Chapter 69: Salvage

A few minutes later, the motor boat stopped about five meters away from the slope protection, and several crew members dropped anchor and stopped the ship.

By this time, dozens of people had gathered on the lakebank.

A few bold people actually ran to the slope protection to see the excitement.

Stationmaster Liu shouted a few times, and those people hurriedly climbed onto the lake embankment.

At this time, Zhao Zimeng notified the forensic doctor Xiao Changsong by phone, and asked him and several assistants to immediately put on tools and come to the scene.

Before the divers went into the water, Captain Luo asked Stationmaster Liu about the situation under the water.

Stationmaster Liu said that there are two levels of slope protection below, about four meters underwater is the second level of slope protection, and about six meters underwater is the first level of slope protection. The width of each level of slope protection is about three meters.

The deepest part of Yinniu Lake is about 30 meters, and the water gets deeper and deeper the further you go to the middle.

Captain Luo and the four divers put on their wetsuits and headlamps, lined up, and sat on the deck next to the boat.

Captain Luo sat on the edge of the deck, and he bore the brunt of the blow, rolling over into the water, and then slowly sinking, and the other four divers entered the water in turn.

The lights on the heads of the five men emitted a flickering light in the water like stars in the night sky.

Soon five strings of blisters appeared on the water.

After a while, the blisters began to move, the water slowly became cloudy, and the lights became fainter as the divers descended.

At this time, there is not a single angler in sight on the shore of the lake, and there are many people standing on the embankment of the lake who are looking out, most of them are people carrying fishing rods and fish copiers, and carrying fish baskets, and these people will not miss this bustle.

Although there were many onlookers, the noise was very small, and people whispered something while looking at the lake.

Director Wang, Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei, Director Ji and Stationmaster Liu were all standing on the deck.

Everyone's expressions were very focused.

The wind was blowing, and the night wind was not fierce in early autumn, and the motor boats swayed gently on the surface of the lake, and the water of the lake caressed the slope protection from time to time.

After about seven or eight minutes, on the surface of the lake below Ling Hu Yunfei's perspective, there was a piece of black water like a dark cloud churning upward.

The shadow grew closer and closer to the surface of the lake.

Zhao Zimeng looked at the black shadow intently.

The head of a diver surfaced first, followed by the head of another diver not far from him, and they swam towards the motor boat.

Two divers swam up to the motor boat and muddied a large area of the lake.

Everyone present noticed that the two divers appeared to be dragging an object together, and it seemed that the weight of the object was not light.

The judgment was correct, the divers lifted the black object high, and the people on the motor boat caught it in time.

"Bike!" Several people on the embankment exclaimed loudly at the same time.

The people on the embankment could see the wheels of bicycles by the light of the searchlights on the motor boats.

The people on board observed that the wheels and wires of the bicycle were still relatively new - it was estimated that the bicycle had only been underwater for more than a dozen hours.

The crowd began to stir and make noise.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei half-squatted on the side of the deck, and slowly carried the bicycle up together.

Ling Hu Yunfei grabbed the front wheel of the bicycle, because Ling Hu Yunfei had already seen another wheel underwater, which was the rear wheel of the bicycle.

Soon, the rear wheel of the bike also came out of the water.

Two people used force at the same time to carry the bicycle onto the deck.

It's an eighty percent new permanent weighted bike.

There was also some black mud on the right faucet handlebar, back seat, and legs of the bike.

There is a rope wrapped around the back seat of the bike, which is supposed to be used to hold heavy loads in a normal way.

Zhao Zimeng didn't know what brand of bicycle Duan Chunsheng was riding, because he didn't ask his sister-in-law about this situation.

Ling Hu Yunfei didn't mention it when he asked Sister-in-law Che about the situation.

But Zhao Zimeng has been able to determine that this is Duan Chunsheng's bicycle.

Because he had already seen a few spots of red paint from the rims of the bike.

Duan Chunsheng's workshop is a painting workshop, and it is natural for people who deal with paint all day long to get some paint on their bicycles.

After sending the bike up, the diver dives underwater again.

A few minutes later, the heads of the five men surfaced one after another.

Captain Luo waved his hand to the people on the boat, and after a few strokes with the four divers, he began to move north along the slope.

The bicycle was found, but is there any body of Duan Chunsheng in this lake?

Zhao Zimeng determined with his keen intuition that Duan Chunsheng's corpse was in this Yinniu Lake, which should be not far away.

He judged that although the murderers acted at night, they would never carry a body for a long distance.

On the shore of the lake more than ten meters long to the north of the bicycle landing point, five people dispersed and dived under the water again to search.

The people on the boat were staring nervously at the lake near where the bikes landed.

Zhao Zimeng held his breath and stared.

Ling Hu Yunfei looked solemn.

At this moment, time seems to be deliberately hypocritical, and it is going very slowly.

Everyone waited anxiously.

Ten minutes of effort, twenty meters away from the point where the bicycle fell into the water, with a burst of black water and bubbles rising, the heads of the two divers were exposed to the surface.

Immediately afterward, three other divers also surfaced.

The five men slowly moved in the direction of the motor boat, and as they moved, they always kept a constant distance, leaving a longer and longer water mark on the water they passed.

Five people are supposed to be floating with something.

Zhao Zimeng and Director Ji half-squatted on the edge of the deck and waited to answer.

Five divers struggled to swim to the side of the boat while lifting upwards.

Soon, one foot and then one leg were seen.

Zhao Zimeng's heart sank.

There was a thunderous exclamation from the lakebank.

"It's a leg!" One shouted at a loud voice.

Immediately after that, the second leg was seen.

Then there is a square cement pile about 80 centimeters long, on which more than a dozen loops of rope are wound.

The man standing on the deck saw the corpse in the form of a shrimp in the base fence tied to the cement pile.

"Look, it's a dead man!" The lake embankment was fried.

Zhao Zimeng and Director Ji grabbed the ropes at both ends of the cement pile and tried to carry the cement pile and the corpse to the deck together, but the weight was very heavy, so Hu Yunfei and Stationmaster Liu hurriedly stepped forward to take a hand, and the four of them wasted their old nose strength to get the corpse on the splint.

The head of the deceased was the last to come out of the water.

The ship's searchlights illuminated the full face of the corpse: the arms of the deceased, along with the body, were tied to cement piles. After a long period of immersion in the water, the body was swollen and white, and the cement pile was still pressed against the body.

Director Ji and Ling Hu Yunfei untied the rope between the cement pile and the corpse, and the two worked together to lift the cement pile to the side.

Zhao Zimeng hurriedly took out the photos of Duan Chunsheng provided by the motor factory from his body, and the first important thing was to identify whether the corpse was Duan Chunsheng.

After comparing the photos with the corpse, Zhao Zimeng determined that this person was the missing Duan Chunsheng.

Although the deceased's head was already soaked, the facial features were still recognizable, and there was no doubt that this corpse was Duan Chunsheng.

Linghu Yunfei took the camera from Director Wang's hand, opened the cover on the camera lens, adjusted the focal length, and took a few photos.

Upon preliminary observations, the deceased had a severe impact wound on his forehead and a severe friction wound on his right knee. The frontal bones and kneecaps are exposed.

The five toes of the deceased's left foot were also injured, and the big toe was broken off from the root and adhered together only by soft tissue.

Injuries to the forehead, knees and toes should have been left from the fall when the contact hit the stone and cement slope.

At this time, the five divers had already collected their team and boarded the ship, and the motor boat began to return home.

At the same time as the motor boat returned to the dock of the management station, Zhao Zimeng put on gloves and masks, and the preliminary autopsy began.

All work must be carried out according to the procedure. The autopsy was performed on deck.

Zhao Zimeng was in charge of the autopsy, and Hu Yunfei was in charge of the records.

The people who had been standing on the embankment to watch the excitement gathered on the dock of the management station before the motorized boats, and their interest in the matter grew.

Before the autopsy, Zhao Zimeng made a phone call to Director Huang and asked the factory to send someone to identify the body.

Zhao Zimeng expressed his hope not to alarm Sister-in-law Che for the time being, that woman was so pitiful. Zhao Zimeng couldn't see this kind of scene the most.

After the body has been confirmed, it is up to the factory leaders to decide when to notify the family.

The height of the deceased: 1.63 meters.

Time of death: between 10 and 12 hours;

Cause of death: suffocation. There was a visible fine strangulation mark on the neck of the deceased.

The deceased was wearing a white shirt with black pinstripes and a pair of gray autumn pants underneath.

Zhao Zimeng remembered that the people at the motor factory, including the Gui Qingguan technician, described that Duan Chunsheng was wearing a work uniform when he got off work yesterday.

But now the deceased only has the inner shirt on his body, and the coat is gone, obviously the murderer deliberately took it off the deceased's body, in order to prevent others from easily identifying the deceased.

When Zhao Zimeng opened the collar of the deceased, he saw two strands of iron wire twisted together on the back of the deceased's neck.

The murderers were cruel, they were in a hurry to kill the victims, and they were ruthless, and the wire was still embedded in the flesh of the deceased.

Notes: In addition to the source of death, the deceased suffered three abrasional and bruising injuries on his body: forehead, right knee, and left toe (see also photo).

The deceased's mouth was open, and half of the tongue was frozen outside the mouth.

Duan Chunsheng's death was horrific.

Such a terrifying situation, such a miserable scene, where can Sister-in-law Che withstand it!

Zhao Zimeng untied the wire.

The wire was pulled out of the meat, and the wire was fastened into the meat, and the deepest part was 0.5 centimeters deep.

At this point, an autopsy was being performed when a van came in the direction of the management station.

The truck stopped behind Director Ji's car.

Six men stepped down from the commander.

The first to jump out of the car was Director Tao, the second was Director Huang, the third was a woman, and the last three were workers in work clothes: two gay men and one lesbian.

The third woman who got out of the car should be the sister of the sister-in-law.

At this time, the motor boat slowly leaned on the pier.

Zhao Zimeng stopped what he was doing, stood up, and stepped forward with Director Wang.