Chapter 81 Tide
Half an hour later.
Everyone got off the bus, and the salty sea breeze blew on their faces, as if it was scraping like a knife.
This is the south side of the bonded logistics park. It was originally a bay, but in order to expand the area of the logistics park, part of the area was enclosed by sea reclamation. As for the seaside, there is no beach, but a mudflat formed by piles of giant rocks.
The road was newly built and the surrounding land was only fenced off, with no construction having begun, so the surrounding area was quite deserted.
Xu Dayuan pointed to a crack in the rocks by the sea and said loudly with his mouth pursed:
"The body was found there. The road was completed before the Spring Festival, but usually no one comes here. Two anglers were just looking for a spot to fish when they saw a hint of red.
I crawled over and took a look. I was so scared that I called 110 immediately. When the command center heard about the female corpse in red, they didn’t send anyone from Tieshan Police Station to come. They just notified them and called me later, saying, “Let’s go and take a look.”
When he crawled over and took a look, he was shocked and his heart trembled. If it was just a corpse, it would not make people so scared. It seemed that the death was very tragic. He glanced at Liu Yongxin.
"Master, Da Zhao and I will go over and take a look. These rocks are very big, and it may not be easy to climb over them."
Liu Yongxin nodded.
"Be careful. Look for urine or excrement around the body. This place is very desolate and the rocks are very big. I think it is unlikely that someone would carry a body and dump it."
Zhou Ning understood that Liu Yongxin suspected that this was the first scene. If it was really the first scene, there would naturally be many traces left. Of course, if the DNA could match the suspect in the red-clothed serial murder case, then the cases could be combined.
At this time, Da Zhao was carrying two survey boxes and an aluminum ladder. He staggered over and looked around.
"Where is the body?"
Xu Dayuan gave him a glare, and Da Zhao shrank his neck, quickly swallowed the food in his mouth, and chased after Zhou Ning.
"Zhou Xiaozhou, wait for me. I'm overloaded and you didn't even ask to help me."
Hearing the shouts, Zhou Ning stopped and quickly took a survey box. Standing at the edge of the road, looking at the pile of boulders that was fifty meters wide, Zhou Ning was a little troubled.
"The leader is watching us. Stop complaining. Hurry up and change your clothes. Follow me. Remember, don't put on your shoe covers yet. Put them on when you get to the body. Otherwise, you'll slip easily when climbing the rocks."
Da Zhao grinned.
"Listen, you still care about me. Don't worry, I have experience in this. Don't look at my big size, I am still very flexible."
"That's called fat, not big!"
Da Zhao moved his mouth but did not refute. He now weighs 100 kilograms, which is not as tall as Zhou Ning. Although he is very strong, he is really fat compared with Zhou Ning as a reference.
The two men changed into survey uniforms and then jumped over the stones on the edge of the roadbed. Zhou Ning glanced at where He Chunyang and the others were, found a relatively flat route, and moved forward in a roundabout way.
Fifteen minutes later, the two finally crawled in front of He Chunyang. He Chunyang took their survey boxes and pulled them up. Da Zhao was already sitting on the ground, gasping for breath.
"What I'm thinking about now is how to transport the body away later?"
He Chunyang smiled and kicked Da Zhao's leg.
"You should lose weight, or you'll be called Fat Zhao. You don't have to worry about the corpse. Xu Da has already borrowed a crane and it will be here soon. But I just found that there is a huge rock on the south side that is not so complicated when coming from the beach. It's easy to walk to the beach."
Although Da Zhao looked dissatisfied, he quickly got up and looked towards the place where He Chunyang pointed.
Sure enough, the edge where the waves can hit is just a few relatively flat rocks. Although they are not completely connected, the widest distance between them is only half a meter, which can be crossed in one step. And that side can also extend to the road, but the place in front of us is blocked by gravel, making it more hidden.
Zhou Ning took a look at the two fishermen squatting on the rocks below. They seemed to be really scared. Liu Changhai kept comforting them, but they still looked over here from time to time.
Holding He Chunyang's hand, Zhou Ning jumped onto the stone where he was standing, and the corpse was now exposed before his eyes.
Zhou Ning gasped. A long red down jacket was covering the dead man, who was half leaning on a stone, with his head and right hand facing downwards. His fingers were covered in blood and all the fingertips were missing.
The long hair obscured the face of the deceased, and there were discarded sweaters, shoes, and underwear next to him, all stained with blood.
But the most horrifying thing was the woman's body. With her long chestnut-brown curly hair flying, her back was covered with marks of whipping, some in the shape of strips, and some in the shape of lumps of flesh. Judging from the shape of the scars left behind, it was not difficult to determine that the weapon of violence was a belt, and it was a belt with a metal head.
The pale skin formed a sharp contrast with the scars, but when Zhou Ning saw how fresh the wounds were, his heart seemed to skip a beat. Could it be that he was so lucky that the body was discovered just after it was thrown away?
Zhou Ning waved his hand to his side. Da Zhao was already crawling on the ground, shouting a slogan, and quickly followed Zhou Ning forward.
"Don't worry, put on your gloves and shoe covers, and the rest of you don't come forward. I'll see if there are any other traces left. I'll also collect fingerprints and footprints from the two people who reported the case."
He Chunyang naturally had nothing to say. He waved his hand and told people to do it.
Da Zhao came closer, lay on a rock and observed carefully, pointed at a rock next to the body and shouted:
"Look, there's half a bloody footprint!"
Zhou Ning looked over and saw indeed a very faint half-blood footprint, but it was now almost submerged by the sea water.
"Quickly put the scale on it and take a photo, then take a swab and keep the sample."
Da Zhao didn't dare to delay and rushed forward to stick the scale and take a photo. Just when the swab passed over the footprint, the tide had already submerged the footprint.
Da Zhao jumped up a step and landed one meter in front of the corpse. It was forty centimeters higher here. Although the waves brought up some water droplets, they could not swallow the stone.
Zhou Ning squatted down. The waves where he was were constantly rising, but after wetting his shoe covers, there was no sign of them going up. She looked around and found that the location where the body was was higher than her head. There was a circle of white salt lines, which were faint but could be seen if one looked carefully.
He took out his cell phone and the time was 8:32, March 10, 2011, the twelfth day of the lunar calendar. However, there was no record of the tide. Zhou Ning became a little anxious and Da Zhao came over.
"I looked around the body and didn't find any signs of urination or defecation. I found a few cigarette butts, but it looks like it's been here for a long time. I don't know when the body was dumped. Do I need to take it back?"
Zhou Ning nodded.
"Pack it up and take it back."
Da Zhao was about to say something, but Zhou Ning raised his hand to stop him. Zhou Ning called his second uncle. His biggest hobby was sea fishing. Whenever he had a break, he would run to the beach and disappear for the whole day. Second Aunt had quarreled with him many times about this.
On the fourth ring, the call was connected.
"What's wrong, Xiao Ning? You're calling me at this time. Aren't you busy?"
"Uncle, I'm at the scene, and I have something I want to consult you about."
Zhou Xianghua quickly put away his scattered mood, stood up, and said quickly:
"you say."
"Uncle, do you know the time of the tide?"
"We know that our Qindao area is a semi-diurnal tide area, with two high tides and two low tides every day, but they are delayed by 48 minutes every day, and the interval between the two tides is about 12 hours.
Today is the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and the high tide is at 9:00 a.m., and then it starts to ebb, and the height of the sea is not very high. "
"So, the highest point of the last high tide was around 20:20 last night, right?"
"Yes, that's what I mean."
"Thank you, uncle. I'm busy now."
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Ning walked closer and waved at Zhao Xinli.
"Take a picture of the deceased quickly. The tide will cover the deceased in 30 minutes. We need to move quickly."
Da Zhao was startled and quickly took a photo to record the condition of the deceased. Zhou Ning came forward and picked up the clothes on the ground one by one. Then he put a scale on it to take photos and take samples. Zhou Ning held up the swab, and not a single drop of blood on the ground fell.
Then he grabbed the deceased's down jacket and stood up. With this action, the full appearance of the deceased was revealed to everyone. He Chunyang and Da Zhao both exclaimed. Da Zhao sat directly on the ground, and He Chunyang and the others also stepped back.
I saw a knife stuck between the legs of the deceased, with only the handle exposed. The boulder under the deceased and the gap behind the boulder were all covered in blood. It was obvious that the deceased died of hemorrhagic shock.
When Zhou Ning saw this scene, his teeth started to chatter.
"Da Zhao has no time to be surprised or emotional. Hurry up and take pictures. We have to transport the body away within five minutes!"
"coming!"
Da Zhao exhaled, knelt on one knee, and the shutter of the camera kept flashing.
