chasing the dark

Chapter 106 Incomplete

The police car arrived under the viaduct, and as soon as it opened the door, a stench entered the nostrils.

"I was on duty last night, and I received a call to the police early in the morning saying that a head was found here. I immediately thought of the assisted investigation report a few days ago, and I called you while rushing over." Yang Qi pinched the cigarette in her hand, Said.

The police officer with him was Xiao Chen, and the two were squatting on the side of the road under the bridge to smoke with an old man in his sixties.

Seeing the people from the Municipal Bureau coming, Yang Qi hurriedly introduced the situation.

"This uncle's surname is Liu. He came here early in the morning to catch fish and insects. He stumbled over there and looked down. It was a human head." He pointed to the other side of the pond and said, "I just went to see it, and it was half buried in the pond. In the mud, it is estimated that it was poured out by the heavy rain last night."

"Let's go and have a look." Ye Zhanzhou tilted his head, "Jiang Yu, you and Zhao Lei will take notes for the uncle."

Uncle Liu was still in shock, his hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly.

"It's tiring to squat, let's talk in the car." Zhao Lei suggested.

Uncle Liu got up quickly, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and kicked it a few times with his feet.

Jiang Yu looked at the red turbid water surface and asked, "Master Liu, why is the water this color? Is it polluted?"

"That's fish and insects." Uncle Liu said as he walked, "It rained at night, and when the rain stopped in the morning, the fish and insects all floated up, and the water is like this."

When he got to the side of the car, he hesitated for a moment, rubbing his water boots on the ground vigorously.

Zhao Lei opened the door of the van: "Master, it's not that particular, so don't rub it."

Sitting in the car, Jiang Yu asked, "Are you catching fish and insects to feed them, or to sell them?"

"I raise fish at home, and I give the neighbors what I can't use." Uncle Liu quickly clarified, "It's a gift, not a sale."

"How much did you catch this morning?" Jiang Yu asked again.

"What are you fishing for? I was looking for a place with few aquatic plants. I just wandered in and almost tripped." Uncle Liu patted his chest, "I was so scared that I even threw the bucket away."

Ye Zhanzhou and the others followed Yang Qi and walked more than ten meters in, a head covered with mud and grass clippings appeared in sight.

This human head was originally packed in a black garbage bag, but now the bag is torn and half of it is exposed to the ground.

The condition of the part buried in the mud is temporarily unclear, but the skin and flesh on the exposed top of the head has been lost, and the skull is gray in the morning light.

The top of the head is bald, and the surrounding flesh has not completely fallen off, and there are even hairs left in some places, which is similar to the Mediterranean hairstyle of a middle-aged greasy man.

Because it is in a half-up position, from this angle, the two black holes in the eyes seem to be staring at the person coming, which is particularly terrifying.

Most importantly, this human head has been highly corrupted.Not to mention the flies buzzing around, those white maggots crawling around make people want to spit out the overnight meal.

"Damn, thanks for not having breakfast!" Ding Xuan endured the discomfort in his stomach and whispered, "This is not as good as the view of giants."

Ye Zhanzhou pinched the bridge of his nose: "Ask where Lao Shen is."

When they came out, they notified Shen Peiqi and the technical department, and it was time to arrive.

Ding Xuan crossed his hips on the phone, and was hung up by the other party without saying a word.

"Here we come!" He pointed to the direction under the bridge, where a car was coming.

After a while, Shen Peiqi got out of the car and walked this way quickly.

He was wearing a half-sleeved T-shirt and sweatpants, with stubble all over his face and messy hair, as if he had just crawled out of bed.

"Ye Zhanzhou, you bastard, this thing can't run on its own, why call me over in such a hurry?" Shen Peiqi scolded as she walked.

After finally going home last night to sleep soundly, I was woken up by the ringing of the phone before six o'clock.

"Isn't it because you are afraid that the sun will come out and melt you again?" Ye Zhanzhou hooked his shoulders, "Look carefully, is it cooked?"

"If you do this again, I'll boil you!" Shen Peiqi rolled her eyes and squatted in front of the head.

"It must have been cooked." After scolding, he quickly entered the working state when he arrived at the scene, "The head is the most difficult to cook. Even if you use a pressure cooker, you have to cook it for a long time to completely separate the flesh and blood. Go to Xiaogu The bureau has picked up the survey model box, and I can come over with Lao Wu and the others in a while."

Shen Peiqi came from home. Apart from a mask, she didn't even have a pair of rubber gloves. She couldn't just grab it with her hands and look at it, right?

Ten minutes later, Xiaogu arrived in a car from the technical department.

Old Wu frowned when he arrived at the scene: "Zhanzhou, I'm afraid we have to turn around here."

The boiled ones were packed in black garbage bags, which is consistent with the treatment method for the bones dug up by the auto repair shop.If there is no accident, the owner of this head is likely to be one of the three victims, and there is no guarantee that the other bones that have not been found will not be thrown here by the murderer.

Ye Zhanzhou had already thought about this problem. There was a heavy rain last night, and even if there were traces on the scene, they had to be washed away. He called Old Wu to help him investigate.

Thinking of flipping people's heads in this muddy field, Shi Hao, who had already had stomach ache, finally couldn't take it anymore, and ran down the bridge covering his mouth.

Li Ji chuckled: "It's okay, I didn't vomit directly."

The sand was soft, and taking advantage of this time, Shen Peiqi had already dug out the head bit by bit, muttering, "This head is incomplete, it doesn't have a jaw, so I have to look for it carefully."

Several parties agreed, and the next step is to study how to do this job.

Although the auto repair shop is overgrown with weeds, there is still a place to enjoy the shade.It's good here, there is no shade except grass.

The sun in the morning was not so poisonous, and it was so hot that I was sweating all over in a while.

This large piece of wasteland cannot be completed in a day or two, not to mention there is a pond.

Ding Xuan felt dizzy when he saw the pond, and muttered in a low voice: "I don't think I have to go to the water to salvage it?"

Suddenly thought of something, he asked loudly: "Brother Shen, will a human head float up if thrown into the water?"

"Not necessarily, it depends on the specific situation." Shen Peiqi lifted the head in the sealed bag, "like this, even if it is corrupt, it is unlikely to float up."

Seeing Ding Xuan's bitter face, Ye Zhanzhou snorted coldly: "If the murderer knew that throwing it into water would sink to the bottom, would he go to such great lengths to dig a hole and bury it?"

"That's right!" Ding Xuan twitched his thumb, "Brother Ye is the best, I never thought of that."

"If you don't find the other two heads, you still have to go down and fish them." Ye Zhanzhou directly poured a basin of cold water.

"Zhanzhou, do you think this is good?" Old Wu said, "Let Director Shen put the head back on, hurry up and do DNA comparison, we will stay and continue to search."

"Okay." Ye Zhanzhou nodded, "I'll report to Deputy Director Qiao, and call more people."

Qiao Mingshan was very forthright when he received the call, and immediately said that he would immediately dispatch manpower to assist in the on-site excavation.

The nature of this case is too bad, and he also hopes to solve it as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)