Female Forensic Physician: Bone Collector

Chapter 4 Three o'clock in the afternoon
When he returned to the bureau, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon. After completing the handover procedures, Zhang Yetong planned to take some time to eat in the cafeteria before the autopsy.Years of disordered eating patterns made Zhang Yetong feel strong stomach discomfort as soon as he had eaten a meal.

As soon as he reached the stairs, he bumped into Li Haoran, the deputy chief in charge of criminal investigation.

"Hey, Xiaozhang, I'm looking for you, just wait!"

Zhang Yetong stopped in his tracks, with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Ju Li, what do you want from me?"

"Come to my office, someone wants to see you!"

"Who? Why are you looking for me? Why don't you just call?" Zhang Yetong looked suspicious. His circle of friends is very small, which can be summed up in the palm of his hand, and everyone is so busy that they fall down whenever they have time. Sleep, not to mention the leisure time to visit me during working hours.

As soon as the words finished, Director Li had already walked nearly two meters away. He waved his hand without looking back, "Just go, he has been looking for you for a long time!"

Holding two steamed buns with stiff skins in her hands, Zhang Yetong hurried up the stairs, and when she was about to habitually turn a corner and walk towards her office, she suddenly remembered what Director Li had just told her, and she frowned, helplessly Changing his mind, he turned around and walked quickly towards the elevator entrance, taking a few mouthfuls of steamed buns as he walked, so as to make his gradually tightening and twitching stomach feel more comfortable.

Director Li's office is on the third floor of the building, next to the meeting room. Usually, if there is no meeting, the office will be very quiet.Zhang Yetong has been to this office three times in total, each time because of business, only today, it feels a little weird.

The door of the office was ajar, and there was no sound from inside.Zhang Yetong packed the half-eaten bun in a plastic bag and stuffed it into his coat pocket, then reached out and knocked lightly on the door.

Before knocking for the third time, the door was quickly opened, Zhang Yetong quickly retracted his hand, with an apologetic expression on his face,

"Sorry, I almost hit you!"

What appeared in front of Zhang Yetong was a baby face, to be exact, a man with a baby face. When he saw Zhang Yetong, the man looked him up and down carefully, and finally his eyes rested on Zhang Yetong's neck. On the hanging work card, when he read the words on it clearly, he immediately showed joy,
"Zhang Fayi, I'm waiting for you! Come in!" He shrank his body back and smiled all over his face, as if the room behind him belonged to him, and he was busy introducing himself while being polite, " I am Zhao Junjie, a reporter from the "Crime Records" column of "Tianchang Daily", and I came here specially to talk to you about the case."

"No, let's talk at the door if you have anything to say, keep it short, I have something to do!" Zhang Yetong impatiently scanned the watch on his wrist from the corner of his eyes, and his feet seemed to be rooted firmly. Standing at the door, there is no plan to go in and sit down.

Zhao Junjie looked a little embarrassed, he stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and changed into a pleading tone, "Just a little while, Zhang Forensic Doctor, I won't waste your time! Besides, I have already asked Deputy Director Li for instructions. , you can rest assured!"

As soon as he heard that the other party had revealed Deputy Director Li's name, Zhang Yetong realized helplessly that his escape route had been blocked.She sighed slightly and walked into the office without saying a word.

After sitting down on the sofa, Zhang Yetong said straight to the point, "If you come here for this case in my hands, I can only say 'no comment' now. When the case is solved, we have a special external public relations department to answer your questions." all the problems."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Junjie, who had just taken out a small notebook from his briefcase, shook his head and smiled mysteriously, "Forensic Zhang, you misunderstood, I am not here for this case. But I have to say it again, We reporters are very sensitive, if the case you mentioned is solved, our "Tianchang Daily" will get the headlines!" He stretched out his left hand, which was as thin and tender as flesh, and gently patted himself A treasure-like briefcase, "I have the 'Media Agreement' signed by Section Chief Wang of your public relations department and us!"

"Oh?" Zhang Yetong frowned, "Then what case are you here for? Can you tell me a little? Otherwise, I can't help you!"

Zhao Junjie continued to open the first few pages of the notebook in his hand, carefully looked at it, then raised his head, changed his tone, and the expression on his face immediately became a little dignified, "What I want to know is 20 years ago The details of the bizarre disappearance case of a young female child in the Populus euphratica forest on the outskirts of Tianchang City. That case caused a sensation in Tianchang City at the time, and it has not been solved and the body has not been found. It has become a completely unsolved case." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment, and then added in a low voice, "Of course, I can understand your feelings, I know that the missing girl is your sister——Zhang Yeqiu, and you were at the scene The only eyewitness, I have all the records on it, I checked the original case file, Zhang Forensic Doctor, I know that you were a little autistic because you were stimulated at the time, it has been so many years now, can you How much do you recall some specific scenes at that time? Do you still have a general impression of what happened?... ".

Although Zhao Junjie had deliberately noticed every word he used, for fear of stimulating Zhang Yetong's heart again, he did not notice at all that Zhang Yetong's face had become colder and colder. She also took out her hand because of discomfort, and the two buns that had time to take a hasty bite were subconsciously pinched beyond recognition by her because of nervousness.

Finally, Zhang Yetong couldn't bear it any longer. She bit her lip, frowned and interrupted Zhao Junjie, "Reporter Zhao, I don't have time to accompany you now. I still have work waiting for me. As for the 20 What happened years ago, I’m sorry, it’s been so long, I’ve forgotten it long ago, go find someone else!” She stood up, no matter how surprised the expression on Zhao Junjie’s face, she didn’t move her head. Huidi walked straight out of Deputy Chief Li's office.

The window in the corridor was open, and a gust of fresh air rushed in. Zhang Yetong took a deep breath, and immediately felt much lighter.Just now I said that I don’t remember what happened 20 years ago, that’s a lie, Zhang Yetong is having the same nightmare almost every day.Seeing that others are about to uncover the deep scars in her heart, Zhang Yetong can do nothing but run away.

Director Li hurried towards her, and when he saw Zhang Yetong, he stopped her, "Xiao Zhang, you came out so soon?"

Zhang Yetong nodded embarrassingly, noticing that Li Ju's eyes fell on the two unrecognizable, cold and stiff buns in her hands, her ears suddenly became hot, and she quickly put the buns into her pocket, "It's okay, just ask I can't help you with the case. Director Li, then I'm busy, there's still work to do below!"

"Oh, then I won't delay you." After saying that, Li Ju turned around and continued walking towards his office with a suspicious expression on his face.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, no one is willing to knock on the door of the place where the forensic doctor works, especially when there is a living corpse in front of him.Policemen are also human beings. As long as they are human beings, they will have an innate awe of the dead.

When Wang Yanan opened the door and came in, her face was indescribably pale, and she looked listless.

"Yanan, what's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?" Zhang Yetong asked casually while carefully stacking those weird pieces of meat.

"Hi!—" Wang Yanan let out a long sigh, frowned, and subconsciously touched his stomach, "It's not all because of the 'meat'. After returning from the scene, I didn't eat the garlic in the cafeteria at noon. Meat slices, I haven’t even eaten a few bites of rice, and my stomach is still hurting. I still have to come here to see you!”

Zhang Yetong smiled wryly, "I'm better than you, at least I ate a few buns, even though they are harder than rocks!" She pointed to the bag of buns on the desk behind her, "Here, see? One is reserved for you, do you want to eat it?"

Wang Yanan quickly waved his hands and shook his head, "Please spare me, eat here? I'd rather starve to death!"

"Then I can't help you!" Zhang Yetong shrugged his shoulders, and continued to look at the pile of meat in front of him.

Wang Yanan leaned over, "Xiaotong, how is it? At present, can you determine whether the corpse is male or female?"

"Not yet, relying on these meat slices alone, I can only say that this person is very skilled. Each slice is kept at a thickness of about 32 centimeters, three centimeters long, and [-] centimeters wide. After the corpse is cut into slices, it is subjected to high temperature Boiled in water, the useful DNA is destroyed, so, apart from the protein structure, it can be distinguished that this is our human meat tissue, I really have no other way, even if he was cut up like this or alive. There is no way to make a final judgment after being divided into such things after death." Speaking of this, Zhang Yetong paused for a while, and after checking the data register handed over by her assistant, she thought for a while and continued, "Also, The most important point is that the current total weight of the meat slices is [-] catties. The average human body has a total of [-] bones, accounting for about one-fifth of the total weight of the human body. Except for the finger bones of the dead man, not a single bone was seen, especially the skull of the deceased."

"How did you determine from such a small piece of bone that it was our human skeleton?" Wang Yanan pointed to the lone yellow bone in the tray, and at a glance, it was impossible to see that the bone was originally a bone. Belonging to humans.

Zhang Yetong smiled slightly, "The cross-sectional structure of human bones is different from that of animals. It has a special ring structure. I have carefully looked at it under a microscope, and I can confirm that it is a human finger bone. If it hadn't been subjected to high temperature water If I boil it, I can extract useful bone marrow DNA."

"So, there are such similar 'packages' out there?" Wang Yanan's expression became even uglier.

Zhang Yetong nodded with a stern expression, "I think there should be more than one!"

(End of this chapter)