Coroner Coroner

"The damage is done all at once."

"These injuries can all be explained by 'high fall' rather than any external blow."

"It looks like she fell to her death simply because of the high fall."

"but…"

Lin Xinyi keenly noticed that there seemed to be a few strands of white textile fibers remaining on the shoulders of the deceased.

Those few strands of fibers were extremely fine, if it wasn't for the fact that the deceased was wearing a black dress, forming a sharp color difference, with Lin Xinyi's focus and careful inspection, it would have been difficult to notice.

"The dead man was not wearing white clothes at all."

"These strands of fibers should be where she got them from."

Lin Xinyi carefully twisted and kneaded a strand of fiber, put it in front of his eyes and observed carefully:

"White staple fibers, straight, soft, and less elastic."

"Preliminary inference is cotton yarn."

Cotton yarn, white.

Putting these two words in Lin Xinyi's mind, the first thing he thought of was labor protection gloves, which he often came into contact with during investigations and which criminals like to wear when committing crimes.

"There's this fiber left over in the shoulder."

"Did someone wear gloves and push her off the cliff?"

Such a shocking conclusion jumped out of Lin Xinyi's mind.

But such conclusions are not rigorous.

Because cotton yarn is widely used in various common textiles, except for gloves, cotton yarn may appear everywhere in clothes, pillowcases, and bed quilts that are in contact with every day.

And after the cotton yarn fibers are entangled with the fibers on the clothes, they can not fall off for a long time.

These fibers may have been stained by the deceased from leaning on the sofa, lying on the quilt, or hugging people a few days before his death.

In any case, from this alone, it is not certain that someone wearing gloves pushed over the dead man's shoulder.

More importantly, Lin Xinyi always felt that something was wrong.

"All the injuries on the deceased were 'one-time formation', which met the judgment standard of high fall injuries."

"There is no trace of any external force attack at all."

"Everything, what is it that feels wrong..."

Lin Xinyi frowned tightly.

Now he has two speculations:

One is accidentally stepping on the air and falling off the cliff, and the other is being pushed off the cliff.

But he had an inexplicable feeling in his heart that these two conclusions were somewhat unreliable.

"and many more…"

Lin Xinyi suddenly woke up from deep thought:

"It's because the deceased's injury is too in line with the judgment standard of a high fall injury, so something is wrong!"

Once the damage is formed, it is an important basis for judging the high fall injury.

It means that all the injuries on the deceased's body were caused by the fall when he fell from a high place.

However, in the wild, the opposite situation often occurs in cases of high falls that occur under mountainous terrain.

"A natural cliff is not the same as a city building."

"The building stands straight, and if you jump from it, you will not encounter any obstacles during the fall."

"However, there are often protruding rocks and trees on the rock wall of the cliff, just like steps extending outward."

Lin Xinyi just jumped off those protruding rocks.

He clearly knew that the vertical surface of the cliff here was not flat, and there were many protrusions in the middle.

"If you slip off the edge of a cliff, or if you are pushed off, you can easily hit those protruding rocks."

"In this way, the deceased was hit many times during the fall, and there should be extensive abrasions on his body. It will definitely not be as 'clean' as it is now."

"If falling on this kind of cliff can still cause that kind of 'one-time damage'..."

"That can only mean that when she fell off the cliff..."

"There is also a 'horizontal acceleration'."

The so-called "horizontal acceleration" means that when the deceased fell off the cliff, his state was moving outwards.

That is to say...

"Did she jump out on her own, jumping over those ledges on the rock wall?"

Lin Xinyi gave this judgment:

There are protrusions on the rock wall, but there are no multiple abrasions on the body—

This is an important basis for judging the deceased as "suicide" in the wild mountainous terrain.

Because if it is suicide, it will generally have strength to move forward, and it will naturally cross the protruding mountain.

And if you accidentally slip off the edge of a cliff:

The dead person will fall tightly along the rock wall, and in the process of falling, will rub against the protruding part of the rock wall.

If being pushed off the edge of a cliff:

Because it doesn't take much effort to push a person off a cliff, the murderer often only uses slight force when pushing.

And with the strength of a normal adult, it's hard to push another adult too far.

Therefore, the deceased who is pushed down will still collide with the protruding part of the rock wall just like an accidental fall.

But the deceased didn't have that kind of bruise on his body, and all the injuries were formed at one time.

Then...

"Could she have committed suicide?"

Lin Xinyi's eyes became more serious.

For forensics, the word "suicide" must be used with the same caution as "accident".

He can't come to a conclusion now, he can only keep those doubts in his heart.

But now the police support has not arrived at the scene, and the equipment is not in place, so Lin Xinyi can only do these inspections.

He began to search through the deceased's belongings, hoping to find more clues:

"Yakako Yamaguchi, 22 years old, from Tokyo."

Lin Xinyi dug out the wallet that the deceased carried with him.

The money and documents inside are all complete, it doesn't look like they have been robbed in the wild.

It is even less likely that she will be killed.

"I didn't carry anything like a suicide note in my backpack that could prove suicide."

"There is a travel guide for Osaka in the bag, and a few pages are folded specially, as if marked for travel."

"Would a person who came here to commit suicide have the mood to study travel strategies?

Looking at it this way, the possibility of suicide is actually not very big.

Lin Xinyi was in a dilemma, and in the midst of entanglement, he could only make no judgment for the time being:

"It's better to contact Tokyo as soon as possible and ask them to investigate whether the deceased has any suicidal tendencies recently..."

"If it doesn't, there's a problem."

Thinking so in his heart, he silently remembered everything he found and took pictures to record it.

No more clues could be found at the bottom of the cliff, so Lin Xinyi turned around and climbed back from the cliff.

After a while...

"Lin, Mr. Lin!"

Hattori Heiji and Mori Ran both looked over at the same time.

They first showed their admiration for Lin Xinyi's special climbing skills with complicated eyes.

Then, the two quickly turned their attention back to the business:

"Mr. Lin!"

"Did you find anything down there?"

"I guess there is..."

Lin Xinyi patted the dirt on his body with a complicated expression:

"The deceased was very similar to suicide, but it was a little strange."

"Heiji, Ms. Mori, how is your investigation on the cliff going? Do you have any conclusions?"

"This…"

A look of hesitation appeared on the faces of Mori Ran and Hattori Heiji:

"Actually, the conclusion of our investigation is different from yours, Mr. Lin:"

"The deceased looked like an accident, but it was a little strange."

Chapter 284 It was an accident, and it was also a homicide

Mori Lan and Hattori Heiji, a pair of senior sisters and brothers, were mainly responsible for investigating the footprints left on the cliff.

Although Ms. Ye and Conan stood aside resentfully, the resentful aura emanating from these "idle people" was completely ignored by the two who were busy with the on-site investigation.

They quickly discovered something was amiss: