the old man was more experienced. The body bag was pulled towards Zhao Xinli, then stood up and turned towards Zhou Ning. The old man and Zhou Ning caught it together, and the body was finally put down.
A lot of parts fell out of the body bag, and Zhao Xinli turned around and ran out.
The old man shook his head, put away the body bag, helped clean the cart, took off his gloves, and then calmly closed the door and walked out.
It seems that working in the morgue is not an easy job. This requires a lot of experience!
"Okay, let's do the autopsy together. This way it will be quicker. Has the male deceased been identified?"
Forensic Doctor Liu was wearing a gas mask, so his voice was a little muffled. I guess he tried his best to speak loudly.
Zhou Ning made an OK gesture.
"The deceased is Li Delin, from Yujia Village. He owns a company. We don't know anything else about him. Xu Da and his team have already started investigating."
Forensic Doctor Liu nodded.
"That's good. Otherwise, we would have to collect fingerprints from the deceased. Although the deceased did not drown, he has already formed a giant figure. Drowning hand and foot sets [1] have already appeared. Collecting these is really a challenge to the senses."
Zhou Ning's hair stood on end, he still remembered his sophomore year.
The senior students were competing in the cafeteria and watching the CSI segment about collecting fingerprints from a decomposed corpse while eating. He went to join in the fun and took a look. He didn't eat for a week after that; the memory was so deeply ingrained in his bones.
Shaking his head to let the images deep in his memory fade away, Zhou Ning looked at Forensic Doctor Liu.
"Master, what are we doing now?"
Forensic Doctor Liu had curved eyes and seemed to be smiling. He handed Zhou Ning a large glass jar and a spoon. He also held a plastic scraper, the kind used to make pasta, and gestured towards the corpse.
"Come on, let's do the big job first. I'll scrape the maggots and pupae off the surface of the corpse, and you collect them."
Zhou Ning screamed in fright, and his hand slipped and the glass jar almost fell out of his hand.
"Master, how about you come?"
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【1】Drowning gloves: One of the symptoms of a corpse in water decay is that the skin of the hands and feet swells and falls off like gloves. Because the corpse has been immersed in water for a long time (1 week in summer, 2-3 weeks in winter), coupled with autolysis and decay, the epidermis and dermis of the skin of the hands and feet of the corpse are separated, and the nails (toes) fall off, forming a glove or foot cover-like peeling, so it is called "drowning gloves" or "drowning foot covers". Some corpses of giants will also show the same state, often with more maggots and more decaying liquid.
