The sun scorched the streets, the whole world was scorched white, the cicadas outside the window were also upset, and the air conditioner in the window hardly stopped working.

"It's hot, and the criminals probably can't stand the heat, and they don't know where to run to cool off?" As I spoke, I plunged a sharp, slender steel knife into a half-fat, half-lean piece of pork belly.

Tang Zhenguo said on the side: "What's wrong with peace in the world? Eh, it's okay to stab one or two knives, and if you have to fry the meat back in the pot at night, don't prick me to a screech. ”

I pulled out my steel knife, examined the marks on the meat, and said, "Do you know where this pork belly is in the pig?" ”

Tang Zhenguo laughed and said: "This is still not difficult for me, it is the meat on the pig's belly." ”

I said seriously: "This pork belly has a lot of fatty tissue, and there is muscle tissue in it, and the fat and lean intervals make it feel like a fat man's beer belly." ”

Tang Zhenguo sat on the sofa, took out his mobile phone and said, "So what? When you poke this pork belly, does it feel like you're stabbing someone? Or a fat man who stabbed. ”

I carried this piece of pork belly and said: "You don't know about this, two days ago, Lao Lu talked about a case, saying that there were two people who quarreled and contradicted, and the woman picked up the fruit knife on the table and stabbed the man, but the man was fine, and he went to the hospital with his stomach covered. That's because the man has a big beer belly, and the fat in his belly blocked a knife for him, and it didn't hurt his internal organs. ”

Tang Zhenguo stared at his mobile phone and smiled: "So in ancient times, those generals held their bellies, and when they fought, they could defend against the attacks of swords, guns, swords, and halberds." ”

I was stunned and said, "Makes sense." ”

I carried the meat and put it in the refrigerator, and suddenly heard Tang Zhenguo exclaim: "Mom, there is a fire, it is a mountain fire, in Wuling Town." ”

I closed the refrigerator door and said, "When?" ”

"It happened in the early hours of this morning, but now the fire is under control, most of it was arson."

I thought for a moment and said, "Running into the mountains in the early hours of the morning and setting fires?" Drink too much. If you see that the weather is so hot, it is likely that the animal carcasses in the mountains and forests are decomposing and releasing substances such as phosphine and causing spontaneous combustion. ”

"Also, it makes no sense for anyone to run into a deserted field full of snakes, insects, rats and ants in the middle of the night to set fire." After Tang Zhenguo finished speaking, he continued to look at his mobile phone.

The summer noon felt unusually quiet, and I lay in bed in a daze, feeling that although the afternoon nap was a waste of precious time, it could also give my brain a full rest, because I had just found a complex crossword puzzle on the Internet, which made me think hard.

Just when I was about to fall into a deep sleep, my mobile phone rang, and it was Lao Lu who called. I turned over, and there was an inexplicable excitement in my heart, because I knew that without a big case, Lao Lu would not call me personally.

After connecting the phone, Lao Lu's deep and magnetic voice came from the receiver of the mobile phone: "Three people died in Wuling Town, it's very strange, you hurry up and take a look." I've asked Xiao Liu to pick you up. The other party then hung up the phone.

I put my phone next to the bed, thinking in my heart, what happened to this Wuling Town, I just encountered a mountain fire, and now there are dead people, and I am not alive.

"Xiao Liu, why can't the air conditioner of your police car be effective." I twisted the air conditioner in the car, it was already at the lowest temperature, but it was still very hot, so I simply took off my jacket.

Xiao Liu said seriously: "Recently, there have been a lot of police dispatches, and most of them are going to the countryside, and there is a lot of dust on the road, maybe the air conditioning filter is too dirty." Brother Ouyang, forbearance, calm and naturally cool. ”

I looked at his sweaty police uniform, smiled and said, "It seems that the organization is very good at making good use of people, knowing that you like to drive fast, I deliberately let you run more places in the countryside with fewer cars." ”

At this time, Tang Zhenguo, who was playing with his mobile phone in the back seat, suddenly interjected and said: "Eh, eh! Someone on WeChat said that the mountain fire in Wuling Town burned three people, Xiao Liu, do you know what's going on? ”

Xiao Liu said: "I don't know, I received an order from Team Lu to come to pick you up, and he didn't tell me about the specific case." ”

I said, "You'll know when you get there." I looked out the window, and a hen on the side of the road was frightened by the speeding police car and jumped into the field.

The police car turned from the national highway to the country road, and after walking a short distance, I saw four or two fire trucks, an ambulance and three police cars parked in front of me.

I hurriedly asked Xiao Liu to pull over, and hurriedly jumped out of the car, only to see that it was dark in the distance, and there was still smoke in some places, and the firefighters and some villagers were extinguishing the last fire in the scorching heat.

Judging from the fire scene, this is relatively flat, and it belongs to the area of returning farmland to forest, but the forest has not yet taken shape, but in this season, it is conceivable that this area must be growing dense weeds.

I shielded my hands from the sun and looked for Lao Lu's figure, but I found nothing.

At this time, a policeman came up to me and said, "Team Lu is waiting for you at the scene of the crime, please come with me." ”

This policeman took us through the wet fire, over a blackened hill, behind the hill, I saw several criminal investigation team members in front of us recording and filming the crime scene, and Lao Lu was standing not far away to command.

"Brother Ouyang, Brother Ouyang, this way!" It was Liu Lili who was shouting at me. When she screamed, everyone's eyes were on me, and I hurriedly waved my hand calmly to everyone, how could I have a feeling of leading the inspection work!

I walked up to Lao Lu, who pointed to the three cremated corpses stacked on top of each other in front of him and said, "Those three corpses are the source of this fire, and the preliminary investigation is that someone poured gasoline on the corpses and set them on fire after death, which caused a mountain fire." Because the bodies were incinerated, the cause of death and the time of death must have been difficult to determine for a while. The surrounding area is wasteland, there are no villagers living in it, there are no surveillance probes, and the fire started around 2 a.m., so it is estimated that it is difficult to find eyewitnesses. ”

I nodded, put on my gloves and said, "I'll go see the scene." ”

Lao Lu nodded.

At this time, the scorching sun makes people feel a little dizzy, and the unpleasant smell of smoke in the fire also makes it difficult to breathe. Although the conditions were relatively difficult, the criminal police of the scene investigation team still carefully searched for possible evidence left at the scene with their dedication.

I walked to the three cremated corpses and saw that Liu Lili was about to drag the top corpse down, so I hurriedly stopped: "Wait, I'll take a look first." Liu Lili hurriedly stepped back.

I glanced at Liu Lili, and saw that this young forensic doctor born in the 90s, dressed in a blue plastic protective suit, was already covered in sweat, and the black hair exposed outside the protective hat had already been soaked with sweat, and even the glasses were beads of sweat.

I said, "Leave it to me here, you find a shade to hide, and be careful of heat stroke." ”

"Ahh Are you concerned about me? Is it? Is it? Liu Lili ripped off the protective hat and asked with some excitement.

I ignored her because I was already focused on the three corpses.

The three bodies were so badly burned that their clothes and faces were completely indistinguishable, but their shoes were recognizable, two of them were sneakers and one was liberation shoes.

This makes me wonder why all three of us wear this type of shoes on such a hot day. It stands to reason that most people wear sandals and sandals in this kind of weather.

Looking at the placement of the corpses of the three houses, although these corpses were burned and curled up a little because of the high temperature, it can still be seen that they overlap in the way of stacking arhats. Then it is not difficult to judge that these three bodies were stacked by more than two people. It is one person who raises his feet, one person who raises his shoulders, and they are stacked one by one. If it is said that a person still bothered to fold the corpse after committing the murder, this possibility should be very small. So I deduced that there were at least two perpetrators.

And this will never be the first scene of the crime, this is obviously the second scene of the dumping and burning of corpses. And based on the number of three bodies, it is likely that the killer drove to the nearest country road, where the bodies were disposed of and burned.

I stood up, looked around, and asked the investigating detective, but I didn't find anything like a container, and it seems that the perpetrator took the container with gasoline after committing the crime.

Only then did I realize that Liu Lili was still standing next to me, so I said, "Since you don't want to go to the cold, then come and help." ”

Liu Lili hurriedly responded: "Okay, okay." ”

So I asked Liu Lili to lift the corpse's feet, and I lifted the corpse's shoulders to separate the three corpses, because the high temperature of the burning made the three corpses have a certain degree of adhesion, so we also spent a lot of effort and sweated.

After putting the body away, I asked puzzledly, "On such a hot day, why did the organization send you a little girl over?" ”

Liu Lili grinned and said, "I took the initiative to ask for it." You know, I'm as interested in your hobbies as you are, and I'm obsessed with these big cases. You see, this scene of the mountains being burned, three nameless corpses burned beyond recognition, is it only in movies? I'm immersed in the scene now, and I feel much cooler than watching horror movies. ”

I stared at her with wide eyes and said, "Horror movies can't satisfy you anymore. ”

She shook her head and said, "That's not it, I'm still very afraid of watching ghost movies, mainly because the sound and atmosphere are sometimes very scary." ”

I didn't answer her again, but crouched on the ground and examined the three bodies carefully.

Because it was summer, their clothes were thin, so their clothes turned into charcoal, and there was nothing of value.

Among them, the left front tooth of the corpse wearing liberation shoes is a silver tooth in the mouth. The melting point of this silver is about 960 degrees, and the general flame is more than 500 degrees, so this silver tooth is still intact.

In the other corpse, I found a copper coin in the residue of his chest, which was dark gray in color, and the words 'Xianfeng Heavy Treasure' were engraved on it. Obviously, this copper coin was worn on the chest of the deceased before his death, and because it was attached to the chest and burned with clothing, it was embedded in the residue after incineration.

But when I saw this copper coin, I felt that this dead man was not simple. Because those who understand the market know that copper coins like "Xianfeng Heavy Treasure" can still be worth some money on the market. Of course, I can't figure out exactly how much it will be worth for a while. However, I will keep this copper coin as evidence and ask an antique expert later.

Looking at the last deceased, although no specific objects were found on his body, he had a very obvious fatal wound. That's his head, and he's missing a big chunk of his right brain. Although this kind of scar was burned, Liu Lili and I still unanimously judged that it was a gunshot wound. And it's a scar from a close-range attack.

After the verdict on the body, I told Liu: "If one of them died from gunshot wounds, then there is a high probability that the other two also died from gunshot wounds, and you must pay attention to this when you do further autopsies on them." ”

Liu Lili nodded and said, "Well, I'll pay attention." ”

I stood up and took a closer look around the crematorium, although this was the center of the fire, there were no traces of fire extinguishing or water stains here, and it was estimated that the combustibles had been exhausted and the flames had extinguished themselves before the fire brigade came. However, the traces that may have been left by criminals, such as footprints, lost objects, etc., have disappeared with the fire, which poses a major obstacle to detection.