Chapter 003: Exploring the Bottom of the Well
This time, with targeted preparations, the conditions for going down the well are obviously much better than yesterday.
It's not just a sunny day, but the police have already prepared some equipment for us. These include some professional mountaineering equipment, such as flat straps, steel cables, ascenders, safety belts, and portable strong light waterproof headlamps. The most worth mentioning is that even the tight-fitting wetsuit is ready, and depending on the situation, Zhang Yihan's girl seems to be planning to let me go into the water.
However, just as I was getting dressed and about to go down the mine, Zhang Yihan suddenly stopped me. She didn't tell me to go down the well right away, she just told me to get ready and go down the well later.
I'll rub it, you said it earlier!
On such a hot day, I was wearing a wetsuit and a lot of stuff on my body, didn't this kill people?
The girl was clearly playing with me, and I complained all over my stomach, but I didn't dare to say it, so I could only unload all the equipment on my body.
After that, I had nothing to do and went to help Ge Lao collect the fragments of the corpses scattered on the ground at the mouth of the well.
In addition, four policemen in white coats were also wearing gloves and helping Ge Lao. Two of them were being netted for the remains of the well. It was only then that I realized that the four policemen who remained were forensic doctors, and generally only forensic doctors could not change their color under this stench.
In the process of helping Ge Lao sort out the corpses, he asked me to go down to the well for a while to check the temperature of the well water, saying that it was to verify the cause and time of death of the corpse.
At that time, I only asked why I wanted to test the temperature of the well water, and then Ge Lao told me a lot of professional knowledge:
According to the forensic laboratory report of Baiqu County, the capillaries in all parts of the deceased's body fragments were all in a state of violent contraction. As you should have learned in the police academy, the density of the capillary network in the various organs of the body and the skin tissue varies greatly, and although they cannot be freely controlled, they have an unconditioned reflex ability.
The so-called unconditioned reflex refers to the congenital reflex that is born with birth, which is a relatively low-level neural activity, such as the knee thumping reflex, blink reflex, hand withdrawal reflex, infant sucking, urination reflex, etc. This reflex activity is innate and does not need to be learned.
When we are handling cases, we can find a lot of answers we want based on this unconditioned reflex in the human body. That's what we mean when we talk about corpses in the industry.
We assume that if the deceased had been thrown into a well and drowned, she would have been in a very stressful state of being in that environment during her lifetime, and it stands to reason that her capillaries would have dilated rather than contracted. In general, this kind of capillary constriction occurs only in people who freeze to death.
Hearing what Ge Lao said, I finally understood why he asked me to check the temperature of the well water.
After that, I followed Ge Lao to sort out the body parts, and it was not until half past nine in the morning, until several policemen brought more than a dozen villagers to the scene, that Zhang Yihan asked me to go down the well.
At that time, I didn't think much about it, thinking that my sister called those villagers over to understand the situation, and when I saw that she told me to go down the well, I hurried to prepare without saying a word. I knew that if I didn't move well, the girls would discipline me again. Being disciplined in front of so many outsiders is not a shameful thing.
When I was ready to go down the mine, Zhang Yihan handed me a wireless camera and told me to get stuck on the portable waterproof headlamp. I don't have to ask to know that she wants me to take a picture of the situation in the well, so that she can directly observe and direct my actions on the computer above.
Then, with the help of the descender, I easily descended to the surface of the water parallel to the bottom of the well.
However, it didn't take long for me to feel that something was wrong. Because I checked carefully for a long time, I found that all the scratches I saw last night were gone.
Senior sister, it's so strange, why are all the scratches I saw last night gone? I replied with a walkie-talkie.
How can it be? Zhang Yihan was also obviously a little surprised.
Immediately after, I heard Ge Lao's voice: You check again if there is anything above the wall of the well, it is possible that the well water has fallen.
Hearing what Ge Lao said, I hurriedly rose one meter to continue checking.
Ge Lao is very experienced, and his thinking is always much faster than ours.
It is well known that the water level of the well water and the surrounding groundwater are the same. And there is definitely more than one well in this village, that is, all of them are on the same level. Last night when I went down the well was at night, and there were fewer people in the village at night, and the water level could be higher. And now it's morning, it's the peak time for villagers to make breakfast and water to water their fields, and it's normal for the water level to drop a little.
However, when I continued to ascend and descend, and after carefully examining it in the range of three to four meters in height, I still did not find the scratches I saw last night.
I reported the situation to the elder Ge and senior sister Zhang Yihan above, and the two of them were also very puzzled. Because we all know very well that if the well water is not falling, then the only explanation is that the well water is rising. Once the well water rises, those scratches are naturally submerged by the well water.
But what doesn't make sense is that it's the season of less rain in autumn. It stands to reason that well water should fall during the day when there is more water consumption, and then slowly rise at night, if it rises during the day, it is obviously illogical.
Just when I was puzzled, my senior sister Zhang Yihan issued an order to me: Xiaolin, go into the water to explore how deep this well is? By the way, let's see if you can find any clues at the bottom of the well?
Touch your sister, why don't you come down and touch me, I scolded in my heart. Fools can see that my senior sister Zhang Yihan is deliberately making things difficult for me again, and I can come up with at least dozens of ways to measure the depth of the well water, but she asked me to jump into the water to measure it.
Not happy? Zhang Yihan obviously felt that I was a little reluctant: Do you still want to be reimbursed for your mobile phone? If you want to reimburse your phone, you have to get your phone's body back, right?
Hearing Zhang Yihan say that, I finally compromised. Although our action group this time is the oldest with Ge Lao's qualifications, the specific person in charge is Zhang Yihan, and if I want to go back to reimburse my newly bought Love Crazy 5, I really have to follow her requirements.
Next, I went back to the wellhead and handed all the extra equipment on my body to Xiao Li, who was waiting at the wellhead. After that, he asked him to bring me a diving watch and diving goggles, and after putting on these equipment, I slid straight into the water when I slid down the static rope again.
The body parts in the well had already been cleaned and disinfected with a lot of bleach powder long before I went into the water. Although there was still some faint corpse smell left in the well, it was completely negligible compared to the pungent smell of bleaching powder.
At this time, in addition to the wetsuit, I only had a portable waterproof lamphead, a diving goggles, and a diving watch. After tidying up my goggles a bit, I took a deep breath and glanced at the time of my watch, then relaxed and sank straight to the bottom of the well.
As I sank, my mind kept counting according to the frequency of the stopwatch.
Originally, I wanted to hold my breath to the bottom of the well, but I didn't sink to the bottom of the well until I counted to twenty seconds, and then I realized that the well was quite deep. However, it doesn't take much effort to dive in this stationary state, just hold your breath, so I didn't give up and continued diving.
It is said that the current Guinness World Record for Breath-Holding Records, Italian David Mulini, previously held back 20 minutes and 55 seconds in Baofeng Lake in Zhangjiajie, Hunan. Although I couldn't be as fierce as him, I was able to hold my breath for more than five minutes without inhaling pure oxygen.
Therefore, twenty seconds is still a small amount to me, but the further I dived, the colder the water temperature became, and the greater the water pressure, since I did not think that the well was so deep at first, I finally couldn't help but retreat when I dived for thirty or forty seconds.
After I went up, Zhang Yihan asked me if I was in the end, and I said no, so she told me to continue.
I never had a chance to refute her words, so I could only obediently sink under the water again.
But I was ready for the second launch, so I dived head to foot down. I still don't believe how deep a well can be.
However, when I went down the well for the second time, and I still didn't reach the end after thirty or forty seconds, I finally panicked.
This area belongs to the plain area, and the groundwater level is not too low, and the wells should be between 10 and 20 meters, so there is no need to dig such deep wells. Based on my dive speed of about one meter per second this time, it is conservatively estimated that the depth of this well has greatly exceeded the depth of a normal well.
The water temperature is still dropping, and it should have dropped from more than ten degrees to a few degrees on the water meter. It wasn't until I counted to sixty that my feet didn't touch the bottom of the well, and I finally panicked.
But I didn't want to give up so quickly, because I was curious about how deep the well was. Second, I know that if I float up now and say that I didn't step on the bottom, Zhang Yihan's girl will definitely tell me to come down again. So I just went on to dive.
It's just that as the underwater pressure increases, the speed of the dive becomes slower and slower. Finally, by the time I counted seventy-eight seconds, I finally reached the bottom of the well. Calculating the distance, it is initially estimated that the depth of this well should be at least about fifty or sixty meters.
However, as soon as my feet stepped on the bottom of the well, my heart trembled. Because I felt that what I was stepping on was not the mud I expected to imagine, but a soft mass that felt like a balloon.
Looking down, the first thing I saw was a reflective object, and it was my love madness5. I was glad that my trip had not been in vain.
But just as I reached for my phone, the well water suddenly rippled, and a black mass swayed with the water streaks. Immediately after, I saw a pair of eyes as big as a copper ball peeking out from behind the black object, which were human eyes, and the eyeballs were bulging out of the sockets
Ah, I opened my mouth in fright, and a long string of blisters popped up with a gurgling pattern.
Without hesitation, I quickly used all fours and tried my best to swim upstream