Super Time Detective

July 7 and August 30 are weekends and Sundays.

Originally, these two days were Ye Huairui's rest days, but his mind was full of two things, the bone case and the paper ashes and broken sand in the dictionary, so he couldn't enjoy the weekend leisurely at all.

So he saw that it didn't look like it was going to rain during the day, so he simply went back to the identification laboratory, and seized the time to get rid of the nameless bone corpse.

Comrade Zhang Mingming naturally rejected this overly conscious unpaid overtime behavior.

Ye Huairui could only promise him some benefits, and promised to compensate him with Tianchao France afterwards, so he reluctantly agreed.

As for Ouyang Tingting, this girl was surprisingly cooperative, she didn't ask any questions, just answered "Yes", and went back to work overtime on time the next day.

Bones dug out of the soil need to be cleaned and disinfected first.

Before that, a preliminary examination is required, such as observing whether there are injuries, lesions and other abnormal changes on the bones.Take pictures when necessary.

Ye Huairui found a comminuted fracture at the lower border of the sixth rib on the right side of the bone, which was roughly parallel to the position of the bullet hole in the shirt, so it was presumed that it was left when the bullet entered the body.

In addition, there were some old bone damage and degenerative changes on the remains, which they also recorded one by one.

Next comes the cleaning step.

This corpse is completely ossified, the surface of the bones is very clean, and it is relatively easy to clean up. You only need to use a small brush to gently remove the floating dirt, and then you can do further inspection.

As for some smaller bones, such as skulls, hand and foot bones, etc., they should be put into gauze bags before cleaning.

They adjusted 5% washing powder and Lysol's mixed cleaning solution, soaked the cleaned bones in it, fished them all out the next day, rinsed them in running water with a soft brush, and finally placed them in a ventilated place. Dry in the shade in a ventilated room, and the cleaning is complete.

These programs cannot be fast-forwarded with one click, and it will take at least three to four days before and after. Ye Huairui also took advantage of the time to dry the bones, and asked Zhang Mingming to accompany him to dump the shredded paper ashes.

"Hey, let me say, Comrade Ye Huairui."

Seeing Ye Huairui take out the old dictionary, Zhang Mingming almost laughed angrily at him, "Where did you get these messy things?"

Ye Huairui knew that of course he couldn't tell the truth, so he could only give the same reason as last time, saying that Yin Jiaming's old acquaintance got clues from a certain channel, which might be related to the Jincheng robbery back then. Interested, I commissioned him to investigate in private.

"Damn it, you're doing a white job for someone else!"

Zhang Mingming's expression of hatred is that iron cannot be made into steel:

"Have you charged? It's an old case from 39 years ago. Even if you can find out that batch of jewelry, you must hand it over! Why are you so enthusiastic!"

Zhang Mingming has always felt that Ye Huairui's personality is too nerdy. Although he is not socially fearful, he obviously lacks the desire to communicate and always looks frigid. No matter how good the conditions are, he may not be able to find a partner in 900 years.

Although Ye Huairui came out to this friend very early, saying that he likes men.But Zhang Mingming has known him for almost three years, but he has never seen him have a boyfriend, or have intimate and ambiguous contact with anyone.

Comrade Er Ming even felt that his friend was not so much a homosexual as an asexual—anyway, he looked like he was going to be single forever, whether he liked men or women, did it make any difference?

"..."

Ye Huairui really couldn't tell the story of his communication with Yin Jiaming across time and space, so he had to explain vaguely:

"The client has a good relationship with me..."

"Why didn't I know you had such a good friend in Jincheng?"

Zhang Mingming raised his eyebrows:

"Male friend?"

He deliberately added an accent on the word "male", and the implication was very obvious.

"Why didn't I know you were so gossip!"

Ye Huairui kicked Zhang Mingming's calf:

"After talking for a long time, will you help me?"

"Wait, I have to figure out what's going on first."

Zhang Mingming thought he had caught a scandal with his friend, and his gossip was burning, so he naturally refused to let Ye Huairui go easily.

"You really have a boyfriend?"

He paused, then realized again: "No, your partner..."

"I didn't have a boyfriend!"

Ye Huairui frowned: "And that's not my partner either!"

"Okay, that's your male friend."

Zhang Mingming continued:

"If that person has something from 39 years ago and claims to be Yin Jiaming's old acquaintance, wouldn't he be at least five or sixty years old?!"

He stared at Ye Huairui in shock:

"No way, Ah Rui! You're not dating at dusk, are you!?"

Ye Huairui was so angry that he wanted to roll his eyes to the sky.

He was just about to strictly tell his bad friend not to think about it, and that he has no special relationship with the client, but Yin Jiaming's handsome face suddenly broke into his mind without warning.

Ye Huairui: "..."

He was dazed for a moment.

"Oh?"

Zhang Mingming narrowed his eyes, "Is it true that I am right?"

"Do not make jokes."

Ye Huairui drove out someone's big face that appeared inappropriately in his mind, and quickly restrained his expression, "I really want to solve this case very seriously."

He looked directly at Zhang Mingming and earnestly begged:

"I hope you can help me."

"Okay, okay, I've lost to you."

Zhang Mingming raised his hand to express his surrender, "Now it's not just Tianchao France, you owe me another meal."

As he spoke, he put on his gloves, and then gently opened the old dictionary Ye Huairui brought.

"Okay, now let the experts see how to deal with these things..."

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The disposal of those paper ashes is really troublesome.

Carbonized paper is easy to break, especially those that overlap each other. As long as you peel it off with a little force, it will break into powder.

Ye Huairui and Zhang Mingming could only operate very carefully under a magnifying glass, peeling and mounting them without damaging the paper ashes as much as possible.

As a member of the team, Ouyang Tingting naturally noticed that the two were doing "private work".

She inquired about the origin of these paper ashes, and when she heard that it might be the evidence of the robbery 39 years ago, she offered to help.

Ye Huairui was worried about the shortage of manpower, so of course he readily agreed.

The three of them carefully framed the paper ashes, and they didn't force it if they couldn't be separated.

Then it was time for Zhang Mingming, an image processing expert, to make an appearance.

He irradiated the framed paper ashes from various angles with a strong light, found the angle with the largest light and dark contrast between the paper surface and the handwriting, and then took pictures with a PL lens, and finally imported the taken photos into the software processing system. Further adjust the contrast to make the handwriting that was hidden in the charred marks stand out.

Occasionally, paper dust sticks together and cannot be separated. After several experiments, Zhang Mingming also figured out a way.

He turned up the intensity of the light so that the strong light could see through multiple sheets of paper dust before shooting.Then, using the difference in depth of different layers of ink marks on the photo, the overlapping handwriting is separated in the software.

"This document should have been typed with an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter."

While fiddling with the camera, Zhang Mingming explained to Ye Huairui and Ouyang Tingting:

"In this way, when each typeface hits the ribbon, it will leave a slight indentation of that typeface on the paper, and the contrast is more obvious under strong light."

He said:

"Fortunately, it is a mechanical typewriter. If it is replaced with a soft-type typewriter, my method of taking pictures may not be effective."

Naturally, Ye Huairui thanked his friend a thousand times and exaggeratedly praised his superb image processing technology, which made Zhang Mingming feel more comfortable and worked harder.

After two days of tossing like this, Zhang Mingming finally processed all the recognizable words on the ashes of the paper.

He saved all the "fragments" in a USB flash drive and handed them to Ye Huairui.

Next, Ye Huairui just needs to piece together these scattered information fragments as much as possible like playing a jigsaw puzzle to get more information.

During the two days, Ye Huairui also took the time to compare the gravel in the dictionary with the sand and gravel samples in Fulonggang, and confirmed that the two were very similar, and that there were broken particles of coal mixed in them.

In other words, he was almost certain that the gravel Yin Jiaming found under the threshold of Dai Junfeng's house was brought in from Fulonggang.

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Monday, August 2021, 8.

Unlike last week, where there was a thunderstorm almost every day, Jincheng has been slightly cooler these days, and there has been no rain for three full days.

Ye Huairui has been looking forward to the rain as soon as possible.

At [-]:[-] that night, when he was using the computer to study the text fragments in his study, he finally heard a dull thunder coming from outside the window.

Ye Huairui jumped up, ran to the window, opened the curtains and took a look - sure enough, he saw lightning flashing across the sky, and a torrential rain pouring down.

Before he even had time to turn off the computer, he ran out of the study, went downstairs quickly, and rushed into the basement.

"Yin, Yin Jiaming!"

He ran so fast that he didn't have time to catch his breath, "Are you there?"

[A Rui! 】

After three days of not hearing Ye Huairui's voice, Yin Jiaming was obviously impatient.

[Why did it take you so long to contact me? 】

Ye Huairui calmed down and explained, "It hasn't rained for a few days."

When Yin Jiaming heard this, he couldn't help but start to worry.

Although Jincheng has a tropical monsoon climate and it is rainy in the next season, no one can guarantee whether it will be like this every day.

In case it happens to be a dry year and there is no rain for a long time, then...

In the hot weather, Yin Jiaming shivered.

As long as he thought that he might not be able to hear Ye Huairui's voice for a long time, he felt chills in his heart.

In a sense, Ye Huairui has become his spiritual pillar.

If Ye Huairui suddenly disappears one day, he really doesn't know who else can support him and help him through this desperate situation that seems to never see the light of day...