I looked around, Jiang Jun was asking the villagers outside the Xiao family compound, and I noticed that Da Zhuang, the old Chinese medicine doctor, and the old god stick would look at me from time to time. And Shen Nuo searched carefully in the courtyard step by step. She crouched down, and she didn't notice my progress at all because she was so serious.

I picked up the rope by the well, tied it to the big pillar in front of the house, and after making sure that it was tied firmly enough, I grabbed a flashlight in my hand and one end of the rope in the other, and went down the well. The mouth of the well was not large, and with the help of ropes, and with my feet on the wall of the well, I was able to go down the well at a relatively gentle speed.

Although it was an empty well, it was not as dry as I thought it would be. The walls of the well are covered with moss. If it weren't for my grip on my hands, I would have almost slipped. Finally, I fell to the bottom of the well, and there were several large rocks at the bottom of the well. It was covered in blood, and I saw the location of the stones and corpses before the camel was pulled up.

The stones were pressed against the camel, that is, the blood stains on the stones were not contaminated until they were hit on the camel. I gently moved the big stone away, and there were already a lot of weeds growing at the bottom of the well, and some of the weeds had broken their blades, which were traces of being crushed.

I crouched down and looked closely by the light, and finally, I found what I was looking for: some grass that had left the soil. The well has been empty for a long time, and no one will be idle to play under it, so the weeds in it will grow in a mess until the camel falls. But it will not be separated from the soil.

A few grasses were visibly detached from the soil, and a few had only broken grass blades. They were scattered among the weeds, and it was clear that they had been pulled out. According to the psychology of the general murderer, the sooner the better, so the murderer will not go down the well to create this illusion, and for the murderer, there is no need for him to do more.

Therefore, the grass was pulled out by the camel, and as for why the camel came to pull the weed, it was very simple: after the camel fell into the well, the big stone fell down, and the camel would struggle, and the bottom of the well was too narrow, and the camel had nowhere to hide. So the way the camel struggles is to grab the weeds at the bottom of the well.

This is the instinctive reaction of people, when they are hit hard but do not die, they will grab the things around them, and want to get to the top to resist the falling crisis.

In this way, the time of the camel's death is speculated: the camel was still alive after falling into the well. Judging from the superficial characteristics, the camel showed no signs of poisoning or suffocation, and in connection with this, it can be preliminarily determined that the cause of the camel's death was that he was stoned down by the murderer after he fell into the well.

At this height, it is obvious that one stone cannot kill a camel, so the murderer used several stones.

Just as I was thinking carefully, another beam of light hit me from top to bottom, and I looked up, it was Shen Nuo. She called me on the well, and I responded to Shen Nuo and asked him to find a few villagers to come in. Shen Nuo didn't ask much, and immediately went to do so, I took off my coat, wrapped the big stone, and tied the stone tightly with hemp rope.

At my request, the villagers pulled the big stones up, and after the rope was lowered, I pulled all the big stones out of the well smoothly in the same way. After going up the well, only Shen Nuo stood alone by the well and waited for me, she was a little dissatisfied, saying that those residents didn't want to help at all, and if it weren't for the persuasion of the old Chinese medicine doctor and the old god, no one would come in at all.

After the stone was pulled up, the villagers hurriedly ran out of the Xiao family compound, as if they were afraid that the Xiao family compound would harm them. I laughed, these villagers are superstitious after all.

I pointed to the stones: "These stones may be the killing tools that caused the death of the camel, and when the police are contacted, maybe some fingerprints can be found on them." ”

After that, I continued to observe the carcass of the camel. It is almost certain that the camel died after it fell into the well, but I still need to determine the specific time of the camel's death, and without forensic and forensic scientific identification, I can only rely on my own judgment. The corpse has grown corpse spots, the so-called corpse spots, which are a common corpse phenomenon.

After death, the blood circulation stops, and the blood in the cardiovascular system lacks power and accumulates along the vascular network in the lower part of the corpse, and the high blood vessels of the corpse are empty, and the lower blood vessels of the corpse are congested, resulting in corpse spots. These marks begin as cloudy and patchy, and eventually become flaky.

The camel has a darker complexion, so his corpse spots are lighter. Generally speaking, two to four hours after death is the period of accumulation, after 12 hours to reach the diffusion period, and the infiltration period takes more than 24 hours.

At each stage, the corpse spots are different in color, distribution and shape, and the corpse spots on the camel's body have obviously spread to the maximum and are no longer transferred and spread, which is the manifestation of the diffusion period to the infiltration period, and it is also a corpse phenomenon that will occur about 24 hours after death.

So it can be determined that the camel has been dead for about twenty hours.

Twenty-four hours have passed since the camel was separated from us last night until the body was found, that is, not long after the camel left his home, he died in this well.

The old Chinese medicine doctor brought a white cloth, which I carefully covered the body with.

At this time, Shen Nuo also happened to complete the survey in the courtyard of the Xiao family. The yard was overgrown with weeds, so there was no way to find traces of footprints with the naked eye alone. However, Shen Nuo observed very carefully, and he found two traces on the steps of the Xiao family's house behind the well.

The steps were full of dust, and Shen Nuo took me to see the two traces. It's not palm prints, it's not hand prints, it's not footprints, those two subtle traces, I can't tell what was left. Each trace is made up of two parts, one of which appears to be rectangular, about one centimeter long and half a centimeter wide, and the other about ten centimeters below the rectangle, smaller than the area of the rectangle and close to the shape of a thin line.

There are two such traces, which are relatively close to each other.

"I don't know what this mark is." Shen Nuo said to me: "However, I think it is likely to have something to do with the murderer. ”

The well is located less than two meters in front of the steps, and this step is not directly facing the main entrance of the house, there is an eaves to block it, so the dust on it is not washed away by the rain, and it has accumulated for a long time, and the dust on it is very thick. Except for Xiao Lao and Da Zhuang, no one in the village will enter the Xiao family compound, and Da Zhuang and Xiao Lao will go in and out of the house, and they will walk through the main gate, and they should all know that there is a well here, so they will not come to step on this step, so no one has left any footprints on the steps.

Obviously, these two traces were left not long ago, and Shen Nuo determined that they were probably left by the murderer.

Other than that, Shen Nuo didn't find any other traces that could be seen with the naked eye. Without a camera, I couldn't guarantee that these two marks wouldn't be lost, so I kept their shapes firmly in my head. Wood Gang Field Technique.

When I came out of the Xiao family's compound, it was close to ten o'clock in the evening, and the villagers were complaining, asking when they would be able to go back.

Jiang Jun didn't know when he had an extra pen and an old used account book, and the interrogation record was recorded on the back of the account book. Jiang Jun told me that he had asked about it, and I believed Jiang Jun, so I nodded directly and told the villagers that everyone could go back.

Everyone didn't like this place, and they all dispersed in a hurry.

The old Chinese medicine doctor instructed me, saying that if there was a place for him to be useful, even if he told him, after speaking, the old Chinese medicine doctor also walked in the direction of home. As for the old god, he looked at us a few more times, and then left without saying a word.

In the end, except for the three of us, only Da Zhuang was left who had not left.

Da Zhuang stepped aside, picked up a bowl of rice in the corner, and was about to go inside, but I stopped Da Zhuang.

Da Zhuang looked at me and asked me why I stopped him.

Me: "You want to bring food to Xiao Lao"

I stared at the big bowl of rice in Da Zhuang's hand, mixed with a few greasy vegetables, and the people who watched it were disgusted. Da Zhuang nodded, he said that he had just gone back and was going to deliver food to Xiao Lao, which was confirmed by Jiang Jun.

I smiled: "Didn't you say that I can go and ask for Xiao Lao's consent, and I'll go in with you." ”

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