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Chapter 5 Burning the Doorknob

After Doctor Liu finished speaking, Tang Hongye and others said nothing, and waited quietly for Doctor Liu to continue to help them solve the mystery. There were so many big mice at the scene, which must be no coincidence. As for the intention of these rats to exist at the scene, except for the murderer, only Doctor Liu can guess it best now.

"I just conducted a preliminary examination of the body. The deceased was a male, who should be around 30 years old. There were indeed no fatal injuries on the surface, or even serious injuries," said Dr. Liu. "I just said that some of the wounds on the deceased should have been bitten by rats during his lifetime. According to the environment, temperature of the warehouse and the degree of decay of the corpse, it can be preliminarily determined that the time of death was three to four days ago. The corpse had not yet appeared. If it was discovered later, the corpse had not yet had a corrupt giant.

Maybe it will appear in one or two days. If it died three or four days ago, then the corpse zombie caused by death should have been partially relieved. But it is worth noting that the deceased's torso twisted into a bow, forming a horn arch retraction, tilting the head back, and confinement of the teeth are all very consistent with the symptoms of C. tetanus infection. It usually takes about a week to start the disease, but some of them may occur in a faster 24 hours. Generally, the shorter the incubation period, the worse the prognosis."

"So the deceased may have been infected with tetanus because he was bitten by a rat. The attack was urgent, so he died?" Tang Hongye felt a little incredible, "Then... the nature of this case..."

He didn't know what to say. Although there was a large group of fat and big mice in the small warehouse, when he arrived at the scene just now, his colleagues from the county bureau also said that the door of the small warehouse was locked from the inside and the window was sealed from the outside. Everyone knew that the door locked from the inside could naturally be opened from the inside. If the deceased stayed in the small warehouse with those big mice for some reason and was bitten by the rat, after all, tetanus attacks were different from being poisoned. It was impossible to die within a few minutes. There was always a process of discomfort, from light to severe. Why didn't the deceased choose to open the door and ask for help during this process?

It’s impossible to commit suicide, right? Although the way to commit suicide may not necessarily be to hang yourself and jump off the building, it is obviously unreasonable to lock yourself up and bite yourself and die of tetanus. After all, even though you have the risk of being bitten by a mouse, it may not be 100%.

No matter how you think about it, it feels unreasonable, and the expression on Tang Hongye's face becomes a little more confused.

Du Juan didn't say much during this process. Apart from asking for the forensic doctor Liu's first words, she kept listening to the forensic doctor Liu's introduction, looking here and there. Now that she heard Tang Hongye's slightly confused question, she raised her head, hesitated for a moment, and said to Tang Hongye and others: "It should be he who killed him. I think someone used other methods to make the deceased unable to open the door lock from the inside, so the door was locked from the inside, which was just a smoke bomb."

"Oh? How do you say it?" Fang Yuan felt a little curious after hearing Du Juan's words and asked quickly. Before Du Juan turned around, Fang Yuan had heard a lot about her in private. The two things that impressed her the most were two points. The first was of course the relationship between her as a "children" who made Tang Hongye's talk about her. The second was Du Juan's work ability and comprehensive quality. Team Yang has always praised her, saying that Du Juan was also a very outstanding young criminal policeman in his original unit. This time he took the initiative to ask for the transfer, which was considered as a general.

Now that this general has spoken, Fang Yuan naturally intends to listen carefully.

"This house is quite old. When I came in just now, the paint on the large iron door that entered the yard was gone, and there was a lot of rust. There was also thick dust in the yard. It can be seen that not only the house is relatively old, but it is also neglected to take care of it, but you can look at the copper handle on the door of this small warehouse."

She reached out and pointed carefully at the open door facing outward.

The door of this small warehouse is a painted iron plate door. Two copper handles are installed on the corresponding positions of the inside and outside the door. The one inside looks no luster and is misty, while the one outside is different. Although it looks old, it is much brighter overall.

"The person outside has been wiped away!" Tang Hongye could see at a glance what the difference between the two was.

Du Juan nodded: "Realistically speaking, the door handle outside should be subjected to more wind, sun and rain than the one inside, so it should be dirtier and older, but now it looks completely opposite. If someone simply wants to wipe off the fingerprint marks, it doesn't need to be so hard, just a gentle wipe is enough. My guess may be a bit bold, and it may not be correct. I think someone heated the door handle outside by fire, because the door itself is a metal with better heat conductivity, and the copper handle on both sides also has very good thermal conductivity. If someone roasts the door handle outside, the door handle inside will naturally become very hot. In this way, the dead will be unable to touch the door because the door handle is hot and cannot unlock it."

"I don't agree with you." Before the others could speak, Tang Hongye was the first to frown and express his disagreement. "A iron door of this big is painted on it. Now the paint surface is not burned by fire, and the door lock is also good, so according to your statement, it is unlikely that it is true. It's just that the door handle is heated and it will not affect the people inside to unlock the lock! At worst, it's enough not to touch the handle!"

Du Juan didn't seem to be surprised by his refuting him. Instead, it seemed as expected. He explained to him patiently: "You are right. The whole door must have not been burned by fire, and there is no problem with the door lock. If you don't touch the door handle, you can unlock it. However, the kind you said can only be achieved when the other party is very calm and calm. Combined with the situation we are seeing now, there are so many big rats in such a small warehouse. This is obviously unreasonable. The deceased shouldn't have even known that there are so many big rats in it, but he actually locked himself and the rat, causing him to be bitten. So I think the deceased should have voluntarily hid in this small warehouse for some reason we are not clear at the moment. After locking the door, the big rat was put in later."

"These rats made the deceased panic, and they might be bitten in panic, and then he wanted to open the door and escape. At this time, we all had an instinctive action," Du Juan stretched out his hand and pretended to open the door. "There is a handle on the door, and we will instinctively hold the handrail with one hand and unlock the lock with the other hand, so that the door handle would be pushed out as soon as the lock was opened. But at this time, the door handle was hot, and the hand was burned when it grabbed it. As I said just now, the door and the door lock are metal, and they are also thermally conductive. Even if it is not burned directly, it will heat up to a certain extent because the door handle is burned by fire. In addition, it happens to be in a very panic situation, which can easily make the deceased mistakenly think that the whole door is hot. At the same time, the deceased is being attacked by a group of mice, so he gave up the idea of ​​opening the door and escaping."

"This idea is indeed quite bold, but it is also interesting." Forensic Liu was very interested in listening to the new young female policeman who said her thoughts, and also had the idea of ​​opening the hand that clenched the deceased into a fist to see it. It can be regarded as helping to confirm whether the other party's bold assumption could be valid.

"Then what? If, as you said, the suspect who puts mice outside the door and burns the door handle, what is the purpose? Let a group of mice bite the deceased to death and eat it?" Tang Hongye still felt that Du Juan's speculation had many unreasonable aspects and could not be truly valid.

Du Juan shook her head: "I can't say this, maybe the suspect really has this plan. After all, not every criminal can explain what he does, right?"

Regardless of whether her speculation was reliable enough, at least this statement was unrefuted by Tang Hongye. Tang Hongye pursed his lips, as if he was a little unhappy with the fact that he could not refute. However, he could only choose not to say anything and turned his attention to Forensic Liu, waiting to see the results of Forensic Liu's examination.

On the other side, Dai Xu, after listening to Du Juan's analysis and speculation, walked to the small window of the small warehouse, picked up the wooden board that he had just rushed to remove, and carefully checked something.

"I think what Du Juan said may be valid," he soon spoke and handed one of the broken pieces with nails to Tang Hongye. "You can see the nails on the wooden board that sealed the small window of the warehouse."

Tang Hongye took the piece of broken wood from Dai Xu's hand, looked at the nails on it, and frowned.

The board itself is not a brand new and good wood, and nothing seems wrong, but the nails on it are silver-shiny, looking brand new and clean, without any rust on it.
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