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Chapter 239 Death by Impalement
I frowned, my forehead creasing deeply. "When is this body found? Have you ascertained the time of death?" I asked the police officer. I would have peppered him with a flurry of more questions when I suddenly realized that I had not even known his name. Scratching my nose abashedly, I asked him, "Urm… I'm afraid I still don't know your name, officer?"
The policeman looked nowhere near as perturbed by my inadvertent lack of manners. "The victim was found in this condition somewhere at around 17:30, which is almost an hour ago. Forensics shows that the time of death is somewhere between 3 to 3:30 pm. That means this corpse has been hanging up there for almost two hours before it was discovered. But it's not surprising, considering that this scene is quite a ways from the main road and it lies away from the scanning range of our real-time cameras. Ah, yes. My name is Wang Qingwen, a Captain of the Criminal Investigations Division of the Yi County Police Force. I have once
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