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The victim was attacked on the head
while he was moving and suffered a skull fracture.
It does look like he fell and hit himself.
All the shoe prints came from the same shoe.
Only one person came to Reed Pond.
We can't do an autopsy yet.
The victim's family refused.
No one is to touch the body.
Can you be sure that it's a criminal case?
I'm more certain than ever that it's homicide.
The victim is already at a disadvantage.
Only we can help him.
His arms were restrained and then pushed to the ground.
He was pulled by his hair
and his head was smashed on the ground repeatedly.
He was severely injured and dumped into the wilderness.
He died from lack of treatment.
This is indeed the first crime scene.
Can you give us a profile of the unsub?
I think it's the victim's son, Xie Hao.
I didn't kill him! It was an accident!
What's wrong with you? Let go of me!
[Medical Examiner Dr. Qin] [Episode 9]
This is the autopsy report.
His cause of death is written right here.
Are you still going to lie to me?
I told you about getting a mortgage. Have you considered it?
Do you know how much I've spent on your treatment?
We can't keep spending money!
That's why I have to make more!
If I want to earn more I need to get a mortgage.
Go with me to the bank tomorrow.
We'll get the paperwork done.
Did you hear me?
Fine.
But it isn't what you think it is.
He come up to me and hit me.
I struck back out of self-defense.
I'll ask you one last time! Will you get a mortgage or not?
No.
Old man! Why don't you get it?
Tell me why you won't get a mortgage!
- Bastard! How dare you? - Will you get it or not?
I grabbed his arms and pushed him gently but he fell to the floor.
When I got near him to help him up he went into a frenzy.
He hit me even harder.
I flew into a rage so I grabbed his hair
and knocked his head on the floor a few times.
Old thing!
You won't get a mortgage? You won't?
You won't get a mortgage?
Say something! Speak up!
I checked his breathing...
I realized that he stopped breathing.
I panicked.
I didn't know what to do.
I thought about it for some time...
I decided I had to dump him in Reed Pond.
Checking for breathing isn't like what you see on television.
If the breathing is very shallow the fingers can't feel it at all.
This is another person who fell for television dramas.
Is kinship really worth less than money?
We don't know the rest of the story yet.
The rest of the story is as we have speculated.
He's too much of a smartass.
[Chi Zi's Kitchen]
No... Why doesn't she answer my calls?
It must be your fault.
It's the criminals' fault, okay?
Not only do they disturb public order
but also my personal relationships.
You keep talking about Baby.
But we've never met her.
Qin, have you met her?
No, and I highly doubt that this "Baby" really exists.
Isn't it a bit too scary to doubt me?
Doesn't that mean I'm always pretending to speak to Baby when I make a call?
Doesn't that make me pathetic?
Schrodinger's Baby.
The Baby we've never met...
It's a Baby that doesn't exist.
She already promised to come over.
It was just because there's no signal at Reed Pond
so I missed a few calls from her and she's angry.
I think that she should be our colleague for a few days
and then she'll know how hard it is.
Not necessary.
According to statistics in psychology research
59 percent of couples in the same occupation break up.
So...
The two of you...
[Baby calling...]
Hello, Baby?
Coming.
Hello, this is your parcel.
Thank you.
Thanks!
[From Qin Ming]
It's so pretty.
I've got it.
Qin Ming's not gay.
He's bisexual.
You are...
Good morning.
Bao?
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with me?
Have you lost your mind?
Can't I make some changes to myself?
Sure... Do whatever you like.
He has no taste at all.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it.
- I'm sorry. - Gu Feng!
Dinner time!
I'm sorry.
I really didn't mean it.
Dinner time!
- I told you... - I'm sorry.
I told you to come for dinner. Did you hear me?
- I don't want dinner! - You must!
Go and have dinner now!
Grandpa, can you speak to him nicely?
Why do you have to hit him?
You spoiled him!
Listen up!
Your parents left you here.
I have to discipline you!
Good for you! All you do is fool around!
You don't even want dinner now!
If you won't eat and then die who will be held responsible?
- It would be me! - Who told you to?
I'd rather starve to death!
Fine! Say that again!
Say that again!
Gu Feng! Gu Feng!
Will-o'-the-wisp...
This is bad...
There are evil spirits around.
Evil spirits!
Da Lu?
Da Lu, I'm sorry. Da Lu...
Da Lu, I'm sorry.
Will-o'-the-wisp?
It's gone viral.
So many people saw it.
They said that blue flames suddenly appeared on the lake.
They even follow people around.
You've read too many articles on the forum.
You're a civil servant and you believe in that?
I know that you don't.
You're a tough woman.
On that note, I have to say a thing or two.
The human body is mainly composed of three elements.
Do you know which three?
I knew that you wouldn't have a clue.
They are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
There are also other elements. Do you know them?
I bet you don't.
Phosphorus, sulfur, and iron.
There's a huge quantity of calcium phosphate in human bones.
When we're dead and buried six feet under
our body decomposes and the phosphorus in our body
will transform from phosphate into phosphine.
When phosphine is in contact with oxygen, it self-ignites.
Have you not studied this?
When I was at school
I was busy wooing girls...
Good.
Allow me to refresh your scientific mind.
When humans move
the air around our feet is low in pressure but flows fast.
Therefore, due to the atmospheric pressure
phosphorus flames would then follow the humans as they move.
No...
What is the ignition point of phosphorus?
40-something degrees Celsius. White phosphorus is easily inflamed.
See? What place could go up to 40 degrees Celsius at night?
Therefore, there are now two theories about that.
It's still debatable.
You do know that cremation is promoted nationwide.
Therefore, the possibility of will-o'-the-wisp is almost none.
If there's a will-o'-the-wisp
it's possible that there's a decomposed body.
It could be a dead dog.
It could be a dead pig.
What is that smell?
It stinks.
This stench is really strong.
This stinks.
Please let them through.
Thanks.
Over there.
It smells of a highly decomposed body.
It's at least a bloated cadaver or at worst just a skeleton.
It's not decomposed.
Is my nose not working?
Your nose is just fine.
It is indeed highly decomposed and slightly skeletonized.
There's this dividing line here on this leg. That's weird.
Indeed.
Come here.
Let's pull it out.
This smells too strong.
I don't dare to watch.
- This stinks. - It smells so bad.
Exactly.
Kids, why are you squeezing in here?
- What's that? - It stinks!
A dead body?
There's really someone in there?
- Exactly. - Who is that?
- It stinks. - It smells so bad.
It's just a child.
Have you confirmed the identity of the victim?
Not yet.
No one reported a missing child.
How often do they clean out the trash?
It's been quite some time.
There's a new trash collection point at the food court.
They have taken all the trash there.
That's why this is now a dead space.
It's all decomposing.
It stinks so badly.
This won't do. There's too big a crowd.
Let's do the examination back in the lab to avoid panic.
Sure.
Be sure to keep the skin intact.
- Don't damage it. - Okay.
Take it away quickly.
Do you need a hand?
No, we have to preserve the surface of the corpse.
It's best for us to do it.
That body must have been around for weeks.
It must have been more than just weeks.
It stinks so much already.
One, two, three!
Move aside.
Step aside.
Let them through.
Isn't that Lu Zhen?
How do you know that's Lu Zhen?
He has a birthmark on his belly.
Are you friends of the victim?
We didn't know him that well.
Right!
Gu Feng! Gu Feng!
Aren't you his close friend?
Was that him?
Kiddo.
Don't be scared.
Are you a friend of the victim?
Come over here.
Help us with the investigation.
[Autopsy Room]
The body is highly decomposed.
Adult maggots are feeding on the corpse.
It's about 15 mm long.
The victim's face is almost skeletonized.
The right side of the corpse is skeletonized.
The limbs are decomposed.
Skin on both his arms and right foot has almost peeled off.
The alternating white-green subcutaneous tissue is already exposed.
However, his left foot isn't decomposed.
Five centimeters above his ankle lies a sharp dividing line.
Above the dividing line the body is badly decomposed.
There are maggots on the flesh
but beneath the dividing line, the corpse is still fresh.
This really is very strange.
This is the first time that I've come across such a unique diving line.
The difference in decomposition levels is usually a gradient.
It's rare to see one so sharp.
Judging from the maggots
the victim must have been dead for about five days?
It's normal that there are flies.
But there are simply too many.
Even if the corpse was found in the trash bin
there shouldn't be so many maggots.
Let's clean up the body.
Sure.
Kiddo, don't be so nervous.
Tell me what you know.
Talk to me about Lu Zhen.
Lu Zhen and I were close friends.
His parents have been divorced for quite some time.
They don't live here.
His dad has a part-time job away from the city.
He has a stepmother and stepbrother.
She brought her son with her.
Did he have any enemies?
There's a thug called Li Li.
His nickname is Spring Chicken.
Xiao Liu, check that out.
Yes!
What happened between them?
Lu Zhen used to get into a lot of trouble.
Li Li collects fees for protection rackets.
Lu Zhen offended Li Li once.
What about these few days?
They seemed to have a fight.
On the 19th of June, did you see Lu Zhen?
No.
Captain Lin, we got him.
He's a regular here at the police station.
He gets into fights and collects protection racket fees. He did it all.
Captain Lin, the victim's identity is now confirmed.
It's Lu Zhen.
The victim is Lu Zhen.
Male, 13 years old.
He studied at Longfan City Municipal Second Middle School.
He went missing five days ago.
The time of death is estimated at about five days ago.
It indicates that he might have been killed on the day he went missing.
After his parents got divorced
his father got custody of him.
His father remarried.
He now has another child with his current wife.
At the moment, his father is working in another city.
Do you think...
Could this child have been trying to find something in the trash
and died accidentally?
That's impossible. This isn't an accident.
It's homicide.
Have you examined the wounds?
I can tell that the body is really decomposed.
Flies usually like to gather near warm and humid areas.
For example, the nose, mouth, and genitals.
If they gather anywhere else it means that there are wounds.
Look, here...
Here... Here and there.
After our examination, we discovered that when he was killed
he had many different wounds on him.
There are four different wounds.
First, there's an obvious wound on his brow ridge.
This would have been caused by blunt force trauma.
Only severe beating could cause that.
Judging from the angle at which the wound was formed
he was beaten from the left to his right.
The attacker could be left-handed.
We'll have to start with his enemies then.
Left-handed?
The second type of wound was on the victim's arms
and both sides of his body.
This oval-shaped wound.
It's much bigger but the edges are clear.
These wounds appear more than once.
They are here and over there as well.
We're not certain what caused them yet.
The third type of wound appeared on his lower abdomen and lower limbs.
It's this type of U-shaped wound.
There are fresh wounds and old ones.
But they were inflicted by the same weapon.
Here.
Let's flip the body over.
The last type of wound is on the back and waist.
They are graze or sliding abrasions.
There are two abrasions.
One was antemortem.
It could have been caused during a fall.
The other had no biological reaction.
It could have happened when the body was dumped.
The graze abrasion is obvious.
This means the body was dragged for quite some distance.
If the victim wasn't carried it indicates that
whoever dumped the body isn't very strong.
As usual, we'll look for the cause of death first.
Sure.
The areas around the victim's nose and mouth are a bit dark.
That means his nose and mouth might have been covered.
I'll check for pink teeth.
It hasn't turned pink.
He probably didn't die from asphyxiation.
Indeed.
Let's check the time of death from his stomach contents.
There's some residue in his stomach and duodenum.
But we can't really tell what he ate.
We can confirm that the victim died four to five hours after his last meal.
I can smell spicy hot pot.
The crime scene is near the food court.
It's not strange to smell spicy hot pot on him.
But can you tell if he had it for lunch or dinner?
I don't think that a child would eat a hot pot alone.
There must have been a group of friends.
I'll check to see who last met him for a meal.
There's hemorrhaging in his abdominal cavity.
We've found the cause of death.
Ruptured spleen.
If we correspond it to the U-shaped wounds on his abdomen
it was caused by trauma to the spleen.
It was hemorrhagic shock in the abdominal cavity
caused by traumatic rupture of the spleen.
There are so many wounds and they are all quite concentrated.
It seems that the murderer is very brutal.
All right, since the cause of death is now determined
I'll investigate those who had conflicts with the victim.
I'll leave you to your work.
What did this child have to endure on the day of his death?
These different wounds on the victim were inflicted by different weapons.
But it would be impossible to inflict so many different wounds in one fight.
We can't rule out multiple suspects.
We can't rule out multiple habitual suspects either.
Only by seeking out the unsub who inflicted each type of wound
will we find the true murderer.
He's been dead for almost five days.
The longer we're away from the time of the crime
the more difficult it is to find the murderer.
This case won't be easy to solve.
It's here. Come this way.
Here.
Li Li! Come out!
Li Li?
I know that you're home. Come out!
Li Li!
Li Li! Stop right there!
Stop!
Stop right there!
Stop!
Stop running!
Stop right there!
Let's split up!
Don't move!
It hurts!
- Be more gentle. - Sit!
Some silly lad.
Why did you run?
What exactly did you do to Lu Zhen on the 19th of June?
The 19th of June?
I don't quite know what you're talking about.
Don't act ignorant.
The bruises from a beating are obvious!
Once the forensic investigators take a look at you, they will know!
I just gave him a beating or two.
How dare he fight back?
If I didn't teach him a lesson how would I hold my head up?
I just beat him up one or two times.
I already went easy on him.
You went easy on him?
That's a human life that you took!
I took his life?
He... He's dead?
Yes.
This is what you called a beating or two.
Sure.
How many times have you said it?
Be good.
What is this?
Just this bit of money?
You're getting used to snatching money on my turf now?
Whose turf?
- My turf. - It's now mine.
My turf! Mine!
It's my turf!
- It's now mine. - Whose?
- Mine. - Say what?
- Mine. - Yours?
Whose turf?
Whose turf is this?
- Mine. - Whose turf?
- Mine. - Your turf?
I dare you to say it's your turf.
You're good at taking a beating.
Come on! Keep it up!
What is it? Go on! Hit me!
Get lost.
- Don't let me see you again. - Go on!
This is my turf! Come on!
Lu Zhen is really damn good at taking a beating.
I hurt my hands from hitting him.
He seemed all right.
Where did you hit him?
I punched him in the face.
He bled a bit.
Did you only hit his face?
Yes.
Pang Chao hit Lu Zhen a lot harder than I did.
Why didn't you question him?
Pang Chao?
Who is Pang Chao?
Look him up.
We got him.
Pang Chao studies at Longfan City Municipal Second Middle School.
His father is the mayor of our city.
It seems that he did inflict that wound on Lu's brow ridge.
You're right. He's left-handed.
That's why he caused a contusion on the right brow ridge.
But how were those lethal U-shaped wounds inflicted?
Pang Chao is Lu Zhen's classmate.
Let's start the investigation with him.
The students are in class but Pang Chao is absent.
Their teacher said that he's often training at a boxing gym nearby.
Shall we take a look?
A bunch of spoiled brats. Let's go.
That's Pang Chao.
He's always skipping classes.
He does quite well in boxing.
Why don't I tell him to come over here?
It's fine.
We'd like to talk to him in private.
Sure, go ahead.
All right, now! The class is over!
You're Pang Chao?
Yes. What is it?
We're police officers.
We have a few questions for you.
Do you know Lu Zhen?
I do.
How are you related to him?
We're friends.
Why have I heard that you often beat him up?
He's my sparring partner.
It's normal that I hit him.
I pay him 50 yuan per class.
Did you see him on the 19th of June?
The 19th of June?
I did.
Why do you remember it so clearly?
After our boxing session together
he said that he was going home so I treated him to hot pot.
I remember it very clearly.
It feels great to have hot pot in this season!
I don't actually eat anything spicy.
How can a guy not eat spicy food?
Have I picked the wrong restaurant?
It's all right!
This is the last meal anyway.
Hot pot for my last meal... It's as good as farewell to this place.
- He's dead? - Yes.
I definitely had nothing to do with his death!
- Boxers like us... - Da Bao.
We control our strength.
Your hands won't hurt if you use these.
You're so good to me.
What's more...
He was my buddy.
How could I possibly have beaten him to death?
You surely got it wrong!
Hit the same spot.
Step aside. Stop punching.
The second type of wound appeared on the victim's arms
and both sides of his body.
It's this oval-shaped wound.
It's much bigger but the edges are clear.
These wounds appear more than once.
We're not certain what caused them yet.
The punches do leave more or less the same kind of mark we found on the body.
The mark is bigger than the size of the fist.
And much lighter as well.
The bruises on the body were inflicted by the boxing gloves.
Kiddo, do you know why Lu Zhen was willing to be a sparring partner?
Was he short of money?
Definitely.
His eyes lit up at the sight of money.
What did he need money for?
He said that he wanted to leave this place.
Be honest with me.
Why are you working to earn money?
If you won't tell me...
Don't dream of getting paid today.
Bus tickets.
Bus tickets?
I want to get a bus ticket.
A bus ticket?
You... You're really going to leave?
You mean it?
Where are you going?
I've answered your question. Pay me now.
Here you go.
If that's the case, I'll give you another 50 yuan.
Tell me where you're going.
I won't tell you even if you give me another 100 yuan!
Will you still come back here?
What for? To get punched by you again?
I don't know about the rest.
How finicky.
You might lose your friends.
A little dirt never killed anyone.
Exactly.
You two will have to pay me another five yuan each.
You both added drumsticks.
Didn't you get one, too?
I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Based on my appearance and personality
it's unlikely that any man will provide for me.
I have to save up and look after my parents.
I have to be thrifty.
Don't be so pessimistic!
A pessimistic perspective but an optimistic approach.
That child is really tragic.
After all that happened to him his parents didn't even show up.
Not every family is happy.
It's the norm to be unfortunate.
Don't be so pessimistic!
This is destiny.
No one can break free from it.
All right...
Let's talk about something cheerful.
What cheers us up is that now we know
how some of the wounds were inflicted upon this child.
We have yet to distinguish a lot of the other wounds.
Especially that dividing line.
I still can't figure it out.
Fine.
All right, enough said.
Let's have lunch.
Come with me to Lu Zhen's home later.
We might discover some new clues, right?
Sure.
I don't want to pay for the drumstick.
Why won't you pay for it?
Now it's dirty and I don't want to eat it.
The chicken already died for you!
You have to pay for it.
Officer.
Have you caught the murderer?
We're still investigating the case.
We'll inform the family once we have more news.
Lu Zhen just turned 13 years old.
Who did he offend?
Mommy, I'm hungry.
There's some food. Go and help yourself.
You might already know about our family.
I'm not Lu Zhen's biological mother.
But since he was young...
I raised him.
His father never paid any attention to us all these years.
Now that Lu Zhen is dead...
I don't even know what to tell him.
Don't be too upset.
Can we take a look around?
Go ahead.
Thank you.
This room faces a good direction.
It's well-lit.
Judging from this, his stepmother treated him quite well.
There's only one photo in this room.
It's Lu Zhen and Gu Feng.
It seems that they were quite close.
That child didn't lie to us.
Who is this person?
It could be Lu Zhen's biological mother.
Lu Zhen's biological mother?
I heard that she divorced Lu Zhen's father
and abandoned Lu Zhen when he was still young.
[Kunming] (Capital of Yunnan Province) Kunming?
You're dipping cookies in the milk?
Kiddo, you're quite a gourmet.
You're shameless! How can you snatch cookies from a kid?
Inhuman.
Your son's leg is...
Lu Zhen took him out to play six months ago.
He had a car accident.
Sure, we won't disturb you any longer.
- Thank you. - Goodbye.
Goodbye.
- Is there a pond nearby? - Yes, I'll take you there.
Da Bao!
Let's go.
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