Misty Forest [Criminal Investigation]

When Nian Feng heard the footsteps, he turned his head and saw Qi Yu holding the report he had just sent: "Is there a problem?"

Nian Feng deliberately adjusted his tone, and the words he said were still tinged with fear. Unfortunately, he thought: the rumors are so turbulent at every turn, from the heavenly king to the local ruffian, no one has ever been afraid of praying for rain. He will not and will not bother to observe his words and expressions, and will not find out that his tone is abnormal.

Qi Yu's stunned reaction showed that he heard it, and Nian Feng turned around and adjusted the microscope to hide his embarrassment.

Qi Yu walked half a step forward and bowed his body to slow down his tone: "No, it's just that I don't quite understand some questions, so I want to ask you for advice, and I hope I didn't delay your work."

As soon as Nian Feng turned his head, the two of them were almost face to face. He quickly slid the chair back, Qi Yu stood up and pointed to the microscope. Come on, tell me if you have any questions."

The table in front of Nianfeng was full of things, and Qi Yu could only hold the report with one hand and lean forward slightly, stroking some sentences on it to discuss with Nianfeng.

"The bones have been transported, and the place where the bones were buried for the first time is not where they were discovered. It is roughly estimated that the soil where the bones are buried is dry?"

"Correct."

Nian Feng leaned back and stretched his arms to hook another analysis report on the far side of the table.Under the unbuttoned white coat, the fingertips stretched forward to the inadvertently raised left leg stretched into a straight line full of strength.

Qi Yu was slightly distracted and forgot that he could easily get the report by just walking two steps forward. He let Nianfeng press the paper with his fingers and move it closer, and then pinched it with two fingers.

"Look, although the surface of this skeleton is clean, we observed under a microscope after we came back and found that there was a lot of soil attached to the surface. We used tools to clean up the soil bit by bit and compared it with the soil composition obtained from the place where we found it."

Nianfeng opened the report, pointing to the curves of different colors on it, and told Qiyu in detail the difference in soil composition.After careful testing by Nianfeng, it was determined that the residual soil attached to the skeleton was not only different from the soil in Longhuitou, but also had a very different composition.In view of the fact that the environment, humidity and climate will bring different textures to the soil, Nian Feng reviewed and compared a large number of records and concluded that this skeleton was migrated from a place completely different from the soil environment of Lumna or even Longyue Province. .

"You mean, this skeleton was buried completely in the soil for the first time, and it wasn't put in..." Qi Yu gestured with his hands into a square shape.

"Yes, there are no other substances such as hair and nails in the copper tripod except for the bones, so the bones were picked up into the copper tripod after they were ossified in the soil, and put into the tripod in a kneeling posture."

"Kneel down?"

Nian Feng took the videos stored in the IPAD and turned them out one by one to explain to Praying Rain. The bones placed closest to the mouth of the copper tripod are the torso bone and skull. Bundled connected.Both sides of the torso bone are also tied with white thread to the big arm bone, and the small arm bone is tied under the big arm bone.Just below the torso bone is bound the femur bone, and below the thigh bone is bound the shin bone.

The fingers and toes were scattered at the bottom of the copper tripod because the connected muscles and veins had decayed and disappeared.

"I checked the information and found that the area where the bones were buried did not belong to the planning of the local villagers' cemetery. According to the local funeral customs, there is no village where people use copper tripods to collect the bones after death. And in the whole province of Longyue, there is no The local custom is to bury the body directly into the soil."

Nian Feng spread his hands: "So there is no problem with my deduction."

"I'm not saying that your conclusion is problematic. Is the age certain? Is it the current age?" Qi Yu pointed to the paragraph in the report: the deceased was male, 58 years old, about 1 meters tall.

Nian Feng stood up and walked out without making a sound. Qi Yu quickly followed. Nian Feng went to the next room and opened the door. Qi Yu was shocked again. There was a whole wall of body storage cabinets and three dissecting tables.He couldn't help but ask Nian Feng.

"Do you know anything different about this Lumna situation? Tell me about it?"

Nian Feng glanced at him suspiciously: "What I know is what Ke knows. What Ke told you should be more detailed than what he told me."

"Oh~" Qi Yu didn't feel at ease because of Nian Feng's words, he decided to take the initiative to contact the direct supervisor he didn't have time to meet face to face.

Nian Feng took out his mobile phone, pulled out the picture and stuffed it in Qi Yu's hand: "Help me get it."

Nian Feng put on his gloves and walked to the dissection table, picked up the pelvis and held it at the level of Qi Yu's eyes, and signaled Qi Yu to open the picture of the specimen he had just called up for comparison.

"The determination of gender is mainly based on the pelvis. The female pelvis is generally lighter, slender, and has an oval entrance. The male pelvic bone is relatively thick, and the overall stoutness looks like a funnel from the side."

Nianfeng turned his pelvis while talking, so that Qiyu could see more clearly.Qi Yu responded from time to time: Well, I understand.

He still understands these basic knowledge. What he asked just now was mainly about the age at death and the current age, not questioning Nianfeng's test, but what Nianfeng means now is to make it clear to him.He reckoned that if the interruption was inappropriate, he might as well just listen and learn more.

Nian Feng gently put down the pelvis, picked up the thickest bone in the upper limb on the dissecting table, and pointed to a faint line near the middle of the round head of the joint: "This is the epiphyseal line. The one below this is called the surgical neck, and the one above it is called the surgical neck." It's called an anatomical neck."

With the movement of Nianfeng's fingers, Qi Yu saw two faint shallow hooks located below the joints and on the inclined plane, while the previous epiphyseal line was very close to the anatomical neck on the inclined plane.

"I usually look at the position of the epiphyseal line first, then at the pubic symphysis, and finally at the teeth. The epiphyseal line will move up a little bit with age, and the older the age, the more obvious the movement. It can reach here around 60 years old." Nian Feng's moving fingers finally stopped on the slope of the bone joint, and traced a circle along that path.

"The bone debris line is close to the anatomical neck, so the deceased was close to 60 years old when he passed away." Qi Yu continued Nian Feng's words.

Nian Feng gently put down the skeleton in his hand, and took the initiative to talk about the specimen that was examined under the microscope just now.Nian Feng checked the bones and found that there were cracks in the skull. He asked Lin Zhao to make several bone grinding films around the cracks. Just now he carefully observed that all bone structures were not stained.

"The crack was caused after death, not an injury during life." Qi Yu stood in front of the dissecting table with his hands in his trouser pockets, pacing back and forth, pursing his lips and remaining silent.

Praying for Yu walked four or five times and still didn't want to stop. Nian Feng couldn't help but stop him: "At present, all the tests have found no abnormalities, and the poison test is still in progress. I will bring the results to you later."

"Oh, good!" Qi Yu stopped and glanced at Nianfeng, "Then I'll go back to the office first."

Nian Feng buried his head and put the remains on the dissecting table back. He didn't raise his head until he heard the sound of the iron door closing in the corridor outside, and glanced at the empty door.

Qi Yu walked back to the office, and there were steaming white porridge and steamed buns on the table. Wen Bin sat in front of the computer holding the porridge and drank heavily. Qi Yu watched the video that was playing on Wen Bin's computer. Documentary of the Sacrificial Ceremony in Long Yue Province.

Qi Yu took two steps forward, then stepped back, stretched her neck and yelled at the screen: "Isn't this a show?"

The sudden protruding back of the head startled Wen Bin, holding the bowl and leaning back: "Brother, can you make a sound when you walk?"

Qi Yu stood up straight and pointed at the ongoing burial on the screen: "Is this the buried real person?"

"Well, an aborigine took a picture of his family's funeral. I looked at it because it looked special..."

Wen Bin swallowed the last mouthful of porridge and smoked the initial inspection report with obvious creases on Qi Yu's hand, quickly glanced at it, and at the same time reported to Qi Yu the conclusion he got after searching some video data: no dead people were buried in the local area A few years later the custom of digging out the remains and re-burying them.I have not seen anyone using the similar bronze tripod they found as a burial container.

Wen Bin turned to the last page of the report, and his eyes fell on the sentence that Qi Yu added with his pen: There are no obvious injuries on the skeleton, and the only crack on the skull was caused after death, not an injury during life.

"We're not digging up someone's ancestral grave, are we?"

Praying for the rain, a skeleton that had been buried underground for at least seven or eight years was rediscovered at this time. It was put into a strange container and buried secretly in the deep mountains and old forests. There was not even a tombstone erected, and there were strange things everywhere.

"Could it be that the place where the burial was buried before was requisitioned, so I changed it? I couldn't afford a cemetery, so I buried it secretly?" Wen Bin once again raised a possibility.

Qi Yu flicked Wen Bin's forehead lightly: "Do you think everyone is as poor as you and me? In the event of demolition, both the dead and the living will be properly resettled. This kind of stealthy behavior is unnecessary."

Last night, I prayed for Yu to hope that there would be a response to the assisted investigation notice that Yu sent out. It has been halfway through the morning, and the phone number he left on the notice, that is, the landline on his desk, has not rang once.Oh, it rang once in the morning from his grumpy father.

Longyue Province is small in size and mixed with many ethnic groups. Although they have different beliefs, they all value customs after death. They believe that death is another step into life, which is more important than birth, so there will never be such a hasty and perfunctory handling of remains. Condition……

Praying for the rain and staying up all night not only checked the funeral customs of Longyue Province, but also found out the situation of the cemetery of Longhuitou. Longtoutou is regarded as a geomantic treasure in the local area. The last time the tomb was repaired in the existing burial complex was nearly 30 years ago. .In recent decades, the country has vigorously promoted cremation and the nearby villagers have consciously protected the environment of Longhuitou. Apart from the newly planted trees on the entire mountain in Longhuitou, no villagers have built new graves in it.

The longer time passed, the less chance this skeleton could find its owner. Although I knew that this skeleton was weird, but I couldn't find the source of the corpse. If Nianfeng didn't find anything obvious, no matter how weird it was, there was no basis for filing a case casually. .

Thinking of this, Qi Yu couldn't help thinking of the precision instruments in the room on the second floor. He took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Chen Qiaosheng, who was directly in charge of the provincial department, and within a minute after sending it, Chen Qiaosheng took the initiative to call.