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21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 671 - 667: The Strange Corpse (Please Subscribe, Request for Monthly Tickets)
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In the autopsy room of UDI, a body recently delivered by the police was undergoing an autopsy.
"The deceased was found in a landfill, where someone was burning garbage. Later, they found the body in the garbage heap, so they quickly extinguished the fire and called the police," Officer Maori, holding his nose, was explaining the basic situation of the deceased to Misumi Mikoto. The stench in the autopsy room was overwhelming, causing him some discomfort, "By the time the police arrived, the body was already quite charred, but from the condition at the scene, it seems like the body had been burned elsewhere before being dumped in the landfill. Our initial suspicion is that the person was burned to death before being discarded at the landfill."
However, after Officer Maori had finished speaking, Misumi Mikoto, who had already started cutting into the body, countered, "No, the victim drowned, and it's very likely they drowned in seawater."
"Drowned? You're telling me that this burnt body drowned?" Officer Maori asked incredulously as he looked at the nearly charred corpse on the autopsy table.
Misumi Mikoto turned to look at Officer Maori, nodded affirmatively, and said, "Indeed, they drowned. Although the body was burned post-mortem, the internal organs were not severely damaged, and we can still see the bruising."
"Not only that, there's fluid in the respiratory tract and in the alveoli, along with severe edema, confirming that the cause of death was definitely drowning, and likely from seawater," added someone from the Nakado Department who was examining the lungs of the deceased, likewise affirming Mikoto's judgment.
He added another point, "Also, this should be a man, though they had undergone gender reassignment surgery."
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"What? Is this a transgender person?" Officer Maori felt overwhelmed, a shape-shifter, who not only drowned in seawater but then had their body burned, leaving hardly any useful clues to follow. Verifying the identity of the deceased certainly sounded like more overtime work.
After another check of the deceased's pelvis, Mikoto confidently stated, "It's a male pelvis. Although they had genital surgery, it is certain that it was a male."
Having finished, Mikoto looked towards Kube Rokuro and instructed, "Mr. Kube, please ask the Director to contact a dentist. We need to determine his identity based on the condition of the deceased's teeth."
"Understood." Kube Rokuro replied, picking up the phone hanging on the side and informing Director Kamikura.
While everyone was busily attending to their tasks, someone from the Nakado Department suddenly complained, "It's strange that there are no traces of sand or diatoms in the victim's respiratory tract."
"Hmm? No sand and diatoms?" Mikoto turned in surprise towards the Nakado Department member, and upon checking the indicated area, did find, just as he had said, that the respiratory tract and lungs of the deceased were clean. Though there were pink bubbles and fluid indicative of drowning, there was indeed no trace of sand or diatoms.
This was quite astonishing. If the cause of death was drowning at sea, one would expect to find sand and diatoms inhaled, which are important clues in determining the site of death. But now, the lungs of the deceased were as clean as if they had drowned in a bathtub, which made the situation quite perplexing.
Likewise, this undoubtedly introduced great difficulty in determining the cause of death, as it now seemed likely not to be a simple case of seawater drowning.
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After completing the autopsy and sending off various samples for analysis, Mikoto finally returned to her office and sat down in her chair.
Picking up a pack of rice strips on the table, Misumi Mikoto munched on the snack while asking Kube Rokuro beside her, "Mr. Kube, how do you think the victim died?"
"Eh? You're asking me? I don't know," Kube Rokuro was taken aback but didn't know how to respond, so he could only say he didn't know.
Seeing this, Misumi Mikoto gave him an annoyed glance. Lately, Kube 'Tool Man' Rokuro had been busy with his medical licensing exam, and it inevitably affected his work. This kind of cluelessness had become all too common.
However, Tokairin Yuko next to them seemed to have some ideas, and with a wildly imaginative take, she said, "I think the victim was very likely drowned in a bathtub, and moreover, the bathtub was filled with seawater, which is why it led to such a situation. Then, to destroy the evidence and body, the perpetrator set fire to burn the body. But the body wasn't completely burned, and afraid of being discovered by the police, the perpetrator dumped the body in a junkyard."
To reinforce her presence, Tokairin Yuko even picked up a document roll in her hand and waved it vigorously.
However, someone from the Nakado Department was holding his cup and standing aside, shaking his head in dissent, "I don't think it was a bathtub. If it were a bathtub, the perpetrator would have had to hold down the victim or tie them up, but there are no marks on the victim's body, nor signs of struggle, so it shouldn't have been drowning in a bathtub.
What especially caught my attention is that the body was uniformly charred, not like an incomplete burn from arson, but more like it was deliberately burned that way."
"Deliberately burned the body that way? But who would be so idle as to char a body and do it so evenly?" Misumi Mikoto, hearing what the Nakado Department said, also recalled the evenly scorched marks on the body's surface, and suddenly felt the situation was becoming even more complicated.
At that moment, Kube Rokuro suddenly spoke up, "Could it be some kind of religious ritual?"
"A religious ritual?" Misumi Mikoto and the Nakado Department member were both intrigued, and even Tokairin Yuko turned her gaze towards Kube Rokuro, curious why he would say that.
Feeling the gaze of the other three, Kube Rokuro got a bit nervous, but still quickly explained, "It could be some Cult, where they have to kill the victim in a special manner as a sacrifice to the Evil God or something, isn't that how novels usually put it?"
"That seems to make some sense," Misumi Mikoto nodded slightly. This kind of unique method of killing indeed seemed intentional, and using a Cult sacrifice to explain it did make sense.
After all, those Evil Gods have all sorts of bizarre preferences and requirements for their sacrifices, so it's not strange for them to have some special tastes and likings.
Thinking like this, Misumi Mikoto looked at the Nakado Department member and asked, "Nakato-san, what do you think?"
"It's possible, but such matters are for the police to handle. We just need to ascertain the victim's identity and cause of death," the Nakado Department member didn't seem keen on getting to the bottom of it, and shaking his head, he held his cup and walked towards the sofa.
Seeing the Nakado Department member's attitude, the others lost the mood to chat further and each returned to their own work.
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