Chūdō Kei, Who Has Autopsied 3,000 Bodies / The Mystery of the Goldfish in the Mouth?

However, Jiang Hang did not come here to see Miyamori Aoi and Yasuhara Ema. After entering Musashino City, he followed the navigation and drove his car to the UDI Research Institute located on the edge of Musashino.

Perhaps it was because Seiji Aso Minoru, a top student from the University of Tokyo's medical school, chose to switch careers to become a forensic pathologist, which drew attention to them, or perhaps it was because of a notification from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. In any case, when Jiang Hang and his group arrived at UDI, they were greeted by Director Kamikura, a former high-ranking official from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare who later became the director of the UDI Research Institute for some reason.

"I am Yasuo Kamikura, the director of UDI. I have received the request from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and can start the investigation immediately. The autopsy report will be ready by tomorrow morning." This former high-ranking official, who looked to be in his fifties or sixties, was extremely formal when facing Inspector Megure, a police inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. You could not tell that the other man had a glorious past.

The matter of negotiating with the station chief was naturally left to Inspector Megure to handle, while Jiang Hang looked at Seiji Aso, who was standing behind him, smiling and greeting him.

After some time apart, Seiji Aso's demeanor has changed considerably.

Previously on Moon Shadow Island, he wore women's clothing without any sense of incongruity, and even when he changed back into men's clothing, he still looked quite handsome.

In addition, at that time he was focused on avenging his father. Although he always put on an energetic appearance, a closer look revealed his inner unease.

Now, Jiang Hang has stopped his path of revenge in advance. His father's killers have already received their due punishment in court, and Seiji Aso no longer needs to pretend.

It's quite normal for Seiji Aso's temperament to change after she has released her original self.

Moreover, after switching careers to become a forensic pathologist, Seiji Aso, who deals with corpses all day long, looks much more disheveled than before.

"It seems your life has changed quite a bit since you became a forensic pathologist," Jiang Hang greeted Seiji Aso. "Transitioning from a regular doctor to a forensic pathologist, even with your prior experience, must not have been easy."

Seiji Aso nodded frankly. "Yes, at first I thought I could become a formal forensic pathologist in just a few months, but after learning more about it, I found that it was not that easy. I had to complete the autopsies of 200 corpses and publish relevant papers. Fortunately, my colleagues at the research institute were very supportive and helped me a lot. At the current pace, I estimate that I will be able to become a formal forensic pathologist after the New Year."

Jiang Hang nodded slightly.

Although forensic medicine is not yet a skill in his skill list, he has learned some related content in the learning space. Combined with his Poison Mastery, advanced combat skills, and reconnaissance skills, he is not that far from becoming a beginner forensic medicine practitioner.

If he really wanted to acquire this skill, he could spend a week or two studying in the learning space every night and add it to his skill list.

As mentioned before, studying in the learning space for half a month is equivalent to the results of someone else's year of study, while Seiji Aso has been a forensic pathologist for less than a quarter of the year.

Although Seiji Aso had a medical background, Jiang Hang also had one, which shows Seiji Aso's talent in this area.

Unfortunately, if Seiji Aso were an employee of his company, and Jiang Hang could give him a talent upgrade, he probably would have become an authoritative figure in the field of forensic medicine in just one or two years.

However, upon thinking about this, Jiang Hang suddenly realized that his Assassin Brotherhood could also trigger the training interface.

If we could bring Seiji Aso into the Brotherhood, that would be pretty good.

Although this matter is still far from being finalized, Jiang Hang thought about it and realized that there was indeed some room for maneuver.

There are actually quite a few similarities between Seiji Aso and Yusuke Sakata.

Both had fathers who were murdered by a group of people, and both learned the truth by chance after growing up, and then began to plan their revenge.

At this stage, the difference between the two is that Seiji Aso had been preparing for this revenge for several years, and even created a female identity for Narumi Asai to deceive his enemies. Moreover, before the revenge plan was launched, he was not as decisive as Yusuke Sakata, and even had the idea of finding a detective to stop him from taking revenge.

Yusuke Sakata, on the other hand, was much more decisive. After learning the truth about his father's death, he completed and began to implement his revenge plan within a week. If it weren't for Jiang Hang's appearance, he would have already eliminated everyone and then ended his own life.

However, such a difference is not surprising. Seiji Aso is, after all, a doctor who saves lives, while Yusuke Sakata is a detective in the investigation department. His main job is to arrest serious criminals. Given their completely different work environments, it is normal for their approaches to differ.

Given this situation, since Yusuke Sakata is willing to join his Brotherhood, Jiang Hang feels that he also has a high probability of Seiji Aso has a similar personality, into his Brotherhood, as long as he can find a suitable opportunity.

Of course, the more important task now is to confirm the exact time of death of the victim in this case. The matter of winning over the other party can wait until after this case is over.

Chapter 420: Chapter 416: The Kei Nakaido Who Has Dissected 3000 Corpses

With the help of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Jabil Radio Station was quickly set up and put into use, even though it was nearly 10 p. m.

The only thing that surprised Jiang Hang was that the person in charge of the autopsy was not Seiji Aso Shiki, who had just finished work and was called over by him with a phone call, but another middle-aged male forensic doctor who looked to be around thirty or forty years old.

After Seiji Aso's introduction, Jiang Hang quickly learned the forensic doctor's name.

Kei Nakaido is a senior forensic pathologist with over ten years of experience and more than 3,000 autopsies. He is also the most skilled forensic pathologist at the UDI Institute.

Seiji Aso is now considered a member of the Nakado Anatomy Group, and Kei Nakaido is his current superior.

However, Seiji Aso also whispered to Jiang Hang that this forensic doctor Nakado had a bad temper and might swear a lot during the autopsy. If Jiang Hang were to watch from the sidelines, he might even be asked to do some work.

Listening to Seiji Aso complaints, Jiang Hang looked at the man in front of the dissection table with his dead fish eyes and naturally curly hair, and quickly recalled the man's identity in his mind.

The male protagonist in an unnatural death, but that sounds a bit strange.

After all, Unnatural is a female-centric drama, and the most important character in the drama is naturally the female lead, Mikoto Misumi. However, a considerable portion of the subsequent scenes focus on Kei Nakaido, so it's normal to consider him the male lead.

However, there were no romantic scenes between him and the female lead in the drama.

To be precise, the female protagonist Mikoto Misumi, only had one boyfriend at the beginning of the first episode, and they broke up at the end of the first episode. After that, the female protagonist devoted herself to her work and had no intention of dating at all.

Meanwhile, Kei Nakaido, the male character with the most screen time, spends the entire story investigating the whereabouts of the murderer who killed his lover years ago, without ever considering whether he, as the male lead, should have any romantic sparks with the female lead.

In short, as Jiang Hang gradually recalls the plot of his unnatural death, the image of Kei Nakaido gradually becomes more three-dimensional in his eyes.

Since it's him, it's not surprising that he's here now.

After all, Seiji Aso is not a formal forensic doctor yet. Even if he can take some shortcuts in the certification process, he obviously still needs a professional forensic doctor to supervise the autopsy.

Aside from having a bad temper, Nakado Kei was quite dedicated to cadaver Kei Nakaido. In order to have more time to spend on dissections, he practically treated the research institute as his own home, and even slept on the dissection table at night.

As long as you can tolerate the curses he makes during dissections, you can still learn a lot from him—although Jiang Hang remembers that this man has such a bad temper that no one has ever been able to stick with him as a team for more than half a year.

Thinking of this, Jiang Hang couldn't help but look at Seiji Aso with some sympathy. Passing the forensic qualification certificate under this guy's tutelage was no easy task. Aso, you'd better keep trying.

That being said, Jiang Hang rarely comes to UDI, and it's even more rare for him to witness a professional forensic doctor performing an autopsy up close. He also wants to see how his assassin skills, honed in the system space, and his understanding of the human body compare to those of a forensic doctor.

Ignoring Seiji Aso's advice, Jiang Hang changed into Seiji Aso surgical gown and stayed in the dissection room.

Kei Nakaido wasn't exactly known for his politeness. Although it was his first time meeting Jiang Hang, and he knew Jiang Hang's identity as a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consultant and famous detective from Seiji Aso, he still snapped at Jiang Hang when he saw Jiang Hang preparing to stay in the autopsy room to observe the autopsy process, "Don't touch anything in the autopsy room. Just stand there quietly and don't move. If anything happens, don't blame me for kicking you out."

Just as Seiji Aso said, Kei Nakaido's temper was really bad when it came to dissection. As long as Seiji Aso, the assistant, was a little slow in handing over the tools, a string of curses of "bastard" would come from Kei Nakaido's side.

Jiang Hang indeed couldn't escape being bossed around. While dissecting the deceased's abdomen to examine the stomach contents, Kei Nakaido, who was focused on his work, didn't care who was standing next to him and directly instructed Jiang Hang to adjust the lighting on the dissection table.

Jiang Hang had never done lighting before, but Seiji Aso was already used to this kind of situation, so he took the initiative to adjust the lights.

But then Kei Nakaido started calling for tools again. Seeing Seiji Aso, Jiang Hang's eyelids twitched slightly.

The lights hadn't been adjusted, but Jiang Hang knew the dissection tools inside and out, so he simply walked to the side and started handing the tools to the old man.

Kei Nakaido, whose attention was entirely focused on the corpse, was completely unaware of his surroundings. As long as the tools he needed were in his hands immediately and the lighting he required was adjusted promptly, he had nothing more to say.

Soon, the results of the examination of the deceased's stomach were available.

This is also an important basis for investigating the specific time of death.

The stomach of most people will digest the food within 2-4 hours after eating.

The condition of the digestive residue in the deceased's stomach can help determine the exact time of death.

According to the witness statement provided by Miike Sato, the suspect, Higashida, went directly to the bar to drink after work in the evening and didn't leave until after 10 p. m. before being taken home.

If a normal person eats dinner at 6 o'clock, by 10 o'clock, almost four hours have passed, and the food in the deceased's stomach should have been almost completely digested or only a little bit of residue left.

However, based on the current situation, there is a lot of residue in the deceased's stomach, and it is even relatively easy to distinguish what the deceased ate for his last meal.

In other words, the deceased likely died within two hours of eating her dinner.

Unless the deceased, Ms. Muranishi, ate dinner around 8 or 9 p. m. that night, the remains found in her stomach would be the best alibi for Higashida.

If Higashida didn't have the opportunity to commit the crime, then according to Higashida, Kitagawa, who was on leave from work that day, would suddenly become the prime suspect most likely to commit the crime.

If Conan can find the surveillance footage of Kitagawa buying curtains and bedding, and the police can investigate the true relationship between Kitagawa and the deceased, they can arrest Kitagawa directly.

Chapter 421: Chapter 417: The Mystery of the Goldfish in the Mouth?

However, although the time of death can be determined relatively accurately based on the contents of the stomach and other traces on the body, the autopsy obviously does not end there.

The police and detectives had already ruled out Higashida as a suspect at this point and could use that information to question Kitagawa at that time. But for the forensic doctor, there was more to it than that.

To reconstruct the deceased's information as thoroughly as possible before death, including their physical condition, what they ate, and their physical reactions before death, is what a qualified forensic doctor should do.

Seeing that the other party was still constantly asking for various tools and carefully examining the corpse in front of him, Jiang Hang didn't say anything more, but continued to cooperate with the other party to complete the next autopsy.

With Jiang Hang's assistance, Seiji Aso's workload was naturally reduced considerably. However, he did not remain idle; instead, he continued to make anatomical records in his notebook as the Kei Nakaido dissected the body.

If it's just a simple external examination of the body, the process is naturally very simple. For a senior forensic doctor like Kei Nakaido, it only takes about ten minutes to examine the condition of a body's external organs and skin.

However, because they now need to perform detailed autopsies on the bodies, the time required has naturally increased exponentially.

By the time the autopsy was completed, it was already past midnight.

Of course, that's not all. The various components extracted from the body need to be further tested and recorded before they can be submitted as a formal autopsy report.

Generally, this kind of examination process takes two or three days, but the police don't have to wait that long. After confirming the discrepancy between the deceased's time of death and Higashida's movement trajectory, Conan should have also discovered a lot of useful clues. Inspector Megure has already hurriedly applied for a search warrant to prepare to cause trouble for Kitagawa.

What happened next was naturally none of Jiang Hang's business. After learning the time of death, Inspector Megure Miike Sato quickly said goodbye to Jiang Hang and the others before driving away. It was clear that tonight would be another night of overtime.

"The police are really working hard. I hope they can find the real culprit tonight so that Higashida can attend his daughter's wedding smoothly," Seiji Aso sighed softly as he watched the police leave.

"You've all worked hard. If it weren't for your help, finding a forensic doctor to assist at this time wouldn't be easy," Jiang Hang nodded to Seiji Aso and Kei Nakaido, expressing his gratitude. "Are you hungry now? Would you like to go get some late-night snacks? I'll treat you to something nice."

Seiji Aso waved his hand, indicating that it wasn't necessary. After all, it was already past midnight, and having a late-night snack would probably take until one or two in the morning, and they had to go to work tomorrow.

"Let's talk about it another time. By the way, I remember your institute's official name is the Unnatural Death Investigation Laboratory, right? Working in a place like this, you have a lot of responsibility. If there's anything you need my help with, feel free to call me anytime."

Jiang Hang was saying this to Seiji Aso, wondering if he could get involved in UDI Research Institute's cases and get a few freelances in the future.

Besides, it was too late today, and I didn't get to see the forensic doctor, Mikoto Misumi. I'll have to find another opportunity to come here and sit for a while.

On the other Kei Nakaido, Nakado Kei's attitude towards Jiang Hang, the detective, changed slightly after the autopsy. He didn't care whether Jiang Hang was a great detective or a celebrity in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, but he and Jiang Hang cooperated quite well during the autopsy.

Although it was their first meeting, it was clear that the other person was quite familiar with the dissection tools and didn't seem to care about the foul language he used during the dissection. This was much better than the other member of the Nakado group besides Seiji Aso.

If we could bring him over, it would definitely improve the efficiency of their team's dissection work.

Of course, the Kei Nakaido also knew that this was impossible.

Although he wasn't interested in famous detectives, Seiji Aso mentioned Jiang Hang's name to them more than once since he came to UDI. Even if he wasn't interested, he would still hear a lot of things when others discussed Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang, a famous detective who can become an advisor to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, probably earns more than the government subsidies that the UDI Research Institute can apply for in a year. Moreover, according to Seiji Aso, this famous detective seems to be a person who is not short of money, and he came to Japan from abroad to work as a detective.

Before meeting Jiang Hang, Kei Nakaido naturally wouldn't have any particular thoughts about this famous detective he'd never met. But after they'd met and worked together once, and after hearing from Jiang Hang that he could ask him for help with an investigation, Kei Nakaido suddenly had some new ideas.

If you were a detective like that, could you help me find the murderer from back then?

Several years ago, Kei Nakaido's fiancée was murdered by a mysterious killer and abandoned in a garbage dump. When his ex-girlfriend's body was discovered by the police and sent to the autopsy table as an unidentified corpse, the forensic doctor standing on the autopsy table was himself.

However, in the end, he was unable to find many traces left by the murderer on his girlfriend's body. The only thing that could be treated as evidence was a mark inside her mouth that looked somewhat like a goldfish.

He had initially kept the clue of the mark in his mind, thinking it was just a common mouth ulcer and hadn't thought about it too deeply. It wasn't until four years ago, during an autopsy, that he rediscovered the goldfish mark, almost identical to the one on his girlfriend's mouth, during the autopsy of another woman in her twenties. Moreover, the police had also failed to find the murderer of the victim, which made him take notice of it.

It wasn't until six months ago, when he discovered the goldfish mark for the third time on an abandoned corpse, that he finally confirmed it was a serial murder case spanning eight years, and that the murderer who killed his fiancée was still creating new victims.

It can be said that he joined the UDI Institute in order to more easily find corpses with goldfish marks in their mouths. He even approached a funeral home worker to help him find those corpses with goldfish marks in their mouths.

Now, the appearance of Jiang Hang, this famous detective, has only given him some new ideas.

However, he was still just observing the "famous detective" in front of him with his own eyes, who seemed to have nothing special about him and even seemed to have little presence when he stood there, without telling him about this matter directly.

This was the most important secret of his life, and he certainly wouldn't reveal it so easily before confirming the detective's abilities.

If there's another chance, let him see the detective's skills firsthand, and then let him make the decision.

Chapter 422: Chapter 418: The Case Closed

While the Kei Nakaido was considering getting help from Jiang Hang was also thinking about whether there was a chance to bring Seiji Aso and the Kei Nakaido into his Assassin Brotherhood.

Seiji Aso, needless to say, is a genius from the University of Tokyo's medical school.

Kei Nakaido is also a senior forensic doctor with more than ten years of experience. Apart from having a bad temper, his skills and professional attitude are absolutely exemplary.

Even if we can't directly bring him into the Brotherhood, maintaining a good relationship with them is still very important.

Besides, Kei Nakaido wasn't exactly a good person to begin with. His main purpose in joining UDI was to find the murderer who killed his girlfriend.

In Jiang Hang's memory, in one episode of Unnatural Death, after Kei Nakaido met a man with a similar experience to himself, and after finding the murderer in that case, he did not even try to stop the man from taking revenge on the murderer. He even clearly told everyone that if he found the murderer, he would also take the same revenge on the murderer.

In fact, in the final chapter, in order to interrogate a reporter who possessed evidence of the murderer's actions, he even induced the reporter to drink a deadly poison.

It was only thanks to the female lead's timely arrival and her persuasive skills that he was pulled back from the brink of despair.

Jiang Hang had no doubt that if he could find the serial killer before the finale and present all the evidence to him, the Kei Nakaido would be willing to do anything for him.

Unfortunately, Tokyo is so big that even though he knows some information about the culprit, finding his trail in advance is not an easy task.

Jiang Hang took this matter to heart and prepared to investigate the case gradually.

After obtaining Kei Nakaido's contact information, Jiang Hang drove back to his office to rest.

The next morning, as usual, Jiang Hang received a notification from Inspector Megure early in the morning.

After obtaining the search warrant, the police immediately went to Kitagawa's home to conduct a search.