NOVPUB69: Chapter 44 The First Dissection in the Great Tang_2
69 -44 The First Dissection in the Great Tang_2
Thirty seconds, a mere instant to kill a robust man, shows that the killer is a professional assassin, or at least a habitual offender.
“If it’s not the cause of death, then what was he doing holding the victim’s neck?” Ran Yan murmured to herself.
Following that, she reached out to touch the corpse’s head, switched her scalpel for a larger one, and deftly shaved off a piece of hair from the center of the scalp.
With the hair no longer obstructing the view, the weakest spot on the body was exposed, revealing a mung bean-sized blood spot, distinctly visible.
Ran Yan felt a surge of excitement.
She used the tip of her knife to pry open the congealed blood clot and cut a small piece of skin attached to the skull, finally discovering traces of metal.
“Inspector Liu, please look, this is the cause of death,” Ran Yan said as she used the scalpel to clear the surrounding obstructions, presenting the faintly revealed metal to the two of them.
Liu Pinrang, fighting back his discomfort, glanced down briefly before quickly turning his head away, “Explain it to me in detail.”
“Judging by the wounds on the victim’s body, he was kicked in the groin from the front, instantly losing his ability to move.
He was in extreme pain, and the body’s subconscious response is to curl up and lower his head.
He must have been grabbed by the back of his neck, forced to lift his head, and then stabbed in the Baihui acupoint with a silver needle.
This series of actions took place within about five breaths,” Ran Yan paused, then continued, “Judge Yang didn’t die instantly, he lived for at least another half hour because a small drop of blood on his head had clotted, and a dead person’s blood does not clot.
The person who administered the needle was very strong and extremely fast, the silver needle deeply penetrated the brain, and if one wants to retrieve it, one would likely have to open the skull.”
“Open…
open the skull?” Yu Bohao said with a trembling voice, looking at Ran Yan with some fear.
To distract himself, he had been observing her.
He found viewing a corpse nauseating, but Ran Yan’s cold gaze truly sent chills down his spine, and with talk now of opening the skull, he really wanted to know what other horrifying things this young lady could do.
“There’s no need,” Liu Pinrang, at this moment, had his mind occupied with other matters and was slightly less fearful.
To him, as long as it was established that Judge Yang was murdered by someone else, that was sufficient.
The rest, he would investigate in secret.
Once it’s clear whose agent Judge Yang was in the capital, then the killer would also become evident.
Liu Pinrang admitted to himself that he was not capable of questioning the killer directly but guessing the intentions and understanding the undercurrents would allow him to know how to steer away from these shadowy conflicts and protect himself at critical moments.
Ran Yan glanced at Liu Pinrang and said no more.
Understanding that she had no say in the matter, she then repositioned the dissected muscles, extracted needle and thread from the box, reversed the handle of the knife to press down on the dissected skin, and skillfully began sewing the incision with tweezers gripping the needle. n𝚘𝚟pub.𝚌o𝚖
Finally, Ran Yan took off her gloves and wiped away the nearby bloodstains.
In no time, the grisly dissected area had returned to its original state, leaving only dense stitches.
Yu Bohao and Liu Pinrang looked at her in astonishment, realizing that the entire dissection process had not involved the kind of bloodshed they had imagined.
Instead of seeming haphazard, her incisions were orderly, and the dissected areas were cleanly visible with very little bleeding.
A dead body’s blood no longer flows; as long as one avoids the major arteries, the amount of blood that spills is far less than one might imagine.
As a qualified forensic doctor, mastering this is essential, and Ran Yan was indeed an expert.
Ran Yan covered the body with a plain cloth, stood up and said, “The needle inserted into the head, by my judgement, is a common acupuncture silver needle.
The killer must be highly knowledgeable in medical science, controlling the force of the insertion exceedingly well…”
At this point, Ran Yan’s mind flashed with a pair of dark eyes.
She paused, then said, “That’s all I can offer, I hope it is helpful.”
“Thank you for your efforts.
I have urgent matters to attend to and must leave immediately,” Liu Pinrang left behind Ran, and the Yin families, amidst a room full of nobility.
He had to hurry.
“Please feel free, Inspector Liu,” Ran Yan said.
She turned to Yu Bohao, “Please attend to Lady Seventeen for me.”
Liu Pinrang strode out, Ran Yan straightened her clothes, and left the room with Yu Bohao.
“Has Lady Seventeen previously worked in the forensic field?” Yu Bohao knew very well that it was rude to ask such a question of a noble lady with her background, but he couldn’t help himself.
Ran Yan’s heart tightened, knowing that her performance had aroused the suspicions of this criminal judge, but she didn’t look for excuses, simply stating, “No, I just know some medical skills.”
