Chapter 172 Life and Death
When they arrived at the door of the operating room, Wu Qingluan and Gu Nankai looked from the direction of the cordon and realized that so many people were crowded here. It was so crowded that they couldn't even see the end of the crowd.
Security guards on several floors were maintaining order, and colleagues from the police force rushed to the scene after Gu Nankai arrived to evacuate the crowd and intervene in the investigation, so Gu Nankai was not too worried about the situation outside and walked into the operating room.
"Why are there so many people?" Gu Nankai asked in surprise.
Li Meng smiled and said mysteriously: "Boss, you will know the reason soon."
Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan frowned and looked at Li Meng in confusion. Li Meng still looked mysterious, which made Gu Nankai very curious about the situation at the crime scene.
Once in the operating room, only Cao Cang and Shang Lu were there. Shang Lu was examining the body on the operating table, while Cao Cang was looking for clues.
"Where did Gao Yuan and Yang Dong go?" Wu Qingluan asked.
Seeing Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan coming in, Shang Lu and Cao Cang stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Hearing Wu Qingluan's question, Cao Cang quickly said, "They went to find the relevant personnel of the hospital to understand the situation."
Gu Nankai smiled and said, "These two guys are quite smart."
"Of course not. Isn't this because of your good teaching, Boss?" Li Meng said with a chuckle, and everyone laughed.
After a brief moment of relaxation, Gu Nankai walked over to Shang Lu and quickly asked, "How's the situation?"
Because she heard that the body this time was not very bloody, Wu Qingluan did not avoid it, so when Gu Nankai asked Shang Lu about the situation of the victim, she followed him. However, she was still shocked when she saw the body. Even Gu Nankai was startled and subconsciously looked at Shang Lu, hoping that she would give him an explanation as soon as possible.
Shang Lu smiled first, then curled his lips, looked at Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan with his innocent eyes, and pointed at the corpse: "Boss, this is what you see."
She smiled and leaned forward, saying to Wu Qingluan, "Sister Qingluan, it's quite weird, but don't be afraid. Life and death are just a matter of skin. It's not a big deal. A corpse isn't that scary."
Wu Qingluan smiled with lingering fear, her face slightly pale, but when she thought about how she usually stayed away from corpses, it was not a good thing after all. So even though she was afraid this time, she silently convinced herself to overcome this bad habit. Since she had chosen to come here, she should not do anything special . Shang Lu's words just now also gave her some inspiration.
What she said was indeed true. After all, life and death are linked together. What people fear after all is the darkness and imagination derived from the depths of their hearts. What is truly scary is not the dead, but the darkness hidden in people's hearts.
Suddenly she understood, and with everyone present, Wu Qingluan felt that there was nothing to fear anymore. She took a step forward and moved closer to Gu Nankai.
At this moment, Gu Nankai looked at the corpse on the operating table with a serious face. If you don't look at the upper half of the corpse, you can't see anything about the lower half. But when Shang Lu untied the white cloth on her upper part, the weirdness that was revealed became apparent.
The hands of this corpse were tightly strangling its neck, and the corpse was in such a strange posture at the moment, and there was a hint of smile on the face of the corpse, which made the whole corpse look even more weird.
"What's going on?" After observing for a long time, Gu Nankai looked at Shang Lu and asked.
Shang Lu shook his head. "From the surface, if it's a little weird, the body strangled itself to death. From my forensic point of view, there are no obvious external injuries or blunt force injuries on the body, and there are no signs of a second person's assault. It falls into the category of suffocation. Anyway, to sum up, from the current situation, the victim strangled himself to death, and he seemed to be enjoying it before he died. Based on the corpse spots and rigor mortis on the surface of the body, it can be preliminarily determined that the time of death was between 12:30 and 2:00 this morning. As for the other situations, I have to go back to the serious case team and do an autopsy before I can give you a detailed report."
"The victim strangled himself to death?" Wu Qingluan found this statement very strange and asked Shang Lu again with a wrinkled face, as if seeking confirmation.
Shang Lu nodded and explained to Wu Qingluan: "Sister Qingluan, this is the situation at the scene. At present, it seems that this is indeed a possibility."
"Could it be that someone else killed her and then created the scene, causing our misunderstanding?" Wu Qingluan quickly raised her question and even put her hand on her neck to test it: "I think it's unlikely that she killed herself."
Shang Lu raised his arm and shook his index finger in front of his face. "Not necessarily. I checked the victim's body. The force of her hands stuck at her neck was enough to kill herself. And based on the stiffness, it would be difficult for us to restore her body to normal before the rigor mortis dissipated. This means that this posture could not have been artificially placed after death. The only possibility is that the murderer did use enough force to kill herself at her neck before she died, and it is impossible for a person to do this in a dead state. That's why I said that the murderer strangled herself."
After Shang Lu's explanation, Wu Qingluan finally understood it completely, but this only deepened her doubts. Is it really possible to kill yourself in this world? "
"So all the people outside must have heard the news, which is why so many people gathered here."
Gu Nankai now understood why there were so many people in the corridor outside.
Hearing this, Shang Lu shook his head to indicate that he didn't know: "I was busy looking at the corpse when I came here, and I really don't know what happened outside. Cao Cang and the others interfered."
Cao Cang and Li Meng also stopped what they were doing and came over.
Cao Cang said, "When we first came here, we investigated the people who were watching the excitement. Most of those who gathered here to watch the excitement were patients and their families. According to them, someone told them that someone in the hospital had died mysteriously. Some people also said that they saw Chen Yang walking in the corridor in the middle of the night, muttering something incomprehensible. It was around 12 o'clock. These things were linked together, and after being spread by one person, ten people, and a hundred people, the story had changed a lot. Now people outside are saying that Chen Yang was possessed by a ghost in the middle of the night."
After hearing this, Gu Nankai instinctively said: "It seems that this is news deliberately spread by the murderer, with the purpose of causing panic in the hospital."
Cao Cang's face darkened and he said, "So Gao Yuan and Yang Dong checked the hospital's surveillance and negotiated with the hospital. Li Meng and I investigated again and found that we couldn't find the person who started the rumor. It was probably what you said. The hospital had kept it a secret, and these people outside knew about it just before we got here. If Cao Mo hadn't called me immediately, I think the situation would be even more chaotic now."
Gu Nankai frowned and nodded, then asked, "How is it? Is there anything suspicious at the scene?"
Cao Cang shook his head. "According to what we know, the door lock of this operating room was broken in the past two days. The hospital hired someone to fix it today, and then this happened. That's why Chen Yang was able to enter this operating room. All the tissues found at the scene belonged to Chen Yang alone. She might have been in a state of frenzy when she came in. There are traces of collisions in many places in the operating room. After inspection, the possibility of a second person being present can be basically ruled out."
