Detective Files II

Chapter 98
His words were terrible, as if he had dropped a bomb, Tian Mi tensed up because of this, and Niu Fufu who followed behind with a panicked face took a few exaggerated steps back. His feet slipped and he fell to the ground. He supported the ground with one hand and rubbed his buttocks with the other hand, groaning.

Tian Mi turned her head to look at Niu Fufu, and made sure that he was fine except for the pain from the fall. After thinking about it, she said to him, "Otherwise, Village Chief Niu, you should go back first!"

Of course, Niu Fufu had to leave. For a farmer who had never seen a murder case in his life, if he accidentally caught a glimpse of some corpse, he might have nightmares for several months in a row.

"That's fine! Then I'll go back first!" Niu Fufu didn't say a word, got up from the ground, didn't care to wipe off the snow on his buttocks, walked two steps before realizing that his performance was not appropriate, and stood down again: "Can I help you two call that comrade policeman over here?"

"If the city bureau sends people over, let them come over!" Tian Mi thought about it for a while, Lu Xiangdong is not a person who catches wind and shadows, he said that he found something, and he probably never mistook something else for a corpse , so it is very necessary to call someone to come, but besides that, there is one more thing she must tell: "Major Niu, after you go back, please don't spread the situation here, so as not to cause unnecessary panic .”

"Hey! Hey! I got it!" Niu Fu nodded vigorously, for fear that his determination was not strong enough: "I won't tell anyone, not even my wife! Otherwise, just her little coward, I heard that you should scare her to death!"

"That's good, you go back!" Tian Mi nodded, no longer entangled with him, and quickly walked to Lu Xiangdong's side.

"Here." Lu Xiangdong took out a small flashlight from his pocket, pointed it at the ice and said to Tian Mi, "Look."

Tian Mi squatted down and looked over with the light of the flashlight, which was not bright but was helpful at last. Unlike other places where the ice surface was gray and black, the place where Lu Xiangdong pointed was very light in color and the area was not large. It seemed that something was frozen. On the other side of the ice shell.

"I passed by here just now and saw a dog's paw print on the river, but I didn't pay attention to it. Now it seems that the dog found something and tried to dig it out, but failed." Lu Xiangdong said as he sat down, He tried to put one foot on the ice, and after confirming that he could bear his own weight, he stood up cautiously, found a stone from the riverside, and smashed it hard on the ice, knocking the stone at that position in a few hits. The ice cracked.

Throwing down the temporary tool in his hand, he gently lifted the piece of ice along the crack.

After several efforts, the ice block was finally lifted, and a palm-sized ice hole appeared on the river surface. The sound of the water flowing below also came from the hole. From the sound of rushing water, it can be judged that the flow of this small river The depth is unknown, but the flow of the river is quite fast.

On the back of the lifted ice cube, there was something frozen on it, pale in color.

"Look, if you're not afraid." Lu Xiangdong took two steps forward with a heavy expression, and handed the things in his hand to Tian Mi.

Tian Mi took a closer look, her scalp felt numb for a moment, but she quickly calmed down.

It was a small piece of white bone, about two to three centimeters long, and there was still some flesh that had been soaked in the river water and completely lost its color, but it was already in a fragmented state, neither lumps nor strands.

"How could this happen?!" Tian Mi was a little surprised by the state of this bone: "It's winter now, and with the cold underwater, the meat should rot very, very slowly, right?"

"Have you forgotten what Village Chief Niu said before?" Lu Xiangdong reminded her: "In summer, children often come to the river to catch fish and loaches."

"Been eaten by fish?" Tian Mi is not an experienced senior criminal police officer after all. She seemed to be a little surprised by the carnivorous nature of the small fish in the river. She blinked her eyes and asked another question: "How long has Li Weiming disappeared since his disappearance?" In six days, if this bone belongs to him, is it possible that it will be eaten so badly in such a few days?"

"It's winter now, and the amount of food fish can get in the water is also greatly reduced. Once they encounter delicious food, what speed do you think it will be?" Lu Xiangdong has no doubts about this question, he is thinking about another point: " The question is whether the bone is human or not."

"By the way, why did you think of Heli?" Tian Mi looked at her watch, calculating the time in her mind, and estimated that the forensic doctor would be here soon.

"I just asked myself a question." Lu Xiangdong stepped up the river, because there was no place to store the bone, so he had to hold it with his gloved hand: "If I were a murderer, in this kind of If I killed a person in this environment and wanted to destroy the corpse, what method would I choose? The answer is simple. Since the frozen soil is difficult to dig, the best and most labor-saving way is to throw the corpse into the river and let the corpse rot in the water , was eaten by fish, and the bones were washed away by the current, leaving nothing behind. Now it seems that the river is frozen, as if it has been covered with a cover. To some extent, it is helping the people who abandoned the corpse. Bones, probably an accidental error."

The sky darkened a lot, and as the sun went down, the wind became colder. Tian Mi looked at the things in his hands, and she couldn't help but feel a little hairy in her heart. Even though she was a criminal policeman, as a newcomer , the first time facing the dismembered corpse, I couldn't help but run to the side and vomit again and again, I was already very promising.

Of course, thanks to the fact that it was winter, she avoided the possibility of seeing the rotting corpse, otherwise Tian Mi couldn't guarantee whether she would vomit it out.

"You're not a policeman, and you have a lot of doctors, why are you so calm?" She looked at Lu Xiangdong in disbelief, this man always had too many things that surprised her: "Facing this kind of thing, Aren't you afraid?"

"Why are you afraid?" Lu Xiangdong's mouth twitched, revealing an expression that could barely be regarded as a smile: "People who are afraid are nothing more than caring too much about themselves, so they look forward and backward, and are timid."

"It's too profound, I can't understand it." Tian Mi shrugged: "I only know that as long as there is a limit, don't harm the interests of others. It's not a bad thing for people to care more about themselves."

"It's the most ridiculous thing to be self-pitying when you're helpless." Lu Xiangdong scoffed at Tian Mi's words.

Tian Mi glared at him: "I don't think so! Only you are your most loyal ally in this world. If someone betrays you and you give up yourself because of it, that is the most unforgivable betrayal and the saddest thing. What about it!"

Lu Xiangdong stared at Tian Mi without saying a word.

He looked at Tian Mi a little uncomfortable: "Why are you looking at me?"

"I was thinking, I didn't expect a person like you with very few brain channels to be able to say such philosophical words. It's very surprising."

Tian Mi turned her face away, ignored him, looked in the direction she came from for a while, but didn't see any light or hear any sound, took out her mobile phone and called Mo Dou.

Mo Dou answered the call quickly, and told Tian Mi that Tian Yang had just arrived with the forensic doctor, and now he was going to join them by the river.

Hearing this news, Tian Mi felt more at ease. Although she had been standing in the snow for a long time, her feet felt pain like being cut by a knife, but when the forensic doctor came, whether what she and Lu Xiangdong found was related to the murder case , There will be a general idea, and the nervousness in my heart immediately replaces the attention to the foot pain.

Not long after, a few spots of light could be seen moving towards this side in the distance, and after a while, voices could already be faintly heard.

"We are here!" Tian Mi shouted to the few people who had already walked over, and waved, and then realized that it was completely dark, and took Lu Xiangdong's small flashlight and shook it.

The one walking in the front was Tian Yang, followed by Mo Dou. The people behind Mo Dou were wearing dark blue police uniform coats, hats, and tightly wrapped scarves. They couldn't see their faces clearly under the current light. But judging by the current emotions, it should be a forensic doctor.

"Huh? Where's Village Chief Niu?" Tian Mi looked behind and saw only three people, not the fourth.

"He was scared. He said it was our police who were doing the work, and he couldn't make trouble. He took us halfway and told us to walk along the path, and ran home by himself!" Mo Dou replied, and asked by the way: "Is there any Discover?"

Tian Mi nodded, pointing to Lu Xiangdong: "He has a small piece of bone with a bit of meat, I don't know if it is human."

"Let me see." The person standing at the back stepped forward and spoke in a crisp, pleasant voice. It was a woman.

"It's not Forensic Zhao?" Tian Mi was stunned for a moment. She knew that Forensic Zhao was basically responsible for the cases of the Serious Crime Squad. This time it was an exception, which surprised her.

"Ms. Zhao is in poor health and needs to recuperate, so it's not suitable to go out. I'll take his place!" The masked woman answered simply, walked up to Lu Xiangdong, took the white bone, and looked at it carefully by the light of the flashlight: " It’s a human skeleton, it should be a part of a finger.”

When she heard that the severed bone really belonged to a human being, Tian Mi's expression immediately turned serious, and she told Tian Yang what happened after she and Mo Dou arrived in Yunding Village.

After Tian Yang listened, he frowned and asked, "Are there any missing persons in Yunding Village? Or are there any migrants who have not been contacted for a long time?"

"I asked." Mo Dou shook his head: "Niu Fufu just went back and told me that Tian Mi and Dr. Lu found something left by the river, so I asked by the way. He said that there are few people in Yunding Village, except for a few households occasionally. Their children have passed the university entrance examination, and the rest of the family have been working in the village for several generations, and if anyone is missing, we already know."

(End of this chapter)