As soon as the car drove into the Xixia Mountain Resort, I saw a large number of tourists who had gathered and were invited out, surrounding the staff of the resort, asking questions.

"Have you ever had a scam in the scenic spot before?"

"Don't cheat us, such an evil thing, who is unlucky?"

"That is, who will dare to play here next time?"

"Hey, that's not necessarily, how exciting, it's not easy for ordinary people to meet a living person jumping off a cliff, we can still meet a dead person jumping off a cliff, and it's still a dead person who is rotten. ”

"You have a really big heart, and you're not afraid of causing trouble for yourself?"

"What is the woe? If you are timid, you will be cowardly, and if you are timid, go quickly, and no one will stop you. ”

There are many people, and the discussion turns into a quarrel in the end, and the police from the local police station must hurry over to stop it.

As a result of greeting in advance, Xin Pet and Ye Shichao were directly brought into the scene, and the people in Singh's team had already arrived, and they were scattering to make notes for the managers and staff of the scenic spot; the forensic center sent Shi Yin, dressed in a police uniform, to squat next to the corpse, intently observing the face of the deceased, and the assistant took pictures on the side.

Xin Pet was stunned by the pungent smell before he got close, and it was the first time to see the rotting corpse so closely, not a photo or a video, the impact was too strong, I endured it and endured it, and even stuffed two mints into my mouth to suppress the surging stomach acid, and then hurriedly put on the mask with a super filter.

Ye Shichao didn't seem to care, and walked over to communicate with Shi Yin.

"What did you find?"

"The pelvic cavity is high and narrow, funibel-shaped, with a distinct muscle crest and a rough bony surface...... Male, about 30 years old, 175 cm tall, Asian. Recently, the weather has been cool, and it has rotted like this, and it has been dead for at least three months, and when it falls from such a high place, the pieces of carrion are peeling off, and the bones are obvious. The skull, hand bones, and pelvic bones were so broken that it took a lot of time to put them together, especially the skull, which was missing...... That little brother, don't move, there's a skull fragment under your feet, and you, and you, there is a liver hanging from the treetops, get it down and get it down, be careful, it's not easy to have so much liver left in the high decay period...... Where are the other broken bones and guts and minced meat? Let's all find out. ”

Shi Yin said that he went to work, Ye Shichao squatted down, looked at the corpse that fell from a high altitude after being highly corrupted, and shook his head with some regret, "Falling from such a high place, the corpse-eating insects are almost scattered, otherwise the specific death event can be found, and now every insect is very precious." ”

When Xin Pet came over, Ye Shichao was using tweezers to pick up a black beetle from the corpse and put it in the sample box, close the lid, and look at the struggling beetle through the transparent lid, his brows furrowed, and his expression was cold and solemn.

Xin Pet was afraid of disturbing him, so he didn't speak, so he looked around. The place where the body fell was ten flat ground, the soil was hard, and when you looked up, there was a whole cliff, the cliff was almost vertical, and the huge rock exposed was engraved: The soup spring is bright and the light is quiet, and the white water is flying and the rainbow brings rain.

There were some rags and black and red unknown objects hanging on the word "white water", she didn't want to associate it in a certain way, but Shi Yin had already instructed people to climb the cliff, "There is a skull fragment there, connected to the scalp, in the upper right corner of the white letter, be careful, don't lose the hair on the scalp." ”

As soon as he shook off the goosebumps that were born from the cold, Xin Pet just turned around and bumped into Ye Shichao's eyes that were bright because of excitement, "I know how the carrion jumped off the cliff." Come with me to the top of the cliff and have a look. ”

This cliff is very steep, also very dangerous, so it is not open to the public, the normal climbing route all bypasses here, through the guidance of the staff, Xin Pet and Ye Shichao stepped on the mountain rocks, followed the path that few people walked, climbed to the top of the mountain, although the road is difficult, but I have to say, the scenery of Xixia Mountain is really good, the trees and vegetation are dense, the mountains and rocks are strange, the terrain is related, the sky is very low, as if you can touch the sky with your hand.

Such a view is worth admiring, if they are not investigating a homicide.

Ye Shichao obviously didn't have these careful thoughts of Xin Pet, he was completely attracted by the insects he met along the way, according to incomplete statistics, he probably caught more than a dozen different kinds of moths, and dozens of strange insects that Xin Pet couldn't name. Looking at his excitement of chasing insects all over the mountain, Xin Pet vaguely had the illusion of taking primary school students on an outing.

Came to the edge of the cliff with difficulty, Singh was already there, talking to the ranger in the scenic area, and when he saw them coming, he nodded at the ranger, signaled that he could leave, and then walked towards this side.

"The ranger said he would come once every two days, and the last time he came was two days ago, on the morning of November 2. He didn't have a body at that time, so the time for throwing the body was locked in the period from noon on November 2 to this morning. On the way up the mountain, the identification team extracted more than a dozen sets of footprints of different sizes and widths, and compared them with the staff here one by one. ”

Ye Shichao came to the place where the corpse had stayed, the highly decomposed corpse body tissue liquefied and printed a clear human-shaped mark on the soil, which fell on the fly insects that could not be driven away, most of them were local common giant tail Ali flies, thin leaf ribbon green flies, etc., and some insect eggs, Ye Shichao carefully picked up the insect eggs and put them in the sample box.

Xin Pet came over to see him pick up the eggs, and couldn't help but ask, "These eggs all look exactly the same, why do you want to take samples separately?

The expression on Ye Shichao's face seemed to read, "Are you blind?", and his tone was also very puzzled, "How can it be exactly the same?" and then showed her the small sample boxes containing insect eggs one by one, "Silver eyebrow black fly." "Tumor shin toilet fly. "East Asian Fly. ”

Xin Pet silently closed his mouth, and suddenly understood, and was asked by his girlfriend which straight man with good lipstick was feeling.

Ye Shichao finished taking the sample and began to observe the human figure printed by the decaying liquid of the human body, half of the human figure was half lying on the rock on the edge of the cliff, it seemed to be sitting, the hanging soil under his feet had collapsed a little, he squatted on the edge of the cliff, and in a very dangerous position, picked up a black-brown winged beetle from the loose soil.

Xin Pet was very worried that he would fall, so he stretched out his hand nervously to catch him in time. Singh walked over, looked at the loose soil on the cliff side, and said strangely: "The ranger said that the soil on the cliff side is very hard, and there has been no rain in the past two days, why did the soil become loose?"

"Bury the carapace. Ye Shichao said and shook the sample box containing the black beetle, "On and off the cliff, so far, I have found four different genera of burial beetles. According to the classification of burial armor, it can be divided into burial armor and corpse armor. Unlike other corpse-eating insects, they will burrow into the soil layer below the corpse in groups, arching the soil under the corpse continuously, so that the corpse will slowly bury into the soil. When the soil layer is slowly dug up, the legs keep sinking, and the soil layer is constantly becoming loose, so that the posture of the corpse will keep changing, and finally it will become like sitting on a cliff, and the soil on the cliff side is constantly being excavated, and finally it is loose enough to support the weight of the corpse, and the corpse will fall. ”

Xin Pet looked at the little beetle and felt very amazing, "It's just a bug, it really has so much power." ”

"Don't underestimate the ability of the burial armor to cooperate in groups, our laboratory once did an experiment, two hundred burial armor and a dead pig were placed in the wild, in less than two hours, the wild boar was all buried, and within three days, the wild boar was divided into corpses, and on average, a burial armor swallowed carrion equivalent to 60 times its own weight. Ye Shichao said, and slowly dug up the corpse dyed suddenly, looking for something inside, "I have seen a lot of insect eggs here, and the insect eggs will not develop like this in such a short period of time, which means that the insect eggs are already on the corpse before the corpse is thrown here." If I go back and analyze the DNA of the eggs, I can probably guess where the corpse was before it was thrown away. ”

"It's been a huge help. Singh was overjoyed, after all, knowing the location of the body before throwing it away, it greatly narrowed the location of the first scene of the crime, which was of great help to the investigation, "I'll go down first and call the leader." There is not even a signal on this mountain. ”

Moreover, Ye Shichao also solved the mystery of the carrion jumping off the cliff, the Internet police can go to the Internet to refute the rumors, he can temporarily give the leader an explanation, and he can fight for some more time to solve the case, so they don't have to work overtime to die, leaving a way for everyone to live.