Abnormal Deaths!

What the hell is going on lately? Major cases keep popping up one after another!

First, the Italian Mafia in Los Angeles was massacred, and the killer was none other than "Deadpool"!

He almost became a laughing stock because of this, and a group of Deadpool fans even emerged demanding that Deadpool be awarded the title of "Super Hero"!

Just when things had calmed down a bit, another case of commercial espionage and theft involving six large companies came along!

Just when we thought we'd finally solved the case, less than a day later, an even more serious library shooting occurred!

No wonder the chief was so angry. The impact of the library shooting is not comparable to the killing of a member of the Mafia. Even if only a civilian dies, someone will be held accountable. If things go wrong, the chief of the Los Angeles precinct could be held accountable, demoted, transferred, or even forced to resign!

When David drove at breakneck speed to the UCLA library in California, the police who had arrived earlier had already set up a cordon. Seeing the injured being carried out on stretchers and the dead with their faces covered, David's expression turned somber.

Several of his men, who were closer and had arrived earlier, were waiting for him in front of the cordon.

"Boss!"

David flashed his FBI badge at the police officers guarding the cordon, then led several of his men across the cordon and headed into the library where the incident had occurred.

"What's the situation now?"

"Fifteen minutes ago, two UCLA students stormed into the library with handguns and attacked people inside. Preliminary statistics show that seven people died and sixteen were injured."

David's eye twitched involuntarily.

Damn it!

Where are the two murderers?

"Dead!"

"Dead? How did he die? Suicide?"

David turned to his men and asked.

Perpetrators of shootings are generally psychologically twisted to varying degrees. They often carry out attacks with the intention of dying together with their victims, and many shooters ultimately choose suicide.

"It wasn't suicide..."

"How did they die? Did the police have a gunfight with them?"

"No, that's not it! Boss, you see for yourself..."

As they talked, they arrived at the reading room where An Ran and her two companions had hidden. Several police officers and forensic doctors were examining the scene and taking photos as evidence.

David gave his subordinate a cold glance, which made the man shrink back before stepping inside.

Upon entering, David noticed a collapsed bookshelf in the corner and a body buried under books, with only two legs and half a head sticking out.

After the photographers finished taking pictures, a male forensic doctor in his thirties wearing gold-rimmed glasses, with the help of police officers, removed the books from the body one by one.

Once the obstruction was removed, the gunman's body was fully exposed.

He was still clutching a pistol tightly in his right hand, as if he had died instantly and hadn't had time to let go. What really attracted David was the body of the deceased. His entire left rib was deeply sunken into his chest cavity, as if his entire left rib had been broken by a tremendous force and sunk into his chest cavity.

This must be his fatal flaw!

David had seen similar deaths before, but those were from being hit by a car, while they were in the library!

However, looking up at the solid wood bookshelf embedded in the wall above, with its large broken shelves, it looks more like it was hit by a car.

"Can you determine how he died?"

David asked the forensic doctor who was carefully examining the deceased's body.

Forensic pathologist Baker withdrew his hand from the deceased's sunken left rib, stood up, and spoke to David.

"Six ribs on his left side were completely shattered and embedded in his chest cavity. Although there was no autopsy, I suspect that his heart and lungs were ruptured, and he died on the spot!"

"Judging from the broken ribs, it looks like he was kicked to death!"

"Kicked to death?!"

David couldn't help but look again at the deceased's sunken chest cavity and the large section of broken solid wood bookshelf on the wall.

If David hadn't known this forensic pathologist, Baker, and known that he wouldn't make things up, he would have thought David was joking!

This is not a movie!

Even top special forces soldiers skilled in combat, or fighting Champion with strong physical abilities, can at most break one or two ribs by kicking a person who is standing still, causing them to pierce their internal organs and die. They cannot possibly kick a person's six ribs so deeply that they are deeply dented into their chest cavity. Although the results seem similar, the difference between them is actually enormous.

When a person is standing there, after being attacked, they will move backward under the force of the attack, forming a buffer. The force cannot be fully applied, so the strongest force is actually at the moment of contact. At most, it can only break a rib, and the person will be sent flying. It is impossible for the rib to be dented like this.

Furthermore, even if the target is made to lie on the ground or against a wall, with no room for cushioning, and completely withstand all the attack power, given the strength of the human skeleton, it is still beyond human capability to completely shatter six ribs and kick the entire foot into the chest cavity!

However David did not believe it, the facts were right in front of him. The deep indentation in the chest cavity of the deceased was indeed the outline of a human foot. No one would be so bored as to specially make a large iron hammer in the shape of a foot and come to this library to deal with the gunman.

David went outside, his face full of confusion.

Have you checked the library's CCTV footage?

"We checked, but there were no cameras at this location, and the nearby surveillance footage didn't show anything either. All we could see was the killer walking over alone with a gun."

"Wasn't there another gunman? He was also kicked to death?"

David turned to his men and asked.

"The other gunman's death appeared normal, but..."

His subordinates still looked conflicted.

"Boss, you should go see for yourself."

David rolled his eyes at his subordinate, but didn't bother to say anything more. Led by his subordinate, he quickly arrived at the location where another gunman had been killed.

Looking at the body lying on the ground and the wound on its back, David frowned again.

It is clear that the gunman was stabbed to death from behind, but based on David's understanding of human anatomy, the wound does not seem to have avoided the ribs and spine, but rather went straight through most of the spine. Killers who do not understand human anatomy are likely to make this mistake. However, in this case, either the blade is blocked by the bones and cannot penetrate, or the blade is deflected and the cut becomes irregular.

But the wound on the corpse in front of me was clean and neat, as if it had encountered no obstacles and had pierced through the spine cleanly and efficiently.

The forensic doctor had completed the initial examination and was instructing two police officers to pack up the body and take it away for further examination when David stopped him.