Chapter 642: I'll Stretch My Left Foot First

The sewage pit in the empty land of the crime scene is very shallow, but the area is not small, it must be about several hundred square meters.

Four consecutive sewage pits, dotted with each other not far apart, with a central depth of between half a meter and one meter, but if there is more accumulated water, these four sewage pits might be able to converge into a large accumulated water pond.

Liu Cheng stood on the shore, his eyes blankly looking into the distance. Even so, the suffocating smell kept drilling into his nose.

I don't know if anyone has ever done such an experiment, collecting the liquid produced by their own garbage, placing it in a selected glass beaker, then sitting in front of the beaker, fanning with their hands above the beaker, making the smell in the beaker drill into the nasal cavity—that's the smell!

"I don't know what the criminals in the capital are doing now. Either garbage mountains, or sewers, and now there are sewage ponds. Can't they make some clean cases!" Liu Cheng complained as soon as he opened his mouth, his heart full of stench waiting to be spit out.

The police officer who was standing in the half-person-high water pond, holding hands and touching the silt, climbed up and looked at Liu Cheng with annoyance: "Detachment Leader Liu, otherwise you go down to the pool, it's not smelly in the pool."

"What is the principle that it's not smelly in the pool?" Liu Cheng was amused.

The police officer covered in silt said: "It's slippery in the pool, and my mind is full of disgust, I can't think of shouting smelly at all."

Liu Cheng listened and laughed: "Brothers have worked hard. After finishing the work in a while, I will find the detachment leader to approve the signature, and we will eat and drink with public funds."

"Is it eating boxed lunch with public funds?"

"That won't happen, at least it's... at least it has to be at the level of hot pot." Liu Cheng didn't say it very definitely either. Detachment Leader Tao Lu wasn't a generous person before, and he has become more and more stingy recently, especially for this kind of unplanned expenditure, basically he won't spend it if he can, looking like a useless person hollowed out by Ningtai people.

Liu Cheng sighed. If it really doesn't work, there is some funding in the detachment, but if it is wasted like this, it won't be able to eat hot pot many times.

"Old Liu, go down to the pool." I don't know when, Cui Qishan wore long-legged rain boots and put on protective clothing to urge him.

The detachment leader of the capital branch and the squadron leader in the county are about the same status in the team. They all belong to the grassroots backbone force, and there is no lack of links like leading the way. Holding hands and wading through the pumping pool is not purely for the photographer next to them to see.

The criminal police team itself actually has professional technical personnel for criminal photography. In the early years, this position was quite valued, because film and videotapes were very expensive. At the most expensive time, a roll of color Kodak film was about the same as half a month's salary of a police officer, so there must be a special person to shoot it well.

Now it is to avoid many disputes. Especially homicide cases, all are done according to high-standard conditions. Photography and video are conducive to the fixation of evidence and the progress of the trial.

It's just that it bittered some old police officers—small police officers are in such an environment when they join the job, just do things according to the rules. The middle-aged and elderly people of the previous generation are not used to it, especially those who like to take shortcuts, so they can only complain at this time.

Liu Cheng and Cui Qishan waded through the pool holding hands.

This is the last sewage pool, with a length of thirty or forty meters and a width of twenty or thirty meters. The area is about the same as a pool in a swimming hall. The deepest place is half a meter, and most places are only twenty or thirty centimeters. Thick unknown organic matter is growing in the pool, and the silt under the feet can sink into half a calf.

Liu Cheng recited while walking: "Although I have waded through garbage mountains, I still have to say that this pool is really disgusting."

"It's miserable enough for your detachment to follow you."

"Just luck. It's just bad luck."

"If you continue to be so unlucky, you will become the foul-smelling detachment." Cui Qishan gave Liu Cheng's side a name, feeling it was quite appropriate, and revealed an oily smile of a middle-aged intellectual.

Liu Cheng said: "Are you a corpse-digging detachment?"

Cui Qishan was stunned, and immediately changed the topic: "It's best for us to dig up corpses this time, otherwise, I don't know how long this broken case will drag on."

While speaking, Liu Cheng pulled his foot out of the ground and said: "Detachment Leader Tao is really stingy, can't he pump water first?"

"Do you know how much it costs to pump these four pools of water?" Cui Qishan hummed twice.

Liu Cheng curled his lips. He didn't know the specific price, but it must be very expensive. The sewage here needs to be pumped by a special sewage truck, and it cannot be discharged at will after pumping. It has to go to a special place to pay for drainage.

Of course, a simpler way is to find a few water pumps and toss a pool on the spot, but this kind of behavior not only destroys the crime scene but also does not comply with the regulations, still cannot be on the table, and is easy to be complained about by surrounding residents.

"But it has to be pumped in the end." Liu Cheng said: "If something is found, it has to be pumped, and if nothing is found, it still has to be pumped."

"If something is found, you can apply for special funding from the bureau, right." Cui Qishan could understand the detachment leader very well. After all, he also expects to be a detachment leader in the future.

"Where is it so easy to find? You don't know that we were on the garbage mountain, and we could build a house with what we dug, but we didn't find anything."

Cui Qishan smiled: "It's not that difficult. Finding corpses is constant attempts. Sometimes if you step out with your left foot, you can bump into it..."

Cui Qishan paused, twisted his left foot twice, and then took out a piece of bone from under his feet.

"Does it look like human bone?" Cui Qishan asked Liu Cheng next to him.

Liu Cheng stared at this piece of big bone, nodded silently, and then stared at Cui Qishan's left foot for a long time.

The sewage suction truck was working with a buzz.

A group of criminal science technicians surrounded the periphery of the sewage pond and searched inward bit by bit. This investigation was much more detailed. A lot of silt was also fished up, bucket by bucket, and screened.

Tao Lu stood beside Liu Jinghui and Jiang Yuan, looking at the work here from afar, feeling that his emotions had stabilized a lot.

"Although there may be one more corpse, it should provide a lot of useful clues. I hope there will be a breakthrough this time." Tao Lu said with a smile: "Director Liu's plan is still quite particular."

Liu Jinghui smiled. Speaking of which, he rarely went out of the province before, and his fame only revolved around Shannan Province, which is not as good as Tao Lu.

However, reasoning doesn't care about fame. As long as the correct method is used and the evidence is correctly utilized, the correct conclusion can be drawn.

"There should be more than one more corpse." Liu Jinghui, while proud, made a small prediction.

Tao Lu was not surprised, only asking: "What is the reason?"

"If there is only one more corpse, the murderer would just bury them all. Leaving it alone is unnecessary."

Tao Lu couldn't help nodding: "That's right, that's the truth."

"If there is one more corpse, there will be ten corpses." Huang Qiangmin emerged from the other end, facing the shallow water pond, his voice calm and powerful, as if he were on his own home field.

Tao Lu laughed: "Just right."

"Hmm." Huang Qiangmin responded with a non-committal sound, the corner of his mouth also with a polite 22.22-degree tilt, very reservedly hiding his big white teeth behind his lips.

"The fifth corpse is a female. The bones collected now are not complete, but there are 80%. Currently, it seems that her time of death is earlier than the first, second, and third corpses." Jiang Yuan was analyzing on the spot, but didn't give a specific time of death.

The situation of the bones this time is quite complicated, so he used the comparative level before. List the time of death of corpses in the same area and affected by the same environment in order, rather than the specific time of death.

Tao Lu pondered and asked: "Now this corpse is soaked in water. What about the first, second, and third corpses? Have they also been soaked in water for a long time?"

"There are no traces of long-term water immersion. If it is short-term... it is very difficult to determine." After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he explained: "If exposed in the wilderness, rain or short-term immersion in water is also unpredictable."

For corpses two or three years ago, the time of death is basically judged by forensic entomology, and insects don't care about this degree of water accumulation. They have seen a lot, and some even prefer to lay eggs in this humid environment.

"What can be determined is that the first, second, and third corpses have all been moved twice. It shows that the murderer has come and gone here more than once." Liu Jinghui's words made Tao Lu's eyes light up.

"Tell me in detail." Tao Lu said.

"Two or three years ago, the personnel who came and went to this empty land for a long time were likely male. I think this scope is enough." Liu Jinghui made a simple summary and continued: "I think we can prioritize work reasons, followed by life. In addition, this person can pick up the skeletons of three people into the grave without leaving any behind, so he should be quite careful and meticulous, or he didn't abandon the corpse casually."

Speaking of this, Jiang Yuan seemed to be reminded, nodded and said: "The skeleton is complete, and there are no missing bones, which shows that at least it was not casually abandoned in the empty land. Otherwise, stray dogs and stray cats, or birds like crows, could all damage the skeletons."

"Abandoned, but not completely abandoned?" Liu Jinghui got an affirmative answer and couldn't help but ponder. What kind of environment is this? ===== CHAPTER 643 =====