Chapter 7: Cat-Fetus Case: Your Reasoning Has Flaws

After a moment of silence, everyone looked at Mu Mian.

Feeling so many eyes, Mu Mian felt her scalp tingling, and she wanted to escape from here.

Fang Rui came to her rescue: "Forensic Doctor Mu, why do you think so?"

Fang Rui's voice seemed to have a kind of magic, making Mu Mian feel less annoyed.

"Theoretically, it is feasible." Mu Mian did not answer his question, but said to himself, "All you need to do is make an artificial placenta, add enough oxygen, put the anesthetized cat inside to replace the placenta of the deceased, and then inject enough oxytocin into the pregnant woman. At the same time, let the deceased maintain enough physical strength, and she can give birth to the cat."

Mu Mian held up a painting to block his eyes. face, "Like this. In fact, he tried that, but his design was too crude and he failed. So he will most likely try again until he succeeds."

Mu Mian's painting was simple, and the simple lines outlined an extremely impactful picture - it showed a pregnant woman with her abdomen cut open, and inside lay a kitten wrapped in a round object. The picture was harmonious and weird. Forensic

Doctor Qin interrupted Mu Mian, "But the toxicology test results did not find that the deceased had used oxytocin."

"So he failed!"

The conference room fell into a brief silence.

Mu Mian's speculation was too absurd and unfounded. How could a murderer want someone to give birth to a cat? It was totally irrational.

Unless the murderer is a psychopath!

Everyone couldn't help but look at Mu Mian. Was this the murderer's idea or Mu Mian's idea?

"Captain Chen, Mu Mian is the suspect in this case. Why can she participate in our case analysis meeting?" One of the police officers suddenly said, "Many residents in the community where the crime occurred reported that Mu Mian's behavior was strange and she had quarreled with the deceased. She is also a forensic doctor and is good at autopsy. She is now one of the suspects."

Forensic Doctor Qin was a little unhappy, "She is the person who reported the case, and there is no evidence to prove that she is the murderer."

"But now there is no evidence to prove her innocence. According to the procedure, she cannot participate in this case."

Fang Rui interrupted him, "I can prove that Mu Mian is not the murderer!"

"Captain Fang, all the evidence currently proves that the biggest suspect is Mu Mian. How can you prove that the murderer is not her?"

"This is Mu Mian's blood test report," Fang Rui transferred a document to the computer in the conference room and opened the report. "The sample was taken at 9:35 yesterday morning. The report shows that a large amount of sleeping pills were detected in her blood."

Xiao Zhang saw the report and suddenly realized why Fang Rui insisted on Mu Mian taking a physical examination yesterday. It turned out to be for this test.

"Does this prove that she is not the murderer?"

Fang Rui explained, "Based on the metabolism of sleeping pills in her body, we can infer that she was in a deep coma at the time of the murder and she was incapable of committing the crime."

"Ah, no wonder she looked so sleepy that day, it turns out the effect of the drugs hasn't worn off!" Xiao Zhang agreed, "I can prove that when we arrived at the crime scene yesterday, she looked like she hadn't woken up yet."

Xiao Zhang felt that Mu Mian's previous strange behavior had been reasonably explained: the stiff behavior and way of speaking were due to autism; the whole person was listless because she had taken sleeping pills the night before.

Xiao Zhang asked doubtfully, "Could it be that the murderer drugged her? The murderer must know Mu Mian and be quite familiar with her."

"No, this dose is far beyond the normal dose. And she is a forensic doctor, it is impossible for her not to notice this situation." Forensic doctor Qin frowned, "Xiao Mu, you are so young, how could you..."

This dose is close to the lethal dose for a normal person, but Mu Mian is fine. It is very likely that she has developed a strong drug resistance due to taking this drug for a long time.

Mu Mian looked down at the wood grain on the table, her mind wandering the whole time, as if the topic they were talking about had nothing to do with her.

The social guide said that when faced with questions that cannot be answered, you can lie appropriately. But she has not yet learned the skill of lying, so she can only remain silent.

"You must be too nervous to sleep because you just started working, so you took sleeping pills to help you sleep." Fang Rui looked at Mu Mian and explained to her enthusiastically, "Normal people will encounter this kind of thing, right?"

Mu Mian finally came to her senses. She looked at Fang Rui in surprise and nodded, "Yes. Most people will be too nervous to sleep when they enter a new environment."

The person who questioned Mu Mian stopped talking, and Mu Mian's suspicion was temporarily cleared.

But because of his interruption, everyone selectively ignored Mu Mian's previous guess and returned to the motive of revenge.

Captain Chen felt that the murderer used such a novel method to cover up his motive for murder and mislead the police's investigation.

So he concluded: "We will start from the following aspects: First, check the social relations of the deceased; second, search the trash cans near the community and find the body of the baby taken away by the murderer as soon as possible. Third, retrieve all the surveillance in the community during the time of the crime to see if any suspicious persons can be identified. Execute immediately."

After the meeting, Mu Mian caught up with Fang Rui who was leaving. He was walking with Lin Sen, and the two seemed to be discussing something.

Mu Mian remembered that Chen Xue said that this Lin Sen was a criminal psychologist and could even read minds, which was very powerful. Many of the cases handled by Fang Rui were solved with the help of Lin Sen.

Mu Mian glanced at Lin Sen and hinted with her eyes that he should leave, but Lin Sen thought she was saying hello to him, so he stood there very tactlessly and smiled back at her.

Mu Mian decided to make it clear: "Counselor Lin, can you read minds?"

Hearing Mu Mian's words, Lin Sen was stunned, "You... are asking me."

Seeing that he still didn't leave, Mu Mian was very disappointed: "Okay, you can't." Otherwise, he should be able to hear her inner voice and leave obediently.

The corners of Lin Sen's mouth twitched. Although Mu Mian's expression did not have any malice, he still felt that Mu Mian was blatantly mocking him.

Who stipulated that psychological experts must be able to read minds!

However, Lin Sen saw that Mu Mian seemed to want to talk to Fang Rui alone, but he just didn't leave after being mocked by her.

Seeing this, Mu Mian could only try to ignore his existence and said to Fang Rui: "Captain Fang, the evidence you just provided cannot completely prove my innocence."

Fang Rui said uninterested: "It doesn't matter, as long as they believe it."

Mu Mian explained self-centeredly: "You overlooked a factor, drug resistance."

"Even if I took a large amount of sleeping pills, I might still be able to move, because I have developed a strong resistance to that drug."

Mu Mian explained seriously, "If I really want to kill my annoying neighbor, I should still be able to succeed. But I won't choose this way. Because I lack imagination and can't think of such a creative way of killing."

Fang Rui asked back, "So you want to prove to me that you lack imagination."

Mu Mian looked at him sincerely, "I just want to remind you that there are big loopholes in your reasoning just now."

"Are you the murderer?" Fang Rui's blood pressure rose, and he tried hard to restrain the urge to pick up Mu Mian and throw her out.

Why did he do this? Wasn't it to clear her suspicion as soon as possible.

He was kind enough to help her out, but she actually thought his reasoning was not rigorous enough!

Mu Mian shook his head, "Of course not!"

"Then you should say thank you to me."

"Okay. Thank you." Mu Mian thanked him and looked at Lin Sen again, hesitant to say anything. Seeing that he still had no intention of leaving, he could only leave with regret.

"I didn't expect you to be so patient with this forensic doctor Mu." Lin Sen joked, "It seems that you are planning to let her join the special crime team."

"Let's wait and see." Fang Rui changed the subject. "I think Mu Mian's analysis makes sense. The murderer didn't really want the pregnant woman to give birth to a live cat, did he? I found out that the deceased had a history of cat abuse. She killed a cat. Did the murderer want the deceased's child to pay for the cat's death? In this case, the murderer may be superstitious about cause and effect."

Lin Sen retorted: "But, his actions are also a form of abuse to cats. If the murderer wanted to punish cat abusers, why would he use such a method to abuse cats?"

Fang Rui pinched his eyebrows: "Logically, this kind of home invasion murder should be easy to detect. I didn't expect the murderer to hide so deeply."

"I suspect the murderer is a serial killer." Lin Sen's expression became serious. "This type of criminal usually selects targets according to his own criminal fantasies, which is somewhat random, so it is difficult for us to catch him through conventional detective methods."

Lin Sen paused, "Now there is only one victim, and I can't make a criminal profile."