Misty Forest [Criminal Investigation]

The car drove more and more remote, and finally drove into the mountainous area. From a distance, Qi Yu saw a row of cars parked on the mountain road, the most striking of which was Nian Feng's car.

After parking the car, the four of them walked up the mountain along the freshly stepped road on the slope. The leaves and branches of the plants and trees scattered at high and low overlapped each other to block the sight. Obstacles, Ke Jia's voice came from diagonally above.

"Pray for the police officer to be careful. You can just walk up here."

Qi Yu walked halfway up the mountain and saw Ke Xia standing on the side of the road. He looked around and there was a small path away from the main road up and down the mountain. There was a relatively flat open space of about twenty square meters.There is a natural cave with a low entrance on the opposite mountain, and the entrance of the cave is now cordoned off.Nian Feng, who was fully armed, was looking for suspicious things around the entrance of the cave with an instrument, and Lin Zhao took a camera to take pictures of the surrounding environment.

Ke Xia pointed at the entrance of the cave: "There is a dead body inside, these children found it and called the police."

Qi Yu raised his wrist and looked at the time. At around 03:30 in the afternoon, he waved at the four or five boys in school uniforms.When they approached, Qi Yu pointed to the watch: "Thursday, is it fun to skip class after three o'clock in the afternoon? If you don't skip class, you won't find the abnormality here. From this point of view, I thank you very much, but as you come It is said that this time should be sitting in school and studying."

Several boys stood upright with their hands behind their backs and their heads bowed, not daring to make a sound.

"Raise your head!" Qi Yu raised his voice, several boys looked up at him with stiff faces, Qi Yu raised his finger and pointed to the emerald mountains behind his head.

"How do you get out of this mountain when you grow up after you don't study? Your parents plow into the mountains every day to collect wild mushrooms and chop firewood for your life. For you to study, it is not for you to come out to fish and hunt birds under the banner of going to school. You don't now After studying hard, I can only fish and hunt birds in this mountain for the rest of my life. Tell me about the situation. I won’t tell your parents and teachers about today’s incident, but you have to promise to study hard in the future, or I will meet you once. I will tell your school teachers, parents once."

"Yes yes yes! Uncle police, we will never dare again!"

In order to show that they were serious about cooperating, the children chattered about the situation they encountered. Nian Feng, who was searching for suspicious materials not far away from the cave, bent over and moved his ears slightly, praying for the lesson just now. After listening to every word, the corner of his mouth covered by the mask evoked an arc that he didn't even notice.

Qi Yu read it right. These children are first-year students of the town middle school. They skipped class and ran into the mountain to play this afternoon. They wanted to come in to find some wild mushrooms and cook some soup, but they found nothing. After wandering around the mountain for a long time, they were hungry , a child proposed to fish in a stream below here, and grill the fish.

Several children divide the work, one builds the stove, two go fishing, and two gather firewood.The two children who were picking up firewood came here and found the cave. They thought that there would be small animals in the cave, such as rabbits, so they wanted to go into the cave to have a look. There was a gleaming white thing, and it was not clear why it was afraid to go in. A brave child knelt on the ground and stretched out his hand to feel for it. His fingertips touched a trace of coldness that pierced his heart, and he was scared out of his wits.

The two children ran back and told their friends about the matter. Several children came over together, and one of them took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight and took a photo to confirm that it was a dead person.

"You said that you planned to go into the mountains to collect mushrooms, but you didn't find them, and then you planned to touch fish and grill them?" Qi Yu stared at the children with his arms crossed.

"Uncle policeman, we didn't lie, we really wanted to come in to find wild mushrooms to eat, uncle, have you ever eaten it? It's delicious, and the grilled fish is also delicious!"

"I tell you to read more!" Qi Yu raised his hand...

Wen Bin, who was standing by the side, grabbed Qi Yu's wrist almost at the same time: "Brother, please tell me, other people's children cannot be beaten!"

Qi Yu put down his hand, clenched his fist, stretched out his index finger and pointed it at the eyes of several boys. Wen Bin fixed his eyes on the fingertips to make sure to stop it before Qi Yu's fingertips poked it.

"Do you know why you can't pick up wild mushrooms?"

The boys tacitly stepped back half a step away from Qiyu's fingers: "Why?"

"It hasn't rained for almost half a month. Where can I grow fungi?? Wild fungi need rain to grow, don't you understand? I told you to study hard and not listen to the lectures carefully. You are still locals, and you don't even know how to grow your own locally produced things. Still have the face to skip class!"

The boys blushed and lowered their heads, praying for rain before they could utter a word and continued: "You guys actually want to start a fire and grill fish in this mountain?? Do you know that this is equivalent to setting fire to the mountain? You know that one accidentally ignited the forest How far will it burn? Surrounded by mountains, your home, school, and the animals and plants in the mountains, people living on the side of the mountains will be displaced, or even lose their lives! You are not grilled fish, You are terrible! Every year in our country, many firefighters and uncles lose their lives because of fighting wildfires, and you actually want to start a fire in this mountain?? You can’t even leave a cigarette butt in this mountain! That’s you, if you are my son, today I will !"

Qi Yu's voice became louder and louder, and he pushed the non-existent sleeve twice on his arm, Wen Bin immediately grabbed Qi Yu: "Speak well, speak well..."

"Uncle policeman, we were wrong..."

Nian Feng had already collected all the suspicious things around the cave entrance. He stood sideways at the cave and watched Qi Yu teach the children a lesson filled with righteous indignation. Sighing: "This person, he has been so straightforward for so many years..."

"Master, do you want to turn on the lights?" Lin Zhao came over with two searchlights in his hands.

"Ok!"

Nian Feng picked up the survey box and waited for Lin Zhao to light up the situation in the cave and take enough photos, then hunched over and went into the cave entrance. Seeing Nian Feng enter the cave, Qi Yu patted Qu Ruichuan on the shoulder: "Xiao Qu, you and Bao... "

"My name is Bao Siqi." Seeing that Qi Yu was stuck in the middle of his speech, Bao Siqi guessed that the other party didn't remember his name and hurriedly added.

"The two of you are asking these children for other clues, and then find out where this road leads. Xiao Wenzi and I will go and see the scene."

Qi Yu went to the entrance of the cave and took out the gloves and shoe covers and asked Nian Feng if he could come in. Nian Feng squatted on the ground without raising his head.Qi Yu's legs were bent to the point where he was almost half squatting before he was able to enter the cave smoothly.

The area of ​​the cave is about ten square meters. The slightly moist and cool air fills the nostrils. The height inside the cave is slightly higher than the entrance of the cave.

The searchlight at the door illuminated the cave thoroughly. A naked corpse lay flat on the soft mud floor. Praying for rain moved up from the corpse's feet, and his pupils dilated unconsciously for half a second when he passed a certain part.

A pink long dress turned over around the neck is stacked together, the hem just covers the face, the hands are tied and placed above the head, the right foot is wearing a cloth boat shoe, the sole pattern is clear, and the left foot is bare.There are several pairs of clear footprints around the body, the edges are incomplete and the forefoot has many empty edges.

Nian Feng was squatting next to a pair of footprints. Using the instrument in his hand, he took off the pair of footprints and the soil below them, and put them in a special box for safekeeping.

Qi Yu rubbed his arms, stood aside and looked at the cave carefully. The inner walls were naturally formed of rock structures, and the ground was soft soil. Qi Yu inserted his fingers into the mud, and the soil was wet and cold.

After Nian Feng finished the peripheral inspection of the body, he lifted the clothes around his neck, and Lin Zhao quickly took out a pen and paper to record Nian Feng's words.

"The current time is 4:13 p.m., four and ten minutes have passed since arriving at the scene, and twelve minutes have passed since entering the cave. Has the core temperature measured last time been recorded?"

"It's been recorded!" Lin Zhao replied.

"The neck is obviously crushed, and there are bleeding spots around the eyes."

"The scratches on the back of the neck have a slight life reaction, and they were injured when they were dying. The same is true for the scratches on the joints of the palms and wrists of both hands."

"Most of the joints and muscles of the corpse became soft, and the rigors were significantly relieved."

"Corpse plaques gather on the buttocks and back, and the finger pressure does not disperse."

"Anal temperature 5 degrees."

Nian Feng glanced at the watch in his hand, "The preliminary determination is that the time of death is more than 72 hours."

Nian Feng took out a shrink bag and spread it on the ground, pulled off the clothes on the corpse and tidied them up.Under the cover of the clothes was a head of jet-black hair and a face with delicate features. If it wasn't for the open mouth and abnormal complexion, anyone who had seen it would think that the young girl was just asleep.

On the front of the pink knee-length loose dress the girl was wearing, a large offset face of a cartoon character was rubbed against the dirt, and the original smiling face looked like it was crying.

Wen Bin took two quick steps to help Lin Zhao put the body into the shrink bag, and the two of them walked out of the cave one after the other. Nian Feng checked again at the place where the body was lying and found nothing of value. Picking up the heavy inspection box and bending over, he got out of the cave, left the cave, stood upright, turned his head and said, "I will make an autopsy report as soon as possible."

Praying for rain and walking out of the cave, Qu Ruichuan walked over with a hand-painted route sketch. The road goes out and forks to different places.

Qi Yu took a look at the children who had left just now, and asked Ke Xia to help seal the cave so that no one else could get close for the time being, and led the three of them towards the outside of the mountain.Bao Siqi asked in bewilderment why he didn't go to the mountains.

"There must be a more hidden place in this deep mountain and old forest. He doesn't need to work hard to get it out." Wen Bin replied.

Qi Yu nodded. He had observed in the cave just now that there were no traces of struggle and struggle, but they only existed on the back of the corpse. Pieces of corpse spots proved that the deceased had not moved for an hour after his death. The deceased had lost his body when he was brought into the cave. ability to resist.

Qi Yu led people to walk on the mountain path, staring at the road, scanning the sides of the road from time to time, the sky was getting darker as time passed, and the light in the mountain quickly dimmed after the sun went down.A few people turned on the lights in their hands and prayed for rain to zoom in on the map on the phone. They had already walked back and forth twice on the two fixed roads.

"There is something!" Bao Siqi pointed at the grass on the slope of the mountain road and jumped down.