A place like a university, even in the past 100 years, will not change much.
In fact, Lin Chen didn't have too deep a college plot, but he passed by the school gate and felt sorry for not going in to have a look.
In the early morning, the mist has not yet dissipated, the campus is very quiet, and there are only birdsong around.
Lin Chen and Xing Conglian walked on the ancient masonry road, along a path, to the depths of the campus.
At the end of the path, an old-fashioned Republic of China building can be vaguely seen. The lush trees on the roadside cover most of the scenery in the distance. Therefore, walking during the journey is quite interesting.
"Your principal, you must not be a businessman." Xing Conglian put his hands in his pockets and walked in the boulevard, and suddenly said.
"Huh?" The spring breeze was very soft, and Lin Chen was a little confused by the blowing, and he didn't understand the meaning of Xing Conglian's words for a while.
"It's a pity that 20 yuan is not charged for a ticket in this kind of place."
Lin Chen thought it was funny: "It's not so exaggerated, right?"
"Of course it's good to teach you where you are."
Lin Chen looked up at him.
Xing Conglian's eyes drooped, his eyelashes quivered slightly by the wind, and his eyes were gentle and sincere.
Lin Chen sighed, Xing Conglian has a very strong ability, that is, he can speak very nauseous words candidly, so that those who listen to it feel that it should be so, then at this time, other than sighing, There doesn't seem to be any better way.
He stood there and wanted to speak, when a siren suddenly sounded in the distance, piercing the jungle.
The sound was very urgent, and it seemed to be moving, so it could be judged that it seemed to be a police car moving at a high speed.
The two looked at each other.
Lin Chen first said: "It's not my fault, you said you would come first."
Xing Conglian laughed helplessly.
Following the sound of the siren, the two quickly came to the lake.
From a long distance, you can see that outside the grove by the lake, surrounded by a bright yellow warning tape, police officers in navy blue uniforms are busy going in and out.
At the end of the forest, under the banyan tree, there seemed to be a forensic doctor in a white robe squatting.
Not far away, the cafeteria began to cook, and the air was filled with the smell of fragrant rice.
Occasionally, students passed by outside the cordon. They looked at the police who came in and out frequently, with strange and curious expressions on their faces. The security guard stood at the outermost side of the cordon to drive away students who wanted to watch.
Lin Chen glanced at Xing Conglian, and the two quickened their pace.
Coincidentally, when he walked to the edge of the woods, Xing Conglian discovered that the person who led the police team was the deputy captain of the Yongchuan Criminal Police Team, and he was the one who was going to hand over the new information on Yang Dianfeng's case.
The two looked at each other, surprised at each other.
"Old Xing, why are you here!" The deputy captain, surnamed Jiang, was a very carefree man.
Xing Cong patted Lin Chen on the shoulder and introduced to the other party: "Lin Chen, our new advisor, graduated from Yongchuan University, it's not too early today, we'll come to the school first, since you are here, I I'll go to the car later and give you the information about that case." Xing Conglian said politely, but did not ask what happened in the grove.
"The one who made the 'candy thief' with you?" Vice-Captain Jiang stared in surprise and poked Xing Conglian in a low voice.
Seeing Jiang Chao's reaction is so mysterious, Xing Conglian glanced at Lin Chen and said with a smile, "Yeah, what?"
"It's awesome, benefactor, benefactor!" Jiang Chao took Lin Chen's hand and shook it twice, "Come in, come in quickly."
Lin Chen had seen too many police officers who acted cautiously, and suddenly met a passionate person like Jiang Chao, but he was not used to it: "It's not convenient for us to go in at the scene of the crime, right?"
"There are so many rules!" Jiang Chao waved his hand, raised the cordon, and pulled Lin Chen to go inside.
Xing Cong patted him on the shoulder in succession and whispered in his ear, "Fang Zhiming's former comrade-in-arms."
Lin Chen nodded and seemed to understand something.
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On the inner side of the woods, closest to the lake, is a lush banyan tree with a green and lush canopy. When the lake wind blows, it swaying gently.
Lin Chen stood under the tree, somewhat surprised.
This banyan tree is one of the most beautiful scenery in the eyes of all Yongchuan students.
He remembered that when he was in college, many of his classmates liked to read or fall in love under this tree, because it was not too cold or too hot here, so you could blow the wind, read a few pages, or pull Hold your lover's hand and say a few whispers. And because the trunk of this banyan tree is thick and the shade is thick, everything under the tree will appear quiet and peaceful, even the person lying in the pit under the trunk.
It was a young man, his skin was a little dark, and his clothes were too dirty to see their original color because they had been buried in the soil for too long. His legs were straight and his hands were folded on his chest. , the lips are also a little thick, and it is almost the kind of face that no one will pay attention to, but everyone present can't help but keep their eyes on his face for a long time when they see him for the first time. .
Lin Chen quietly stared at the man lying in the mud.
The expression on that face was so comfortable and comfortable, as if the place he was lying on was not a cold and hard dirt pit, but the warmest bed in the house, and at this moment, he seemed to be just resting on a feather pillow, doing a game of no-nonsense. Wake up from a good dream.
"The deceased's name is Li Sa, a worker in the logistics department of your school." Jiang Chao said in Lin Chen's ear.
He said and walked to the pit, where the forensic doctor was squatting on the ground, doing a preliminary autopsy.
"How?" Jiang Chao asked.
"It's very strange, very strange." The forensic doctor frowned and pulled out his hand from the back of the deceased's neck. "No trauma has been found for the time being, and it doesn't look like poisoning."
"Oh!" Jiang Chao's eyes lit up, "It's good that it's not murder!"
The forensic doctor gave him a sideways look: "What do you think?"
"There is no trauma, and it is not a murder. It is very likely an ordinary corpse dumping case." Jiang Chao said, looking up at the sky, as if making a wish.
"Hehe, may I ask Team Jiang, if he could breathe when he was buried, would it count as throwing a corpse?" the forensic doctor said coldly.
Hearing this, Jiang Chao's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe what you heard: "What is the cause of death?"
"The preliminary judgment is that it is mechanical suffocation."
The so-called mechanical asphyxia refers to a kind of physiological dysfunction caused by the action of external force, which hinders the human body's breathing and causes the human body to die due to lack of oxygen.
In layman's terms, suffocated.
Jiang Chao looked depressed, but the forensic doctor still didn't let him go: "The deceased's neck had no trauma, which means he was not hanged or strangled. I checked his nose and mouth, and there were no obvious scratches on the surface or subcutaneous skin. Intradermal bleeding, that is to say, he was not suffocated to death, so…”
"Buried alive." Lin Chen said lightly.
Jiang Chao took a deep breath.
The forensic doctor turned his head sharply: "Who are you!"
Xing Conglian took two steps and stood beside Lin Chen: "We are from the Hongjing Brigade."
"Oh, peer." The forensic doctor squatted on the ground, looked at Lin Chen with interest, and asked, "What do you think?"
"Can I ask about the time of death?" Lin Chen's eyes fell on the hands in front of the deceased's chest.
"Around 3:00 in the morning on the 12th." The forensic doctor replied.
"Since it was buried alive, then there are two possibilities." Lin Chen paused, then continued, "First, he was buried in the ground after he was in a coma, and second, he lay down on his own while he was alive. in this tomb."
"Then which one do you think is the most likely?"
"If it's the first, then he should be able to detect the components of high-dose sleeping drugs in his body, and if it's the second..."
"How about the second one?"
"It's impossible for a person to do it perfectly, dig a hole, lie in it, and then bury himself, so is there a shovel-like tool at the scene?" Lin Chen's tone became cold.
"No... No." Jiang Chao subconsciously answered his question.
Lin Chen lowered his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and asked the forensic doctor, "Can I see his hand?"
At this point, the gaze in the forensic doctor's eyes has changed from sexual to appreciation.
He stood up, took out a pair of rubber gloves from his pocket, handed them to Lin Chen, then took two steps back and gave way.
Lin Chen squatted down, put his hand into the pit, and gently held the dead man's wrist.
Compared with the comfortable and peaceful face, the hands of the deceased looked extremely ferocious and terrifying.
His fingernails were shattered, his hands were full of wounds, and brown blood mixed with mud and solidified on his hands.
"How?" The forensic doctor asked, standing beside Lin Chen.
"I have an idea." Lin Chen put down the dead man's hands, took off his gloves, and his eyes were still frozen in that pit.
"Don't give a shit."
"This grave was dug by himself."
He spoke very slowly, almost word for word, and said words that made everyone present shudder.
The whole place was silent.
The forensic doctor took a deep breath and said, "Young man, you really dare to think about it."
"Can you dig some more?" Lin Chen interrupted him, turned his head, raised his hand, and made a rough comparison.
"Is the pit not big enough?" the forensic doctor asked.
"I mean, move the dead out and dig some more down."
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Shovel after shovel of dirt was quickly shoveled out.
Xing Conglian and Lin Chen stood by the lake and looked under the tree from a distance.
"Did I just go too far?" Lin Chen thought for a while, but asked again.
After all, Xing Conglian had reminded him before that he still had to be careful in everything in the Chen family's territory.
Hearing what he said, Xing Conglian laughed dumbly: "No, Lao Jiang is not someone who cares about these things, but you, why are you so nervous?"
"The situation may not be very good." Lin Chen said.
Under the banyan tree, when the excavated soil was knee-high, the police officer in charge of the excavation stopped abruptly.
He held the shovel in one hand and turned his head stiffly. Seeing this, Jiang Chao hurried over to him. A broken banyan tree root ran through the deep pit. Other than that, there seemed to be no abnormality.
"There's something down there." The policeman threw his shovel down, lay down on the edge of the pit, and pushed through the thin layer of soil with his hands, revealing a bright red cloth suddenly.
The original shout broke the communication between Xing Conglian and Lin Chen. A policeman with hands full of dirt rushed in front of the two of them, his teeth chattering.
"Under...underneath, there is another person!"