Detective: I can see the criminal record

"The fatal wound is a penetrating wound to the chest. The murder weapon should be some kind of long-handled dagger or short spike, about 60 centimeters long." Forensic Doctor Lin gestured the shape of the weapon, "Double-edged, with possible blood grooves."

"The area is quite large. If the murderer is from a tomb-robbing gang, it is common for them to have this kind of weapon." Cen Lian found nothing special about the murder weapon. "Was it a single shot that killed him?"

Medical examiner Lin motioned for them to look at the body. "The man who did the killing was very professional and ruthless. The weapon directly pierced the heart, causing it to rupture and cause heavy bleeding. Even if a doctor was standing nearby at the time, there would be no chance of saving the patient."

This is a fatal move to kill people.

"The murder was very professional, but the hiding and disposal of the body were very amateurish. What kind of operation is this?" Tang Hua was a little unsure of what was going on.

"Also, the deceased was abused before his death. In addition to the fatal injuries, there are multiple soft tissue contusions, several fractures and minor bone fractures all over his body. The fractures and bone fractures have not healed completely. He must have been killed within a few days of being beaten." Forensic Doctor Lin pointed out several places for them to see. "We should also thank this unprofessional criminal. Although the body has been dead for more than half a month, it is very well preserved."

The body had obvious internal and external scars, but there was no criminal record on his head, which made Cen Lian somewhat confused about his identity.

After discovering the deceased and then the tomb-robbing hole, Cen Lian's first reaction was that the deceased might have been the victim of a conspiracy between two gangs of tomb robbers. However, he had no criminal record, which also showed that this man had no criminal record and was innocent from a legal perspective.

As to whether the deceased, who was in his thirties, had been involved in any gray industry, it is completely unknown.

"From a forensic perspective, I suggest you look for the refrigerator or freezer where he was previously frozen," Forensic Doctor Lin covered the body again. "His skin, muscles, and some of his internal organs have been frozen to the refrigerator for a very long time. If I were the one who dumped the body, it would be very difficult to clean the refrigerator, so there is a high possibility that the entire refrigerator was destroyed at the same time."

The bodies had been frozen for too long, and it was very difficult to dispose of them completely without leaving any traces. Cen Lian also felt that it was more likely that they would just destroy them all.

"The deceased had just died when he was frozen. So how long after he was frozen was his body thrown away?" Cen Lian asked.

"The freezing time is about 5-7 days. You can take the average and make a rough calculation." Forensic Doctor Lin knew what he wanted to ask. "Based on the overall judgment, the date of death of the deceased was about half a month, and the time since the body was thrown out and buried was about a week."

The time when the body was dumped was exactly the same as what Cen Lian saw in the surveillance video, which means that the deceased was killed a week before the tomb robbery.

So it is hard to say what the connection is between this deceased person and the tomb robbery case.

"The time of his death was far from home," Tang Hua scratched his head, "The bronze tripod should not have been discovered at that time."

Cen Lian nodded. "This deceased person must have been killed for other reasons. Let's first use facial recognition and fingerprint comparison to confirm the identity of the deceased and see what his relationship is with these tomb robbers."

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When leaving the funeral home, Cen Lian had already obtained the household registration information of the deceased Wang Hongli.

"It's rare to find a face that's so completely preserved," Qu Zihan said to him on the other end of the phone. "This person doesn't have a criminal record. I'll check his accounts on major social media platforms."

The family of the deceased has been contacted and is on the way to identify the body. Other information about the deceased needs to be investigated separately.

Tang Hua now perked up.

"Finally there is some connection, but what does cultural relic restoration have to do with these tomb robbers? Could it be that the tomb robbers asked him to repair the stolen cultural relics, and he plans to call the police?" Tang Hua began to think divergently.

This was also the possibility that Cen Lian thought of first, but there was no way to verify it now.

"We'll talk about this after we investigate Wang Hongli. Let's go to the tunnel first." Cen Lian put down his phone. "I think we can find something in the tunnel."

He now felt a little strange about this case. Both the corpse and the tunnel were discovered too easily.

Even though Tang Hua and Wang Yuanteng took some extraordinary measures, the area they had circled was so small and there were such obvious wheel tracks left at the scene that it was not difficult to find these two locations.

Returning to the scene where the robbers' hole was discovered yesterday, Cen Lian saw that a group of fully armed staff had set up a cordon and were starting to clean up the areas near the robbers' hole, which might be tombs or ruins, layer by layer according to the designated exploration areas.

Wu Qiushan, wearing protective clothing, was communicating with an elderly expert.

Yuan Chenxi was processing the physical evidence collected from the tunnel. When he turned around, he saw Cen Lian and Tang Hua getting out of the car and greeted them from a distance.

"What's the situation?" Cen Lian put on shoe covers and walked into the cordon.

Wu Qiushan looked back at him and introduced him to the professor who looked to be in his fifties, "Professor Qian, this is the captain of our support team."

Cen Lian politely greeted Professor Qian and only then did he learn about the current situation.

There were indeed quite a few discoveries in the tunnel, such as toilet paper, cigarette butts and the like, from which a lot of fingerprints and DNA could be extracted. Following these things, it should be quick to find out who dug the tunnel, but Cen Lian did not think that this would completely solve the case at hand.

At least for now, it is unclear what the relationship is between the group of people who dug the hole and the group of people who killed and dumped the bodies.

"I've seen the bronze tripod you found," Professor Qian directed his doctoral students to arrange the preliminary excavation work, then turned to talk to Cen Lian, "In my opinion, that thing was either brought from the neighboring province, or dug out from a Shang tomb that we haven't found in Tuocheng City. It can't have been unearthed for too long."

"So you think this place is more like their transit point?" Cen Lian understood the meaning of Professor Qian's words.

"The Han tombs in Yishou are not very attractive to tomb robbers," Professor Qian said, looking at the tombs in front of him. "Most of the tombs in the early and middle Han dynasties were buried with pottery and lacquerware, and very few gold and silver utensils. They don't care about the evolution of utensil shapes and lacquerware art. Most tomb robbers have little culture and only recognize things they think are valuable. The tomb you found is not worth much to them."

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