"The deceased was 15 years old, female, about 1.58 meters tall, and weighed between 41 and 44 kilograms. Considering the heavy rain at the time of the incident, the sultry environment where the body was stored, and the moist surrounding soil, it was preliminarily inferred that he died. The time should be about thirty-four or five hours, that is, between 10:30 and 11:30 the night before, which is consistent with the report of the reporter."
Several Jinbei police cars from the Caiying District Police Station parked on the river bank, and the security belt pulled out a large open space overgrown with weeds. The criminal cameraman of the technical brigade has already taken a round of photos. The captain of the criminal brigade, Lao Zheng, squatted on the paved survey board, and the forensic pen squatting like a monkey focused on the scoreboard:
"The only obvious injury visible on the autopsy surface is the upper part of the left sternum rib with a depth of about 7.5 cm, enough to penetrate the chest wall, injure the pericardium, and cause traumatic heart rupture, resulting in acute cardiac tamponade and death. Of course, this is only a preliminary inference. , the real cause of death and the characteristics of the murder weapon need further anatomy, but it is only said that this is the most likely inference from the current point of view... "
Captain Zheng was wearing the clean and bright Mediterranean Sea. He had been warned by his wife many times not to scratch his head, but the situation still made him itchy: "Are there any other clues? The perpetrator's footprints, fingerprints, bloodstains. , residual DNA?"
"The scene was severely damaged by the torrential rain. There was no blood clotting at all, and the footprints had already been drenched. The victim was fully clothed and had no restraints, so the possibility of rape was unlikely. The clues found through vaginal swabs are probably not enough." The forensic doctor shook his head. Sighing: "The rest of the remaining cells on the surface of the corpse will have to wait for the Nancheng Detachment to be extracted. Speaking of which, why haven't they-"
"Brother Zheng!" The roar of the police officer in the distance sounded: "The Nancheng Detachment is here!"
The siren flashed from the end of the Panpo Highway, and five or six police cars, led by black jeeps, suddenly rushed into the field of vision. A few cars hurriedly dodged, but it was too late. The police car accelerated instantly and took a picture. It cut through the traffic with precision like a scalpel. The next moment, it rushed up the embankment, and the roar of the engine came in a blink of an eye!
boom-
The body slid sideways through corners, the rubber tires rubbed sharply with the ground, and the mud was thrown out in a huge fan shape and flew in all directions. A row of well-equipped police cars came to a stop, and the red and blue police lights flashed rapidly, turning the police station van into slag in seconds.
The audience was silent, and the forensic doctor's pen fell to his feet, and murmured everyone's thoughts:
"...Damn, the surname Zhi is rich..."
"It's really frustrating..."
Captain Zheng greeted him in a flash: "Hey! Step detachment!"
Bu Chonghua pushed the door to get out of the car and stepped on the muddy ground. He is nearly 1.9 meters tall, with a handsome face but neat lines. His tightly pressed eyebrows clearly exude a chilling pressure. More than a dozen capable criminal policemen are chasing after him. Opened a way to the scene.
"The cordon is extended for 500 meters along the river bank, take photos along the way, extract materials for inspection, take a soil sample every two meters, and notify the Hydrology Bureau, Procuratorate, and Water Police Station, Liao Gang!"
"exist!"
"Call the city bureau and prepare to apply for the frogman team!"
Liao Gang stood at attention: "Yes!" Then he turned around and walked away.
Bu Chonghua was well-known in the Jinhai City Public Security System. No one at the police station dared to speak, and all of them lowered their heads and wished to pretend to disappear. Only Captain Zheng bite the bullet and followed him with a trot, out of breath: "Bu... Bu detachment, the preliminary autopsy notes and the scene are already here. This is the report of the reporter. The technical team is right The surrounding area was screened for the first time. There was no blood, no murder weapon, and no footprints for analysis. The torrential rain that lasted all night on the day of the incident caused devastating damage to the scene. So far, no valuable clues have been found... "
Bu Chonghua put on shoe covers and gloves while listening. Captain Zheng hurriedly stepped forward and tried to pull off the security belt for him, but he saw himself ducking over as soon as he lowered his head, without turning his head to ask, "Can you tell if this is the place? The first scene?"
"This... is very likely but not 100% certain. Although no traces of dragging and binding have been found for the time being from the corpse's representation, it was indeed raining too much that night, and the vicinity was mud and water, or else Waiting for the autopsy results..."
Captain Zheng desperately asked the forensic doctor for help, but was interrupted by Bu Chonghua: "Has the monitoring been adjusted?"
"Ah?" Captain Zheng was taken aback.
"The bus station at 1.8 kilometers to the north of the scene, the Qiaotou toll payment station at 2.5 kilometers to the southeast, two speed measuring cameras up and down the Panpo Highway and within a range of 10 kilometers. A private warehouse within a kilometer, two chain convenience stores, and the black clinic that has not been banned four times, have the surveillance video of these places been retrieved?"
The air suddenly became very quiet.
"That...that," Captain Zheng stammered, "the car, the station, and the payment station have already gone, but what kind of convenience store...the black clinic..."
In these places within the jurisdiction where residents may set up surveillance cameras privately, let alone adjust the video, their police station does not even know Mao, how did Bu Chonghua manage to clear the account
Bu Chonghua closed the autopsy notebook, stuffed it back to the forensic doctor, raised his head and said simply: "Go to adjust."
"Yes yes yes!" Captain Zheng jumped up immediately and ran in a hurry.
The wilderness is desolate, overgrown with weeds, and the riverbank is full of lush reeds, and the sound of rushing water comes from under the riverbank. On the muddy ground not far away, there was a small human-shaped bulge covered by a black plastic sheet, and the stench of corruption came from the wind.
It used to be a young girl in her prime.
Bu Chonghua ignored the others. He walked through the overgrown mud, crouched beside the corpse, and gently uncovered the black cloth. A pair of extremely wide, turbid gray-white eyes suddenly jumped out and stared at him. he.
With a clatter, Bu Zhonghua looked back, only to see Wu Yu suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong with you," Bu Chonghua narrowed his eyes, "Can't you see this level of corruption?"
Wu Yu's face was originally pale, probably because of the cloudy light, his side cheeks were more cold and soaked to the ground, his hair and eyeballs seemed to be darker, and he lowered his eyes unnaturally: "Oh, no."
Bu Chonghua didn't let him go: "I heard from Bureau Xu that you were in the Criminal University before. Why, you haven't even been at the scene of the murder?"
Many police officers in the surrounding police station watched helplessly. Wu Yu couldn't avoid it, so he could only vaguely say: "... I'm not used to seeing these things."
"Nobody likes to watch. But if everybody doesn't watch, who's going to avenge 'these things'?"
Bu Chonghua was born with a sharp and threatening aura. Wu Yu was stared at by many pairs of eyes around him.
The little girl on the grass was blue-grey, her mouth was open, her white teeth were vaguely exposed, and maggots came in and out from her nostrils and ear holes; the horror of the dying moment in her eyes had turned into deep resentment, with Drenched with yellow water and blood, it slammed into Wu Yu's mind.
This scene seemed to be split in an instant, overlapping countless images, countless pairs of equally dead eyes staring at him from all directions, tired bones with their mouths open, and against the fire that spread all over their bodies, they tried their best to stretch out their rotten hands towards him.
Da da da da da—the machine guns were spitting again, and rows of figures in camouflage uniforms in the distance were blown up into stumps and broken arms.
"Help me—" Someone in the smoke was crying in despair.
"Save us—" The corpses all over the floor cried in unison, grabbing the corner of his clothes.
Suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder from behind: "Wu Yu? What's wrong with you?"
Wu Yu was shocked and turned his head suddenly, Cai Lin was almost taken aback: "Fuck you, are you car sick, your face is so ugly!"
The survey vehicle of the Nancheng Branch finally arrived. The well-trained branch surveyed the site again. Director Wang of the technical team was hurriedly walking here with several trace inspectors; Liao Gang, who quickly completed all the procedures, was directing The subordinates expanded the cordon and assisted the technical team to extract the inspection materials. The river bank was busy and orderly.
Wu Yu's heart thumped against his throat, facing Cai Lin's concerned and suspicious eyes, he was speechless for a while, so he could only laugh hastily, but when he turned around, he almost bumped into Bu Chonghua head-on.
- Bu Chonghua had walked behind him at some point, his eyes were sharp, his brows were slightly wrinkled, his height cast a shadow on the grass.
"It's alright, I didn't expect the victim to not close his eyes." Wu Yu took a half step back and said hoarsely, "Look first, I'll go over there... I'll go over there to help check the marks and lift the box."
Inexplicably, Cai Lin watched him walk away quickly, and said strangely, "It's not like that. You can't be scared like this without closing your eyes. It's almost like the first time I saw you, the boss, with my own eyes... Just kidding."
Bu Chonghua stared at the corners of his eyes, Cai Lin immediately shrank his neck in a plea for mercy, and asked with a mournful smile: "Baby team, the trace inspection said that the bottom of the river embankment has been almost destroyed, and there is no research value, or we should stick to the old method. Let the brothers at the police station help to sieve the soil back?"
"No, the soil environment in the wilderness is too complicated." Bu Chonghua hesitated for a while, and said, "In this way, with the victim as the center, the surrounding soil shovels are transported back to the technical team, and tell Lao Wang about the clues of the case. Too little, sorry for him."
Cai Lin waved his fingers from his temples: "Yes!"
"Has the victim's identity been verified?"
The two of them walked over to the corpse, and Cai Lin raised his chin to the poor little girl: "On the way here, I called the county police station to cross-check - Nian Xiaoping, fifteen years old, her parents are migrant workers, living in In Xiaogang Village not far from here, her father, Nian Daxing, helps people look after the warehouse, and her mother, Fan Ling, works in a garment processing factory. Nian Xiaoping is a second-year student at Xiaogang Middle School. According to the teacher, her grades are not particularly good, and she often misses classes I went to work, and recently I have been in close contact with people outside the school, I am afraid that it is a puppy love - this 'off-campus person' is not someone else, it is the witness and reporter of our case, He Xingxing."
Bu Chonghua had actually read this information in the report of the reporter, but he focused on examining the corpse's mouth, nose and wounds without interrupting Cai Lin.
"On May 2, the night of the crime, Nian Xiaoping worked overtime at an assembly plant in the industrial zone until ten o'clock in the evening. After she came out, He Xingxing picked her up, and the two took the bus home together. The last bus was at Silihe. The station stopped, and the two walked along the river embankment after getting off the bus. It was raining heavily at that time, and the visibility was very low. He Xingxing said in the transcript that he heard a strange sound, as if something was approaching from behind, and then a The walking skeleton took a knife and got out of the grass and came to the two of them." Cai Lin exaggeratedly stabbed into the air with his bare hands: "I stabbed Nian Xiaoping."
Cai Lin spread out his hands, his face clearly written in disbelief, but Bu Chonghua remained indifferent: "And then?"
"According to He Xingxing's confession, the perpetrator's body was completely skeletonized, with no eyes or nose, no hair on the top of his head, but a skull. His walking posture was stiff and staggering, very similar to zombies in film and television dramas. The murder process can no longer be described in detail, but I only vaguely remember that after the zombie stabbed Nian Xiaoping with a knife, he walked to the bank and jumped down, fell into the river, and then disappeared."
The detective from the detachment brought the body bag and the iron-framed bed from the car, and gestured to Bu Chonghua for instructions.
Bu Chonghua nodded, motioned them to load the corpse into the car, and then led Cai Lin to the river bank.
"The murderer didn't hurt him?" Bu Chonghua asked.
"It's not only harmless, according to He Xingxing's confession, it is simply ignoring him from the beginning to the end, as if he doesn't exist at all - I tell you the team, this confession is like writing a novel, It’s still the one with 50 cents a book, 3 yuan and 2 catties, and I don’t even want to read it.” Cai Lin stretched out a forefinger and shook it: “After the murderer jumped into the river, He Xingxing realized that Nian Xiaoping was dead. He was frightened and scared. He didn't dare to touch dead people, and he didn't dare to go to the place where the zombies jumped into the river to see what happened. So he ran home in the heavy rain and hugged the quilt and shivered until dawn. Early the next morning, there was only one People panicked and ran to the police."
"—The police reported early in the morning yesterday." Bu Chonghua asked keenly, "Why did the police only call out today?"
"Hey! It's a long story for a child without a mother!" Cai Lin got excited, and asked mysteriously, "Do you know what kind of person He Xingxing is?"
Bu Zhonghua frowned.
"Children left-behind since childhood, their parents didn't love their mothers, they dropped out of high school and didn't graduate, underage idlers, a little ruffian that the locals suspected, standard juvenile delinquent reserve. From the police station of Xiaogang Village to the sheriff, to the police dog, it was all Five staff and three auxiliary police officers, they all know that this is something worth nothing, and no one listens to his nonsense about the murder of evil ghosts, so he immediately blasted it out." Cai Lin shook his head and sighed: "Boom out. In the future, He Xingxing became more and more afraid. He was afraid that the police would not believe that there were ghosts in the world, and even more afraid that he could not solve the case and directly arrest him for the crime, so he decided to leave his hometown and run away. But to run away, you need to have money and an ID card to buy a ticket. , he had no money; so he simply pushed his neighbor's motorcycle and went north along the highway. When he got off the highway, he was interrogated by the traffic police. He was so frightened that he couldn't even name his name, and he took it directly to the Caiying District Police Station... "
It was a farce.
"The Caiying District Police Station has to go out to several scenes every day for criminal cases, and there is no time to pay attention to such a small slapstick who steals a motorcycle. He goes to the cell and leaves it alone. As a result, He Xingxing cried and made trouble all night. No peace, insisting that a ghost came to claim his life, and huddled in the corner with his head shivering and begging the ghost to spare his life - hey, the next day, the cellmates reported him with kindness, saying that this kid has In the case of a murder case, I asked him if he could strive for meritorious service." Cai Lin almost laughed out loud: "No, if it weren't for the high ideological awareness of the inmates, this urban legend of zombies killing people and jumping into rivers on a rainy night would not necessarily have happened today! "
A few meters away is the place where the "evil ghost" jumped into the river according to He Xingxing's dictation. A long restricted area was pulled out by a cordon on the river beach. Several trace inspectors were squatting on the ground with evidence bags, sifting through the soil and debris piece by piece. stone.
Bu Chonghua nodded silently, as if thinking about something, and didn't speak for a long time.
"I said, Boss," Cai Lin finally couldn't hold back after waiting for a long time, and asked, "You don't really believe in this zombie murder case that the street stall literature can't make up?"
"… "
Bu Chonghua asked back, "What do you think?"
"Me? Of course I can't believe it. We Communist Party members are all staunch materialists and atheists!" Cai Lin raised his chest and said very maturely: "I think the Eight Achievements were done by He Xingxing himself. Look at that. The IQ of stealing a car and running away can make up a story of this level. Let's go back and let the forensic examine the contents of the victim's uterus and vaginal wipes. I have been in the police for this type of case for five years. In the eighteenth case, the motive for the crime has never been divorced from the man's unsatisfactory lower body..."
"I don't think so," interrupted Bu Chonghua.
Cai Lin was taken aback: "Huh?"
On the high embankment, more than 20 policemen were busy back and forth, taking pictures and collecting evidence. Several police cars were connected end to end, and the body on the iron bed was wrapped in black cloth and parked beside the open rear door.
"Perhaps he didn't lie," Bu Chonghua said in a low voice, "That so-called evil ghost murdering is not necessarily fake."
Cai Lin opened his mouth into a "wow" shape, with a refreshed expression on his face: "Why, why?"
"because… "
Bu Chonghua suddenly caught a glimpse of something, and his voice suddenly stopped.
—Not far from the police car, there is a silhouette standing two or three meters away from the iron frame bed, with a cigarette in one hand and a hand in his trouser pocket, quietly staring at the black cloth with the outline of a human figure.
It is Wu Yu.
I don't know how long it took, this relative who didn't even dare to look at the corpse, finally seemed to have finally accumulated some kind of courage and strength from his body. He slowly stepped forward and stood beside the iron framed bed. , then reached out and unzipped the body bag.
Bu Chonghua has been focusing on observing every movement of Wu Yu, even ignoring Cai Lin's curiosity to probe his brain.
"Hey old... Boss!" Cai Lin didn't stop, and hurriedly stepped on the rocky beach and followed him.