The young college student village secretary got up early to prepare breakfast for us, his hands and feet were very nimble, and he was very skillful in cooking, and it seemed that he had fully adapted to the rural life here.

Soon, a simple and hearty breakfast was ready. To say simple, breakfast only has steamed buns and soup, to say rich, the soup is made of black snakes.

After a while, Li Meng slowly opened the door and limped out. Her face was a little pale, and the fever had subsided, but she still looked very weak.

Fortunately, the black snake is not poisonous, and with the secret snake wound medicine, the wound has already shown signs of healing, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

At the dinner table, the five of us sat together for breakfast.

Li Meng sat next to me, took a sip of the soup in the bowl, turned his head and asked curiously, "This soup tastes a little strange, what is it made of?" ”

Neither of us spoke to her question, we just looked at each other and smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Meng asked puzzled.

Xu Huan asked with a smile on his face and a little expectation in his eyes, "How is it, is it delicious?" ”

Li Meng picked up the soup bowl, took another sip, smacked his lips and tasted it carefully, nodded, and recognized Xu Huan's cooking skills: "The taste is very fresh, it is a taste that I have never tasted, it is very delicious, what is it made of?" ”

Xu Huan was about to open his mouth to tell her the origin of this soup, but I hurriedly interjected: "If it's delicious, drink more, you are very weak now, this soup is very nutritious, drink more to replenish your body." ”

Li Meng looked at our strange expressions, although he felt that we had something to say, and he was very puzzled, but he didn't continue to ask, and gulped down the soup in the bowl.

It seems that Xu Huan's cooking skills are really good, and after a while, the soup in Li Meng's bowl bottomed out. She stood up and picked up the spoon to fill another bowl, but she had just filled a spoonful when her body suddenly froze and she let out a question.

Because she saw an unknown strip of meat in the spoon, and there were faint black streaks on it.

She was stunned for a long time, looked at us in disbelief, and asked tremblingly, "Is this ...... It won't be ......"

I smiled and nodded, and said to her, "Drink more, this is a big tonic, and this is the only one, I can't eat it anymore." ”

The corners of Li Meng's mouth twitched slightly, her already pale face became even more ugly, and she looked carefully at the meat in the soup again, at this moment, she had already guessed where the meat came from.

She slowly put down the spoon, only to feel a little tumbling in her stomach, a burst of nausea, hurriedly covered her mouth, limped out of the yard, squatted in the corner and vomited wildly.

Xu Huan looked at Li Meng's figure running out, and looked at me with some embarrassment: "This ......"

I waved my hand and calmly took a bite of the steamed bun: "It's okay, let's eat ours, she will vomit for a while." ”

In order to cooperate with the serious crime team to go deep into Dong'an Village to investigate without revealing their identities, the Municipal Public Security Bureau only sent two criminal policemen, dressed in civilian clothes, to enter the village committee pretending to be government personnel who had come to inspect the village.

At this time, the village committee became the temporary police office for the human bone case in Dong'an Village.

"Hello, I'm Sun Zhen, a criminal police officer of the Dong'an Public Security Bureau, and this is Li Gong, a forensic doctor."

"Qin Mu of the Serious Crime Team."

"Serious Crime Team Li Meng."

After shaking hands with them one by one, we began to analyze the case of the discovery of human bones in Dong'an Village in the room of the village committee.

"We have performed an autopsy on the human bone that was found, it was an adult male tibia, and based on the proportions of the human skeleton, it is inferred that the deceased was between fifty and sixty years old and about one meter seven in height. Normally, when a body is buried in the soil, it will begin to decompose after ten days, and it will decompose into white bones after more than two months, but I found no traces of soil burial on my tibia, and it is very likely that the deceased was exposed to the air and formed white bones. ”

Forensic doctor Li Gong explained to us the clues found on the tibia.

But this was not enough for solving a criminal case, so I frowned and asked him, "Can you determine the cause and time of death?" ”

Forensic doctor Li Gong's expression was a little hesitant, he hesitated for a moment before he said faintly: "There is no way to accurately deduce the time of death for the time being, but the deceased is exposed to the air, so it will take at least two years to completely ossify." As for the cause of death, the disappearance of the skin and subcutaneous tissue means that the total damage to the body surface is lost, and there is only one tibia, and the cause of death is difficult to determine. However, we have extracted a trace of air-dried muscle tissue from this tibia, which is already undergoing an autopsy, and there will be news in a few days. ”

At present, only a rough time of death can be determined, and these clues are far from enough, and such an incident in the village is easy to cause panic among the villagers.

Xu Huan, the village party secretary, said that the dog with the human bone in his mouth is the dog of Uncle Wang's family in the village, and generally speaking, the range of activities of the domestic dog is not too large, indicating that the source of the bone is near the village.

In Dong'an Village, cremation has always been practiced, and the deceased was not buried, although there is a great possibility of homicide, but it cannot be ruled out that the deceased died in an accident.

"Has the identity of the deceased been clarified? Are there any reports of missing persons in the vicinity? I asked again.

If you want to know where this tibia came from, you can only start from the source of the corpse.

Criminal policeman Sun Zhen showed the same hesitant expression as forensic doctor Li Gong, and said helplessly: "In the past few days, I have searched all seven villages in Dong'an County, but there is no report record of missing persons, and there is no record of missing persons in the entire Dong'an City that matches the identity of the deceased. ”

"This ......"

No one reported the case, no one went missing, only a tibia and a vague image of the deceased at the moment, no precise time of death, and the cause of death is unknown.

So where did this tibia come from?

Normally, the deceased had been exposed to the air for at least two years, and it was impossible for them not to be discovered by nearby villagers.

"Could it be that the deceased was not from Dong'an City, but a foreigner, who suddenly fell ill and died suddenly when passing through Dong'an Village?" Li dreamed about it and made his guess to us.

I denied her opinion: "Even if this is the case, a foreigner dies on the side of the road, even if the villagers find out and do not call the police and do not rescue, they will not let the body be exposed to the air and decompose freely, and it will take up to two years." ”

There was a long silence in the room, and there were so few clues at the moment that even if everyone was a detective, they couldn't do it.

After about two minutes, Li Meng spoke again, this time with a conjecture that made us all think deeply: "Could this man have been killed by a trap made by the villagers?" That's why the villagers didn't call the police? ”