Chapter 498 (2/2)

”Salt touches blood, dissolves, and seeps into the soil... Old Peng, can you use this as a reference to calculate the time when the corpse was abandoned?”

Peng Sijue thought about it for a while and said, ”We need to conduct a set of experiments to compare it.”

”Then do it. Take away the soil from the scene. The soil that's stained with blood and the soil that isn't. I want them all.”

Peng Sijue immediately ordered his subordinates to head over and start the project. In order to not destroy the original structure of the soil layer, they bought some lunch boxes from a nearby convenience store and shoveled the soil layers neatly into them.

Anxious to get the result, Chen s.h.i.+ left directly with Peng Sijue in his car, leaving Lin Dongxue behind.

Lin Qiupu smiled bitterly. ”This guy really embodies the saying 'nothing short of obsession will bring you success'... I'll send you home!”

That night, the members of the forensics department worked overtime, while monitored by Chen s.h.i.+, doing the salt granules permeation experiments. They were busy until 10:00 in the evening. Of course, for the results, they had to wait till tomorrow morning.

Chen s.h.i.+ sat there to supervise and think about the whole case. He suddenly came up with the sentence, ”Old Peng, can you drink alcohol while on antidepressants?”

”It depends on which kind.”

”Paroxetine.”

Peng Sijue checked the ingredients of the medication on his computer. ”If this medication is taken with alcohol, the person's blood pressure will rise, accompanied by stomach cramps. The negative side-effects are relatively severe.”

”Would you die?”

”It depends on the dosage, but even if you drank alcohol with the typical dosage, you wouldn't die. At most, you'd suffer terribly.”

”Oh... The doctor should tell you not to drink, right?”

”This is beyond the limits of my understanding.”

”'I don't know' was said in such a roundabout way...” Chen s.h.i.+ smiled. ”Oh, has the morning autopsy results come out yet?”

Peng Sijue threw a report at him, and Chen s.h.i.+ skimmed it. ”The internal organs were in pieces and the stomach pouch was missing? There were baked-brick fragments found on the back of the head?”

Peng Sijue said, ”I think your deduction at the scene may be right. The murderer opened up the deceased's abdomen to look for something. The entire abdominal cavity had been messed with. It seems that the murderer doesn't have professional anatomical knowledge and took the entire stomach away.”

”If that's the case, the deceased might have swallowed something before her death. It may be an important piece of evidence... Do you think that the two victims were killed by one person?”

”Tonight's body hasn't been dissected yet, so it's not clear. Although the cause of death was different for the victim found in the morning, the other details are all very similar. Because the bodies were all dissected by me in previous years, I'm quite familiar with everything.”

Chen s.h.i.+ glanced at the report, ”Then Cai Yating was an unplanned murder. The murderer took her stomach after killing her, and then put her in a red dress to “dress her up”... What did Cai Yating swallow? Can you test for that?”

”During the autopsy, we found that the esophagus wasn't damaged. It seems that it wasn't anything too big. However, if you want to test what it was, it's quite a lot of work and it isn't easy to get results. It's likely that we won't get any results even after a few days. Are you sure?”

”Forget it, there's no need... She chose to swallow it before she died, indicating that the item isn't easy to damage and that it's relatively small.”

”Could it be... A USB flash drive or a memory card for a mobile phone?”

”Well, there's that possibility, but unfortunately we probably wouldn't be able to see it... Oh right, if that's the case, it shows that Cai Yating had been secretly investigating the murderer and knew his ident.i.ty. That's why she was killed.”

”Actually, Captain Lin is also checking Cai Yating's lead today. Her profession is a newspaper reporter. We found information about the Qixi Festival serial murder cases on the computer in her house. She's indeed been tracking these cases.”

Chen s.h.i.+ sighed with sympathy, ”Poor girl, perhaps she already knew the truth, but she never had a chance to tell anyone.”

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