National Forensic Doctor

Chapter 1384: Chapter 1308: What Questions Do You Have Now

Yaxing Building. noveldrama

This 15-story building is over 80 meters tall. Apart from the bottom two floors which have a height of over ten meters, the average height of each floor is more than four meters.

Given this height in the country, it is comparable to residential buildings that are 26 or 28 stories high.

Jiang Yuan and others got out of the car and unconsciously looked up at the Yaxing Building.

Zhong Renlong waited downstairs, surrounded by police tape, along with a variety of journalists.

Seeing Jiang Yuan, Zhong Renlong visibly breathed a sigh of relief and explained, "God Jiang, Ni Cha is upstairs and some people from above have come over; he can’t leave, so let’s go up first. The body is still in the room waiting for you."

"Okay. Let’s take a look around first." Jiang Yuan responded but did not follow Zhong Renlong’s suggestion to go upstairs immediately.

Jiang Yuan said, leading the way forward.

Zhong Renlong hesitated for a moment, cautiously glanced at the moving reporters around, feeling a headache and unable to refuse.

The group walked around silently. The reporters also followed in silence, except for a few loud questions at the beginning; later on, they only filmed without speaking.

This was mainly because Jiang Yuan did not answer them. The Dama reporters weren’t very interested in what others said.

After walking a round, Jiang Yuan looked at Liu Jinghui and asked, "What do you think?"

Liu Jinghui looked up at the building again and said, "This building is tough to climb."

"Indeed. Especially the design of the 10th floor, climbing from the outside would be very dangerous," Jiang Yuan agreed.

"Then it wasn’t climbed from the outside," Liu Jinghui entered the building.

Zhong Renlong quickly followed, allowing the officers at the entrance to let them pass.

Liu Jinghui looked around as he walked inside and said, "If it was accessed from inside, there should be surveillance footage."

"The surveillance has been collected but not reviewed yet," Zhong Renlong quickly said.

It had only been over an hour since the incident, so there was certainly no time to review it.

"Start reviewing it, maybe you’ll find someone in the footage," Liu Jinghui’s tone was neutral.

In cases like these, things can be straightforward when simple, but incredibly complex when complex. Finding someone in the footage might solve the case or might never solve it.

If no one is found in the footage, it’ll be laborious to solve this stage of the case.

Yaxing Building is not only tall but its design emphasizes aesthetics, with protruding surfaces. The 10th floor especially features a protruding section made entirely of smooth glass, glistening and reflecting sunlight like a diamond collar used in SM.

Experienced climbers or thieves know that a vertical façade is relatively easier to climb. A slight inward incline makes it considerably easy, but if there’s an outward incline, like large protruding sections, climbing it becomes hellishly difficult.

Many residential buildings in the country are easy to climb because they are structured with balconies and often have foothold platforms or vertical drainage pipes outside. Additionally, domestic buildings have high conformity, experienced thieves can gauge the structure with a glance.

In contrast, buildings like Yaxing require special observation and testing.

Under current conditions, maybe a super-skilled climbing pro could challenge it, but a 100% success rate is out of the question. Ordinary thieves or special forces, unless professionally trained, have low chances of success.

As for the interior of Yaxing Building, not to mention the many cameras and perfect security, just the no-entry policy for outsiders means outsiders can’t know the building’s interior, at least ordinary outsiders can’t.

This reasoning already indicates that unless the killer blatantly appears in Yaxing Building’s surveillance, otherwise this case involves either highly skilled techniques or impressive backgrounds.

"Let’s go up." Jiang Yuan and Liu Jinghui exchanged glances for two seconds and didn’t say much.

Accompanying them are Cui Hu from the ministry and Chu Guanliang, the police liaison officer. They flew back to the country twice, and upon hearing about a new case, they immediately flew back.

No other reason, they had taken too much; not coming would leave them feeling empty inside.

12th floor, elevator access.

As the elevator doors open, the first thing visible is a beautiful floor-to-ceiling window and an unbeatable city view.

In the middle of the room are several green plants, tall enough to touch the ceiling, with thick leaves, ideal for rolling cigarettes.

Jiang Yuan stepped out of the elevator and took a few steps forward to see most of the room’s space, with little furniture but abundant sunlight, and police and various forensic equipment present, just cameras and video cameras adding up to seven or eight.

Ni Cha, wearing shoe covers, quickly came to Jiang Yuan’s side, sighed, and said, "The body is in the bedroom, on the other side."

The elevator doors closed, steadily descending to pick up others.

Jiang Yuan also put on shoe covers, first looked out the floor-to-ceiling window, then followed Ni Cha to the bedroom, asking, "Where is the broken-in glass, the rappelling glass?"

"Also in the bedroom," Ni Cha replied.

"Bravery matched with skill," Jiang Yuan subconsciously remarked, but used Chinese midday vocabulary, so Ni Cha didn’t understand.

Liu Jinghui quickly caught up and said, "Rappelling isn’t something ordinary people can do. The glass in such buildings should also be thick, not easy to open, didn’t the victim try to escape or notice?"

"The victim was wearing pajamas, possibly asleep at the time," Ni Cha answered, then moved aside: "It’s right here."

The bedroom was spacious, with a large bed and two nightstands in the center, leaving the rest empty. The bedroom connects to a dressing room and a large bathroom, with everything rectangular except for the curved bedroom.

The bedroom has a row of 8 large windows, with one shattered, glass shards scattered across the floor.

The wind also opportunistically blew in, but the speed was not high.

The deceased lay half-slumped on the bed, blood soaking the bedding.

Near his feet was the hidden safe in the room, wide open and almost empty inside.

Jiang Yuan paced around the glass shards, saying, "Someone stepped on this side."

"Uh... Probably the officers who came earlier; I’ll deal with them later," Ni Cha hurriedly explained.

Jiang Yuan did not dwell on it further, examining the scene before checking the body again.

Then, Jiang Yuan said, "Do you have any questions now?"

Ni Cha started, wondering if this was how the topic should be approached?

"I certainly want to know who the killer is," Ni Cha boldly stated.

Jiang Yuan said, "The killer weighs around 160 kilograms, stands 180 cm tall, wears size 43 shoes, has received excellent combat training and most likely has a military background. Left-handed, strong, likely someone who frequently exercises or trains, around 32 years old, focused, holds a knife in reverse-hand, while killing the victim, it was an immediate deadly blow. Before that, there should have been a level of torture involved."

Looking at the footprints and such, Jiang Yuan spoke in one breath and then said, "Check if there’s anyone matching the description nearby."