Chapter 254: Cutting Feet and Digging Out Hearts
After Ye Lanqing's performance, everyone was a little tired. Several people sat on their chairs, too tired to speak. Not long after, a figure ran over from not far away, followed by a bright voice: "Great discovery! Great discovery, everyone!"
The voice came from Shang Lu, who was familiar to everyone. Seeing her jogging towards them, Gu Nankai opened his eyes, stood up immediately, and looked at Shang Lu excitedly: "What did you find? Tell me now!"
"Don't worry, the old man will be here soon. I'll give you a heads-up first, and we'll tell you in detail when the old man arrives."
As they were talking, Old Zhang also came out. Wu Qingluan and the others all stood up when they saw him. Cao Cang and Gao Yuan hurriedly pulled out a stool to invite the old man to sit down, but Old Zhang smiled and shook his arms: "Don't bother, you little guys. I'm used to standing when I talk."
"Okay, you can sit down anytime if you're tired." Gao Yuan spoke to him with a smile. At this time, Wu Qingluan also poured a glass of water and placed it as close to him as possible. Shang Lu was a little tired and drank the glass of water by himself.
"Mr. Zhang, I heard from Shang Lu that you guys have made a big discovery?"
Gu Nankai moved his tongue in his mouth, looked at Mr. Zhang and asked .
"Yes, there is indeed a major discovery. I think this is related to the direction of your investigation." Once he entered the working state, Mr. Zhang looked very serious, not at all like the naughty old man when he just met Shang Lu.
Gu Nankai listened to the old man's words with a serious expression, nodded slightly, and signaled the old man to continue.
"Hey, just sit down and listen to me. The serious crime squad is my home turf. You won't even let go of your own granddaughter's home turf, will you?" The old man was about to speak when Shang Lu pushed him down on the chair. He pushed the water cup in front of him and signaled him to rest. He muttered, "You've been tired for a long time. Have a good rest. I'll take care of the rest."
If this happened in the past, the old man would definitely explode, but now that the protagonist has become his own granddaughter, he actually accepted it happily. After laughing a few times, he looked at Gu Nankai and said, "That's right, Captain Gu, this is my granddaughter's home court. An old man like me won't steal her limelight. Let her talk. I also want to see how good my granddaughter's business ability is ."
Gu Nankai smiled and said, "Well, Mr. Zhang, if Shang Lu missed anything in the process, please fill it in."
Old Zhang nodded and looked at his granddaughter impatiently, with a look of pride on his face, as if his daughter had grown up.
Although her grandfather was present, Shang Lu was not at all nervous. She quickly distributed the information in her hand to everyone and said, "These photos and information are about the description of the corpse. Everyone should familiarize themselves with them first. If there are no problems, I will start reporting."
Soon, after everyone had become familiar with the information and photos, Shang Lu spoke up: "After our serious and careful analysis of the body, we believe that the body was killed while the victim was in a coma, and the cause of death was that the murderer cut off the victim's carotid artery."
"Severed carotid artery?" Gu Nankai was slightly surprised, and quickly added: "This is difficult to find from the corpse. Do you have any supporting evidence?"
Shang Lu raised his eyebrows and smiled proudly: "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't tell you so confidently."
After she finished speaking, she looked at her old man and raised her chin: "Old man, I'll give you a chance to explain it to everyone. After all, you discovered it."
Hearing her calling him, Mr. Zhang was very excited and continued to speak as she spoke: "Because of the effect of aqua regia, the victim's body is basically only left with bones. It is difficult to find out from the bones that the victim died of severing the carotid artery, but there is another possibility."
Gu Nankai leaned forward and listened carefully to what Mr. Zhang said next.
Elder Zhang paused for a moment to give everyone some time to adjust their thinking, and then he spoke: "If the knife used by the murderer to sever the carotid artery also injured the victim's cervical vertebrae, then it is possible to see cuts or nicks, but in this case, the wound must be very deep, almost as if the head was cut off, in which case, it is possible to have the marks I mentioned earlier."
"Since you found such cut marks on the body, it means that the murderer's hatred for the victim has reached the point where he almost cut off the victim's head. The emotions involved are a bit complicated." Gu Nankai frowned slightly as he thought, and soon came up with another theory.
Elder Zhang nodded: "Your statement is true, but it does not mean that the murderer only hates the corpse, because our next discovery will surprise you even more."
Gu Nankai raised his eyebrows, not expecting that there was something more exciting to come. Everyone's eyes subconsciously turned to Shang Lu, hoping that she would quickly tell everyone what else they had discovered next.
Shang Lu was very pleased with this inquiring look. She grinned and said mysteriously, "Because we found that the murderer cut off the victim's feet for a ritual purpose!"
Gu Nankai and the others were all extremely shocked, but before they could digest this information, Zhang Lao added another bombshell. He said slowly, "Because we found that the victim's heart was also taken out by the murderer."
"What? The heart was taken out?" Gao Yuan and the others asked in shock.
"Digging out the heart and cutting off the feet, what kind of ritual is this for?" Gao Yuan seemed to have not yet recovered from the shock of this fact and asked another question.
"You are ignorant of this. I will tell you later." Shang Lu laughed at him and looked at Gu Nankai: "Boss, this is indeed our discovery, because the murderer is very likely to use a sharp knife to break the victim 's rib cage and take out the heart. In this case, the victim's ribs and sternum are likely to have cuts. Fortunately, although the murderer thinks he is very professional, he is a half-baked one after all. We found shallow cuts on the victim's cervical vertebrae, ribs, and foot bones. So it is certain that the murderer dug out the victim's heart and cut off her feet for some kind of ritual purpose."
After listening to Shang Lu's words, Gu Nankai fell into deep thought. Seeing him thinking, Mr. Zhang also kindly signaled Shang Lu not to speak for the time being. The results of the examination of the body were indeed beyond everyone's expectations. Everyone was shocked, and no one was able to figure it out for a moment.
What was the murderer's motive for killing Wu Mengjie in this way?
After a while, Gu Nankai came out of his thoughts. He looked at Shang Lu and Zhang Lao and asked a question: "Zhang Lao, Shang Lu, do you have more definite evidence for what you said just now?"
Zhang Lao nodded, and Shang Lu quickly said, "Of course there is. When the murderer attacked the victim, the tip of the knife he used to commit the crime broke, so these tiny fragments were embedded in the bones. We have already found the embedded fragments of the knife tip."
Gu Nankai took a deep breath and nodded again: "Very good, so the murderer's cause of death can be basically determined, right?"
Shang Lu glanced at his grandfather, and the old man continued, "Basically speaking, it can be confirmed. Let's not how the victim and the murderer appeared at the crime scene together, because this is not our forensic expertise. Let's talk about what happened after they arrived at the crime scene."
