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Chapter 1278 Lecithinase
Peach Blossom Spring Scenic Spot in Hexi Township.

Gu Chen questioned everyone one by one, but the results were quite different.

All had alibis, and none admitted to having been in contact with the deceased.

This made the on-site investigation work deadlocked.

"Aunt Zhao." Gu Chen returned to Zhao Mei again and asked, "Who did you hear that your husband was with the staff of the scenic spot?"

"Just..." Zhao Mei looked around, but she didn't know why: "It seems that the person was still here just now, anyway, it was just a man, saying that my husband was with the staff of the scenic spot."

Glancing at the few people in front of her, Zhao Mei also asked, "Who among you said that my husband was with the staff of the scenic spot?"

When everyone heard the words, they looked at each other in blank dismay, as if they didn't dare to admit it.

Zhao Mei was a little impatient, and continued to ask: "Who on earth said that?"

The voice fell, and there was still no reply at the scene.

Liu Fang looked around, and also took the initiative to come out and said: "This eldest sister has lost her life now. I guess the person who said this before would not dare to admit it."

"Yes." Another woman standing next to Liu Fang also said: "I have to admit it, but your husband is indeed not with the staff of the scenic spot. Isn't that troublesome?"

"After all, it's better to have one thing more than one thing now, what do you think?"

"Then someone must have told me, so why is no one admitting it?" Seeing that everyone was suddenly speechless, Zhao Mei didn't want to stand up and testify for herself, and she was burning with anxiety for a while.

Gu Chen also saw Zhao Mei's helplessness, so he asked the manager: "Are there any staff members in your scenic spot who were with the deceased?"

"I'm not very clear about this, but I can ask for help." The manager said.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "Then you should contact me immediately."

"Okay." The manager hummed, then took out the walkie-talkie and started to communicate with the staff.

They also communicated on the walkie-talkie for a while, but according to the various feedbacks received, no one admitted to having contact with the deceased.

Putting down the walkie-talkie, the manager said helplessly, "You saw it too. I've asked everyone, but the problem is, no one admits it."

Glancing at Zhao Mei in front of him, the manager also apologized: "So this lady, please forgive us for being helpless, maybe no one really has contacted your husband."

"Impossible." Upon hearing what the manager said, Zhao Mei became anxious at the time: "You must be afraid of taking responsibility, so you deliberately didn't say it, it must be."

"This... don't slander good people here. We don't know what's going on. Besides, your husband has mental problems. You still take him around and don't look good. Can you blame us?"

The manager is also trying to argue.

A middle-aged male tourist also said: "What this person said is also reasonable, but no matter whether your husband has been in contact with others, but you don't take it with you, so you can take care of it. You can't blame others for this, right?"

"Okay, don't talk about it." Feeling that the scene was getting more and more chaotic, Officer Wang also hurriedly interrupted.

Glancing at Gu Chen beside him, Police Officer Wang also reminded: "Gu Chen, the most important thing right now is to investigate the cause of death of the deceased."

"That's right." Gu Chen also agreed, and directly squatted down to start the preliminary examination of the deceased.

Due to the need for a detailed examination of the deceased's body, Gu Chen had to take off the man's clothes.

So Officer Wang asked other unrelated people to wait, and temporarily retreated ten meters away.

A cordon was temporarily pulled up at the scene.

Zhao Mei was also asked to stay outside the cordon, but no one was allowed to leave without authorization.

With the cooperation of Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, Gu Chen began to examine the body of the deceased, but without exception, no obvious trauma was found on the body.

But only Lu Weiwei found two small wounds when she checked the deceased's calf.

"Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei looked up at Gu Chen, reminding him, "Did you see the scars on your feet?"

"I see." Gu Chen nodded silently, and said involuntarily: "From the current point of view, the deceased has no external injuries on his body, and there is no trace of fighting with others."

"But there are two small scars on the calf. So far, there is no big problem."

"Then what kind of result do you think it is?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

Gu Chen pondered for two seconds, then said: "At present, there are some symptoms of poisoning."

"Poisoned?" Yuan Shasha also expressed her own opinion after hearing the words: "Could it be bitten by some kind of creature? After all, the wound is on the calf."

"It's possible." Gu Chen didn't rush to deny it.

It is intriguing to know that the wound appeared on the calf of the deceased.

Especially by the nearby pond, there are many withered thatched huts. Who knows what terrible creatures are hidden in these withered thatched huts?
Especially so far, wild vegetables are growing luxuriantly, attracting a large number of tourists to pick them.

If this really hides some kind of terrifying creature, then the deceased will not only be Zhao Mei's husband.

"Manager." Thinking of this, Gu Chen hurriedly raised his head and called outside the cordon.

"Yes." The manager raised his hand and glanced at Police Officer Wang: "Comrade Police Officer, that Officer is calling me."

"Go there." Officer Wang, who was standing inside the cordon, glanced at his chin.

The manager nodded silently, quickly raised the cordon, and trotted over.

"Comrade police, are you looking for me?"

"Let me ask you, are there any poisonous creatures around your pond?" Gu Chen asked.

"Poisonous creature?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, the manager hesitated for a few seconds, then shook his head: "I've never heard of it."

"That's right?" Lu Weiwei asked.

The manager continued to nod: "Yes, I haven't heard of it anyway."

Looking at the corpse on the ground, the manager looked curious: "What? Did he die from poisonous creatures?"

"At the moment we are just guessing." While speaking, Gu Chen swept up the calf of the deceased, and said in front of the manager:
"The deceased had no trauma on his whole body, but there were only two small wounds on his calf."

"Is that so?" Looking at the clues presented by Gu Chen, the manager suddenly fell into deep thought.

But after a while, the manager shook his head and denied: "I have never heard of unidentified creatures appearing in this area, and I have never heard of anyone being injured here before."

"That's weird, it's fine, how could there be scars on this person's legs?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled.

Yuan Shasha suggested: "Let's take it back to the Technical Section of the Municipal Bureau to have a look."

"That's fine." Gu Chen agreed with Yuan Shasha's opinion, and then said: "Register the personal information of everyone present, so that it will be convenient to obtain evidence and contact in the future."

"I'll do it." Lu Weiwei took out her notebook and walked directly towards the crowd.

At the scene, Lu Weiwei, with the cooperation of Police Officer Wang, completed entering everyone's personal information.

Afterwards, the vehicle of the technical department of the municipal bureau that Gu Chen contacted also rushed over, and everyone carried the body into the car and sent it to the technical department of the municipal bureau.

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1 o'clock noon.

After Gu Chen's team finished their lunch in the canteen of the Municipal Bureau, they rushed to the testing room of the technical department.

Forensic Liu and Gao Chuanfeng are in the testing room and seem to have just finished their work.

Seeing that Gu Chen and the others had come over, Fayi Liu waved for everyone to come in.

"Liu Fayi, Gao Chuanfeng, you haven't had lunch yet, have you? Would you like me to bring it here for you?" Gu Chen asked.

Fayi Liu waved his hand: "There's no rush, I'll go out to eat after finishing the work at hand."

"Is there any result from the test?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Gao Chuanfeng smiled: "That's necessary, with the consent of the family members, we conducted an autopsy on the corpse."

"Do you still need an autopsy?" Yuan Shasha asked.

Gao Chuanfeng nodded and said, "That's right, to be honest, the cause of the deceased's death is quite strange."

"It's very difficult to investigate without doing an autopsy."

"Fortunately, the family members of the deceased also agreed to the autopsy."

Hearing Gao Chuanfeng's remarks, Gu Chen glanced at Fayi Liu, and hurriedly asked, "How about the autopsy, Physician Liu?"

"It's very strange." Forensic doctor Liu frowned, and replied seriously: "We found through autopsy that the blood of the deceased contained a large amount of lecithinase."

"Lecithinase?" Gu Chen frowned when he heard this, "How could it be?"

"Senior Brother Gu." Yuan Shasha didn't quite understand, so she hurriedly asked Gu Chen, "What is lecithinase?"

Gu Chen sighed, and replied seriously: "The so-called lecithinase is also called α toxin. Because it can hydrolyze lecithinase, it can hydrolyze cells of various tissues, especially red blood cells."

"It's also a major component of toxins produced by some bacteria, and it's responsible for the toxicity of snake venom."

Seeing Yuan Shasha half-understanding, Gu Chen said again: "In other words, it is snake venom. After this venom enters the human body, the phospholipids in the serum will decompose into lecithin, killing a large number of red blood cells and cells. It ended up killing people."

"It's terrible." Hearing Gu Chen's words, Yuan Shasha seemed to understand a lot.

At this moment, Lu Weiwei also said: "So there are two wounds bitten by snakes on the left calf of the deceased? I remember that Vipers are used to biting the upper part of stockings, which is similar to the wounds of this deceased."

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen shook his head and questioned, "A viper? It's unlikely, even if it was caused by snake venom, it wasn't bitten to death there."

After pondering for a few seconds, Gu Chen said again: "This case is not that simple. I don't think the death was an accident, but a deliberate murder."

"Intentional murder?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, everyone looked at each other in dismay.

Lu Weiwei frowned slightly, and hurriedly asked: "Then Junior Brother Gu, how do you think the deceased was killed?"

"I think?" Gu Chen tried to calm down and said with a smile:

"I think the murderer injected snake venom into the body of the deceased, and then abandoned the body in the wild, pretending to be bitten to death by a snake."

"And those two wounds that look like they were bitten by a snake may be traces of injection with an injection needle. The reason why they used snake venom to disguise it may be to induce our police to investigate in the wrong direction."

"What do you mean?" Gao Chuanfeng asked.

"It's very simple." Gu Chen snapped his fingers, and said again: "The snake venom used by the murderer must be known, and it will definitely be detected by our police."

"But the murderer ignored the most critical link, so it made all this look very ridiculous."

"The key link?" Officer Wang frowned, feeling a little confused.

So I quickly asked again: "What is the key link you mentioned?"

"It's the season." Lu Weiwei seemed to have guessed the key to the problem, so she looked up at Gu Chen and asked, "Is it the season?"

"That's right." Feeling that Lu Weiwei already knew what she meant, Gu Chen had no choice but to confess:

"We have also visited the scene of the crime. Picking wild vegetables in spring is usually in the first month of the lunar calendar, which is at this time."

"But the weather is still very cold at this time. Snakes living in this climate need to spend a long and cold winter."

"At this time, snakes will not take the initiative to attack people, let alone bite people. This is a matter of common sense."

"That's right." Hearing what Gu Chen said, Police Officer Wang seemed to have some sense: "I remember that snakes hibernate in caves in winter."

"But there are exceptions." Gu Chen then refuted his previous statement and gave other circumstances: "If the snake is disturbed by people during hibernation, there is a great chance of biting people."

"However, we did not see any relevant snakes at the scene, and the wound on the deceased's calf was less likely to be bitten by a snake than to be injected with a needle."

"That's right, Gu Chen, you observe very carefully." Forensic Doctor Liu agreed after hearing Gu Chen's words, "I've checked this wound many times, and it doesn't feel like being bitten by a snake."

"After all, I have also come into contact with some dead who were bitten by snakes before. Their wounds are obviously different from the wounds of this deceased."

Pointing at the corpse of the deceased on the examination table, Forensic Doctor Liu said: "The wound of the deceased is obviously much smaller than the wound of the real snakebite, so I disagree with the statement of being bitten by a snake."

"Is that an injection needle?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Forensic Liu nodded silently: "It is very likely that it is a needle."

"It's kind of interesting." Gu Chen smiled coldly, and said involuntarily: "The murderer took great pains to inject snake venom into the deceased's calf, causing the deceased to be poisoned to death."

"This method can be called vicious, and it is enough to see the cruelty of the murderer."

"But why did the murderer choose to do it in the scenic area? Could it be an acquaintance?" Yuan Shasha also put forward her own opinion.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "From the current situation, it is indeed the case."

"If the murderer has already planned to end the life of the deceased by injecting snake venom, then this condition must be met, that is, to disguise the scene of the crime."

"If you want to disguise the scene of the crime, you must take the deceased outdoors, which is the Taohuayuan scenic spot in Hexi Township."

"Here, it is not impossible to fake a poisonous snake attack."

Hearing Gu Chen's words, Lu Weiwei suddenly realized: "Then if you want to artificially create the illusion of this poisonous snake attack, the only person who has the conditions to complete it is Zhao Mei?"

"That's right, she is currently the only suspect who has the conditions to complete this job, because she is the one who took her husband to the Taohuayuan scenic spot in Hexi Township."

"So, based on probability, it is unlikely that other people will come to Taohuayuan with snake venom to accurately poison the deceased."

"Because I asked the tourists who picked wild vegetables at the scene, they all came here randomly, and they didn't know Zhao Mei."

After a pause, seeing everyone frowning, Gu Chen said again: "So it can be seen that the only person who can lead the deceased to the withered thatched hut in the pond and murder him is Zhao Mei herself."

"This... is this too scary?" Lu Weiwei couldn't believe it, and said again: "Junior Brother Gu, we have seen Zhao Mei before. In order to take care of and cure her husband's mental problems, she even lowered the price of Wangpu." price to sell."

"But now, how could she murder her husband?"

"People will always change. We have handled many cases. Those criminals who murdered their relatives were also relatives of the deceased before they committed suicide. It also makes people feel that the relationship is good."

"But what happened in the end? It's not like you don't know, and I have doubts about the identity of the deceased."

"Suspicion?" Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei was a little puzzled: "You mean, you doubt the identity of the deceased?"

"Yes." Gu Chen nodded silently, without going around the bush, and said straightforwardly:

"Senior Sister Lu, do you still remember the day when we printed the contract in the advertising agency store?"

"Remember, so what?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled.

Gu Chen continued to remind: "Do you remember what the boss said?"

"What did the boss say?" Lu Weiwei scratched the back of her head, pondered for a moment, and then said:

"I just remember that the boss said that he had met Zhao Mei and knew that Zhao Mei lived in the neighborhood opposite."

"And the boss also said that he seemed to have met Zhao Mei's husband, he said he was strong and tall, he didn't seem to have mental problems, he said he was fine before..."

"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded slightly, agreeing.

Also under Gu Chen's reminder, Lu Weiwei's eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly looked at the dead body on the testing table, and suddenly frowned.

"This……"

"What... what's the situation?" Police Officer Wang was also at a loss as to what Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen were talking about.

"No...impossible." Lu Weiwei shook her head, somewhat startled: "The owner of the printing shop clearly said that Zhao Mei's husband looks burly, tall and strong."

"But this deceased person, when we saw him, he felt very thin, and... and he wasn't tall, right? Not to mention burly."

"Could it be...couldn't this be her husband?" Police Officer Wang was ashamed and hurriedly asked.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling that the case was suddenly not that simple.

Yuan Shasha scratched the back of her head, and couldn't help complaining: "My God, does this Zhao Mei have several husbands?"

"If it is true what Senior Brother Gu and Senior Sister Lu said, then the owner of the printing shop should have seen the deceased, but the body description is too different, right?"

"That's right, I wanted to say it before, but I was focused on the investigation at the time and didn't care too much about it, but now it seems that the deceased, no matter in terms of body shape, is not like the print shop. As the boss said." Gu Chen also said something.

I feel that the current situation makes me feel a little foggy.

At least whether the deceased in front of him is Zhao Mei's husband is still open to question.

Then, after everyone pondered for a while, Gu Chen suddenly suggested: "Sister Lu, we should go to the print shop and show the photo of the deceased to the shop owner."

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　I am really sleepy today, is this the legendary spring sleepiness?Anyway, I've been yawning all the time, and I'm not in the mood at all, so let's make an update today, and send a vlog easter egg as compensation.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)