“Leader,” a police officer from Zhangze City said to Zhao Yu after everyone arrived at the well, “we are already searching for missing persons with similar characteristics in nearby villages and towns!
"We feel that since the body appears here, the murderer and the victim are most likely from nearby villages and towns!"
After hearing this, Zhao Yu did not answer, but stared intently at the well that appeared halfway up the mountain.
The wells are indeed made of bricks and cement, and they look particularly rough. There is a bit more cement along the edge of the well, but it is not particularly uniform. The bricks have been exposed in many places, making it look particularly perfunctory.
"What is the origin of this well?" Miao Ying asked, "Doesn't anyone know?"
"No," the local police officer replied. "I asked everyone at the forest farm and they all said they had never noticed it."
"This well..." Zhang Yaohui said, "It looks like it was built in the 1980s and 1990s. The red bricks look very familiar. They are all used in my hometown."
"Yes..." a guide said in the local dialect, "We use them to build houses now! But... if we need to dig a well in the forest, we usually use stones and use local materials!"
"Stones?" Zhao Yu asked, "Stone well?"
"Yes," the guide replied, "You can take a look. There are stone wells in the mountains. Stones are easy to find. They are everywhere, but bricks are hard to transport!"
"That's right..." Miao Ying said from behind Zhao Yu, "Such a deep well requires a lot of bricks. Transportation here is inconvenient. It must be very troublesome to build a well with bricks!"
"Yes, leader," the local police officer added, "This well comes from a strange place. Going from here to the ravine, there are all small streams with water all year round. If you don't live for a long time, there is no need to dig a well here. !”
"The key is, isn't there water in the well?" Zhang Yaohui sighed.
Zhao Yu still didn't respond and looked into the well.
"Leader, be careful," a police officer warned. "Because the body is being excavated, the well has been dug to the end. It is more than five meters deep! Be careful!"
Zhao Yu looked down and saw that it was pitch black inside, which was indeed a bit scary.
Zhang Peipei took the tools and hurriedly turned on a high-power flashlight and shined it down the well.
From a distance of 5.5 meters, nothing can be seen on flat ground, but from a deep well going downwards, it still doesn’t look shallow!
If a person falls from a height to the bottom of a well, even if he does not fall to death, he still has to survive the fall.
"Have you... dug to the end?" Zhao Yu looked at the bottom of the well, then at the large amount of soil and rocks dug out next to him, and asked the local police.
"Yes, we have dug to the bottom," the local police officer replied. "Further down, there is no well, and the soil quality has also changed significantly, becoming harder.
"We dug a few more times, but no more bones were found, so we stopped."
"Moreover," another local police officer added, "I don't dare to dig deep. The well is squeezed out of shape, and I'm worried it will collapse!"
"Oh..." Zhao Yu nodded, thoughtfully.
"Team leader," Zhang Peipei said, "How about we go back and bring the radar over for detection?"
The radar Zhang Peipei is talking about is the electronic pulse radar specially used by the police to find bones. It has been used in video homicide cases before.
"No need for now," Zhao Yu said, "Let's wait until the identity of the deceased is revealed first!"
"Well, but..." Zhang Peipei added, "I have seen Section Chief Wang's laboratory analysis. There is a clear difference between the soil at the bottom of the well and the soil where the corpse was buried. There should be nothing down there!"
"Okay..." Zhao Yu stared at the bottom of the well with good eyes, still thinking about something carefully.
"I saw it written in the report," Miao Ying asked the local police officer again, "The mouth of the well was blocked with a big stone?"
"Yes." The local policeman quickly signaled, and then everyone saw a rectangular rock.
"Have any fingerprints been extracted from the stone?" Miao Ying asked hurriedly.
"No," the other party replied, "we only extracted the ones from witnesses. At that time, a scientific expedition team camped here and wanted to see if there was water in the well, so they pushed away the stone and dug briefly. Who knows? But they found the bones!”
"Scientific expedition team?" Miao Ying asked again, "Where is the scientific expedition team?"
"Northwestern Agricultural University," the other party replied, "Studying biology, a professor led a group of students! They were supposed to stay here for a week, but now it's over early."
"Okay," Miao Ying said, "inform them and ask them to come to Qinshan Police Station tomorrow. We want to inquire about the situation."
"yes!"
After all, Miao Ying is the commissioner of the Criminal Department, so the local criminal police naturally dare not show any slightness.
"Have you searched the area around here?" Zhao Yu finally left the well and asked the local police.
"We searched. After the incident, we searched the entire mountain," the local police officer replied, "but nothing was found! The footprints found are all from that scientific expedition team!"
"Team leader," Zhang Peipei reminded, "the last body was buried three years ago. If the murderer never came back during this period, there should be no traces of him anymore!"
When Forensic Doctor Zhang said this, everyone nodded.
Three years is such a long time, it is indeed enough to destroy any trace.
However, Zhao Yu smiled slightly, shook his head mysteriously and said, "No, that's not necessarily the case! I can tell, you must have never done any heavy physical work!"
"Huh?" When Zhao Yu said this, everyone was confused.
"Children of poor people have long been in charge of their own business," Zhao Yu walked up to two dark-skinned local guides, patted their shoulders gently, and said, "When I was 8 years old, I followed my parents to build a house. Yes, what about you?"
"Us?" A guide thought for a while and said, "I only started working with my parents when I was in junior high school."
"I didn't..." The other shook his head.
"Haha... It doesn't matter... I don't mean to ask you if you have done any work before, but..." Zhao Yu walked back to the well and said to Zhang Peipei, "Forensic Doctor Zhang, next, I will send someone to dismantle the well! "
"Oh?" Zhao Yu's words always come unexpectedly, making it difficult for everyone to follow their train of thought.
"At that time, I need you to personally direct the entire water well demolition process!" Zhao Yu put away his smile and said seriously, "You need to take your people and carefully inspect every brick, and remove the stains on the bricks and cement. Can you extract the fingerprints for me without even touching the ground?"
"Oh..." Zhang Peipei finally understood, "You mean, you want to find the person who built this well?"
"Carrying bricks and mixing cement, whether you are building a wall or a well, the principle is the same!" Zhao Yu made a gesture of smearing cement, "The fingerprints will be perfectly sealed in the cement, and that is a ready-made Fingerprint mold!
"So, no matter how many years go by, the traces will still be there!"
"I understand," Zhang Yaohui said with enlightenment, "If we find the person who built this well, the case will be easier to solve?"
"Not only that," Miao Ying said, "This well is obviously used to bury people! Therefore, the person who built this well is most likely the murderer in this case!!!"
(End of chapter)