"Yes, that wasn't rape, it was consensual!"
"However, Wu Bingqiu didn't say that. Don't forget, according to our country's law, as long as the female party..."
"This young police officer, we've already asked these questions. Do you think he would admit it?"
I glanced at Nanmen Jiashi, then at Oshima's expression, the marks on his clothes, and the shoes he was wearing. I detected a scent of paraffin.
"Did you soak the corpse in paraffin?" I asked.
"Of course. This is our standard procedure. After this step, we were supposed to incinerate the body, but this guy actually got up again. I was so scared I almost fainted. How could there have been rape?"
"She woke up after you touched her. There's surveillance here, right!"
When the matter of surveillance was brought up, Nanmen Jiashi snorted, "Do I need you to tell me? We checked, and it's useless! The system was conveniently undergoing an upgrade. I suspect someone was pulling strings behind the scenes. Oshima Toshio, you did this!"
"It wasn't me! Officer, really, it wasn't me!"
The man continued to maintain his innocent demeanor, refuting the accusation.
"Bastard, if you don't confess, watch me hang you up!" Nanmen Jiashi said angrily.
This was my cue to sneer, "Aren't you Fangdizhen's great detective? Out of ideas already?"
"What did you say? Do you have a solution?" Nanmen Jiashi scoffed and turned to me.
I nodded. I carefully took the suspect's palm and scanned it with an instrument, similar to a police PDA, given to me by He Xin. Some numbers appeared on the screen. I sent them to He Xin, asking her to have Xie Chuchu verify them with Wu Bingqiu.
Then I said to Oshima Toshio, "I know you didn't desecrate the corpse."
Upon hearing this, Oshima Toshio was overjoyed. "Did you hear that? This officer says I'm innocent!"
"Hey, hey, young officer, don't talk nonsense. What evidence do you have to prove he didn't desecrate the corpse?"
"Wait a moment, don't rush. You've questioned his colleagues, haven't you? Did they find anything?"
"We questioned them earlier, but they said they were all outside at the time and didn't know what Oshima was doing."
"Thank you. My grandfather told me that when there's no surveillance and no witnesses, the only way to get evidence is from the corpse and the victim. Give me a few minutes, and I'll tell you the answer!"
"Your grandfather? Hahaha, who is he? Is he very capable?"
I didn't answer. When He Xin's message came back, I saw a few words: "The Lo-kard Exchange Principle contactless scanner indicates the suspect touched the victim's chest, and also the victim's, uh, lower parts..."
I quickly looked up and questioned Oshima Toshio, "Can you tell me? When you have relations with women, do you like to touch their sensitive areas first, even like to play with them there?"
As soon as I said this, everyone looked at me in astonishment, not knowing what I was trying to do.
But Oshima seemed to have found a kindred spirit and said excitedly, "Does this young man also have such interests?"
"Yes, is that how you usually are?" I deliberately tested him.
"Of course. Isn't it exciting?"
"Heh, so that's how it is. In that case, Nanmen Jiashi, you can take your people and leave now!"
"What? What did you say?" It wasn't just Nanmen Jiashi, but all the police officers, forensic experts, and even the criminal himself were stunned.
I said coldly, "The suspect's hands still have trace substances from the victim, all from sensitive areas. He just admitted himself that before desecrating the corpse, he liked to touch those parts of women. Therefore, the perpetrator is Mr. Oshima, and he has just confessed! Of course, even if he still denies it, we can obtain the physical evidence from our provincial department. I'm leaving!"
"...This... Provincial department..." Nanmen Jiashi was immensely shocked. Suddenly, a police officer behind him tugged at him and whispered a few words in his ear. The man became terrified and almost went limp. Oshima Toshio, having calmed down, realized he had been tricked by me and could only hang his head and confess his crime.
In fact, the reason I initially said he wasn't the killer was to make him lower his guard, obtain physical evidence from his hand, and then deliberately engage him in a conversation about male-female matters to distract him. I didn't expect him to fall for it.
Back at the provincial department, He Xin informed me that someone had come to collect the evidence. I said, "That's good. Sigh, these funeral home staff really need to be properly managed. I'm really worried that there might be similar reports from other places!"
"You don't think so? However, most people like that have necrophilia. Sigh!"
"It's probably due to their work environment and personality. If it were you, facing corpses long-term and unable to find a partner..." At this moment, Xiahou, who was beside me, spoke up. I rolled my eyes at him, not wanting to say more. Just as I was about to enter the Director's office, Liu Yuning arrived with a document. "Director He, another report has come in. It's from Longxi Funeral Home. A female corpse has woken up again and has been violated."
"What? Such a coincidence?"
Such cases are rare in our Guangming City, or even throughout China. Now, within less than two days, there have been two of them. How could I not feel that there was something fishy going on? This is definitely not a coincidence!
I'm not talking about the desecration of corpses, but about the girl "coming back to life." One hospital misdiagnosis is one thing, but if there are other similar occurrences, I believe it's not a technical issue, but intentional.
The phenomenon of apparent death is also very rare nowadays. The meaning of this term is that when animals are attacked or preyed upon by external stimuli, their bodies become still, their energy consumption and production drastically reduce, and they exhibit behavior that appears to be death, also known as thanatosis or feigned death. Apparent death is widespread in the animal kingdom and is a peculiar stress response.
However, with the advancement of modern technology and various precision instruments, it is possible to detect characteristics such as pulse and heartbeat. Theoretically, there should be no errors. In 2014, a 67-year-old widower in a nursing home was found lying motionless in bed, with no pulse or heartbeat. The elderly people around him, based on common sense, judged him to be dead. After being pronounced dead, he was sent to the funeral home for cremation. However, during the preparation, the professionals at the funeral home discovered he still had a breath and woke up at the funeral home...