Chapter 1 The body is hung on the tree
Monday, September 27, 2010
Qindao City.
Qidong County.
It's raining.
The raindrops hit the concrete ground, splashing some sand from time to time.
Zhou Ning quickened his pace and rushed into a two-story building surrounded by green vines. He stomped on the sand and rain splashing on his feet. Seeing someone coming down the stairs, he quickly turned aside and nodded with a smile even though he didn't recognize the person.
He walked to the easternmost side of the second floor and used the key to open a shabby office. As the door closed, the smile on Zhou Ning's face disappeared.
After glancing at the mop at the door and the rain outside the window, Zhou Ning turned on the air conditioner and sat down at the desk in the corner.
Zhou Ning opened the book "Bone Age Identification - Chinese Teenagers Skeleton X-ray Gallery" on the big-bellied monitor. There was a copy of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" tucked inside. He found the place where he had been reading before and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Ning is the new forensic doctor in Qidong County.
He is tall and handsome, and has graduated from graduate school.
Everyone says Zhou Ning is lucky.
After all, this was the first year that the civil service examination was implemented, and he was recruited into the forensic department of the Qidong County Criminal Police Brigade, becoming an envied civil servant.
But……
How would outsiders know that his academic performance was so poor that he failed two courses every year and only managed to graduate.
It wasn't because his tutor was afraid of him because he saw something he shouldn't have seen. Just because of his irrelevant paper, his tutor would never sign it.
As for taking the civil service exam, there was no hope for him to go to a first-tier city. He wandered around in society for a year and finally heard from his second uncle that Qidong County was recruiting forensic doctors. He was the only one with the right major. He thought that even the tallest among the short guys would not give him a chance, so he passed the exam in a daze.
Moreover, there are only two people in the so-called forensic room of the Criminal Police Brigade, besides Zhou Ning, there is his master, Forensic Doctor Liu Yongxin.
I've been here for more than half a month, but I haven't seen a single hair of the corpse.
His master, Forensic Doctor Liu, is a nice guy, but he is old and in poor health, so he has to go to the hospital every few days.
In the afternoon, he is always left alone in the office. However, there has been no case these days. I don't know why Forensic Doctor Liu didn't come today.
Pushing up his glasses, he sighed slightly, his expression filled with worry, and he couldn't concentrate on reading the book anymore.
There was something he didn't tell anyone. As long as Zhou Ning raised his hand to push up his glasses, a transparent display screen would appear in front of him with a line of green words on it, "System loaded 99%."
It has been like this since the day I graduated, except that initially the system was 1% loaded, and it took more than a year for it to be loaded to 99%.
Zhou Ning didn't understand what this thing was.
He also tried changing glasses or wearing contact lenses, but as long as he moved his hands beside his head or made movements to push up his glasses, the display screen would still appear and no one else could see it.
From the initial panic and worry that caused him to lose sleep for several days, Zhou Ning has now been able to accept the existence of this thing and even has a little expectation. After all, he doesn't know what this thing is.
Just thinking about it.
The landline phone on the desk rang.
Zhou Ning was startled and quickly stood up and grabbed the microphone.
"Hello, forensic office."
"Hello? Um... Xiao Zhou, right? Where's Forensic Doctor Liu?"
Zhou Ning remembered this voice. This person was Xu Dayuan, the captain of the Qidong County Criminal Police Brigade. He met him once when he came to report. His loud voice left a deep impression on him.
"Master Xu, Forensic Doctor Liu hasn't arrived yet. How about I call him on his cell phone to ask?"
Xu Dayuan on the opposite side paused.
"Forget it, his phone is turned off. Go downstairs. There's a case. Follow him and take a look."
The phone call was hung up just like that. Zhou Ning felt a little excited, but also a little nervous.
Damn, I’ve been here for half a month and finally there’s a case.
He put his cell phone in his pocket, grabbed the survey box on the side and the SLR camera in the cabinet, and rushed out of the office.
As soon as I went downstairs, I saw Xu Dayuan standing in the yard, waving at several criminal police officers.
"Get in the car and go directly to the scene. Medical examiner Xiao Zhou will come with me."
Everyone got in the car. Zhou Ning held the survey box and sat in the passenger seat of Xu Dayuan. With the sirens whistling, the car made a sharp turn and rushed out.
Zhou Ning's body tilted and he quickly grabbed the handle above the car door to keep his balance. This eagerness made Zhou Ning's heart tremble.
"What's Xu Da's case?"
Xu Dayuan glanced at it and did not answer Zhou Ning's question.
"Xiao Zhou, forensic doctor, have you ever helped solve a case during your internship?"
Zhou Ning cleared his throat and tried to calm himself down.
"During my internship, I helped handle three cases. One was a dismemberment case, which took three months and was solved. There was another one..."
Before Zhou Ning finished searching his memories, Xu Dayuan interrupted him.
"Okay, it's not bad to have seen a dismemberment case. This shows good psychological quality. When we get to the scene, you can see something. Just take a look. The traffic police said that a body was found on the roadside and they are retrieving the surveillance footage."
"Forehead?"
Zhou Ning was stunned.
Suddenly I had a bad feeling. Did I start blowing too high?
"Hey, Xu Da, shouldn't we wait for my master?"
"The case can't wait. We need to handle it quickly here. There are a lot of onlookers."
Zhou Ning panicked.
Xu Dayuan's words revealed too much information. There were a lot of onlookers, which meant that the case was not in the wilderness and the case could not wait. It also meant that the scene was tragic and had to be handled quickly.
As I was thinking about it, the car had stopped.
The intersection was blocked by yellow cordon, and outside the cordon were crowds of people.
After all, he was a local. After a quick identification, Zhou Ning realized that this was the intersection next to the North Outer Ring Viaduct. On both sides of the outer ring road, there was an industrial park on one side and a village at the urban-rural fringe on the other.
Xu Dayuan had already gotten off the car. It was too late for Zhou Ning to say anything now. There was no way to retreat. He could only carry the survey box and follow him down.
Xu Dayuan waved his hand at the criminal police behind him and ordered with a frown:
"Hurry up, clear the crowd from the scene. What's going on? Don't you know how to protect the scene?"
A roar was indeed effective.
Most of the onlookers who were watching the excitement dispersed in an instant. Even those who were still there retreated more than ten meters, or simply stood on various high places across the road and looked in this direction.
"Xiao Zhou, forensic doctor, do you have any masks? Please distribute them to them."
Zhou Ning suddenly realized something and quickly opened the investigation box. He handed a pack of masks inside to a criminal police officer who was walking over. The man distributed the masks.
Zhou Ning looked up again. There were no people around the intersection, but he didn't see any bodies at all, and he didn't know what all these people were looking at.
He put on a mask and latex gloves without paying attention. The more he tried to calm himself down, the more his heartbeat became uncontrollably. He took a deep breath, picked up the survey box, lifted the cordon, and walked up to Xu Dayuan.
"Xu Da, where is the body?"
Xu Dayuan put his hand on Zhou Ning's shoulder and pointed at a sycamore tree beside him.
"See? The body is hanging on the tree."
Zhou Ning followed the direction Xu Dayuan pointed, took two steps forward and looked over. On a sycamore tree next to them, at a main branch about 1.5 meters above the ground, there was a white leg hanging there.
From this angle, you can only see the deceased's legs, slender ankles, straight calves, dark blue Converse canvas shoes on his feet, and purple-black bloodstains on his white socks.
Zhou Ning seemed to be frozen in place, even his breathing stopped.
It wasn't the fear, but the visual impact that made him feel depressed for a moment.
He raised his hand and pushed up his glasses.
At this moment, the transparent display screen in front of him appeared again, but the loading progress on it had become 100%, and a voice filled .
"Ding, the system has been loaded and is starting."
A few lines of text appeared on the display .
Forensic training system.
Bound by: Zhou Ning
Age: 26
Forensic Level: -2
Overview:……
Issued task: Contact the corpse and perform a superficial autopsy.
Completion Reward: Random rewards will be given according to the completion status.
Zhou Ning was stunned. It had been loading for more than a year, but he didn't expect that the loading was completed the moment he saw the corpse. But what did this forensic level -2 mean?
Do you think Zhou Ning is a poor student?
Zhou Ning has misaligned teeth, okay, that's very objective, it's neither exaggeration nor belittlement, but what the hell are the six points in this comprehensive evaluation?
Speechless?
I was actually laughed at by a system...
