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Chapter 18 Suspension Case

Xu Ran walked over the cordon to the victim's body and began to observe. Less than 5 minutes after being put down from the tree, a large puddle of water had flowed out from the victim's body. At this time, the victim's body was still seeping. Moisture.

He put on gloves and began to examine the corpse, and found that there was no purple-red corpse spot below the victim's neck, which shows that hanging must not be the real cause of the victim's death.

When he saw the victim hanging from the tree for the first time just now, Xu Ran knew that this was by no means a simple case of hanging to death; the victim's calm face and strange smile showed that the victim died after death. hanging from a tree.

How did the victim die, and why did the murderer choose such an extremely complicated way to dump the body?
Combining with the previous irrigation canal case, the murderer of the hanging case deliberately exposed his suspicion.He hung the victim's body on a tree less than 100 meters away from Bai Chenxi's house. The height of the body hanging just reached the top of Bai Chenxi's head. The victim's body was found.

Could the suspension case be aimed at Bai Chenxi?Xu Ran couldn't help feeling cold.

Xu Ran carefully inspected the victim's body again. The murderer's purpose was not only for people to find the victim's body, but his purpose was probably to let Bai Chenxi find the victim's body.

So what is the murderer's purpose?To scare Bai Chenxi?Why frighten her?The murderer knew Bai Chenxi?
Big drops of sweat dripped from Xu Ran's forehead, and because it was summer and he was wearing a mask, it was very difficult to breathe; he got up and went outside the cordon to take off the mask, and beckoned for a police officer.

"Officer Xu, what orders do you have?" Seeing Xu Ran waving at him, the little policeman hurried forward.

Xu Ran: "When the victim's body was removed, did you find anything?"

Policeman: "The body of the corpse is very cold and hard, dripping water all the time; we were worried that we would injure the skin of the corpse when we took the victim's body, which would affect the police's evidence collection, but it turned out that the skin of the deceased was still elastic, and the body had no peculiar smell."

Xu Ran: "Okay, it's okay, you can go to work."

After the policeman left, Xu Ran thought over what the little policeman said just now.The body is very cold and hard, dripping water all the time, what does it mean?
Under what circumstances will the corpse be very cold and hard?Generally, 2 to 3 hours after death, the blood circulation in the whole body will stop, and the blood in the body will start to flow to the lower places, and dark purple or black corpse spots will appear in the lower places.

When he just checked the victim's body, he found that the victim's body spots had turned black, which indicated that the victim had been dead for at least one day.In such a hot summer, it is illogical that the dead body has no peculiar smell within a day, and even the skin is still elastic.

"Xu Ran, what do you think of this suspension case?" Liu Hao's voice interrupted his thinking, and the ring finger resting on his mouth brushed his nose, and tapped lightly.

"The suspension is obviously an illusion made by the murderer. The victim did not die from the suspension." Xu Ran put down his hand on his mouth and put it into his pocket, looking at Liu Hao and said seriously.

Liu Hao: "Just now I checked the nylon rope used to suspend the victim. It is white and black, with a diameter of 4 cm. The police cut it from the victim's neck, leaving behind the way the suspension rope was tied."

Xu Ran: "The hanging rope is tied in a special way?"

Liu Hao: "It's very particular. The general method of tying a suspension rope is to tie a slipknot and then tighten it. The murderer wound the slipknot neatly seven times, and put a plastic rose in the hanging place. "

Xu Ran was startled: "Rose?"

Liu Hao: "Yes, the rose is inserted inside the last loop of the slipknot, with the flower facing down and against the top of the head."

Xu Ran: "Take me to see that flower."

It was an ordinary plastic rose without any special features, bright red, and the police did not destroy it when the body was taken out. When Xu Ran saw it, the rose was still inserted in the last loop of the slipknot.

Xu Ran: "Neat seven-circle slipknot method, bright red roses resting on the top of the head, the victim's face is calm, showing a strange smile; the body has no peculiar smell, the body is elastic, the limbs are stiff and cold, the spots on the body are black, the body There is a lot of water seeping. Through these various strange phenomena, it is certain that the murderer has premeditated intentional killing, and pays special attention to the ritual sense of killing, and has an urgent desire to express."

Liu Hao: "What did the murderer want to express?"

Xu Ran: "It is still impossible to know what the murderer wants to express, but I am sure that the murderer must not be the only one when hanging the victim's body. First of all, hanging on such a high tree is not an easy task in itself. The thing is, our people have to use the truck to take down the victim's body at the end, do you think the murderer also drove the truck to hang the body?"

Liu Hao: "It's possible. In addition, judging from the fact that the victim dripped water, I think the murderer may have brought the victim's body in an ice coffin."

Xu Ran was enlightened for a while, his eyes sparkled, "That's right! Your reasoning immediately cleared up my blocked thoughts, Jiang is still hot!" Xu Ran smiled and thumped Liu Hao's shoulder.

On the contrary, Liu Hao felt a little embarrassed when he was beaten, and said with a smile: "Don't, don't, I'm scared."

Xu Ran: "If the victim was packed in an ice coffin, then the dripping water from the corpse, the coldness of the corpse, and the elasticity of the skin of the corpse would all make sense. The victim had been killed a day before, and the murderer was killed in the first place after the death." Time saved the victim's body in the ice coffin, and then for some reason chose to throw the body here after the early hours of this morning, less than 100 meters away from Bai Chenxi's house, probably for the purpose of deliberately intimidating Bai Chenxi. Chenxi, or because of the sense of ritual of killing, chose Bai Chenxi to be the audience of their 'masterpiece'."

Liu Hao: "This murderer is a pervert! But why did you choose Bai Chenxi? I ​​remember that Bai Chenxi was implicated in the last irrigation canal case. She came to the clinic twice and said that someone was following her. It was also because of this that you have been following her." protect her."

Xu Ran: "Perhaps the murderer targeted Bai Chenxi at the beginning, but Bai Chenxi was too cautious and failed to succeed. Although these are my reasoning for the time being, the police really want to increase their police force to protect Bai Chen. Xi, I'm worried that the murderer will be against her."

Liu Hao: "Understood. Let's go back to sort out the physical evidence now, and hand over the scene to Wen Lan and those brothers. We will discuss further after the victim's autopsy report comes out."

Xu Ran: "Go back first, Bai Chenxi is still in my car, I want to go and have a chat with her first."

After Liu Hao left, Xu Ran returned to the cordon to inspect again. Wen Lan was collecting evidence with the police and helping the forensic department to move the body. A policeman was persuading more and more onlookers to leave.

The corpse of the victim on the truck was almost completely thawed in the hot weather; the strange thing is that the corpse did not swell or change much, and the weird smile I saw before slowly unfolded.

The suspension case was full of doubts, which made Xu Ran even more worried. Bai Chenxi turned to look at the off-road vehicle; he found that the door was wide open, and a Rubik's cube that he had been putting on the car had fallen beside the door; The off-road vehicle runs away.

(End of this chapter)