Dean completed a basic visual inspection, crouched down, and began to examine Mike Smith's limbs.
The fingers on both hands were bent, with indentations at the joints. This indicated that the joints were held together only by the skin, the insides having become separate entities.
Such neat indentations appeared to have been caused by a blunt instrument. It would be difficult to achieve this with bare hands alone.
Both lower legs were pierced by steel rods.
There isn't much muscle in the lower legs, which are mostly comprised of skin and bone.
Without looking, one could tell that the steel rods had directly penetrated Mike Smith's lower leg muscles and bones, nailing him to the ground.
The tops of the steel rods showed spread indentations, caused by mechanical forging.
Such machinery is generally very heavy.
But strangely, there were no traces of machinery being dragged nearby.
Dean kept this doubt in mind and lifted Mike Smith's sagging head.
