Chapter 165 Double Clues: Can You See the Skull?

Father Chen was injured in the warehouse at the back of the supermarket. The warehouse is small and dimly lit. The goods are piled up layer by layer, very high, making the warehouse look cramped.

Father Chen fell off the ladder. Judging from the situation at the scene, when he climbed up the ladder to get a box of canned drinks, the second ladder on the ladder broke, and he fell off the ladder, and the goods in his hand fell down and hit him on the head.

The ladder is made of stainless steel welded together, with rough workmanship. The place where the ladder broke was a welding joint, and the ladder broke because of the broken weld.

Xiao Wang analyzed: "From the welding point, the weld is very clean, without oxidation and rust, it is very likely that it was welded recently. The specific cause of the weld fracture needs further testing. The initial inference is that it is the welding material. I think this welding material is a very low-quality metal with high brittleness."

"Could it be that Ding Zhuangzhuang deliberately broke the ladder and wanted to murder his father?" Xiao Zhang guessed.

"If so, this Ding Zhuangzhuang is too terrible. He was locked up, but he could still hurt people?" Xiao Wang sighed.

Fang Rui also suspected that it was Ding Zhuangzhuang who did it. After knowing his life experience, he should hate Chen's father and mother very much.

The store is equipped with surveillance cameras, which show that Chen's father also used the ladder this morning, but there was no accident. No one except Chen's father has entered the warehouse today.

Ding Zhuangzhuang, who pretended to be Chen Yuankun, entered the warehouse three days ago. He helped his father move goods at that time. But he has not been to the supermarket since then.

Chen's mother entered the warehouse the morning before and moved a box of instant noodles out.

"This should be an accident. Ding Zhuangzhuang has not entered the warehouse in the past two days, but Chen's father often uses ladders and nothing has happened." Xiao Wang analyzed.

Fang Rui repeatedly watched the surveillance video. A corner of the warehouse can be seen in the surveillance. The warehouse was still empty a few days ago. It should be because of the frequent replenishment during this period that the warehouse was filled up.

"The second ladder is only used when moving the goods on the top floor. The second ladder is not needed at other times." Fang Rui speculated, "The murderer may have calculated that Mr. Chen would not climb that high in those two days. When he fell, it was already a few days later, so the murderer would not be suspected." Fang Rui asked

Xiao Wang to extract fingerprints from the ladder. However, only Mr. Chen's fingerprints were detected on the ladder.

Xiao Zhang was surprised: "Ding Zhuangzhuang helped his father move goods, and he must have used the ladder, but there is no fingerprint on it, he must have wiped it off."

In the surveillance video, Ding Zhuangzhuang did not wear gloves when moving goods. The surveillance camera in the supermarket can capture part of the warehouse. In one of the images, Ding Zhuangzhuang used a ladder.

Chen's father was seriously injured, but his mother only sent him to a small hospital nearby. After a night of rescue, Chen's father died. When

Fang Rui and his team got the news, Chen's father had been taken to the funeral home. When Fang Rui and Mu Mian rushed to the funeral home, Chen's father had already turned into a pile of ashes and was put into an urn.

Mu Mian complained to Fang Rui, "We are late. The body is gone."

"They are just too anxious." Fang Rui found it strange. Cremation is a big deal, but Chen's mother didn't even go to the hospital to pick up her son first. Instead, she hurriedly burned the body early in the morning. It seemed like she was covering up something.

Mu Mian didn't give up. She walked up to Chen's mother and the others and pointed to the urn that the staff was about to take away. "During cremation, the skull is generally not burned. Although it is a bit offensive to say this, can I open the box and take a look at the skull of the deceased?"

Chen's mother still had tears in her eyes. She looked at the cute girl in front of her with horror.

Fang Rui explained: "We suspect that his death was not an accident, but murder, so we want to investigate the cause of his death."

"Didn't the hospital issue a death report? Can't you just ask them for the report first?" Chen's father's brother said dissatisfiedly.

"But doctors are good at saving lives, and they are not very professional in analyzing the cause of death." Mu Mian whispered.

Mu Mian has read the death report. The doctor only described the deceased's injuries and did not record the deceased's injuries in detail. Moreover, the human brain is very complex. It is difficult to determine the cause of the wound and the cause of death without a craniotomy.

Of course, a cremated skull cannot determine the cause of death.

Mother Chen insisted, "There is nothing to investigate. My husband fell off a ladder. It was an accident! It's not enough for you to arrest my son. Who else do you want to arrest?"

"Don't you want to know the real cause of your husband's death?" Mu Mian tempted.

The relatives of the Chen family glared at Mu Mian angrily, then surrounded Mother Chen and went to burn incense for Father Chen.

Seeing them leave, Mu Mian suddenly said: "Where will they bury the dead?"

Fang Rui said helplessly: "You are not planning to dig a grave?"

"This is illegal! But now I am very curious about what the skull looks like after cremation. It is said to be snow-white and the bones will be very brittle. I want to knock it, touch it, and see how it feels."

Mu Mian regretted not attending Ms. Jiang's cremation ceremony, otherwise she would be able to see the bones after cremation.

"..."

Fang Rui found a family of the deceased with few relatives, and then reached a deal with them. They were willing to take Mu Mian in when collecting the ashes.

"Fang Rui, how did you do it?" Mu Mian asked excitedly.

"After you go in, you can only look, not touch, understand?"

"Got it."

A few minutes later, the staff of the funeral home saw a strange scene. When he pulled the remains of the deceased out of the furnace, two family members knelt on the ground and cried loudly, while a girl circled around the remains, as if observing the shape of the skull, her eyes full of desire.

How nice it would be if she could touch it.

"Little girl, shouldn't you cry a little?" The staff couldn't help but remind her.

"I'm afraid of disturbing him. He died at a young age, we should let him go in peace."

The two family members cried even more sadly.

After leaving the funeral home, Mu Mian exclaimed: "The color of the cremated skull is so beautiful, it is really snow-white. But the shape of the deceased's skull is not good-looking. He probably always liked to sleep on one side, which caused his skull to be asymmetrical."

"..."

The body is gone, and there is no key evidence to prove that this is murder. Naturally, there is no way to file an investigation into this case.

But Chen's mother's anxious cremation of the body further confirmed one thing: Chen's father's death was probably not an accident.

Fang Rui suddenly thought of a possibility. Could it be that the person who wiped off the fingerprints was Chen's mother? She was the one who broke the ladder, she killed Chen's father, or she was helping Ding Zhuangzhuang to cover up the evidence.

The investigation of the car refrigerator has not made any progress.

Sun Xiaoning once posted the internal structure of the red car on WeChat Moments. Through those photos, they knew what the car refrigerator looked like. It was pink, with many decorative stickers on the surface.

The police searched everywhere where Chen Yuankun and Ding Zhuangzhuang lived and worked, but found nothing.

"Could it be that the car refrigerator was not taken away at all, but hidden in the parking lot?" Mu Mian analyzed, "The most dangerous place is the safest place."