Chapter 104: Tomb

Noon.

When the sun was shining brightly, a faint light appeared in the bushes, making people feel warm all over.

A squirrel jumped over the treetops, saw the crowd below, and quickly stopped, covering its face with its big tail. At the same time, the pheasant on the other side flapped its wings, making an eye-catching sound, and went to a higher place on the hillside, trying to hide itself.

Jiang Yuan heard the noise and only glanced at it, too lazy to find the specific location.

The topography of Pingzhou is different from that of Shannan, which is dozens of miles away. The forest is relatively dry, and the wild animals raised at higher altitudes are also different. Small animals such as squirrels and pheasants can be seen everywhere, which feels happier than the forest on the Shannan side.

"If I wasn't tired of eating chicken soup, I would have wanted to shoot this stupid thing." The technician behind Jiang Yuan said, and made a gesture of holding a gun.

"I think you are tired of living." Liu Jinghui fell behind two steps and said, "There are pheasant assassins in Wulong Mountain."

"What is that?"

"White-crowned long-tailed pheasants, a kind of pheasant, a national first-class protected animal, the same level as giant pandas." Liu Jinghui made a shooting motion and said, "You thought you were shooting an ordinary pheasant and the maximum fine was paid for catching it, but at this time a white-crowned long-tailed pheasant flew up... Bang, 5 years. Bang, 10 years. Pheasant assassin."

The technician was in the situation and felt anxious.

The search team advanced slowly and hard.

Before, there was always a way to go along a hunting trail. Now, if you want to search, even if you just widen the search area a little, it will become doubly difficult. Fortunately, Liu Jinghui quickly adjusted his strategy and only explored places where normal people could walk. It is assumed that desperadoes will also take the path taken by others.

In this way, the search was carried out in an orderly manner.

Starting from the place where Su Qin's body was found, the crowd gradually dispersed.

This place is close to human settlements, and the road conditions are good. There are also many small paths through the dense forests. Occasionally, you can see some plastic water bottles and other debris, which are now collected as evidence.

After walking for most of the day, the remaining search team members gradually became impatient. Jiang Yuan and Liu Jinghui and others in the team came all the way from the old hunting road and were used to the dark and deep forests. Although the newly transferred search team members have some experience, they may not have experience in such deep mountains and old forests, so they complained for a while.

Just when Liu Jinghui was thinking about how to reorganize the team, the police dog in the front barked.

Woof, woof, woof, woof...

Liu Jinghui was as active as if he heard the leader's call, and he took small steps under his feet, and did not forget to pull Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan also seemed to be going to meet the leader. He carried the survey box and followed quickly, passing through a row of people and came to the front.

The dogs and police officers from Pingzhou Province were all on duty today. The one barking at this time was a German Shepherd. It had yellow legs and was energetic. It was young and promising, younger than Heizi and more promising than Dazhuang. It looked like it could get a second-class merit at any time and eat 96 yuan of buffet until the end of time. It was barking at a collapsed earth cliff on the side of the road with a low voice.

The earth cliff was right on the side of the road, two or three meters high and more than ten meters long. It was a cliff on the slope above. If it rained, it would form a small waterfall.

The place that the blackback found was the middle section of the earth cliff, which clearly showed signs of being collapsed by human beings.

Looking more closely, there were several big trees between the earth cliff and the path. If you didn't pay attention, it would be easy to overlook it.

But with so many people in the search team, it was impossible to give up such an obvious man-made creation.

"Take pictures, record videos, and dig it up." Liu Jinghui ordered with a gloomy face.

He already had a guess about what was inside.

He knew that he was pursuing desperate criminals, and he also knew that they were bold and perverse, without any scruples, but the bodies were still hard to accept.

Jiang Yuan and several investigators stepped forward and started digging.

Even if it was just a collapsed mound on the edge of the earth, it could explain a lot of problems.

If there was a body...

It only took a few shovels to reveal a body.

As a forensic doctor, Jiang Yuan stepped forward without hesitation, switched to a small shovel and a brush, and started digging.

"Female body." Although the body had turned into bones, Jiang Yuan could still easily distinguish it.

Liu Jinghui nodded, the time and gender matched, so he ordered the idle search personnel, saying: "Look around to see if there is a camp for rest, any abandoned equipment, etc."

"Okay." Pingzhou also sent a provincial department cadre to contact.

Although the criminal police at the provincial and ministerial level have been separated from the concept of the front line, the intersections between the adjacent provincial and ministerial departments are inevitable. In terms of work alone, they can still help each other.

The details involved in this case are indeed chilling.

Jiang Yuan and the other two on-site investigators fished out the skeletonized body bit by bit, and made some necessary records. For example, the depth and method of burying the body indicate that there is probably only one person who buried the body.

The fact that the soil slope was shoveled down instead of digging a pit can also explain the attitude of the person who buried the body and his "earthwork ability".

But anyway, this is the first case of a buried body encountered in this case. If it is a special case, then consider why it is a special case. If it is not a special case, then are there more bodies that have been buried in the bushes using similar methods?

Jiang Yuan's mind couldn't help but think of these questions, and he couldn't help but stand up and stretch his waist.

Liu Jinghui happened to come to see the body and asked, "What do you think?"

"Under this soil condition, the body will return to dust in about 20 years." Jiang Yuan glanced at Liu Jinghui and didn't look back.

Liu Jinghui said, "Even the bones are gone?"

"If it is buried like this." Jiang Yuan glanced down with the corner of his eye and said, "At most 20 years, there will be no bones."

"In this way..."

"If they started killing people at the beginning of this century, the first bodies have disappeared by now." Jiang Yuan sighed, squatted down again, and started picking up bones.

Liu Jinghui was stunned for a moment before saying, "Not really. Such a gang is unlikely to last for 20 years. Even the internal fighting and the replacement of the old and the new will cause them to die out naturally. It is not so easy for a gang to survive for 20 years."

"Criminal gangs die out naturally? That's too optimistic."

"That's true." Liu Jinghui was silent, and then said, "This time, we just need to catch them."

"Yeah." Jiang Yuan lowered his head and continued to work. This time, he was going to take out all the soil and insects in the "tomb".

This is a very complicated job. In fact, many criminal police have the habit of taking on a lot of things when packing evidence, but it is meaningless when they arrive at the laboratory. For example, if there is evidence in the trash can, so the entire trash can is packed. You can't expect the technicians in the laboratory to do everything in the trash can. We all work in the same police station. You are a very casual criminal police, and I am a very casual technician. High demands from either side are unrealistic.

Therefore, if you really want to check the contents of the trash can, the correct way is to put the items in the trash can into the correct trash bags according to categories.

If a forensic investigator can put the garbage in a trash can into 100 evidence bags, he will get 100 test reports. And if he pours all the garbage in the trash can into a black plastic bag, he will get a bunch of garbage.

Jiang Yuan did it even more carefully, especially when facing the area around the body, the LV4 crime scene investigation, nothing was missing.

When Jiang Yuan was buried in the "tomb", the search team continued to move forward until the planned time, and then they withdrew and returned. Some people continued to move forward and find a place to camp.

Most of the search team members will return to Pingzhou, and a few will continue to search forward.

Although Liu Jinghui's initial request has been met and the body has been found. But the team has been formed, and it is a waste to use one day. It is better to continue searching.

The reason was also very easy to find. The body found now could not prove that it was Su Qin's companion Sun Jingyi. It was just a precaution to search for another day or two.

Jiang Yuan returned to Langgu County before dark and went straight to the autopsy room of the funeral home.

The evidence he brought with him was registered and the body was placed on the autopsy table.

Li Zhen also followed with a tired face.