Susan picked up the sealed plastic bag and looked it over, then turned to Luke beside her, "Is it her?"
"It's her business card."
"This clue is yours to handle."
"I understand," Luke didn't immediately call Daisy to inquire, choosing to gather more information first.
After another fifteen minutes, the forensic doctor Hila also emerged from the makeup room, "I've completed the preliminary autopsy, and the victim's time of death was between one and four in the morning.
The fatal injury was two puncture wounds on the left side of the neck.
The cause of death was excessive blood loss, leading to insufficient blood supply to various organs and tissues, resulting in confusion, coma, and ultimately death from suffocation and shock."
Luke said, "I also observed the wounds on the neck, where the blood flowed down, and there were some traces on the ground, but from my experience, the amount of blood loss is not fatal."
Hila praised, "Observation is not bad, indeed the bloodstains on the body and the ground are not plentiful—adding up to only a few hundred milliliters, which would not typically be enough to cause death from blood loss in a normal adult.
But from my experience, the victim's body lost far more blood than that, at least over a thousand milliliters."
Little Black asked, "Where did all the blood go?"
Hila replied, "I don't know.
But judging from the wounds on the victim's neck, apart from the two puncture holes and bite marks left by what seemed to be fangs, there were no other obvious wounds on the victim's body."
Little Black, grinning broadly, exclaimed, "Oh my God, we've really run into a 'vampire' this time.
Literally a bloodsucker."
Luke questioned, "If the victim died from being bitten and drained of blood by the killer, logically there should be defensive wounds, but I didn't notice any obvious signs of struggle."
Hila said, "The defensive wounds on the victim are indeed not conspicuous. I just did a simple test after drawing blood; the victim's body contained a large amount of alcohol, along with some other drug substances. Her consciousness might not have been very clear at the time."
Susan pressed, "Do you know what substances they were?"
"Not yet, further testing is needed." As Hila said this, she pulled out another photo, "Additionally, we found a blood pattern on the inside of the victim's arm.
It was likely drawn with the victim's blood."
It was a very strange pattern, resembling a human face a bit, a bat a bit, and also like an interconnected character—Luke had never seen a pattern before.
Little Black touched his nose, "This killer is way more twisted than the last one."
This restaurant was not far from the law firm, and Luke had arranged to meet Daisy here for lunch.
Being an Italian restaurant, a serving of pasta was a must, along with salmon, beef stew with potatoes, roasted vegetables, tiramisu, and hand-ground coffee.
Luke had just ordered the meal when Daisy, dressed in a black skirt suit and carrying a small red crossbody bag, walked in. Today, she wore black-framed glasses, adding a touch of intellectual beauty.
"Aren't you working today? What made you think of asking me out for lunch?"
Luke smiled, "There's a work matter I need to discuss with you, and meeting at lunch won't interfere with eating."
Daisy set her bag aside, "What's the matter?"
Luke poured her a glass of iced water with lemon, "Do you know Angela Char?"
"Yes, she's my client, we just met the day before yesterday. What about her?
"She's dead!" Daisy was stunned, her expression turning sorrowful, "Oh my God…that's regrettable.
I didn't expect something to happen to her.
Luke answered, "I can't disclose the specifics, but it's quite bizarre."
Daisy asked, "Related to vampires?"
"She said so herself.
When we met the day before yesterday, her mental state was very poor, depressed, languishing, despondent, even somewhat world-weary.
According to her, if she suddenly died one day, it would definitely be related to vampires.
I felt that she had some mental issues."
"What did she want from you?"
"She wanted to break her contract with her agent."
"Yes, Angela wanted to break the contract with him."
"In Angela's words, the two did not see eye to eye.
Angela is a rock singer, her idol is Avril, and although I haven't spent much time with her, I could feel her heartfelt passion for rock music.
She doesn't actually like vampires; it's just that since one of her vampire-themed songs became popular, her agent wanted her to develop in that direction.
At first, Angela was unwilling, but because of reality, profit, fame, and other reasons, she eventually compromised and started to create vampire-themed music.
She gained recognition in this niche field, and people would think of her when vampire-themed songs came up.
But this wasn't what she intended; she considered the theme just a stepping stone, hoping that once she became popular and gained some notoriety, she would then create other kinds of music.
She had been waiting for that opportunity and had also been communicating with her agent.
But her agent disagreed.
Lately, Angela couldn't take it anymore and wanted to break the contract with her agent.
So, she consulted our law firm."
"Does her agent know about this?"
Daisy shook her head, "No, a contract termination is quite complex. I told her that it would be best not to inform her agent before formally proposing the termination."
"Do you know about her party performance last night?"