frightfiction Chapter 5: Hitting the Jackpot
Chapter 5: Hitting the Jackpot
Chapter 5: Hitting the Jackpot
However, Ruan Rong was brave enough to rush into the courtyard. At first, she walked like a fly, but after passing through the coffins, her steps slowed down, and her big eyes rolled around, revealing her anxiety and fear.
If Li Jiuming tried to persuade her at this time, she would quit.
Although Li Jiuming was a good case handler, he couldn't understand the little girl's mind at all.
He rushed up from behind. Seeing that the autopsy room was not far ahead, he shook his head helplessly and said, "Well, since you said you are brave, you can go in with me."
Now Ruan Rong had no way out, so she had to be brave enough to cross the threshold side by side with Li Jiuming.
When she was right in the middle of the door inside and outside, she felt a stench coming to her face. Even though Ruan Rong covered her mouth and nose in time, she still couldn't completely isolate it. The disgusting smell crept in through her nose and filled in her stomach as if she were going to throw out all the overnight meals!
"This... What's the smell? It stinks!"
Ruan Rong resisted her nausea and complained loudly. Then someone behind her said, "You're right. This is the smell of dead people, but it should be the smell leftover from the past. If there are rotten corpses in it, the smell will be much stronger."
Corpses odor? Much stronger?!
Before Sun Shaozong's voice ended, he saw Ruan Rong turn around and run out of the yard, and then there was a burst of intermittent vomiting.
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Li Jiuming sighed helplessly, but when he looked at Sun Shaozong again, he had more meaning to explore. He had seen many desperate who licked blood with their swords, but he rarely saw young people who could tell the truth about the smell of corpses and take it calmly in front of the smell.
Thus, he raised his attention to Sun Shaozong.
"Lieutenant Sun, please."
"Thank you, Constable Li."
Li Jiuming raised his hand and gave way. Sun Shaozong casually thanked him and walked into the morgue.
At this time, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, but there were a dozen candles in the morgue, and the candlesticks were high and low, vaguely surrounding a single bed covered with a white cloth.
On the left side of the single bed, a fat man and a thin man were quietly cleaning up their knives. When they saw Li Jiuming bringing people in, they just nodded slightly and ignored them.
Sun Shaozong knew that these people who often deal with corpses are not very sociable, so he didn't care. He went to the bed, pointed to the white cloth covered on it, and politely asked, "Excuse me, can I open it?"
The fat corpse examiner took over the conversation again, pointed to a single bed in the southwest corner, and said, "There was a tattoo on his back, but he recently destroyed it with brute force. He was probably afraid that the tattoo would reveal his identity."
Tattoo?
Hearing this, Sun Shaozong had a thought in his mind and quickly cast his eyes on Li Jiuming. Li Jiuming shook his head slightly and said, "The paladins of the six countries in southern Xinjiang have a lot of tattooing habits. If the tattoo is still complete, I may be able to find out something by following the steps, but now..."
Sun Shaozong was slightly disappointed. He turned to the two corpse examiners and asked, "Have you checked the food residue in their stomachs? Do you have any clues?"
"You are an expert!"
The fat corpse examiner praised again, and then he found a tray under the shelf where the knives were placed. There were three small enamel bowls in the tray, which were sticky, and didn't know what it was holding. A disgusting sour smell came from afar.
"That's what we took out of their stomachs." The fat corpse examiner pointed to the paste in the bowl and said, "In addition to the common foods with protein and carbohydrates, it seems that there are some fruits that should not be common in the market. As for the specific fruit, it is difficult for me to distinguish."
Sun Shaozong was immediately excited again and asked, "Can you take this as a clue to find out where the rest of the assassins are hiding?"
"This..."
The fat and skinny corpse examiners looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Finally, Li Jiuming explained, "Southern Xinjiang is known as the hometown of melons and fruits. Now it is the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, and there are at least hundreds of kinds of fruits. If each kind of fruit is compared, I don't know how long it will take - and it has to be eaten before spitting out. It's really..."
After a pause, he added, "Moreover, this kind of fresh fruit doesn't last long. Maybe it will completely deteriorate in the evening."
Indeed, in the absence of scientific instruments, it may be lucky to find out the roots of these fruit residues. But the iron rule of the modern police criminal department was that no matter how trivial the clues were, they couldn't give up tracing!
So Sun Shaozong asked, "In that case, can you share some of the fruit residues with me? Maybe I'm lucky enough to find this fruit by chance."
This thing doesn't last long. What's the use of keeping more?
Therefore, without hesitation, the two corpse examiners agreed to Sun Shaozong's request. They took a piece of oil paper, carefully separated nearly half of the fruit residue, packed it, and handed it to Sun Shaozong.
Sun Shaozong never gave up. He discussed it with the two men for a long time, but he never got much information in return. Finally, he had to leave bitterly.
Li Jiuming sent him out of the morgue, then stopped and said in a deep voice, "I still have some business to do, so I'll just send you here. Remember to tell Rong’er for me, and don't meddle in this case in the future further!"
Sun Shaozong nodded and hurried out of the gate. He saw Ruan Rong standing on the wall with a pale face and a huge piece of vomit spread around her. It was estimated that she had even contributed her breakfast too.
Ruan Rong also found that Sun Shaozong was out at this time. She was embarrassed when she noticed his eyes turning around the vomit. He rubbed his boots on the ground, intending to cover up the vomit with soil.
But at this moment, Sun Shaozong suddenly brightened the light in his eyes. He rushed to the booth in front of the vomit and squatted down to study it carefully. Unexpectedly, he didn't expect that he was really lucky when he just casually said it a moment ago!