Chapter 567: Bones and Backpacks
The mechanical arm tugged at it, and as we expected, it wasn't just a green cloth, there was more buried under it.
Several of us held our breath.
"Be careful." Wen Tingxu instructed, his voice was obviously trembling.
I felt someone tugging at the corner of my coat, and when I looked back, it was Suletan.
"Brother Yan, Mr. Wen was indifferent when he saw so much gold, why are you so excited about a rag now?"
"Nonsense, is he the one who is short of money?"
"And what is he missing?"
"The truth."
"The truth? I have a lot of truths that I can sell to him. "Sultan thought I was joking, and almost burst out laughing.
Qin Yafu saw that the boss was so attentive, and manipulated the mechanical arm more cautiously. A few of us huddled together and watched as it dug a little bit into the sand around the green cloth on the screen.
Wen Tingxu was worried.
"Xiao Qin, I'm afraid it's unreliable, so let's change to a robot."
"Mr. Wen, I'm more reliable than robots." Qin Yafu said without raising his head.
The robotic arm first carefully cleaned up the floating soil, then grabbed it from the left and the right, and slowly cleaned out the green cloth. Although the image on the screen was a little blurry, we could still tell that it was a green military backpack.
"Slow down, slow down." Wen Tingxu was sweating profusely, and he kept instructing.
"Mr. Wen, it seems that there is something else." Qin Yafu pointed to a white object on the screen and said, "It seems to be a human corpse." β
"Clean it up." I saw Wen Tingxu's eyes suddenly moisten, and he instructed again, "Don't break it." β
Qin Yafu nodded, he manipulated the mechanical arm more carefully, kept cleaning up the floating soil, and dug carefully. A skull slowly revealed, and there was a lot of black stuff on it - it was supposed to be hair. Judging by the thickness and length of the hair, the person should be a woman.
The robotic arm retrieved a clump of hair, and at that moment, a white object suddenly fell out of the hair.
"What is this?" I asked Qin Yafu.
"It's like a hairpin." Shen Yu said.
Qin Yafu manipulated the robotic arm to pick up the hairpin, took out a few hairs, and then dragged the backpack and moved it out of the corner inch by inch.
We really got a good look at the backpack, the hairpin, and the shoulder-length hair.
The backpack looked like a tactical military backpack and a large camera bag. It's full of small pockets on the outside, and it's bulging inside, and you can see a lot of things at first glance. Qin Yafu picked up the backpack and handed it to Wen Tingxu.
"Mr. Wen, do you want to open it?"
Wen Tingxu waved his hand, he pointed to the hairpin and said, "I'll take a look at that first." β
Qin Yafu nodded, he picked up the hairpin and handed it to his boss.
I thought it was a white hairpin, but now I look at it and realize that it is the result of weathering. The original color of this hairpin should be lake blue, and there are vague daisy patterns on it.
Although I already had a premonition in my heart, Wen Tingxu collapsed from the moment I got the hairpin. He held the hairpin in both hands and knelt on the ground with a thud, and in an instant he burst into tears.
"Mommy, Mommy......" he pressed his head to the ground, banging against the hot sand.
I hurried forward to help him up.
"Don't be too sad, so many years have passed. The sand is too hot, don't burn your scalp. β
But Wen Tingxu seemed to have fallen there with all his strength, and I could only hold him hard to prevent him from burying his head and face in the yellow sand.
"Xiao Qin, come over and help!" I turned back and shouted to Qin Yafu, who was secretly wiping his tears.
"Mom, they have wronged you for so many years, saying that you are traitors and murderers...... Only I know that you are not, only my son knows the truth, and no one believes ......"
Wen Tingxu gritted his teeth and jumped out word by word, and the people next to him were all moved.
Qin Yafu and I were just about to set him up, only to see him suddenly push us away. He stabbed the hairpin to his chest and ran aimlessly forward for a few steps, then slowly fell to the side, curling up in pain like a shrimp.
I squatted down and pushed him hard to get him to lie on his side. Qin Yafu took out a capsule from his pocket and stuffed it into his boss's mouth, and then poured it into him with a squeezed kettle.
"If you're overly sad, just calm down." Qin Yafu said to me.
I felt Tingxu's pulse, and my heartbeat was still very strong, so it should be fine. I stood up and saw that Shen Yu had put on white gloves and was pulling the backpack.
"It should be his father's." She pointed to a traditional character embroidered with red thread on the corner of her backpack.
Although the glyph of that character is complicated, the needlework is really beautiful, and it seems that his wife Shu Yun is a clever person.
After more than 20 years of wind and sand, the green woollen fabric has almost rotted. Shen Yu wanted to open the cloth bag, but she tried for a long time, but found that it was easy to break when she touched the cloth, and the zipper of the backpack was completely rusted and could not be opened at all.
Everyone knows that this backpack may contain extremely important evidence, and if it is opened rashly under the blazing sun, it will inevitably cause some damage.
So Shen Yu thought about it and finally stopped.
"Let's go back to camp."
"Yes, now that the body has been found, it is better to call the police with a satellite phone immediately."
Sultan, who had been playing soy sauce next to him, came over at this time.
"The police can't find this place either, don't forget that there is no navigation signal, and it is not certain that we can get out safely."
He does have a point. At this time, I heard Tingxu groaning over there, and I should have slowly woken up.
I sighed and said, "Let's go see him first, I was so scared that I almost had artificial respiration." β
"I think you're looking forward to giving him artificial respiration!" Shen Yu angrily put down the next sentence.
"Look at what you said...... I didn't care about arguing with her, so I hurriedly ran to Wen Tingxu and squatted down.
"What about the backpack, that's my dad's backpack...... Wen Tingxu gasped, "Before he went out, my mother sewed a lot of pockets on the outside of the backpack, saying that it was convenient for him to load thingsββ"
He pushed Qin Yafu away, and crawled his hands and feet: "Dad, Dad......"
I ran to the front and stopped him. His hair was covered with sand, his face was clouded, and he looked much older.
"You can't go any further, let's go back to Yecheng! Report to the police first and let them send someone to investigate! β
"Police? Last time, they convicted my parents of murder, treasure theft, and absconding! Their wanted warrants are still hanging! If you don't believe it, check it out! He screamed hysterically at me.
"What criminal investigation conditions in those days! Besides, did the police say that they would not admit their mistakes? Did the police refuse to clear your family's grievances? What do you want to do about this without calling the police?! β
He was stunned for a moment, then sat up on his feet.
"I want to go back, I want to hold a press conference, tell all this directly to the media, I want to rely on myself to correct my parents' name and be ashamed of my family!" I want to talk about "Ten Evils in the City" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~