Who Made Him a Lawyer?-Chapter 133 - 127: The Corpse That Died Before Falling!
"What's the price?"
"Calculated per case. Whether or not you play a major role, you get fifteen thousand for the whole case."
Yang Ruoxi spoke up.
Chen Changchun was financially strapped, and he had managed to scrape together this fifteen thousand bit by bit.
Xu Liang was calculating in his mind.
Fifteen thousand, for his previous two cases, each one brought in fifty to sixty thousand, but kept him busy for two to three months.
Thinking about it this way...
"I'll take it. Let me have a look at the crime scene first."
Xu Liang nodded.
With that, he and Yang Ruoxi quickly walked toward the hotel entrance.
Su Yu had just arrived in Hanhai City and encountered the "warm hospitality" of its people. Xu Liang couldn't just ignore it, so he had to resolve this matter quickly.
Outside the door.
The December night was as dark as ink. Standing at the magnificent entrance, Xu Liang could only see people squatting or moving around.
These were Chen Changchun and Liu Jin, leading a group of police officers conducting an investigation in the dark.
"Who the hell turned off the lights!?"
Chen Changchun roared, and the person who accidentally turned off the lights in the hall hurriedly turned them back on.
"Snap!"
The lights suddenly came on.
Xu Liang and Yang Ruoxi's faces suddenly appeared in front of Chen Changchun.
The abrupt sight startled him.
"Why do you look like a ghost!?"
Chen Changchun cursed mildly, which Xu Liang didn't bother to argue about, instead turning his head to look to the side.
Inside the police barrier...
A foul, bloody stench wafted out!
"The body hasn't been handled and moved yet?"
Xu Liang frowned.
Enclosed within the police tape was the body!
Yet unlike any body he'd seen before, this one looked less like a human being and more like...
A pile of flesh!
A heap of flesh made from fragments of bone and chunks of meat!
The head had smashed heavily on the ground and burst open.
The body lay in a twisted pose impossible for a human to achieve naturally!
Yang Ruoxi's lips twitched, a wave of nausea rising within her.
Noticing her discomfort, Xu Liang softly said:
"Go take care of Su Yu, don't force yourself."
Yang Ruoxi nodded and quickly walked back inside the hotel.
At this moment, Chen Changchun's words also came through.
"There's something wrong with the body. First of all, it's very difficult to clean up, much like a chef slamming minced meat onto a cutting board."
"But the cement ground is not a cutting board, it's not that smooth, parts of the body's smashed meat are stuck in the cracks and can't be scraped out."
Chen Changchun took a deep breath, stood up, and stood next to Xu Liang.
Then he turned to look at that heap of flesh and spoke in a deep voice.
This isn't the key point.
If it were just difficult to handle the body... that wouldn't stump the police. The problem lies with the body itself!
"Did you notice anything?"
Chen Changchun suddenly looked at Xu Liang and asked.
Xu Liang didn't reply.
He was frowning and looking at the crime scene.
Normally speaking.
After someone falls from a height, the body would quickly bleed a lot, especially for a victim like this, so there should be a large trace of fresh blood where the body fell!
But this scene....
Wasn't like that!
"Why is there so little blood!?"
Xu Liang's eyes narrowed.
Indeed, the body's bleeding was very minimal!
Even though parts of the limbs had fragmented and scattered to the side, the bloodstains were only sparse...
"You should go take a look." Chen Changchun suggested.
Upon hearing this.
Xu Liang crossed the police tape, put on gloves, a mask, and a hair tie, and approached the body.
He crouched down beside the body, continually observing.
The body was male, the face was severely distorted, about 1.6 meters tall, underdeveloped.
Based on calculations, he wasn't older than Chen Dong.
The body was skinny to the bone, and there was a smell that wasn't purely blood, yet the individual was wearing a clean but ill-fitting outfit.
He reached out and lifted a corner of the garment, revealing a filthy, unkempt body that looked like it hadn't been washed in weeks.
Besides that, there was the issue with the blood.
The more Xu Liang looked, the deeper his frown became. He suddenly looked up at Chen Changchun.
"When did the victim fall?"
"Last night at ten thirty," Chen Changchun said.
Xu Liang shook his head, "Impossible."
Upon hearing this.
Chen Changchun showed a contemplative expression, "Yes, the police also find it impossible."
Why do they say so?
Because...
The coagulation factors in the blood plasma trigger a series of chain reactions when the blood vessels are damaged, ultimately converting fibrinogen into fibrin.
At this point, the blood goes from a "flowing liquid" to a "semi-solid gel-like state."
The viscosity sharply increases, eventually completely coagulating, unable to drip anymore!
So.
This is also why, after a body's death, not all the blood flows out but rather only some, even if the wounds are still open they don't continue to bleed.
"In the early stages of death, the blood is still liquid and can flow normally."
Xu Liang stated confidently.
He looked at the dark brown viscous blood around the body.
"This scene is impossible for a fall at ten-thirty last night!!!"
Simply put.
Even if you had an enormous capacity for sugar, with extraordinarily high blood sugar levels, after death, there's no way only such a scant amount of viscous blood could flow out!
Unless...
"He was already dead before the fall... by at least two hours!"
Xu Liang looked up at the Jinjiang Hotel's rooftop.
The picture at the scene was already very clear.
His body was already dead before the fall, unable to bleed, and even if you sliced his leg, no blood would appear.
And the reason there's blood at the scene, at least some... is because it was not flowing out.
But rather 'smashed' out!
Just like how a watermelon smashes and bursts open on the ground after being dropped from above!
But if that's the case, then the case has become...
"Did someone push a body off the rooftop?"
