Misty Forest [Criminal Investigation]

Qi Yu drove a small car with a good sense of push and bump, and drove around the crooked mountain road to the position closest to the coordinates on the navigation map. When he got off the car, he saw Nian Feng in a white coat wearing a police tape on the slope from a distance. He and Lin Zhao have already started work.

The two walked into the cordon in the direction of Ke Xia's finger. Nian Feng was collecting fingerprints on three villagers who looked like they were dressed up. Lin Zhao checked with them one by one at the same time where their hands had touched.A dark green dome covered with copper rust was exposed under the loose soil not far away. The cover was obviously lifted and then fell back, staggered by a palm-width gap, and it was so dark that it was impossible to see what was inside.

Qi Yu shrugged his nostrils, but he didn't smell any obvious smell, but a fresh fragrance wrapped in earthy smell penetrated into his nostrils. He looked around and saw some fresh unnamed bacteria scattered on the ground around him. mushroom.He carefully looked at the metal dome in the soil in the distance, and estimated that the diameter of the vessel should not be more than a few tens of centimeters, and it should not be able to fit a complete corpse.

After Nian Feng collected the fingerprints, he handed the three of them to Qi Yu, and Wen Bin took out his notebook by the side to start recording.

"What's in there? How did you dig it out?" Qi Yu pointed to the metal round bowl in the distance.

"Bone... bone..." The speaking villager was wearing thin cloth clothes, and his upper and lower teeth kept colliding when he spoke. He didn't know whether it was cold or frightened. Another older villager standing next to him took the initiative to come over and tell Qiyu happened.

This mountain is located on the Zihua Mountains, which occupy most of the territory of Longyue Province. The locals call it Longhuitou. It is said that from a high altitude, the whole mountain range looks like a wandering dragon looking back.Two days ago, there was a heavy rain in Lumu that lasted for more than a day. The three villagers met to go to the mountain to collect wild mushrooms and sell them in the market. Today, they went to the mountain at three or four in the morning. After the heavy rain, wild mushrooms were everywhere. Yes, just before dawn, one person filled a basket.

The three of them got used to walking on the mountain road, and took the familiar shortcut to drive down the mountain. When they came here, they saw a place on the edge of the hillside that was different from usual. A few people curiously approached and found that there was a hole on the outward slope of the hillside. A small piece of blue with white spots, they will walk here almost once a month, this piece of land has not even grown a tree, could it be that there is something buried under the soil?With the shovels in their hands, they pulled away the soil layer that had been loosened by the rain, and after a few fiddles, the obvious bronze material was revealed.

They guessed in their hearts that it was either scrap metal or an antique, and the three of them worked together to speed up the cleaning of the surface soil, and a round cover was exposed. They lifted the heavy cover together, and the first thing they saw was a skull Terrified, he threw the cover back.The three of them scrambled to the side, thinking that they had dug someone's grave, but there wasn't even a tombstone around them.I was so scared that I called the police, saying that a bone was found.

Praying for rain handed over the three villagers to Wen Bin and continued to ask questions. After a few steps, he walked to Nian Feng. Nian Feng was squatting on the ground in a white coat and carefully digging the soil around the ironware. Lin Zhao held up his camera and took pictures of the surrounding situation.Most of the soil was dug open, and the iron vessel gradually revealed its true appearance: a three-legged round tripod, with rectangular handles on both sides, and three semicircular protrusions on the round lid.

Qi Yu took out the gloves from his pocket, put them on, and worked together with Nian Feng to lift Yuan Ding out.Nian Feng pinched the protrusion on the cover with his fingers, and Qi Yu bent down to help him lift the cover. As soon as the cover was opened, a faint greasy smell wafted out.

"What smell?" Qi Yu whispered.

Nian Feng glanced at him without saying a word, stretched out his hand and carefully removed the white bones in the copper tripod. On the surface, the bones seemed to be stacked together, but on a closer look at the skull, the bones of the body, legs, and arms were tied together with thin white threads.

Nianfeng put the lid back on: "Let's just take it back. There are not many clues at the scene, and there are no footprints except for three villagers. It rained heavily a few days ago, so this copper tripod must have been buried before the rain. Even if there were traces around, it was washed away by the rain.”

A group of people returned to the police station after finishing the on-site work. Nian Feng drove his off-road vehicle that roared with the accelerator pedal as usual and drove away.Wen Bin turned hundreds of times on the mountain road yesterday, and Wen Bin, who has been tested, was alive and well in the car today, pointing in the direction where Nian Feng and the others left to encourage them to pray for rain.

"Brother, you can also buy one like that in the future. Let's save resources for the country and drive our own car, which is fast and good!"

Qi Yu sneered and didn't bother to turn his head: "Is that so? You and I can't afford to eat or drink for ten years at our current salary."

"Ah? So long? Actually, I think this car is pretty good. Let's keep a low profile as public officials. This car is pretty good..." Wen Bin stuck out his tongue.

"That car is quite low-key, it doesn't even have a logo, don't you see that it's so expensive?" Qi Yu held the steering wheel with his hands, looked ahead, and his mind turned: Who is Nian Feng? ?

"Hey, isn't that because I'm blind and haven't seen the world! Brother, is today's case a criminal case?" Wen Bin changed the subject at the right time.

"It's hard to say, let's see the results of their inspection. Go back and send an investigation report to see if anyone knows the origin of this skeleton."

"Hey, brother, are they going to send it to Yunmu Zihua for inspection?"

Qi Yu pursed her lips and shook her head. The two of them returned to the office. The engine of Nian Feng's car that had been parked early was running out of heat, and a faint light shone through the closed glass windows of the balcony on the second floor.

Qi Yu turned on the computer, and Nian Feng had already sent part of the photos of the scene to his email. Sent to the police station next door.

There were only a few cars that the police station could mobilize. Qi Yu and Wen Bin identified the farthest village, and Ke Xia arranged for a few policemen in the rest of the area.

The car turned onto the country dirt road, and Wen Bin lamented that he hadn't done posting small advertisements in the streets and alleys for many years.

"The days like this have just begun. It would be nice to have a computer printer for you in the office~" Qi Yu smiled and put his hands firmly on the steering wheel.

The two discussed in the car all the way, why did this dead bone appear on a deserted hillside?After conjecturing all kinds of possibilities, everything can only be determined after finding the source and identifying the identity. As for the direction of investigation, it will be a matter of later.

The two bumped along the rugged mountain road and the steep road. By posting notices and posting notices, they got a feel for the geographical conditions around Lumna.

After five or six minutes of driving out of the county town, there are large tracts of farmland, orchards, and plantations, mixed with scattered villages. In terms of road conditions, the economy generally lags behind.

Most of the local villagers make a living from farming, and some young people go out to work. Villagers close to the center of Lumna Town can take advantage of their geographical advantages to do some small business of material exchange at the border during the slack season.The villages are connected to electricity and the Internet, but the voltage supply is unstable, and there are very few people who can afford computers and smart phones.

It took a lot of time for the two of them to go back and forth, and it was already past five in the afternoon when they returned to the office. Qi Yu opened the mailbox and did not see the new information sent by Nian Feng. The lights on the upstairs showed that Nian Feng had not left.

"Brother, do you want to eat? I'm going to get the lunch box?" Wen Bin rubbed his hands. After arriving here, he ate a meal last night. Today he has been busy all day, and he was so hungry that his chest was stuck to his back. .

"Okay." Qi Yu took out the room key and threw it to Wen Bin.

The two discussed the surrounding situation and walked into the canteen of the police station next door. They said that the town police station was in charge of a large area of ​​Lumu, and the staff size was not small.In the cafeteria, a large plate of stir-fried vegetables had just been brought out. After finishing the meal, Qi Yu remembered something and found an empty table to put the lunch box on and asked Wen Bin to eat first. He went back to the window and picked up two disposable lunch boxes. A box of three dishes was hurriedly brought out.

Wen Bin asked him why he went, he waved his hand, and walked straight back to the second floor with two lunch boxes in his hands.The door on the second floor was locked and he didn't have a key, so he had to stand at the door and knock.