Eighteen cases, spread over a two-year time period.

In some relatively old cases, it is very difficult to investigate the trajectory of the deceased. Crucially, there is no way to determine when the missing people have been to that common place.

The day before the disappearance? A month before the disappearance? A year before the disappearance?

Although the case has a direction for investigation, it is still very difficult to implement, and the trajectory of the investigation can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

The police began to track the movements of the missing persons in the past six months, after all, it is relatively convenient to investigate in half a year.

Just when everyone was in full swing to investigate the trajectory of the missing person before the accident, the Jianglin City Criminal Police Team suddenly received a report, the informant was a sewer well maintenance worker, he said that a body was found in the sewer well.

This sudden news is not bad news for the criminal police who are investigating this serial disappearance case.

When a body is found, it is much easier to investigate the case, because the body will give us many clues.

But at the same time, it is bad news, if the deceased is not one of the victims of these 18 disappearances, then it means that someone else has been killed.

Lei Ji immediately rushed to the well where the body was found, with the criminal police team, technical team, and forensic doctor.

Jiang Tingbai and I also went with the team.

The sewer well where the body was found was on a suburban pavement in Jianglin City, and the sewer maintenance workers inspected and repaired the city's sewer well before the year-end holiday to ensure that there would be no leakage accidents during the Spring Festival.

When they routinely came to this well to inspect and repair, they found a dead body.

There are wells in every city, even downstairs where you live, and if you look closely, you will find that there are different words on the manhole cover.

Some say drainage, some say communication, and some say heat.

Some naughty children, when setting off firecrackers, will throw the lit firecrackers into the well to listen to the muffled sound of firecrackers.

This is not the right way to do this, as a leak in the well, such as flammable biogas, can cause an explosion. On the news, there are cases of children setting off firecrackers and crashing manhole covers to a height of more than 10 meters, which is very dangerous.

In addition, you will definitely not pay attention to the manhole cover, and you will definitely not lie on the manhole cover and look down through the round hole.

Perhaps, in the pitch-black sewer well, is the entrance to another world.

Perhaps, in the sewer well, there lives a demon, or a corpse is placed.

Perhaps, there will be a pair of eyes.

Blinking, which can be seen as a cute flirtatious signal.

Unless it comes from a pitch-black sewer well......

When the police arrived at the scene, a sewage suction truck was parked on the side of the road, and next to the sewage suction truck, three middle-aged maintenance workers were squatting, their expressions were very frightened, they kept smoking cigarettes, and more than a dozen cigarette butts were discarded on the ground.

The police car stopped on the side of the road and we got out of the car and walked towards them.

"Police...... Alarm...... Police, we didn't kill people, we didn't kill them, we just came to overhaul them......"

Seeing us coming, one of the maintenance workers hurriedly snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and explained tremblingly.

Reality is not a literary work, no one is calm after seeing a corpse, and even the criminal police and forensic doctors will have some tremors in their hearts when they see the corpse.

However, the performance of the three of them is relatively calm.

I've even met people who were scared and stunned when they found a corpse.

"How was the body found?" Lei Ji asked first.

"Yes...... Be...... I...... It's ......," the maintenance worker stammered, frightened.

Lei Ji was a little helpless and said, "Be careful, don't bite your tongue." You go and rest for a while, and then say someone else. ”

The maintenance worker swallowed hard, nodded and stepped back, and sat down on the side of the road.

"Can you make that clear?" Lei Ji said to the other maintenance worker beside him.

The maintenance worker looked up at Lei Ji and nodded weakly.

He was the foreman of the maintenance team, and he was the leader of the other two.

"We came here today to routinely inspect the well, but as soon as we went down, we found the body." He pretended to be calm, but his body trembled.

"How many bodies are there?" Lei Ji frowned and asked.

"A ......," he just finished speaking, and then shook his head: "Not a ...... It's that we only see one. ”

"Did you touch the corpse?" Lei Ji asked.

His head shook faster, like a rattle: "No ...... Didn't touch it. ”

Then, he turned his head and looked at the other maintenance worker: "Lao Liu, you found it, you can tell me." ”

The maintenance worker named Lao Liu hurriedly got up and said: "I didn't touch it, I haven't gone down to the end, I saw a dead man, and then I hurried up." ”

When Lei Ji questioned the informant, the criminal police behind him had already changed into protective clothing to go deep into the well and could go down to investigate the scene at any time.

I stood on the edge of the well and used my flashlight to check what was inside the well.

The well was about five meters deep, pitch black, and emitted a disgusting stench.

This stench is not the pungent, it is the stuffy one. I don't know if it's the smell of corpses coming from corpses, or the smell of sewage from the well.

Perhaps, it is a mixture of two foul smells.

The light from the flashlight hit the deep well, and I saw a man lying on his back at the bottom of the well.

Although the body was lying at the bottom of the well, it was lying on a platform at the bottom, similar to a staircase, and below the steps was the sewage and garbage from the well.

The function of this platform is to allow the maintenance worker to have a place to settle down after going down the ladder to the bottom end.

So the corpse was not submerged in sewage, and at the same time, it also shows that the corpse was abandoned here.

This is a corpse dumping site.

If the murderer deliberately hid the body, he would have hidden it deep inside the well, not in such a place where it could be seen at a glance.

This also shows that the murderer did not enter the well at all, but only removed the manhole cover and threw the body.

In this way, there is no trace of the murderer in the well, and we don't have to protect the scene, otherwise this narrow passage will be very difficult to investigate.

The criminal police in protective suits are ready to enter the well to retrieve the body, and the forensic doctor is also ready to carry out the autopsy at any time.

As the salvage work progressed, the body slowly rose.

I saw the corpse for what it was......