An accident flashed on the face of the local medical examiner.

He didn't find this at the first autopsy, maybe he wasn't professional enough, or maybe he couldn't get as close as he did.

At this time, he put down the broken bones, and saw him leaning over to observe the skin of the deceased's neck, which was only twenty or thirty centimeters away from the bloody wound.

It seemed that he had found something again, but he didn't extract it directly, but raised his head to look at Jing Ming, and his low voice was calm and peaceful: "Do you want to try?"

With a beating in her heart, she glanced at the broken mouth, and even though she was related, she still mustered up the courage to nod.

So he went around to the other side, endured the inner turmoil, and tried not to miss out to check the wound on his neck.

The local forensic doctor who was watching couldn't bear to look at him.

Eventually, she saw a very tiny piece of reddish-yellow powder on the back of the corpse's neck, her eyes jumped slightly, and after extracting it with a cotton swab, she straightened up and placed it in front of her to study it carefully.

The medical examiner asked, "What is this?"

Xie Song: "Like rust." ”

After the evidence of the corpse is extracted, a second autopsy will be performed.......

At nearly 11 o'clock that night, the Criminal Investigation Bureau held its first meeting.

The Mo team explained the situation at the scene where the body was found: "The cliff is not high, the height is 8-9 meters, and it is about 3 floors.

The deceased's name is ***, born in 79, digging fungi and selling egg fungus for a living, except for the weather, otherwise he has to go to the mountain every day to collect mushrooms and fungus, and the cliff he fell down is the only way for him to go up the mountain every day. ”

Trace inspector Gu Zai: "We collected all the footprints at a distance of 100 meters before and after the road where the deceased fell. ”

Fortunately, after the body was found, the people in the village had scruples and did not pass by that road again, so the footprints before the crime were retained. ”

"From the first 100 meters to the scene of the crime, the deceased's footprints were normal walking towards the mountain, until the place of the crime, that is, the location of the cliff, the footprints we investigated became very chaotic, the deceased seemed to be very frightened before he died, the footprints from normal forward to panicked backwards, and the heel was facing the direction of the cliff. ”

In other words, the deceased probably encountered someone or something that frightened him at that time, and resisted all the way to the cliff. ”

He speculated: "This is very likely, and we found a footprint at the scene that was face to face with the deceased, but it was mostly covered by other footprints, and a total of 6 people's footprints were collected at the scene, including the deceased." ”

Looking at Ah Cheng, Team Mo explained: "Early tomorrow morning, you will take people to check who the footprints of the other 5 people belong to one by one." ”

The latter nodded: "Understood." ”

"Old Song, how are you doing over there?"

Xie Song's eyes were dark, and his lips moved: "The deceased had multiple fractures in his body, and the whole body cells were ischemia and necrosis, and the cause of death was the separation of the head and body, the spinal nerves were severed, and the brain was sharply ischemic resulting in the loss of brain function and entering a state of brain death."

Without a brainstem, the heartbeat will enter a temporary arrhythmia, which will stop beating. ”

"The deceased fell to the ground head-on, and the corpse spots were mainly visible in the front body, and the body was not moved. The neck wound was blunt, the incision was uneven, and the main flesh was also cut, and it was not yet possible to see what kind of murder weapon the murderer used. ”

"The deceased's cervical vertebrae had been fractured by a heavy blow, and further analysis is needed to determine whether it was caused by a fall. There were no other injuries on the body except for the fall, indicating that the deceased had not fought with the murderer before his death, and the blood extracted from the deceased's neck had not yet had time to be analyzed. ”

"In addition, we found traces of brownish-red granular powder at the back of the corpse's neck, composed of ferric oxide hydrate and iron hydroxide, which confirmed that rust had grown on ordinary iron tools. ”

"Rust?" Team Mo asked, "Could it be left from the murder weapon that the murderer used to cut his neck?"

"I don't rule it out. After speaking, he added: "I think I need to go to the scene of the crime tomorrow." ”

Team Mo bowed.

The clouds drifted, the bright moon gradually dewed, and the cold light fell all over the ground, and a group of people sat in the simple conference room in the township, analyzing the case with the night!

The next day, under the leadership of the mayor of the town, the criminal investigation department and his party entered the village again, and the soldiers were divided into three routes, and the investigation team followed Xie Song all the way to the scene of the crime.

Drum boy and others have already come once, first take Xie Song and the two up to the cliff, everyone is wearing shoe covers, all the way, in addition to the fallen dead leaves on the road, the ground is hard plaster.

"This is it. Everyone stopped, and the drummer pointed to a location on the edge of the cliff and said, "Where the deceased fell off the cliff, traces can still be seen with the naked eye." ”

Xie Song and Jing Ming put on their gloves familiarly, and the former's gaze had already begun to patrol within a radius of 1 meter.

The cliffs were covered with trees with thick arms, and he walked close to the side of the cliff, and he could see the bottom of the cliff at a glance, and he could see the footsteps of the deceased sliding down the cliff.

After some investigation, there were no new clues on the cliff, and a group of people went down to the bottom of the cliff.

Originally, this was not a road, but after stepping on too much, a path less than two meters wide was formed, so the soil was much harder than above, and the rolling stones that slipped from the cliff accumulated on the side of the road, half in the dirt, half exposed in people's field of vision.

"This is where the body fell. ”

Xie Song heard the sound and saw that the location of the corpse was drawn on the ground with a white waterproof pen, and a large amount of blood was mixed into the gray-yellow soil.

He looked around the corpse, and there were red blood rings of various sizes splattered on the ground, except for some stones that had sunk into the ground, and there were no tools that could be used as murder weapons.

He walked around the corpse, his lips pursed slightly, his eyes sharp, and when he came to one place, he crouched down on one knee, stared fixedly at a dented mud pit on the ground, and then looked away and glanced around.

"Old Song, have you made a discovery?" Ah Chao walked over, and several other people stepped forward one after another.

"Where has this stone gone?" he said, fixing his gaze on the mud puddle in front of him, and as he spoke, he reached out and felt the wetness of the soil.

Within a few days of the stone being pulled out of the ground, the color and wetness of the stone should be very different from that of the ground.

"I don't know. Looking around, Ah Chao replied casually.

"Is there anything wrong with a mud pit?"

Xie Song shook his head: "I'll take a look first." ”

Then he called Jingming: "Help me get the ruler." ”

Opening the exploration box, Jing Ming took out the ruler and handed it to him, the latter took it, measured the diameter of the bottom and mouth of the mud pit respectively, then collected the ruler, got up and said to the others: "Please carefully find out if there are any stones of this size nearby, don't be stuck in the ground." His fingers were pressed together, giving a range of sizes.

A few people didn't ask much when they heard this, so they turned around and looked everywhere.

The physical and chemical inspector Ah Hua couldn't help but be curious: "What's wrong?"

He asked slowly, "Is there a result of the blood analysis on the ground?"

"Just came out in the morning, only the DNA belonging to the deceased. ”

He nodded, and then answered the previous question: "I'm not sure either. ”

The three people who stayed behind continued to investigate at the scene, Ah Hua had already investigated yesterday, and today is considered a re-investigation.

Squatting down next to the neck where the blood was most abundant, Xie Song's main attention was on the blood stains on the mud floor, and he lowered his eyebrows in contemplation.

The neck scar incision was uneven, and the deceased's cervical vertebrae had suffered a heavy blow, but there was no sign of repeated cutting of the flesh......

As his thoughts flickered, there was the sound of eager footsteps not far away, followed by Ah Chao's voice: "I really found the stone you said, and there are dried blood stains on it." ”

Several people looked at the stone in his hand, and Ah Hua wore gloves and first extracted the small amount of blood distributed on the stone.

Xie Song took it and held it in his hand again, feeling that the volume and weight were slightly smaller for him.

"We're going to do an experiment. ”

Chao: "What experiment?"

"Check the age of the murderer, whether he is male or female. Without everyone knowing, he has already instructed his colleagues to prepare fifteen-centimeter-sized sheepskin, imitation plasma, a skeleton model of the upper body, and a knife that is not very sharp.

Everyone understood this, and Jing Ming asked, "Master, are you going to replay the process of the murderer's crime?"

According to the degree of damage to the sheepskin and bones, the range of blood splashes, and the different forces of each blow when the stone was smashed into the back of the knife, the final results of the experiment showed that the sex of the murderer was biased towards women and men aged 14-16, and the final gender had to wait for the analysis report of the drumboy's footprints.

This round of re-investigation has been quite fruitful.

At around 11 a.m., a TV station car stopped at the entrance of the village, a 20-minute walk from Wutou Village.

The people in the car got down one after another, revealing a pair of canvas shoes, flat boots, and sneakers, all of whom had different styles.

"Is it true that our car can't get in?" Huaiyin looked at the two trails that stretched into it, and still asked more without giving up.

Yuan Zhong, a colleague from the information department who was in charge of driving, said: "Our models are relatively large, and it is still a test of technology, and I am afraid that there will be cars in the village, where will I let them go when the time comes." ”

Li Lixing: "It's okay, just exercise." ”

Among the group of people are Ah Wei, Li Lixing, Huaiyin, Yuanzhong, and Shi Tan.

"So which way do we go now?" Huaiyin asked, with two choices in front of him, one left and one right, no matter which road, both sides of the road are overgrown with grass and trees, and the ground is primitive yellow mud ground, far less flat and easy than asphalt.

"Navigating to this has stopped. Looking up from the screen, Yuan Zhong pointed to the one on the right: "Let's go this way." ”

The group then walked forward, the women were carrying lightweight backpacks, the daily skin care products and a change of clothes in the bags had been placed in the car, and the rest were diaries and voice recorders needed for interviews.

The backpacks of the two men are much larger, both of them are journalists, and the bags are full of cameras, microphones and other related equipment.

Shi Yi habitually walked at the end, with Li Lixing and Huaiyin in the middle, and Yuan Zhong and Ah Wei in front of him.

The temperature in the mountains was low, everyone was wearing slightly thicker coats, and she had canvas shoes under her feet, so she walked relatively lightly, and followed the team while paying attention to her surroundings.

Since the day Shi Tan officially rejected Ah Wei, this time it was the first time Ah Wei appeared with her, and his eyes were always out of his control, and he frequently turned back to look for her, and every time, he fell in Li Lixing's eyes.

After walking for about ten minutes, the terrain became higher and higher, and when I looked to the left front, the buildings of Headless Village came into view, but the distance was getting farther and farther.

"Wrong. Yuan Zhong patted his head: "It's over, I'm going to go back to another way." ”

"Huh?" wailed Huaiyin, his breath a little unsteady after a section of the mountain road.

Li Lixing also has dissatisfaction in her heart, she is wearing boots, and it is no problem to go shopping, but walking on uneven dirt roads and carrying things on her shoulders, it is impossible not to be tired, but she does not show her dissatisfaction.

Shi Yi turned around and returned to the original road without saying a word, and when the others saw this, they all followed one after another.

She was sweating a little, her cheeks were rosy, and the autumn and winter wind blew through her sweat-soaked skin, bringing a kind of piercing coolness.

Taking out the mineral water from her backpack, she couldn't unscrew it for a long time, and a hand reached out next door, and she couldn't help but break up and take it: "I'll help you." ”

Then there was a click, the lid opened, and Ah Wei handed it back to her.

"Thank you. Without squirming, she took it and poured a few sips.

The person next to her watched as her throat rolled gently with the action of swallowing, and his gaze moved down her neck to her collarbone....

Staggered his gaze, he didn't dare to look again.

"Shi Yi," he hesitated for a moment, "Do you still blame me?"

Liu frowned slightly, she closed the bottle cap, and asked suspiciously: "What are you complaining about?"

Her tone was both casual and genuinely incomprehensible, and Ah Wei tried to capture even a hint of strong generosity from her tone or expression, but to no avail.

I don't know where to say what I had expected.

"Can we do it all over again?"

Shi Yi replied nonchalantly: "Recognize again?"

"You know, that's not what I meant. ”

She ignored it.

"I've sent you a lot of messages before, and you rarely reply. ”

"I remember I had a reply. ”

"That's just the work. ”

"We don't have much to talk about in private other than work. ”

There was a ray of obscurity in his eyes, and he didn't give up: "Did you really let go so quickly?"

Glancing at him lightly, she said, "I haven't even had time to mention it yet." ”

"Shi Yi...."As soon as he opened his mouth, there was suddenly an extra person beside him.

"Ah Wei, help me open it. ”

Shi Yi didn't even have the heart to glance at the person, who else could catch up besides Li Lixing.

She took a larger stride, slowly closing the distance between the two of them.

And Ah Wei, who was left to open the bottle cap for Li Lixing, kept his eyes on her, and just handed the water aside, and grabbed his sleeve with one hand: "I'm a little tired, I borrow you to help." ”

After speaking, Li Lixing took a sip of water, and handed the bottle to him and closed the lid.

A group of people returned the same way, and Huaiyin, who has never liked sports, couldn't help wailing again and again: "After taking the car for so long, I have to walk such a long mountain road, when will I be able to get there?"

Yuan Zhong was also half sweating, but he still had a joking mood: "Who told you to be drawn for your life." ”