You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Lin Chen had just put the four shielded earrings into a specially made jewelry box and placed it in his pocket when his phone vibrated.

When I took it out, I saw it was a call from Jiang Tingxue.

"Tingxue, what's wrong? Are you hungry? There's some medicinal porridge in the kitchen," Lin Chen said gently as he answered the phone.

However, the voice coming from the other end of the phone made Lin Chen's eyes sharpen instantly.

"Husband...come to the station immediately." Jiang Tingxue's voice trembled slightly, a rare occurrence, and her teeth chattered. "This corpse...it's too eerie. I've never seen a death like this before!"

Jiang Tingxue is the chief forensic doctor of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. Normally, even when faced with a dismembered and highly decomposed corpse, she wouldn't even flinch.

The fact that it could frighten her and even make her voice tremble indicates that this was no ordinary murder case.

"Don't be afraid, wait for me, I'll be there soon."

Lin Chen hung up the phone, rushed out of the basement, jumped into the Phaeton, and floored the accelerator. The car sped out of the courtyard alley like a black beast.

Twenty minutes later, Lin Chen strode into the forensic room of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.

The temperature in the forensic lab is kept at an extremely low level year-round, and the air is filled with the pungent smell of formaldehyde and disinfectant.

At this moment, several people were gathered around the dissection table.

Su Qingge, dressed in a smart police uniform, stood to the side with a livid face. Jiang Tingxue, wearing a white coat and a mask, gripped the edge of the autopsy table tightly with both hands, her knuckles turning white.

Seeing Lin Chen enter, Jiang Tingxue felt as if she had found her pillar of support and immediately went to greet him, tightly grasping his arm.

Lin Chen patted the back of her hand to comfort her, then walked to the dissection table.

Lin Chen's eyes narrowed involuntarily after just one glance.

A middle-aged male corpse lay on the autopsy table. According to the information next to it, the deceased was the owner of a well-known gallery in Beijing.

The body had no external injuries, no ligature marks, no knife wounds, not even a trace of bruising. The skin was a normal pale color after death.

However, his facial expression was extremely bizarre!

The muscles on the deceased's face were extremely contorted, and the corners of his mouth were stretched upwards to an exaggerated arc that reached the limits of human physiology, almost pulling his ears!

His eyes were wide open, his eyeballs bulging outwards, and coupled with that extremely eerie smile, he was a real-life clown!

In this cold, dimly lit forensic room, the corpse with its maniacal smile sends chills down your spine at first glance.

"Lin Chen, take a look." Su Qingge's voice was low. "There are no signs of a struggle at the scene, and the doors and windows are intact. The initial investigation shows no signs of poisoning. But that expression... it's just too terrifying. Several veteran detectives in the station felt a chill run down their spines after seeing it."

Lin Chen didn't say anything; he simply put on his medical rubber gloves.

[God-level forensic expertise unlocked!]

[Divine insight activated!]

Lin Chen's gaze instantly pierced through the corpse's skin, and countless data and biological characteristics converged wildly in his mind.

He reached out with both hands and, with remarkably professional and steady movements, pried open the deceased's eyelids to carefully examine the degree of pupil dilation. Then, he took a nearby medical flashlight and shone it into the deceased's ear canal.

"Give me a scalpel." Lin Chen held out his hand.

Jiang Tingxue quickly handed over an extremely sharp scalpel.

Lin Chen used the back of a scalpel to very carefully part the mucous membrane inside the deceased's ear canal and took a closer look. Then, he reached out and pressed on the deceased's extremely contorted facial muscles a few times.

The entire forensic room was deathly silent, with only the slight "creaking" sound of Lin Chen pressing on the corpse.

Two minutes later, Lin Chen put down the scalpel, took off his gloves, and threw them into the medical waste bin.

"It's not poisoning, nor is it some kind of hidden mechanical asphyxiation." Lin Chen turned around, looking at Su Qingge and Jiang Tingxue with a terrifyingly cold gaze.

"So how exactly did he die? A sudden heart attack?" Su Qingge frowned deeply.

"It was cardiac arrest, that's for sure, but the cause was extremely rare." Lin Chen pointed to the deceased's face. "Look at his facial nerve endings, they're in a state of extreme agitation followed by tearing. His eardrums also have slight congestion."

Jiang Tingxue looked in the direction Lin Chen pointed. As a forensic doctor, she immediately understood what was going on, but her eyes were still full of shock.

Lin Chen continued, "Before he died, the dopamine secretion in his brain instantly exceeded ten times that of a normal person! His heart simply couldn't withstand this sudden burst of extreme 'pleasure,' which caused ventricular fibrillation and instantaneous cardiac arrest."

"Simply put, he died from 'pleasure'."

As soon as Lin Chen finished speaking, the air in the forensic room seemed to freeze.

Jiang Tingxue gasped and took a half step back. Looking at that eerie smiling face, she felt nauseous.

"So pleasurable?" Su Qingge's eyes widened. "How is that possible? The human body has a self-protective mechanism; how could dopamine be secreted to a lethal level instantly?"

Lin Chen scoffed, "Of course it's impossible under normal circumstances. But what if someone used some high-frequency sound waves, or deep visual hypnosis, to forcibly sever his pain nerves and infinitely amplify his pleasure center?"

The "acoustic shielding blueprints" the system had given him last night flashed through Lin Chen's mind instantly. It seemed his premonition was completely accurate.

"This is a sophisticated, even perfect, psychological and physical murder." Lin Chen's eyes were sharp as knives. "The murderer didn't even need to touch the victim to kill him in this extreme madness. Qingge, take me to the scene."