when you stare into the abyss

Chapter2

The woman stopped walking, and without thinking, she took off the shirt tied around her waist because she had climbed the mountain, stretched out her white and well-defined arms, and the beige cloth swaggered in the air with her movements.She didn't yell like the others, those who think they want to take her will stop naturally, and those who don't want to take her, it's useless to beg your father to sue your grandma.

The car a few hundred meters away gradually slowed down, and finally stopped firmly beside her.The woman took out a dark-colored thing that looked like a document in her trouser pocket, bent slightly, and scratched at the car window.

"Municipal Public Security Bureau policeman, hello comrades, because of the need to handle the case, I am requisitioning your 5-seater car and you." After speaking, without waiting for the people in the car to respond, he opened the door and sat in the passenger seat.

"Maliankan No. 122, Liuyang Village." The two said the address in unison. The woman moved so quickly from speaking to getting into the car that Wan Tong couldn't see her outline clearly, but the word Nie Zhiyan was clearly visible on the police officer's certificate.

"Huh?" Nie Zhiyan turned her head and saw that the light blue police uniform shirt she was wearing turned out to be a colleague, and the profile seemed a little familiar, but it was a pity that she couldn't get her name right now.

"Auntie, sit still, I'm driving a little bit hard."

"Tongtong?" The images of those memories instantly appeared in her mind.In the 4th grade of elementary school, just the age of ignorance, Nie Zhilan led her to play with several friends of similar age in the courtyard.Climbing trees, climbing over walls, digging out bird nests, and putting them back because of good intentions, there will always be a kid who just learned to jog behind him.I didn't cry out of pain when I fell, just got up and continued to run.I went to junior high school, and my studies got worse, so I seldom got together. I only heard that when my father and mother were chatting, they mentioned that Wan Ge couldn’t stand Sister Ying’s long-term overtime work and being away from home. When Wan Tong was 8 years old, the two went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to go through divorce procedures. .After that, they got together a few times sporadically, until seven years ago, when she took a year off from school for special reasons and was admitted to the West China Medical College of Sichuan University as a graduate student in forensic medicine, they never met again.

Wan Tong nodded, stepped on the accelerator to accelerate, she kept talking while driving: "Auntie, I have joined the Criminal Investigation Detachment, did Auntie tell you?"

"Don't be auntie, call me auntie, we are not much older than you." Nie's father and Nie's mother were busy with work when they were young.

Wan Tong turned the steering wheel unhurriedly and turned right: "But the seniority is there, then I'll call you Aunt Yan."

"Can you send that aunt away and call me Forensic Doctor Nie?"

"That's so unfamiliar, Lao Zhao told me to listen to you more, Aunt Yan, how is Aunt Lan's temper? Will she swear at people in black face, will she beat people directly without applying for work, will she..."

"Shut up, and drive seriously." Nie Zhiyan was usually reticent, but in the 10 minutes since she got in the car, she was already on the verge of her limit.She turned around, leaned against the headrest and closed her eyes to rest, without saying a word.

In the last case, the entire criminal investigation detachment, the forensic doctor, and the trace inspection went up and down continuously, without a day off for more than half a month.It happened to be a day off today. She had just climbed Zhouyang Mountain in the West District when Nie Zhilan called. Lao Hu and several other staff were in charge of other cases, and now only she and Lu Dongdong were free.I told her not to drive, but to take a taxi there, but how can I get a taxi in this barren mountain?She went down the mountain along the path and started her car. When she arrived at the scene of the crime, she could only resign herself to fate and luck.

"Oh." Wan Tong was speechless for a while, and after a moment of silence, he began to hum a song leisurely. From the corner of his eye, he saw the woman on the right frowning and plugged in the earphones, and the sound stopped abruptly.

This is not Aunt Yan who bought candy to coax her when she was a child...

Wan Tong skillfully drove the car, turned left and right, and finally turned into a few tile-roofed houses, and at the end was the abandoned house.There were three cars parked in the yard outside the house, two belonged to the city bureau and one belonged to the subordinate police station.

She got out of the car and closed the door. She was greeted by a strong smell of burning. Frowning, she walked side by side with Nie Zhiyan into the scene surrounded by the cordon.

"The fire is very large, and gasoline should be used to support the combustion." Lu Dongdong, a member of the forensic department, introduced it wearing a mask and gloves.

"Let me see the body."

"It has been burnt, and it is difficult to obtain evidence on the spot."

Wan Tong saw that he couldn't help here, so he trotted to Ma Zhao's side. Ma Zhao said that she was a newcomer, and told her to exercise her courage with Nie Zhiyan first.

She walked quickly towards the corpse, Nie Zhiyan had already put on the investigation protective equipment.Lu Dongdong handed Wan Tong a pair of shoe covers. The footprints left at the scene of the crime are very important, so everyone who enters must wear shoe covers.

"There are not enough masks, cover your nose later." A boy of similar age reminded her kindly.

"There is no soot in the mouth, nose and throat of the deceased. Consider other deaths." Nie Zhiyan said in a cold voice.

"Yan..." Seeing her slightly frowned, Wan Tong retracted the address he almost uttered, and continued, "Forensic Doctor Nie, the deceased was curled up like a baby. I think he was in great pain, such as being burned. will curl up."

She leaned forward, resisting the pungent smell and the uncomfortable acid water in her stomach, and observed the corpse.

"Wrong, burnt corpses are usually in the (boxer pose)—the limbs are twisted, and the fists are closed at the chin. The reason is that the cooking of the fire dehydrates the corpse and the muscles contract." She spoke again, " Dongdong, take the corpse back, the environment here is not suitable for dissection."

"Forensic Doctor Nie, can I watch the autopsy process?" Wan Tong knew very well that understanding the corpse was the first and most important part of handling a case.

Nie Zhiyan glanced at her, said nothing, and nodded in acquiescence.On the first day of work, I dared to observe the whole process of dissection, which was a bit courageous.

They waited until the inspection was over, Wan Tong was still driving, and Nie Zhiyan sat in the co-pilot, only then did they remember that their car was still parked on the side of the provincial road.She called the towing department, but was worried after all. When she passed by, she took some necessary items from the trunk and back seat.

Wan Tong went back to the Municipal Bureau, and finished writing the application report in a proper manner, before inquiring about the forensic pathology laboratory near the police dog team.As soon as he turned the corner and went up to the second floor, the other party was already wearing a disposable dissection suit and standing outside the locker room door.

"Put it on." He said two words coldly, and handed her a blue dissection suit.

The two walked up to the third floor together. In the general dissection room of 303, under the shadowless lamp, the corpse had been placed peacefully on the dissection table. Lu Dongdong was holding a pen and notebook to record.

Nie Zhiyan first observed around the corpse, then stood still in front of the corpse, bowed deeply, and then picked up the scalpel on the laboratory table behind him.

"The deceased, a male, was incinerated. To determine the time of death, the liver temperature cannot be used as an indicator. We can only dissect it first."

There was the sound of a knife cutting something, and there was only a sound of Yoyo, and the corpse sighed...