National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 504 - 504 463 Look at Your Feet

504: Chapter 463 Look at Your Feet 504: Chapter 463 Look at Your Feet It is well known that women are less likely to be involved in cases of direct violence.

For instance, in crimes such as robbery which are essentially profitless ventures, it’s rare for women to take the initiative.

Even among the one hundred and eight heroes of Water Margin, only three are women, and Hu Sanniang was kidnapped, while Sun Er Niang and Mrs.

Gu ran an inn of ill repute, typically killing guests in their sleep or while drunk, which closely aligns with the standard template for female-perpetrated murders.

In the desolate body-dumping case of Qu’an, the victim died from being hit on the back of the head with a blunt object, which is one of the reasons the skull was preserved.

From Liu Jinghui’s understanding of homicide cases, there are women who kill with blunt objects, but most are crimes of passion.

If it’s premeditated murder, they would not choose confrontation and are unlikely to use blunt objects, rather favoring sharp ones.

Simply put, similar to Sun Er Niang and Mrs.

Gu, female assailants tend to adopt direct violent methods only when the victim is essentially powerless to resist.

The Zhang Fen referred to in the note is one of the long-standing lay Buddhists frequenting the small temple.

She is 55 years old this year, slender, wears small leather shoes, applies light makeup, and her little fingernail is left very long…

Logically, a woman of this age and condition, without professional training, is unlikely to have the confidence to murder a male of the same age on her own.

Perhaps the one who threw the stone and the note was her accomplice?

Liu Jinghui thought too much for a moment, and it was only when everything outside was brightly lit that he realized he should leave.

The four detectives in the next room had already cordoned off the area around the green belt with caution tape.

There was a narrow path nearby, a stone path built around the small temple, just wide enough for one person to pass.

With one detective standing on each side, the onlookers were effectively blocked.

In fact, there weren’t many onlookers.

Excluding the police, there were originally only eight residents in the small temple.

Aside from the younger abbot, the other seven were all elderly.

Some were already sleeping, and others lived too far away to hear the commotion here.

Of the three female lay Buddhists who regularly resided there, two had come out and were whispering to each other a few meters apart.

Liu Jinghui glanced over, and the one missing happened to be Zhang Fen.

The sky was darkening.

The stars above were exceptionally bright, twinkling like beautiful pupils.

Liu Jinghui’s gaze met with Captain Han’s, and they converged without planning.

“I’ve stationed people on the path leading up the mountain.

If no one has gone up or down, then the perpetrator is someone from the temple.

An out-of-town castle mystery case, it sounds pretty…

cool!” Captain Han was a little excited.

As a police officer of many years, such a fresh case was indeed interesting.

On a normal day, Liu Jinghui would have found it interesting as well.

Today, however, his interest was somewhat lacking, and he said, “Jiang Yuan is here.”

“So what if Jiang Yuan is here?” Captain Han hadn’t spent much time with Jiang Yuan, and it was night now, his intelligence seemingly reduced.

Liu Jinghui pursed his lips, much like someone who disdains store-bought dumpling wrappers in favor of rolling his own, and said, “Later, let’s improve the lighting so he can check for footprints.

On the stone and paper, we can look for fingerprints.

If all escapes us, we can search the other rooms to see if we can find cut-up magazines or newspapers…

We won’t have the chance to play out an out-of-town castle mystery case.”

Upon reflection, Captain Han clicked his tongue in agreement, “Science eliminates romance, huh.”

“Romance is for liberal arts students.” Liu Jinghui first indulged a bit of discrimination before urging Captain Han, “Hurry up and have the forensic lights and some strong young men brought over.”

The hill where the small temple was located wasn’t high, but it would still take a regular person nearly half an hour to climb up.

It wasn’t far from the county town to here, with the time mainly spent on the climbing section.

With a grunt, Captain Han took out his phone and said, “I’ll call the young guys from the team to climb up first.

Forensic lights, power supply, investigation kit, flashlights…

Anything else?”

“Bring several kinds of fingerprint powder and brushes…” Jiang Yuan walked over and added.

“No problem.” Captain Han looked around and couldn’t help but laugh, “Let these guys witness the advanced nature of modern criminal investigation techniques.”

The police present all laughed.

These days, as long as it’s a current case, the chances of solving it are very high.

Committing a crime in front of the police, especially in front of elite forensics personnel, left a very low probability of escape.

With today’s development in forensic science technology, even Moriarty would have to sit at the children’s table.

Jiang Yuan hadn’t even immediately begun the forensic examination.

Partly because the lighting was insufficient, and partly because there weren’t enough police in the temple.

No matter how many of the eight laypeople in the temple were involved in the crime, the eight police officers on site might not be able to control the perpetrator—this control wasn’t just about arresting or restricting their freedom, it also included preventing escape or even suicide.

Such a short hill, if the criminal jumped down in a fit of anger and died from the fall—it would be better than being shot dead on the spot.

A group of police officers silently waited for backup at the foot of the hill, making every effort to avoid overly provoking the criminal.

From the police’s perspective, they were like having three aces in their hand, carefully placing their bets to prevent the criminal from escaping, while also probing to see if the other party was bluffing with a 2-3-5.

“Who do you think did it?” Captain Han, out of boredom, struck up a conversation while sitting next to Liu Jinghui.

Liu Jinghui said, “Firstly, eliminate the abbott.”

“Why?”

“At least young people know a bit better, right?

Hang a ladder, send a message from beyond the wall, that’s better than throwing stones with a note attached.

Throwing rocks like this is no different from a burglar dropping their ID card at the scene of a theft.”

Captain Han laughed upon hearing this because there really had been thieves who left their ID cards behind when stealing.

Captain Han said, “It’s just that Mu Zhiyang couldn’t catch him.

If he had, he would’ve broken his bones.”

“If his bones were broken, we’d still have to carry him down.

Here come the people.” Liu Jinghui stood up.

A trail of light snaked up from halfway up the mountain.

The first to arrive were two young people, panting heavily.

Fresh out of police academy, they were at the peak of their physical strength.

The two officers had wrapped their jackets around their waists, carrying large forensic kits on their backs, and were steaming with heat.

“Well done.” Captain Han felt quite proud, patting the two on the shoulders vigorously, “Just put the stuff down, can you still fight?”

“Yes!” Neither of them had undertaken a major task before, and their morale was high.

Captain Han nodded, “Good, you’re my kind of soldiers.

Put your clothes on properly and guard this mountain path right away, allow entry but not exit, and sound the alarm if someone tries to run.”

“Yes, sir.” The two stood up straight and proud.

Captain Han then called over the officers who had just been sent to guard the road and whispered, “Now you two go around to the back of the temple, there’s no path there, but be on the lookout for someone desperate enough to jump over the wall.”

“Yes, sir.” The two understood and immediately went to set up defenses.

With that, the small temple was truly caught in a trap.

After a while, more detectives climbed the hill, and Jiang Yuan began to sweep for fingerprints and footprints along with other traces.

The lay practitioner and the abbot were both roused by the commotion.

At this point, Captain Han was no longer polite; he gathered the 8 people in the main hall and started collecting everyone’s footprints.

“Captain Han, what if an outsider climbed up here?

By assuming it’s one of us now, seems too arbitrary,” Mrs.

Li, who had been business-savvy and rather bold in her youth, protested.

Captain Han chuckled, “It’s very unlikely, because even if he could climb up quietly, he wouldn’t be able to leave unnoticed.”

“Then maybe he’s just hiding somewhere.”

“The police dogs will be here any minute, and we’ve also brought a life detector.” Captain Han didn’t elaborate further.

But from the name ‘life detector,’ it was clear what it was for.

Indeed, the development of this device was to deal with natural disasters such as earthquakes and mudslides, prioritizing the rescue of lives.

But with a slight modification, it could detect within about a 20-meter range, which was enough to locate a criminal playing hide-and-seek.

The others, hearing this, fell silent.

Soon after, Jiang Yuan walked in with a smile and said to everyone, “Let’s see your feet.”