Forensic Intern

Wu Zhi was sitting in the corner of his house smoking a cigarette, facing the empty night, with deep eyes, no one knew what he was thinking.

The old man's cough and the elder sister's complaints could be heard in the room. He slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and then looked down at the cement steps under him.

There was a rain before, and a lot of dead leaves fell on the steps, which looked a little messy.

Wu Zhi threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and then reached out to clean the dead leaves on the steps, as if this concrete step was some kind of treasure.

After finishing this action, he stared at the steps again in a daze, and then said to himself: "With grandpa and sister accompanying you, you shouldn't be lonely, right?"

The cold steps didn't answer him.

He continued: "I know you are most afraid of being alone, so I put you here. After all, you are the one I plan to marry. Although I don't like you very much, I have avenged you... As a price, you Lost hands and legs..."

After saying this, he stood up and shook the soot on his pants: "I should go, I will come back to see you next time."

Wu Zhi entered the house and greeted his grandfather.

Before leaving, grandpa took his hand and said, "Zhi'er, Xiao Yuan is not that lucky, just forget about her, you are already old, our Wu family's incense depends entirely on you!"

The old man took a few breaths, and said again: "My body is getting worse every day. From now on, you have to take good care of your sister. You are just such a family member!"

"Grandpa, you will live a long life, don't think about it!"

Wu Zhi was still the same as usual, speaking and doing things very decently, and before leaving, he left a big red envelope and told Wu Ting to tell him what the family needed.

Wu Ting grabbed Wu Zhi's sleeve: "Can you take us out of here now? There are more and more gossips in the village, I really can't stand it!"

Wu Zhi thought for a moment: "Grandpa is not used to big cities, it's better to live in his hometown." He patted his elder sister's hand and comforted him: "It will be over soon!"

Wu Ting was depressed and helpless at the same time, but she had to rely on Wu Zhi for food and drink, so she couldn't say anything more.

Seeing that Wu Zhi was about to leave, Wu Ting chased him out of the house, and stuffed the soup into Wu Zhi's hand: "I see that you have lost weight recently, this soup has been boiled all afternoon, you must finish it ah!"

Wu Zhi put the soup in the trunk, then took out a gift bag from the trunk and handed it to Wu Ting: "This is specially bought for you."

Wu Ting looked at the "Extreme Bird's Nest" on the handbag and was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear: "It's rare that you still think about me, but it's useless for me to eat this kind of thing, I'm already old!"

"Taste how it tastes first, and bring it to you if you like it!" Wu Zhi took the driver's seat: "Go back, grandpa can't leave anyone around."

Wu Ting walked back carrying the bird's nest, thinking, having such a younger brother is probably the virtue she accumulated in her previous life!

This child has been close to her since he was a child, and he can think of her when he has any good things. Over the years, he has taken money from Wu Zhi, and the other party has never said anything about her.

When she reached the door, she looked back at Wu Zhi who was driving away, she thought to herself, she must persevere, the old man's health is getting worse and worse, maybe he will die that day.

Wu Zhi turned on the car player and played an old song, the beat was pleasant, and he hummed along with the familiar melody.

Suddenly, a WeChat message popped up, ruining his good mood.

Cat: [Let's meet up. 】

Wu Zhi didn't immediately reply to the person named "Cat". He drove towards the expressway, as if he was planning something carefully. He didn't pick up his phone until he got off the expressway, and replied a WeChat message to the other party.

[Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, the old place. 】

Tong Yu was sitting on a bench in the lobby of the police station. Seeing Li Meng walking towards the dissection room with a plastic bag, he asked, "Officer Li, what are you talking about?"

Li Meng was speechless: "The guy Wu Zhi put in the coffin."

Before coming to the police station, Tong Yu had already heard from Lu Wang that Wu Zhi sneakily bought a small coffin online and put a dead cat in it.

Out of curiosity, he followed, and before he got close, he smelled a foul smell: "Is this going to be dissected?"

"Well, the captain said to show it to Mr. Gu." Li Meng stopped and asked, "Aren't you on vacation? What are you doing at the police station?"

Tong Yu pointed to the captain's office: "Wait."

In the captain's office, Wang Yue looked at Lu Wang who was sitting directly opposite him with a displeased face. He really wanted to scold him to relieve his anger, but swallowed the words again.

Although he had a bad nose when he went to Huangtao Village today, he had to admit that, like the intern in front of him, he was skeptical of Wu Zhi. Time dispatched all police forces to arrest Wu Zhi.

"Forget it, I didn't think carefully about this matter today, so I can't blame you." Wang Yue rubbed his brows with one hand: "You write a self-criticism and give it to me. Go back if you have nothing to do!"

Lu Wang stuffed his phone into his pants: "Okay, I've written it and sent it to you. Do you want a scanned copy or a printed copy this time?"

"It's up to you." Wang Yue waved his hand: "Stop dangling in front of my eyes, it's a headache!"

When Lu Wang came out of the office, he happened to see Tong Yu passing by the door of the anatomy room. He walked over and at the same time smelled a familiar smell.

It was exactly the same as what he had smelled in Wu Zhi's refrigerator.

You don't need to think about it, what's in the dissection room.

Gu Yuan was doing a comprehensive inspection of the black cat's body.

"There is no trace of trauma, and the abdomen is obviously distended. I have to open the abdominal cavity to see what's inside." A pair of beautiful and cold eyes stared at the black cat's body: "Hand me the shaver."

Gu Yuan directly shaved off the excess hair on the dead cat's abdomen with a shaver, and then used a scalpel to cut open the flesh below the cat's ribs.

After the abdominal cavity was opened, a foul smell emanated, and a large piece of intestinal tube gushed out, some of which were dark brown, and a large amount of dark brown viscous liquid gathered in the depressions outside the intestinal tube.

"There was internal bleeding in the abdominal cavity before death."

Since no external injuries were found in the cat, internal injuries from external force blows were ruled out.

Gu Yuan was puzzled as to how such internal bleeding was caused.

Could it be an infection?

He took the fluid and part of the tissue in the abdominal cavity and sent it to a pathology laboratory for testing.

"In addition to infection, it is also possible that something sharp was ingested, causing intestinal perforation and bleeding."

Based on this idea, Gu Yuan carefully inspected the cat's intestines, and sure enough, he felt a hard object.

The hard object got stuck in the cat's small intestine and he couldn't get it out, so he had to cut through the sticky section.

Along with the filth, there was a ring-shaped object, and when it was placed on the tray, there was a crisp metallic sound.

Gu Yuan washed the area around the ring with normal saline, and the object showed its original appearance.

"It's earrings." Tong Yu said, staring at the metal rings in the tray.

"It is indeed an earring. There is a silver needle at the connecting part, and the word 925 is engraved on the silver needle. It should be a silver earring." Gu Yuan added: "An earring of this size was swallowed by a cat. It cannot be excreted naturally, so it remains in the cat's intestines and stomach until the sharp part punctures the intestinal tube, hemoperitoneum, secondary intestinal infection, and even death."

Li Meng looked at the earrings in the tray and asked thoughtfully, "Why do you think this earring looks so familiar?"

"Do you think it looks like the earrings in the video?" Gu Yuan reminded Li Meng.

Li Meng suddenly realized: "You mean the video of the warehouse kidnapping? That's right, no wonder it looks familiar!"

Li Meng has always felt that Gu Yuan's image memory ability is very strong, and even he said so, so it should be almost the same.

Li Meng immediately took out his phone to check the videos saved in his phone.

A week ago, after Wu Zhi's identification and the police's verification, it was confirmed that the kidnapped woman in the video was named Yuan Qing, who was Wu Zhi's fiancée.

Li Meng zoomed in on the close-up screenshot of Yuan Qing's ears, and found that the female corpse in the warehouse was indeed wearing the same style of earrings, and both left and right ears were wearing them, and one of them was not missing.

Li Meng was a little shocked: "Why did the earrings of the female corpse in the warehouse get into this cat's belly?"

"This shouldn't be a coincidence!" Gu Yuan picked up the earring with tweezers, and then used a flashlight to shine on the inside of the earring: "There are engravings inside the earring..."

Li Meng: "What did you engrave?"

"WY."

"Wu Yuan."

The second after Gu Yuan said these two letters, Tong Yu who was standing behind him directly said these two surnames.

Tong Yu continued: "Wu Zhi and Yuan Qing are the abbreviations of their surnames."

"There is indeed something wrong with these two letters." Wang Yue who was standing behind him suddenly interrupted: "After Yuan Qing was kidnapped, this cat touched her, so it ate her earrings by mistake."

This inference made the people present shudder.

Wang Yue continued to analyze: "In other words...the place where this cat stayed before its death may be the place where the corpse was hidden!"

Thinking of this, Wang Yue immediately called Wu Ting, and everyone present held their breath.

After a while, Wu Ting answered the phone.

Wu Ting on the other end of the phone sounded very bad: "Wu Zhi bought the cat two years ago to relieve my boredom. He was sick a few days ago, so Wu Zhi was taken out to see a veterinarian. The cat ate it. The medicine didn’t heal for two days, and he died suddenly.”

Wang Yue: "Did the cat leave Huangtao Village before getting sick?"

Wu Ting: "No, why are you asking this?"

"Does this cat like to go out and wander?" Wang Yue asked again.

"I raise a domestic cat, not a wild cat! Are you annoying?!" Wu Ting finally couldn't hold back her temper: "I just want to ask you, you broke into my house for no reason and arrested my brother , should you apologize?"

Wang Yuexin said: It's too early to say an apology, your brother probably has a problem!

Wang Yue: "Thank you for cooperating with the investigation. If Wu Zhi has no problem, I will personally come to apologize."

Wang Yue hung up the phone and winked at Li Meng: "Let's go, let's go to Huangtao Village again?"

Li Meng said "Ah?", and then he came to his senses again: "It's so late, are you sure?"

Wang Yue smiled and said, "It's best to act at night. Don't make a big fuss this time. The two of us went in a sneaky way. I have observed that there are no dogs in that village, so it won't affect our actions!"