Chapter 225 – Broken Finger Reasoning

　　In the empty and tidy corridor, two figures walked forward one after the other.

　　At the end of the corridor was an automatic sliding door made of metal, and beside the sliding door sat a young man who was leaning against the wall, yawning.

　　Seeing two people approaching, he immediately perked up and stood up from his seat.

　　Please show your credentials. He opened his mouth solemnly.

　　Lin Qiye took out his coat of arms and handed it over to him, the latter took a closer look and spoke with some surprise:

　　So you’re the new one from the Nightwatchman, I’m sorry for my rudeness. He bowed slightly to Lin Qiye and returned the coat of arms with both hands while looking at the person behind Lin Qiye with some surprise.

　　”Brother Lin, this is ……

　　Oh, he’s an expert I hired to take a look at the corpse. Lin Qiye put away the coat of arms and calmly said.

　　Okay, I’ll open the door for you.

　　The young man opened a small box next to the metal sliding door, entered a dozen or so passwords, and the metal sliding door was opened, revealing the passageway inside.

　　An Qingyu, who was wearing a shirt and a mask, followed Lin Qiye into it and opened her mouth in some surprise:

　　Is the defense here so loose? I thought there would be body searches, identity registration, and so on.

　　This is just a morgue, where is the need for so much trouble, the real secret core place, you don’t even know if it exists or not, let alone walking in so stridently. Lin Qiye replied.

　　In the end, he still brought An Qingyu along, not because of anything else, but An Qingyu’s ability to interpret corpses was definitely the top of Da Xia, even the most powerful forensic pathologists might not be able to match him.

　　With him there, he might really be able to find some clues.

　　The two pushed the door and entered the morgue, compared to the police station’s morgue, this place was obviously much smaller, after all, only corpses related to mysterious events would be deposited here, and such events wouldn’t happen more than a few times a year.

　　After presenting his identification to the coroner, the other party immediately gave Lin Qiye a copy of the autopsy report, while at the same time responding to Lin Qiye’s request to push out Sun Xiao’s body from the cold storage.

　　Lin Qiye simply scanned the autopsy report before focusing his attention on the corpse in front of him.

　　From the report, this corpse was the same as the previous three, there was nothing special about it, and if he really wanted to make a breakthrough, he would still have to start with the corpse.

　　An Qingyu had already completely entered the state, scrutinizing the entire corpse with a posture of absolute indifference and absolute precision, her eyes glowing with a faint gray light.

　　After thoroughly looking over every inch of the corpse in detail, he subconsciously reached into his pocket and pulled out a sharp scalpel ……

　　Lin Qiye pressed down on his hand and shook his head, you can only look, you can’t dissect.

　　An Qingyu nodded helplessly, looked down at the corpse, the lenses of his glasses reflecting the ghastly white light, and said in a deep voice:

　　Overall, it is the same as the previous three corpses, the fatal wound is in the chest, the ten fingers were cut off, and there are no other injuries other than the nail-in wound.

　　He took the autopsy report in the hands of Lin Qiye and continued: the ten finger severance has an active reaction, indicating that it is a finger that was cut off while still alive, which is also the same as the previous three corpses ……

　　So, there is nothing unusual? Lin Qiye asked with some regret.

　　There is! An Qingyu nodded heavily, this corpse, there is a place that is different from the previous three corpses!

　　Where?

　　The direction of the ten broken fingers! An Qingyu’s eyes were bright and incomparable, the previous three corpses, the direction of the finger breaks was from top to bottom.

　　An Qingyu pressed his body against the wall, his left hand made a posture of being nailed to the wall, palm facing the wall, back of the hand facing out.

　　At the same time, his right hand made the shape of a knife and gently chopped on the fingers.

　　Generally speaking, when the deceased was nailed to the wall like this, if he wanted to break his fingers, he could only cut from the direction of the back of his hand, towards the palm of his hand, because it was impossible for the knife to cut outwards from the wall, and this, too, was the direction in which the fingers of those three corpses had been cut off before.

　　But this corpse, it was different!

　　He used his right hand to slice across the fingers of his left hand, from the bottom up.

　　His fingers, were chopped off from the bottom up! It was chopped from the center of the palm towards the back of the hand! But such a posture of severing the fingers, with my current posture of placing the palm, cannot be done, so it must have been like this at the time he had his fingers severed ……

　　An Qingyu flipped his left hand over, again pinned to the wall, but with his palm facing outward and the back of his hand facing the wall.

　　Lin Qiye’s eyes lit up, but then his brows furrowed again.

　　But in the video, the position of the body is too far away and the light is blurry, we really can’t see the direction of his palm, maybe he was really nailed up like this?

　　What can we tell just by the way a palm was nailed on?

　　Based on that alone, of course we can’t tell much, but that’s exactly where the problem lies. An Qingyu walked over to the corpse, pointed to the two wounds on the corpse’s palms, and continued.

　　A nail, nailed in from the palm of the hand, and nailed in from the back of the hand, cause wounds that, although similar in shape, are actually different, the wounds on the hands of this corpse …… are caused by nailing in from the top to the bottom.

　　Anqing fish with a finger pretending to be a nail, from the back of the hand of the other hand through the palm of the hand, said seriously:

　　That is to say that the direction in which the …… nail was nailed in, and the direction in which the finger was cut off, are opposite! This means ……

　　means that he was first cut off his fingers before being nailed to the wall. Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed slightly as he continued An Qingyu’s words down the line.

　　An Qingyu nodded, that’s right.

　　But the process shown in the video is not consistent with our reasoning. Lin Qiye frowned, and after identification, the video did not have traces of special effects processing, meaning that the images captured on the video were indeed what really happened.

　　Since this is the case, there is only one possibility left …… An Qingyu slowly spoke.

　　The person who died in the video was not Sun Xiao! Lin Qiye and An Qingyu spoke at the same time.

　　Due to the distance and light, the picture taken by the video camera wasn’t clear, and it wasn’t even possible to see the dead person’s face at all.In the end, the reason why everyone judged that the dead person in the picture was Sun Xiao was because of that waiter’s uniform!

　　Moreover, the next day they did find Sun Xiao’s crucified body on the wall, exactly the same as in the picture.

　　No one ever doubted the identity of the dead man in the videotape.

　　In other words, there was another person wearing Sun Xiao’s clothes, who was mysteriously nailed to the wall, but after the videotape recorder ran out of power, someone else replaced the original person with Sun Xiao, who had already had her fingers cut off? An Qingyu’s eyebrows tightly wrinkled, but …… why is this?

　　Our reasoning, there is still a fatal problem! Lin Qiye took a deep breath and continued.

　　If we follow our reasoning, before and after added up, the one who was nailed to the wall should be two different dead people, but …… from among the blood at the scene, we only detected the dna of Sun Xiao alone!