Coroner Coroner

"It's naturally someone who should be in charge of this matter."

"And I'm just an ordinary citizen now, all I have to do is trust the society, trust the police... um..."

Lin Xinyi's mouth twitched slightly:

Just the level of criminal investigation shown by the Metropolitan Police Department this morning... I can't believe it.

And, despite trying hard to forget...

But the figure of the male high school student wandering desperately on the edge of the rooftop just now always appeared in Lin Xinyi's mind.

Speaking of which, in the course of these years of work, he has not thought of resigning and changing careers after feeling enormous pressure.

But every time I receive a call from the scene and see the body of the deceased, my body will still move unconsciously.

After finishing this case, I must resign next time.

He thinks this way every day.

Dragging and dragging, they have all grown from a rookie to a master.

If it weren't for this sudden crossing, he might still be on the dissection table now.

"Miyano."

"Please wait for me."

Lin Xinyi sighed lightly, his eyes became serious:

"I think I need to go to the scene."

"why?"

Miyano Shiho became increasingly incomprehensible.

"Who knows..."

Lin Xin looked across the road, where the male high school student jumped:

"Perhaps someone there is waiting for me to speak for him."

Chapter 22 Bullying, Killing

Lin Xinyi chased Kudo and others across the road.

Miyano Shiho looked at his back thoughtfully, and finally followed slowly.

Soon, they followed the direction from the previous voice and came to the alley next to the department store.

Ishikawa, Aoki, Kudo Shinichi and Maurilan, who took the first step, were also at the entrance of this alley at this time.

Take a closer look inside:

The alley is narrow and a dead end.

The inside was empty, except for an iron fire stairway welded to the outside of the department store wall and leading from the ground to the fourth floor, there was nothing else in this alley.

And the iron fire ladder that leads directly to the fourth floor also looks very dilapidated.

The steps are covered with mottled rust, and the guardrails have been corroded by the years.

Even the only connection to this fire-fighting iron ladder, the iron door that opened on the outer wall of the fourth floor of the department store, was completely occupied by rust.

Apparently, this disrepaired fire stair has not been used for a long time.

And this headless alley with no way to go except the fire stairs is not a place where passersby will come in.

Compared with the busy road outside, this dead and deserted alley is simply another world.

And now, in this unmanned alley that is "isolated" in the busy city...

The male high school student named Uchida who was standing on the rooftop just now was lying motionless on the ground.

"Uchida!"

"Hey... Uchida!"

Ishikawa and Aoki cried out in panic.

It seemed that they finally realized what the consequences of their bullying had been, and they were very nervous.

Just like that, they stood there stiffly, looking at Uchida's corpse with ugly faces, silently wondering what they were thinking.

At this time, Lin Xinyi took action.

Like instinct, he ran to the side of Uchida who couldn't stand on the ground at the fastest speed.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xinyi quickly squatted down and carefully turned the unfamiliar boy who had been motionless on the ground.

Uchida's cheeks were exposed in front of everyone's eyes.

His face was covered with extensive scrapes and contusions, and there was a horrific fractured depression on his forehead.

This youthful face can no longer see the smile that this young man once had, and there are only rotten flesh, hideous scars, and the eternal silence.

"The skull is deformed..."

Lin Xinyi's heart sank, he knew that such an injury would definitely be fatal.

He didn't care that he didn't wear gloves at this time, he immediately stretched out his hand to measure Uchida's breath, and opened his eyelids to check his pupils.

His breath had stopped long ago, his pupils were dilated, and there was no light in his eyes.

Touching the wrist, there is no pulse, and the arm muscles have relaxed.

"How is it?" Kudo Shinichi also slowly approached.

"Already dead." Lin Xinyi frowned tightly, his tone a bit complicated.

He did see a lot of dead people, but he really didn't see people dying on the road like it is now.

Being notified to go to the scene to examine the body is completely different from witnessing death in life without warning.

Lin Xinyi couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

In contrast, Kudo Shinichi's performance is much more calm.

Seeing someone die in front of him, the high school student acted calmer than the former forensic doctor.

It was as if he had long been accustomed to this situation.

After hearing that Uchida had confirmed his death, Kudo Shinichi immediately entered the dedicated detective mode.

He is observing, thinking, and extremely devoted, just like an actor standing on the stage and a candidate sitting in the examination room.

"Suicide by jumping off the building... This alley is a dead end, and the fire ladder is rusted like that. Usually, no one will come."

"In this case, most of the items on the ground should be related to the deceased who fell from the building today."

With this in mind, Kudo Shinichi carefully observed the ground near the corpse.

First, he saw a brown baseball cap.

This is what they had seen before, the baseball cap that Uchida was wearing on his head.

It's just that the baseball cap is not worn on the deceased's head now, but is scattered next to the corpse, and most of it was detached when it fell.

Then, Kudo Shinichi saw a few ordinary broken bricks from the ground.

Other than that, the only thing that can be found is...

A section of iron guardrail covered with rust.

"This guardrail... fell from the iron ladder?"

Kudo Shinichi raised his head and looked at the fire ladder welded to the outside of the department store wall:

Sure enough, at the top of the fire ladder, in front of the iron gate on the fourth floor, a large section of iron guardrail disappeared.

"The iron ladder has been in disrepair for a long time, so part of the guardrail fell off..."

"Or, it is the deceased who knocked down this iron ladder guardrail in the process of falling."

Kudo Shinichi frowned slightly.

A baseball cap, a few broken bricks, an iron ladder to the fourth floor outside the building, the broken guardrail at the top of the iron ladder...

All the clues at the scene converged in his mind.

"Could it be that…"

"Would that be the case?"

Kudo Shin's eyes lit up, he understood something.

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the two delinquent teenagers who had been silent for a long time:

"Ishikawa, Aoki."

"Can I call you that?"

Ishikawa and Aoki did not answer, they still stood by in silence.

"Uchida who jumped off the building and died is the classmate who was bullied by you?"

"When did you break up with him? Where did you beat him just now?"

Kudo Shinichi asked straight to the point again.

"Forehead…"

Ishikawa was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly became more hostile:

"Why, why are you asking me?"

"Are you a policeman? Why should I tell you?"

"Say more, say more..."

He swallowed his saliva, pinched his neck, and roared sternly:

"What if we beat Uchida?"

"We didn't hit him hard, and we didn't kill him."