Li Cheng felt his face glowing with pride for being able to invite Ji Yinshu to help him solve the case.

He walked with a spring in his step.

Combined with his official robes at this moment, he appeared even more imposing.

When they arrived outside the morgue, he deliberately flicked his sleeves.

The veteran coroner immediately stepped forward: “Magistrate Li.”

“Mm.”

“These two are?” The veteran coroner looked at the two people behind him.

He seemed somewhat puzzled.

Li Cheng coughed once, pointed at Ji Yinshu, and began introducing her grandly: “This is the expert I mentioned to you all before! She can not only reconstruct faces from bones and restore the appearance of the deceased before death, but can also brilliantly solve strange cases. I went through great effort to invite her here to help.”

As he spoke, he slightly raised his chin.

To emphasize his words.

Ji Yinshu took a small step forward, raised her hands and bowed to everyone: “My surname is Ji. I wouldn’t call myself an expert, merely a painter who understands life’s pulse.”

Li Cheng immediately said: “Master Ji, you need not be so modest. I’ve already told them all about your impressive abilities.”

Big mouth!

Ji Yinshu: “…”

Everyone’s gazes fell upon her one by one, most carrying doubt.

Because in their view, those who dealt with the dead were mostly rough, coarse men of advanced age. How could there be someone as clean and refined as Ji Yinshu?

At a glance, she was clearly a frail scholar.

Examining corpses to solve cases?

Was this truly not a joke?

But no one dared voice their doubts in front of Li Cheng.

Then, Li Cheng prepared to introduce Jingrong.

But just as the words reached his lips—

Jingrong said coldly with a stern face: “No need.”

That coldness was colder than the winter wind at this moment.

Li Cheng swallowed his saliva and had to give up.

At this time, the old coroner nearby stepped forward and said to Ji Yinshu: “You’re Master Ji, correct! Magistrate Li mentioned you before, saying you already know the deceased’s situation.”

“And you are, old sir?”

“I’m the coroner in this department.”

“I see.” Ji Yinshu cupped her hands toward him.

“Master is too polite. I’ve already examined that skull inside. The deceased was a girl around fifteen years old, who died three years ago, the same as what you told Magistrate Li, but… Master concluded the deceased drowned. I wonder where this came from?”

She said directly: “I saw it.”

“Saw? How can you see the cause of death? Master, please don’t speak carelessly.”

The atmosphere grew tense!

The old coroner clearly wanted to challenge her.

Ji Yinshu said calmly: “If I didn’t have complete confidence, how would this junior dare speak carelessly before you, venerable sir?”

The old coroner paused.

Just as he was about to say more—

Ji Yinshu glanced at the morgue and asked: “Is everything inside?”

Li Cheng answered eagerly: “It’s all there.”

She nodded slightly, then turned to Jingrong and said: “Wait for me outside.”

Jingrong nodded: “Call me if you need anything.”

“Mm.”

She went inside.

The people from the city department were all very curious, gathering around the doorway to watch.

The old coroner and Li Cheng followed her in.

The old coroner wanted to see just how expert this expert praised by Magistrate Li really was.

After Ji Yinshu entered, she walked straight to the skull covered with white cloth, took out gloves she had prepared from her sleeve, and put them on.

She lifted the white cloth!

The skull showed no particular changes, lying quietly on the cold slab.

She picked up the skull and examined it carefully from left and right for a while.

Her fingers lightly pressed several important positions like the occipital bone, nasal bone, and mandible.

She formed a direction in her mind.

The old coroner saw that Ji Yinshu’s bone examination movements were very skilled and appeared proper.

But he still harbored some doubt.

He had been a coroner for so many years. In all of Gaoding, even in all of Huyi, probably no one was better than him. How could such an extraordinary person suddenly appear out of nowhere?

He didn’t believe it!

He just didn’t believe it!

So he asked aloud: “Master Ji, how is it? What do you see?”

Ji Yinshu held the skull, paused, and stated definitively: “The deceased indeed drowned.”

“Where can you see this?”

“A person’s cause of death directly leads to changes in human bones. If the deceased died naturally, bones from many years after death won’t change much, but if it was an unnatural death, such as burning, hanging, drowning, falling, and so on, all will cause the bones after death to show varying degrees of change.”

“You’re saying that after a person dies, the bones still change?”

“What? Old sir, you don’t know this?”

“It’s not that I don’t know, I’ve just never heard such an absurd theory.” The old coroner laughed disdainfully.

Ji Yinshu was embarrassed and said: “Old sir, just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. This junior frequently deals with the skeletal remains of the deceased and has studied human bone structure somewhat, so I know these things. You are a coroner who examines the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and brain, so not knowing is actually quite normal.”

“You…” The old coroner choked for a moment and said, “Fine, then tell us, what changes exactly are on the deceased’s skull that let you determine she drowned?”

Every time Ji Yinshu examined a corpse, she couldn’t avoid explaining these “miscellaneous” theories to people.

This time was no exception.

The question the old coroner asked was exactly what everyone wanted to know in their hearts.

Each one stared at her.

Li Cheng moved even closer to her side, the better to hear clearly.

Ji Yinshu said: “If a person drowns, the greatest bone changes after death occur in the nasal bone and the upper maxilla at the lower end. First, the nasal bone shifts upward, causing the frontal processes on both sides to compress the lacrimal bones, producing fine crack-like fracture phenomena. The distance between the deceased’s frontal process and lacrimal bone shows exactly this phenomenon. Second is the upper maxilla. In drowning victims, the upper maxilla moves slightly toward the nasal bone, causing the originally round-ended piriform aperture to constrict and deform, becoming concave and uneven! These are all manifested on the deceased’s skull and can be seen with the naked eye.”

Everyone listened in a daze.

What was all this about?

They didn’t understand!

And—

Jingrong, standing under the eaves outside, also heard Ji Yinshu’s words.

But his expression was worried!

Because the more outstanding Ji Yinshu was, the more trouble she would attract!

Compared to him, Li Cheng was like an infatuated fool.

Staring at Ji Yinshu without blinking.

He knew Ji Yinshu was a woman, but had never revealed it.

He thought that if he could marry her home, it would be like he’d saved the galaxy in his previous life!

The old coroner was completely stunned!

He had been a coroner for decades, had seen all kinds of strange corpses—if not a thousand, then at least hundreds—yet had never studied human bones to this extent. So that when Ji Yinshu spoke of these things, even though he tried hard to listen, he was still utterly confused.

So he asked: “What you’re saying… is there any proof?”

“If you don’t believe me, old sir, you can find a skull from someone who died naturally for comparison, and see whether these two points I just mentioned are fabricated or based on solid evidence.”

Since Ji Yinshu dared say this, she naturally wasn’t afraid of others verifying it.

The old coroner shifted his feet and was no longer stubborn. He could only believe it for now.