S.C.I.谜案集 (Special Criminal Investigation) Book 2

Case 2. Killer VS Killer: Chapter 03. Confusion of Mind

When Gong Sun walked into the SCI office with the autopsy report, he felt that the atmosphere was a little strange. Everyone was bowing their heads and minding their own business, as if they were a little restrained and uncomfortable, unlike the past when they used to talk and laugh. Gong Sun went in and asked Zhao Hu who was near the entrance, "What are you doing?"

Benjamin, who sat not far away from Zhao Hu and was casually flipping through a magazine, puckered his lips.

Gong Sun turned to look at him while Benjamin looked up, and they looked at each other. Gong Sun always hated foreigners in military uniform, so he directly looked away and ignored him.

"Do you have the test results for those bones?" Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao came out of the room.

"Mm-hmm." Gong Sun nodded. "They are a bit strange."

"What's strange?" Everyone stared at him.

"There are bite marks on the bones..." Before Gong Sun had finished speaking, he saw everyone take a breath of cold air.

Gong Sun waved his hand and said, "Don't imagine weird things. It wasn't bitten by a human."

"Whew..." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "What had bitten the bones?"

"...Canines, probably a wolf." Gong Sun shrugged. "That's how corpses in the wild are often treated."

"What about the fatal wound on the skull?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gong Sun nodded, "This is the interesting thing I mentioned." He waved at everyone, motioning them to follow him.

When they walked into the medical examiner's room, Benjamin followed curiously. He saw several skeletons that had been put together on the autopsy table, two of which belonged to humans while the rest belonged to animals.

"Look at these two skulls." Gong Sun pointed to the two skulls, then picked up a bone that was sharpened at one end, and said, "These two scars are caused by this one bone."

Bai Yutang took the bone and looked at it. "Did someone nail this bone into the head of the deceased?"

Gong Sun nodded. "This is a human thigh bone, but..." Gong Sun pointed to the two complete human skeletons and said, "It doesn't belong to these two."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other. Zhan Zhao then asked Gong Sun, "How long have these two been dead?"

"About a year." Gong Sun said, "A man and a woman, both are very young, between the ages of 25 and 30. They are both Asian."

"What about these animal bones?" Asked Zhao Hu.

"They are all the same." Gong Sun said, taking the skulls of a few animals. "Look, the scars on the top of their skulls are the same."

Everyone was silent. Zhan Zhao seemed to be interested in the sharpened bone as he kept looking at it.

"This is TVA's execution ceremony." Benjamin, who stood on the side, suddenly opened his mouth.

Everyone looked at him and waited for him to continue.

"TVA's symbol is a wolf," Ben briefly introduced to everyone. "It is said that Karula has Indian lineage, so he worships jackals. That's why he keeps a lot of wolves in captivity. When someone betrays him or he catches people who deserves to die, he will feed them to the wolves.

Bai Yutang nodded and looked at the heads of the bodies. Zhan Zhao put the bones back on the autopsy table and said, "It is the custom of the Indians to pay tribute to the wolf gods by nailing the skull with a sharpened bone, because the jackals like to suck on the brain. However, it is troublesome to bite and break the skull, so the Indians helped the wolf gods break the skulls."