traces of all things

"Team leader, are we really going up the mountain? It's getting dark today."

Since Wei Xiongfeng's last experience in Daqiu Mountain, he has developed a deep fear of going up the mountain at night.

There is no way, two good colleagues go up the mountain, and two blood gourds come down, are you not afraid of changing you?ah? !

What ushered in decisively was Tang Shaoyuan's ridicule: "It wasn't you who was ambushed last time, but you were psychologically affected."

Wei Xiongfeng was about to jump up and bicker as soon as he heard it, but before that, Lu Zheng interrupted them both presciently.

"Nobita, be brave." Lu Zheng held up a flashlight and said, "Time is life, we have weapons on our bodies this time, and Xiaocang Mountain is only so big, I might hear you sneezing from the other side of the mountain .”

After realizing the reason, he began to pour chicken soup with emotion: "Think about it, if Jiang Yixiang's personal freedom is restricted by criminals, or she can't leave to ask for help because of an injury, then we arrive one minute early, and she will One more hope of surviving!"

As a two-dimensional young man, Wei Xiongfeng's most indispensable thing is blood. Hearing this, he immediately got excited and jumped up, faster than Lu Zheng and the others.

Seeing that he was full of energy again, Lu Zheng showed a somewhat reproachful expression and patted Tang Shaoyuan's shoulder: "You two are serious, why do you always have to fight back and forth."

Tang Shaoyuan snorted softly, reached out and shook Lu Zheng's arm.

"Okay, okay, if you want to act like a baby, go back and act again, first look at the road, don't fall." Seeing him like this, Lu Zheng couldn't help shaking his head and smiling, and re-pointed the flashlight on the road in front of him, inch by inch. Check it out.

But he didn't notice that Tang Shaoyuan's hand was hanging on his arm and didn't take it off.

Compared to the majestic Daqiu Mountains, Xiaocang Mountain is nothing worth mentioning. Soon Lu Zheng and the others climbed halfway up the mountain, and the vegetation here became more and more sparse, and the visibility became higher. .

"Strange." Lu Zheng looked at the dirt road under his feet, frowned and asked in doubt: "Why are there so many messy footprints on this mountain road? Is there anything on this mountain?"

Xue Yiwei happened to know this question: "I came to the village at the foot of the mountain here when I was handling the case with Captain Huang and Deputy Captain Xian. It seems that Xiaocang Mountain is haunted by rumors."

Before the words were finished, Wei Xiongfeng beside him let out a terrifying howl.

"What's the matter? Daxiong!" Lu Zheng tensed up and touched the weapon at his waist in an instant.

Wei Xiongfeng froze for half a second, and said shamefully, "It's nothing...team leader, I'm just a little afraid of ghosts."

"Pfft."

Xue Yiwei expressed his ridicule very bluntly.

Originally Tang Shaoyuan wanted to complain about him, but after thinking about it, he decided to treat Wei Xiongfeng better for Lu Zheng's sake.

Unexpectedly, Wei Xiongfeng, a criminal policeman, would be afraid of ghosts. Lu Zheng was also a little dumbfounded, and motioned to Xue Yiwei to continue: "How should I say? Shouldn't there be few people who are afraid of ghosts?"

"It's not like that." Xue Yiwei's expression seemed a little difficult to understand the fun of the little doll: "There is an elementary school under this mountain, and the students in the elementary school usually like to come to this mountain to play when they have nothing to do. The more haunted they are, the more exciting they find it. interesting."

Lu Zheng knew it. When he remembered that in his second year of middle school, his classmates also liked to pretend to be mysterious and tell ghost stories, and they listened to them even if they were afraid.

Speaking of this, the group of four had already approached the top of the mountain. At this moment, Lu Zheng suddenly and keenly discovered something in the grass by the roadside.

"and many more!"

His sudden sound made Wei Xiongfeng tremble three times in fright, and before turning around, Lu Zheng crouched down holding a flashlight.There is a big stone on the side of the road, which is stuck in the mountain, and a small piece of stone wall is exposed towards the path. Under the stone, there are some weeds with slender branches and leaves growing luxuriantly.

The strong flashlight hit the stone wall, and Tang Shaoyuan, as a forensic doctor, was the first to discover something wrong.

On the stone wall and on the weeds below, there are some spots of dark splash-like liquid.

He squatted down quickly, put on his gloves and scraped off a little with a cotton swab, and took a closer look.

"is blood."

he said quite firmly.

Suddenly there was a rough bird cry in the sky.

Wei Xiongfeng couldn't help shaking on the side, his face turned pale with fright, and he was holding Xue Yiwei's arm tightly.

Lu Zheng squinted his eyes and got up, the flashlight in his hand shone behind the stone.

A clear trail of drag appeared in the thick grass.

"This amount of bleeding is not enough to kill people." Tang Shaoyuan said firmly: "It should have passed out. If we can find out in time, maybe we can still be saved."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Zheng was already lighting his flashlight, and quickly stepped into the grass following the traces of the dragging.

The trail was not very long, and soon, under the light of the flashlight, a red women's single shoe appeared, lying alone in the grass.

"Mom, mom..."

When Wei Xiongfeng saw the red lady's single shoe, he didn't know what he had imagined, and his legs were already trembling with fright.

After chasing two steps forward, the experienced people soon smelled a strange smell.

With a flash of Lu Zheng's flashlight, the end point of their pursuit finally appeared in the circular light ahead.

Tang Shaoyuan stepped forward to take a quick look, and got up with a heavy expression before touching the carotid artery: "Death has been confirmed."

"Gosh"

"It's so miserable..."

It was Xue Yiwei and Wei Xiongfeng who made the sound at the same time. At this time, Wei Xiongfeng also forgot to be afraid, and closed his eyes a little bit unbearably.

In front of her was a female corpse with her limbs spread out. Her face and body were covered with blood and plaster. She couldn't see her face clearly. Her lower body pants were half-faded, her face was disorganized, her hands and feet were limp, her rigor had disappeared, and there were initial signs of corruption.

**

"It was confirmed by DNA comparison that the deceased was the missing Jiang Yixiang. The time of death was between the afternoon and midnight of the day she disappeared three days ago." Tang Shaoyuan said solemnly at the case analysis meeting: "The deceased's head was opened. sexual wound, the wound was compared and the murder weapon was an irregular blunt weapon. After investigation at the scene, we found that the murder weapon should be stones that can be seen everywhere on the mountain, but the depth of the wound and the amount of bleeding were not fatal. Except for the head wound, the whole body There are no other obvious injuries on the upper and lower sides, but there are long and thin scratches formed by dragging on the waist, and the wounds have life reactions. There are no restraint injuries on the hands, and no injuries on the neck. As for the cause of death-suffocation."

asphyxia?

Everyone in the room showed puzzled expressions.

There are no bound injuries on the hands and no scars on the neck, so how did Jiang Yixiang suffocate?If she covered her mouth and nose, even if she was knocked out, people will always feel a certain amount of pain when they are subjected to violence. How could there be no struggle in this situation?

When a group of people were puzzled, Tang Shaoyuan threw out the second point.

"When the body was found, the clothes were incomplete and the pants were half-faded, but I checked and found no sperm spots left in the victim's body."

Having said that, the expression on his face became a little subtle.

"But the deceased did suffer sexual assault during his lifetime, but based on the results of the autopsy, we can be sure that the perpetrator's assault on the deceased was done with his fingers."

There was an uproar in the audience.

"Damn, who is it?" Wei Xiongfeng was obviously very indignant about this: "Is this pervert?"

**

There is no way to know whether it is abnormal or not, but the case has encountered a bottleneck again at this time.

The place where the victim was killed was on the mountain, and the roads around the school went north to Xiaocang Mountain, and went south to the location where the bicycle was found. eyewitnesses.

This is difficult.

Lu Zheng sat in the evidence room, frowning and studying the pile of photos and evidence in front of him.

When the deceased was found, his upper body was well dressed. He was wearing a beige wool cardigan with a thin plaid long-sleeved shirt inside, simple black cotton trousers on his lower body, and wine red single shoes on his feet. It was quite a typical pair. female teacher dress up.At the scene where the body was found, they also found a lady's satchel, which seemed to be the belongings of the deceased. In the bag, there was a very cheap tablet phone and an old folded wallet. There was no cash in the wallet, but a bank card. All are still there, an empty coin purse, a small comb, a pen, and a book.

Lu Zheng wore gloves and turned the pages of the book. This is a very common inspirational book on success learning on the market. It seems that someone gave it to this female teacher. There is a line of words written on the title page of the book: "I wish you a bright future!"

The book looks a bit old, and the pages are a little yellowed, but it is well maintained and there are no signs of damage. It can be seen that the owner loves it very much.

Lu Zheng sighed and put down the book.

Every time he solves a crime and sees some personal belongings of the victim, he can't help but feel sad.

I always feel... such a lively person, not long ago, was living a wonderful or boring, positive or decadent life in a certain corner of the world, and in a blink of an eye, he has become a corpse in a cold morgue, carrying It is a very sad and cruel thing for items to be inspected in front of oneself.

"Did you find anything, brother?"

The one who spoke was Tang Shaoyuan who was sitting opposite. After completing the autopsy, he was also carefully studying the records and photos of the autopsy process. At this moment, he seemed to have sensed Lu Zheng's depression, and asked about work in a timely manner.

Lu Zheng cheered up and smiled when he heard the words: "There is no special information. First of all, this pair of shoes."

As he spoke, he lifted up his shoes and showed off the heels: "Mr. Jiang should have arrived at the crime scene by bicycle without being coerced. Xiaocang Mountain is very gentle, and it is completely feasible to ride a bicycle on the mountain road. The soles of her shoes are evenly stained with a small amount of mud stains, and the body of the shoes does not have too many splash marks. There is more mud on the mountain road. If you hike up the mountain, the soles of the shoes should be a little dirtier. Only the heel of the shoe lost its behavior after being hit hard Ability, and a lot of mud was stained during the process of being dragged, which is also consistent with the dragging traces at the scene."

"The call records in the mobile phone show that the last call was the night before Teacher Jiang's death. This is her home phone, and there is nothing unusual about the text messages. Her mobile phone is relatively seldom used, and the calls and text messages are not frequent. Internet access is not supported."

"As for the wallet." Lu Zheng was lost in thought here: "There is indeed a suspicion of murder, because there is no cash in Teacher Jiang's wallet, and the murderer seems to be very greedy, and took away all the coins in her coin purse." All the reservations have been taken. But here is a doubt."

Speaking of this, Lu Zheng pursed his lips: "This kind of tablet phone is indeed not worth a lot of money, but it is still valuable. If the murderer is so short of money that he even takes away the coins in the coin purse, why? Why don't you take Teacher Jiang's mobile phone? This mobile phone is not placed in the mezzanine, so it is easy to find."

This question is indeed very disturbing.

After thinking for a while, Tang Shaoyuan gave his guess: "Could it be because...the murderer didn't kill for money, but for some other reason? The money is just incidental?"

"Under normal circumstances, if the criminal suspect sexually assaulted the victim, but used props or hands, it is very likely that the murderer is of the same sex, or his sexual function is not perfect." Tang Shao Yuan pointed at the photo of the deceased's head wound: "According to your deduction of the height of the cyclist, brother, and the angle of the head wound, the murderer is taller and should not be a woman—could it be because the murderer was a man? Dysfunctional, frustrated self-esteem, have a certain sexual perversion or revenge mentality, and commit crimes against single women?"