Chapter 431: Difference

“What happened? And who are the two of you?” The doctor turned to ask Mo Li and Qin Xuan.

Mo Li smiled helplessly and explained the situation to the doctor. However, she skipped over the part where the mother lost her composure. After hearing all that, the male doctor did not say anything. He merely nodded and said, “The examination is to help the staff reach a clearer diagnosis. It will help both the staff and the patient. How are we supposed to cure something if we do not know what it is in the first place? But of course, we can’t force you to take the examination. If you do not trust us, you can go to another medical facility. We cannot force you to do anything against your will.”

The male doctor’s name tag showed that his name was Rong Shen. He looked at Mo Li and Qin Xuan with suspicion. However, in the end, he did not say anything.

Mo Li gave Qin Xuan a look, and the latter grasped the meaning immediately. He glanced at the weeping girl and hurried to pull her over to Rong Shen. Qin Xuan handed the girl a paper towel. They would leave the girl in Rong Shen’s care.

At the same time, Mo Li was racking her brain, going through the plot to figure out who Rong Shen was.

When the girl was brought to Rong Shen, Rong Shen told the mother, “I know you love your daughter and you believe her unconditionally, but we do not mean to imply any more than what we observe. We are merely basing our observation on her examination report. It is why we have such questions…” Rong Shen explained patiently to the mother. At the same time, he looked around for a nurse to help him.

Suddenly, Qin Xuan pulled on Mo Li’s arm. When Mo Li saw the glow in his eyes, she knew that their body had arrived!

As Mo Li walked with Qin Xuan to the morgue, a young nurse ran back. “They have been living together for more than a year, and they do not use contraception. They could be infertile.” When Mo Li walked past the nurse, the nurse commented. The nurse knew that Mo Li had overheard everything she and her mother said earlier. The nurse stuck out her tongue and shrugged before she ran into the consultation room.

Mo Li was confused by the whole incident but she had more pressing matters to attend to, so she left. In her hurry to leave, she overlooked the corners of Rong Shen’s mouth curled into a smile.

…

The hospital morgue only had a small autopsy room. Mo Li and Qin Xuan busied for a while and they soon determined the cause of death. It was caused by brain injury and internal bleeding.

Normally, forensic pathologists would come up with the direct cause of death, the main cause of death, and auxiliary cause of death in their report. The actual cause of death could be any combination of the above. A person’s death could be caused by multiple reasons and sometimes it was hard to determine the primary and secondary causes of death. So it was normal in forensic reports to contain many causes of death.

With Mo Li’s assistance, Qin Xuan soon determined that Li Hui’s head had suffered multiple blows from a blunt object. It caused extensive subcutaneous bleeding as well as nine contusions and lacerations scattered around his head.

“This man sure had it hard… He was beaten up badly when he was still alive. His skull was fractured, and there were also intracranial bleeding and brain contusions. These were enough to cause his death.

“And we haven’t even considered the giant bleeding wound on his neck. The wound walls had signs of life so the wound must be made prior to the victim’s death. The wound is massive, he would have bled out and died.”

Mo Li examined the huge wound on Li Hui’s neck carefully. The man’s cervical vertebra was still connected… but just barely.

Mo Li pointed at Li Hui’s neck and said, “Take a closer look at this area.”

Qin Xuan leaned in but he did not see anything out of place. Mo Li noticed this and commented, “Look at the two corners of the wound. There are small lacerations like crow’s feet. I counted them earlier and there are about 7 or 8 of them. They are very shallow, they’re just superficial wounds.”

“But… what does this mean?” Qin Xuan was puzzled. “These should be hesitation marks, normally seen on suicide victims but clearly this is not a suicide…”

Mo Li shook her head and sighed. The young man is still unable to apply his learned theory in his work. “Look closer. They might look at hesitation marks but they are not. They are multiple cuts applied to the same location. Notice that the force is applied harder at the front of the neck. Furthermore, the cuts around the neck are circular, this means that the applied force weakened as it neared the back of the neck. This large wound is caused by multiple cuts on the same part of the victim’s neck. Look here, there are skin flaps on the wound that supports that.”

Qin Xuan scratched his head in embarrassment. He understood everything that Mo Li said, but he did not understand what they meant.

“So while the victim suffered two kinds of injuries, the injuries around his neck are more concentrated than the injuries around his head.”