Swallowing the Seas

"The deceased was 15 years old, female, about 1.5 meters eight in height, and weighed between 41 and 44 kilograms. Considering factors such as the heavy rain at the time of the incident, the stuffy environment where the body was stored, and the wet surrounding soil, it is preliminarily inferred that the time of death should be 34 to 10 About an hour, that is, between 30:11 and 30:[-] the night before yesterday, is consistent with the reporter's statement."

Several Jinbei police cars from the Caiying District Police Station were parked on the river embankment, and the cordon tape pulled out a large open space overgrown with weeds.The criminal cameraman of the technical brigade has already taken a round of photos. The head of the criminal brigade, Old Zheng, squatted on the paved survey board, and the forensic doctor, who also squatted like a monkey like a horse, tapped the recording board heavily with the tip of his pen:

"The obvious damage visible on the surface of the corpse is only at the upper end of the left sternum rib, with a depth of about [-] centimeters, which is enough to penetrate the chest wall and injure the pericardium, causing traumatic heart rupture, causing acute cardiac tamponade and death. Of course, this is only a preliminary inference , the real cause of death and the characteristics of the murder weapon need to be further dissected, just saying that from the current point of view, this is the most likely inference..."

Captain Zheng stood against the clean and bright Mediterranean Sea. He had been warned many times by his wife not to scratch his head, but the situation still made his hands itch: "Are there no other clues? The perpetrator's footprints, fingerprints, bloodstains , residual DNA?"

"The scene was severely damaged by the torrential rain. There was no blood condensed at all, and the footprints had been wiped out long ago. The victim was fully clothed and had no restraint injuries. The possibility of rape is unlikely. It is estimated that the clues found through vaginal swabs are enough." The forensic doctor shook his head. Sighing: "The remaining cells on the surface of the other corpses have to wait for the Nancheng Detachment to be extracted, so why haven't they—"

"Brother Zheng!" The voice of the police in the distance sounded: "The Nancheng Detachment is here!"

The siren flashed from the end of the winding road, and five or six police cars, led by a black jeep, suddenly rushed into view.A few cars dodged in a hurry, but it was too late. The police car speeded up instantly and passed through the traffic, passing through the traffic with precision like a scalpel.

boom--

The body slid sideways and turned, the rubber tires rubbed against the ground sharply, and the mud was thrown out in a huge fan shape and flew in all directions.A row of well-equipped police cars stopped together, and the red and blue police lights flashed rapidly, turning the van of the police station into scum in seconds.

The audience was silent, the forensic doctor's pen fell to his feet, and he murmured out everyone's aspirations:

"...Damn it, the surname Zhi is rich..."

"It's so frustrating..."

Captain Zheng stepped forward in a hurry: "Hey! First step detachment!"

Bu Chonghua pushed the door and got out of the car, stepping on the muddy ground.He is nearly 1.9 meters tall, with a handsome face but sharp lines, and his tight sword eyebrows clearly exude a chilling pressure. More than a dozen capable criminal policemen are chasing after him, and the policemen from the surrounding police stations subconsciously give way to these people. A road leading to the scene.

"The warning line is stretched 500 meters along the river bank, taking pictures and taking inspection materials along the way, taking a soil sample every two meters, and notifying the Hydrographic Bureau, the Procuratorate, and the Water Police Station, Liao Gang!"

"exist!"

"Call the city bureau and prepare to apply for the frogman team!"

Liao Gang stood at attention: "Yes!" Then he turned around and walked away quickly.

Bu Chonghua was well-known in the public security system of Jinhai City. No one at the police station dared to speak, and everyone lowered their heads and wanted to pretend to disappear.Only Captain Zheng bit the bullet and trotted closely behind him, out of breath: "Bu...bu detachment, the preliminary autopsy notes and the scene situation are already here. These are the transcripts of the informant. The technical team The surrounding area was screened for the first time. There was no blood, no murder weapon, and no footprints for analysis. The torrential rain that lasted all night on the day of the incident caused devastating damage to the scene. So far, no valuable clues have been found. ..."

Bu Chonghua put on his shoe covers and gloves as he listened. Captain Zheng hurried forward to pull off the security belt for him, but he just lowered his head and slipped in without looking back, asking: "Can you determine that this is the The first scene?"

"This... is extremely possible but I can't be 100% sure. Although there are no traces of dragging and binding from the body's appearance, it was indeed raining too much that night, and there was mud and water in the vicinity. Wait for the autopsy results..."

Captain Zheng desperately winked at the forensic doctor for help, but was interrupted by Bu Chonghua: "Have all the monitoring been adjusted?"

"Ah?" Captain Zheng was taken aback.

"The bus station 2000 kilometers to the north of the scene, the Qiaotou toll station [-] kilometers to the southeast, two speed cameras on the top and bottom of the Panpo Highway and within [-] kilometers, and the center of the circle where the body was found is [-] meters in diameter. A private warehouse within meters, two chain convenience stores, and the black clinic that has been banned four times but has not been banned, have all the surveillance videos of these places been retrieved?"

The air suddenly became very quiet.

"That...that," Captain Zheng stammered, "The bus, the station and the toll booth have already gone, but that convenience store...the black clinic..."

In places under the jurisdiction where residents may have set up surveillance cameras privately, let alone adjust the video, their police station doesn't even know about Mao. How did Bu Chonghua manage to clear the account in his mind?

Bu Chonghua closed the autopsy notebook, handed it back to the forensic doctor, looked up and said simply: "Go and adjust."

"Yes yes yes!" Captain Zheng immediately jumped up and ran away in a hurry.

The wilderness is desolate, weeds are overgrown, the river beach is full of dense reeds, and the sound of rushing water comes from the river embankment.On the muddy ground not far away, a small human-shaped bulge was covered by a black plastic sheet, and the stench of corruption could be heard when the wind blew.

That was a young girl in her prime.

Bu Chonghua ignored the others, walked through the weedy mud, squatted beside the corpse and gently lifted the black cloth, a pair of extremely wide, cloudy gray eyes suddenly jumped out, staring straight at he.

There was a soft clatter, and Bu Chonghua looked back, only to see Wu Yu suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"What's wrong with you?" Bu Chonghua narrowed his eyes, "You can't even see this level of corruption?"

Wu Yu's face was already pale, probably because of the cloudy light, his cheeks became colder, his hair and eyes became darker, and he lowered his eyes unnaturally: "Oh, no."

Bu Chonghua didn't let him go: "I heard from Xu Ju that you were in the Criminal University before, why, you didn't even go to the scene of the murder?"

Many police officers from the surrounding police stations watched helplessly, and Wu Yu couldn't avoid it, so he could only vaguely say: "...I'm not used to seeing these things."

"No one likes to watch it. But if everyone doesn't watch it, who's going to get justice for 'the stuff'?"

Bu Chonghua was born with a sharp and aggressive aura, and Wu Yu was stared at by so many pairs of eyes, so he couldn't evade it, so he closed his eyes, took a breath, and moved his gaze back slightly.

The face of the little girl on the grass was ashen, her mouth was open, revealing her white teeth, maggots came in and out from her nostrils and ear holes; the fear at the moment of dying in her eyes had turned into deep resentment, Dripping yellow water and blood, crashed into Wu Yu's mind with incomparable ferocity.

This scene seemed to be divided in an instant, and countless pictures were superimposed. Countless pairs of eyes staring at him from all directions, and numerous corpses opened their mouths wide.

Da da da da da da—the machine guns were firing again, and rows of figures in camouflage uniforms in the distance were blasted into limbs and arms, and the ditches and villages were reduced to powder with a bang.

"Help—" someone cried in despair amidst the gunpowder smoke.

"Help us—" the carrion corpses all over the ground grabbed his clothes and screamed in unison.

Suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder from behind: "Wu Yu? What's wrong with you?"

Wu Yu was startled, and turned his head suddenly, Cai Lin was almost taken aback: "Damn, are you motion sick? Your face is so ugly!"

The survey vehicle of the Nancheng branch finally arrived, and the well-trained surveyors of the branch surrounded the scene again. Director Wang of the technical team was rushing here with several trace inspectors in person; Liao Gang, who quickly completed all the formalities, was directing The subordinates expanded the cordon and assisted the technical team in collecting inspection materials. The riverside was busy and orderly.

Wu Yu's heart pounded against his throat, facing Cai Lin's concerned and suspicious gaze, he was speechless for a while, so he could only smile hastily, but when he turned around, he almost bumped into Bu Chonghua head-on.

——Bu Chonghua had already walked behind him at some point, his eyes were searching and sharp, his brows were slightly furrowed, and his height cast a shadow on the grass.

"It's okay, I didn't expect the victim to close his eyes." Wu Yu took half a step back and said hoarsely, "Look first, I'll go over there...I'll go over there to help Xing check and carry the box."

Cai Lin looked at him briskly walking away inexplicably, and said strangely: "No way, you can't be scared like this if you don't close your eyes, it's almost the same as the first time I saw the boss's deity with my own eyes... Just kidding. "

Bu Chonghua stared out of the corner of his eyes, and Cai Lin immediately retracted his neck and begged for mercy, and asked with a smile: "Team, the trace inspection said that the bottom of the embankment has been almost destroyed, and there is no research value, or we should follow the old method." Ask the brothers at the police station to help sift the soil back?"

"No, the soil environment in the wilderness is too complicated." Bu Chonghua hesitated for a while, and said, "In this way, take the victim as the center, and transport the surrounding soil shovels back to the technical team one by one, and tell Lao Wang the clues of this case. Too little, sorry for him."

Cai Lin waved his fingers from his temples: "Okay!"

"Has the identity of the victim been verified?"

The two of them walked to the corpse, and Cai Lin raised his chin at the poor little girl: "On the way here, I called the county police station to cross-confirm - Nian Xiaoping, 15 years old, her parents are migrant workers, living in In Xiaogang Village not far from here, her father Nian Daxing helps people look after the warehouse, and her mother Fan Ling works in a garment processing factory. Nian Xiaoping is a second-year student in Xiaogang Middle School. According to the teacher, her grades are not particularly good, and she often misses school and runs. Going to work, and recently I have been in close contact with people outside the school, I am afraid that I have fallen in love with you—this 'person outside the school' is not someone else, but the witness and reporter of our case, He Xingxing."

Bu Chonghua had actually read this information in the reporter's transcript, but he concentrated on examining the mouth, nose and wounded parts of the corpse, and did not interrupt Cai Lin.

"On May [-]nd, the night when the crime happened, Nian Xiaoping worked overtime at an assembly plant in the industrial zone until ten o'clock in the evening. He Xingxing picked her up after she came out, and the two took the bus home together. The last bus was at Silihe The two stopped at the station, and the two got off the car and walked along the embankment. It was raining heavily and the visibility was very low. He Xingxing said in the record that he heard a strange sound, as if something was approaching from behind, and then A walking skeleton came out of the grass with a knife and came to the two of them." Cai Lin exaggeratedly stabbed the air with his bare hands: "It stabbed Nian Xiaoping."

Cai Lin spread out his hands, with disbelief clearly written all over his face, but Bu Chonghua remained indifferent: "And then?"

"According to He Xingxing's confession, the assailant's whole body was completely boneless. He had no eyes or nose, no hair on the top of his head but a skull, and his walking posture was stiff and staggering, very similar to a zombie in a film and television drama. He was very frightened at the time. The murder process can no longer be described in detail, but I only vaguely remember that after the zombie stabbed Nian Xiaoping, it walked to the bank of the river and jumped down, fell into the river, and then disappeared."

The criminal police of the detachment brought the body bag and the iron frame bed from the car, and gestured to Bu Chonghua for instructions.

Bu Chonghua nodded, motioned for them to load the body into the car, and then led Cai Lin to the river bank.

"The murderer didn't hurt him?" Bu Chonghua asked.

"Not only is it harmless, according to He Xingxing's confession, it is simply ignoring him from the beginning to the end, as if he does not exist at all-I tell you the team, this confession is compiled like a novel , or the kind that costs [-] cents a piece and costs [-] yuan and [-] catties on the street stall, I don’t want to look at it for free.” Cai Lin stretched out an index finger and shook: “After the murderer jumped into the river, He Xingxing realized that Nian Xiaoping was dead. He was frightened and frightened, he didn't dare to touch dead people, let alone go to the place where zombies jumped into the river to see what happened, so he ran home in the heavy rain and shivered until dawn with the quilt in his arms. One person ran to report to the police in fear."

"—The police were called early yesterday morning." Bu Chonghua asked keenly, "Why didn't the police come out until today?"

"Hi! This is a long story for a child without a mother!" Cai Lin got excited and asked mysteriously: "Do you know what kind of person He Xingxing is?"

Bu Chonghua twitched his eyebrows.

"Left-behind children since childhood, neither parents nor mothers love, dropped out of high school and did not graduate, underage idlers, a small ruffian that the locals hate, standard juvenile delinquent reserve. Xiaogang Village Police Station from the police chief to the police dog. With five establishments and three auxiliary police officers, they all knew that this was a nonsense thing, and no one listened to his set of evil ghosts to kill people, so they just came out." Cai Lin shook his head and sighed: "Get out In the future, He Xingxing became more and more afraid. He was afraid that the police would not believe in ghosts, and he was even more afraid that they would not be able to solve the case and arrest him for the crime. So he decided to leave his hometown and run away. But he needs money and an ID to buy a ticket. , and he had no money; so he simply pushed his neighbor's motorcycle and went north along the expressway. When he got off the expressway, he was interrogated by the traffic police. He was so frightened that he couldn't even say his name, so he was directly turned over to the Caiying District Police Station... ..."

It was a farce.

"Caiying District Police Station has several scenes of criminal cases every day, and there is no time to pay attention to such a little guy who steals a motorcycle. He is handcuffed to the cell and ignores him. As a result, He Xingxing cried and made a lot of noise that night. No peace, insisting that a ghost came to claim his life, and shivering in the corner, holding his head and begging the ghost to spare his life—heh, the next day, his cellmates reported him kindly, saying that this kid There is a murder case, and I asked him if he can make meritorious service by reporting it.” Cai Lin almost laughed out loud: “No, if it weren’t for the high level of ideological consciousness of the inmates, the urban legend of zombies murdering people and jumping into rivers on rainy nights may not be a case today. !"

A few meters away is the place where the "evil ghost" jumped into the river according to He Xingxing's dictation. On the river beach, a long restricted area was pulled out by the cordon. stone.

Bu Chonghua nodded silently, as if he was thinking about something, and didn't speak for a long time.

"Let me tell you, boss," Cai Lin finally couldn't hold back after waiting for a long time, and asked, "You don't really believe in this zombie murder case that street stall literature can't make up, do you?"

"..."

Bu Chonghua asked back, "What do you think?"

"Me? Of course I can't believe it. We Communist Party members are all firm materialists and atheists!" Cai Lin raised his chest and said very maturely: "I think He Xingxing's case is probably done by himself. Look at that The IQ of stealing a car and running away can make up a story of this level. Let’s go back and let the forensic examine the victim’s uterine contents and vaginal swabs. I have been a police officer for five years in this type of case. Starting from No.18, the criminal motive has never been separated from the man's unsatisfactory lower body..."

"I don't think so," Bu Chonghua interrupted him.

Cai Lin was taken aback: "Huh?"

On the high embankment, more than [-] policemen were busy back and forth, taking pictures and collecting evidence.Several police cars were connected end to end, and the corpse on the iron bed was wrapped in a black cloth and parked beside the open rear door.

"Maybe he didn't lie," Bu Chonghua said in a low voice, "That so-called evil ghost murdered is not necessarily a lie."

Cai Lin's mouth was opened in the shape of "Oh", with a refreshed expression on his face: "Why, why?"

"because……"

Bu Chonghua suddenly caught a glimpse of something, and his voice suddenly stopped.

——Beside the police car not far away, there was a silhouette standing two or three meters away from the iron frame bed, holding a cigarette in one hand and putting the other in his trouser pocket, quietly staring at the black cloth with a human silhouette.

It's Wu Yu.

I don't know how long it took, the relative, who didn't even dare to look at the corpse, finally seemed to have finally accumulated some courage and strength from his body, slowly raised his feet, walked forward, and stood beside the iron bed , and then reached out to unzip the body bag.

Bu Chonghua had been concentrating on observing every movement of Wu Yu, and he didn't even pay attention to Cai Lin's curious scrutiny, when he suddenly walked up.

"Old...boss!" Cai Lin didn't stop, and hurriedly followed along on the rocky beach.