Wang Ergou was delighted and ran over in two steps. Together with Zhang Dazhuang, he grabbed the fishing net and pulled it back with all his strength.

The fishing net was heavy to begin with, and it became even heavier after it got wet. In addition, the fish in the water were large and strong, so one person could not pull it ashore.

The two men grunted and tried hard, but the fishing net tonight was much heavier than usual.

Zhang Dazhuang said excitedly:

"Looks like we've caught a big one today! Ergou, hurry up and try harder! Next month's cigarette money is all in it!"

When Wang Ergou heard this, he immediately pulled harder.

It took the two of them more than ten minutes to finally pull the big net out of the water and onto the shore.

Zhang Dazhuang excitedly shone his flashlight over there, expecting to see a large fish in the fishing net. However, he didn't see a single fish. He only found a large red suitcase at the bottom of the net. He was stunned.

How could there be a suitcase in the water?

Wang Ergou was exhausted. He shone his flashlight over and found that there was not a single fish in the net. He was immediately furious and kicked the suitcase:

"What a piece of crap! It's a waste of all your energy!"

Wang Ergou kicked with great force, but the red suitcase did not move at all.

Zhang Dazhuang's eyes lit up and he became interested. It looked like there was something in it!

He walked over in two or three steps, pulled Wang Ergou away, and looked up and down the suitcase. He found the zipper and tried to pull it, but it didn't move.

Wang Ergou knew something good was going on when he saw this, so he quickly came over, picked up the flashlight and diligently shone it on Zhang Dazhuang, saying curiously:

"It seems to be stuck in the water plants."

Zhang Dazhuang looked closely and under the dim light of the flashlight he could see a large black mass wrapped around the zipper.

With Wang Ergou's help to light the way, he simply threw away the flashlight in his hand, pressed the suitcase with one hand, and pulled the zipper hard with the other. After gritting his teeth and exerting force, he heard a "click" and the stuck zipper was actually pulled open!

Zhang Dazhuang's face lit up with joy, and he reached out to open the lid of the suitcase. Wang Ergou also quickly shone the flashlight over there.

This beam of light just happened to illuminate a pair of gray-white eyeballs that were swollen like cow eyes and were staring straight at them. At the same time, a disgusting stench of corruption instantly hit the two men in the face!

"ah--"

“Ghost—”

All that was heard was a series of screams echoing in the ravine in the middle of the night, startling countless flying birds.

The next morning, the Dongcheng Police Station received a report and Gao Huanyu and Liu Jun were ordered to go to the scene to check the situation.

By this time, it was already dawn. The two men who had reported the discovery of the body were also brought back to the scene of the incident. They were now hiding in a distance, huddled together and shivering.

The forensic doctor was examining the body in the suitcase, and Gao Huanyu walked straight over to inquire about the situation.

Liu Jun glanced at the open suitcase and his face instantly became very ugly. After hesitating for a moment, he turned and walked towards the two people who reported the case.

After approaching, Gao Huanyu carefully examined the suitcase and found that the suitcase was not red as the person who reported the case said. Its base color was more beige. It was just that the outer shell of the suitcase was made of coarse cloth, so a lot of blood seeped out from the inside and dyed a large area of ​​the outside of the suitcase red.

Obviously, after being soaked in water for a long time, the traces of blood have dissipated a lot, but the parts that have been stained with blood can still be clearly seen at a glance.

Gao Huanyu frowned. Just looking at the blood-soaked part of the suitcase revealed something unusual—

If the victim was killed with a sharp weapon and bled to death, common sense would indicate that most of the blood would be concentrated at the bottom of the suitcase. However, almost every surface of the suitcase's shell was stained with blood, which could not be caused by just one or two bleeding wounds.

Looking at the body in the suitcase again, the extremities had turned to bones, and the muscle tissue on the torso was protected by the low temperature of the pond water and the outer shell of the suitcase, forming a grayish-white waxy substance. Wrapped in the zipper of the suitcase were a large number of hairs that had fallen off from the scalp. From these appearances, it can be seen that the victim had been dead for not too long.

Sure enough, the forensic doctor who had completed the preliminary examination gave a more accurate answer -

The female corpse's head was severed at the neck, and there were multiple wounds on her face and body caused by sharp weapons. Although many parts of the body had already decayed and decomposed, more than 40 wounds could still be identified.

Judging from the situation in the oral and nasal cavity, no white or light red foam residue was found, and there was no trace of large amounts of drowning fluid deep in the respiratory tract. The small amount of drowning fluid may be "false inhalation" caused by the decomposition of the corpse.

There were no punctate hemorrhages in the scalene muscles, which did not match the symptoms of struggling muscle bleeding during drowning. However, there was a fracture of the greater cornu of the hyoid bone accompanied by bleeding symptoms in the surrounding soft tissues, and livor mortis formed by strangulation marks could still be seen on the cut part of the neck.

Based on the above circumstances, it is preliminarily inferred that the female corpse was strangled to death. Shortly after death, more than 40 wounds were inflicted on her body with a sharp weapon. Finally, the body was thrown into the water. The flushing of the water caused a false life reaction and a large amount of blood loss. However, because the body had been in a suitcase in cold water for a long time, it was largely avoided by scavengers, and a large amount of muscle tissue was retained, forming corpse wax. It is preliminarily estimated that the time of death was more than one month.

After listening to the forensic doctor's introduction, Gao Huanyu stood there looking at the unrecognizable female corpse that was taken out of the suitcase. The cut on her neck that was almost cut off and the countless knife wounds on her torso were particularly eye-catching, which made him fall into deep thought.

After questioning the two people who reported the case, Liu Jun finally plucked up the courage to come over. He only glanced at the body and waved his hand to ask someone to quickly collect it and take it back to the forensic laboratory for further testing and examination.

Liu Jun looked embarrassed and kept shaking his head:

"Tsk tsk, how much hatred and resentment must one have to strangle someone and then stab them so many times, how heartless!"

Gao Huanyu nodded. Judging from the wounds on the body, this was obviously not a spur-of-the-moment murder of passion.

Moreover, he had just observed that the female corpse was wearing a violet silk suspender skirt. This kind of skirt is generally not available in supply and marketing cooperatives. It should be sold at the foreign trade counter of the department store, and the price should not be cheap.

Judging from the fact that the female corpse was wearing a suspender skirt, the environment before her death should have been indoors. She was strangled and injured with a sharp weapon, then put into a suitcase, and then transported to the ditch behind People's Park and dumped into this pool.

He looked back at the dense forest surrounding the pool. The trees were narrowly spaced apart, and the roots on the ground were tangled and protruding, making it difficult to move.

Suddenly, a stone fell from a high place into the pool, splashing water with a "splash".