About an hour later, on the way home to the car.

"What did they do to you?" Sitting in the back row of the Beetle, Chiba looked at the gray plain lying on his lap and asked. "I seem to have seen something open to my craniotomy on the preparation slip that Kyosuke Kado's gave me earlier...... Got it? ”

"Well, it's not actually a complete craniotomy, it's just a few holes in my skull, and then a little bit of it in it, at least that's how I understand it." Gray Yuan's expression was a little uncomfortable, and his head turned slightly on Qianyu's thigh. "You...... Are there any mats or something? I think...... It's best if you have a pillow to lean on. ”

"Huh?" Qian Yu was a little confused, but he still picked up a small cushion from the seat and put it on the base of his thighs, forming a support point for Gray Yuan to mourn for his legs to stabilize his head. But at this moment, he suddenly realized why Gray Yuan Wai had been a little embarrassed before. "Hey...... You weren't going to be ...... just now."

"yes, so boys shouldn't have any knee pillows or anything like that, the back of the head is embarrassing!" Gray Plains glanced at him and grumbled. "But...... I feel like you're a bit of an exaggeration...... You wouldn't do that, would you? If there is that risk, I will go back and inspect the goods! ”

"I have a strong ability to control my body, don't ......" When he said this, Qian Yu seemed to think of something, and forcibly terminated his previous words. Okay, the company is committed to providing sincere buyers with perfect pre-sale inspection services, do customers plan to test drive one or two before hitting the road? ”

"I said you two......" At this moment, Dr. Asasa's helpless voice came from the front seat of the car. Although I know you two haven't seen each other in a long time, ...... How much can you take care of my mood? ”

"Ah......h Say, doctor, you are...... Divorced, or always single? I don't think I've ever heard you talk about your family? ”

"Ah...... Let's be single," Dr. Asa said after a moment's hesitation. "Well, technically speaking, plus my parents are dead, so ......"

"If this continues, what will you do with your inheritance, Doctor, do you plan to spend it all before you die?" Gray Yuan complained bitterly. "But when a person dies, the money is not spent, and the money is spent, and the person does not die, both of which are very painful things!"

"This kind of thing, let it be, if it really doesn't work, you can donate it after death." Dr. Asa didn't really care. "But it's probably a little early to discuss this, I should have twenty or thirty years left, don't worry too much for the time being!"

……

At the same time, Rice Flower Central Hospital, Metropolitan Police Department Identification Center.

"This person, why are you so nervous, is it your man?" Hotaru looked at the marks on her cervical spine and asked. "If it's just a general thing, Gregory rarely comes here to meddle in the menial work of identification, does he?"

"Well, he's a ...... we know A man who is very good at shooting. Fujiwara nodded. That's why you're so nervous - you see Gregory, when did you ever pay so much attention? ”

"By the way, if you look at his C1 and C2 cervical vertebrae, I just felt that something was wrong...... Isn't it a little strange that there is something similar to a fracture here? ”

"Huh?" Fujiwara frowned slightly, and quickly looked over there. "C1 and C2? Fracture? Are you mistaken? If you fracture in this kind of place, it is basically equivalent to paralysis of all muscles below C2...... Or is this the cause of death? Our deceased had his cervical vertebrae broken, paralyzing his muscles below the neck and eventually suffocating from a lung strike? ”

"I guess there aren't any other fatal wounds, right?" Hotaru pursed her lips. "Didn't we just barely identify it as a blood loss because we couldn't find a fatal wound before, maybe this is the real fatal wound."

"No, but the problem is that the relevant tests are still very supportive of dying from trauma and bleeding, and if you look at the new test results, I think this test is a bit complicated in every sense." With that, Fujiwara handed Hotaru a report in his hand. "Seriously, it's scary."

"On the ribs of the corpse...... Got rat bite marks? Seeing this, Hotaru pouted with some dissatisfaction. Really, this corpse wasn't found in the park, and there are a few rats ......."

When Hotaru saw the conclusion of the report, she closed her mouth and thought for a moment before asking in a somewhat confused tone. "Wait a minute, what's going on with this so-called 'heterogeneous rodent gnawing mark'?"

"Don't you understand Japanese?" Fujiwara shrugged. "Obviously, if some of these rat bite marks came from rats in the park, there was another, more concentrated group of bite marks that were thought to come from another type of rat and were not of the species included in that park."

"You're talking about the gnawing sample of rodent No. 3, right?" Hotaru was already aware of this from the following clauses, and naturally picked up Fujiwara's description. But at about the same time, she looked rather surprised. "Wait a minute, immunohistochemistry test shows ...... Have fibrin clotting and fresh intraosseous deposits? In other words, all of them are postmortem injuries except for Sample 3, but here are pre-mortem injuries? Was the victim alive when these rats were eating the victim? Raw? ”

"Yes, that's it." Fujiwara nodded, apparently having already digested the surprise he had when he first learned the news. "There is no doubt that whoever the murderer was, he must have poured a large number of rats into the bodies of the victims who had been cut open, and let the rats devour the murderer from the inside in order to inflict extremely painful torture."

"This ...... It's scary," Hotaru pursed her lips. "But...... Why use rats to kill people? Isn't that too much efficiency? I might prefer to kill them with a single knife, or castrate, but why let these rats run wild? ”

As they were talking, there was a knock on the door—apparently not from Gregory, for he had not been away for long, but had never come back from the door, and the rest of the staff had already left work.

"Please come in."

With Fujiwara's greeting, Matsumoto Kiyocho walked in.

"Are you guys still busy with this corpse?" Looking at the corpse, Matsumoto Kiyoshi nodded. "Hmm...... Come on, get this case out as soon as possible, and by the way, urge Gregory. ”

With that, he left again, leaving Fujiwara and Hotaru looking at each other.