Chapter 82 Inspection
A woman, with broken ribs, a concussion on the back of her head, and all her finger and toe bones broken...
At noon in late May, the sun made Chi Xia feel a little dizzy. She closed her eyes, and the sound of breaking bones and the shrill and desperate screams of a woman emerged uncontrollably in her mind.
The fingers are connected to the heart. What kind of pain must she have suffered in her life?
She opened her eyes suddenly, and a feeling of nausea suddenly surged up under the strong light.
Luo Xun had been keeping an eye on her out of the corner of his eye. When he saw her body sway, his expression tensed up a little. He took a small step away from her, unnoticedly moving half a shoulder away from her. He reached out and grabbed her arm to steady her.
Chi Xia was startled and looked over at him, seeing that he was talking to Ning Yi as usual.
The arm in his hand twitched slightly, and Luo Xun remembered that her needle hole seemed to be at that place, so he moved his hand down again. He tilted his head and looked at her with a heavy and warning look.
After Lin Wenjue checked the surroundings, he and Cao Bin went up to take a look, and came back to report the situation to Luo Xun. As soon as he approached, he saw Luo Xun grabbing Chi Xia's arm. He frowned, looked around, and was relieved to see that no one was paying attention. He quickly walked up and stood behind the two of them.
Ning Yi just said: "Judging from the extent and distribution of the scattered bones, the corpse should have rolled down from above."
Lin Wenjue coughed and spoke behind Luo Xun and Chi Xia: "During the rain two days ago, there was a landslide on the mountain. Lao Cao and I just took a look around and he has gone to confirm the landslide point.
Chi Xia used a little force to try to pull his arm out of Luo Xun's hand.
Lin Wenjue also noticed that she was not feeling well, so he patted her arm gently and said, "Captain Luo, do you want to go over with Chi Xia? I'll keep an eye on Lao Ning here."
Luo Xun looked over, and Lin Wenjue tilted his chin with a stern expression.
"good."
Luo Xun let go of Chi Xia and looked up at the surrounding environment: "Chi Xia, come with me."
Chi Xia responded and followed his pace.
The police officers were basically looking for the missing bones. Luo found a cool place and suddenly stopped. He looked at Chi Xia with a serious expression: "What's wrong with you?"
"I didn't sleep well last night." Chi Xia lowered his head.
"You farted!"
Luo Xun grabbed her arm, lifted her sleeve, pointed at the pinhole and asked her: "What is this? Explain it to me!"
"Medicine." Chi Xia's voice was weak.
Luo Xun said in a deep voice: "Chi Xia, we agreed to cooperate, I don't want you to hide anything from me, you'd better tell me the truth."
"It's not the medicine you think."
Chi Xia looked up at him and said, "Captain Luo, let me think about it and decide whether to tell you or not, okay?"
Luo Xun stared at her, and finally gave in to her tired eyes: "Can you promise that this medicine will not harm your body, and that it is not a contraband?"
"No." Chi Xia looked at him with a firm gaze: "Captain Luo, I'm a policeman."
The police will not break the law knowingly.
Luo Xun didn't ask any more questions. Seeing her like this, he couldn't help but soften his tone: "Do you want to go back?"
"Need not."
Chi Xia leaned against the mountain: "What Forensic Doctor Ning said is correct. If the body rolled down from the mountain, we must first find the landslide point and then determine the burial site. Judging from the condition of the body, it is absolutely impossible to die of natural causes."
Luo Xun looked at her unhappily: "You should take care of yourself first. Stay here for a while. I'll go find Lao Cao."
"Okay." Chi Xia stopped trying to show off.
Luo Xun looked at her, sighed, waved and called out to Lin Wenjue.
Lin Wenjue quickly ran over, looking worried: "What happened to Chi Xia?"
"She's not feeling well and she didn't eat anything this morning. She couldn't stand the sun. Lao Lin, do you have anything to eat? Let her fill her stomach first."
Luo Xun spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, and Lin Wenjue took out a bun from his pocket speechlessly: "You want to exploit me too?"
Luo Xun snatched the bun and stuffed it into Chi Xia's hand: "Take a couple of bites first."
Chi Xia smiled at Lin Wenjue, opened the plastic bag and took a bite of the bun: "Brother Lin, I'll eat it then."
Lin Wenjue came all the way here just for this matter. He rolled his eyes at the two of them, turned around and went back.
"Eat, I'll go find Lao Cao." Luo Xun glanced at her, turned and walked up the mountain.
Chi Xia finished eating a bun and sat in the shade for a while. She didn't feel as uncomfortable as before. She took a few steps back and observed the scene where they were.
The place where they are now is a flat land halfway up the mountain. As Ning Yi said just now, the body is most likely to have rolled down from the mountain. However, what extent of landslide could cause the body to fall here from the burial ground?
Unless the burial ground itself is not deep.
Thinking this, she followed the direction Luo Xun left and soon saw Luo Xun and Cao Bin.
After Luo Xun went up, Cao Bin had already found the place where the bodies were suspected to be buried.
After working hard for a long time, they finally recreated the shallow pit where the bodies were buried.
"Boss, judging from what we see now, it should be that the burial ground was washed away by the rainwater during the landslide, and the corpses were washed down with the rainwater, right?"
Cao Bin was half-kneeling at the edge of the pit, digging out something from the still muddy pit.
Luo Xun also had a wooden stick in his hand, rummaging through the soil, and then he found a small piece of bone.
"There is one here too." Cao Bin also found it.
Luo Xun put the two bones into the evidence bag and handed it to him: "For now, you take these two bones down to Lao Ning first, and I will take a look."
Cao Bin stood up and patted the dirt off his legs. He saw Chi Xia and said, "Xiao Xia, you're here. Hey, what's wrong with you? You look a little pale."
"I didn't sleep well last night."
Chi Xia walked over and looked towards where Luo Xun was: "Brother Cao, did you find the bones?"
Cao Bin shook the evidence bag and said, "I found two pieces. I was just about to take them down to give to Lao Ning."
He wiped his hands, dug into his pocket, and pulled out a lollipop: "I snatched it from my niece. Eating something sweet might help. I think you have low blood sugar."
Chi Xia felt warm in her heart, took the lollipop from him and smiled: "Okay."
Cao Bin ran down to find Ning Yi and the others. Chi Xia walked over to Luo Xun and said, "Captain Luo, it may be difficult to determine the identity of the deceased."
Luo Xun saw that her complexion had improved a little, and he heaved a sigh of relief: "Yes, even if there was anything, it was washed away by the rain. And I checked, there is no clue here that can prove the identity of the deceased."
"Are there no clothes or anything like that?" Chi Xia glanced around: "Logically speaking, things like fabrics shouldn't degrade that quickly."
"What if the murderer buried the body while it was already in a skeleton state?"
"In other words, this is just the place where the bodies were dumped, not the first crime scene," said Chi Xia.
Luo Xun threw away the stick in his hand: "There is always a process for the body to turn into bones. During this process, the soil, plants, and microorganisms will all be reflected. This place..."
He pointed to the shallow pit and said, "There is no evidence that the body had decayed here until it turned into bones, so I suspect that the body was buried here directly in a state of skeletonization."
"And the person who buried the body might have been in a hurry, or there might have been some unexpected situation. He did all this in a hurry, so the pit was dug very shallow and was easily washed away," Chi Xia added.
"Yeah." Luo Xun observed his surroundings: "This place is very dangerous. If it rains again, it will collapse again."
Chi Xia looked at the direction he pointed to. Indeed, due to long-term erosion, small-scale landslides with soft soil were common.
She squatted down to check the soil. "The soil here is soft. Anyone with a little common sense would know that this is not a good place to dispose of the body. The person who buried the body didn't choose the right place."
"But the other party is smart."
Luo Xun pointed at the pit and said, "Even if the bodies are washed out, they will be accompanied by rain..."
Chi Xia continued his words: "Many traces will be washed away."
Luo Xun nodded, his eyes sharp.
From where they were standing, they could just see the location of Ning Yi and the others. Cao Bin had already taken the two bones he had found down, and other police officers found new bones one after another.
Ning Yi was facing the sun and observing the bones he had found.
"Captain Luo, look here."
Chi Xia picked up a longer branch and pointed to the edge: "This is a sign that someone must have slipped and fallen."
Luo Xun pulled her back and went forward to check: "The marks are new. This place is not too far from the ground. If you fall down, you will only get hurt. There is no danger to your life."
As the two men were saying this, they saw Cao Bin jumping down below and waving at them: "Boss, we've found all the bodies! Come down and take a look!"
"Okay, go down."
Luo Xun looked around again and said, "This is definitely not the first crime scene. The most urgent task now is to identify the deceased."
"Brother Yu is negotiating with the person who reported the case. Maybe there will be some clues."
Chi Xia walked down and looked back at the shallow pit.
Was the person who buried the body in a hurry because he felt guilty, or was there something unexpected ? Or was there another reason that they could not imagine?
