In the back seat of the SUV, Jiang Lei leaned against the window, his eyes wide open, his eyeballs bulging, his expression extremely ferocious, a typical look of someone who died with his eyes open.
With his head drooping weakly against the car window, Jiang Lei covered his neck with both hands, blood flowing from between his fingers, staining a large area.
The smell of blood is very strong.
After opening the car door and taking a quick look from outside, Shao Qi immediately came to a simple conclusion. "The cause of death was probably a cut throat. Judging from the amount of blood, the wound was probably quite deep. A ruptured carotid artery is very likely. However, this was not a death from hemorrhagic shock, but rather a death from asphyxiation due to blood flowing into the trachea."
Scanning the space in the back seat, Shao Qi found the knife that had fallen on the floor mat and pointed at it, asking, "Is this the knife Shi Yansheng is holding?"
Lin Xiaoman leaned over from between the two seats and immediately saw the miserable dead Jiang Lei in the back seat. With a sigh, Lin Xiaoman looked away and looked at the knife on the floor mat. After a few seconds, he said, "I can only say that the style of the knife is exactly the same. As for whether it is the same knife, I'm not sure. I remember there was more than one set of knives in the kitchen, and there should be several of this style."
While Lin Xiaoman was speaking, Shao Qi picked up the knife and simply tested the sharpness of the blade.
The blade was stained with dark red blood, which had already shown signs of solidification.
"It's a pity that fingerprints can't be detected, otherwise it would be much simpler." Long Jiujiu sighed with regret, and then stared at Shao Qi with an expectant expression of 'it all depends on you'.
Shao Qi looked at him speechlessly, but he ignored him. After a few more glances, he handed the knife to Lin Xiaoman and said, "According to Shi Yansheng's account, she was in the passenger seat when she did it. Try it, swing the knife backwards."
"Based on the preceding actions, she should have done this." Lin Xiaoman took the knife and, combining it with Shi Yansheng's preceding actions, automatically continued, stabbing it backwards. "Regardless of whether Jiang Lei was injured or not, because of the threat of the knife, he let go, and then Shi Yansheng was free. Shi Yansheng was so scared at the time that she didn't have the courage to fight Jiang Lei at all. So, I think it should be like this..."
Facing the car door, Lin Xiaoman turned his body backward, then supported the seat with his left hand, stretched out his right hand from the gap between the car door and the seat, and waved it a few times randomly.
Since Lin Xiaoman's arms were only so long, the distance he could reach was limited. Also, since the back seat of this SUV was very spacious, he could easily avoid it by just leaning to the other side.
After a few moves, Lin Xiaoman analyzed, "After swinging his knife a few times and forcing the man back, Shi Yansheng must have thrown the knife at Jiang Lei and then took the opportunity to run. Otherwise, he would have felt safer running with the knife. Under normal circumstances, Jiang Lei would have been able to dodge this attack range. I don't think Shi Yansheng, who was in the passenger seat, could have caused such a slashing injury."
"Maybe Jiang Lei got drunk and gave himself away." Long Jiujiu put forward an opinion.
"A few bottles of beer, not enough. Self-preservation is an instinct. And the knife isn't very sharp, so it wouldn't be that easy to cut someone's throat." Shao Qi shook his head and pointed at a scratch on the seat cushion. "I agree with Xiao Lin. Shi Yansheng must have thrown the knife at Jiang Lei before running away, and Jiang Lei dodged... This scratch was caused by the knife. And there isn't much blood on this side of the seat, which means Jiang Lei's throat wasn't cut when Shi Yansheng threw the knife."
"So someone must have finished him off! And then they put the blame on Shi Yansheng!" Long Jiujiu looked as if he had seen through the truth, but then his face turned puzzled. "But who could it be? Someone who was around when the crime was committed, Wu Wenming, Wang Ziming, Xu Enze and Xiao Qing who were in the room, they might have sneaked out!"
"The possibility that Shi Yansheng killed Jiang Lei is less than 1%. This is certain. The rest requires finding clues."
"We can't do a DNA test. Even if we find clues related to the murderer in the fingernails or somewhere else, we can't find out!" Long Jiujiu said sadly, his eyes full of distress.
"If it's not a technological world, then there's no way to solve the case?" Shao Qi glanced at him and said that without getting into the car. He looked at it silently for about two minutes, then stepped around from the back of the car to the door on the other side.
Before performing the autopsy, Shao Qi habitually wanted to wear gloves, but then... the space was not available.
His expression remained unchanged, but he felt a little depressed. Shao Qi stared at Jiang Lei in the car through the window for two seconds, took a deep breath, and silently comforted himself that the conditions were simple and he could only make do with it.
He opened the car door and put out his hand to block Jiang Lei's fall. Shao Qi pushed him back into the seat, then bent over, half of his body leaning into the car to start the autopsy.
The first step was to check for relevant traces on Jiang Lei's body, and finally to check for the fatal wound. After checking for about ten minutes, Shao Qi, who had finished the autopsy, had his hands covered in blood. He raised his head slightly and subconsciously searched for tissues in the car.
Lin Xiaoman took the tissue from the front desk of the car and handed it over.
"Thanks."
After taking it and wiping his hands, Shao Qi stepped back and stood outside the car. He looked around the car as if he was looking for something.
"What have you found?" Long Jiujiu asked curiously and impatiently.
"There are shallow scratches on his hands and arms, likely caused by Jiang Lei blocking Shi Yansheng's attack with his hands. In other words, Jiang Lei was able to defend himself at the time. The knife wound on his neck is very deep. Judging from the shape of the wound, it was caused by the tip of the knife being inserted and then pulled, two actions. And considering the sharpness of the knife, it would take a lot of force to cause this damage. Therefore, Shi Yansheng can be completely ruled out as the possibility."
"Any clues to the murderer?"
Long Jiujiu asked again.
"There's no direct evidence, but I found this." As he spoke, Shao Qi flipped his hand and found an ID card. "I found it in Jiang Lei's pocket."
"ID card? Could it be that he is not Jiang Lei, but an imposter killer?" Long Jiujiu's imagination was full of ideas.
Shao Qi was silent, feeling a little tired and not wanting to talk to him anymore. He turned to Lin Xiaoman and said, "Look here, Jiang Lei's registered residence is Dajiang Village, Hongnan County, Xin'an City, Yunzhou Province."
"What's wrong with his household registration?" Long Jiujiu was confused.
"I know. It's written in the transcript. Jiang Shi'an's registered residence is also there!" Like an elementary school student who quickly answered, Lin Xiaoman said that he had carefully read the information. Then he continued, "Before Jiang Lei arrived at the hotel, they were having lunch and chatting. Since Jiang Lei and Jiang Shi'an both had the surname Jiang, they asked Jiang Shi'an if he knew him. Jiang Shi'an said no, but he also admitted that there was someone named Jiang Lei in his hometown, who was probably around the same age."
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