Chapter 559: Pigs and Humans Are Very Similar

Li Tian quickly called for Old Song, Chen Fan, Old Liu, and the other forensic interns to head together to the lakeside the man had mentioned.

On the western outskirts, this spot was half a city away from the flight attendant's villa.

If a witness hadn't appeared this time, everyone would have found it nearly impossible to locate this lake.

Over an hour later.

A row of vehicles stopped on the small road by the lake; the place was extremely remote, with no more than ten vehicles on the entire road.

Chen Fan got out of the car, not in a hurry, and walked straight toward the lakeside while everyone first took a look at the surroundings.

The lake wasn't large; since it had never been developed, the area around it was covered in weeds, trees, and some wild animals.

The ground was littered with withered branches and leaves, along with some snow that hadn't melted yet, and stepping on it would make a creaking, crunching sound.

Finding clues here was indeed quite difficult.

Since so many people had come this time, it was convenient to carry out a carpet search.

Searching from the roadside all the way to the lakeside, someone soon discovered something.

Xiang Qinqin said, "There are some wood shavings here, and there seems to be some bloodstains on them."

Putting on gloves, Xiang Qinqin first took a photo of this pile of wood shavings, then picked up the ones stained with blood. 157

Immediately after.

Liu Mengyan and Qu Yiling, who walked faster, also found some similar wood shavings by the lakeside.

But the wood shavings could not serve as direct evidence; they only pointed to a possibility.

After killing his wife, the husband put her into a sawmill and sawed her up along with some wood.

In that case, as long as those wood shavings were destroyed, everyone would definitely be unable to find the body.

Chen Fan stood by the lakeside, watching everyone around him scoop up the wood shavings floating on the lake surface.

Another man had gone to great lengths to bring the sawmill to the lakeside; he certainly hadn't done it just to saw a few pieces of wood.

And this was merely a guess and deduction; such a situation would obviously not sway a court that demanded evidence.

More direct evidence was needed.

Old Song said, "It seems we'll have to jump in to find the evidence."

Chen Fan said, "Sure, you jump first. Once you jump, I'll have the others follow. This lake water doesn't look very deep."

If someone else had said this, Old Song might actually have believed it.

But since it was Chen Fan saying it, it was definitely Chen Fan trying to fool him.

"Forget you; if you jumped, you certainly wouldn't jump yourself."

Old Song waved his hand and said.

At that moment, Chen Fan smiled and said, "I'm asking, Old Song, are you stupid? There isn't much lake water here; just borrow a water pump, and it'll be drained in no time."

"By then, everything can be found."

Old Song suddenly saw the light. Yes, why hadn't he thought of the water-pumping method? That would be much faster than jumping in to search directly.

Not long after.

Li Tian arranged for a huge water pump from the fire department; after plugging it in, they drained the entire lake.

And the appearance of the lake bottom was revealed.

This was a wild lake, never developed by humans; beneath the water, aside from rotting mud, there were only corpses of plants, animals, and vegetation.

Of course.

Two particularly notable items had already appeared when half the lake water had been pumped out.

They were the missing freezer and the expensive commercial sawmill.

Upon seeing these two items, everyone erupted in excitement.

Including the viewers in the live broadcast room.

"They really are here! That means the man really pulverized his wife!"

"I've seen cases of wife-killing, and cases of dismembering a wife's body, but this is the first time I've heard of someone directly turning his wife into powder."

"This man is terrifying; with these two items, it can be considered ironclad evidence."

"Not exactly; these two items only prove the man threw them into the lake. If human DNA cannot be found inside them, he cannot be convicted."

……

Everyone quickly retrieved these two items from the lake bottom.