Finn crouched down next to the body. He replied, without looking up, "This woman jumped off the building. She landed on her head, and she cracked her skull, which killed her. Other than that,..."
He lifted Lyra’s arm and squeezed it, from her fingers to her shoulder. Suddenly, his face changed color slightly.
Her bones...
Finn dropped the arm and quickly grabbed Lyra's other arm and squeezed it from her fingers up to her shoulder. Then he narrowed his eyes. An eerie dark glimmer flashed across the bottom of his eyes.
"What’s going on?" Julien asked. The strange look in Finn's eyes aroused Julien’s suspicion.
Finn stood up. He did not answer. He turned to Jase, "Please send the body to the morgue. I'm going to perform an autopsy on the body."
"If you want to dissect the body, I need to ask for permission from my superior," Jase said with a frown.
Finn nodded as he removed his gloves," Please do it quickly. It's crucial to this case.
Jase glanced at Finn and then at the body on the ground. He had no choice but to walk aside and make a call.
Julien narrowed his eyes and stared at Finn, "What exactly did you find? I can tell from the look in your eyes just now that something is wrong with the body, right?" Finn pushed his glasses upward and answered, "Yes, something is wrong with the body. I suspect it's not Lyra's."
"What do you mean?" Julien's pupils suddenly shrank, and his face changed color, "It's not Lyra's?"
Finn nodded, "70% chance it's not Lyra's. I spent some time abroad as a forensic intern, so I have knowledge about the human skeleton. Just now I touched the arm of the body and found that the bone of her arm does not match that of Lyra.
Although this body is about the same size as Lyra's, her bones are a little thicker than Lyra's, so..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Jase returned. "Dr. James, the superior officer has granted your request to dissect the body. Please do what you need to do. Thank you."
Finn nodded slightly, "It's OK. Remember to pay the autopsy fee to my account on time."
The corners of Jase's mouth twitched." Don’t worry. You'll get the money on time."
Finn then asked the officers to collect the body on the ground and take it to the morgue.
Finn looked at Julien, "I have Lyra's DNA on file at my hospital, so I’ll take a DNA sample from this body and compare it to Lyra's. If it turns out that their DNA doesn't match, then this woman is not Lyra and Lyra has escaped."
Julien clenched his fists, and his face was as cold as hell. The look on his face was frightening. "I understand. Go ahead. I'll take care of the rest."
Finn stopped talking, put his hands in the pockets of his green scrubs, and turned to leave.
Julien stood there, watching the officers gathering up the body on the ground, his thin lips compressed tightly, a storm raging in his eyes.
He believed what Finn had just said: this body was probably not Lyra's.
Earlier, on his way here, he had thought Lyra’s suicide was suspicious, as her motive was unconvincing and that the timing of her suicide was such a coinincidence.
He worried for a while that there might be something unanticipated.
And now it turned out he might have been right.
The woman who committed suicide may not be Lyra, but Lyra's double.
First, Finn said the body’s bones didn't match Lyra's, and then the woman's face was weird.
Julien looked up at the building.
He remembered that Lyra's ward was on the tenth ground. If she had jumped off from there, it would have absolutely killed her right away, but her face would not have been smashed to such an unrecognizable extent.
And, this woman’s face was a bloody mess. It was impossible to tell what she looked like.
When Julien first saw the body, he felt something was strange, but he couldn't tell.
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