"Oh? Where?" Helanbing asked.

"This!" Situ Ce pointed to a small hole at the splicing of the broken bones. "The lower edge of the bone outer plate is defective, the upper edge of the bone outer plate is curved, and the inner plate is defective. Obviously, this is caused by a small high-speed object. According to the characteristics of the incision hole, it can be determined that the bone fragments in the elastic area have not displaced before the hole is formed, and the fracture line of the first blow that I just mentioned cannot pass through this hole!"

"That is to say, this bullet hole was first caused?" Helan Bing asked.

"That's right! A high-speed object caused the deceased's head to penetrate, and then the deceased's head was hit by two consecutive blunt objects!"

"What is this that penetrated the head of the deceased? Have you found out?"

"It's found out." Situ Ce said, "I found this in the skull cavity of the deceased!" He said, and picked up the small finger-sized iron bead he had found from the table and handed it to Helanbing: "This is the thing that penetrated the head of the deceased!"

"What is this?" Helanbing took the small iron bead and looked over and over, "Can it be a projectile shot from the slingshot?"

Situ Ce said: "I'm not sure, but it's hard to say whether the projectile can cause such great damage. I want to conduct a test to confirm."

“How to test it?”

"Find a corpse and shoot it with a slingshot to see if it can form such a wound."

Helanbing nodded: "Okay, I'll tell the magistrate and go to the trenches in the east of the city to dig an unknown body for testing. Shi Meng is an expert in playing slingshots, so I'll just let him come at that time."

After the agreement was made, He Lanbing reported to the magistrate. After the magistrate agreed, he called Shi Meng and coroner to go to Luan Tingkou in the east of the city to test. Yin Yadan and Tang Tang were unwilling to be lonely, so they naturally followed him with a slight effort.

The coroner found an unknown corpse that died of illness that was buried not long ago, and leaned the body against a tree. Shi Meng was ten steps away, pulled the iron bullet, pulled the slingshot, and shot it out with a whoosh. Then he heard a puff, and the head of the corpse shook suddenly, and then stopped.

Situ Ce and Helanbing and others gathered up to check.

I saw that the bullet had been embedded in the head of the deceased, only a small point was exposed outside.

Situ Ce put down the body and used a scalpel to cut open the scalp of the dead. He found that the projectile had sunk its head and had linear bone cracks on all sides. However, the projectile did not pierce the skull!

After all, the penetration ability of the finger-sized projectile is much smaller than that of the bow and arrow, so it fails to shoot through the hard skull.

Shi Meng used to be a hunter, able to open a hard bow, and his arms were much stronger than ordinary people. The projectiles he shot could not penetrate the skull of a person, making it even more impossible for ordinary people.

Therefore, it can basically be ruled out that this trauma is caused by a slingshot.

If you want to shoot projectiles with greater force than a slingshot to cause such injury, then there is only a musket! Situ Ce suddenly thought that there had been a firearm in the Ming Dynasty, and blurted out: "Can it be the musket caused it?"

"Must gun?" He Lanbing was stunned for a moment, "I heard that this thing is only available in the Shenji Camp in Beijing!"

Situ Ce said: "If you can find a musket and test it, you can know if the injury is caused by a musket. At the same time, it is also determined that the basic direction of the reconnaissance should be those who hold or can contact the musket. - Are there any garrisons in Zhenhai County?"

"Yes, the military camp is thirty miles away from the county town. However, there are no firearms there, which I can be sure of, because the military camp guards are my father's friend and often visit my house, so I asked him."

"Since there are no muskets in the military camp, where can there be such weapons in Zhenhai County? Can ordinary people buy them?"

"I can't buy it!" Helan Bing said, "I heard that the muskets of Shenji Camp are made in the workshops that specialize in creating firearms in Beijing. The weapons are only equipped for Shenji Camp and are not allowed to takeout. Not to mention ordinary people, even other troops, it is impossible to get one."

"That's strange, why did the weapons of Shenji Camp reach Zhenhai County?"

"Let me do this, I'll ask Xiao Mouse and the others to inquire. Maybe the officers and soldiers stole the firearms and sold them in private, and it's unknown."

"Well, there is this possibility." Situ Ce remembered modern society, and often saw reports of some foreign troops selling arms privately. "The deceased was undoubtedly killed. If this gun is found, it is likely to be the weapon to kill the dead. Accordingly, the murderer is determined, so finding the gun is to find the murderer!"

"Have you found out who was the deceased?" Helan Bing asked.

"No, I'm busy determining the cause of death first, and when I go back, I want to find out the source of the corpse." Speaking of the source of the corpse, Situ Ce seemed a little confident. Because he had already investigated the scene of the corpse in detail, there was no evidence left except the robe on the body, and there were too few clues available to find the source of the corpse.

Although the relationship between the human face and the skull and the statistical thickness of soft tissue can be used to restore the skull face, the accuracy of the restoration depends on the shaper's mastery of forensic anthropology knowledge and related sculpture skills, and inevitably has the sculptor's own imagination. Therefore, the restored appearance is only roughly imagined, and it is already quite good to achieve this step. In many cases, the restored one is very different from the real person, and it will mislead and solve it.

Situ Ce was not good at sculpture, and he was not very proficient in forensic anthropology, so he was not sure to restore the skull to its original appearance. Now, he had to rely on other means to determine who the corpse was.

Helanbing said: "The deceased was wearing a man's robe, which is very strange. It should be used to wrap the body after death, not hers."

Situ Ce nodded and said, "That's right, and I've measured it. If she really wears this robe, it will be dragged to the ground, which is longer than her height. So it's certainly not what she wears as a woman, but someone puts it on her."

"It's strange. After the murderer killed the dead, why did he strip her dress and put on a man's robe? If he just threw it away naked just to throw the body away, wouldn't it be even more straightforward and wouldn't it be impossible to find clues?"

"This can only be known after catching the real murderer."

Helanbing said: "The next step is to divide our troops into two groups, check the muskets one by one, see if there have been muskets in the city, in whose hands, check the source of the corpse in the other, and see who the corpse is. The source of the corpse is first found from the missing person. What do you think?"

"Of course there is nothing to say about Brother Furong's opinion, it's very good!"

"Okay," Helanbing called Xiao mouse over and asked him to go to the teahouse and restaurant to check the situation, to see if there were any firearms in the city, and then the group returned to the yamen.

Helanbing and Situ Ce retrieved the missing person registration book from the punishment room and found women about sixteen years old among the missing persons. There were actually as many as six. Because in ancient times, there were mainly young women who were trafficking in people in addition to children.
Chapter completed!