"Miss Jiang? Miss Jiang?!" Another policeman's sudden voice raised recalled her thoughts. The deep and confused eyes stared at her seriously, and suspected that they gradually grew bigger and silently crawled into her eyes, just like a cat following the little thrush in the dense grass.

"You haven't answered our question yet. Where were you doing at 2 a.m. today? What are you doing?"

"Sleep at home." Jiang Yimian's voice was very low and he lost a lot of angry looks.

"Can anyone prove it for you?"

"……Neighbor."

She suddenly wondered, if Feng Beiting did not try to keep her last night, would she become a murder suspect today?

"Please provide his contact information, we need further verification."

"His testimony was invalid, and he was also present when I came to see Riemann."

"That……"

"But we left long before the incident, and the road surveillance and the monitoring in the apartment elevator can prove this."

“…Okay, thank you for your cooperation.”

When Lange went to verify the situation, Jiang Yimian saw Dr. Colby walking towards her.

He was not wearing protective clothing, which surprised her.

"you……"

"I just finished recording the confession."

"What, what?!" Jiang Yimian was surprised at this moment as much as learning about Riemann's death.

"I saw the message your master sent me. I came to find Riemann, but when I came, I found that she was dead, so I called the police."

"...My master must have forgotten to tell you that I have been here, and he didn't mean to torture you."

Dr. Colby was silent and said nothing.

"Since we don't need a postmortem, why did you call me here?"

"need."

There is a shortage of forensic talents in Country M, and some forensic doctors are externally hired by the police.

When he came here just now, he happened to meet the doctor in charge of the autopsy. The other party said that the hospital had something to do and left the mess to him before he finished his work.

He didn't refuse.

From a certain perspective, he actually likes to fiddle with the corpse.

Because the living will be disobedient, but the silent corpses will never be.

He handed Jiang Yimian the protective suit, and Colby said indifferently, "Come in when the police eliminate your suspicion."

"……Um."

She raised her head and looked at a cold star vaguely.

The starlight was as empty as the smile of the waiter and foreman.

Jiang Yimian slowly closed her eyes, blocking the chaotic thoughts in her eyes.

Her mind is still very confused and she can't figure it out in a lot of clues.

She suddenly remembered the endgame he had set for her when she played chess with Feng Beiting before.

Six steps to determine the outcome.

She couldn't untie it, just like many doubts she had encountered recently.

*

After being labeled as the "suspect", Jiang Yimian put on protective clothing and walked into the house rented by Riemann.

She died at her own home.

It was a room that could represent the living conditions of some contemporary girls: dirty and messy.

The not-so-large single room is divided into two spaces by a curtain.

One side was dirty and messy. The leftover instant noodle bucket was filled with dusty coffee tables. The chair next to it was full of clothes. The sofa towel had faded. It was hard to count as ginger and dirty and grey.

There were a few worn-out lamps in the corner with tacky lampshades, posing like a retired street girl.

In contrast, the other side is much more "exquisite".

At least relatively clean.

Red bed, pink tent, tacky and lively color scheme.

The walls of the bedside were hung with small colorful lights, blinking and shouting at the stars in the sky.

Riemann hung in the center of this compartment.

She was wearing a bright red skirt, and the hem was dragged to the ground, reflecting her long black hair, looking very terrifying.

Seeing this, Jiang Yimian frowned.

When they met, she wore a dark green dress. Before she died, she chose such an exaggerated red dress to put on. Do you want to become a ghost after death?

Joining Dr. Colby to put Rieman off the rope, Jiang Yimian couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Her death was a coincidence...

It was so coincidental that she couldn't help but blame herself.

If she hadn't come to San Gabriel to find Riemann, would she not have died? There would be people in this world who know the whereabouts of Liang Xi's sister.

This self-blame was a little bit more when Jiang Yimian took a photo of Rieman's neck.

The trace between Riemann's neck was very complete, without interruption.

Jiang Yimian once read an ancient forensic work in Z. It once wrote "Eight Characters Do Not Intersection". Since the hang mark will not be a complete circle, it will not be a "Eight" shape with no intersection points.

It doesn't look like signs of suicide and hanging.

If you commit suicide, the hang mark will have a "V" shape.

The lowest part has the deepest traces, rising to both sides gradually shallow, and finally disappears.

and--

Riemann's originally beautiful and fair face turned into a deep red color, and the color extended to his neck.

The lips are still bright red, but it is not the effect of lipstick, but blood.

Both signs indicate that she did not commit suicide by hanging herself.

During the process of hanging, the airways are indeed blocked, which makes people feel "unable to breathe", but the real cause of death is not what people think of asphyxiation and death.

In fact, the blood vessels in the neck are blocked, which makes the brain unable to obtain oxygen and blood supply, which ultimately leads to death from cerebral ischemia.

In this case, the deceased's face will usually turn pale, and the tongue may fall out due to the squeeze of the rope.

On the contrary, if he killed him, there would be a lot of blood on the face and neck of the deceased, which would appear crimson red, and accidentally bite his tongue while struggling, causing bleeding in the mouth.

To sum up—

The possibility of Riemann committing suicide can basically be ruled out.

In order to confirm his inference, Jiang Yimian felt that it was necessary for them to check Riemann's back.

Dr. Colby naturally thought of the issues she could consider.

After turning over Riemann's body, the two of them found obvious indentations on her back.

The murderer commits a crime from behind, and in most cases, he needs a fulcrum to hold the victim. The most common method is to use his knee to hold the victim's back.

"Sure enough..." Jiang Yimian couldn't help but sigh.

Dr. Colby looked up at her with admiration in his eyes.

Although she has clear theoretical knowledge about whether she hangs or kills, she can find key points to prove it in such a short time. He has to admit that she is indeed very smart and is naturally suitable for being a forensic doctor.

Noting that Dr. Colby's eyes looked at her brightly, Jiang Yimian said unsatisfiedly, "It was my master who taught me!"

The master once took her to handle a similar case.

He told her at that time, "Suicide is to tie the rope around the neck, and he killed is to tie the rope around the neck."

She remembered this sentence until now and has benefited a lot from it.

Putting down the camera, Jiang Yimian went to collect fingerprints on the door handle.

The cool wind blew peacefully through the corridor, and the dark air floated in, with a stale sweet smell.

The room in front of her was as silent as a tomb.

It's too quiet and too regular, and there is no trace of fighting and struggle.

If Riemann was stunned and then strangled to death and committed suicide by hanging, why didn't the murderer directly "help" her commit suicide?

In this way, unless they perform toxicological analysis in the blood, it is impossible to judge whether she was homicide or suicide from the pathological characteristics.

And if you are not confused, there is no reason why Riemann will not struggle.
To be continued...