Scourge

Chapter 4 The Disappearing Weapon

You make me live in hell, and I'll destroy your heaven.

—— "Extremely Split"

1.
Xing Wenchang sighed.

During the long period of fifteen days, he suffered a lot.My father has lived with a large group of cats and dogs for half his life alone, leaving almost no relatives and friends.So in the last period of time, only he, Xing Wen, was working hard.

His father Xing Anjian divorced in his early years and raised Xing Wen alone. After Xing Wen went to university, his father started a very meaningful thing.He used his savings to buy a piece of land in the mountains and set up a shelter for stray animals.Almost all stray animals in Longpan City will be sent to their fathers for adoption, and some people will come to their fathers to adopt pets for free.However, when his father's shelter had just become a little famous, his 60-year-old father died of a sudden myocardial infarction.

Before his father lost consciousness, he called Xing Wen.Although Xing Wen sent his father to the hospital immediately, his father stayed in the ICU for fifteen days.Fifteen days later, the only thing my father said when he regained consciousness was: "Hurry up and feed the cats and dogs."

Xing Wen didn't go.

For fifteen days, Xing Wen was busy all by himself, how could he have time to take care of those cats and dogs?The cats and dogs in the shelter are raised in enclosures. The cats and dogs that can escape will not die, and the rest will not survive after fifteen days.Even if it was buried with his father, Xing Wen thought so.

After handling his father's funeral, Xing Wen went to the shelter to clean up his father's belongings.However, when he walked into the small shelter, he was so scared that he almost peed his pants.

There are a few large dogs left in the yard that have not escaped, but they have not starved to death.In the corner of the courtyard, there was actually a dead body lying there. The exposed parts of the dead body were all bones, but the dead body showed no signs of corruption.

The vicious dog is eating people!
Xing Wen ran out of the shelter and called the police.

After Section Chief Hu briefed us on the situation of the police, he led us into the yard of the shelter.The yard was messy with animal droppings everywhere.The corpse was lying in the corner of the asylum. The face was partially ossified, but the clothes were still normal.

"How did this person get in?" I rubbed my nose and asked.

"It's hard to say." Chief Hu pointed to the hill behind the courtyard and said, "It may have come in over the fence, or it may have fallen from the hill behind."

"Have you found out the source of the corpse?" I asked.

Chief Hu nodded and said, "The deceased's car was parked under a hill not far away, and there were obvious signs of fighting inside the car."

"Oh?" I said. "Is there any valuable trace evidence?"

"No." Chief Hu said, "The window glass of the car may have been smashed by bricks, and the seat cushion in the car showed signs of lifting. After the investigation by our technical department, no traces of other people except the deceased were found. .”

"Could it be that he was robbed and fell here when he fled?" I asked.

Chief Hu said: "It's possible. But it's also possible that it's Jiese. The big dogs here haven't eaten for more than ten days, so they bit her."

"In this case, the possibility of climbing over the fence is not great." I said, "Has there been any traces on the hill?"

"There are weeds everywhere on the hill, and we don't have the conditions for investigation." Chief Hu said, "But the weeds are lodging, so it cannot be ruled out that the deceased fell from the hill."

I walked to the side of the fence in the yard. Outside the fence was a small hill that was not steep, and it was easy to fall from the hill into the yard.

"He was bitten to death?" I felt a chill in my heart.Although the cases of being bitten to death by vicious dogs are rare, it can be inferred how terrible torture the victim suffered during his lifetime.

"I can't be sure yet." Chief Hu said, "I probably took a look at the surface of the corpse. There are tooth marks on the remaining skin on the neck. Bleeding, hyperemia, swallowing, embolism, etc. are important indicators for judging pre-life and post-mortem injuries.”

"Is it possible to determine the trajectory of the deceased through graphic investigation?" I asked Cheng Ziyan.

"Well, it's not difficult." Cheng Ziyan said.

"Okay, let's go to the autopsy." I saw that the comrades in the funeral parlor had already started to wrap the corpse, and they were busy going to the autopsy room to prepare for the autopsy.

I have come across a case of a vicious dog biting a person to death.It was an old lady who met several vicious dogs when she was returning home in the mountains, and was finally bitten to death by the vicious dogs.There were a lot of blood and traces of dragging and rolling at the scene.The dead man's clothes were torn out of shape.Following the bloodstains, the police finally found the owner of the vicious dog, and the result was compensation.

In that case, the deceased suffered extensive abrasions and contusions all over his body, and the tooth marks of animals could be clearly seen. The cause of death was traumatic shock death caused by extensive soft tissue damage.That case is still fresh in my memory, but it is far from the case in front of me.The damage to the party involved in this case seems to be very little, the ground at the scene is not so messy, and the clothes of the deceased are basically intact.

The body is not corrupted, and the remaining skin can still be seen before birth.However, due to being eaten by dogs, most of its face has been boned.Such a scene is a bit shocking.

Except for a few exposed scalps, most of the corpse's hair is still there, and it is chestnut. Combined with the clothing of the deceased, it shows that the deceased should be a woman in her 30s to 40 years old.On the woman's skull, traces of canine friction can be seen, and mild life reactions can also be seen around the damaged soft tissue.

We removed the deceased's clothes one by one. Every piece of clothing was in good condition, and there were mobile phones and wallets in the pockets of the coat, which had not been tampered with.

"There is no sign of sexual assault, and no sign of property infringement." As I said, I sorted out the clothes of the deceased and took pictures one by one.

After the clothing was removed, the skin on the torso of the deceased was exposed.Except for the injuries of the hands that were bitten and the knuckles were missing, there was no obvious damage to other parts.

"There are also mild life reactions around the severed finger." Dabao said, "Now it seems that the biggest possibility is that the neck was bitten and then died, but there are too many skin defects on the neck, it is really difficult to judge. "

"There wasn't much blood at the scene," I said. "Either he was bitten on the neck and suffocated to death, or he suffered a craniocerebral injury."

After speaking, I used a scalpel to cut open the remaining scalp of the deceased, completely exposing her skull.

"There is a fracture!" Dabao said, pointing to the temple of the deceased.

The deceased had a depressed fracture at the pterion of the temporal bone.The folks say that the temple is the dead point, because the skull here is the thinnest place, and the middle meningeal artery passes under the skull.Once the skull fractures here, it will involve the underlying arteries and cause death from intracranial hemorrhage.This fracture of the deceased, even if I don't open the skull, I know that there will be a lot of bleeding in her skull, and this is the cause of her death.

"He didn't die because of being bitten on the neck." Dabao said, "He died from a head injury. No wonder the place where the dogs bit him didn't have obvious life reactions. It turned out that he was bitten when he was dying. Like this I feel much better."

"Did she fall to death?" Chen Shiyu asked from the side.

I shook my head, pointed to the fracture line and said, "This depressed fracture has straight edges, which means that the tool used to cause the injury is a blunt instrument with edges. There is no debris on the ground at the scene, so it is impossible to cause such an injury."

As I said that, the chainsaw had already sawed through the skull, and I struggled to separate the dura mater [Note: Dura mater, a layer of dense tissue wrapped around the brain tissue] and said, "Look, the brain injury of the deceased did not prevent the impact injury. [Note: For contusion, it means that there is bleeding and contusion in the brain tissue at the corresponding part of the wound, and there is also bleeding and contusion in the brain tissue on the opposite side, and the bleeding contusion at this place is not accompanied by damage to the scalp and skull Fracture of the skull. This is during the high-speed movement of the skull, the head suddenly stops, forming a brain injury at the damaged scalp. Because of the inertial movement, the brain tissue on the opposite side hits the inner wall of the skull, causing bleeding and contusion. Therefore, the diagnosis of impact injuries can basically be confirmed It is the injury caused by the deceleration of the head, such as falling, hitting the head against the wall, etc.], indicating that it was caused by a blow, not a fall."

"At first we all had a wrong hunch." Chief Hu said, "It seems that this is a homicide case. But such a serious brain injury should be able to directly lead to a coma. So, could it be that she met someone on a small hillside?" Attacked, and then fell directly into the yard?"

"It's also possible that they were attacked in other places and then thrown into the yard from a small hillside." I said, "However, this is meaningless. If you want to delay the time of the incident, the most important thing to hide is the deceased." It is more effective to hide the car than to hide the body in a remote place with the keys of the car hung on the car.”

"That's it." Chief Hu said, "The two may have had a fight near the car, and then chased and ran to the hillside. The murderer hit the temple of the deceased with a blunt object with edges, causing the deceased to fall. Arrived in the yard. The deceased died of traumatic brain injury, but when he was dying, he was bitten by a stray dog ​​who was about to go hungry."

"From the results of the autopsy, this possibility is the greatest." I said, "However, it must be combined with Lin Tao's on-site investigation and Cheng Ziyan's investigation."

"The time of death was only about three days, and he died two or three hours after the last meal." When we were analyzing the cause of death, Dabao was not idle, and judged the death of the deceased based on the appearance of the deceased's body and the contents of his stomach. time.

"I thought it was an accident, but it turned out to be a murder." Chief Hu shrugged and said.

"It's okay, at least in this case, what we should do as a forensic doctor has been done. If we don't expect, the rest of the work will be the work of the investigation department." I said, "We can't think about every day. We can all play the most critical role in solving cases, most of the cases are still led by the investigation department."

"It's getting late, finish work, go to the task force to listen to the work of each group." Chief Hu looked at his watch and said.

Except for the investigation team, only one team came back, and the other working teams were already waiting in the task force.Since forensic work is the most critical factor in determining the nature of a case, I will be the first to speak:

"The deceased was neatly dressed and showed no signs of sexual assault. He had a mobile phone and a wallet with more than 1000 yuan in cash. According to the autopsy, the deceased should have been hit on the head by a blunt object with edges, resulting in a craniocerebral injury." Injured and died. Because it was only a single blow and most of the scalp was damaged, it is impossible to infer the instrument of injury.” I said with some regret, “Combined with the situation at the scene, the deceased should have fought with the murderer near the car , and then chased to the hillside. After being hit on the head, the deceased fell into the small courtyard at the scene and was bitten by stray dogs. At this time, the deceased still had vital signs."

"Was she still awake when she was bitten?" Cheng Ziyan had a look of unbearable expression.

I shook my head and said, "With such a severe craniocerebral injury, I should have lost consciousness in an instant. It's just a while before the body dies."

"Our investigation is also consistent with what Lao Qin said." Lin Tao said, "The fight between the murderer and the deceased should have started in the car. The murderer was in the passenger seat, and the deceased was in the driver's seat. After the fight, the two came to the car. The fight continued outside. During this process, the murderer or the deceased attacked the other party with bricks and smashed the glass of the car. The whole process can be judged clearly, but no traces and physical evidence that can prove the crime have been extracted. Because the road conditions at the scene are very poor, no Appraisal value, so it is difficult to judge the whereabouts of the two people behind. But the weeds on the hillside are obviously lodging, which is in line with Lao Qin's inference. There is a handbag in the drawer of the car, which contains several thousand yuan in cash. "

"The results of our team's work are also in line with Section Chief Qin's analysis." Cheng Ziyan said, "We have conducted research on the surveillance in the urban area. The deceased drove to the direction of the scene three days ago. It was night, and the video can be confirmed to be The deceased was driving, and there was no one in the co-pilot, but it is not known whether there was anyone in the back seat. All the road monitoring that could drive to the scene that night showed that there was no vehicle trailing behind, or driving in the direction of the scene before or after the deceased. Very remote."

"Could it be pedestrians, or riding electric vehicles?" An investigator asked.

"As long as it is a vehicle, you have to walk on the road, and it can be monitored and recorded. But if you are on foot, you can go through other paths." Cheng Ziyan replied.

"This does not affect the inference." I said, "The deceased was a woman, and the incident happened at night. Although we don't know why she went there in the middle of the night, it is impossible for her to let strangers go to such a remote place if she is not an acquaintance. He got in the car. Therefore, it can be ruled out that he met a criminal on the road. The deceased was not sexually assaulted, nor was he robbed of property. This case must be an acquaintance who killed someone out of hatred, or murdered with passion."

"We also researched and judged the departure location of the deceased." Cheng Ziyan said, "It should have departed from near her workplace, but it's hard to say who was in the car."

"The scene is so remote, it is a bit unreasonable to say that someone walked over to meet the deceased." I said, "Since Cheng Ziyan ruled out other vehicles that might have entered the scene, it means that the criminals are likely to be sitting in the back seat of the car." They may have agreed to go there to do something, but they got into a fight because of something. If you don’t know in advance that there are vicious dogs in the yard who have been hungry for many days, such a blow cannot be called intentional killing. It is very likely that the death was caused by intentional injury."

"The nature of the case is clear, so it is much easier for us to handle it." Director Zhao of the Longpan City Public Security Bureau said, "The nature of the case is not so bad, and the burden on our shoulders is lighter. Moreover, the thinking is so clear now, we have full confidence Crack the case quickly. Next, let’s briefly talk about the investigation.”

The sponsoring investigator said: "The deceased was named Su Shi, female, 31 years old. She had a husband before, her child died, and she was divorced later, and now she lives alone. She is a white-collar worker in an enterprise, with a good income, social contacts, um, in recent years It's more complicated. Now, our investigation department is dividing into several groups to sort out her conflicting relationship. It's just that no trace evidence has been extracted at the scene, so it's more difficult to identify criminals."

"Indeed, we have also tried to extract some biological samples [Note: Inspection materials are different from the "physical evidence" that everyone often says, and have a broader meaning than physical evidence. Anything extracted at the scene and from the corpse can be used for further inspection. The identified substances are called inspection materials. The inspection materials that have been inspected and identified, if they are effective in solving the case, will be called physical evidence], and it needs to be tested by a DNA laboratory to know whether it has been found." I said.

"Can't we solve the case without physical evidence? Then in the era without DNA, how did we solve the case? There were still many cases at that time!" Director Zhao was a little annoyed, and said, "This case is so clearly related, I don't trust you to investigate. don't come out!"

"In this case, in addition to investigating the contradictory relationship of the deceased, we can also investigate the behavior trajectory, communication records, and Internet traces of the deceased before his disappearance." I saw that the leader was going to get angry, so he quickly smoothed things over and said, "These are not only clues, but also evidence. "

The host investigator nodded to show that he knew all of this.I also know that these are the specialties of the investigation department. They must have many investigation methods and investigation directions that we don't know.

Thinking of this, I looked at my watch in embarrassment and said, "Director Zhao, since we don't have anything to do later, we'll leave first."

Most of the difficult and important cases, we will follow up to solve the case.But there are also many cases, especially those where the causal relationship is very clear. After the preliminary work is completed, our technical department will first withdraw the task force.Unless it is difficult to solve the case in the later stage, it will re-judge whether the previous technical inference is correct.The cause and effect relationship of this case is clear. Although there are many things that need to be investigated in the future, there is nothing wrong with our technical department.So, it's time for us to withdraw.

Coming down from the Municipal Bureau building, we found a brand new large car parked in the Municipal Bureau compound.This is a Ford Raptor, obviously a big pickup truck, but after modification, it becomes a seven-seater car.Han Liang stood by the car, admiring the new car.

"Want to buy this?" I laughed.

"This is what I bought." Han Liang said.

"What? Didn't you just drive us to the venue in TT?" Dabao was surprised.

Han Liang smiled and said, "I see you are in a meeting, and I can't help you much, so I missed work for an hour and went to change cars."

"Why is buying a car similar to buying vegetables?" Lin Tao shook his head helplessly.

"Is my SUV beautiful? It's just too tall, and it's a bit difficult to get in." Han Liang said with a playful smile.

"Are you an SUV?" I taunted, "It's obviously a truck!"

"Okay, is it much better than the broken car at work?" Han Liang opened the door and motioned for us to get in the car.He saw that Chen Shiyu was struggling to get into the car, and he was about to reach out to help her, but Chen Shiyu opened it.

"Don't touch me." Chen Shiyu said with a gloomy face.

"What's the matter?" Han Liang was taken aback, and we were also very surprised.

"I don't want to be so close to a scumbag." Chen Shiyu said.

This sentence made us all dumbfounded. What's going on?When they came here just now, the two of them were still laughing and joking. Why did they change their faces after a meeting?We asked Chen Shiyu, but she didn't answer. We just drove all the way back to the provincial office in an awkward atmosphere with apprehension.

2.
Before the new car had even entered the gate of the provincial office, we received a call from Master.

"There is a dead body on the Longqing Expressway." Master said in a nutshell, "If you have nothing to do, go and have a look."

"Long Fan still has an unsolved case." I said, "Again?"

"The jurisdiction over the body found at the boundary marker of the Longqing Expressway is disputed." The master said, "Now the provincial department has designated jurisdiction, and the Qingxiang City Public Security Bureau is in charge of this case."

The "Regulations on the Procedures for Handling Criminal Cases by Public Security Organs" stipulates that criminal cases are under the jurisdiction of the public security organ where the crime was committed.If it is more appropriate to have the jurisdiction of the public security organ of the criminal suspect's place of residence, it may be under the jurisdiction of the public security organ of the criminal suspect's place of residence.The place of the crime includes the place where the crime occurred and the place where the result of the crime occurred.The place where the crime occurred, including the place where the crime was committed and the place where the crime was committed, where it started, where it passed through, where it ended, and other places related to the crime; places where crimes occurred.The place where the result of the crime occurred includes the place where the object of the crime was violated, the place where the proceeds of crime were actually obtained, hidden, transferred, used, and sold.For criminal cases with unclear jurisdiction or disputes, the relevant public security organs may negotiate.If the negotiation fails, the common superior public security organ shall designate the jurisdiction.

Now it is a case of unclear nature. The provincial department has assigned the case to Qingxiang City to take care of it, considering that a large number of police forces in Longpan City are concentrated on the murder of Su Shi.

"Highway boundary marker." I pondered, "Isn't that a traffic accident?"

"It's more likely," said the master.

"Then we still need to go?" I may be a little tired and slack.

"Go, go, why don't you go." Dabao whispered on the side.

At present, most traffic accidents in China are conducted directly by the accident department of the traffic police. Only when doubts or problems are found during the on-site investigation, the criminal police department will be notified for support.If there is no doubt at the scene, the traffic police department usually entrusts a social judicial appraisal agency to examine the corpse.

"There is a dispute in the traffic police department, you should go and have a look." Master said.

I hung up the phone, thinking of the homicide case disguised as a traffic accident a few years ago [Note: See "Forensic Qin Ming" series volume one, season one "The Corpse Whisperer"].Isn't it the same in this case?It is really fresh and refined to pretend to be a traffic accident on the highway.

"Just came back, and going again?" Han Liang smiled and turned the car around.

"You just go in your car?" I said.

"Is it okay to use a private car for public use?" Han Liang said.

"In case something happens, is this a business or a private matter for us?" I said.

"Bah, bah, bah!" Dabao said, "Please Qin Crow, we run at high speed every day, just for the sake of luck, you really are not afraid of bad luck."

"Aren't you in a hurry? Go to the motorcade to pick up the car, and delay things." Han Liang enjoyed driving his new car and was reluctant to change it.

"Okay, then hurry up, Qingxiang City Bureau Chen Detachment is still waiting for us at the expressway boundary marker." I checked WeChat, and Chen Detachment's message had arrived, saying, "We just parted, and we will meet again so soon. "

The scene was not on the expressway, but in the open space under the slope of the expressway and within the fence.

When we arrived at the scene, the expressway was not closed, and the cordon was pulled under the slope of the expressway. Dozens of policemen stood inside and outside the cordon.There are criminal policemen wearing dark blue police caps, and there are traffic policemen wearing white police caps.

A dozen or so police cars were parked in an orderly manner on the shoulder of the expressway, all with lights flashing for safety.Han Liang parked the car at the end of the convoy, and when the car was parked, we jumped out of the car together.

In fact, when driving on a high-speed road, you don't feel how fast the vehicle is, but once you stand on the side of the highway and the vehicle whizzes by, you know that the highway is really dangerous.Especially in this situation, when the driver passes by the scene, he can't help but look in our direction. The speed of the car is still so fast, which makes us very worried about the safety of the road.

"Are you here? Thank you for your hard work! I always trouble you." Team Chen climbed up the slope, and greeted us as they did when we met two days ago, "Hey, are you here driving a 'tank'?"

Team Chen was surprised that Han Liang was driving such a big car.

"This is a 'truck', what is a 'tank'?" Dabao said, "Tanks have guns."

"What's the situation?" While wearing gloves, I carefully descended the steep road to the center site.

"Two hours ago, the driver of a truck felt that the area was smoking when he was driving. He happened to be in a hurry to urinate, so he got out of the car to urinate." Team Chen said, "So he parked the car here , I didn’t expect to see the haystacks burning in this place, and there was a person lying on the haystacks. The driver of the truck was very enthusiastic, and quickly took the fire extinguisher from the car, and called his companions to call the police while putting out the fire. We arrived By then, the fire has been extinguished, but the people are also dead."

Team Chen pointed to the corpse lying on a pile of ashes.

"When the fire is burning, people lie here and don't move?" I frowned.

Chen Detachment nodded and said: "The truck driver said that this person has not changed his position, and he should have died when the fire broke out."

The central scene is a half-burnt haystack with a body in the ashes beside it.However, unlike the corpses in the general fire scene, this corpse was not burned seriously.It may be that when the fire broke out, the upper body of the corpse was heated, so the head, face, and neck of the deceased were burned to a certain extent, but the degree of burning was relatively light.Several breaks in the skin of the head, face and neck appear to be visible as the skin is dehydrated and charred by the heat.However, the overall appearance of the deceased can still be seen somewhat.

In addition, the right hand of the deceased was also charcoal black, and it may have been placed in the flames.Below the chest of the deceased, there were no traces of burning.

"This kind of burning probably only burned the skin tissue of the deceased, and the subcutaneous tissue is probably intact." I poked the neck of the deceased with my finger and said, "Besides, the space here is open, so it is impossible to suffocate by inhaling poisonous gas. Or carbon monoxide poisoning, so the cause of death must not have been burnt to death."

"Burning after death? Is that a murder case?" Cheng Ziyan asked.

"The burning of the corpse after death is not necessarily a murder case." Lin Tao explained, "The burning of the corpse is the same as that of dismembering the corpse. It is the disposal of the corpse. The cause of death determines the nature of the case. For example, in this case, we cannot rule out that it is a high-speed crime." After a traffic accident on the road results in a death, the possibility of the driver burning the body in order to avoid responsibility.”

"This is the most likely." Chen Detachment squinted its eyes and nodded, and said, "Just like what we thought, I have arranged for people to check all the vehicles passing this section of the road during this time period, to see if they can find some clues .”

"However, pedestrians are basically responsible for hitting and killing people on the highway, so why destroy the corpse?" Dabao said.

I nodded, agreeing with Dabao's opinion.

"The key is to look at the cause of death." Detachment Chen also felt that what Dabao said made sense, and continued, "The funeral home's car has arrived, hurry up and do an autopsy."

"That's good." I said, "There are still many safety hazards with so many cars parked on the highway. Let's go to the autopsy. You can take a look at the scene and evacuate as soon as possible."

Everyone was packing up their equipment and equipment. Lin Tao saw an object at his feet that was shining brightly in the sun, so he picked it up, looked around, and put it into his investigation box.

When we moved the corpse from the mortuary bed to the dissecting table, we felt obvious damage to the deceased's right upper limb.His right upper arm appeared to have developed a "pseudoarthrosis [note: pseudoarthrosis, after a long bone fracture, because the stump can move, the limb forms an angular deformity similar to a joint]".

According to the procedure, we first removed the clothes of the deceased.The corpse was very fresh, and the rigor was still forming, so it should have only been dead for four or five hours.

The deceased was dressed a lot, mostly in winter clothes.The outside was a ragged cotton jacket, and the upper part near the collar had been burned, exposing the charred cotton.Inside was a very worn sweater, but there were only signs of burning at the collar.Under the sweater, the deceased also wore a cotton vest and two autumn clothes.Wearing so much seems to be a bit out of tune with the gradually warming spring weather.After checking all the clothes of the deceased, we only found more than 1000 yuan in cash and an old-style ID card in the pocket of his cotton vest.The banknotes were new, carefully folded and placed in pockets, and the ID card was pressed on top of the banknotes.

"I have an ID card!" I looked carefully at the first-generation ID card that I applied for in 1992, and said, "This is most likely the ID card of the deceased. Then, the source of the corpse will be known."

"The DNA is also taken." Dabao said, "The identity will be confirmed in a few hours."

Apart from these, the deceased had no other belongings.

"Qiao Sheng, this name is so contemporary." Lin Tao took the ID card and said, "I am 50 years old this year, and I am from Beihe Province. Hey, from Beihe Province to our province, you have to go through Nanhe Province." Province, at least seven or eight hundred kilometers away from the scene."

"Well, this is a question. How did he get here?" I said, "It seems that the Chen detachment was right to check the vehicle information. At least at the checkpoint near the expressway, there is hope to find the video of the deceased before he was alive. After all He didn't die long ago."

There were some cuts in the neck of the deceased, but because the surrounding skin had been charred, it was impossible to see whether it was damage or burns.The dead man's skin was rough, especially his hands.Although the skin on his right hand has been charred, it can still be seen from his left hand that he has been engaged in manual labor for a long time, and there are many chilblains on the joints of his left hand.

In addition to the skin burns on the head, face and neck, there may be fractures in the right shoulder joint, and the other parts of the deceased were not damaged, so we decided to dissect the head, face, neck and right shoulder joint of the deceased first.

I was concerned that the deceased had died from a neck injury, so I performed an autopsy on his neck first.The skin was so charred that it was difficult to cut with a scalpel.In order to prevent the subcutaneous tissue from being artificially destroyed, I slowly separated the carbonized neck skin with scissors.As I predicted before, no obvious damage was seen in the subcutaneous tissue of the deceased's neck, and the deep blood vessels were all intact.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead with my arm and said: "There is no fatal injury to the neck, which is what I thought. There was no blood on the ground and grass at the scene, which means that the real cause of his death may indeed be the skull." Brain Injury."

At this time, forensic doctor Li, who was in charge of dissecting the chest and abdomen of the deceased, also completed the examination and confirmed that the stomach of the deceased was empty and he had not eaten for at least six hours.All internal organs are normal, there is no fatal injury, and there is no sign of asphyxia.All clues now point to the dead man's head.

The head of the deceased was the most severely burned part, and the bones were already somewhat brittle.However, this is convenient for our anatomical examination, and the craniotomy saw easily opened the skull.But the dura mater and the surface of the brain were not hemorrhaged or damaged.

"I'm going, it won't be the death of illness?" Dabao was a little surprised, and opened the cerebellar tentorium [Note: The cerebellar tentorium, formed by the dura mater, is placed above the posterior fossa in the shape of a tent, separating the ends. The connective tissue between the brain and the cerebellum], the joint of the big and small brains was taken out.

"The injury is here!" I saw that the base of the deceased's skull was fractured and there was bleeding under the brain, so I immediately relaxed.It seems that the cause of death of the deceased has been clarified.

I put the dead man's brain on the dissecting table and washed it carefully with clean water.The brainstem of the deceased had subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the brainstem also had definite damage.

"The deceased died of primary brainstem injury," I said. "The brainstem manages the human respiratory and circulatory center. An injury here will lead to immediate death."

"But the brainstem is located in the deep layer of the brain, and it is very rare for trauma to cause primary brainstem damage," Dabao said.

I had the same doubts as Dabao, so I picked up the hemostat and removed the dura mater at the base of the deceased's skull, exposing his skull base fracture [Note: skull base fracture, fracture of the skull plate at the bottom of the skull].

"This skull base fracture is really rare." I said, "A fracture line crosses the left and right sides of the skull base along the petrous part of the temporal bone, and there is a circle of fracture around the foramen magnum. I have never seen such a fracture line before." Pass."

"Oh, it's not just the fracture line." Dabao moved the deceased's head and said, "Look, after I moved the deceased's head, I can see the fracture around the foramen magnum more clearly, right? fracture. The foramen magnum has been separated from the skull, and the skull around the foramen magnum is still connected to the spine, but the skull above has been detached."

"This... No matter how hard you beat me, it can't be done." I hoped that this wasn't a homicide.

Several people present were thinking about the formation mechanism of this strange fracture, but they couldn't find a clue.

After thinking for a while, I couldn't think of a clue, so I decided to change my mind.

I used a scalpel to cut open the skin of the deceased's shoulder joint, and then separated the muscles of the deceased's right upper arm one by one according to the direction of the muscles, finally exposing the bony structure of the deceased's shoulder joint.

When we were carrying the corpse, we saw a false joint formed on the right upper limb of the deceased.Sure enough, the upper part of the deceased's humerus was completely severed, and the broken ends formed an angle.Not only that, but the broken humeral head was also detached from the shoulder joint.I moved the dead man's humerus and determined that the dead man's shoulder joint was completely dislocated.Because the humeral head is dislocated downward, it means that the deceased's right shoulder joint received a violent downward force.This kind of force not only instantly dislocated the shoulder joint of the deceased, but even caused the hard humerus to break due to the huge force.

After seeing the fracture of the shoulder joint, I looked at the fracture of the skull base of the deceased, and said, "Such violence cannot be formed by human power."

Forensic medicine often evaluates a certain kind of damage, which is described as "non-human can be formed".Such a description will mostly make it clear that the nature of the case is not a homicide.There are many hard bones in the human body. No matter what tool is used to beat, it is difficult to form a fracture under the condition of a single force. Such injuries are more common in high falls and traffic accidents.If the forensic doctor judges that this kind of injury can be caused by non-manpower, the subtext is that this is an accident.

"It's really a traffic accident." Dabao grinned, probably because he regretted expressing his opinion easily at the scene.

Is it a traffic accident?In fact, my heart is also beating drums.

After all, it is on the highway, and the speed of the vehicle is very fast. Although the high-speed vehicle can cause serious damage, the human body will also be given a certain initial speed after the injury, so when it falls on the road again, it will definitely form a lot of friction. hurt.Although the deceased's right hand was scorched and it was hard to see whether there was any scratches, at least other parts were not scratched, which was completely inconsistent with the damage caused by the traffic accident.

Thinking of this, I looked at the fracture of the skull base of the deceased again.I pulled the deceased's head upwards vigorously, and found that when I pulled upwards to the left, the fracture line at the base of the skull would become wider; and then restore the head of the deceased, and the fracture line at the base of the skull would also recover.

"No." I muttered while thinking.

"What's wrong?" Lin Tao asked.

I said: "Look, when the deceased's head stretches upward to the left, the fracture line will widen, which means that the force causing the skull base fracture should be pulled from the lower right to the upper left of the deceased's head. And we just now The dislocation of the shoulder joint of the deceased is downward. So, what kind of impact force can cause the head of the deceased to extend upward to the left and at the same time, the right shoulder joint to extend downward? And, how big will it be? Strength? The shoulder joint has been completely dislocated, so the strength should be relieved, but such a hard bone as the humerus is still broken."

"Two completely opposite directions?" Lin Tao rolled his eyes and thought.

I also thought about it and couldn't figure out how to bear the force to form such damage.At this time, my eyes focused on the fracture line that traversed the skull base of the deceased.

"Linear fracture, the direction of the fracture line is the direction of the force." I pondered for a while, suddenly my eyes lit up, and I said to Dabao: "Dabao, you used to be from Qingxiang, so you must be very familiar with the local hospital." ?”

Dabao nodded with a confused face, and said, "I'm familiar with it, very familiar."

"Then can you go to the otolaryngology department?" I asked expectantly.

3.
"Hey, hey, how can you do this! I have to pay it back!" Before he put on the dissection suit, Dabao rushed to grab me.

"Okay, it's too late, it's important to handle the case!" I smiled and pushed Dabao's hand away.

The reason I asked Dabao to go to the otolaryngology department of the hospital was to borrow a simple ear endoscope.This little thing is not expensive, but forensic doctors usually don't have it.Even if a digital pentagon mirror is equipped in forensic clinical science, forensic doctors are reluctant to use it on corpses.Therefore, this kind of simple otoscope can only be borrowed by going to the hospital.When I was in Longfan, I would often go to Sister Ling [Note: Sister Ling, the nickname of Qin Ming’s wife] who was engaged in hearing aid testing and equipment, but in Qingxiang, I could only count on Dabao.

When Dabao went to borrow the otoscope, Lin Tao was in the pathology room next door, using a solid microscope to observe the thing he brought back from the scene.In my opinion, this piece of object is a piece of scrap iron that fell off from nowhere.This kind of thing should be often seen on the side of the highway, and generally does not attract our attention.

But Lin Tao saw a trick. He asked me to sit in front of the microscope, slowly moved the iron piece on the stage, and said, "Look at this iron piece, it has an interesting feature."

"Isn't it just iron?" I said looking at the iron textures that filled my field of vision.

"Look at the edge." Lin Tao said, "This is a triangular piece of iron. One side of it is obviously polished by a machine tool, and the texture is very neat. But the other two sides are not so neat, as if from a whole object. The top cracked and fell off."

"And then?" I don't think this feature makes much sense.

Lin Tao said: "I think even if there is a car accident, it is impossible to break the two-millimeter-thick iron? It must be formed with a lot of force. I just think what you said just now is not formed by manpower, and this iron There is one thing in common."

I rolled my eyes, stood up suddenly, and said, "This discovery is too important! I started out purely as a hypothesis, but now I have some basis! Whether my hypothesis can be established or not depends on Dabao!"

After Dabao took back a simple otoscope, I couldn't wait to take it.When Dabao was wondering how I could take the otoscope without taking off the gloves, I had already inserted the otoscope into the right external auditory canal of the corpse.It is also because of this that the above scene occurred.

"There is so much blood in the external auditory canal of this corpse. If you insert it, can it still be used by living people? How can I return it to others?" Dabao said helplessly.

Different from the digital pentoscope, the simple otoscope is a funnel-shaped device. The front and rear lenses can enlarge the image detected by the tip of the funnel. There is also a spotlight on the lens, which can clearly illuminate the situation in the dark external auditory canal.However, when using this kind of otoscope, the tip must be inserted into the patient's ear, and the doctor can only see the internal situation clearly with his eyes close to the lens on the other side.When dealing with living people, this kind of closeness is nothing.But when used on corpses, forensic doctors must ensure that they can see clearly on the one hand, and on the other hand must ensure that their foreheads will not touch the bloody corpse, which will be more difficult.

I bent down, pouted my buttocks, and kept changing my posture, and finally adjusted to the best posture, and I could clearly see the situation in the ear canal.I was overjoyed by this discovery, so I quickly took out the otoscope and took it to the left ear of the deceased to continue observing.It also took a long time to observe clearly the situation in the left ear canal.

"The hypothesis is really established." I said confidently.

"What hypothesis?" Dabao asked.

"Explosion." Lin Tao and I said at the same time.

"Look, the deceased's tympanic membranes were perforated on both sides. The right tympanic membrane was rolled inward, and the left tympanic membrane was rolled outward. This shows that shock waves were poured in from the deceased's right ear and transmitted from the left ear. Not only In this way, the huge shock wave shook the entire skull base of the deceased until it fractured transversely. Such a large shock wave can only be formed by an explosion, and an explosion that is very close to the explosion point."

"But..." Lin Tao wanted to interrupt me, but I waved my hand to stop him.

I went on to say: "Then let's look at the deceased's other injuries. The deceased's head and shoulder fractures were actually non-manually formed. So how can the head and shoulders be displaced quickly to form fractures? Only An explosion can form such a large shock wave in an instant."

"But didn't there be burns in the explosion?" After Dabao finished speaking, he felt that he had said something wrong. "Oh, the head, face and neck of the deceased happened to be burned, so it is impossible for us to notice whether there was burns."

"Yes, I think it was the explosives that ignited the nearby haystacks after killing the deceased, which caused the phenomenon we saw." I said, "Otherwise, who would burn only the upper body? The weeds are weak and the fire takes a long time."

"Explosion, no sound?" Chen Shiyu didn't say much all day, and asked at this time, "This incident should have been discovered by the driver soon after it happened, right? Then why didn't the driver hear the sound of the explosion? Is the driver suspected of committing the crime?" ?”

I shook my head and said, "In such an open environment like the highway, there is a lot of tire noise, and people are sitting in the soundproof cab, so the sound of the explosion may not be heard."

"But there is no trace of explosion at the scene, except for this piece of iron." Lin Tao said, "I was just a little skeptical at first, feeling that this kind of iron piece that was forcibly torn by violence was found on explosives. Now the autopsy should confirm it. However, there are still two doubts, the first is that there are no obvious craters on the ground at the scene, and the second is what kind of explosives can form the force of the dead head up and shoulders down?"

Lin Tao’s question really hit the point. I thought about it and said, “There is only one possibility. The explosive exploded on the right shoulder of the deceased. In this way, because the explosive is suspended in the air, there must be no pit on the ground. And it is also possible Form the force of the head upwards and the shoulders downward. Not only that, but in this case, the shock wave was closest to the right ear of the deceased, so the tympanic membranes of the left and right ears were pierced, and the skull base was fractured."

"Then why did the explosives explode on the dead man's shoulder?" Dabao said, "The grenade was thrown at this position? Isn't that too a coincidence? Or is it that the dead man was carrying an explosive bag?"

"There are both possibilities." I said, "Although the former possibility is very small, it is a coincidence. We must find evidence to rule out this possibility. If it is the latter possibility, then the case It was just an accident, and it was the deceased's own fault."

"No zuo no die [Note: no zuo no die, a buzzword on the Internet, meaning that if you don't die, you won't die]." Dabao shrugged his shoulders and said, "However, how do we judge and distinguish between these two possibilities? What about sex?"

I frowned and thought about it, and said, "I haven't figured it out yet, but if we can restore the shape of the explosive, I think it will be helpful to our deduction anyway."

"It's getting dark!" Dabao looked at the setting sun outside and said, "How can I find this kind of iron sheet on the side of the dark highway?"

Lin Tao smiled and said, "Old Lin has two treasures, a searchlight and a metal detector."

We're back on the scene again.Because it was night, it was more dangerous to park on the shoulder of the road, so we chose to detour from the county road to the village road, and then ran cross-country for a while, and came to the vicinity of the scene.Then we drilled through the guard net of the expressway and entered the lower slope of the expressway, the scene of the crime.

Along the way, Dabao complained that I was immoral, and directly scrapped the simple otoscope.I retorted that it was abolished, and that the Qingxiang City Bureau could continue to use it when it encounters similar cases in the future.Then I was scolded by several people in the car, saying that I was a crow's mouth, which must not be said.Dabao said that he seemed to be able to imagine the angry expression of the otolaryngologist.Everyone has said that it is easy to borrow and repay, and it is not difficult to borrow again. This makes him a big treasure, how will he behave in the future?I patted Dabao on the head in disdain and said, do you think the hospital is as poor as your police station?A gadget that costs 200 yuan, will people mind you?Dabao said that this is a matter of integrity in life, and has nothing to do with how much money is spent.Besides, the hospital has money, so we can't steal from the rich and give to the poor.

There was a lot of noise along the way, and I didn't feel how far the journey was or how bumpy the road was, so I came to the scene.At this time, it was completely dark, and we realized that things that cannot be seen during the day are easy to see at night.Under the strong light in Lin Tao's hand, those shiny metal objects will reflect light.If it is in the daytime, this kind of reflection will not be noticed at all, but at night, those metal objects hidden among the weeds will be obvious at a glance.

As soon as Lin Tao's strong light was turned on, we immediately saw a lot of reflectors, so we started to collect them like a little girl picking mushrooms.

In a short while, dozens of metal objects similar to the iron blocks that Lin Tao discovered before accumulated in our exploration box, which can be described as different shapes.

In order not to leave any fish that slipped through the net, we started working as "engineers" again.Several of us took turns to use metal detectors to detect the scene and the surrounding ground and weeds.This detector is really effective. Those hidden in the weeds, or relatively small similar metal objects, we found out more than a dozen pieces.

Before we knew it, we worked for three hours. We carried a basket full of "mushrooms" and felt a sense of accomplishment in our hearts.

Of course, I know that these three hours of work are just basic work, and more difficult tasks are still waiting for us.But I always think that my puzzle ability is not weak. To put it in a rough way, even people can put together, but can't they put together a metal object?

But soon, I found out that I overestimated myself.

Looks like it's going to be a sleepless night.

A few of us are sitting around a large table in the trace inspection laboratory of the Qingxiang Public Security Bureau, with a high-brightness LED light hanging above our heads. The edge contours are assembled and glued one by one, and finally take a look at what kind of explosive it is.

After struggling for more than an hour, although I still can't see any clues, I found that my role in this puzzle team is the smallest.In fact, the reason why I can put people together is because I understand the structure of the human body, skin texture, etc., which is the basis of "putting people together".But looking at a cold object, I seem to be helpless.

Lin Tao, on the other hand, was flexible in his hands and eyes. He looked at it with a microscope for a while, and a magnifying glass for a while, and quickly put together more than ten pieces.Chen Shiyu and Cheng Ziyan used 502 glue to glue the assembled parts, and the explosives appeared in front of us bit by bit.

The jigsaw work is to work faster and faster. At four o'clock in the morning, Lin Tao woke up Dabao and me who had already fallen asleep at the desk.The jigsaw work has been successfully completed.

After all, the projectile force of the explosion is relatively large, and there are many fragments that we have not been able to find. Therefore, there are many defective holes in the explosives that Lin Tao put together, but this does not affect our judgment on the types of explosives.

This explosive is really not small, about thirty centimeters long, and consists of two parts.One part is a hollow iron pipe with a square cross section, and the other part is a hollow iron pipe with a closed single opening and a circular cross section.The square tube is longer and the round tube is shorter.The diameter of the circular tube is seven or eight centimeters, and the inner wall is all carbon black.

The explosives were not light, weighing more than ten kilograms.

Lin Tao looked again and again, and said: "The round tube above was filled with gunpowder, and after the explosion, the inner wall became charcoal black. But the inner wall of the square tube below is clean, indicating that there is no gunpowder. What's more, the square tube below exploded. It’s not serious, the large metal objects we picked up are all part of the square tube. From this point of view, the square tube looks like a base, and the round tube looks like a gun chamber.”

"This is a self-made rocket launcher." Han Liang said slowly from the side.

"I'll go! It's true!" Dabao was very surprised.We occasionally encounter cases of homemade guns, but homemade rocket launchers are really unheard of.

But Han Liang is right, this shape is obviously a self-made rocket launcher.

"This guy is really interesting, what kind of bazooka is he playing?" Dabao said.

I made a shush gesture to silence him and leave my thoughts alone.After a while, I slapped my thigh and said, "I finally understand how his injury was formed! Look."

I carried the bazooka glued together with 502 glue on my right shoulder, and said, "Is this how bazookas are? If the chamber explodes at this time, the force of the shock wave will start from my right neck. Spread to the surroundings. Then, my head should be extended to the upper left, and the shoulder joint should be pressed downward. This is the formation mechanism of the deceased’s injury.”

"Such a big thing is definitely not formed by throwing explosives as we said before, just throwing them on the neck of the deceased to explode." Lin Tao said, "Then, this thing should belong to the deceased, and it should be It was an accident."

I nodded and said: "Besides, during the autopsy, I have been unable to solve a problem. The deceased's shoulder joint has been dislocated, and the strength will be relieved accordingly. Why is the humeral head still completely severed? Now this question Untied, if the deceased carried the rocket launcher on his shoulder, the upper arm on the right side must be raised horizontally. If it is raised horizontally, the humerus is horizontal, so when the downward force is applied to the shoulder joint, it will not only cause Dislocation will also cause the transverse humerus to break. If it is naturally drooping, it will not break. At the same time, when the bazooka is carried on the shoulder, not only the upper arm should be raised flat, but the right hand should be supported on the bazooka to fix the bazooka Therefore, the right hand of the deceased also had burn marks. However, the right hand and right forearm are in a free state, so when the shock wave exerts force, they will not break."

"This kind of damage just shows that the deceased was carrying the bazooka himself, rather than someone else intentionally doing it." Lin Tao said.

"In broad daylight, a person runs beside the highway carrying a bazooka, is he mentally ill?" Dabao said.

"I still have a question." Han Liang said, "This kind of homemade rocket launcher will definitely not have a trigger or something. It must be filled with gunpowder, put some bullets that can hurt people in front of the gunpowder, and then pass through the gunpowder. The fuse is used to ignite the gunpowder and launch the projectile. This is the basic setting. However, first, we did not find any projectile at the scene. It won't explode by accident."

"Han Liang is right, it must have been detonated by the fuse." Lin Tao pointed to a small hole in the middle of the rocket launcher and said, "Although a small part of the structure of the rocket launcher has not been found, there are some small holes, but this small round hole is so neat, it must be It was specially made with a drilling machine, and this small hole is the opening for the lead wire."

"It's the same as the ancient earth cannon." Dabao said.

"This kind of soil rocket launcher is easy to explode." Lin Tao said, "It is impossible to estimate whether the power of the shock wave will exceed the endurance of the inferior raw materials of the rocket launcher."

"Han Liang makes sense." Dabao said, "Now the whole process is basically clear, but these two mysteries have not been solved yet. Besides, what kind of bazooka did he go to the side of the highway to launch in broad daylight? The vehicles are driving so fast." Hurry up, it's impossible to hit it."

"Who says the mystery hasn't been solved?" I smiled and said, "He's test firing."

4.
The task force was full, and they were all listening to my explanation.Upon hearing that it was an explosion case, Team Chen called all the policemen who were on vacation and staying behind.We are a country that bans guns, and gun cases are extremely rare, let alone homemade rocket launcher explosions.In fact, I don't think it's that serious. After all, we have determined through various signs that the deceased was self-inflicted. He caused an accident and killed himself.

There was no filling projectile at the scene, and the deceased took the initiative to ignite the gunpowder. Coupled with the special environment of the scene, "test firing" can only be used to explain the behavior of the deceased.Obviously, the deceased made a rocket launcher and wanted to carry it to commit crimes.In order to be sure, he found a remote place and wanted to test-fire it to see the effect of the rocket launcher.But unexpectedly, the bazooka exploded the first time it was fired.

After listening to my well-founded words, everyone's tense bodies relaxed again.Although we will never know what the deceased wanted to do, but since it was an accident and a case of self-produced and self-sold products, everyone's pressure is much lighter.

"Then let me introduce the basic situation of the deceased." The sponsoring investigator said, "The deceased Joe gave birth, male, 50 years old, unemployed, illiterate. The identity of the deceased has been confirmed through DNA testing. When the deceased was there, he was arrested for burglary. Sentenced to three years in prison. Less than two years after he was released, he was sentenced to six years in prison for the crime of intentional injury. A few years after he was released again, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for robbery and rape. As of yesterday What happened, he was just released less than ten days after serving his sentence."

"I spent most of my life in prison." Dabao sighed, "This is a vicious person! Death is not a pity, death is not a pity!"

"Less than ten days?" I pondered.

"Because the deceased has no relatives, after he was released after serving his sentence, almost no one knew who he had contacted with." The lead investigator went on to introduce, "The city where he is located is about 720 kilometers away from the scene."

"We checked all the surveillance cameras, but found no whereabouts of the deceased. We checked the airport, bus station and train station, and found no clues." Cheng Ziyan said, "It's so far away, and we can't come here. I don't know how he came here." of."

"I'm afraid all of this will become a mystery." Chen Detachment said, "There is no proof of death, and I don't know where he wants to go, and what he wants to do?"

"He has an accomplice!" I said.

"No way?" said a trace inspector of the Qingxiang Public Security Bureau, "We surveyed the ground at the scene. Although the conditions were not good, we still found a few footprints of the deceased. Apart from this, there was no trace of anyone else. footprints."

"Since there are conditions on the ground where footprints can be left, if there is an accomplice, the probability of not leaving footprints is very small." Lin Tao said.

"The accomplice may not be with him." I said, "Think about it, is an illiterate capable of making this kind of weapon? Do you know?"

"Could it be learned in prison?" Someone asked.

I said: "Even if he learned it in prison, he doesn't even have any relatives after he comes out. Where can he find machine tools to make bazookas? Where can he find gunpowder? Moreover, he has traveled more than 700 kilometers in ten days. How did you do it?"

"As long as there are accomplices, even if their crimes stop, we still have to dig to the bottom." Detachment Chen obviously agreed with my point of view, saying, "We must not leave such a huge social security risk at large."

"It's just that it's hard to check." Chen Shiyu said.

I thought for a while, then turned to Cheng Ziyan and said, "If the deceased was driving a motorcycle, would it be possible to escape the video surveillance?"

"It's entirely possible." Cheng Ziyan said, "There was no surveillance on the way you went to re-survey the site last night."

"That's it." I said, "First, during the autopsy, I found frostbite on the joints of the deceased's hands, and he was wearing very thick clothes. In this weather, wearing such thick clothes, there are also frostbite, the biggest It may be that the deceased rode a motorbike and traveled long distances. Second, since the deceased came to test the rocket launcher, he did not install marbles because there was no target, indicating that he had other gunpowder and marbles that had not yet been used. And the deceased I have nothing else on me except some money, so there should be a place to store these spare gunpowder and marbles."

"Is that because the accomplices rode away after discovering the accident?" Chen Detachment said, "Should we deploy personnel to conduct a thorough investigation of all motorcycles in the surrounding area?"

I nodded and said: "A thorough investigation is definitely needed. However, I always feel that his accomplices should not be by his side. Lin Tao just said that there were no other people's footprints at the scene. In addition, if two people rode together If there is a motorcycle, where will he put these sundries? The space is not allowed."

"It makes sense." Team Chen said, "That is to say, his accomplice may ride a car with him, or his accomplice may not be traveling with him."

"In either case, the deceased's motorcycle should not have been ridden near the scene." I said.

"It seems that the search is going to be expanded at the scene." Detachment Chen said, "However, our investigators have been visiting and investigating around the scene for the past few days, and no suspicious motorcycles have been found. Is it more likely that his accomplice did not go with him? Bigger?"

I nodded and said, "I agree. During the autopsy, we found that there were more than 1000 yuan in brand-new banknotes in the padded vest pocket of the deceased. Since the deceased had just been released from prison and had no relatives, where did the money come from?" If his accomplice is with him, is it necessary to give him so much money to live? Wouldn't it be better to spend it on yourself?"

"It's not too late, let's seize the time to expand the search around the scene!" Detachment Chen said, "You stayed up all night, go back and rest quickly."

Several of us shook our heads at the same time and said, "No, on-site search is our responsibility, and we don't feel relieved if we don't find the motorcycle involved."

Several police cars returned to the scene for the third time. In addition to the previous police officers investigating the scene, this time there was an extra Springer Spaniel.

"Why is it again?" Dabao squatted next to Springer again, and began to play with its ears.

"It's not the dog you mentioned. Although it looks similar, this one is a bomb-seeking dog." The trainer said with a smile, "The one last time had a good temper, but this one is not so kind."

After Dabao raised his head and listened to the trainer's words, he looked down and saw that this Springer was staring at Dabao with its teeth bared, so scared that Dabao staggered and almost sat on the ground.

"Good idea." I said, "Since the deceased must have carried a spare gunpowder, it is indeed more effective to find a bomb dog to find it!"

In fact, with a bomb dog, it is more than half the effort.Little Springer was really sensitive to the smell of gunpowder.It took us straight for a kilometer. In an extremely hidden high-speed culvert, Springer sat down and looked back at its trainer.

The reason why police dogs are trained to develop this habit is because sometimes explosives are voice-activated, and if the police dog barks, the explosives will be detonated.It is the safest way to search for explosives in such a silent way.

Next to Springer was an old motorcycle.

"If that's the case, I really came here on a motorcycle!" Dabao was very excited, and ran to the motorcycle first, "Okay, I don't dare to be a 'humanoid police dog', I am not their opponent at all! I'm not as good as a dog."

"Don't move! Don't go!" I yelled and stopped Dabao from approaching the motorcycle.

This is a relatively old and large motorcycle. There are bedding piled up on the rear seat and the luggage rack, and they are tied with marching belts.There was obviously something caught in the middle of the quilt.Since the quilts occupied the back seat and the luggage rack, firstly, it meant that the deceased had really come here from other provinces, and secondly, his accomplice did not travel with him.

Some wires can be vaguely seen around the motorcycle, which are artificially connected externally, not something that a motorcycle should have.This raised my alarm.

"Notify the comrades in the special police department to take a look." I said, "I'm afraid this car may be dangerous."

More than 20 years ago, when an investigation team from a public security bureau in a certain place was investigating an explosive storehouse in a mining factory, it may have touched the explosive mechanism set up by criminals in advance, causing the explosive storehouse to explode. All seven policemen in the survey team died heroically. Not even the bones were to be found.

When I was in school, the teacher repeatedly emphasized this case to us, asking us to pay attention to self-protection when we went out to investigate the scene.So when I went out to investigate the scene of the explosion, I was extra careful, even a little scared.

But this time I was right to be cautious.We hid a few hundred meters away and watched the police in the EOD department work for more than an hour in heavy EOD suits. The final conclusion we came to was: this motorcycle had been converted into a car bomb.Next to the fuel tank of the motorcycle hung two bags containing black powder and a self-made detonator connected to the motorcycle's electrical system and controlled by an inconspicuous switch.If that switch is touched, the consequences will be disastrous.

"I am even more convinced that he has an accomplice." I said, "He is illiterate, so the jobs he did in the prison before were manual labor. It is absolutely impossible to know how to modify the electrical system of a motorcycle."

"An accomplice with money, equipment, and professional skills is terrifying." Team Chen said, "This is a serious social hidden danger."

"Without further ado, don't we have a working group working in Beihe Province?" I said, "Let them cooperate with the local police to find out the inmate who was with Qiao Sheng and was released earlier than Qiao Sheng. This person should He has his own factory building and equipment, and knows how to transform circuits. As long as he meets this condition, he will be controlled immediately, no matter what he pretends to be! Qiao Sheng has no relatives, and after he is released from prison, he can only find his inmates for his life!"

"This..." Chen Detachment said, "Qiao doesn't have any means of communication. If we don't have evidence, how can we identify criminal suspects? And what excuses do we use to control people?"

"Here, this is the crime tool I put together." Lin Tao handed the bazooka to Detachment Chen, and said, "It's very simple, compare this crime tool with the waste from the suspect's factory, as long as the shape is the same, he can't deny."

When the police surrounded Duan Chao's factory, Duan Chao was still planning his third round of attacks.

Duan Chao can be regarded as a rich second generation. The hard work of two generations of his ancestors left him a factory worth tens of millions.Duan Chao is a cowardly person, but in a drunken dispute, he unintentionally pushed someone, and the person fell to the ground and died of brain injury.Duan Chao was also sentenced to four years in prison for negligent death.

The cowardly Duan Chao was bullied in prison. Only Qiao gave him some comfort during childbirth, so the two became close friends in prison.

After serving his sentence and being released, Duan Chao found out that his wife had remarried to Longfan.Although the factory is still maintained by the old loyal ministers, it is already crumbling.Dissatisfaction with life and society finally formed a flame of anger in Duan Chao's heart.Duan Chao imposed this hatred on his ex-wife and began to plan revenge against her.

Although he has the skills of making explosives and modifying circuits, he dare not ask Duan Chao to take revenge by himself. The only thing he can rely on is his former inmates.In his opinion, they are crazy people, and they are more suitable to take the lead than him, a literati.

In the first round of retaliation, Duan Chao entrusted an inmate, but after the inmate took the money, he discarded the explosives and ran away.Duan Chao waited and waited, but he couldn't wait for the news that his ex-wife was killed, but he waited for Qiao, who had just been released from prison, to give birth.

After Qiao Sheng received 2000 yuan from Duan Chao, Qiao Sheng regarded Duan Chao as his reborn parent.Especially after Duan Chao's promise was fulfilled, he asked Qiao Sheng to eat delicious and spicy food every day, and Qiao Sheng would help Duan Chao wholeheartedly.

In fact, Qiao Sheng didn't know that the current 2000 yuan is a completely different concept from the 30 yuan 2000 years ago.

Duan Chao is very confident in the equipment provided for Joe, but Duan Chao is not so assured of Qiao's personality.After all, he wondered whether the friends he made in prison were reliable or not.Especially when something happened before.

To be on the safe side, Duan Chao began to plan the third round of revenge.The project Duan Chao is researching this time is a time bomb.The production of the bomb is nearing completion, what is missing is a scapegoat who is willing to work hard for Duan Chao.

"If he continues to take revenge like this, sooner or later something big will happen." Chen Detachment was in a cold sweat and said, "Director Zhao from Longpan is my classmate. When you go back, you must give me a message. This time, I Chen Qi saved Zhao Qiguo from a catastrophe, and he owes me a big drink!"

Many people say that the police have a "quack spirit".I don't think Jianghu is a derogatory term. Where there are people, there are Jianghu.Public security is a profession that requires close cooperation and cooperation, and it is also the most dangerous profession in peaceful times. It is inevitable that we will cherish each other.And this kind of sympathy is the so-called quack spirit.

"I just think about big wine." I said with a smile, "You have protected people's lives and property. Don't you feel a sense of accomplishment now?"

"That's, that's, it's really an accidental discovery this time!" Team Chen said.

"It can't be regarded as an accident." I suddenly felt a sense of justice, and said, "With the assistance of science, the French Open has been restored, and those with evil intentions have no chance of getting lucky."

I really felt relieved when I got out of the case.Before he had time to sleep in the car, he thought that Chen Shiyu's performance in the past two days was a bit abnormal.

"Little Feather, something's wrong with you these two days." Sitting in the middle row, I tentatively asked Chen Shiyu, who was hiding in the back row.

Because Chen Shiyu used to be the only woman in our survey team, Chen Shiyu sat in the co-pilot's seat every time he went out to the survey site.But these two days, Chen Shiyu offered to sit in the last row with Cheng Ziyan.Although it was a trivial matter, it also reflected Chen Shiyu's abnormality in the past two days.

Chen Shiyu is a straightforward girl, and she doesn't shy away from my questions.

She took out her mobile phone, swipe on the screen for a while, threw the phone to me, and said, "Look for yourself."

I picked up the phone suspiciously.What was displayed on the screen was a WeChat public account. I have heard of this account before, and it is said that it is dedicated to breaking the news of local gossip.Facing him was a chicken soup article berating a scumbag man. It looked like he didn't know what the spiritual core was.The article didn't get many likes, but a comment below was followed by netizens, and the number of likes ranked first.

The comment begins with this:

Policeman Han Liang: Having many girlfriends is not a problem; abortion and miscarriage are not my business.

This comment made me almost jump out of the car.I know Han Liang. Although he has changed a lot of girlfriends, it is absolutely impossible for the hot comments to be so exaggerated. I still believe in Han Liang's character.In fact, this hot review is just a headline party, and the content that follows is not so explosive.It probably means that Han Liang talked about a girlfriend, and the girlfriend was pregnant. Han Liang didn't care about it, but the girlfriend was too sad, and then had a miscarriage.Even so, Han Liang still ignored her.If this was posted on an emotional forum, it wouldn’t be considered big news. This kind of gossip abounds, but this comment was written sincerely and was extremely provocative. In addition, Han Liang’s status as a policeman, so the number of likes It far surpassed other comments and was pushed to the top of the comment area.

Han Liang was driving, and he was almost fatigued. Although I knew that the sensitive Han Liang must be listening to what was going on in the back row, I still held my breath and didn't tell him in the car.

It wasn't until Han Liang drove the car into the garage of the Public Security Bureau and pulled the handbrake that I handed the phone to Han Liang and said, "Explain."

Han Liang took the phone, glanced at it hastily, and said with a gloomy brow, "There is nothing to explain."

"Is it true?" I asked.

"Forget it." Han Liang thought for a while and said.

"Let me tell you, scumbag." Chen Shiyu jumped out of the car angrily.

"If it's true, it's a question of your style of work." I said, "Although what you want and what I want is not a crime, but you are a policeman. If you do this, you violate the discipline regulations."

"If you think it's necessary, let the inspector check it out." Han Liang said coldly after locking the car door.

Han Liang is a very good-tempered person, and he has hardly ever seen him get angry and awkward, but this sentence obviously carries strong emotions, and it is aimed at me.

I was also a little annoyed, and was about to argue with him. Lin Tao grabbed me and said, "Old Qin, don't worry, I believe Han Liang must have something to hide. He is not such a person. If you force him to speak at this time, he will not He took the initiative to tell the reason. Don't worry, wait, when he is willing to talk, things might be reversed."

(End of this chapter)