Chapter 273 Braised Pork in the Dissection Room

The next day, Bai Nuo and Liu Yanan were taken to the Public Security Bureau branch early in the morning by Fang Meng and An Yun. When they arrived, forensic doctor Qiu was already waiting at the door, it seemed that he had not gone home all night again.

That's normal, though. Yesterday we suddenly discovered another victim. Even though there are no leads yet, the investigation can't stop.

Fearing something might happen to the three heads in the forensic lab, forensic pathologist Qiu decided to continue living in his office and personally guard them.

After dropping off the person, Fang Meng and An Yun drove away. They already had several targets, and their task for today was to dig out all the information about them.

After arriving at the forensic lab, Bai Nuo changed into a white coat and began working on the clay that Captain Li had brought back the day before.

In the quiet dissection room, a young girl in a white coat sat in front of the dissection table. A waterproof cloth was laid on the table, on which was placed a skull with its flesh removed. Next to the skull was a basin of mixed clay.

Bai Nuo took off her gloves, grabbed a handful of clay, and began to carefully attach it to the skull bit by bit.

"Aren't you wearing gloves?" Forensic doctor Qiu glanced at the medical gloves that the little girl had left aside and asked with some concern.

“No need!” Bai Nuo shook his head, looking at the skull in front of him expressionlessly, and explained in a calm tone: “When sculpting by hand, I’m not used to wearing gloves. I think it will affect the shape and size required when shaping the clay.”

"Oh, I see!"

Forensic doctor Qiu nodded blankly. Although he didn't understand, he was particularly obedient in areas of knowledge he didn't understand.

Bai Nuo nodded and continued with her work.

Liu Yanan leaned against the table next to her, quietly reading a book. Her role here was to accompany and protect the portrait artist specially hired by their unit, and she was very successful in playing this role.

The noise outside didn't affect the forensic lab at all. Captain Li came in this morning and whispered to Forensic Doctor Qiu about the severed limbs for a while before hurriedly leaving.

Lunch was brought back by forensic doctor Qiu from their police canteen: braised pork with potatoes, home-style eggplant, and stir-fried dried tofu with chili peppers.

The three men, who didn't discriminate between meat and vegetables, sat in the dissection room facing a table full of limbs, body parts, and three heads, and ate with relish. They even shared their thoughts on the braised pork.

During this time, Qiu's forensic assistant came by, opened the door, and then silently left. He felt out of place in the autopsy room and found it really hard to fit in.

"Isn't it strange? These four perfectly healthy people have been missing for over a month, and no one has reported it to the police." Forensic doctor Qiu ate a piece of braised pork, looking at the three gruesome heads with a sorrowful expression.

Bai Nuo pursed her lips and looked at the forensic doctor Qiu: "Do you think it's possible that even their family members, friends, or neighbors don't know they're missing?"

"Old Li also mentioned this. In the past half month, the team has been conducting investigations on people who have gone out to work or gone south. Our Kaiyuan City is not big, but it is not small either. The workload of investigating door to door is really too great. Even the police stations in various streets have been mobilized. There are just too many people."

Liu Yanan nodded in understanding: "That's true. Although it's inconvenient to travel now, there are too many people in the city who don't have jobs but still need to support their families. Especially those who are married and don't need to go to the countryside but don't have jobs, they have to go out and find work themselves. Going door to door to check on such people is indeed a huge workload."

Bai Nuo put down the lunchbox in her hand, took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth, stood up and said to the forensic doctor Qiu, "It's okay, the first head portrait will be ready today."

"Really!" Forensic doctor Qiu looked at Bai Nuo with a look of surprise and delight.

"kindness!"

"Alright, alright, thank you for your hard work, Comrade Bai. Just give me the lunchbox, I'll wash it, I'll wash it!"

The forensic doctor Qiu excitedly snatched the lunchbox from Bai Nuo's hand and hugged it tightly to his chest, as if afraid that Bai Nuo would take it back.

Bai Nuo: There's no need for that!

Forensic doctor Qiu was really efficient; he cleaned up all the empty lunchboxes on the table in just two or three minutes, and then happily went to wash them.

Liu Yanan twitched her lips speechlessly, then looked at Bai Nuo: "Are you really confident?"

She had never heard of Xiao Bai Nuo's amazing skills before. She knew about criminal portrait artists, and the General Bureau in Beijing and Shanghai also had such elite talents, but they were all well-known painters who had been retained from art schools. They were very good at portraits and had also studied professionally abroad.

I heard that several big shots in the public security system went to great lengths to protect them, and now they don't dare let those two leave the police station.

She had attended one of the teachers' classes when she was at the police academy, but she had never heard of that teacher being able to recreate the appearance of a skull with clay.

"Yes, don't worry, Sister Yanan, there won't be any problems." Bai Nuo smiled slightly, the corners of her mouth curving upwards.

She knew that police academies at that time did not have a systematic criminal sketching major, and the profession of criminal sketching was still in a very vague state. Moreover, criminal sketching was different from normal portrait sketching.

After all, this involves some criminal psychology, and it will probably take another ten years or so for this industry to develop.

Actually, Bai Nuo wasn't a professional, but she had learned too many different things in her previous life. The researchers at their base had done all sorts of things before the apocalypse, and they were all very enthusiastic about teaching her. She combined what she had learned, so she knew even more and more diverse things.

So, making a handmade sculpture is really not difficult for her.

After all, she's really good with her hands!

In this way, forensic doctor Qiu and Liu Yanan witnessed how Bai Nuo used half a basin of clay to gradually mold a skull without any flesh or blood into a normal human head, ultimately presenting an ordinary yet somewhat sinister face.

"This..." Forensic doctor Qiu stared at the head in shock, his eyes wide, his breath caught in his throat, and he almost choked.

Bai Nuo cupped the head in both hands, looked it over from left to right, and finally put it down. She picked up the paper and pen beside her and said, "That's about right. Wait a moment, and I'll draw it for you."

After all, we can't let the police officers in the criminal investigation team search for people with their heads in their hands!