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Swallowing the Seas - Chapter 5

Published at 28th of April 2023 05:45:12 AM


Chapter 5

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 "The deceased was fifteen years old, female, was about 1.58 meters tall and weighed between 41 and 44 kilograms. Taking into account the heavy rain at the time of the incident, the sultry environment in which the body was stored, and the surrounding soil moist, it is preliminarily inferred that the death was caused. The time should be around thirty-four or five hours, that is, between 10:30 and 11:30 the night before, which matches the confession of the informant."

    Several Jinbei police cars of the Caiying District Police Station were parked on the river bank, and the warning belt pulled out a large open space overgrown with weeds. The criminal cameraman of the technical team has taken a round of photos. The elder of the criminal team, Zheng, squatted on the paved survey board.

    "The only obvious damage visible on the body surface is the upper end of the left sternum, with a depth of about 7.5 cm, which is enough to penetrate the chest wall, hurt the pericardium, and cause traumatic heart rupture, which leads to acute pericardial 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, but it is said that this is the most likely inference from the current point of view..."

    Captain Zheng, facing the clean and bright Mediterranean, has been warned by his wife not to scratch his head many times, but this situation still makes him itchy: "Are there any other clues? The perpetrator's footprints, fingerprints, bloodstains? , Residual DNA?"

    "The scene was very badly damaged by the rainstorm, there was no blood clotting at all, and the footprints were long gone; the victim was dressed intact and had no injuries. The possibility of rape is unlikely. The clues found through the vaginal wipes are estimated to be choking. "The forensic doctor shook his head and sighed: "The remaining cells on the other corpse surfaces have to wait for the Nancheng Detachment to be extracted, so why haven't they—"

    "Brother Zheng!" The voice of the policeman in the distance changed his voice: "The Nancheng Detachment is here!"

    Police sirens flashed from the end of the winding road, and five or six police cars suddenly rushed into the field of view under the leadership of a black jeep. Several vehicles dodge in a hurry, but they were too late. The police car suddenly accelerated and took pictures, and it passed through the traffic flow like a scalpel. The next moment it swept up the river bank, the engine roared and rushed!

    boom--

    The body slid sideways and cornered, the rubber tires rubbed sharply against the ground, and the soil was thrown out of a huge fan and flew in all directions. A row of well-equipped police cars came to a halt, and the red and blue warning lights flashed rapidly, turning the police station van into scum.

    The audience was quiet, and the forensic doctor's pen clattered on the edge of the foot, murmured the voice of everyone:

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

    "It's really unpleasant..."

    Captain Zheng greeted him with a swift smoke: "Hey! Step detachment!"

    Bu Chonghua pushed the door to get out of the car and stepped on the muddy ground. He is nearly 1.9 meters tall, has a handsome face but neat lines, and his compressed sword eyebrows clearly exudes chilling pressure. More than a dozen capable criminals are chasing after him. Opened a way to the scene.

    "The cordon was pulled 500 meters along the river bank, taking pictures and collecting materials along the way, taking a soil sample every two meters, and notifying the Hydrographic Bureau, the procuratorate, and the police station on the water, Liao Gang!"

    "in!"

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

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

    Bu Chonghua is well-known in the Jinhai City Public Security System. No one at the police station dared to speak, and all of them bowed their heads and wanted to pretend to disappear. Only Captain Zheng bit his scalp, followed him in a trot, breathless: "Step...Step Detachment, the preliminary autopsy notes and the situation on the scene are already here. This is the record of the reporter. Technical team The surrounding area was screened for the first time. There were no bloodstains, no weapons, and no footprints for analysis. The heavy rain that lasted all night on the day of the crime caused devastating damage to the scene. So far, no valuable clues have been found. ..."

    Bu Chonghua listened and put on shoe covers and gloves. Captain Zheng hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to pull the warning belt for him, but he saw him go through it as soon as he lowered his head. He didn't look back and asked: "Can you tell that this is? The first scene?"

    "This... the possibility is very high but it is not 100% sure. Although there is no trace of dragging and binding from the corpse characterization for the time being, the rain was really too heavy that night, and there was mud and water nearby, or Wait for the dissection result..."

    Captain Zheng desperately asked the forensic doctor for help, but was interrupted by Bu Chonghua: "Has the monitoring been adjusted?"

    "Huh?" Captain Zheng was taken aback.

    "The bus station 1.8 kilometers north of the scene, the Qiaotou toll station 2.5 kilometers southeast of the scene, the two speed measurement cameras up and down the Panpo highway and within 10 kilometers. In addition, the spot where the body was found was the center of the circle with a diameter of two. Within a kilometer of a private warehouse, two chain convenience stores, and the black clinic that has not been banned four times, have all the surveillance videos of these places been retrieved?"

    The air suddenly became very quiet.

    "That... that," Captain Zheng stammered: "The car, the station, and the toll station have gone, but what kind of convenience store... black clinic..."

    In these areas where residents may set up surveillance cameras privately, let alone adjust the video, their police station doesn't even know about Mao. How did Bu Chonghua clear the account?

    Bu Chonghua closed the autopsy notebook and handed it back to the forensic doctor. He raised his head and said simply: "Go and adjust."

    "Yes, yes!" Captain Zheng jumped up immediately and ran away busy.

    The wilderness is desolate, overgrown with weeds, dense reeds are everywhere on the river beach, and the sound of rushing water comes from under the river bank. Not far away, on the muddy ground, a small human-shaped bulge was covered by a black plastic sheet, and the smell of corruption was heard as soon as the wind blew.

    That was a little girl in her blooming years.

    Bu Chonghua ignored the others. He walked through the overgrown mud, squatting on the side of the corpse and gently uncovering the black cloth. A pair of extremely wide, turbid, gray eyes suddenly jumped out and stared straight. he.

    With a soft bang, Bu Chonghua looked back and saw Wu Yu stopped abruptly.

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

    Wu Yu's face was originally white, which may be due to the cloudy light. His cheeks became more cold, his hair and eyes darkened, and his eyes dropped unnaturally: "Oh, no."

    Bu Chonghua didn't let him go: "I heard Xu Ju said that you were in Xing Da before. Why, didn't you even show up at the murder scene?"

    Many police officers from the police station around were watching, Wu Yu couldn't avoid it, so he had to vaguely say: "...I'm not used to seeing these things."

    "No one likes to watch it. But if everyone doesn't watch it, who will avenge these things?"

    Bu Chonghua was born with a sharp and compelling aura. Wu Yu was stared at by so many eyes around him. It was really impossible to evade him, so he closed his eyes and took a breath, and moved his gaze back slightly.

    The little girl on the grass has a blue-grey face, her mouth is open, her white teeth are faintly revealed, and maggots come in and out from her nostrils and ear holes; the horror at the moment of death in her eyes has turned into deep resentment, with The dripping yellow water and bloody color slammed into Wu Yu's mind extremely ferociously.

    This scene seemed to be divided in an instant, and countless images overlapped. Countless pairs of equally deadly eyes stared from all directions, tired bones with open mouths, and against the burning fire that spread all over, they tried their best to stretch out rotten hands at him.

    dá dá dá dá dá dá da-the machine gun was vomiting again, and the figures in camouflage uniforms in the distance flew into stumps and arms, and connected the dirt ditches and villages to powder with a bang.

    "Help--" someone was crying in despair in the gunpowder.

    "Help us--" The carrion all over the floor cried in unison, grabbing the corners of his clothes.

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

    Wu Yu turned his head abruptly, and Cai Lin was almost taken aback: "Fuck, are you motion sick, your face is so ugly!"

    The investigation vehicle of the Nancheng branch finally arrived. The well-trained branch was enclosing the scene again. Director Wangzheng of the technical team hurriedly walked here with a few trace inspectors; commanded by Liao Gangzheng who quickly completed all the procedures The subordinates expanded the cordon and assisted the technical team in picking up materials, and the group on the bank was busy and organized.

    Wu Yu's heart banged against his throat, facing Cai Lin's concerned and suspicious gaze, he couldn't speak for a moment, and had to smile hastily, but he almost ran into Bu Chonghua head-on when he turned his head.

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

    "It's okay, I didn't expect that the victim didn't close his eyes." Wu Yu stepped back and said hoarsely: "Look first, I'll go over there... I'll go over there to help mark inspection and carry the box."

    Cai Lin watched him walk away inexplicably, wondering: "It won't happen, you can't be scared like this without closing your eyes. It's almost the same as the first time I saw the boss, your deity... just kidding. "

    Bu Chonghua stared at the corner of his eyes, Cai Lin immediately curled his neck to beg for mercy, and asked with a grin: "Bu Team, the mark said that the underside of the embankment has been almost destroyed, and there is no research value, or we still follow the old method. Let the brothers at the police station help to sieve the soil back?"

    "No, the soil environment in the wilderness is too complicated." Bu Chonghua hesitated for a while, said: "In this way, take the victim as the center and transport the surrounding shovel back to the technical team. Tell Old Wang that the clues of this case are too I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

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

    "Has the identity of the victim checked?"

    When the two of them walked to the corpse, Cai Lin raised his chin at the poor girl: "I called the county police station on the way I just came to cross-check it-Nian Xiaoping, fifteen years old, and his parents are migrant workers. In Xiaogang Village not far from here, her father Nian Daxing helped people look at the warehouse, and her mother Fan Ling was in a clothing factory. Nian Xiaoping was a junior in Xiaogang Middle School. According to the teacher, her grades were not particularly good and she often missed classes. I went to work, and recently I have been in close contact with people outside the school, I am afraid it is a premature love-this'outside person' is not someone else, it is the witness and informant of our case, He Xingxing."

    In fact, Bu Chonghua had already read this information in the reporter's record, but he focused on examining the corpse's nose, nose, and wounds, and he did not interrupt Cai Lin.

    "On the night of the incident on May 2, Nian Xiaoping worked overtime at an assembly plant in the industrial zone until ten o'clock in the evening. After coming out, He Xingxing picked her up, and the two took the bus home together. The last bus was in Silihe. The station stopped. After the two got off the car, they walked along the river embankment. At that time, it was raining heavily and the visibility was very low. He Xingxing said in the transcript that he heard a strange sound, as if something was approaching from behind. The walking skeleton took a knife out of the grass and came in front of the two of them." Cai Lin exaggeratedly stabbed Nian Xiaoping with his bare hands.

    Cai Lin stretched out his hand, his face clearly written that he didn't believe it, but Bu Chonghua remained indifferent: "What then?"

    "According to He Xingxing’s confession, the assailant's body was completely boneless, without eyeballs and noses, without hair on top of his head but directly on the skull. He walked stiffly and staggered, very similar to the zombies in the film and television series. He was very scared at the time, and was very afraid of the details of the murderer’s clothing and The process of the murder can no longer be described in detail. I only remember that after the zombie stabbed Nian Xiaoping, he jumped to the bank of the river, fell into the river, and then disappeared."

    The detachment detective brought the body bag and the iron 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.

    "It's not only harmless. Judging from He Xingxing's confession, it is simply completely ignoring him from beginning to end, as if he does not exist at all-I will tell you that the confession is just like writing a novel. It’s still the kind of five cents a book with three yuan and two catties on the floor. I don’t even want to watch 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 shocked and scared. He didn't dare to touch the dead, and he didn't dare to go to the place where the zombie jumped into the river to see what happened. So he braved the heavy rain and ran back home, holding the quilt and shivering until dawn. Early the next morning, One person ran to the police tremblingly."

    "——The police reported early in the morning yesterday." Bu Chonghua asked keenly, "Why did the police go out until today?"

    "Hey! It's a long story because there is no mother for a child!" Cai Lin said with a moment of enthusiasm, and asked cryptically, "Do you know what kind of person He Xingxing is?"

    Bu Chonghua tucked his eyebrows.

    "Children left behind since childhood, fathers and mothers do not love them, drop out of high school and have not graduated, minor idlers, a little ruffian whom the locals suspect, standard juvenile delinquent reserve. The police station of Xiaogang Village goes up to the sheriff and down to the police dog. With five establishments plus three auxiliary police officers, they all knew that this was something insignificant. No one listened to his set of evil ghost killings, and it was just blasted out." Cai Lin shook his head and sighed, "Boom out. In the future, He Xingxing became more and more afraid of thinking about it, afraid that the police would not believe that there are ghosts in the world, and even more afraid that he would not be able to solve the case and would catch him directly, so he decided to leave his hometown and ran away. However, he needs money and ID to buy tickets. He didn’t have any money; so he simply pushed his neighbor’s motorcycle and walked north along the expressway. When he got off the expressway, he was interrogated by the traffic police, so scared that he couldn’t even tell his name, so he was turned to the Caiying District Police Station... …"

    It is a farce.

    "The Caiying District Police Station has several crime scenes every day, and there is no time to deal with such a small motorcycle stealing pen. He is handcuffed to the prison room. As a result, He Xing cried and made trouble all night. I didn’t have a life, I had to say that a ghost came to claim his life, and I shrank in the corner, holding my head and trembling, begging the ghost to spare his life—hey, the next day the cellmate reported him kindly and said that this kid was on him There was a murder case, and I asked him if he could strive to perform meritorious service." Cai Lin almost happily said: "No, if it weren’t for the high level of mental consciousness of the cellmates, this urban legend of a zombie killing and jumping into a river on a rainy night might not have happened today. !"

    A few meters away is the place where He Xingxing’s “evil” jumped into the river. A long restricted area was pulled out by a cordon on the river beach. Several trace inspectors were squatting on the ground holding a bag of evidence, looking through pieces of dirt and debris. stone.

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

    "I said, boss," Cai Lin finally couldn't help but waited for a long time, and asked: "You don't really believe in the zombie murder case that the stall literature can't make up, do you?"

    "..."

    Bu Chonghua asked, "What do you mean?"

    "I? Of course I can't believe it. Our Communist|Party|members are firm materialists and atheists!" Cai Lin stood tall and said very mature and old-fashioned: "I think the Eight Achievements are the case of Xingxing. Look at the IQ of stealing a car and running away, you can also make up stories of this level. Looking back, let us forensic examine the contents of the victim’s uterus and vaginal wipes. I have been in the police for five years in this type of case. , This is the eighteenth case. The motive of the crime has never been separated from the unconvincing lower body of a man..."

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

    Cai Lin was taken aback: "Huh?"

    On the high embankment, more than 20 policemen are busy back and forth, taking photos and collecting evidence. Several police cars were connected end to end. The bodies on the iron frame bed were wrapped in black cloth and parked by the open rear door.

    "Perhaps he didn't lie," Bu Chonghua said in a low voice, "That so-called evil spirit killing people is not necessarily fake."

    Cai Lin's mouth opened into a "Oh" shape, and his face was refreshed with three views: "Why, why?"

     "because……"

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

     ——Not far from the police car, there is a silhouette standing two or three meters away from the iron frame bed, holding a cigarette in one hand and putting the other in the pocket of his trousers, staring quietly at the black cloth with the outline of the human figure.

     It's Wu Yu.

     don’t know how long it took, this householder who didn’t even dare to take a second look at the corpse finally seemed to have accumulated some courage and strength from his body, slowly raised his foot forward and stood beside the iron frame bed. , And then reached out and opened the zipper of the body bag.

     Bu Chonghua had been focusing on observing Wu Yu's every movement, and even Cai Lin's curious look with his head was ignored. At this moment, he suddenly pulled his foot and walked up.

     "Hey old... boss!" Cai Lin didn't stop, and hurriedly followed by rolling on the rocky beach.

 





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