Strictly speaking, this corpse could only be classified as moderately to highly decomposed.
After death, decay gases first generate in the head, face, and the hollows of the chest and abdomen before finally moving to the lower limbs. No matter how beautiful a person was in life, or how perfect the figure, after death they all become a fierce and terrible "big-headed ghost" with bulging eyes and a protruding tongue and lips.
Yet, the lower limbs of the corpse before me had not yet been filled by decay gases.
Ran Yan first conducted a general examination of the body, and concluded that the age of the deceased was between eighteen to twenty years old, male, who died on August 4th, most likely between midnight and the early morning.
