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"Did you record the stages of the removal of the dead body in the woods?" the entomologist asked.

"Yes, I brought the notebook." Shen Yuan handed the notebook over.

"I feel that your notes and the sketches in them will help me better than the police photos to find out where the body was lying!" "You are right about the time of your death."

Shen Yuan heaved a sigh of relief.

However, Liu Zhizhong didn't give up on his appraisal. He said, "Isn't it unbelievable that these flies will eat a large amount of dead tissue in a few days?"

"Suppose this is a dead body," said the entomologist, taking a matchbox to represent the corpse and placing it at Liu's feet. Then he said to Liu, "Suppose you have a hundred maggots around you, then at least 99 of them will crawl towards the dead body. So, Doctor Shen's deduction is not wrong. In the case of large numbers of insects in the environment, the corpse will soon become unrecognizable, just like how it took a month of decaying to achieve such a result. "

A few days later, a survey by the Lai City Public Security department revealed that Chen Aigui had spent some time in the countryside with his younger brother and sister, during which he had a poor quality of sleep but denied having brought sleeping pills with him to help him sleep. Based on the habit and time deduction of maggots hatching proposed by Shen Yuan, combined with the views of entomologists, the calculation of death time by Shen Yuan was finally adopted.

Following that, Shen Yuan and Liu Zhiwei began to argue whether it was murder or suicide. The two shared the view that the deceased had died of strangulation from strangulation. The only difference was that Liu Zhiwei had performed an autopsy. In view of the obvious bloody wound on his neck, he thought he could not have strangled himself, and denied that the deceased could have strangled himself in the low woods. Lai City Public Security realized that there were different differences between Shen Yuan and them, and asked Shen Yuan if he could come up with a definite forensic identification to provide legal evidence of murder or suicide.

The strangling was done by looping a rope around the neck, and the strangling was done by pinching the neck with bare hands. They were all empty-handed. Of course, he was always the one who killed them. It was impossible for a man to strangle himself with his hand, for when he began to lose consciousness, it was inevitable that he should let go of his hand and recover. It was a belt that caused the death of Chen's money. The belt wound around his neck twice and knotted twice. Liu Zhiwei found obvious signs of asphyxiation during the autopsy, so he did not think the victim had time to tighten the straps himself before losing consciousness. As for the discovery of some undissolved sleeping pills in the stomach of the deceased, Liu explained that this was not a lethal dose for a healthy person, but was simply taken when the deceased was not feeling well and could not sleep. In Liu's opinion, the bloodstains on the neck of the deceased were undoubtedly proof of his murder.

"You may be right." Shen Yuan said, "But I believe that the dead can strangle themselves before they die. In fact, it's just a matter of time. "

According to Shen Yuan's analysis, according to the autopsy, the thyroid tissue of the deceased was invaded by a tumor while they were still alive, and their body was severely malnourished, causing them to show signs of heart failure for some time before they committed suicide. Shen Yuan believes that the apparent overdose of sleeping pills taken by the deceased may be consistent with Liu's analysis, but it is also possible that the deceased had a motive to commit suicide while he was alive. The reason was that the dead man had used his belt to strangle his neck not long after he'd taken the drug. Suicide in this way is more effective because drugs can cause venous stagnation and neck swelling, increasing the pressure on the waistband of the pants to strangle the neck.

Liu Zhiwei objected, arguing that the deceased could not fasten the belt tightly around his neck. Because when the belt was fastened around his neck, and he was strangled to death, his strength would grow so weak that he would not be able to finish the asphyxiation process, and he might still be able to wake up.

Shen Yuan found the broken branch on the belt where the body lay and said, "The dead man tightened the belt around his neck and hung the other end on the branch. When he fell, the belt automatically tightened around his neck. Even if at last he wanted to give up the idea of suicide, the disease and malnutrition had left him powerless to save himself in the end. The branch was about a metre high, and when the dead man fell to the ground, his hanging body was fastened to his leather belt, enough to suffocate him. After ten days of more than a hundred jin of pressure, the branch was finally broken. "

In order to illustrate this point, Shen Yuan was determined to boldly conduct an experiment. He and the pathologist walked into another part of the forest, found a branch about the size of a thick branch, and began his experiment. Shen Yuan wrapped the belt around his neck twice before tightening it a little tighter and knotted it into two knots before he lost consciousness. In less than a minute, Shen Yuan's face turned green, his vision blurring. Shen Yuan had succeeded. The pathologist loosened his belt, allowing Shen Yuan to sit on the ground and slowly catch his breath.

The pathologist repeated Shen Yuan's experiment and fainted. He almost suffocated to death.

Shen Yuan and the pathologist have come to the conclusion that, without the help of a tree branch, a tight grip on the neck or a quick pull on the belt around the neck can kill you, just as a Japanese martial art of unarmed self-defense cuts — a sudden death from a reflexive cardiac arrest in the vagus nerve.

In the end, Lai City Public Security accepted Shen Yuan's opinion, characterizing the case as Chen Ai-cai's death due to suicide.

In an attempt to search for other evidence that might have been left behind before the victim committed suicide, the police conducted a search of the area surrounding the scene of the suicide, as well as personal belongings belonging to Chen Aiki, the family of Chen Aiki, who lived. In a bush about fifty meters from the scene of the suicide, the police found an envelope containing a photograph of a girl in a red cotton dress with a middle-aged man. The photo showed a man and a woman with PS combined in a police technician's verification. The girl was Lin Zhanhuan, the victim of Bird Island, and the middle-aged man was Ma Chunfeng, Marong's father, the head of the Lai City Civil Affairs Bureau. In addition to the photographs, there were also two letters written by the deceased. At first they seemed to be suicide letters, but later it turned out to be two letters that had not been sent out yet. The date of the letter was March 1st, the third day after Lin Zhansheng's murder. The first letter was to Kimono, the second to the Lai City Civil Affairs Bureau.

Ding Wei opened the first letter and read:

"Revealed:

You broke off contact with your parents for the sake of our love, you paid my debts in secret, you lost your most precious reputation, and I couldn't fulfill my promise to let you live in a new house! This time, I will use my life to promise you that you will live in a new house! No matter what path I choose, I will eventually leave this world. If there is an afterlife, I will definitely not choose a sinful path in exchange for a promise to you! I would rather this promise disappear into the world with my body than allow an innocent soul to wander through the world with my own hands. Forget about me, I'll always love your money. "

Who gave him the money to buy the house and make him a murderer? And the only reason he had become the motive for his murder was because of his love for Qi Menglu! It was Qi Menglu who had lost his parents and reputation for Chen's wealth, and Qi Menglu's only dream in life was to own a new house of his own. Chen was deeply moved by Qi Menglu's feelings for him, but he couldn't realize Qi Menglu's dream and bring happiness to Qi Menglu. As far as Chen Aisui was concerned, only money could solve all these problems. Not only was he penniless, he was also in debt of a hundred thousand yuan. Thus, for the sake of money, Chen Aiki chose to be an assassin. He knew the consequences of killing someone, so he chose to commit suicide! This was Ding Wei's conjecture based on the contents of the letter.