Chapter 84 Human
The car continued to drive, and after a long time, Luo Xun said: "Yes, I found it in Zhou Yanchen's case."
This time, Chi Xia did not respond to him. Her shallow breathing sounds could be heard in the car. Luo Xun could not tell whether she was really asleep or pretending, but he still slowed down the car and adjusted the air-conditioning temperature.
On the other side, Cao Bin got his wish and just as he was about to make a cool turn, he heard Lin Wenjue say, "Old Cao, let's stop at a restaurant later. Luo Xun said Chi Xia is not feeling well. Buy her something to eat, otherwise she won't be able to make it back home alone."
"Okay!" Cao Bin said with a smile, "Old Lin, have you noticed that the boss seems to have come to his senses these past two days? I've never seen him be so considerate to me before!"
Lin Wenjue laughed: "What do you, a rough old man, need to be considerate of? We, who are thick-skinned, should not be jealous of this. Okay, Officer Cao, have some shame..."
Cao Bin chuckled: "But then again, Chi Xia is a girl who came to our task force, we have to take good care of her, I have to say..."
Seeing that his attention was attracted by the car again, Lin Wenjue smiled helplessly, but he remembered the scene of Luo Xun supporting Chi Xia today.
Based on his keen observation, there is definitely something fishy going on between these two people.
Chi Xia woke up from a deep sleep and was stunned for a long time before looking at the driver's seat with dazed eyes.
Luo Xun, who was driving, was not there; the car was parked on the side of the road.
Chi Xia was just about to look around when she heard a knocking sound. She turned around and saw Luo Xun knocking on the car window. Chi Xia rolled down the window: "Captain Luo?"
Luo Xun handed over a bowl of millet porridge, and the aroma of the porridge immediately floated into her nose.
Luo Xun looked normal: "Lao Lin and his friends found a restaurant. There aren't many things to eat, but the porridge is pretty good. Eat some first, and we'll leave after you finish."
Chi Xia felt as if a light snowflake brushed across her heart, landing on her burning heart. The coolness soon mixed with the heat in her heart. She took the porridge and said, "Captain Luo, don't you want to eat?"
"I've eaten." Luo Xun turned and walked to the side, took out a cigarette and lit it with his back to Chi Xia.
Looking at the porridge in her hand, Chi Xia smiled. She drank the porridge while staring at Luo Xun. After staring for a long time, Luo Xun suddenly turned around and said, "Don't look at me. Eat your porridge."
Chi Xia smiled again and said to his back: "Captain Luo, I didn't expect you to be so considerate."
Luo Xun snorted lightly and said nothing.
After a while, he crushed his cigarette butt and came over: "Have you finished eating?"
Chi Xia nodded, handed the empty paper bowl out of the car window, and smiled: "I'm done, Captain Luo, please throw it away."
Luo Xun looked at her speechlessly, took the bowl and stuffed a tissue into her hand: "Wipe your mouth."
After a good sleep and a meal, Chi Xia's energy and spirit recovered to about 70%. Luo Xun didn't ask any more questions. He threw the things in the car, increased the speed of the car, and they quickly returned to the police station.
The group returned to the police station and classified the clues obtained from the photos at the scene. Just as they were putting the photos on the case board, Curly came back.
He was holding a bag in his hand and holding a bowl of Raccoon instant noodles that he bought from somewhere: "I'm starving, this stuff saved my life!"
He put the instant noodles in the plastic bag on the table and said, "Everyone has a portion, help yourself."
The crunching sound made Chi Xia and the others want to eat some. Except Luo Xun, everyone took a bag. For a while, the office was filled with the crunching sound of instant noodles.
Chi Xia looked down at the piece of bread she had already bitten, and her movements suddenly froze. A vague scene emerged in her mind. In that scene, someone stuffed something into her hand as if to seek credit.
He said, "Eat it, little fox. I will buy you lots more in the future..."
Chi Xia didn’t remember what they bought, but she only remembered that the thing he stuffed into her hand was very precious to them, so precious that the other party was reluctant to eat it and left it all to her.
Luo Xun pasted the photos of the corpse by himself and tapped the case board with a marker pen: "Pay attention, we have to find out the identity information of the corpse quickly, otherwise we can't investigate this case. Curly, did you find anything new when you went to the hospital?"
Curly wiped his mouth and said, "From the transcripts, the four students all said the same thing. I have also questioned them separately and basically ruled out the possibility of collusion. As for their teacher Chu, I also checked and it was indeed because he had a temporary job that caused him to miss the appointment."
"How is the condition of the injured students?" Luo Xun asked again.
Curly wanted to laugh but held it back, and said with sympathy, "The tailbone was slightly damaged, and it will probably take some time to recover... and the person was a little scared, but it's not a big problem. I've told the hospital to contact us if there's any situation."
Luo Xun looked at the photos and said, "Let's start investigating the identity of the deceased. The initial judgment given by Lao Ning is that the time of death is about six months or more. Let's do this. To be safe, we will first investigate the missing women reported in Dongzhou within a year. They are between 28 and 35 years old and have given birth. They must have children. Let's start from here."
Lin Wenjue rolled up the bag of instant noodles and said, "The missing persons case is mainly handled by the second team. Lao Cao and I will go over to take a look."
"Curly, go too. Bring back all the information and we can check it together," Luo Xun said.
Lin Wenjue nodded: "Okay."
"Chi Xia and I will go to the forensic room to check the situation and come back to meet you guys."
Luo Xun threw away the marker in his hand and clapped his hands, "Alright, let's get started. By the way, Curly, go have a meal first, we've already eaten."
Curly held a bag of instant noodles under his arm: "Hey, this stuff is pretty delicious. It won't interfere with my work."
After the tasks were assigned, everyone took action on their own. Luo Xun and Chi Xia went to the forensic room to find Ning Yi.
Ning Yi and his apprentice Xiao Zhao came back early. Not only did Luo Xun keep urging them along the way, but Cao Bin, that kid, didn't know which way to go and used their distant relationship to play the emotional card, just to get him to help them do an autopsy as soon as he came back.
Ning Yi sighed to the sky. His disciple Xiao Zhao was not surprised at all. As soon as he came back, he started the relevant preparations very experiencedly.
Every step was directed towards the nameless skeleton that had just been brought back.
When Chi Xia and Luo Xun arrived, Ning Yi had already spent some time on the in-depth examination of the bones.
When Luo Xun came, he took two packs of instant noodles from Juanmao. Now he put them on the table as if to ask for credit: "How is it, Mr. Ning, the forensic doctor? I brought you the thank-you gift."
Under normal circumstances, Ning Yi would have definitely said a few words to Luo Xun at this moment, but today he didn't say anything, and his eyes above the mask were full of solemnity.
Luo Xun and Chi Xia looked at each other, and they walked up. Luo Xun asked again: "Lao Ning, is there any new situation? Don't be silent, I will be nervous if you don't speak."
Ning Yi raised his eyes to look at him and said in a deep voice: "Luo Xun, the bones are not naturally broken apart."
Luo Xun was stunned, and his voice turned cold: "You mean, the deceased was dismembered?"
Ning Yi nodded: "Yes, it was dismembered, and..."
He straightened up and called his apprentice, "Xiao Zhao, how's the test I asked you to do?"
Xiao Zhao responded in the cubicle and came out two minutes later, his face also not looking good: "Master, according to the pharmacological experiments, this corpse has indeed been treated with drugs."
"Medical treatment?" Chi Xia also frowned: "Forensic Doctor Ning, in other words, the skeletonization of this deceased was artificial?"
"Um."
Ning Yi looked at them seriously: "If that's the case, the time of death of the deceased will have to be pushed back from six months."
Luo Xun and Chi Xia also looked grim. Luo Xun asked him, "How far back? How did the murderer dismember and dispose of the body?"
Ning Yi's face showed a little regret: "I think it can be pushed back at least three months. You have to give me some time to find out the details. I will give you the results as soon as possible. Also, I forgot to tell you that according to the calculation of the leg bones, the height of the deceased was about 1.65 meters. It should be useful when you are looking for clues about the character.
Luo Xun knew that it was not easy for him to get these clues in such a short time. Now no matter how hard he pushed, he could not overcome the word time.
"In fact, this means that the deceased may have died three months ago, which to a certain extent narrows the scope of our search for the missing person."
Chi Xia took out his phone and said, "I'll go tell Brother Lin and the others that we can extend the one year we said at the beginning to six months. Once the correct time of death is deduced, we can continue to narrow the search area."
Luo Xun's brows were gloomy, and he nodded: "Okay."
Chi Xia lowered her head to look for Lin Wenjue's contact information, and only then saw the message from Shi Tianyi. She lowered her head, her expression frightened, and quickly deleted the message.
