Chapter 749: Fresh Corpse

"Has anyone entered the scene?"

Standing at the doorway, Lu Chuan first scrutinized the door to the outside.

The door lock had been pried open.

There were very obvious signs of damage.

And the marks were quite fresh.

"The property management staff, the neighbor next door, and I have also been in."

Huang Jianmin, standing beside Lu Chuan, briefly explained the situation.

Lu Chuan nodded and did not ask for further details.

According to Huang Jianmin, he hadn’t been on the scene for long either.

After the neighbor noticed something amiss, they called for the property management and kept knocking on the door, then dialed the phone number, but there was no response. The phone could be heard ringing inside the room.

So, the maintenance personnel from the property management pried open the door with tools.

Then they discovered the body inside and reported it to the authorities.

Although the door lock had already been damaged, Lu Chuan still proceeded to collect fingerprints from it.

Currently, it cannot be confirmed whether the deceased committed suicide or was murdered.

However, caution is never a mistake.

The next step was to collect footprints.

This task was rather difficult now.

At the time, four or five people from the property management entered the room, along with the neighbor and Huang Jianmin, making the footprints in the room quite a mess, especially the path from the entrance to the bedroom.

Although it can’t be said that there is completely no possibility of collecting the suspect’s footprints or other suspicious footprints, the possibility seems relatively low now.

Elsewhere, Wang Zhaokai was asking the neighbors about what happened in the early morning today.

"I just heard some loud noise from opposite; I thought something happened to them."

"I shouldn’t be the only one who heard it; there must be someone upstairs or downstairs who heard it too."

"But when I went out to check, I didn’t see anyone else."

The others from the first squad were asking around upstairs and downstairs.

Some people reported hearing noises but didn’t pay much attention.

It was deep in the night when everyone was asleep; the elderly man upstairs thought he was hearing things.

But generally, the timing was around 3 AM.

The neighbor downstairs heard the noise, went to the bathroom, and inadvertently glanced at the clock in the living room, which showed about 3:15.

The person then listened by their own door but didn’t hear anything further, so they went back to sleep.

In the bedroom, Lu Chuan had already seen the body.

A pink double bed with tiger plush toys on the headboard.

Two curtains hung, with one drawn to block some of the sunlight, making the bedroom slightly dim.

The deceased lay spread-eagled, face-up on the bed, eyes open, staring fixedly at the ceiling.

The integrated ceiling lights were bright, illuminating the deceased’s pale cheeks.

The deceased’s identity has been confirmed as Qin Weiwei, the owner of this apartment.

According to the information provided by the property management, the deceased was a model.

The property manager knew the deceased from shooting some promotional photos for the property company in this area.

When Lu Chuan came in, he also saw many portraits of the deceased displayed in the living room and bedroom.

At this time, the deceased lay flat on the bed, face pale, with two lines of dried blood coming from the nostrils.

Lu Chuan carefully examined the body.

There were no obvious wounds, nor any clear signs of assault.

The red pajamas on the deceased completely covered her body without any signs of tearing.

From the surface of the body, no signs of foul play were found for the time being.

"Captain Lu, does it seem like... a cerebral hemorrhage death?"

Gao Wenxiang was curiously checking the deceased’s nasal cavity.

Generally speaking, nosebleeds are often caused by ruptures of capillaries inside the nasal cavity.

The nasal cavity is covered with numerous capillaries.

The skin covering these capillaries is very thin, so once it’s hit or in particularly dry weather, touching it can cause these capillaries to break, leading to nosebleeds.

Most people have experienced nosebleeds.

However, many people immediately take measures to stop the bleeding once the nosebleed begins.

But what many don’t realize is that the amount of blood in a nosebleed can actually be quite large.

Typically, if no measures are taken to stop it, it can reach ten milliliters or more.

Then the coagulation process takes effect, and the nosebleed gradually stops on its own.

However, the blood in the deceased’s nostrils wasn’t like that.

The blood traces in both nostrils were thick, but not much had flowed out.

This condition suggests a feeling similar to a significant intracranial hemorrhage, bleeding from the nasal cavity.

Lu Chuan nodded, agreeing with Gao Wenxiang’s assessment.

"Time of death..."

Lu Chuan touched the deceased’s limbs, feeling the degree of rigor and body temperature.

The time of death should be approximately five hours ago.

Which would be around 5 AM today.

At this point, the body is in the most intense stage of rigor.

Rigor mortis peaks around 12 hours after death and then begins to subside.

"Captain Lu, should we contact the family and prepare for an autopsy?"

"If it’s determined that the person died from a cerebral hemorrhage, then this case is likely a natural death."

"It wouldn’t be a case for us then."

Sudden illness resulting in death wouldn’t be a criminal case.

However, Gao Wenxiang’s speculation seemed somewhat baffling for someone as young as the deceased.

The deceased was in her twenties.

That young... dying from a cerebral hemorrhage is indeed peculiar.

Moreover, although the probability of dying from a cerebral hemorrhage is significant, there is usually a window of time.

Typically, if a cerebral hemorrhage is detected early and receives timely medical treatment, it won’t result in death.

Though there are usually some sequelae, the survival rate is quite high.

Unless it’s especially severe.

"She did not die of natural causes."

Lu Chuan immediately dismissed Gao Wenxiang’s hypothesis.

"Hmm?"

Gao Wenxiang was taken aback: "Why?"

Lu Chuan lifted the deceased’s arm, pulled up the red pajamas at the waist, and revealed part of the back skin.

"Look at these marks on the deceased’s back."

Gao Wenxiang carefully observed and saw faint, hard-to-detect grid-like scars on the deceased’s back.

"This..."

Though not highly skilled, Gao Wenxiang understood the basics of what this meant.

Upon death, the blood circulatory system ceases functioning quickly.

The body’s weight will compress the parts bearing the load.

This causes a pressure on the capillaries, resulting in an uneven blood distribution.

For example, after death, if the wrist or neck is pressed, red bruises will develop during rigor mortis.

These bruises deepen as rigor advances.

Currently, the deceased on the bed, due to the recent time of death and rigor mortis not yet peaking, exhibits faint grid-like bruises on the back that are not easily noticeable.