Coroner Coroner

The scorched and charred skin fell on her hand. She didn't realize it for a moment, but subconsciously squeezed it with her hand.

It is hard and brittle when pinched, like a thickened version of seaweed.

With a slight force, it shattered into several pieces in his hand.

"This... this... vomit—"

Mao Lilan bent down immediately.

"Catch, remember to catch..."

Lin Xinyi handed over the basin with a calm face.

Chapter 113

"Let me just say...it's still too early for you."

Lin Xinyi patted Mao Lilan's back lightly to help smooth the air. After taking care of her for a long time, she finally relieved the little girl from the unprecedented nausea.

"Mr. Lin...I'm sorry, I made this place dirty." Mao Lilan raised her head a little embarrassedly, her face still pale.

"It's normal and nothing to be sorry about."

Lin Xinyi gave a little comfort, and then handed over the tissue that was also prepared earlier:

"Wipe your mouth, if you can't hold on, you can go now."

"No, we've come this far."

"Anyway, there is nothing to vomit, let me continue to help!"

While wiping the corners of her mouth gently, Mao Lilan bravely insisted on staying.

Her mind is pure but stubborn, as long as she decides on something, she will persist until the end.

"Okay..." Lin Xinyi admired the student's strong will:

"Then you change into clean gloves, take a camera to help take pictures and record, and we officially start."

The official start, but not to start the autopsy directly, but to check the body surface of the corpse completely before the autopsy.

"The skin on the surface of the body and even the inner muscle layer are charred and charred... The situation is not optimistic."

Lin Xinyi carefully examined the body surface of the corpse, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

And Mao Lilan also had the courage to follow along to check, and soon found something suspicious:

"Mr. Lin, are these wounds knife wounds?"

"No." Lin Xinyi shook his head.

Thinking that this dissection still had the purpose of teaching students, he temporarily diverted his mind and explained to Mao Lilan:

"This is a special phenomenon called 'skin cracking' that occurs when the corpse is exposed to high temperature."

"Because the high temperature makes the skin coagulate and shrink, it separates from the subcutaneous tissue and cracks, generally presenting a straight line or arc, and the direction is more in line with the striae."

"When inspecting this kind of charred corpse, we should pay attention to distinguishing this corpse phenomenon from cut wounds and chop wounds."

Lin Xinyi explained and performed an autopsy, and soon discovered something:

"Look, here is the knife edge."

"There was an obvious stab wound on the back of the deceased. Judging from the location of the wound and the angle of the knife, it is likely that someone stabbed him in the heart from behind."

"This kind of injury is undoubtedly a fatal injury that can lead to death. Based on the circumstances of the case, the deceased should have been stabbed to death by the murderer in the back first. After death, the murderer hid the body in the bonfire of the fire festival in Chigui Village."

Lin Xinyi explained the trauma found on the corpse in detail, while Mao Lilan, as an assistant, took the camera seriously and helped to take pictures and record it.

"The high temperature has destroyed too many signs of the corpse, and there are only so many things that can be seen on the surface of the body."

"Then, next... let's start the dissection!"

Lin Xinyi sighed deeply.

As he spoke, he solemnly stood on the right side of the dissecting table, bowing slightly to the anatomically deceased.

Without Lin Xinyi's explanation, Mao Lilan could tell that he was expressing respect for the deceased as a forensic doctor.

She imitated Lin Xinyi and bowed to the deceased, subconsciously murmuring:

"Don't worry, Negishi-san."

"We will definitely find the truth for you and catch the murderer!"

"Well, it will." Lin Xinyi was not surprised by Mao Lilan's naivety in chatting with the deceased, but echoed very seriously: "Because this is the job of our forensic doctors."

Then, he stood up straight and picked up a scalpel from the equipment cart next to him.

This time, we will do a systematic dissection, and we will open three cavities, that is, open the cranial cavity, chest cavity, and abdominal cavity, and conduct a systematic and complete anatomical investigation.

"I'm used to using the one-word incision method, which is the most trouble-free, direct and convenient."

"From the midline of the lower edge of the mandible, along the midline of the neck, chest and abdomen, around the left side of the navel to the upper edge of the pubic symphysis, incision of the skin and subcutaneous tissue."

Lin Xinyi explained the anatomical procedures to Mao Lilan, which gave her an initial impression.

Then, as he explained, he used the knife to slowly draw a long straight line from top to bottom along the midline of the lower jaw.

This knife cut directly through the skin and soft tissue, and went deep enough to expose the ribs of the chest.

From the current point of view, it is just a long straight cut on the corpse, and the visual impact is not too great.

But next...

I saw Lin Xinyi put down the scalpel, and put his hand wearing two layers of gloves into the open incision in the middle of his chest.

As if taking off a heavy piece of clothing, he tightly grasped the skin, subcutaneous fat, and pectoralis major muscle as a whole, and peeled them off along the ribs to the sides.

The skin had been completely charred, and it began to shatter and fall off like a slag cake when it was grasped.

And the thick layer of fat under the skin...Because it has been roasted under high temperature, it is not showing the oily yellow color similar to chicken fat under normal circumstances.

The entire layer of fat is baked to shrink and ooze oil.

Therefore, when peeling off forcefully, the oil visible to the naked eye will be squeezed out soon.

"..."

Seeing this scene, Mao Lilan's face became paler.

She bit her lips tightly, and her body trembled for a while, but in the end she insisted on standing still, and did not look away.

"It's really strong..."

Lin Xinyi couldn't help sighing slightly.

He felt that Mao Lilan was quite similar to himself, they both studied martial arts first and then medicine, so they naturally carried the perseverance of a warrior.

With this perseverance, you can quickly adapt to the harsh environment that ordinary people can hardly adapt to.

"After peeling off the skin fat and muscle layer, it is necessary to check whether there is bleeding and edema in the soft tissue, whether the sternum and ribs are fractured, the location and shape of the fracture, and whether there is any life reaction in the surrounding tissues."

"It's just that the soft tissue layer of this corpse has been charred a bit... It's not that much that can be seen."

Seeing that Mao Lilan was quite energetic, Lin Xinyi simply gave her a lecture by the way.

And he explained to Mao Lilan, and at the same time asked her assistant to do a little help and participate in it:

"Hand me the tweezers."

"Yeah." Mao Lilan reacted quickly, found a pair of tweezers from the equipment cart and handed it over.

Obviously, she has gradually gotten used to such impactful images and can keep up with Lin Xinyi's rhythm.

As soon as Lin Xin took the tweezers, he carefully lifted the peritoneum with the tweezers and made a small incision.

Then, under Mao Lilan's admiring gaze, Lin Xinyi directly stretched out the index finger and middle finger of his left hand, inserted them into the small opening, and used a knife to slowly cut open the peritoneum between the two fingers.

Just like cutting the plastic cover of a book, the peritoneum can be lifted up and cut to avoid damage to the organs in the abdominal cavity during cutting.

Cut the peritoneum, cut off the muscles connected to the lower edge of the chest wall along the costal arch, expand the abdominal cavity, and the work of opening the abdominal cavity is completed.

"The anatomy generally starts like this with the chest and abdominal cavity first, and the neck anatomy comes later."

"Because dissection of the chest and abdomen is equivalent to draining the blood first, it can avoid the observation of the original damage and bleeding in the neck due to blood contamination in the anatomical area of ​​the neck when cutting the soft tissue of the neck."

"Especially for those who are suspected of being hanged, strangled, or strangled to death, the anatomical order of the chest and abdomen first and then the neck must be adopted."

"Of course, the body fluids of this scorched corpse evaporated in large quantities at high temperature, so bloodletting is not very effective. In fact, it can also start from the neck first."

Lin Xinyi explained to Mao Lilan carefully while burying his head in his work.

"I understand." Mao Lilan nodded earnestly, combined with the picture she saw, and silently wrote down the knowledge.

But Lin Xin picked up the speed with one hand, finished opening the abdominal cavity, completely exposing the ribs, and then busily opened the chest cavity.

He took a scalpel and started cutting from the second costal cartilage.

When cutting, the blade is deflected to the outside, and the costal cartilage and intercostal muscles are cut one by one along the inner side of the junction of ribs and costal cartilage about 1 cm away, and the sternoclavicular joint and the first rib are cut in an "S" shape with a scalpel.

Then, he lifted the costal arch close to the sternum and the posterior wall of the costal cartilage to separate the transverse sternum and mediastinal connective tissue.

Finally, the sternum was removed to expose the chest cavity, and the chest cavity was completely opened.

After doing this, Lin Xinyi stopped his movements and fell into silence after thinking.

"Mr. Lin Xinyi, is there a question?"

Mao Lilan noticed the seriousness on Lin Xinyi's expression.

"The situation is a bit troublesome..."

"This corpse was too damaged by the high temperature."

Lin Xinyi's tone became a little dignified:

Only after opening it did I know how badly the corpse was damaged by the high temperature.

Not to mention the charring from the skin deep to the muscle layer, even the internal organs and tissues seen after opening the chest and abdominal cavity are almost cooked by the powerful heat infiltrated from the outside.

While the organs aren't as charred as the superficial skin, avoiding the worst...

But this corpse was like a roast duck that was cooked just right, the outside was charred and the inside was basically cooked.