Chapter 17 2. Murder scene

A dreary morning.The sun shrank his neck and hid behind the dark clouds, and the bitter cold wind blew from Hudi, shrouding this northern city in gloom. The police car stopped under the Zhinong Bridge, and the forensic doctors, wearing white one-piece coats, had already set up battles on the bridge. Team Wang led Lao Cheng and me onto the bridge, and in front of him was a corpse covered in a man's coat.The hands and feet of the corpse were exposed, and there were bloodstains on the surrounding bridge deck. Wang Dui asked: "With so much blood, wouldn't it be frozen to death?"

Forensic doctor Lao Ding shook his head: "No. The cause of death is very strange." Wang Dui bent down and looked at the body: "There are bruises and abrasions on the body, and there are obvious tire friction marks around it...Has there been a traffic accident?" "Yes, a Yamaha motorcycle, 125, with a more advanced engine than the police model in our bureau. This woman was almost directly hit by that car, but the speed was not very fast at that time. The car's The rider also admitted that he hit the person." Lao Cheng said: "A traffic accident, let the traffic police brigade handle it, why did you come to the criminal police brigade?"

"Because the rider repeatedly stated that he just injured the person and would not die, and he kept saying that there was someone at the scene who could testify for him. Later, he was told by the person that there was a clinic in the distance, so he asked the person to watch at the scene , I searched for it by myself, but I couldn’t find it. I ran ten miles away to find a town, from there I found a hospital, and called an ambulance to come over, but when I arrived, the woman had died. The rider said the person who was at the scene We didn't find it. But I can tell you responsibly that the deceased was not killed. She died of asphyxiation."

Lao Cheng wondered: "Death from suffocation?!" Lao Ding said: "Yes, her lungs were not constricted, which can explain the cause of her death. But why she died of suffocation needs to be investigated by you. I can also tell you that there is no disease on the deceased, and the calf Muscular, maybe she has the habit of running, she is a strong person, the suffocation is not caused by disease." Wang Dui squatted down: "There's a lot of blood on the ground, what's going on?" "The hands and feet of the deceased were all cut, and I found glass shards from the wound. In addition, when the motorcycle collided with her, she had a few teeth knocked out, and there was a lot of blood in the mouth. She fell to the ground. The skin was worn out by the concrete floor at the time... One thing is very strange-her iris is completely enlarged, filling the entire pupil, the pupil will enlarge after death, but I have never seen one that is enlarged so much, it looks quite ugly Normal, almost like the eyes of... some kind of prehistoric monster."

Lao Cheng stared into the dead man's eyes: "It's really scary." I said, "I wonder what she saw before she died." "Poor woman." Dui Wang took me to find the motorcycle rider. He was squatting beside the ambulance, covering his head with his hands in a daze.A kind policeman put an overcoat on him, or he would have been so dazed that he would have been frozen. Lao Cheng came over and said in a low voice, "I did an alcohol test on this man. There was a small amount of alcohol in his body, but it was not too high, so it wouldn't cause confusion." Dui Wang nodded.

"May I ask you a few questions?" Captain Wang showed his ID. The biker nodded. Team Wang asked, "Name?" The man replied: "Wang Dong." "When did the accident happen?" The man said: "At about ten o'clock in the evening, I was delivering something to a friend. I came back late and passed the Zhinong Bridge. Just as I got on the bridge, the woman suddenly appeared in front of me. I really didn't expect that someone would come from the bridge so late." I was walking up, so the horn didn't sound, and the lights happened to be broken, so I bumped into her hard."

Team Wang asked, "When we collided with that woman, were there other people on the side of the road?" Wang Dong replied: "No...she came out suddenly, and suddenly appeared in the middle of the bridge, I swear!" Team Wang said: "Okay, please calm down. I believe that the direct cause of death is not you and your car. I want to know what the third person was like?" Wang Dong recalled: "That man? I don't have a deep impression of him. He is of medium height, with a scarf covering his face and wearing a long coat. It was too dark at the time, and I was anxious, so I didn't pay much attention to him."

"Is that person male or female?" Wang Dong thought for a while, and said in embarrassment: "Sorry, I really can't tell. The man's voice is hoarse, as if he has a cold, or he seems to be pretending deliberately. I'm sorry, I really can't tell. The man said at the time She's fine, still breathing, and I thought her life was not in danger, so I left... I really didn't have time to brake..." Wang Dong lost control of his emotions and became hysterical.Team Wang put away the notebook and patted him on the shoulder to express his comfort. When we came to a secluded place, Team Wang asked, "What do you think?"

I thought for a while and said, "The deceased was only wearing pajamas and didn't bring anything like a wallet. I guess she got out of bed in a hurry. It's just that it's a barren place. I don't know where she came from." Team Wang said: "Your observation skills have improved compared to before. The deceased was barefoot and was about to go to bed. The makeup on her face had not been removed. Maybe there was another companion who was resting with her, maybe a husband or a boy. Friend... she has scuff marks on her feet, proving that she has run a considerable distance."

Policemen from two nearby towns came to the scene, and Wang Dui asked them if there was any place to live nearby.The two shook their heads: "There are no villages or shops around here, only an abandoned factory can keep out the wind." "Team King!" Lao Ding shouted, "New discoveries!" When we came to him, Lao Ding was using tweezers to deal with the nails of the deceased. He said that he found a little white residue from the nails of the deceased, like candle oil. "Candle oil?" Team Wang asked the policemen in those two towns: "Did the power go out last night?"

The two men replied, "No." "Understood." Team Wang said, "Take us to that factory, she must have come from there." I didn't understand and asked, "Why?" He explained to me: "A person who wears such nice pajamas, she will not choose a house without electricity, she will only do that in the case of a temporary stay. Where can I find a house that does not even have electricity?" As for hotels, the only place where there is no electricity is in an abandoned factory building.” The abandoned factory is not hard to find. You can see blurred bloodstains under the thin frost on the road. The deceased must have been running in this direction after being cut by the glass, and walked several hundred meters along the bloodstains. In the distance, a wall made of adobe bricks appeared in front of him. "What kind of factory is this?" The captain frowned, "It feels like I'm back before liberation." A policeman replied: "It's an earthen workshop, which produces some small castings. Because the smoke pollution from it is relatively heavy, so I dare not set it up in a village or town, but chose this remote place. Later, it was forced to close down by the government." gone." Team Wang asked: "Is no one watching the factory now? No one guarding the equipment?" The man replied: "Everything that can be dismantled has been removed, even the wires and light bulbs have been taken away. There is no need for anyone to look at this broken place." "Really?" Wang Dui wrinkled his nose, "Why do I feel as if someone lives here. There is a faint... smell of cooking in the air." "Smell of stew? I smell it too." I said. Wang Dui froze suddenly, and then smiled wryly. "What's wrong with you?" I asked. "It's best to greet Lao Ding, I have a feeling that they will be used soon..." Suddenly, a policeman pointed to the front left: "There is a window smashed open!" We ran to the building, there was a lot of broken glass on the ground, and a door was ajar in front of us.When we walked in the door, it was dark because the sunlight could not penetrate. When we got used to it, a special scene appeared in front of us. This scene was too... Everyone present felt suffocated. A policeman covered his mouth and ran out suddenly, and the sound of him vomiting was heard outside the door. A few seconds later, Team Wang came back to his senses and said to me: "What did I say, Lao Ding and the others will definitely be busy today!"