Forensic mad wife protector

Chapter 148 Another Pentagram ([-]rd)

Eve unconsciously began to breathe through her mouth.

The smell was faint, but unmistakably sweet, a stench that foreshadowed rotting skin underneath.

However, it wasn't what she had expected, the nauseous smell she was familiar with, not the stench of rotting corpses, crawling with maggots and other carrion. The stench emanating from the viscera of insects is not the stench of a corpse that turns green after being soaked in water.

Each of the above stench is overwhelming, seeps into every pore of yours, gets into your nostrils and lungs, clings to your clothes and follows you home like the smell of smoke.Even after you shower, it's still in your hair, in your mouth, in your head.

The smell here is much softer, but still distinctly the smell of rotting flesh.

"The smell is not right," Qin Jinhui also noticed, and frowned, "Could it be a dead mouse or something like dried meat stored by the previous owner?"

Eve thought of Officer Liu's words, and the man's terrified expression, and shook her head, "Probably not."

Several people felt a little hairy in their hearts. Every time they walked down a step, they could feel the temperature drop a little bit and the humidity increase a little bit.I can even feel that the armrest under the palm feels sticky and cold.

Walking to the basement, there is a light bulb hanging above the head, casting a dim light.

Eve looked around.

The basement is only two meters high at most and covers an area of ​​about 100 square meters, but it is divided into several rooms around it, which should be the place where the previous owner lived on weekdays.

Every door that came into view was open.

Eve saw that one should be the kitchen, the other is the bathroom, and there is a plastic basin in it, and the other is not sure whether it is a storage room or a bedroom, and there are boxes piled up in it.

Officer Liu was waiting at the other end of the basement. In front of him was a boiler that looked like it was in the countryside decades ago.

The door behind him was different from the others. This door looked very old, thick solid wood with thick paint on it, and it had been yellowed and discolored for too long.

"What did you find?" Eve asked directly as she walked over.

Officer Liu's expression was very bad, "I don't know too well, there may be more than one corpse, or there may be less than one."

Eve frowned, what does this mean?
"Go in and have a look first." Officer Liu didn't say much, he pointed to the gap smashed by the plumber, "The entrance is here."

Eve looked into the dark cave, it was so dark that it was impossible to see what was underneath.

"How deep is the hole?"

"It's four or five meters deep. I don't know what it was used for. It's so deep."

Li Hao felt his hair stand on end, and unconsciously stretched out his hand to hold Qin Jinhui's hand, causing a cold light, "Let go!"

mean!

Li Hao cursed secretly, and went to hold Xiaofeng instead, anyway, he didn't want to die alone.

Eve nodded, let Xiaofeng help her lie down on the ground, and looked in through the hole with the flashlight, and then, she saw it.

On a round table was a skull without a mandible, its forehead looked abnormally mottled in the light of the flashlight, and there was something in the center of the head.

With Xiaofeng's help, Eve sat up on her hands and feet, brushed off the dust on her body, and said, "Li Hao, take a few photos first, and then remove these wooden boards. I'll go down and have a look."

Qin Jinhui looked at her, "Let me go, I don't know if there is anything in there."

Eve thought for a while, she couldn't move freely, and she could move faster if Qin Jinhui went down, so she nodded, "Okay then, you should put on the protective clothing first, preferably a gas mask, I don't know if there is one inside." poison gas."

Generally, in a sealed space, if there are corpses inside, poisonous gas will be released after decay, so it is better to be careful.

The few people didn't speak any more, only the shutter sound from Li Hao when he was taking pictures, and the creaking of the wooden boards under his feet when he walked around.In this silent basement, every sound seemed to be amplified many times.

After taking the photo, several people removed the board, and Qin Jinhui carefully walked down the steep stairs on the side. After about five or six minutes, he shouted to the top, "Xiaofu, you'd better come down and have a look yourself."

The voice was full of unprecedented seriousness and coldness.

As soon as Eve heard it, the situation might be much more serious than she could have imagined.

She quickly put on the protective clothing, put on the gas mask and walked down carefully. Qin Jinhui had already returned to the stairs and waited for her. Seeing her coming down, she quickly reached out to help her.

There was a solid ground underneath. With the light of the flashlight, Eve could see that she was in a space of six to seven square meters, and the surrounding walls and ceiling were reinforced with rough wooden pillars.The floor is covered with polyethylene plastic sheets.

Qin Jinhui pointed to her right side, and she slowly moved there. Through the light, she could see two iron pans, one large and one small, and a rusty saucepan.

"Look at that cauldron." Qin Jinhui said in a low voice, helping Eve to walk over.

The pot was iron, filled with earth, and had an eerie pentagram in the center.

In the center is an animal head. Judging from its shape and the teeth that Eve can distinguish, she guesses that it is the head of a small ruminant, possibly a goat. There are still a little dry tissue around the eye sockets, ears and nose.

On top of the animal heads are the human skulls that scared the plumbers out of their wits.The bones were smooth, without any flesh, and the top of the skull and forehead reflected a strange cold light, but an irregular spot on it affected the cold light.

It was a dark red blood spot formed after the blood coagulated.

On top of the human head was the small head of a bird, again with a bit of dry skin and muscle.

"The pattern of the pentagram," Qin Jinhui said in a deep voice, "Do you think it has something to do with the one on Ji Yuanchong's abdomen? Maybe this is the head we are looking for."

Eve had this feeling when she saw the pentagram pattern in the pot, but she couldn't say without the identification, "Maybe, I have to take this half of the skull back for identification. Compared with this , don't you think it's weird here?"

"Well, it looks like some kind of ceremony is being held."

As he spoke, Qin Jinhui turned the beam of the flashlight to the ground. The base of the iron pot looked like a section of rail, and on the rail was a partially rotten chicken with its head removed.

The smell is coming from the chicken.

Eve frowned, "The pattern of the pentagram symbolizes gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the five elements. The person who put this thing up may have read some spells in a book or on the Internet. They got one secretly and checked it when they got back. If there is any similar formation ceremony, maybe we can know the purpose of this person."

"Shouldn't Li Hao come in and take some photos first?"

"It's too dark here. Officer Liu arranged for someone to pull the wires and install a light bulb. You need to check the surroundings carefully."

"Okay, I'll go right now."

After Qin Jinhui left, Eve turned the beam of the flashlight to the left on the stew pot. There was a hemispherical object inside. She leaned over and took a closer look.

It was a turtle shell!
Eve straightened up, took a step across, and came to the smaller pot.It was also filled with soil, and three long iron nails and two strings of sandalwood beads were placed on the surface.A knife was inserted in the center of the soil in the pot, and the blade was completely submerged in the soil.

A red string was wrapped around the outside of the pot, just a little below the edge of the pot, a machete rested on the left side of the pot, and a blackboard was a little bit on the right.

She walked to the blackboard and squatted down. There were oracle bone symbols drawn with chalk on the blackboard, which she didn't recognize.

The next object is two dolls, one is wearing yellow clothes and the other is wearing blue clothes. It can be vaguely seen that they are a man and a woman. The male one has a needle in his heart. If you look closely, it should be Just an ordinary embroidery needle.

In the whole cellar, there are almost these things.

That person's head was not the fake one used for teaching, but a genuine human skull, and the chicken hadn't been dead for long.

Eve didn't know whether the skull was dug out of the grave secretly by the people in the formation, or it was cleaned up and placed here after killing someone, let alone whether the skull belonged to Ji Yuanchong.

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, she must strictly implement the correct sampling regulations, lighting, photography, and physical evidence chain of custody records to ensure that the collected things can be further verified.

She walked back up slowly, and took off the gas mask and protective clothing. Although it was already autumn, she was still sweating after a while, and her hair was sticking to her cheeks in wet strands.

At this time, Officer Liu had asked two police officers to pull a wire from the main gate and connect a high-power light bulb.

Eve took the handkerchief that Xiaofeng handed over and wiped her sweat, first explained the following situation to Police Officer Liu, and then said: "There is no poisonous gas underneath, so there is no need to wear a gas mask, and protective clothing is not necessary, just The place is not big, so you must be careful when you go in to take pictures and collect evidence."

By the time the trace experts and forensic personnel moved out the contents of the cellar and recorded them one by one, it was already four hours later.

Eve took the dolls, beads, and blackboard back to the laboratory for the staff who arrived later.Qin Jinhui was responsible for bringing the human skull, animal skull, the chicken, and the two pots back to the autopsy room.

However, the big iron pot was more difficult, and it took ten powerful police officers to move it out.

Back at the office, the four of them didn't say anything, and went straight to the bathroom in their lounge to wash away the dirt and smell from the cellar.

After taking a bath, Eve, Qin Jinhui and Li Hao didn't rush to start analyzing the evidence they brought back. Instead, they went to the cafeteria to eat and rested for a while before starting to work.There are so many things to do, how can I work hard if I don’t eat enough!

(End of this chapter)