National Forensic Doctor-Chapter 1181 - 1111: Soft Corpse

Jiang Yuan changed his gloves once and then turned the victim’s body over right on the scene.

Physically turned it upside down.

And when the victim’s face faced upwards, the young criminal police present really gasped with shock, then were overwhelmed by the stench.

The corpse hadn’t reached the stage of giant view, but the head was already swollen; specifically, the lips had thickened, the face was swollen like a 300-pound fatty, the eyeballs were bulging because they enlarged, and the tongue also seemed to have grown but it didn’t protrude, instead filling the mouth entirely.

The key was, maggots weren’t picky. Not only weren’t they picky, they equally liked the seams formed by eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

Seeing the white maggots crawling out from the exposed swollen eyeballs really made people think of Guangxi delicacy roasted pig eyes.

"Just take a note." Jiang Yuan’s gaze didn’t linger on the victim’s face too long; he just brushed aside the dry grass leaves on the corpse to observe carefully.

After observing enough, Jiang Yuan asked for a ruler to measure, saying: "There are two wounds on the chest, the fatal wound being an 8*3 wound. Rough estimate. There are suspicious defensive wounds on the limbs, very badly decomposed, can’t be sure."

Jiang Yuan: "The body is male, strong build, high muscle content. Clothing intact, no phone seen around the corpse..."

Wang Chuanxing picked up the pad, enduring the increasingly intense smell blowing in the wind, and began to make records.

The stench wasn’t so severe before Jiang Yuan and the others arrived. Their intense movement led to the gas trapped in the corpse’s belly escaping significantly.

After being brewed in the abdominal cavity, mixed with a bit of the odor from the swollen intestines, this basically created the top-level corpse stench. Many nearby police couldn’t take it and ran away.

Even with a gas mask on, Jiang Yuan couldn’t bear it much, but he couldn’t run away, only enduring it.

Miao Ruixiang didn’t need to be mentioned; he was the least experienced officer present, and even if he ran away, he’d be dragged back.

Miao Ruixiang could only silently chant in his mind: Brother didn’t run, Brother is so strong and didn’t run, Brother is so rich and didn’t run, Brother is the leader and didn’t run...

Jiang Yuan stood up and said: "I’ve finished checking the body. Rui Xiang, you’re in charge of wrapping up, bag the corpse and transport it back."

"Huh?" Miao Ruixiang was stunned.

By the time he wanted to call "Brother" again, Jiang Yuan had already quickly departed from the corpse, starting to inspect along the arrival route, and gradually went farther.

"Brother..." Knowing it wouldn’t reach him, Miao Ruixiang still pitifully called out once, feeling like the heaven lost its luster, the earth lost its color, only the stench enveloped the world...

"From now on, you’ll call him ’Brother!’" Wei Shikan brought over a gloomy-looking forensic doctor and introduced him to Miao Ruixiang.

Miao Ruixiang didn’t have time to wipe his tears, silently turned to glance at the opposite party, and very emotionally intelligent said: "You can call me Miao Forensic Doctor. I’m also a newbie. Captain Wei, is this forensic doctor from your Criminal Police Brigade?"

"Yes. His name is Li Chang. A graduate student who just arrived this year." Wei Shikan, without any rank or title, spoke like a deputy team leader. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

Li Chang shyly greeted Miao Ruixiang: yue

Just wearing a white coat, Forensic Doctor Li’s resistance to the stench was apparently not strong either.

Miao Ruixiang unexpectedly felt his mood improve significantly and smiled: "Sorry, today coincidentally dealing with decomposing corpses. So, you’re a graduate, passed the Lanyue City Criminal Police Brigade exam? Which university?"

"Zhejiang University." Li Chang whispered.

Miao Ruixiang was startled: "Good school."

Wei Shikan added from the side: "Li Forensic Doctor’s undergraduate was Shanghai Jiao Tong University, both good schools."

Miao Ruixiang suddenly felt shy and said: "I actually just graduated recently too. Oh, I’m an undergraduate, you should be older than me, I’ll call you Brother Li, you can call me Xiao Miao..."

"No way!" Wei Shikan interrupted before Li Chang could answer, saying: "You are Jiang Yuan’s junior, the last disciple of Doctor Wu. The seniority is there. Li Chang is purely a newbie, if Dai Zhi heard you call him Brother Li, Dai Zhi would chew him out!"

Miao Ruixiang was a bit awkward and said: "I am just a just-graduated graduate from a second-tier university..."

"No one looks at your education background." Wei Shikan waved his hand and said: "With our Lanyue City Criminal Police Brigade’s recruitment standards, which isn’t highly educated talent, but comparison matters. Which university did Captain Jiang graduate from, is not important, what matters is you are Captain Jiang’s junior brother, and Captain Jiang acknowledges it, otherwise why specially bring you from Ningtai County to dissect bodies? Li Chang, what do you say?"

Li Chang calmly said: "As long as I can learn from Captain Jiang, I would even call Miao Grandpa."

"Don’t... don’t, not deserving..." Miao Ruixiang hurriedly said: "Just call me Captain Miao. Actually, Xiao Miao sounds quite nice too..."

"Captain Miao." Li Chang called once: "So what should we do now?"

"Uh... this... my task now is to move the corpse, you should dress up first. Don’t let your clothes be exposed outside, once they get the smell, it won’t wash off." Miao Ruixiang was placed in position, knowingly or unknowingly started to guide Li Chang.

Li Chang actually worked in the Criminal Police Brigade longer than Miao Ruixiang, naturally having no trouble with basic operations, he even early reached the state of independently dissecting corpses, qualifications and level higher than Miao Ruixiang, but standing behind Miao Ruixiang to help, Li Chang had no complaints.

If not for Zhejiang University’s master’s diploma, he wouldn’t get this opportunity.

Li Chang accompanied Miao Ruixiang, first turning the main body of the corpse into a body bag, then carefully lifting the soft and detached unidentified tissues and placing them in together.

And after the corpse was moved away, various frantically escaping insects, insect eggs, maggots, and pupae were indiscriminately placed into several other bags.

As Li Chang worked, he quietly asked Miao Ruixiang, "I heard Captain Jiang’s forensic entomology skills are top-notch? Can he understand all these insects?"

"Probably. He knows them all anyway. But, since Captain Jiang has mastered legal botany, recognizing insects shouldn’t be too hard," Miao Ruixiang replied.

"Depends on to what extent he recognizes them." Li Chang had seen impressive experts while at school. In fact, those who truly study forensic entomology academically often have a very high specialization level within a particular taxonomy. But these experts mostly specialize in studying one insect type, sometimes even just one form of that insect.

However, in field scenes, insects obviously don’t provide forensic doctors such an opportunity, so field forensics demand a wide array of knowledge, whereas academic forensic scientists are asked to deeply cultivate single domains.

These are originally two distinct worlds, with the latter providing information to the former, having mutual ties but not overlapping.

Yet from Li Chang’s perspective, Jiang Yuan’s skill has clearly already crossed over. This inevitably leads to all kinds of curiosity and associations...

...

Once the site survey concluded, Jiang Yuan first took a shower, changed clothes, and then sat down at his desk to organize the collected evidence and photos.

Miao Ruixiang and Li Chang also tidied up briefly, starting to pull the soft, melted-like corpse out from the body bag.

A corpse, similar to melting, after entering the body bag and being transported all the way here, became mostly soft and rotten, which is why Jiang Yuan first carefully examined the body at the site.

Miao Ruixiang sorted through quickly, soon piling up flesh pieces on the dissection table.

The spread-out corpse expands in volume, especially when not controlled by sinews and bones, it can’t be wrapped and fixed like a fresh corpse, so when the meat pile on the dissection table grows too much, a piece of flesh suddenly starts sliding off the table.

With this rotten piece of flesh leading, more flesh begins to slinkingly rush off.

If they fall to the ground... actually no big deal, just that cleaning the surface becomes an overtime task.

Seeing this, Miao Ruixiang swiftly dashed forward, using his warm chest, strong arms, and sizeable chin to block the soft flesh from the bedside.

Li Chang promptly stepped forward to help, first yanking the maggot attempting to crawl into Miao Ruixiang’s nose.

"I’ll help you boil them to death!" Li Chang punitively dealt with the unruly white maggot, like soothing a child.

Miao Ruixiang remained expressionless, desolate, feeling that even as a forensic doctor, today was a bit too much.

"Those that don’t fit, move to the side." Jiang Yuan found it somewhat disgusting too, coming over to help move some onto the adjacent dissection table.

The thoroughly distributed body emitted an even more penetrating odor.

Jiang Yuan then commenced formal dissection.

After everything was completed, he instructed Miao Ruixiang and others to put the body into a pot to boil, facilitating bone extraction.

When Jian Louyuan brought Wei Shikan in, the bizarre smell of boiling flesh mixed with the corpse’s odor, they immediately covered their noses. Of course, it had little effect.

"Captain Jiang, how’s it?" Jian Louyuan looked at Jiang Yuan with great anticipation.

"The perpetrator is male. About 45 years old, over 175 cm tall, short-haired. His weight before death should be around 180 pounds, with higher muscle content, likely due to exercising," Jiang Yuan replied while holding a notebook, then instructed Miao Ruixiang to bring the remaining clothing over for inspection.

"T-shirt, trousers, boots... placed elsewhere, might narrow the scope, placed near the studio city, slightly ordinary." Jian Louyuan sighed, "Even at 45 years old, exercising... If wanting to fit in here, still needs to work out persistently at 55."

Jiang Yuan continued flipping through his notebook, continuing, "Time of death is about two days ago. Almost 40 to 50 hours. I need further study on the insects I brought back, later I’ll provide more precise timing."

"Already very detailed," Jian Louyuan praised and added, "So, died during the day the day before yesterday?"

Jiang Yuan nodded.

"Murdering in broad daylight, perhaps a crime of passion?" Jian Louyuan relaxed a bit upon this thought.

Jiang Yuan allowed him relief for only two seconds before stating, "Not necessarily in broad daylight. The scene here is not the primary crime scene."

"Was the body dumped here?" Jian Louyuan exclaimed, "Dragged it far, just dumped it in a wasteland? Murdered in the studio city, then brought here?"

Jiang Yuan shook his head, "Farther than this. Certain maggots found on the body are not local species."

Jian Louyuan suddenly realized.

Li Chang raised his head swiftly, eyes rounded and wide.