Bai Mo's words made all colleagues who had been looking for Yueyue take a step toward him.
Lu Wan took a deep breath and asked in a low voice: "Are you sure?"
"I'm pretty sure." Bai Mo closed his eyes and tried his best to control his emotions that were about to go berserk. "I studied drowned corpses with Uncle Qin. I can easily restore the appearance of such corpses."
Repeated questions and repeated answers broke the last trace of luck in everyone's heart.
"Fuck!" Zeng Hao yelled, squatting down and scratching his hair hard.
Chen Xiaoxiao slowly lowered her head. She clenched her fists, which were shaking slightly due to excessive exertion.
Seeing the various expressions of disappointment on the part of a team of police officers, Qin Youwei asked Lu Wan in a low voice, "Is the deceased the child you have been looking for these days?"
Lu Wan nodded and sighed: "No autopsy for now. I will notify the family members later to identify the body. This matter is a bit complicated."
Bai Mo was stunned for a moment when he heard the word autopsy. He thought Yue Yue was swept away by the waves and came here with the impact of the sea water. The wounds on his face were caused by hitting the rocks.
Why would such a typical seaside drowning require an autopsy?
Lu Wan put a hand on Bai Mo's shoulder and whispered: "The deceased did not show signs of drowning. It is initially judged that he was killed and thrown into the sea."
The roar rang in Bai Mo's ears, and he quickly looked at the body again. The forensic doctors had already left with the stretcher.
When they returned to the police station, Ma Changzhou and his wife were already waiting outside the Public Security Bureau building.
This was the first time Peng Yan appeared after Yueyue disappeared. Lu Wan found that Peng Yan had many bruises on her face, and many scars could be seen under the gauze-like sun protection clothing.
Seeing Lu Wan appear, Ma Changzhou and Peng Yan rushed to greet him.
"Captain Lu, have you found my son?" Ma Changzhou asked excitedly.
Seeing Peng Yan limping up, Lu Wan curled her lips, looked at Peng Yan and asked, "Why are you so injured?"
Peng Yan quickly lowered her head, twisted her head slightly in the direction of Ma Changzhou, and then raised her head again, "I fell by myself. Have you found the child?"
Zeng Hao and others visited near the coast, and only Lu Wan, Bai Mo and Chen Xiaoxiao came back.
Bai Mo and Chen Xiaoxiao looked at Lu Wan carefully. If it were them, they wouldn't know how to speak.
"We found a body on a rocky beach on the north coast today. It is initially determined that it belongs to Ma Yueming." Lu Wan's tone was stiff and slow.
Peng Yan instantly collapsed on the ground. She stuffed her fingers into her mouth and bit her fingers hard. Tears couldn't stop falling from the corners of her eyes without making any sound.
"Preliminary judgment?" Ma Changzhou was unusually calm. He nodded slightly, "So you called us here to identify the body, right?"
"Yes!" Lu Wan glanced at Ma Changzhou. She was surprised by the father's calm behavior.
"Let's go then!" Ma Changzhou looked around, "Where can we identify the body?"
Lu Wan pointed in the direction of the forensic building in the distance, and then walked there.
Ma Changzhou had just taken two steps to catch up, then looked back at Peng Yan, who was slumped on the ground. "If you want to come, follow him. If you don't come, get out of here."
Peng Yan trembled for a moment, then stood up quickly. She followed tremblingly. Chen Xiaoxiao, who couldn't stand it anymore, supported her, and Bai Mo followed at the back.
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Arriving at the medical examiner's morgue, when the medical examiner Yue Qing lifted up the white cloth, Peng Yan's screams followed one after another.
These are the parents. They don't have Bai Mo's ability to restore the appearance of a corpse, but they can recognize their son at a glance in their own way.
Seeing that Peng Yan was about to pounce, Chen Xiaoxiao and Yue Qing immediately stopped her.
"We still need to dissect the body for further autopsy, and we can't touch the body now." Yue Qing said.
When she heard that the body was going to be dissected, Peng Yan cried even louder. She shouted at the top of her lungs: "Why do we need to dissect him? He is still a child! Why do you dissect him? I don't agree!"
Peng Yan was still crying, but Ma Changzhou grabbed her hair and pulled her out of Chen Xiaoxiao and Yue Qing's hands.
Ma Changzhou was so strong that he pulled Peng Yan by her hair and threw her to the ground, "Shut the hell up!"
While roaring, Ma Changzhou walked towards Peng Yan, looking ready to fight.
Bai Mo quickly stood in front of Peng Yan, and Lu Wan on the side roared: "If you do anything again, I will detain you."
As expected, Ma Changzhou stopped and shouted to Peng Yan behind Bai Mo: "If you want to cry, go out and cry. Don't affect the police's handling of the case!"
After saying that, Ma Changzhou looked at Lu Wan again and withdrew his fierce eyes, "Captain Lu, what do you mean by doing an autopsy? Do you suspect that my son was killed?"
Lu Wan pursed her lips. Before identifying the body, she could still understand Ma Changzhou's calmness. It was his social experience that supported him. But now that he knew that his son was dead, why was he still so calm?
In criminal cases of unnatural death, the police do not need to obtain the consent of the family members for autopsy, but the police will generally seek the opinions of the family members in a symbolic manner when the family members are present.
"The preliminary autopsy determined that the cause of death of the deceased was not drowning. It was suspected to be mechanical asphyxia, so a detailed autopsy is required." Lu Wan explained briefly.
"I understand." Ma Changzhou nodded slowly, "I agree to the autopsy."
Ma Changzhou looked at his son's body again, but there was still no big disturbance in his eyes, "I suggest you check up on my lover Ling Xiaoyue. Although I promised to marry her, I said I would not have any more children. She was originally missing. Participant, has the ability to take Yueyue away, I suspect she lied to me."
Chen Xiaoxiao was also shocked by Ma Changzhou's calmness. How could this look like a father who lost his child?
Ma Changzhou bypassed Bai Mo and came to Peng Yan's side. Peng Yan pursed her lips to hold back her cry, and a trace of blood mixed with saliva appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Let's go! Don't delay the police's handling of the case. We are wasting their time." Ma Changzhou whispered, then helped Peng Yan and walked out the door.
When he came to the door, Ma Changzhou looked back again.
Because of the angle, Yue Yue's body was blocked by Yue Qing and Chen Xiaoxiao, but Ma Changzhou stared at it for more than ten seconds as if he could see through it, and then left the morgue with Peng Yan.
"What a weirdo." Chen Xiaoxiao muttered softly.
Bai Mo, who had been silent throughout the entire process, disagreed. He was very familiar with Ma Changzhou's calm behavior.
In Bai Mo's sealed memory, the same thing happened when his father Bai Yonghui saw his mother's body. He didn't shed any tears or show any excitement, but calmly directed his men to investigate the case.
Many years later, Bai Mo heard this sentence abroad: there are no tears when you are extremely sad.
In Bai Mo's eyes, Ma Changzhou was sadder than anyone else, but he had no tears or depression. He just wanted to find the murderer as soon as possible and avenge Yueyue.
Bai Mo is also familiar with this feeling.
