As they continued to descend, the walls of the shaft became more and more slippery, and it became extremely difficult to find each focal point.

"This well is old for many years, and the walls of the well are made of stone and cement. Cheer up and be careful. The master reminded.

"Master, this well is so slippery, how do they usually go down?" Li Muzi asked.

"Why do you want to come down?" Yuan Mu felt that Li Muzi had asked a stupid question.

"Gotta come down. To use our old saying, there has to be a machine called 'water', otherwise the water will be pumped up automatically. ”

"If it's a machine, it has to be maintained. It is difficult to ensure that there are no problems when working every day, so there will generally be a simple ladder for maintenance personnel to climb on the inner wall of the well. ”

The master shone the flashlight around, and continued: "It's just that this well is too old, and the ladders are all corrupted. ”

"Master, how deep did you say this well is?" Yuan Mu didn't dare to look down, only looked up to estimate the distance between himself and the wellhead.

"It's hard to say, it depends on the groundwater source. Generally, the well rig is hundreds of meters deep and 5 or 60 meters shallow. ”

"So deep!" Yuan Mu began to be stunned in his heart.

"This well is abandoned, it should have been filled, it won't be that deep." As he spoke, he shone his flashlight downward.

"You can already see the bottom of the well, it should be more than ten meters. It's okay, it's not deep. ”

When they were still two or three meters away from the bottom of the well, the master stopped their movements.

"Muzi, take a picture below to fix the evidence."

"Xiao Yuan carefully observes, wait for the on-site inspectors to set up the board, let's go down."

"The bottom of the well is a confined space, and the scene where the deceased fell from it more than a decade ago is what we see now. If you go on recklessly, you may destroy the evidence. ”

Yuan Mu knew that this was the master teaching them, so he hurriedly cheered up and observed the situation at the bottom of the well.

The space at the bottom of the well was large, and the thick mud and sand were piled with hundreds of animal carcasses, some of which had already been ossified, some of which had just begun to decompose, and from which the stench of rancid emanation emanated.

Seeing this, Yuan Mu closed her eyes, and the double stimulation of sight and smell made her a little uncomfortable.

"Strange. How can there be someone who just died. Li Muzi pointed to the corpse of a rat at the bottom of the well that was in the decay period.

"Although people can't come down here, it is a paradise for small animals, and fresh corpses are naturally indispensable." As he spoke, the master shone his flashlight in the direction of the human corpse.

As Yuan Mu said, although the body of the deceased has shown white ossification, its wide mouth and hideous movements can still show its abnormal anger and pain before death.

He ...... After falling...... Still alive ....... Yuan Mu's lips trembled slightly, she was horrified by her discovery.

The skeleton of the deceased was half-kneeling at the bottom of the well, and his hands remained in an upward climbing position. Judging from the twisted and broken fingers and the scratches on the wall of the well, he should have been ......desperately climbing up to call for help before he died.

"The wall of the well is so slippery, plus he has a broken right calf...... There was simply no chance to climb up. ”

Just by looking at the skeleton's posture, they could appreciate the suffocating despair of his death.

"He should be Yang Xiu." Yuan Mu couldn't bear to look at the bones in front of him anymore, and shone the flashlight on the sand next to him.

"That's his notebook. Wang Ren once said that Yang Xiu always carried a small brown book with him. ”

Their attention was drawn to the dark brown notebook where only a corner was exposed.

"It's been too long, and with the bite of the animals, it's estimated that there will be only a skin left." The master said with some regret.

"I don't know if the laptop in his bag can extract useful clues." Yuan Mu looked at the canvas bag in the corner.

"Hopefully."

"We came too late. He should have been struggling here for a long time....... ”

The master's flashlight swept over the deep pit at the bottom of the well, the traces of crawling, and the tiny bones that looked like they had been gnawed.

Since there was speculation that Yang Xiu had survived for a while after falling to the bottom of the well, Yuan Mu's whole person was not good. She looked around, and it was hard to imagine how desperate he was then.

"Don't think about it all the time, you can't understand his pain, and you don't have to." Li Muzi found out that Yuan Mu was wrong.

"Put away your rich imagination, he doesn't need you to do this for him, all we can do is to avenge him and find the murderer."

The master had also gone through the same mental journey, and he didn't want Yuan Mu to fall into it. "You go up first."

"Yuan Mu, our job is to find out the truth and give justice to the deceased. What we face is always the result, this is the criminal police, you have to learn to accept it. ”

Yuan Mu nodded, she knew that her current state was not suitable for staying at the scene, so she followed her master's advice and slowly climbed up.

When Yuan Mu came to the wellhead, she was a little uncomfortable by the dazzling sunlight, and she subconsciously blocked the light in front of her with her hand.

In just a few dozen minutes, it was so long, she lowered her head like a mole that had lived underground for a long time, avoiding the sun.

Ji Si'an stepped forward and didn't say anything, just hugged her gently. She understands the pain of seeing life pass away with her own eyes.

"Xiao An, it's even more terrifying than I imagined......." Yuan Mu couldn't say any more, and big tears fell.

Lori took out a tissue to help her wipe the tears from her face. "We'll catch the murderer." After saying that, the three of them hugged each other with their heads against their heads.

Due to the special situation at the scene, the on-site investigation work was not completed until the afternoon.

"Do you want to take all this back?" Yuan Mu looked at the animal bones and couldn't help but feel a little numb in his scalp.

"Gotta take it back. I'm of great use to these things, and I can't solve the case with this. I'm done with your meal. Although the old forensic doctor was answering Yuan Mu's question, his face was facing the detachment leader.

"Okay. As long as the case can be solved, not to mention one meal, ten meals will do. The detachment leader was infected by the confidence of the old forensic doctor and showed a long-lost smile.

"What the hell is going on?" Yuan Mu stabbed Li Muzi beside him and asked.

"I don't know. When he was at the bottom of the well, the old forensic doctor suddenly became interested in the pile of animal bones at the bottom of the well. It felt like he was more interested in the bones than the victims. One by one, they were carefully sealed, and some of them were held by themselves, and they didn't let us touch ....... Before Li Muzi finished speaking, he was called by the master to get into the car.

Seeing that the police work was over, Yuan Mu wanted to follow them back to the criminal police team, and Luo Li and Ji Si'an were also ready to leave.

"You two little girls, don't leave yet, let's go back to the criminal police team with us to make a record." The master called out to the two.

Since they hadn't been called that for a long time, it took them a long time to understand that the little girl in his mouth was referring to them.

Lori touched her cheek in confusion. "I haven't been called a little girl in years. It's a little uncomfortable to be called that all of a sudden. ”

"Come back with me. The fact that you found the body shows that your previous investigation was in the right direction. Go back, I will learn from you and listen to your thoughts. The master said humbly.

They had heard the name of 'Chenghuang Zhang Maniac' from Yuan Mu's mouth before, and knew that he was a very powerful criminal policeman, and he had solved many major cases in his police career.

Now people are standing in front of them, and they are still so kind and humble, which makes them a little flattered.

Without hesitation, the two agreed to his proposal and followed them back to the criminal police team.

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