Chapter 166: The Song Family’s Corpse Reconstruction Technique (2/2)

“My method is a bit amateurish, though,” I laughed. “You can ask Bingxin about it. Thank goodness this scalpel is very sharp, which makes things much easier.”

At that moment, Dali returned with a big bag. He was overjoyed when he saw Bingxin there.

“Miss Sun!” he cried. “What are you doing here?”

“Song Yang-gege asked me for help,” Bingxin replied through the mask.

When Dali saw the corpse spread over the table, his face turned green. “Why did you cut the corpse into pieces, dude?”

“No time to talk,” I waved my hand. “Get me some hot water.”

I poured the bone powder, mung bean flour, and slaked lime into a metal container. When Dali returned with the hot water, I poured that into the container too. Once the mixture had cooled down a bit, I kneaded it with my hand till it turned into a paste. This sticky paste was called bone paste in the books.

I then mixed the fish gelatin and the pig fat that I had just scraped off the victim’s body into another metal container, then heated it with an alcohol burner. I waited until the mixture melted before adding starch to it and set it aside to cool.

I then filled the gaps between the bones with the paste and carefully trimmed the edges with the spatula. Bone paste solidified quickly once cooled, and it would feel just like bone to the touch.

This turned out to be quite a lot of work. From time to time, I would check the human anatomy poster on the wall. Eventually, I reconstructed the victim’s pelvis, ribs, teeth, and the bridge of her nose.

The skeleton was not complete, though. The forearms and the lower part of the legs were missing. Fortunately, this would not hinder me from solving the case.

At that moment, Bingxin was done dissecting the internal organs and was about to take them to the lab for testing.

I then covered the bones with the victim’s flesh and skin, and filled the body with the mixture of fish gelatin and pork fat. Finally, I stitched it up with needles and threads. As a human body began to take shape, Dali exclaimed, “That’s awesome, dude! You really are worthy of being Song Ci’s descendant!”

I smiled and continued to work, now focusing on the victim’s head, which would take almost the same amount of time and effort as the rest of the body.

A person’s face was not just composed of a single piece of skin. The cartilage, muscles and teeth underneath the skin were just as crucial, if not more, in the attempt to reconstruct the victim’s face. The amount of fat underneath the skin had to be carefully adjusted to the right proportion in order to recreate what the victim looked like.

Bingxin then returned to the room and announced, “The tests are complete, Song Yang-gege…” She paused suddenly when she saw how I had restored the victim’s body to its human form. She gasped and was stunned speechless.

“Nailed it!” I exclaimed as I stood up. My back ached terribly from crouching for the past three hours.

The female corpse that lay on the metal table had no limbs, no hair, and no breasts. Her body was also full of stitches, but her face had been convincingly reconstructed. Xiaotao, Dali and Bingxin looked on and gasped in disbelief.

“That’s amazing, Song Yang!” cried Xiaotao. “Even a 3D modelling software wouldn’t have done it better!”

“Some of the features on her face were just my guess,” I said, “but I’m sure her real face didn’t look much different than what I produced here.”

Xiaotao immediately called for the forensics team to come and take photos of the reconstructed corpse. They were all surprised when they arrived. They took pictures of the corpse from various angles and used them to find a match in the citizen registration database to identify the victim.

I asked Bingxin what she found from the testing. She looked at her test results report and said, “The victim is about 26 to 27 years old. Her blood type is B. She had no smoking or drinking habits. There was partially digested pig feed in her stomach. She probably ate it because she was starving. Apart from that, there was digested food matter in her intestines too. Judging by the degree of digestion, it was most likely left over from the last meal she ate about seven days ago. All her internal organs had lesions on them, and they seem to be quite recent. The liver lesions are particularly serious. I detected sedatives, anesthetics, and immunosuppressants in her liver. There were traces of hyaluronic acid and Botox in there too. These are drugs used in surgeries. I’ve made a specific list of drugs that were found in the victim’s body.”

“Is it possible to determine the dosage of the drugs used?” I asked.

Bingxin considered it for a while and answered, “I think I can calculate the rough estimates of those.”

“Great!” I exclaimed. “These would be key evidence from which we can find the criminal, not to mention that they can be used to convict them in court too. Thanks, Bingxin!”

Bingxin blushed and replied, “Don’t mention it, Song Yang-gege! It’s nothing compared to what you’ve done!”

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