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35. Aftermath of the dance

Three people died at the scene, and the police department must file a case. Mick did not get too involved, and Witte became the leader of the case investigation. Therefore, Kawei was not interested in the various scattered news brought by 303, which were all trivial.

It's just a trivial matter, what he is really interested in is the results of Werther's investigation.

Judging from the on-site investigation in the morning and the autopsy after Musil went to the hospital in the afternoon, it was obvious that Mr. and Mrs. 102 were poisoned to death. The specific poison was not difficult to detect, which was arsenic [1], while Shaden was dead.

Typical mechanical asphyxia.

Witte was very experienced in homicide cases, and he could tell at a glance that Shaden was strangled to death from behind. It was not an ordinary rope strangulation, but a pair of powerful forearms.

Because of this, we can basically rule out the suspicion of 303 and Kawei.

303 is old and frail, and Kawei is also very thin. The two of them can't fight against Xiaden, who is two times stronger than them. Even in a simple 1-on-2 fight, without the help of weapons, Xiaden will not be able to defeat him.

At a disadvantage.

Moreover, strangulation with the upper limbs will definitely result in a counterattack by the other party. Even through clothes, some scratch marks can be left on the arms. But let alone the arms of these two people, their whole bodies are extremely clean, and there is no sign of a fierce struggle.

In addition, in terms of motivation, there was no reason for the two of them to kill.

Shaden came to Vienna to fight for the inheritance rights, but he was just a distant relative of Andre, and he did not have a will. But I heard that there was a lawyer here to prove that there should be a complete and legally compliant will, and there would be no problem with the inheritance rights.

.

If Witte didn't see the will, he would definitely continue to check it. The reply to him at that time should be: after appraisal, there is no problem with the will, and Kawei is the sole heir of Andre's property after his death.

After 303's embellishing of the whole thing, another process unfolded before Werther's eyes.

When the couple in Room 102 and Shaden were fighting for the right to inherit the inheritance, Kawei stepped in. The three of them held a grudge, and after retreating, they huddled together to try to figure out what to do.

But during the discussion, Shaden found that he would definitely lose without a will. In order to get rid of his competitors, he secretly poisoned the couple and then blamed Kawei. The couple also felt that Shaden existed.

After noticing something strange, they were ready to strike first and collaborated to strangle Xia Den to death.

From beginning to end, Werther misses the lawyer, and Carvey's transfer of the body also obscures the time of death to a certain extent.

In Witte's opinion, the scene where the three of them killed each other is indeed a coincidence, but it can be regarded as a reasonable explanation even if there is insufficient evidence. Even if Kawei is questioned later, the main purpose is to understand what happened.

It's hard to put any doubt on his head.

As for exchanging news with Mick, it would be more troublesome.

Before Kawei, 303 was one of the few people in Building 73 who could read and write, so he took charge of the "work" of sending and receiving emails for everyone. In addition, he was the only one in the building who stayed in the building all day, so

The burden of sending and receiving emails every day fell on him.

Every day, the post office's special carriage will pass by Basinger Street at 7:25 in the morning and 16:22 in the afternoon, and 303 will stand at the door to send and receive mail.

"If there's nothing special, there's no need to send an email, just keep it on record."

"What is a special thing?"

"There are changes in the tenant list, changes in life trajectories, strangers that have never been seen appear, and some illegal activities are discovered, etc." 303 said, "Usually that's all, sometimes drastic emotional changes also require

Report it."

"Just leave the record and send the email to the Archives Bureau?"

"Um."

303 turned to today's record again: "For example, Miss Milika in Room 202 usually leaves at nine in the morning and comes home at five in the afternoon. But today she didn't come home on time, which is considered a special situation. I guess she found a new job.

Working overtime to make up for the day's working hours.

Mr. Genard from Room 101 has not returned yet, but considering he complained last night that he had to go to a rich man's mansion to help today, it is normal."

"So you don't have to report all of this?"

"In principle, you don't have to report it." 303 hesitated for a moment, "But you have seen how cruel Mr. Mick is. Personally, I prefer to report it at least every three days."

"Then just report it."

"OK."

After speaking, 303 took out a code book [2]: "If it is an ordinary report, you only need to briefly state the content. If you encounter special circumstances, you need to use this."

"It's not that bad..."

"No way, this is what Mr. Mick asked for."

"Can't it be in Latin?"

"You think he knows Latin?"

The codebook is just a simple digital table. The principle is not difficult, but when it comes to using it, it is very energy-consuming. In order to reduce the workload, Kawei can only reduce the content to be reported and try to be as streamlined as possible.

But even so, after completing the text of the day's report, he still felt dizzy.

After the handover with 303, Kawei rested for half an hour and waited for his eyes to recover a little before he started to deal with the rabbit heads. The tools at hand were limited, only the pliers and scissors he used in daily life. Fortunately, he was not doing anything delicate.

It doesn’t matter if the movements are rough because of the anatomy.

What Alphonse wanted was rabbit meat, and he treated the rabbit head very casually. The cutting positions were distributed between the 2nd and 5th cervical vertebrae.

In order to take out the brain tissue, Kawei needs to first trim the short end appropriately to expose the foramen magnum. Then peel off the skin and most of the muscles on the head, use ordinary pointed scissors to insert through the foramen magnum, with the blade attached

The bones were carefully cut to the vicinity of both eye sockets.【3】

After making the incisions on both sides, hold the bones at the foramen magnum with your hands and gently lift the skull upwards, and the complete brain tissue will be revealed.【4】

Generally it is not difficult to get to this step, but the troublesome part comes next.

The rabbit brain is smaller than that of other animals, and the pituitary gland is also in an awkward position. It is sandwiched between the skull base bones. When peeling off, you need to pay attention to the surrounding bone fragments. During the dissection, Kawei also tried several methods, and finally chose to do it first.

Remove all brain tissue [5] and then slowly work on the remaining parts.

The rabbit pituitary gland is very small, and the carefully cut posterior lobe needs to be dehydrated on dry paper overnight and needs to be dried for a whole day before it can be used.

The dried pituitary gland needs to be ground for a long time to make a fine dry powder. Then put it into a test tube at the ratio of 15ml of water per g of dry powder. After slowly leaching for 40 minutes, manually centrifuge and wait for complete precipitation.

Collect the clear liquid, immerse the remaining residue in clean water according to the previous ratio, and then extract.

The conventional preparation method requires repeated extraction four times. With the limited instruments at hand, Kawei could not guarantee the extraction rate, so he simply increased the number of times to six times to finally obtain the most basic posterior pituitary gland extract.

But these are all things for later.

At five o'clock the next morning, Kawei got up, spread the dehydrated rabbit pituitary gland on paper, and let it dry naturally.

After leaving home at 5:30, he did not rush to the hospital. Instead, he walked in the opposite direction and went to the Forestry Bureau where he worked before. He found several old friends. After explaining his current situation to them, he explained the purpose of his visit.

, finally after a while of bargaining, they decided to purchase the voles for 10 Hellers each.

His friend was very interested in his recent experiences, thinking that he had gotten into some kind of business and gave up his job of chopping trees. Kavi could only blame Alphonse for everything, and only said that there was an unknown Frenchman.

The chef was in need of some voles to test the dishes, so he escaped questioning.

After making preparations, Kawei finally got on the public carriage and returned to the hospital.

His original plan was to finish his work early and go home early in the afternoon to continue experimenting with oxytocin. Unexpectedly, he met Ignatz as soon as he arrived at the door of the hospital. In addition to secretly marveling at the other person's evening dress, Kawei still couldn't bear it.

He asked: "Teacher, why are you so early?"

"Morning?" Ignatz looked very tired. He opened the pocket watch on his waist and said, "It's indeed quite early."

Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Kawei immediately thought of the quarrel between the couple yesterday and the dance he was going to attend that night. Various possible situations kept jumping into his mind. His identity was far from being able to talk to each other about private matters.

I really didn't dare to ask further questions, so I had to follow him quickly back to the third ward.

Ignatz walked quickly and lost his usual arrogance. He didn't seem to be coming to work, because he didn't run to the office to change clothes but plunged into the anatomy room. He stayed there for about ten minutes.

Finally, he opened the door suddenly and hurried out carrying his surgical tool box.

"Where's Hills?"

"Dr. Hills has an anatomy class at the medical school in the morning, so he probably won't come to the hospital in the morning."

"Where's Herm?"

Kawei briefly explained the work schedule of the two doctors this morning: "Dr. Hermann has a liposarcoma resection in the morning, but the time is scheduled for 9 o'clock. According to his usual time, it is expected to take about half an hour to arrive.

Hospital."

Ignatz was very anxious. He looked at the front and back of the surgical ward and couldn't bear to let him continue to pick people: "Forget it, you come with me!"

"Let's go? Where?" Kawei put down the medical records in his hand. Although he was still asking questions, his body had already followed.

"Central City, Whitegreen Street, you'll know it when you go there."

...

Maybe it was because Kawei's attention was focused on Ignatz when he entered the hospital just now, so he didn't take a closer look at the carriage he was riding in.

After leaving the courtyard gate, I discovered that this carriage had been parked on the street. It was also very different from ordinary taxis. The body was doubled in size, and the number of horses was increased from 2 to 4. The carriage and horses were

The decoration is also much more luxurious.

A very typical aristocratic private carriage configuration, a symbol of personal status. The price of renting one alone is enough to rent a good suite apartment in the central city.

The incident did happen at that ball, but it had nothing to do with the quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Ignatz. In an occasion full of nobles, they would not reveal the little things that happened between them to tarnish the image of the two families.

Shortly after getting in the car, Ignatz, who had remained silent, finally spoke: "Relax and be ready for the surgery when you get there."

Kawei knew that the matter was not simple, so he just nodded and still didn't say much.
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