Chapter 99: Embedding

"Here."

After five o'clock in the afternoon, the two guides dragged Liu Jinghui to a small platform on the edge of a cliff.

He was old, and he could persist in the first half of the mountain road, but in the second half, he was basically a dead dog.

Of course, in Liu Jinghui's own words, he was just "too tired from driving yesterday."

Jiang Yuan was equally tired. Borrowing the afterglow of the sunset, he hurriedly took a set of photos, then carefully observed the environment in front, behind, left, and right, and the sky quickly turned dark.

Jiang Yuan helped with the camping preparations. The lv2 camping skill finally played a role. Although it couldn't compare to the calmness of the two guides, it still accelerated the overall progress quite a bit.

The cliff here had been artificially cleared. Although the ground was covered with plants, they were not large, and a little light could penetrate. Behind a platform composed of several large stones was a mountain cave three or four meters deep, which had also been cleaned up, with a fire pit, and a small amount of firewood, branches, and leaves prepared in advance.

Several people quickly cleared a piece of open space on the small platform. After having a place to stand, they set up small tents, fetched water in the mountain stream, and lit a fire.

The mountain cave behind the small platform was the first scene of the "Wu Long Wild Man Case," but the four of them didn't mention this, first burying their heads in organizing the place where they stayed.

A more experienced guide sprayed a large amount of insect repellent on the ground of the small platform, and saw insects of various colors crawling out from under various rotten branches and leaves, swaying and going to the grass next door.

Liu Jinghui's face changed slightly, and he asked: "Has no one come here now? I remember when I came last time, it was also like this..."

The more experienced guide said: "We are walking on the road that herbalists used to walk. The mountain caves here are also prepared for herbalists."

Another guide said with some nostalgia: "Everyone is out and about. If you encounter a rainy day or get injured or sick and can't go back for a while, you stay in the cave for a night or two, light a fire, boil some water. People who come later, if they have time, add a little firewood inside... There are also such things at the foot of the mountain, but much less."

"Then what about now? It's impossible to be completely abandoned, right?" Liu Jinghui asked: "At least you will still come over."

"We are now taking some orders from guests. There are backpackers who come to play, and hikers... Hikers generally don't take this line. It's too remote. If it weren't for this matter, in a few years, I wouldn't take this road." The guide said while cutting down several small saplings with a firewood knife, feeling like he was cutting off future troubles.

But everyone knew that when they came up again next year, it would definitely be full of small saplings again.

"What about the village? People in the village at the foot of the mountain will also come up the mountain." Liu Jinghui had asked similar questions before, but this time he specifically changed to a new young guide, just wanting to ask again.

The guide was about 20 years old and didn't take it seriously, so he said: "Most of the people in the village come up because someone in the family is sick, and they come to pick some medicine for themselves. They can't reach here. We walked for eight or nine hours to get here, and we had to clear the mountain. The village is all old people now, and they can't afford this effort."

Liu Jinghui said "En," thought for a moment, and then said to Jiang Yuan: "Then let's enter the mountain cave and investigate first? It's better to live in the mountain cave at night. We must investigate the big places tonight."

He had been here before and knew that living outside the mountain cave was very troublesome. The environment in the big mountains is not like the outside. The degree of cold and dampness will make people sick, and poisonous insects and wild beasts don't know where to hide.

However, it was also to minimize the impact on the crime scene that he found Jiang Yuan and two guides this time, instead of coming out with a mighty team like last time.

Jiang Yuan nodded. He came here to do scene investigation, and there was no need to be lazy.

Liu Jinghui let the two guides go to fetch water and cook, and then said: "You have seen all the photos before. Where shall we start?"

The photos were viewed by Jiang Yuan on an iPad on the way. They were also the most useful evidence left before—but as far as Jiang Yuan was concerned, they were useless.

The first and second waves of police officers who went up the mountain almost found no effective evidence other than the body. And the forensic doctors who participated in it, after struggling to prove the identity of the body, had little progress in forensic pathology.

Because the bodies were all incomplete, the current guess is that the fatal wound of the body was in the abdomen, but the soft abdomen was the most popular with wild beasts. Before the body decayed, the visiting animals dug the abdomen containing the death information into a big hole...

Of course, there is nothing strange about it. In the current situation, even if there is a footprint on the ground, it can be wiped out by insects, fungi, or other strange things. The evidence commonly used by criminal police does not have a reason to exist in this environment.

Jiang Yuan held a flashlight, shook it twice, and said slowly: "Fingerprints are probably impossible, DNA has no hope, the most likely one should still be physical evidence, such as plastic packaging, ironware, etc. I will look for it in the ashes of the fire first. Don't move things randomly."

The three treasures of criminal police: video, mobile phone, DNA. Jiang Yuan felt that the most hopeful one was probably the mobile phone. For example, if he dug and dug, he would dig out a mobile phone from under the mountain cave, which would be the best.

The dream did not come true.

Jiang Yuan then sat by the fire, put on gloves directly, and combed through the ashes inside bit by bit.

Honestly, these black ashes and the like have been almost eliminated by nature, but branches or some food, after being smoked and roasted, are preserved for a longer time. However, considering that last time, the police also lit a fire and roasted meat here, it is hard to say who made the things Jiang Yuan combed out.

Despite this, Jiang Yuan combed here first, and then went to the surroundings to look for clues and evidence.

This search lasted half the night.

Barely resting for half a night, by the next morning, just as the sun rose, Jiang Yuan hurriedly took advantage of the time to check the evidence he had found yesterday.

It was really lackluster.

Jiang Yuan sat by the fire, poking the fire with a branch, frowning and thinking.

This is not like a residence in a residential building. Even if someone wants to wipe the mountain cave, it is estimated that they can't wipe anything. The rich variety of microorganisms can easily destroy all biological evidence.

Extracting some soil back for chemical analysis might have some results, but it probably won't help the case.

Liu Jinghui also got up. He first washed with cold water, then turned back and said slowly: "Find whatever you can find. Calling you here is just to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Not counting the previous two waves of criminal police, last time, I also brought several technicians, and there was still no discovery."

"Extreme Spirit Chaos Decision"

Jiang Yuan didn't need Liu Jinghui to comfort himself. He just rubbed his shoulders and stood up, saying: "I can't see anything in the mountain cave. I'll go around the surroundings first."

"Let Xiao Yang accompany you." Liu Jinghui called the more experienced guide to follow Jiang Yuan to start looking at the situation nearby.

Of course, the main focus was still on the mountain stream where the body was found.

Seeing this until noon, Jiang Yuan returned to the fire again. Seeing that the fire was a bit small, he found firewood and rebuilt a frame for the fire.

While doing it, Jiang Yuan's gaze fell on one side of the wall.

The color of the wall here changed slightly. Most people probably subconsciously think that this was caused by the fire.

However, with the lv2 camping skill on file, Jiang Yuan could easily make a judgment: it was not.

The fire of the fire pit affected the growth of organic matter on the wall, but it should be the part closest to the fire pit and the flame that was affected first.

As a result, the place where the wall color changed the most was in a position further inside.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan immediately walked up and carefully examined the wall of the mountain cave.

Judging by the skills of the crime scene he mastered, the wall should have been polluted to a certain extent. As for what it was...

Jiang Yuan's fingers with gloves touched it lightly, and his attention was quickly diverted.

What pollution.

What color.

Jiang Yuan broke open a section of vine and clearly saw a semi-black object embedded in the wall behind it.

After peeling away the soil next to the semi-black object, a word flashed in Jiang Yuan's mind: bullet.

Jiang Yuan immediately took the camera to take pictures, then set up a tripod, switched to camera mode, and then took the scene investigation box over, carefully peeling away the soil, plants, and stone chips around the semi-black object.

A shattered bullet was firmly stuck 30 centimeters from the bottom of the mountain cave.

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