traces of all things

"It's not your first day as a police officer. Is it possible that the body bag smells good?"

Tang Shaoyuan's complaint gave Wei Xiongfeng the second critical damage.

Lu Zheng shook his head amusedly, and interrupted the mutual taunting between the two: "This smell is not only the smell of corpses and stagnant water, do you think there is a bit of pungent smell mixed in it? It's the smell of sulfide, which is common in rural areas. This situation is all caused by the fertilizer plant near the pond."

"Sou De Si Kar!" Wei Xiongfeng understood, and looked at Lu Zheng with awe.

Then Lu Zheng led Wei Xiongfeng back from the scene, and handed over the bones to Tang Shaoyuan. The two searched the surrounding scene for a long time, but they didn't find any possible footprints. When they were regretting, they were just sent out to run errands for investigation. The member trotted all the way back.

"Huh... Team Leader, Team Leader Lu, I found out. The villagers said that there is no fertilizer factory in this village, but there is a fertilizer workshop on the other side of the village that closed down a few months ago."

Lu Zheng thanked the little brother who was running errands, turned around and took off the gloves on his hands, and picked up the investigation box.

"Let's go, Daxiong, let's go and find out if there are fish ponds, ponds and other places where the corpse may have been thrown."

"Okay!" Wei Xiongfeng quickly put away the DSLR hanging on his chest.

And at this moment, a voice came from behind: "Wait a minute, brother, I'll go with you, the bones here are incomplete, and some of them should have fallen at the original corpse throwing site."

Lu Zheng turned around and saw that General Tang Shaoyuan stood up at the scene of the crime, his face was not very good, and a rough outline of a human skeleton had appeared on a white pad on the ground beside him.

He sensitively noticed that the bones were divided into two piles.

"Two skulls." Tang Shaoyuan took off his gloves: "One big and one small."

**

On-site conditions were limited. Tang Shaoyuan only conducted a simple inspection of the bones. The specific information such as the time of death still needs to wait until all the bones are collected and go to the funeral parlor for a thorough autopsy to draw conclusions.On the way to the former site of the fertilizer factory, Tang Shaoyuan briefly explained his findings.

"The pelvis of the adult skeleton is intact, it is female, and the time of death is more than ten years. The smaller skeleton is not the size of an ordinary infant, and it is a fetus of about five months old by visual inspection."

Lu Zheng nodded, his heart was very heavy. From this point of view, the victim was probably a pregnant woman, and the fetus in her womb disappeared with the mother before seeing this world.

Soon, led by the scouts, Lu Zheng and his party arrived at the former site of the fertilizer factory.Captain Fan had already led his criminal policemen to carry out a carpet search.

The fertilizer factory is said to be a factory, but in fact it is not much bigger than a handicraft workshop.The entire building is a brick-and-concrete structure, the roof has long since disappeared, and the incomplete walls are painted in red with the words "Denong Chemical Fertilizer Factory".The fertilizer factory is surrounded by overgrown weeds, some of which are half the height of a person, and it looks like it has been abandoned for a while.

"Leader Lu! There is indeed a pond here!"

As soon as they arrived, they heard the excited voices of a group of scouts.

After delineating the scope of the investigation, the pond that was suspected of dumping the corpse was immediately selected by the investigators. Most of the vicinity of the Denong Chemical Fertilizer Plant is wasteland, except for this area where there are few waters and wetlands. It has been pumped half dry, and there is still an agricultural water pump beside the pond.

A nearby villager was invited to the scene to assist in the investigation. This villager was a chubby aunt. She was not at all nervous when she saw a large group of policemen. When her eyes moved to Lu Zheng, her eyes lit up.

"Oh! This police officer is such a neat person! Have you got a date?"

Lu Zheng couldn't hold back his face, coughed unnaturally, and hurriedly interrupted to ask Aunt about the situation of the pond, and his red ears couldn't help but twitch.

Tang Shaoyuan stared straight at the rosy white ear, wondering what he was thinking.

The aunt is a know-it-all in the village and knows everything about Niba Village. According to her, the entire wasteland where the pond is located belongs to the family of Li Shuanzhu, a villager. Li Shuanzhu is almost 60 years old this year. He is an old widower. No mouth, has been working outside, no one cares about the land at home.Now that I am old, I went back to the village and rented a water pump, planning to set up a fish pond to raise some fish fry. These days, I happened to be cleaning up the mud at the bottom of the pond. For some reason, I didn’t start work today.

Lu Zheng and the others exchanged glances with each other. This Li Shuanzhu seemed to have some problems.

A group of investigators quickly set off to find the traces of Li Shuanzhu. While the village party secretary introduced the fish pond and the surrounding environment, another group of investigators had already drained the fish pond completely. Black silt, weeds, and some messy garbage, you can smell the stench when you stand by the side.

"Leader Lu, time is limited, so I asked my fellow villager to borrow this pair of rain boots." The little investigator from the Dayu City Bureau who brought them into the village ran over with a pair of black rubber shoes in his hands. He laid it in front of Lu Zheng attentively.

Although he is just a small sesame official in charge of two people, in theory, Lu Zheng can barely be regarded as a leader among the people around the pond. The investigators and Wei Xiongfeng around the bank Seeing this, they were all quite active, kicking off their shoes nimbly and jumping off the muddy pond.

When Tang Shaoyuan heard that there was only one pair of rain boots, there was a gust of cold wind in his heart, and he stood by the pond and hesitated for a few seconds.

It's okay to wear gloves when dealing with corpses, but now that he thinks that his skin will be in close contact with this stinky mud that has unknown creatures in it, he can hardly control his physiological reactions. Goosebumps all over his body rushed out, and his eyes turned black.

No way... Brother, he was watching from the sidelines.

Gritting his teeth, Tang Shaoyuan bit the bullet and took off his shoes.

"Hey, our obsession with cleanliness doesn't matter anymore today!" Standing in the mud, Wei Xiongfeng screamed as if he had seen some western scenery, and raised his hand to touch Tang Shaoyuan's feet. It's sticky, smelly mud.

Will I be suspended for beating my colleagues?Tang Shaoyuan tried his best to dodge, while thinking for a moment with real emotion.

Just as he was thinking, there was a "pop" sound from his side. He heard the sound and looked around, only to see two white feet submerged in the black mud, and even the slender calf was covered with many mud spots.

Tang Shaoyuan was stunned for a moment subconsciously: "Hey, brother, your shoes..."

Lu Zheng turned his head and smiled at him, the dimple popped out again on his face: "It's too small, I can't fit it, it's cheap for you!"

After speaking, he walked to the other side of the pond dripping muddy water.

Tang Shaoyuan looked down, weeds were overgrown on the bank, a pair of police leather shoes were thrown crookedly aside, and his own pair were neatly lined up in front of him, clearly of the same size.

"Hey." He sighed inexplicably.

Sniffing his nose and shaking his head, he smiled uncontrollably, pushed his glasses as if covering something with his fingers, and bent down to put on his rain boots.

**

There are many people and strength, and soon, a small investigator found some suspicious objects at the bottom of the pond on the east side of the pond. Several people hurried up to help, and soon dug out a few sections that looked like human beings from the mud. skeletal stuff.

Tang Shaoyuan opened the evidence bag and packed them up bit by bit.

Scaphoid tubercle, pisiform bone, capitate bone... Soon the bones in his hand were all cleaned up by him.

Lu Zheng saw that he had a plan, so he avoided it carefully, and called a group of investigators to investigate carefully along the periphery of the corpse dumping site. Although there were only bones left, if he could find some of the victim's belongings, That will undoubtedly bring great help in finding out the source of the corpse.

It is estimated that this pond has never been cleaned since it was dug out. A lot of rubbish was picked up from the smelly bottom of the pond, plastic bags, beverage cans, pieces of wood, everything that one expects to find.Lu Zheng was afraid that there might be important clues in these miscellaneous items, so he packed them carefully. Unfortunately, after searching around, he couldn't find anything that could prove the identity of the deceased.

At sunset, Tang Shaoyuan's side has almost finished collecting, but the situation on Lu Zheng's side is not very optimistic.

"Leader Lu, I've searched here too, but I haven't found any clothes, shoes, socks, backpacks, or suspicious weapons." The young investigators searched for two hours, with disappointment on their faces.

Lu Zheng himself also felt back pain, but he still felt unwilling. He turned his head and wiped the sweat from his eyes with the short sleeves of his uniform, focusing on the small piece of mud where the remaining bones had been cleared away, and carefully felt them.

Suddenly he felt a small hard object touched his fingertips.

The heartbeat stopped for an instant, and Lu Zheng immediately pulled the hard object out of the mud, and carefully wiped off the dirt on it with his fingers under the dull orange sunlight.

This is an "L"-shaped plastic sheet with translucent ends and a white bend. The long side looks a bit like a windmill blade.

His actions attracted the attention of the surrounding investigators, and Wei Xiongfeng, who was so tired that his eyes stared at him, was overjoyed: "The team leader found something?"

"Xiongfeng, what do you think this is?" Although the things in his hands looked ordinary, Lu Zheng always had a special sense of familiarity.

Wei Xiongfeng's eyes turned into gamecocks, and he searched his head for a while but couldn't find any corresponding objects: "Is it the plastic piece thrown by someone's child?"

After another round of searching, as the sun was setting, Lu Zheng and the others searched the entire bottom of the pond like a carpet, and finally called it a day.

Except for Tang Shaoyuan who picked up all the bone fragments as much as possible, the others had little to gain. In addition to bending over for too long, the waist was sore and the back hurt, and the smell was all over the body, and everyone was a little downcast.

"Come on, senior brother, lift your feet."

As soon as Lu Zheng climbed up from the pond, he saw Tang Shaoyuan walking towards him with a basin of water he got from nowhere.

Before he could react, clear water dripped from the edge of the washbasin and dripped on the insteps, which was quite cool and comfortable.

Lu Zheng was startled, and took a step back—he was so old, and no one had ever washed his feet before.

Tang Shaoyuan paused and stood up. I don't know if it was Lu Zheng's illusion, but he always felt that his little expression seemed a little wronged.

For a moment, his brain was wide open, and his mind was full of the sentence in a famous public service advertisement: "Mom washes her feet!"

Lu Zheng: ... Fuck, my brain must be broken.

Thinking about it this way, he suddenly felt embarrassed. The younger brother wanted to thank you for the kindness of the shoe. It hurt his feelings so much that he made such a stranger, so he hurriedly made up for it: "Thanks, brother, I will do it myself. gone."

Tang Shaoyuan didn't say anything, and quietly handed the washbasin in Lu Zheng's hand.

Wei Xiongfeng on one side watched the whole process, stunned by Tang Shaoyuan's hospitality.

"Damn, real people don't show their faces." He sat on the side of the field and wiped his feet with a rag in resentment: "This is flattering."

Over there, Captain Fan and the others caught the prime suspect, Li Shuanzhu, who was about to board the bus at the county bus station. Geng Zhizhong went with them for questioning. Here, Wei Xiongfeng and the forensic doctor from the Dayu County Public Security Bureau went with Tang Shaoyuan. After leaving the funeral parlor in the county town, and preparing to conduct further investigations into the cause of death, Lu Zheng took a lot of traces and evidence to the inspection room, and there is still a lot of follow-up work that needs to be dealt with by him.

This corpse was first buried at the bottom of the corpse lake, and later exposed in the wilderness. All traces such as fingerprints and blood were wiped out. He did imitate the footprints near the place where the corpse was dumped the second time, but it was destined not to be used as conclusive evidence.

After excluding a lot of household garbage that had nothing to do with the case, and sorting out a few clues, it was already midnight.

Lu Zheng took out the small plastic sheet again, stared at the light source and pondered, then opened the webpage and began to search for information such as "L plastic sheet is translucent".

Nothing was found.

Is this really just kids throwing trash?

His intuition told him that it was wrong—the location of the plastic piece was too coincidental, just within the range of the circled corpse. This exquisite processed product did not look like a part in a toy.

The more he thought about it, the more he had a headache. Lu Zheng touched the scar on his forehead, couldn't help getting up to get some water from the kettle, plugged in the socket and pressed the button, took out a pack of instant coffee from his trouser pocket, poured it into a disposable paper cup, and took out another He took out a few paper bags of sugar and poured them all in.

The water boiled quickly, and with the sound of gurgling, dense steam floated out from the mouth of the pot, rising slowly, and reflecting a mist on the glass window.

"It's really easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal."

Since entering the provincial office, Tang Shaoyuan, a fastidious little brother, would bring a cup of coffee to Lu Zheng every morning. I have to say that freshly ground coffee is different from instant coffee. Lu Zheng, who is used to the taste of instant coffee, has a poor tongue Got it.

The sound of "Dididi" sounded, and there were waves of vibrations on the left thigh.

"Team leader, our end is almost over here. The boss said that we will hold a case analysis meeting in the classroom on the first floor at one o'clock."

"Okay, thank you."

Lu Zheng looked at his phone, sipped the last drop of coffee in the cup, walked to the operating table in two steps, and began to pack the evidence bags on the table.

Suddenly, his eyes stopped on the desk on the right.

The surveyor sitting at this desk should be a working overtime dog, and there are many snacks such as biscuits and instant noodles stuffed in the drawer.The package of biscuits was endorsed by a beautiful actress who has been very popular in China recently. Her headshot was printed on the package, with flowing curly hair, big eyes and double eyelids, and her facial features were extremely deep and extremely gorgeous.

Lu Zheng's mind suddenly recalled the conversation between the young police officers Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang who had overheard when he was in Yuqian a few years ago.

"Hey, don't you think that who is super beautiful? It's because of the good deeds you have done in your previous life."

"...You don't know that! Let me tell you, she is a head-changing monster. There are so many cheating posts on the Internet!"

Lu Zheng suddenly frowned, and a flash of light flashed through his mind.

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The key evidence is online, with crazy hints on his face!

And everyone is welcome to discuss or make complaints in the comments. This article has been buried by the author with a lot of foreshadowing, but it is too obscure to be ignored by everyone, and it is too obvious to be boring._(:зゝ∠) _So I still look forward to your feedback, and strive to make small progress in each chapter and volume~

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