Swallowing the Seas

"Hello, we are from the Public Security Bureau of Nancheng District. May I ask how much do you usually associate with Li Hongxi who is next door to you?"

"Not many, but that young man is very polite..." "His wife often travels on business, and he comes in and out by himself. I haven't seen any strange people coming in and out of our building." "What happened? Hey hey Hey, Comrade Police, there’s nothing serious about it, right?”

"How is Li Hongxi in your company usually doing? Is he easy to get along with?"

"It's easy to get along with, just a normal person, quite enthusiastic and responsible." "I don't take part in group activities, maybe because his family lives far away, so it's inconvenient to go back for dinner?" "Occasionally, I leave early, I know him There are a few morning shifts where people clock in for help... Oh, but it’s not a big deal, hey! Don’t say that I said it!”

"Do you think he has anything to do with that messy religion?"

"Messy religion—you mean heresy? How is it possible hahaha impossible!" "This is illegal, no, our company definitely won't have it!" "Manager Li is a bit of a loner It's normal for colleagues to interact with each other, we never found out that he was secretly practicing some kind of qigong by himself, hahahaha..."

……

"——What are you talking about my husband?" The female voice on the phone suddenly raised its voice, and it almost broke because of disbelief: "Whoring, burglary, suspected murder? Are you liars?!"

Cai Lin looked like a monkey, sitting on the corner of Bu Chonghua's office desk with half of his buttocks, holding his forehead helplessly: "I am here from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Nancheng District Public Security Bureau. He is currently detained in our Public Security Bureau, please take time to come back as soon as possible to assist..."

beep-

The phone was hung up, and Cai Lin sat there with a face full of words, and hung up the phone after a while: "Hey!"

Meng Zhao didn't even raise his head: "Don't worry, she is calling her husband, and then she will call the duty room of our bureau, and she should call you back later."

With a cry, the door was pushed open, and Liao Gang poked his head in hastily: "Team!"

Meng Zhao and Cai Lin's eyes lit up at the same time, and Bu Chonghua turned his head from the window: "Say."

"We searched Li Hongxi's home, his parents' home, and his company's office, and sent and received all the couriers in his or his wife's name within half a month - but found nothing. Then we searched his old house according to your instructions. "Liao Gang went straight to the water dispenser to get a glass of water, gulped it down, wiped his mouth and said, "His hometown is Ninghe County, which is six hours' drive back and forth from us, and the old house has almost been stripped. There is nothing inside except the four walls; people from the same village said that this house has not been back for a long time, but we did not give up. We took the police dogs to dig three feet in and out, and even went up to look at the beams. , As a result, not to mention the skull helmet, the magic weapon of the human bone, and even half a pamphlet promoting the cult!"

"—But!" Liao Gang probably noticed the expressions of Meng Zhao, Cai Lin and the others, and hurriedly patted his chest and said loudly: "I have already greeted the procuratorate, and we will go to Li Hongxi's house in the afternoon, the ceiling, four walls, The floor tiles are all gone, I don't believe that this grandson really can't pull out any tail!"

The office fell into silence. Meng Zhao tiredly propped up the lines between his brows with two fingers. Even Cai Lin, who was uncommonly silent, let out a long sigh.

It's useless to search and visit. Li Hongxi in the mouth of the public has almost no shortcomings. Even with a microscope, he can't find the slightest connection with any messy cult.

What if you really can't pull out his tail?

or worse -

Could the steps to solve this case have come to a dead end?

"How did this happen? Who did she provoke?" "My miserable daughter, my miserable Linlin, who killed you!"

……

Suddenly, a burst of howling came faintly from the crack of the door, Bu Chonghua frowned, got up and opened the door: "What's going on?"

A pair of middle-aged men and women in their forties, dressed in rural clothes, were crying bitterly in the corridor. It was the shift change in the afternoon, and the traffic flow was the largest. Crying loudly made people's ears hurt.The internal police were in a hurry to comfort the two of them. Seeing Bu Chonghua come out of the office, he rushed forward and said, "Bu Detachment!"

Bu Chonghua looked at the couple: "Who?"

"The parents and relatives of Gao Ling, the victim of [-], saw the announcement of the body identification, and the Jiarui County Public Security Bureau just sent a car to bring them here." The policeman covered his mouth with one hand and whispered: "I just came down from the morgue upstairs. I probably couldn't help it—I can't persuade you to leave..."

"Take the reception room, I'll go there later." Bu Chonghua said in a deep voice, "Don't cry at the door of the duty room, my people will catch up on sleep inside."

The policeman answered yes immediately and ran back quickly.

Gao Ling, formerly known as Gao Linlin, is from Fengyuan Village, Gecheng Mountain, Jiarui County. His father is Gao Wei, and his mother is Xiong Jinzhi.After Gao Ling ran away from home more than a month ago, she lost contact with her parents. It was not until the Nancheng Sub-bureau combined the confessions of Liu Li and Li Hongxi that the police stations under the Jiarui County Public Security Bureau stepped up efforts to publicize the announcement of the identification of the dead body. She got her original family back.

"—she is very angry, she is too angry!" Sitting behind the long table in the reception room of the Public Security Bureau, Gao Wei wiped his tears and muttered: "She sees that other people start arguing with me when they start high school, and I want to go to school, I say you I can't think of Tsinghua and Peking University. It's better to save money for my two younger brothers, but she won't do it. Our family is suffering. If she was not a girl when she was born, how could she have a boy and even a cow? The conscience was taken away, and the brick house was taken away? Our family is suffering..."

Meng Zhaomu asked with a straight face: "Before she ran away from home, did she ever mention her idea of ​​making big money and doing big business?"

Xiong Jinzhi covered his face and cried, Gao Wei said without hesitation, "Yes, yes!"

The whole room cheered up.

"She said she was going to work!" Gao Wei said earnestly: "I said that you know how to send money back after you work, and seeing that other girls know how to send money to help their younger brothers, she complained that we sucked her blood , to sever ties with us! I said there is no need to sever ties, isn’t it like this in every household? Isn’t it your brother?!”

"..." All the people in the room lowered their heads, and the energy they raised just now disappeared without a trace.

Xiong Jinzhi cried and said: "Du, it's all sins committed in the previous life, it's all sins!"

Gao Weitong's eyes were red: "Hey! Linlin is dead, what's the point of saying this!"

"This man," Meng Zhao pushed Li Hongxi's photo in front of them, "Have you seen him?"

Xiong Jinzhi covered his face and wailed loudly. Gao Wei took a few careful glances and shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, I haven't seen it, I don't know it."

"Does Gao Linlin have any close friends, classmates, or members of society?"

"...Friend, classmate?" Gao Wei wiped away his tears again, and shook his head after thinking about it: "No, I really don't have this. She has a very weird temper and big ideas. I ran away, clamoring to go to work..."

Xiong Jinzhi suddenly burst into sharp tears: "My poor daughter!!——"

The little back office girl who was sitting behind the computer crackling and taking notes curled her lips, and was about to spit out a barely audible "crying is useless" when suddenly Meng Zhao lightly touched her arm and raised her head to meet Chonghua's stern voice His gaze suddenly straightened up with a blank expression on his face.

"Arrange accommodation nearby, so that you can receive inquiries from the police at any time." Bu Chonghua stood up and said calmly, "Let's go."

The door of the reception room opened, and the back office girl walked out a few steps with the computer in her arms, gritting her teeth against Meng Zhao's arm in a low voice: "Miss Meng, do you think our captain is cold-hearted? This kind of vampire's parents, he was so polite just now." Angrily comforting them? Gao Linlin is so pitiful, she really wants to go to school..."

"Hush!" Meng Zhao pulled her away: "What do you know, print out the transcript and eat your meal!"

"I can't look down on such hypocritical parents, what did they do when they were alive... oh!"

As soon as the back office girl turned the corner, her whole body shivered - Bu Chonghua stood imposingly in front of the door of the dissecting room on the other side of the corridor, his light-colored pupils were expressionless, staring at her indifferently.

Little girl: "..."

Meng Zhao: "..."

Bu Chonghua walked into the dissecting room, and with a click, closed the door behind them in front of them.

"Hey, team!" Forensic doctor Xiao Gui stood in front of the dissecting table and turned around: "It's all right—I just typed out the report, and I'm about to ask Xiao Wu to send it to you!"

Bu Chonghua hummed while putting on his gloves, and asked Wu Yu without raising his head: "You're not sleeping in the duty room, what are you doing here?"

Looking at the bruised and swollen corpse on the dissecting table, Wu Yu habitually wanted to raise his hand to touch his nose, but he held back when he raised his hand, and said vaguely, "I'm not asleep."

"Wake up?"

"Well."

"Half the floor was alarmed. How could there be such a large lung capacity." Forensic doctor Xiao Gui handed the printed autopsy report to Bu Chonghua, and raised his chin in the direction of the reception room: "How is this family?"

Bu Chonghua didn't answer, just snorted lightly in his nasal cavity, and suddenly looked at the autopsy report and asked, "Isn't the cause of death a skull fracture caused by severe head trauma?"

"Yes, in fact, the victim's death process is quite complicated, you can see here." Forensic doctor Xiaogui leaned forward and pointed to the part where the brain and the back of the neck meet: "There are obvious skin abrasions at the edge of the wound, indicating that the surface of the wounding tool is very rough. , combined with the fine soil impurities in the wound and the bloody stone we found at the scene, it should be that the stone did not escape. The subcutaneous bleeding in the occipital part corresponds to a linear fracture, and the liquefied brain tissue is bloody. At the same time, the nasal cavity and oral cavity Corrupted bloody fluid was also found—this blow happened when she was facing the murderer off guard, so it also formed a concussion injury."

Wu Yu looked at the particularly severe corruption on Gao Ling's forehead: "This is it?"

"That's right, the skin on the forehead was damaged and a hematoma formed, indicating that the blow caused her to dive forward and fall to the ground. It is worth noting that the radial fracture lines did not intersect or cut off, indicating that the murderer did not Repeated blows to the brain; but this was only the first step in the process of her death."

"—As for the second step," medical examiner Xiaogui stood up, and pressed his hands on the face and neck of the corpse: "It is relatively unusual, and it is also the real cause of death: strangling the neck and pressing the mouth, causing mechanical asphyxiation."

Wu Yu nodded silently, and Shaoqing couldn't help but ask, "Did you find the rose tooth?"

Usually, during the suffocation process, the capillaries of the dental mucosa rupture, and the bleeding stains the teeth, forming a light brown-red color, which is one of the important evidences for forensic examination of asphyxiation death, but forensic doctor Xiao Gui shook his index finger at Wu Yu: "Mechanical Sexual asphyxiation does turn teeth brown, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're asphyxiated if you have rosettes."

He turned around and picked up an alcohol bottle from the workbench, only to see two extremely light brown teeth soaked in the transparent liquid: "Here, the color is really obvious, right?"

"..." Wu Yu looked at Bu Chonghua, Bu Chonghua flipped through a page of the autopsy report, and said calmly, "Yes, obviously."

"Because high-level corruption can cause the corpse's teeth to turn brown, browner than suffocation." Forensic doctor Xiao Gui put back the alcohol bottle and spread his hands: "Unfortunately, our victim is highly corrupt, so rose teeth cannot be used as the only evidence for suffocation. , Do you understand, Xiao Wu?"

Wu Yu nodded, looking at him with slightly bright eyes.

"You're about to enjoy the Lipton black tea bag from classmate Xiao Wu." Bu Chonghua looked up from the file and glanced at Xiao Gui's forensic doctor, and said plainly.

Forensic doctor Xiaogui: "Huh?"

"It's nothing," Bu Chonghua lowered his head: "You continue talking."

The forensic doctor Xiaogui thought that my corpse smelled too much and had an illusion. Why is there a faint smell of acetic acid in the air?

"Hmm, okay." He sniffled and said seriously: "We just said that Gao Ling died mechanically, and the rose teeth are just one of the side evidences. The key evidence is the damage of the tongue mucosa and the damage around the mouth occult blood—you can see here.” He took the report from Bu Chonghua and turned to the page of images: “When the murderer strangled Gao Ling’s neck, the base of her tongue was pushed forward, and at the same time her mouth was Forcing the cover, causing the tip of the tongue to push back. Do you know what this can lead to?"

Xiao Gui's forensic doctor originally wanted to make a fool of himself, but Wu Yu immediately said, "Big Tooth bit the base of your tongue?"

"Oh, you're very talented, student Wu!" Forensic doctor Xiaogui gave a thumbs up unexpectedly, and said, "When these two kinds of pressure from front to back and different directions act on the tongue at the same time, her tongue is in the mouth. The middle was strongly squeezed and cut by the big teeth on both sides at the same time, which led to very serious damage to the tongue mucosa——YES! Strangling the neck and covering the mouth, the iron evidence is GET!"

Wu Yu and Xiao Gui clapped their hands across the autopsy table, Bu Chonghua pointed to the photosensitive film in the autopsy report, and said coldly, "What's the matter with this piece of occult blood?"

"Which one?" Forensic doctor Xiao Gui looked down, and saw that he was referring to Gao Ling's middle part, a piece of occult blood the size of a mung bean that was easily overlooked: "Oh, I didn't expect this at first, but Director Geng from the Municipal Bureau reminded me —Test your breath."

Director Geng was the expert from the forensic institute invited by Bu Chonghua from the Municipal Bureau. Forensic doctor Xiao Gui put his index finger under his nose and said, "The murderer hit Gao Ling on the back of the head with a stone. After the victim fell to the ground, he squatted He came down to test whether Gao Ling was still alive, and at the same time stained the blood on his hand under Gao Ling's nose, but no valid fingerprints were left. Afterwards, he probably found that Gao Ling was not dead, so he decided to choke his neck and Covering the mouth and nose, mechanical suffocation killed the victim."

Bu Chonghua has experienced many autopsies and seen many victims. The initial generosity and anger and heartburn have been pressed into the depths of the soul, and the silence is for something more fiery and dignified.

But when he looked at the unrecognizable corpse on the dissecting table at this moment, the little girl who shouted "I want to go to school" and "I want to study" and walked step by step towards the river beach in the heavy rain suddenly came to mind vividly , and even made his extremely numb nerves feel an unspeakable tingling pain.

"You study slowly. I'll fax the inspection report to Geng's old man to sign." Forensic doctor Xiaogui took off his gloves and said, "Go out and close the door for me. Director Wang said that since this month, people will not be in the autopsy room. If the door is not closed, five points will be deducted from each person's evaluation at the end of the month."

Wu Yu suddenly remembered something, and asked seriously: "Do you want to drink black tea?"

"? Dear, I don't drink pro." Forensic doctor Xiao Gui said politely, "I'll go for a glass of iced Americano. Later, there will be a series of rear-end chases, two incidents of beating a mistress in the street, and the burial of [-] loved ones from the experimental primary school next door. The case of mutual assault between members is waiting for me to do an injury appraisal."

The door was ajar and closed, only Bu Chonghua and Wu Yu were left beside the iron platform, and the fresh air system made a slight humming sound in the quiet dissecting room.

Bu Chonghua lifted a corner of the white cloth and was carefully observing the marks on the neck of the corpse. Wu Yu touched a cigarette beside him, and bit it in his mouth without lighting it: "Did Brother Liao find anything?"

Bu Chonghua exhaled softly and shook his head.

"no progress?"

"..."

The two of them didn't make a sound anymore, it took a long time for Bu Chonghua to straighten up, and said hoarsely, "—Half a month!"

Half a month has passed since that bloody late night at [-], the city bureau has gone all out, the case is at a standstill, the social pressure is increasing, and the news is hotly searched all over the city...

However, they could only face the corpse of the victim who had died wrongfully, empty-handed and helpless, and they had nothing to do with Li Hongxi who was in the detention room.

"When you were undercover before, did you ever have such a desperate situation?"

Wu Yu fell silent.

Bu Chonghua looked up at him: "How did you solve it?"

"..." Wu Yu sniffed the cigarette with his nose, and said vaguely, "Just... just be lucky."

lucky.

Bu Chonghua's pupils tightened slightly, and his previous words suddenly rang in his ears: "...he ordered the arrest, and I immediately fell into a situation of isolation and helplessness. The situation was extremely dangerous...but I didn't expect that it would happen I was very lucky that my identity was not exposed in the end..."

This person seems to be able to attribute all the escapes and escapes to two words, luck.

He endured hardships and was covered in bruises, but he still naively believed that there was a god of luck who could protect him in the dark.

"...What do you think I'm doing?" Wu Yu took down the cigarette that was sandwiched between his nose and lips, and tilted his head back uncomfortably.

The root of Bu Chonghua's tongue was mixed with sourness, pity and a trace of indescribable complexity, but he suppressed it forcibly at that moment, and suddenly looked away: "I... just thought that when Li Hongxi was interrogated last night, were you How did you know he lied?"

"Oh, that." Wu Yu lowered his head to play with the cigarette, and waved his hand embarrassingly: "I didn't see it, but I thought Li Hongxi's voice, expression, and eyes were wrong, and he should be performing. Maybe because I had to Thinking about people all the time, it becomes a habit over time... As for the details of the sanitary napkin, I really didn't expect it, not everyone can have your talent."

Wu Yu gave him a thumbs up, and Bu Chonghua looked at him, with a slight teasing smile in his eyes, and nodded to the dissection bed: "Then you think about this murderer again?"

"How do I know that, I don't know how to solve the case..."

"It's okay, tell me?"

Wu Yu couldn't resist, hesitated for a moment before slowly saying: "I also...can't say it. I just feel..."

He paused, stretched out his index finger and gestured horizontally in front of Bu Chonghua's nose: "Why did he find that Gao Ling was still angry, his first reaction was not to continue to hit her head with stones, but to face her face to face?" Cover your mouth and choke your neck?"

Bu Chonghua was stunned: "Because the murderer had already thrown the stone on the ground..."

"I know, but the puncture proved that Gao Ling was facing the ground at the time, why did he turn her over first?"

The two of them looked at each other, and Wu Yu rubbed his nose mockingly: "I don't have enough experience in solving crimes, but I have quite a lot of experience in killing people, so I feel that his killing actions... don't seem very convenient."

Wu Yu's eyes were black and white, but Bu Chonghua's eyes were obviously bloodshot, and he murmured, "Because Gao Ling...Gao Ling..."

"—she's hot, she's hot!"

"When I saw someone starting high school, I started arguing with me! I want to go to school!"

"I said that you knew to send the money back to support your younger brother when you went to work, and she made a fuss about severing ties with us?!"

……

The tiny scab on the thumb of Li Hongxi's left hand, the inconspicuous occult blood at the end of Gao Ling's nose in the photosensitive film, and the two light brown rose teeth in the alcohol bottle—

All the strange details revealed their clues from countless clues, and they were connected like lightning in Bu Chonghua's brain.

This "too temperamental" little girl did not let the mermaid go, she did not just lie there, waiting in vain for the murderer to deliver another fatal blow - the strong and stubbornness in her bones made her carry out a weak but desperate fight at the last moment Resisting, when the murderer stretched out his index finger to test her breath, she suddenly bit his hand!

Because of this resistance, the murderer pushed her away and grabbed her neck in extreme panic!

"There is no murderer's DNA in her fingernails, only the blood between her teeth, which was missed by the forensic doctor because it merged with her own tongue mucous membrane bleeding!" Call back, hurry up! Li Hongxi has a scar on his thumb, as long as his DNA is detected from Gao Ling's mouth, then our grandson will be completely nailed to death by us!"

The lights in the detention room suddenly came on, and Li Hongxi, who was sitting on the side of the bed with his hands down, raised his head in surprise, and saw Cai Lin himself leading someone into the door, holding his mobile phone to his ear: "Yes, I know, we have already arrived in the detention room Now, wait for the comparison results at any time..."

"...What?" Li Hongxi's black eye circles were particularly obvious under the pale light, but his tone was provocative: "Are you officially arrested?"

Several criminal policemen stared at him intently, but no one answered.

Li Hongxi laughed and raised his hand to rub his eyes amidst the crackling of the handcuffs. The scar that was about to heal on the thumb of his left hand was particularly glaring under the light.

Just one day in custody made him change a lot, his lips were chapped and bleeding, and the blood formed black and red scabs, and he was so haggard that he suddenly aged a few years; but this smile was not concealed, with a kind of blatant mockery and arrogance:

"Give up, you have no chance of catching me."