Chapter II: The Scene of the Crime
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On the rugged mountain road, an open-top police car sped at a high speed, and the group was jolted from side to side, and after crossing a mountain road, they came to a small village with a small population. The small village of Pen, Fun and Pavilion www.biquge.info is built on the hill, with rows of houses, lush trees and green weeds on the edge of the village showing vigorous vitality. The hurried investigation team had no intention of admiring the beautiful scenery along the road, and the car kept moving forward until the small col where the incident occurred did not stop. Wei Dongbiao jumped out of the car first, then Wang Longqian and several experts also got out of the car, and Song Pengbiao, the director of the local police station, came up to shake hands with Wei Dongbiao first, and then came to Director Wang with Wei Dongbiao.
"This is our director, Director Wang Longqian." Song Pengbiao walked over and shook hands.
"Hello, Director Wang!"
"This is Officer Song Pengbiao, the head of the local police station." Wei Dongbiao said that he had been here once before. After the two sides exchanged pleasantries, the group walked towards the scene of the crime. At this time, a young girl with a ponytail and outdoor clothes walked by, and there was a young man with a video camera next to her, and the girl walked towards Director Wang with a wireless microphone: "Hello, Director Wang, I am a reporter from a science fiction magazine, my name is Jupiter Cloud, do you think this cattle slaughter incident was done by aliens?" ”
"Haha, I haven't been to the scene yet, and I haven't caught aliens, but aliens still can't get away with suspicion for the time being!" Director Wang said with a smile.
"There were a lot of related reports on the Internet before, but they were all deleted for no reason, is this related to the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics?"
"The previous reports may have been too different from the facts, and I deleted them before I could read them!"
"What's the focus of your investigation?"
"Let's see if the aliens have left any clues or lost and captured!"
"Officer Song, how is the protection at the scene?" Director Wang turned to Director Song as he walked and asked.
"It's not good, most of the people here are not highly educated, and they don't have any awareness of protecting the scene, and the parties will also look for elderly people in the village to see, and some are curious to see the excitement, and many people have been here when we received the news!" Song Pengbiao said with a frown.
"Did you find anything?"
"Similar to what was uploaded on the Internet, a total of nine cows were killed, and the death was horrific, the blood ran dry, and their tongues, eyes or houses were cut off! There is also a more miserable one, losing nearly half of it! ”
"Lost half? What do you mean? Wang Lung asked puzzled.
"It's just that half of my body is gone!"
"Did you leave any traces?"
"No, it seems to have disappeared out of thin air!" While speaking, the group had already come to the bullpen, and Director Song raised the cordon and everyone entered the scene. This cattle pen is not small, straddles the slope of the mountain, there are more than one acre, surrounded by a wooden fence, the turf in the pen is still preserved, and there are nine dead cows lying horizontally and vertically.
"Forensic Doctor Zhong, examine the corpse!" Director Wang commanded.
"Good!" Zhong Shenxiu carried the medical box on his back and examined the wounds of the dead cows one by one. Without waiting for Director Wang to speak, Li Zhen, a trace identification expert, began to take pictures of all the marks inside and outside the cattle pen with his camera. The rest of the people circled around the dead cow carcass a few times, and there were no valuable clues, so they left the cow pen, only the biology professor Mei Lin was very excited to see the dead bodies.
"Call the local villagers and ask about the situation!" Director Wang said to Director Song.
Director Song beckoned, and all the people who were watching the excitement just now gathered around, and standing at the front was a rural woman in her thirties, with her hair scattered, wearing a pair of black sandals with bare feet, and two red clouds floating on her slightly chubby face. Director Song said: "This is the owner of the bullpen where the incident occurred, Wang Dapan's daughter-in-law, Liu Erya, was the first she saw."
"Erya, tell Director Wang what you know." Director Song said to Liu Erya.
"Yesterday morning, I got up to graze the cattle, and as soon as I got to the cattle pen, I saw that more than half of our cattle were dead. I was so frightened that I immediately ran home and told my man, who came over with me to take a look, but didn't see what was going on. We went back and talked to the old man in the village. They all came to see it, and they didn't know what was going on, so they said let's call the police! Liu Erya finished talking about the day's experience very sadly.
"Didn't you hear anything the night before yesterday?"
"Huh?" Liu Erya couldn't keep up a little.
"Oh, I mean, did you hear anything the night before the incident, like a cow barking!" Director Wang hurriedly explained.
"Nope!" Liu Erya shook her head in confusion.
"Could it be revenge?" Director Wang asked again.
"Probably not!" Liu Erya shook her head again. At this time, someone in the crowd also spoke from the side: "It will definitely not be revenge, both of them are good people!" ”
"Yes, revenge won't do such a lack of morality, this is too hurtful!"
"That's right, if you kill a cow, you don't eat beef, and you spend half a day digging out your eyes and cutting your tongue!"
Director Wang listened to the villagers' gossip and reasonableness, and it is indeed impossible for the people of the village to do such a thing. Since he is not a local, the murderer of the cattle slaughter is more and more mysterious, and now he has to find some valuable clues through the locals. Thinking so, Director Wang raised his head and said to everyone, "The night before yesterday, did the big guy hear anything?" ”
"The night before yesterday? The night before yesterday it was thunder and lightning, and I couldn't hear anything. A young man said, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"What? Thunder the night before? Is it raining? Professor Zhou asked in surprise.
"No, it's just the kind of thunder!" The lad shook his head lightly.
"Officer Song, was it cloudy here the night before yesterday?" Professor Zhou turned around and asked Director Song.
"No, the day before yesterday was very clear, there were no clouds at all!"
"What's wrong? Professor Zhou! Director Wang leaned over and asked softly, and several other people also came over.
"It's a sunny day, there are no clouds, but there is thunder and flashes, what the young man said just now is very similar to a meteorite falling to the ground!" Professor Zhou whispered to Director Wang, several people glanced at each other, and suddenly Professor Wang Tong of chemistry said: "If this is the case, there will definitely be a remnant of a meteorite at the wound, I'll go over and take a look!" With that, he opened the cordon and ran to the nearest dead cow. The villagers watched several experts whisper, unable to understand what they were saying, and looked at each other one by one.
"Leader, in fact, we have long heard that there is such a thing as thunder on a dry day, and I heard that it is a bad omen!" An old man said with a cigarette pot.
"Haha, old man, you also heard thunder on a dry day?" Director Wang asked very kindly.
"yes!" The old man puffed out a cloud of smoke and replied firmly.
"What does that sound like?" Professor Zhou hurriedly asked.
"Boom, at first the sound was small, like an airplane, and then it became louder, boom and boom like a train!" The old man gestured as he spoke.
"You said it was flashing, didn't you?" Professor Zhou asked, pointing to the young man who had just spoken.
"Yes, I saw it before I went to bed, there were several white lights outside the window, and it was always bright!"
"Are those white rays straight or curved?" Professor Zhou continued to ask.
"I don't look good at this, it seems to be straight!" The young man said uncertainly.
"It's not white light, it's a glowing disc flying by! That's where the dead cow fell! A young man with reddish-brown hair said.
"Hmm" Professor Zhou nodded with satisfaction, turned his face to Director Wang and said, "Judging from the phenomenon they described, nine times out of ten it is the scene of a meteorite falling to the ground, let's see what Professor Wang Tong has found!" ”
After speaking, several people turned to the scene of the crime, Professor Wang Tong slowly opened the cordon and walked out, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him, he shook his head in disappointment at Professor Zhou. Professor Zhou was still a little unwilling, and walked up and asked, "Didn't find anything?" ”
"Hmm," Professor Wang nodded. "The wound was nothing but the flesh and bones of some animals, not even blood!"
Several experts went into the cattle pen again, carefully searching for clues on every inch of land. At this time, Mei Lin, a professor of biology, suddenly asked Director Wang: "Can you let the subject in, I have a few questions for them?" Director Wang straightened his waist and looked at Director Song next to him, Director Song beckoned Liu Erya into the warning range, and everyone also gathered around.
"This is Biology Professor Merlene, and she has a few questions for you." Director Song said.
"Is there anything unusual about this cow?" Merlin stood up from the half-left cow carcass.
"Before death? Abnormal? Er Ya asked in surprise.
"Ah, I mean, this cow is any different from other cows when it's alive?" Professor May explained.
Erya said: "Oh, this cow was born to grow slowly, we looked to the veterinarian, the veterinarian said, its liver is not good, we sold it several times but did not sell, the cow is not willing to ask, can only keep it!" ”
"Well, okay, there you go!" Merlin smiled and nodded. Director Song motioned for Er Ya to go out of the warning range, and several experts searched the turf of the cattle pen many times, and Director Song also accompanied him until the sun slowly sank before stopping. Everyone was so tired that they sat down on the grass to rest. Journalists and videographers from science fiction magazines withdrew ahead of schedule when they saw that the team of experts had found nothing.
"How? Guys, do you have any results? Director Wang asked, a few experts, look at me, I look at you, and shook his head.
"Director, there is a lack of necessary equipment at the site, and we need to bring back a corpse for further study." Mei Lin said, and the forensic doctor and Professor Wang on the side also agreed.
"Okay then, Director Song, you can arrange it!"
"Okay," Director Song nodded in agreement.
"It's getting late, and it's hard to get any results in this search, so let's go back to the city first!" After Director Wang finished speaking, he and a group of experts got into the police car and went back to the city. Everyone didn't have much to say along the way, and soon returned to the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and when they entered the conference room, they were so tired that they were lying on the table, and the director Mo Shoucheng had been waiting there for a long time.
"In order to improve efficiency and solve the case as soon as possible, we have to report on our respective on-site investigations tonight." Director Wang said earnestly. "Forensic Doctor Zhong, let's talk first!"
"Okay! In this cattle slaughter, a total of nine cattle were killed, and the carcasses were all at the scene, and there were no missing cases. The bodies at the scene were not intact, eight of them had their tongues, rafts, or eyes cut off, and the other had just over half of their bodies left. The wound was very neat, as if it had been cut by a surgical scalpel, it was all regular and round, it seemed to be pre-designed, the tissue around the wound was very hard, there was a fishy smell, it did not look like it was done by carnivores and scavengers, there was no trace of blood at the scene and around it, and the blood in the body was also drained. ”
"You mean all the blood drained?" Director Wang interrupted.
"Yes, I checked the rest of my body and it really didn't have any blood!"
"Well, go on!"
"Okay, except for the wound and blood, the other parts are well preserved, the cause of death is unknown!"
"The cause of death is unknown?" Director Mo Shoucheng, who had been listening to the report silently, suddenly asked in surprise.
"Yes, those wounds are not enough to kill, if you say fatal injuries, they can only be dried blood, but are there any traces of struggle at the scene, it is very similar to suicide by cutting the pulse?"
"Hahahaha"
"Suicide by cutting the veins of a cow? How awesome that must be! If you cut your veins and commit suicide, then the blood must have a destination? Director Wang quipped.
"So the cause of death is unknown!" Forensic Doctor Zhong repeated.
"Well, Elder Li, tell me about the results of your investigation of the scene!" Director Wang turned to Detective Li.
"Okay, when we went, the site was very badly damaged, and the cattle pen was built on a grassy field, and the footprints were even more unrecognizable. I carefully looked at the traces that could be distinguished at the scene, basically all of them were cow footprints and human footprints, and the nine cows that were slaughtered had no traces of pain and struggle before they died, and their skin and hair were very smooth, as if they had been euthanized! ”
"Hahaha, another sign of suicide!" Director Wang said with a smile.
"I also looked carefully at the grass around the dead cow, and not a single drop of blood fell to the ground. I also checked the fence around the cattle pen, and it was intact, there was no sign of damage, no signs of birds or animals, and that's all I saw at the scene. ”
"Well, others talk about it too!" Director Wang turned to Zhou Zhengtian.
"I asked the local villagers, and they said that there was thunder and lightning on the night of the incident, and according to Director Song, the weather was very sunny that day. Listening to their descriptions of the sound and white light, my first reaction was that a meteorite had fallen, and later Professor Wang conducted a detailed investigation of this."
"Yes, when I heard Professor Zhou mention that it was possible that a meteorite fell, I immediately conducted a careful examination of the wound and found that there were no traces of any meteorite either in the center or near the wound, and then Professor Zhou and I searched every inch of land around and found no crater!" Professor Wang Tong spread his hands helplessly.
"Well, let me tell you about my investigation, I looked at the wounds of the eight cows, and the results of the forensic examination were the same, and I carefully observed the cow, which was only half of its body left, as if it had been operated on by some sophisticated instrument, and half of its body was taken away without bleeding. This cow's liver function was not good before it was born, and its growth was extremely slow, so I didn't even want to buy cattle, and it grew to more than 200 kilograms after a long time! ”
"Well, is there anything else anyone else can add?" Director Wang asked.
"No more!" Several experts glanced at each other.
"Okay, now I'll talk about the next division of labor. After Forensic Doctor Zhong and Mr. Li went back, they made a forensic identification and trace examination report, and each sent a copy. Then Forensic Doctor Zhong and Professor Mei had to dissect the corpse they brought back, Professor Wang was responsible for conducting a chemical analysis of the wound, and Professor Zhou was responsible for investigating the sound of thunder and white light that we asked about the people today, and checking the celestial phenomena of the day. Director Wei Dongbiao and I looked up the materials of cattle slaughtering in other countries and learned about their ideas and techniques for studying this matter. Let's go back and think about it separately, and we will have a meeting tomorrow to continue the discussion. Director Mo, is there anything else to add? Wang Lung dived to Mo Shoucheng.
"Well, there is nothing to add, just to remind everyone that the investigation of this matter should proceed from objective reality, seek truth from facts, and don't make an ordinary case out of the blue. After listening to your report, I think some experts are still very impetuous, which is not a scientific attitude. Okay, now that I'm done, let's go back and prepare for tomorrow's meeting! After speaking, Mo Shoucheng signaled the meeting to adjourn, and the experts, who had been tired all day, dragged their tired bodies out of the conference hall.
"Professor Zhou, how do you go back?"
"Drive back by yourself!" Zhou Zhengtian looked at Mei Lin behind him. "What's the matter?"
"Haha, no!" I mean, if you don't drive, I'll give you a ride.
"Eh, at the meeting today, you don't seem to have finished speaking!" Zhou Zhengtian asked suspiciously.
"Hehe, you'll know tomorrow!" Merlin grimaced at him and left, shaking his head at Merlin's background and leaving the Bureau of Surveys and Statistics headquarters.