borrow face

Chapter 1 Wedges
At the junction of Beijing and Hebei, in a mountainous area, it is connected to a fork in the national highway.Suddenly, it rained heavily, and the group of people who were about to walk on the road had to hide in the car.Old Cui took out a box of Zhongnanhai and began to spit out clouds.Xiao Wu doesn't smoke, he is the only one in the whole team who doesn't smoke except the women.When he was in college, he was also the only one in the dormitory who didn't smoke.Xiao Wu is particularly afraid of others smoking in the car, especially when the air conditioner is on.But there is no way, it is very difficult for you to find male detectives who do not smoke in China.On the way here, Lao Cui smoked all the way. At that time, the windows could be opened for ventilation, but now it is windy and rainy, and a lot of rain can get in through a crack, so Xiao Wu has to close the windows tightly.When Lao Cui lit his second cigarette, Xiao Wu couldn't bear it any longer, and fled out of the car to transfer to the van of the technical team behind.But when he opened the door of the van, a puff of thicker smoke hit his face: the comrades in the technical group were smoking vigorously.

The rain was so heavy that there was not even a tree here that could shelter from the rain.There was no other way, so Xiao Wu had no choice but to go back to his car and open the window a little to get some air.

Old Cui glanced at Xiao Wu, and puffed out a puff of smoke: "It's okay, you open the window a little wider, there will be a bit of natural wind, and it will be very comfortable."

Xiao Wu couldn't help it: "Old Cui, you smoke too much, it's not good for your health." Cui Man replied indifferently: "If you don't smoke, you will die."

Xiao Wu said with a bitter face, "I'm still a Pianpian boy. If I smoke second-hand smoke with you every day, I'll lose at least ten years of my life."

"Oh, oh." Old Cui seemed to understand now, took a deep puff, and threw most of the cigarette out of the car window.

Xiao Wu is a rookie in the criminal police team and has just graduated from university this year.Xiao Wu wanted to be a man in military uniform since he was a child. He was tall and straight, dressed in military uniform, with a steel gun in his hand, so cool.It's a pity that he is still in the internship period, so the unit issued him a set of police uniforms without police ranks.The captain asked him to study with Lao Cui.The work and rest management of the criminal police team is not so strict. Xiao Wu is still in the internship period, so he has to show his performance and be the first one to arrive every day.

And Lao Cui is often the last one to appear, and when he appears, he either keeps his cigarette in his hand or his mouth.Old Cui looked like he was over 50 years old, hunchbacked, thin, and listless all day long.Xiao Wu doesn't like Lao Cui, he doesn't look like a policeman at all.Also, those who are still in the Criminal Police Force at this age are mostly leaders, and it is extremely rare for Lao Cui to have no position.I don't know how he messed up?

Although Lao Cui has no position in the team, Xiao Wu once noticed that Lao Cui had two bars and two stars when he was wearing formal attire, one star more than the squadron leader.

But police rank is also related to length of service.There are a lot of people in the police force, there are limited promotion channels, and there are not so many official positions, so sometimes we have to make a fuss about the police rank.Old Cui must be ten years older than the squadron leader. His police rank may be based on his seniority, Xiao Wu thought.

Also, the team seemed to treat Lao Cui particularly preferentially, and hardly assigned him any specific tasks. It seemed that Lao Cui could choose to participate in a certain case according to his personal preferences.After all, he is a newcomer, Xiao Wu can't figure out what old Cui is like, and he dare not be presumptuous. On the surface, he still respects Old Cui.

Everyone else in the team had something to do today, so the squadron leader arranged for Lao Cui and Xiao Wu to go to the police.The rain in late summer and early autumn comes and goes quickly.After the rain stopped, the group got out of the car and set off on foot.The one who led the way was an old man, a local, surnamed Li.It was the corpse that old man Li found, to be precise, it was the corpse that his dog discovered first.Yesterday evening, on the way home from herding sheep, old man Li's dog named Xiao Huang, which is considered a shepherd dog (actually it is a yellow skewer), ran to one place and did not leave.Old man Li went over and saw a corpse, naked.Old man Li didn't have a mobile phone, nor did he have a phone at home, so he didn't report the crime that day, and he went to the village committee office to report early the next morning.

After the local police station dispatched the police, the team asked Lao Cui and Xiao Wu to come.Since the forensic doctor was only free in the afternoon, they drove to Li Geda Village at the hottest time of noon.

Li Geda Village is a small village with a total of more than 100 households.Dozens of households gathered on the mountainside, and dozens of households were scattered on several nearby mountains. The road conditions connecting the various households were not very good.

The road conditions from the village to the scene of the crime were very poor, and there was no road for cars after driving for a long time, only a faint trail.The local farmers rarely come here, and usually only those who collect herbs or herd sheep will leave.

A group of people, and a Chinese pastoral shepherd dog Xiao Huang.Xiao Huang walked in the front, followed by old man Li the shepherd.Xiao Wu followed the old man Li, the shepherd, followed by Lao Cui and the police from the local police station. Three technical team members carried equipment and a village cadre walked in the end.

There was a heavy rain just now, and the mountain road was muddy.Most of the criminal policemen wore leather shoes, and it was especially heavy to walk after being stained with mud.

Xiao Wu saw that the old sheep-herding man walked easily on the mountain road. Although he could keep up, the leather shoes on his feet had begun to wear down.

Old Cui was panting heavily behind him, and Xiao Wu relieved himself: Who told you that you like to smoke, you know that your lungs are not good!

Once it clears up and the sun shines brightly, it will be exposed to the sun.This year the weather is hot and the high temperature lasts for a long time.Although the temperature in the mountains is a little lower than outside, there are no trees for shade, no wind to breathe, and it is extremely stuffy.It didn't take long for a group of people to walk, and their clothes were soaked.

After walking for an hour and 10 minutes, they arrived at the destination. They didn't care about the survey site, so a group of people first looked for a shaded place to rest.

Panting heavily, Lao Cui asked the police at the local police station: "Why is it so far away? Is this still the boundary of Beijing? We won't go to Hebei, right?"

The local policeman raised his head and looked around, and said, "There is still a distance from here to the border of Hebei, but it's not far away."

Old Cui cursed: "Bastard, why don't you throw things farther away." The doctor said: "We might as well move the corpse to Hebei, then call Zhuozhou 110 to call the police, and let them take over." They all laughed.

Jokes are jokes, work still has to be done.Drink some water, smoke a cigarette, can't rest for 10 minutes, and everyone starts working.

The place where the body was found was on the mountainside, surrounded by rocks, bushes and weeds, more than ten meters away from the path.Walking on the path, if there is no dog, the body will not be found.

Above the corpse is a hillside of about [-] degrees, and then a cliff close to [-] degrees. Above the cliff is a road, and occasionally cars pass by.

Old Cui asked the police: "Where does this road lead to?" The police didn't know much, so they asked the village cadres.

The village cadre said: "This road connects several nearby villages, and both ends can lead to Provincial Highway 320 and National Highway 108."

The corpse was lying on its back on a pile of rocks.Long hair, naked, male or female.As soon as the person approached, there was a bang, hundreds of flies suddenly appeared, and a strong smell of corpses rushed towards the face with the flies.The lying corpse was covered in bruises, with large blisters on the skin, and branch-like black-green lines on the body surface, especially on the limbs.Xiao Wu has studied forensic science and knows that this is caused by the decay of the human body after death.Putrid blisters and green webs of veins or the phenomenon of "rotten colossus" in autopsy terminology.The corpse with this sign has probably been dead for more than four or five days.Now that it's hot, the rot should be faster, maybe three days?Not sure.Xiao Wu's grades in the forensic science course were not very good, and hating corpses was one of the reasons for his poor grades.The lingering flies and stench made Xiao Wu feel sick to his stomach. He held his breath and stepped aside to help Wang Ke, who was in charge of trace identification, investigate the surrounding scene and collect clues.Wang Ke drew a range for Xiao Wu, and then searched for evidence clues separately.

Xiao Huang, a shepherd dog who was very excited to see the corpse, was driven aside by forensic doctor Zhao Zhuowen, who followed Xiao Wu, sniffing around with great interest.Xiao Wu thought: This is also material for a criminal police officer.

Because it is in the mountains, the ground is full of soil, stones, weeds, shrubs, small trees, and ditches, and it has rained, so it is very difficult to investigate.

After an hour and a half, Xiao Wu scanned the scope of his responsibility, but found no clues.Wang Ke also found nothing, and the two returned to the vicinity of the corpse to continue searching.

The corpse had been turned over, its face was ripped apart and messed up, and its true colors could not be seen at all.There seemed to be no eyeballs in the eye sockets, only two holes remained, and maggots wriggled between the skin and flesh.There are also a large number of flies and maggots gathered in the vagina, which is extremely disgusting.

Xiao Wu could only tell that this was a woman.Lao Cui was wearing a mask and gloves to help the forensic doctor. Xiao Wu thought that Lao Cui was better than him in this regard, and he was willing to be inferior, so it was better to stay away.Dong Bo, who was in charge of filming, asked Wang Ke to look for it on the slope above the corpse. When he climbed up to shoot the scene just now, he found that there seemed to be some abnormalities on the stones above the corpse.Wang Ke searched carefully following Dong Bo's instructions.Indeed, bloodstains were found one after another on several stones on the slope above the corpse.Following the direction pointed by Dong Bo, a little further away, Xiao Wu found a large piece of blood and suspected human tissue remnants on the rock at the bottom of the cliff close to [-] degrees, and the nearby shrubs and grass showed signs of compression and fracture.He hurriedly called the technicians over.

After Dong Bo took the photos, Wang Ke took samples.

The criminal police were busy for four hours before coming to an end. Forensic doctor Zhao Zhuowen presided over the meeting.Trace Wang Kexian said: Preliminary on-site investigation, no traces of fighting, carrying, or dragging have been found on the path down the hillside for the time being.Blood stains, human tissue, and falling impact marks were found under the cliff directly above the corpse. Residual tissues were found on the stones between the corpse and the impact marks.The place where the body was dumped should be on the road above, so the next step is to go up the mountain and on the road for investigation.

Xiao Wu asked: "Why did you throw the body? Could it be that someone pushed him down from the mountain and fell to his death? Or he committed suicide and jumped off by himself." Wang Ke said: "Have you ever seen someone commit suicide and take off his clothes? It’s not swimming at the beach. I’m not sure if I was pushed down and fell to my death. I have to wait for the autopsy. So I just said that I will probably come tomorrow to have a look at it. But according to my experience, naked corpses are generally After being killed in other places, he was transported to such a wilderness to throw his body."

Lao Cui said that he had asked the police and village cadres just now, and they said that they hadn't heard of any vicious incidents in nearby villages recently.The old shepherd said that this place is usually inaccessible, and he would pass by it every day, and he has not found any strangers in the past few days.

Forensic doctor Zhao Zhuowen said: Judging from the decay of the body, the time of death was about three or four days ago.According to his preliminary examination, there were many wounds on the body, including knife wounds, falls, animal bites, etc., and traces of drug injection were found on the body of the deceased.

The on-site inspection still can't confirm whether the body was thrown here after being killed elsewhere, or was kidnapped here and pushed off the cliff to death?The exact cause of death is unknown.

Due to the hot weather and rain, the corpses were severely decomposed, so they needed to be transported back quickly for detailed inspection.At the same time, the traces of relevant objects on the scene were photographed and sampled.

Finally, Zhao Zhuowen said: "Okay, let's go here. It's already 06:30, and the body has to be carried back. It's better to make a stretcher to carry it."

"Couldn't you call someone over tomorrow?" After a busy afternoon on a hot day, he was already very tired. Hearing that he had to move the corpse, of course some people were not happy about it.

Under normal circumstances, the forensic doctor will complete the work after taking photos and taking samples at the scene, and the funeral home will collect the corpse. "It's getting dark, and many parts can't be seen clearly. It's too hot, and the maggots grow fast, and a lot of tissue on the face, genitals, and wounds have been eaten away. After another night, I guess the face will be completely blurred." It’s gone. If another piece is eaten by a wolf or something, it will be difficult to identify it.”

"How can there be wolves in Beijing?" "Yes, yes, we have wolves here, as well as foxes and weasels." The village cadres corrected them ignorant of current affairs. "Even if there are no wolves, rats, crows, etc. will eat corpses. Well, don't say it's useless. Who told us it's our turn to call the police? This case seems to be a bit troublesome. I've asked the leader for instructions, and he ordered us to move the entire Go back. Let's do it." Zhao Zhuowen asked: "Let's pack up the corpse first, who wants a mask?"

Zhao Zhuowen moved the leader out, so what else can the minions have to say.After putting the body into a body bag and making a stretcher out of branches, the sky was already dark.

In the twilight, it took nearly two more hours to stagger the body from the scene to the police car.The village cadres wanted to take everyone home for dinner, but the criminal police refused in a panic. "Ah, I can finally get into my own car." Xiao Wu let out a long sigh of relief.The nostrils were still filled with the stench of corpses, at this moment Xiao Wu suddenly wanted to inhale Old Cui's second-hand smoke.But Old Cui was paralyzed on the passenger seat, and seemed to have lost even the strength to light a cigarette.The time displayed on the dashboard is 21:[-].Outside the car window, the sky is full of stars.

(End of this chapter)