No one answered her question. Soon, Xie Chuchu and Ling Xiaotao also arrived at the scene. As she faced the corpse, even with her extensive experience, a look of puzzlement appeared on her face when encountering such a situation. They took out the shadowless lamp from their examination kit and first observed the deceased's condition. In fact, I had already taken a look and placed Zhang Keying's lens on his half-severed nose, confirming Jian Yongwang's state. He was indeed dead.
The forensic investigators and I separated his severed body into two halves. While examining his internal organs, we found them to be intact, clearly not necrotic. The livor mortis and rigor mortis also indicated that he had died only recently. The cause of death was the gash on his neck, leading to excessive blood loss from the carotid artery.
Of course, the specific details still required a thorough forensic examination. Performing an autopsy at this location was obviously inconvenient. I asked Xie Chuchu and the others to take the body to the autopsy station. Jian Yongwang's two halves were then placed into grooves, with me handling the left side and Xie Chuchu the right.
After some manipulation below, I employed bone-setting techniques and brushed the body with alkaline water. I discovered that before the incident, there were numerous scratches on the deceased's neck. However, both Zhang Keying and I had seen no one in front of him at the time. These scratches must have been left earlier.
But why did his neck suddenly split open? If I hadn't experienced so many bizarre cases, I would have absolutely thought this was bullshit. I wondered if I was still asleep in a nightmare and hadn't woken up yet.
But facts are facts, and this situation had indeed occurred. As I meticulously examined the deceased's neck, the shadowless reflection tube and the examination umbrella were deployed. This time, I finally found some clues regarding the structure, or rather, the composition, of the deceased's neck. It was different from that of an ordinary person. I tapped it with a wrench and immediately understood. Then, I took a scalpel and fiercely cut off a portion.
Jian Yongwang's neck was no longer human flesh but a shard of glass, covered by skin and flesh, which was why I hadn't detected it earlier.
Furthermore, behind the glass shard, approximately at the back of the deceased's head, there seemed to be residue of explosives. I collected some with tweezers and placed it into an evidence bag. If my guess was correct, the so-called special effect was actually a micro-bomb installed on his body. When someone pressed a switch nearby, the bomb would explode, causing Jian Yongwang's neck to split open.
So that was it. This explained why this situation occurred in the interrogation room. Of course, I wouldn't consider it a supernatural event; it was just that it couldn't be explained at the time.
After I got up from the groove, I noticed Xie Chuchu was already at the edge. As soon as she saw me, she said, "Thanks to the help of your friend Mr. Song, we now have this autopsy station. It's much more convenient for examining these special corpses."
"Yes, the design here was originally based on the blueprints he provided. But are you familiar with Mr. Song?"
"Fairly. He was actually my friend before, but we lost contact later. We had a very good relationship back then."
"That gentleman hasn't been working since his retirement, but he is a descendant of the Song family, so we are considered colleagues in a way."
"Ah, the Song family and the He family were allies back then, and their relationship is still the same now, isn't it?"
"But Mr. Song seems to want nothing to do with worldly affairs..."
As we chatted, we wrote our respective conclusions on our palms. Upon seeing the word "bomb," we both knew we had found the cause of death. We retrieved the body and reassembled it on an iron frame bed. It was time to take it to the laboratory.
Xie Chuchu and Zhang Keying would complete the subsequent autopsy work, while I went to the monitoring room to watch the scene of Jian Yongwang's accident. I reviewed the footage several times, but the images were almost identical to what I had seen in reality. It seemed to have no value, as I had witnessed it myself. Watching the surveillance was just to confirm whether I had seen correctly.
However, my suspicion was clearly unfounded. Forget it. This matter would definitely not be so simple and easily resolved. Jian Yongwang, the only one who knew Guan Shansong's location, was dead, and at such a critical juncture. It was as if it were intentional. Someone had tampered with his body before we found him, and killed him at the very moment he was about to reveal the information. So, was this person Guan Shansong?
Only she would need to do this. But how did she know when Jian Yongwang was about to reveal his location? This could only be explained if he had some kind of listening device installed on him. Everything Jian Yongwang said since entering the Provincial Department was recorded.
Then she might have heard it. The reason she didn't act at first was that she wasn't sure if Jian Yongwang would reveal her. Now, the only possibility I could think of was this.
Later, when the forensics department re-examined the body, they indeed found a circuit board design and a signal transceiver in the bomb, which corroborated my previous suspicion. The bomb was indeed remotely controlled. Additionally, a listening device was found. Everything unfolded as I had imagined.
I immediately ordered people to investigate Jian Yongwang's recent whereabouts before he entered the Provincial Department, hoping to find clues to his murder. According to the subsequent autopsy report provided by Xie Chuchu, Jian Yongwang had been imprisoned and showed signs of having undergone surgery.
Considering the previous condition of the deceased, I realized a problem.
Jian Yongwang was also a victim. The reason he obeyed the killer was probably because he had been treated in the same way by the killer. He was just a survivor; he didn't die but succumbed to the killer.
Perhaps the killer intentionally used this method to control Jian Yongwang's mind and turn him into an accomplice.
This could be categorized under Stockholm Syndrome, although compared to that symptom, this leaned more towards coercion. After all, a bomb had been planted on his neck, and the other party could end him at any moment. Who wouldn't obey?
I even suspected that after Jian Yongwang was apprehended by us, he had already prepared himself for death. Moreover, his uncooperative attitude throughout the interrogation was all an act. He did this simply to create an opportunity for the real killer to escape.
Besides investigating Jian Yongwang's whereabouts, some of us continued to follow up on information about Guan Shansong, but there was still no news.