Chapter 51
Willow head on the moon.

More than a dozen heavily armed criminal police lined up on the bank of Jiatang Lake, nervously watching the boats of the professional salvage team on the lake.A few powerful lighting lamps illuminate the lake surface as bright as day, and every detail is clearly visible within a few feet.

Such a large formation attracted many residents near Jiatang Lake. There were hundreds of people three floors in and three floors outside the cordon.The people don't know why, they speculate wildly, and talk to each other.

Among the crowd was a familiar face of Li Guanlan, dark, fat, and flat. It was Liang Mangui, the security guard of the botanical garden.Li Guanlan seemed to be staring intently at the lake, not paying attention to the crowd of onlookers. In fact, he had already seen Liang Mangui when he first appeared.There was a man standing next to Liang Mangui, their heads were together and they were talking in a low voice.The man was about 50 years old, about the same height as Liang Mangui, thin, and looked much weaker than Liang Mangui.

The salvage team members were lifting an almost complete skeleton from the bottom of the water and loading it into the cabin.There was a commotion among the criminal police members on the shore, most of them were local criminal police from Zhao'an City. They were ignorant of such a big case in their jurisdiction and had to rely on the help of criminal police from other cities to file the case. It's humiliating to say.

The crowd of onlookers also became chaotic. Some people screamed, some cursed, and some were so excited that their eyes lit up.A police officer stood at the best angle opposite the crowd, scanning the faces of every onlooker with a very hidden infrared camera.This is what Li Guanlan ordered him to do - if the murderer is a resident around Jiatang Lake, and the police officers make such a big commotion by the lake, there is no reason for the murderer not to come to check on the progress of the matter.

After the skeleton was exposed to the strong light, both Su Caixuan and Feng Xinran's faces changed—it had no right foot, and a cable was loosely attached to the right leg bone, part of which was wrapped around the knee joint, and the other end was tied with a piece of wire. Large rocks, which may be the reason why the skeleton can float on the bottom of the water and appear to be "upright".It was broken below the tibia, and the bones at the fracture were jagged like dog teeth.

Could it be the owner of a certain broken foot?

The salvage team worked underwater for another forty minutes, but returned without success.There are more than a dozen broken feet and one skeleton, which cannot be compared in number.

After Li Guanlan negotiated with the Zhaoan City Criminal Police Team, they decided to jointly handle the case.The skeletons salvaged from the bottom of the water were temporarily retained by the Quzhou Public Security Bureau as evidence for inspection.The three of Li Guanlan and his party rushed back to Quzhou in the early morning of the second day after the skeleton came out of the water.For four years, the case of the broken foot weighed heavily on their hearts like a huge rock. Once the case revealed light, why didn't they be overjoyed and forget their tiredness?
The test results did not disappoint them.The skeleton belongs to the same person as the latest severed foot found at Limbo Baths.The inspection report completed by Su Caixuan reads: female, aged between 35 and 40 years old.He was about 160 centimeters tall and weighed 45 kilograms before his death.From the morphological analysis of the pelvis, she may not have given birth.

One of the test results made Li Guanlan's eyes shine. A trace amount of strontium atoms was found in the waist and spine of the skeleton. He suspected that he was from the southern province of L.

Su Caixuan further explained that the content of strontium in nature is very small, and it is only found in a few mines in the southern province of L in my country at present, so it is suspected that the deceased was a local resident, and a trace amount of strontium was included due to long-term drinking of groundwater. In the spine next to the kidneys.

Li Guanlan immediately dispatched a team of elite soldiers to fly to Province L. With the cooperation of the local police, they searched for the source of the deceased according to the known characteristics of the deceased.

Li Guanlan had just assigned the job, Xu Tianhua walked into his office with a depressed face, and asked, "Captain Li, are you determined to exclude me from the case? It's unnatural, I feel uncomfortable as if I have thorns growing on my body, what is the reason for you to catch me?"

Li Guanlan didn't seem to smell the gunpowder in his tone, so he beckoned him to sit down, and said, "What's the rush? Due to the needs of the case, I haven't disclosed the details to you for the time being. You are a senior criminal policeman, and you should be very familiar with these disciplines. "

Xu Tianhua said: "It's not because Su Caixuan and Feng Xinran got involved. I have other cases at hand, so it doesn't matter if I get involved in the broken foot case. The key is to see their expressions."

Li Guanlan took out the drift bottle from the drawer and said, "Is this your thing?"

Xu Tianhua asked puzzledly: "What is that?"

Li Guanlan unscrewed the bottle cap and poured out the contents. Apart from 99 lucky stars folded from colored glossy paper, there was also a piece of paper folded in the shape of a heart.Li Guanlan said to Xu Tianhua: "I have read the contents of the note, and it has He Xiaoshun's phone number written on it."

Xu Tianhua recalled and said: "This is the drift bottle that He Xiaoshun threw into the Jiatang Lake when I was dating He Xiaoshun in the Botanical Garden in Zhao'an City four years ago. Here, where did you come from?"

Li Guanlan said: "The one found in the beach on the shore of Lingbo Bathing Beach is roughly the same as the location where the broken foot was found. According to experts' research, the terrain of Lingbo Bathing Beach is low, and there is a huge pipe-shaped stone wall near it. The negative pressure in the center makes the surrounding water replenish to the center, forming a huge vortex, which is the main reason why the objects in the water drift to the Lingbo Bathing Beach. The material and weight of the drift bottle washed ashore by the river are the same as a The sneakers with broken feet are similar, so the place where the drift bottle entered the water may be the place where the broken foot floated, which provides us with a basic idea for handling the case.”

Xu Tianhua thought to himself, no wonder Su Caixuan asked me about the drift bottle a few days ago, so she only kept it from me.He was dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't say it.

Li Guanlan guessed what he was thinking, and explained with a smile: "I didn't tell you about this matter. I definitely didn't suspect you. It's just that I didn't want to make a fuss about the matter before I sorted out a basic idea. Nowadays, traditional media and new media They are all highly developed, and the case of broken feet is very sensitive, so we must be more cautious in everything. Now we have confirmed that it took four years for the drift bottle thrown by He Xiaoshun to reach Lingbo Bathing Beach, and Su Caixuan has also passed the bone age test Confirmed that the owner of the newly discovered broken foot died about four years ago. This means that the last homicide we know happened four years ago, and the broken feet that appeared by the lake four years ago happened earlier Time. Now there are two questions that are still uncertain, one is why the murderer shot again after two years of silence? What did he do in the past two years? The other is whether the recently discovered broken foot is the last one? "

Xu Tianhua recovered from the misunderstood anger and grievance, and was immersed in thinking about the case.

Li Guanlan said: "Now, I hope you can join in the investigation of the broken foot case. As far as I know, He Xiaoshun's family lives near Jiatang Lake, near the water. Maybe you can help us provide some inside information."

Xu Tianhua seemed to understand Li Guanlan's words, his mind was at a loss, and he said after a long time: "At present, only one broken foot can determine the source of the corpse, and so far fourteen broken feet have been found in Lingbo Bathing Beach, belonging to ten. Two dead people. Were all these dead people dumped in Jiatang Lake? How did the broken feet form? These are the questions we urgently need to solve.”

While the two were talking, Su Caixuan knocked on the door and walked in. She glanced at Xu Tianhua expressionlessly, then turned to Li Guanlan and said, "The test results of the two broken bones you fished out from Jiatang Lake at the risk of your life are also the same. When it came out, it was a human skull, and it was the same genetically as the first broken foot found in Limbo Bathing Beach, belonging to the same deceased."

Li Guanlan couldn't hold back his excitement, and stood up abruptly from the seat. There was a piercing pain in his right leg bitten by the bearded fish. With an ouch, he sat back on the chair.Seeing this, Su Caixuan hurriedly said: "Captain Li, you should take it easy, don't get carried away when you are happy."

Li Guanlan grinned in pain, but couldn't hide his joy: "As long as the two deceased can be confirmed, Jiatang Lake can be identified as the scene of the serial murders. As for how many more bodies were thrown in other places, It is a problem that can suspend the investigation, at least for now we have a clear detection direction, enough for us to find the murderer."

(End of this chapter)

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