Genius Detective - Chapter 72

Chapter 72: 72

Leaving the community, Lin Dongxue asked Chen Shi, "Do you already have a good idea of everything?"

"Yeah . " Chen Shi replied calmly .  

"Hurry up and tell me!"

"No, I want to look at the expressions of surprise and respect on your faces when I reveal the whole truth . "

Lin Dongxue snorted, "Hey, then I don’t want to hear it at the time . "

"Just playing . I’m not saying it because it’s only a guess right now . I’m afraid it might be a mistake . I have to verify it . Wait until the bread is baked before I reveal it along with the nice smell . "

Chen Shi’s mobile phone started ringing due to a call from Peng Sijue . He asked, “Are you investigating the case?”

"How did you know?"

Peng Sijue did not answer . "If you have time, I have some findings to tell you . "

"Okay, I will be there soon . "

"I’m not at the bureau . I’m in the autopsy laboratory of the Medical University . "

Chen Shi looked at the time . It was already four o'clock in the afternoon . He told Lin Dongxue and Xu Xiaodong to go get off work first . Lin Dongxue refused . "I’m not going to leave . Why are you driving us away? I want to go see too . "

"Well, I think the discovery of Lao Peng may be boring for you . "

"To be a qualified policeman, you have to know everything . "

"Let’s go . Get in the car!"

The three people went to the Medical University . At this time, it was still class time and the campus was very lively . Looking at the young men and women on campus, Xu Xiaodong said with envy, "A serious university like this must be nice . "

"Yeah, it’s good . The police academy is not so good . " Lin Dongxue also expressed envy and before turning to ask Chen Shi, "Have you ever been to college?"

"Does social college count?"[1]

As they passed by the basketball courts, Lin Dongxue suddenly heard a burst of wind . She turned her head to see an "unidentified flying object" flying right at her . She got scared and screamed . Chen Shi reached out and grabbed the basketball flying over with one hand .

Lin Dongxue, who was scared held her head and squatted down on the floor . Realizing that the pain hadn’t come, she turned her head and looked up . It turned out that a group of young men who were like skinny monkeys were playing basketball and had almost accidentally injured her . They shouted from the court, "Sorry, beauty!"

"Little bastards!" she yelled wearily with tears welling in her eyes .

"Be more careful next time!" Chen Shi skillfully dribbled the ball, then did a three-step layup . The boys all cheered .  

Lin Dongxue’s eyes widened in fascination as she watched Chen Shi playing basketball for a brief moment . She immediately slapped her cheeks to restore her senses .

Xu Xiaodong asked, "Dongxue, you like people playing basketball? In fact, I also know how to play . . . Inside games . "

"Cut your crap!"

"You’re even going to go on about your abilities inside a game?" Chen Shi patted the dust from his hands and walked back over .

"Brother Chen is really amazing . Have you considered joining the police team's basketball team?" Xu Xiaodong asked with a smile .

"Do I get money for it?"

"No . "

"Then no thanks!"

The three went to the lab . When they entered the door, they felt a chill run down their backs . There were a lot of bottles and jars filled with human organs . Peng Sijue held a skull and smiled to greet them .  

Xu Xiaodong shivered and asked, "Captain Peng, are you trying to summon the devil?"

"I'm doing a comparison . " He set the skull down on the table, where many other skulls were placed . "My former professor allowed me to borrow this place for a day . I was looking for . . . "

"Looking for a similar case of bone hyperplasia as the deceased?" Chen Shi finished .

"Yes!" Peng Sijue pointed at a skull . "This is the closest one so far . It is a pity that there is no information recorded for the parts here . I don't know how long the bone hyperplasia took to proliferate . "

"How do you think that bone hyperplasia is formed?"

"Through strong blunt force . It should be an injury sustained while he was alive . The affected area did not receive timely care, so the bone healed naturally to form a hyperplasia . Unfortunately, I’m uncertain of the time it took to form . ”

Chen Shi looked at the skull on the table and probed, "You have been here for a whole day . Surely this isn’t the only thing you’ve checked?”

"You’re right, there is an oddity that I particularly care about . The long-term bed-ridden symptoms that appear on the deceased is my focus . Most of the remains here were sent by the hospital . I found a lot of similar cases here, proving that the deceased had experienced staying in bed for an extended period of time . "

Lin Dongxue carefully questioned, "Captain Peng, this long bed rest means lying still every day, or . . . "

"Literally like a vegetative person, lying in bed all the time . There will be so many consequences . "

“This includes going to the bathroom and eating?”

"Yes! I wrote on the report that the dead's esophagus had old scratches and I suspected that someone had used a nasogastric tube to feed him . "

"The truth seems to have come out to the surface . " Chen Shi laughed with sadness .

"I still don't understand!" Xu Xiaodong groaned .

Lin Dongxue revealed, "I seem to understand . What you mean is that the deceased had been lying on the bed for a long time before he died . If this is the case, it would be impossible for him to be able to drive out! That means the angle of Ximen Qing buying his murder needs to be re-examined . But this thing, why did Wu Hao and Pan Xiuying not mention it . . . " As soon as she said this, Lin Dongxue widened her eyes . "They are the murderers!"

“Not bad! Not bad” Chen Shi smiled . “After the last case, your ability to think independently has become stronger and stronger . I couldn’t even hide it from you . Let’s continue!”

"Wow, nice! Dongxue just graduated . " Xu Xiaodong acknowledged with surprise .

Lin Dongxue wondered, "Why would Wu Hao kill his own brother? Pan Xiuying is a nurse and taking care of bedridden patients is a normal part of her work . She may have participated in this matter . . . But motivation! What is the motivation?"

"If you don't know the motives, let's take a look at all the possibilities . " Chen Shi raised his hands and counted them one by one . "Killings are nothing more than murder, passionate killing, accidental killing . Which one do you think it is?"

"For passion? Or maybe it was an accident?"

"Or both . Wu Hao has a bad temper, and the neighbors have testified that the brothers had a bad relationship with each other . Perhaps Wu Hao hit the victim over a quarrel, but the deceased did not die; instead, he went into a vegetative state . So, Wu Hao and his sister-in-law 'raised him’ and prepared to deal with him when the timing was right . . . Guess why the brothers were arguing? I’ll give you a hint . More than one person reflected that Pan Xiuying’s looks were getting better . They said her figure became better and plumper . One of her nurse colleagues even mentioned that she had given sanitary napkins away to someone else . "

"She is pregnant!" Peng Sijue announced calmly . "The amount of estrogen produced increases when a woman is pregnant, thus causing their body to change significantly . ”

Lin Dongxue’s and Xu Xiaodong’s jaws hung open .

Chen Shi crooned, "Ximen has had a vasectomy . Guess who this child’s dad is?"

"Wu Hao's! He had a thing with his sister-in-law!" Lin Dongxue exclaimed .

"Oh shit, no! I can't believe it!" Xu Xiaodong said with amazement and disbelief . "Didn’t he struggle really hard to prove that his sister-in-law had an affair with someone?"

Chen Shi shared, "This pair of adulterers is playing the same instrument[2], shifting our focus . Interestingly, their low-level tricks have actually fooled a bunch of people . From the opening of this case, has anyone even asked Wu Hao for his alibi?"

1 . Growing wiser through jobs . Street-wise education .  

2 . An expression where one pretends to be good and the other bad and they are just acting together . When two people play the same instrument, nobody can tell who is the one truly playing the instrument .