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Chapter 525: Centennial Stone Carvings
Under normal circumstances, the corpse is in the natural environment and will be rapidly decomposed under the combined action of hydrolytic enzymes in its own cells, external bacteria, and bacteria in the intestines.

In a relatively short period of time, the flesh and skin will rot, decompose and be consumed, and eventually only a skeleton will remain.

However, under extreme natural environmental conditions, mummified corpses and frozen corpses may also form.

Mummies formed under natural conditions have very high environmental requirements.

Usually in desert areas with high temperature, dryness and good ventilation, mummies will form under natural conditions. Most of the mummies found in China are in places such as Lop Nur.

Frozen corpses will form in extremely cold high-altitude areas. For example, the corpses of climbers who failed to climb Mount Everest and died remained permanently on Mount Everest.

Haizhou City faces the sea, the air humidity is relatively high, and the temperature is not very hot. It does not meet the conditions of high temperature and drought, so mummies will not form under normal circumstances.

Current survey laboratory.

Lu Chuan is studying the reasons for the formation of mummies.

Compared with the action team who focused on the supplier of stone statues for clues and targets, Lu Chuan pursued the reason why the corpse became a mummy.

First of all, the purpose is very clear. The murderer hid the body in the stone statue just to hide the body.

As for why the other party mummified the body by some means and then hid it in the stone statue, Lu Chuan guessed that it was to prevent the body from rotting, causing a smell and making it easier for people to find it.

If you figure out how and where the corpse became mummified, you will most likely be able to find the source of the corpse.

Over in the autopsy room, Lu Chuan had already conducted a very detailed examination of the corpse when collecting fingerprints from the corpse.

Combined with the inspections conducted in the camping area, Lu Chuan basically ruled out the possibility that the corpse had naturally transformed into a mummy in the desert environment.

The reason for the exclusion is simple: there is no gravel left on the body.

Although there were no clothes on the body, there were many wrinkles on the surface of the dried body.

If the corpse was a wrinkle that was naturally dried in the desert, there would definitely be a small amount of gravel left in it, and it would be difficult for the murderer to clean it up.

Thinking about it from another angle, if the body was dried in the desert, there is no need for the murderer to dig it out and seal it inside the stone statue.

After all, compared to the inaccessible desert, the probability of being discovered sealed in a stone statue may be higher.

Lu Chuan checked some large-scale drying equipment on the Internet and found that drying equipment can actually be used in all walks of life, but in comparison, grain drying uses relatively more.

"Could it be a corn dryer?"

In the stone statue, Lu Chuan once found a corn kernel, which has been sent to the relevant testing unit for testing.

But the results won't be available until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

Murder cases are very important to the police and time is very tight, but for other units, testing corn kernels is testing corn kernels.

Moreover, when I got the corn back tonight, it was already after get off work time, and the test could only be done until tomorrow morning, so the fastest I could get the results would be tomorrow morning.

Of course, the so-called time crunch is relative. After all, the body has been sealed inside the stone statue for a year or two. The deceased has been dead for such a long time, and there is no such thing as a 72-hour golden period for solving crimes.

Of course, Lu Chuan just made a guess as to whether it was a mummy dried in a corn dryer.

"Xiao Lu, let's take a rest. We'll work tomorrow."

After busy work in the evening, it is already midnight.

"Master, are there any results from the DNA comparison?"

Liu Guodong shook his head: "There is no DNA information of the deceased in the database, and there is no successful proportion."

Although the body has been dried, there are still some active substances inside the bone marrow, and DNA testing can still be performed.Unfortunately, there is no successful comparison information in the database.

"How are your fingerprints here?"

Speaking of this, Lu Chuan was also helpless.

"Although the corpse has been dried, the fingerprints have not been erased. It is more difficult to collect and compare. However, I have tried several methods and none of the matching targets in the database have been matched."

"Didn't the other party take their fingerprints?"

"There is a high probability that this is the case, or it is possible that the fingerprint is not in our library."

The fingerprint database of the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Detachment is only connected to the province, not the whole country.

Therefore, Lu Chuan is not sure that the other party's fingerprints have not been collected, but it must have not been collected in the entire province.

"Either the other party is a foreigner, or no fingerprints have been collected."

Fingerprint and DNA information identification, both paths failed to match, and there was no way to determine the identity of the deceased.

"How's the investigation going with the action team?"

Liu Guodong shook his head: "There is no big progress, but the supplier of the stone statues has been found. Zhang Hui and the others should be there early tomorrow morning."

Lao Bai on the side stretched out: "It's because I'm old and can't stay up late."

"Actually, I don't think there is a problem with the direction of the action team. The stone statue is so big and heavy, and it is unlikely that it was tampered with during transportation."

"The murderer should be the person who carved the stone statue."

Yang Sen disagreed: "I don't think it can be said so absolutely. Everything is possible."

"Forget it, I've finished my work here. Go get some sleep and call me tomorrow morning."

Lao Bai was too sleepy to argue with Yang Sen, so he yawned and went upstairs to sleep.

Lu Chuan and the other three packed up their things and went to rest.

Early the next morning.

Zhang Hui and others went straight to the stone processing park in Xishan.

Centennial stone carvings.

The person in charge was a lame middle-aged man who was carving stone statues in the yard when he suddenly saw two police cars entering the yard.

"Hello, I am a criminal police officer from the Criminal Investigation Detachment, Zhang Hui. Are you Zhao Shengli, the person in charge here?"

Zhao Shengli put down the hammer and chisel and nodded in confusion: "Ah, I am Zhao Shengli. This is the stone carving garden I opened. Comrade police...what can you do?"

Zhao Shengli has opened a stone carving garden here for more than 20 years. This is the first time that police have entered the yard.

Zhang Hui looked around. There were more than a dozen statues standing in the yard, as well as semi-finished stones.

"Hello, Master Zhao, we would like to ask you whether the stone sculpture in the camping area on the East China Sea two years ago was carved by you?"

By the East China Sea?
Camping area?
After hearing this, Zhao Shengli didn't recall it at all, and answered directly: "You are talking about the three-meter-high mermaid stone statue over there, right?"

Zhang Hui's eyes were sharp. Over the past two years, Zhao Shengli still remembered it so clearly?
what's the situation?
"Master Zhao has such a good memory. It has been so long, but he still remembers it so clearly?"

(End of this chapter)