Insect Certificate

1996. There is no DNA, no Skynet, no cell phone location. The corpse was rotted into bones, and there was no evidence of death; there were no fingerprints or blood stains at the scene, and there was no real evidence. A strange person came from the provincial crime squad - Lu Xingzhou, a master's degree in entomology. He was carrying an old leather case that had been polished white. There was no gun in it, only insect needles, a magnifying glass and a collection bottle. Others look at the corpse for wounds, but he looks at the maggots on the corpse. Others relied on footprints and confessions to solve the case. He relied on the egg-laying time of blowflies to determine the time of death. He relied on the species of burial beetles to identify corpses moved across regions. He relied on the invasion time of skin beetles to overturn a thirty-year-old case. Bugs don't lie. They are the last witnesses of the deceased left in the world. In an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the city, the face of a woman's body was eaten away by maggots. The medical examiner ruled that she had been dead for seven days. Lu Xingzhou squatted next to the body and looked at it for ten minutes, pointing to the abdomen and saying: "Time of death, forty-eight hours. This is not the first scene." A circle of kaolin, four burial beetles, and three thousand fly pupa shells. He followed the insect's trajectory, tearing apart the carefully arranged fake scene step by step, but he didn't realize that a larger net had already been spread out. Someone is killing people by imitating the life cycle of insects. Some people use insects to hide their sins, and he uses them to chase the perpetrators. This battle between good and evil that spans several years has begun from the moment the first blowfly landed on the corpse.