Chapter 18 The mystery of the dismembered body: Was he murdered?

Fang Rui took advantage of his vacation and rested at home for many days. When he opened the door, he saw Mu Mian squatting at the door of his house, with empty eyes, and he didn't know what she was doing.

"Mu Mian, why are you squatting at the door of my house? Do you want to borrow money from me?" Fang Rui frowned and looked at her.

"Team Fang" was a little surprised to see Fang Rui, "What a coincidence, you also live here!"

"What are you doing?" "

Eliminate safety hazards. The good news is that the danger alarm has been lifted now!"

Mu Mian's new home almost perfectly met her requirements. The environment was quiet, there were no blind spots for surveillance, and it was also close to where she worked.

The only thing that made her worried was her neighbor whom she had never met.

Fang Rui looked at the door with peeling paint. It was nothing special except that it was a little worn out.

He asked in confusion: "What safety hazard? Is someone going to pry open my door?"

"I thought my neighbor was an adult male with violent tendencies. But when I saw it was you, I felt relieved."

"Why do you think I have violent tendencies?"

"When I was inspecting the environment around my new home, I found that the door handle of my neighbor's house was loose, and there were many shoe prints at the bottom of the door frame - this proves that this door is often treated violently."

"..."

"From this, I infer that the owner of the house is likely to be a dangerous person with an impatient personality and violent tendencies."

Mu Mian explained very seriously, without noticing Fang Rui's increasingly gloomy face.

"You're unlucky to be living next to a dangerous person like me."

"Not unlucky!"

With Fang Rui around, her safety is guaranteed, and she no longer has to worry about being caught by the murderer and taken to the roof to blow the wind.

"Congratulations, you have a very reliable neighbor." Mu Mian pointed at himself and began to list his advantages, "I won't make any noise, I won't throw garbage around; if you are sick, I will take you to the hospital as soon as possible."

"Are you sure you're not squatting by my bed, waiting for me to die, and then stealing my body?"

Fang Rui imagined the scene in his mind and thought it was a bit funny. Mu Mian is so small, he shouldn't be able to move his body.

"Stealing corpses is illegal!" Mu Mian corrected him.

"...That's pretty good. You also understand the law."

"I will send you to the hospital first, and then stay by your bedside, and get your body donation form before you die. Don't worry, I will take good care of your body for you..."

"..."It's all his fault for being so mean. Why did he mention those two words!

At this time, Fang Rui's cell phone rang. Mu Mian wanted to avoid it, but saw Fang Rui raised his hand and pressed her shoulder, his expression became serious.

"If there is a fire, you should call the fire department! The fire department reported the address."

"A villa area on the outskirts of the city. Boss, I have sent the location to your cell phone, you have to come quickly!"

"Forensic Doctor Mu, your vacation is over." Fang Rui finished the call and said to Mu Mian, "There is a new case. Let's go to the crime scene first."

"Let's go quickly!" Mu Mian's eyes immediately became bright.

Fang Rui was speechless. Why was Mu Mian so interested in the corpse?

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When Fang Rui and Mu Mian rushed to the scene, the fire had been put out. Xiao Zhang and the others also arrived at the crime scene.

The originally green lawn was burned bare, with a lot of debris and glass fragments scattered on it.

Mu Mian paused, she felt that she stepped on something, and there was something soft under her feet. She lowered her head and found that it was a burnt severed finger.

Mu Mian put on gloves, picked up the severed finger and observed it carefully.

There was a silver ring on the severed finger. The shape of the ring was very special. It was an irregular ring, like a Möbius ring.

The ring shone with silvery luster under the sunlight.

"Ah! Forensic Doctor Mu, what are you holding in your hand?" Xiao Zhang suddenly exclaimed, "Why are you holding a broken finger?"

Everyone looked at Mu Mian.

"I found it on the ground." Mu Mian put the broken finger and the ring into the evidence bag.

"The impact of the explosion has shattered the body of the deceased. You may see a lot of body parts later."

Mu Mian explained, "So please be careful not to step on the body of the deceased. Also, please mark the location where the body parts were found."

"Oh my God, I thought the anti-Japanese drama was fake when I watched it before, but it turns out that a small explosion can really blow up the body!" Xiao Zhang exclaimed.

Fang Rui rolled his eyes at Xiao Zhang, "Do you want to see the terrible state of this building? Can this be called a small explosion?"

The owner of this villa is Ye Zeming, a well-known sculptor in the city. In recent years, many of his works have been sold at very high prices, and his net worth has soared.

The villa where the fire broke out was the deceased's studio, which stored a large amount of flammable materials such as paint, pigments and plaster powder, so the fire was very serious. The entire villa was burned down to only the frame, and even the lawn at the door was burned bare. There were also multiple explosions inside the house.

The French windows on the second floor of the villa have all been broken, the roof has collapsed a small piece, and the ground is a mess.

The body of the deceased was buried under the broken glass and bricks. The body had broken into several pieces. Because it had been burned by the fire for a long time, the pieces had turned black and smelled bad.

"Oh my god, this smell is so bad, I guess I can't eat barbecue for half a month!" Xiao Zhang started to mutter again.

Someone immediately rolled his eyes at Xiao Zhang, "Come on, when you first saw the body, you said you would never eat meat again, but you ate more meat than anyone else."

The fire brigade captain, Lao Zhang, knew Fang Rui. When he saw him coming, he immediately introduced the situation on the scene to him.

"Captain Fang, the deceased's body was probably shattered by the impact of the explosion. There are many flammable and explosive items piled up in this villa, and the explosion occurred when they encountered open flames. But the deceased's sister insisted that her brother was murdered and insisted on calling the police."

Fang Rui asked, "Have the location of the fire and the center of the explosion been determined?"

"This house stores a large amount of flammable materials, and the fire point is difficult to determine. We are still investigating."

Mu Mian put on gloves and began to collect the body parts of the deceased.

With the help of Xiao Zhang and others, Mu Mian quickly found the torso and limbs of the deceased.

The upper body of the deceased was relatively intact, and the part below the thighs had basically been blown into pieces, so there were a lot of soft tissues that had not been found, including the genitals of the deceased.

Preliminary judgment is that these body parts should all belong to the same deceased.

The skin on the face of the deceased has been carbonized and adhered to ashes, so the appearance of the deceased cannot be seen clearly.

But from the pelvic part of the body, it can be judged that the deceased should be an adult male.

"Captain Fang, he died before the fire broke out." Mu Mian turned his head and said to Fang Rui, "This is very likely a murder case!"

Old Zhang saw that Mu Mian was very young and looked like she had just graduated from college, so he was a little skeptical about her skills.

He retorted, "Impossible! Ye Zeming's sister just saw him at the fire scene. How could he have died before the fire?"

"The burns and broken limbs on the deceased's body showed no signs of life, which proves that the deceased had already died when the fire and explosion occurred. The time of death was at least two or three hours before the fire."

Mu Mian explained while continuing to observe the fractures of the bodies carefully.

She frowned. The fractures of these bodies were too smooth. They didn't look like they were blown apart or cut by a knife. The wounds were very strange.

Moreover, in previous explosions, the body fragments would have a lot of soft tissue separated from the bones, and the body pieces were torn apart, but these small body fragments were relatively complete, just like a sculpture that fell to the ground and broke into small pieces.

Lao Zhang refused to give up and said, "Several witnesses saw that the deceased was standing by the window and making a phone call before the fire. The deceased's sister can also testify that she saw her brother at the scene of the fire when the fire broke out. She was the last person to see the deceased."

"What they saw was not necessarily the deceased."

"What?"

"What the eyewitnesses said was that they saw Ye Zeming alive."

Fang Rui asked, "Doctor Mu, do you suspect that the deceased was not Ye Zeming?"

"Let's do a DNA test on the body first. Does Ye Zeming have any close relatives?"