Chapter 174 - 111: Blood That Disappeared Without a Trace
Strictly speaking, this corpse could only be classified as moderately to highly decomposed.
After death, decay gases first generate in the head, face, and the hollows of the chest and abdomen before finally moving to the lower limbs. No matter how beautiful a person was in life, or how perfect the figure, after death they all become a fierce and terrible "big-headed ghost" with bulging eyes and a protruding tongue and lips.
Yet, the lower limbs of the corpse before me had not yet been filled by decay gases.
Ran Yan first conducted a general examination of the body, and concluded that the age of the deceased was between eighteen to twenty years old, male, who died on August 4th, most likely between midnight and the early morning.
In spring and autumn, a "colossal chance of decay" occurs between three to seven days. According to Judge Yu, the body had been found six days prior, and it could be preliminarily judged that when they found the corpse, only a short time had passed since the time of death, meaning it was close to the early morning.
Why did the first body die at midnight while this one was delayed until early morning?
Some of the injured areas on the body had already shown obvious signs of healing, indicating that the deceased had gone through a prolonged struggle before death.
"When he was found, was there a lot of bloodshed?" Ran Yan looked up and asked.