Chapter 3

Along the way, Xu Man learned some things beyond the case.

For example, the driver police officer who explained to her just now was named Li Shijie. He was affiliated with the Intelligence Department, but he was more interested in on-site investigation and followed Qin Shen to run around to the scene all day long. For another example, the two calls she just made were very coincidental. It happened that shortly after the command center received the alarm, she was not far from the detachment, so Qin Shen had the time to wait for her to come, otherwise he would have driven away long ago and would not have taken her to the scene.

After hearing the latter incident, Xu Man felt so regretful that her intestines turned green. If she had known earlier, she would not have been so anxious to call him. Now, she has pushed herself into a pit and is still unable to speak out her pain. She should not have been so active, hardworking and passionate about work.

But it was too late to regret now. She could only keep psychologically comforting herself and recall some professional knowledge taught by her teachers at school, so that she would not understand anything and just vomit when she arrived at the scene.

Danhu Wetland Park is located in the outer area of ​​Mingzhou near the suburbs, quite far from the detachment. It took Li Shijie almost half an hour to drive there. The security guard in the guard booth obviously knew what happened in the park. As soon as he saw the police car coming, he immediately raised the parking barrier to allow the car to enter the park unimpeded.

However, this only saves them a short walk. The accident happened in the woods near the center of the park. In order to create the ecological atmosphere of the wetland park, only the outside is open to motor vehicles. Further inside is blocked by stone piers on the ground, and cars cannot enter. People can only walk in on their own.

"Brother Qin, we can't go any further." When the car reached the place where the stone pier blocked the road, Li Shijie stepped on the brakes and stretched his neck to look forward. "Should we stop here, or ask the security guard to move the roadblock away?"

"Let's stop here and walk the rest of the way." Qin Shen unbuckled his seat belt, said "get out" and pushed open the door and walked out. Seeing this, Xu Man, who was sitting in the back seat, hurriedly picked up her bag and followed, and almost sprained her right foot because she got out of the car too quickly.

When the security guard saw the police car stopped on the side of the road with its hazard lights on, he was about to move the stone pier, but was stopped by Qin Shen who got out of the car. "It's okay, just stop here. Who's the person reporting the crime?"

"Me. And Jianguo, Gong Jianguo." The security guard said, "Jianguo and I went into the woods together and found the plastic bag. Jianguo is now watching the place inside. I'm here to wait for you police comrades to come over."

"When were the bags found?" Qin Shen asked casually, "How many are there?"

"We found it at about 1:30, just one," the security guard replied.

"May I have your name?"

"Zhou Shiquan."

Qin Shen glanced at the security guard, nodded, and turned around to look around.

At this time, the police cars behind also caught up one after another and stopped by the roadside. Many police officers got out of the cars. Several people saw Xu Man following Qin Shen and looked at her with confusion and curiosity, especially a young female forensic doctor in a white coat, who looked at her several times, but perhaps because there was a case in front of them, no one asked any questions.

Seeing that everyone was present, Qin Shen asked the security guard to lead the way to the crime scene, asking a few questions from time to time to understand the details of what happened.

Xu Man listened very carefully. She was pulled to the scene halfway and had only a general idea of ​​the case. It was also her first time to practice a real-life drill. Although she was reluctant, she had to do it well since she was here. So she tried hard to remember Qin Shen's questions and the security guard's answers. The former was used to learn from experience, and the latter was used to understand the situation of the case.

The woods where the bodies were found were quite a distance away from where they parked their car. It took them nearly twenty minutes to get there. The sun overhead was emitting an obscene heat, wrapping everyone in the stuffiness like a steamer. There was a section of the river that was planted with lotus flowers, but only a few of them bloomed. Instead, the lotus leaves filled the entire section of the river, making the water smell as if it had gone bad, smoky and stuffy.

Xu Man didn't understand why this was happening. The largest area in the wetland park was the lake, so it should have been cool. But when they walked on the bridge with water on both sides, the stuffiness they felt increased instead of decreased, as if the water had also been heated by the sun and turned from water vapor into steam.

At this time, the only thing she was thankful for was that she was wearing light clothes because she had to catch a bus to Minnesota, and she also chose thick-soled flat-heeled sandals, which made it convenient for her to walk on the cobblestone road and grass, otherwise she would have suffered a lot.

"It's right here." The security guard led them a little further into the woods, then stopped and pointed ahead and said, "That's where we found that thing."

Xu Man raised her head and looked forward, and saw a group of people gathered not far ahead, whispering to each other, as if they were watching a fun event.

Seeing this scene, Qin Shen was obviously a little dissatisfied: "What's going on? Didn't the police tell you to protect the crime scene and isolate the crowd? What if these people surround the scene and destroy all the clues? Quickly let them disperse. Liao Zhi, Zhang Bin, pull up the isolation line for me. Where is Yang Qiren?"

The last few police officers responded and trotted into the crowd carrying their equipment. The security guard also hurried forward and evacuated the crowd with other police officers.

Ten minutes later, within the newly erected cordon, Xu Man suppressed the nausea in her stomach and followed Qin Shen toward the plastic bag on the ground.

There were technicians taking pictures around, and trace examiners were extracting clues from the scene. The closer Xu Man got to the plastic bag, the more nauseous she felt in her stomach. However, she managed to hold back and did not run away to vomit. Even though she was forcibly dragged to the scene this time, she did not want to perform too badly.

Just as she was trying to suppress the nausea in her stomach, Qin Shen, who was walking in front of her, suddenly stopped. She thought he had discovered something, but he turned around and said to her, "If you want to vomit, just vomit. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Even experienced police officers can vomit up their leftover food when they see a disgusting scene. You're lucky this time. The body shouldn't be very decomposed and the smell isn't strong. Otherwise, you'd be so sick that you wouldn't be able to eat for three days."

"I'm fine." Xu Man forced a smile, "It's okay, I can bear it."

"Are you really alright?"

"Yes. Thank you Captain Qin for your concern."

"That's fine." Qin Shen smiled, his expression seemed to say "Let's see how long you can last", "Come and watch the scene with me."

He turned around and left Xu Man with only his back.

Xu Man: "..." Can she change her mind?

Li Shijie walked by her with his head and lips curled. "What a waste of time." He said to her, with a bit of gloating. "Brother Qin's rare kindness was wasted by you. You can just wait to regret it."

Xu Man: "..." She already regretted it, really.

There was no other way. She had to hold on for the sake of her reputation even if she had to kneel down. Xu Man took a deep breath, prepared herself mentally for the last time, and followed Qin Shen to the plastic bag.

The plastic bag was placed next to a dug pit. The pink bag was wrapped in several layers and a hole was cut on the side, revealing a white thing. Xu Man took a look while suppressing her nausea and could barely make out the shape of a hand. It seemed that this was the half palm that the security guard mentioned. She didn't dare to look at what was inside.

After the technician took the photo, he opened the side of the plastic bag and poured out the contents. The female forensic doctor in a white coat strode forward, put on gloves, squatted down and examined the pile of things, saying, "These are body parts, but only the hands and feet, the rest are missing."

"I guessed it a long time ago." Qin Shen looked around. "This plastic bag is not big. It is impossible to put a complete body in it. It must have been separated and discarded."

"Were the bodies dumped in batches?" Li Shijie asked, "Then where are the remaining parts of the bodies? Do we need to search the entire city?"

"That's not necessary." Qin Shen walked a few steps to the side, stretched out his foot and tapped a piece of ground in front of him, "The soil here is different in color from other places. It was renovated recently. There must be something buried underneath. Dig."

Li Shijie nodded, turned around and called out loudly: "Come over and dig the ground!"

Immediately, several police officers came running over with assembled shovels and started shoveling the soil at the place Qin Shen indicated. During this time, Qin Shen walked around the area and pointed to several other places for people to dig.

It was the first time Xu Man had seen such a scene and she didn't know what to do. She could only follow him closely, watching how he investigated the scene while trying hard to look thoughtful so as not to expose her ignorance and idleness.

They followed Qin Shen around for a while, and when they returned to the place where the bag of body parts was first found, the forensic doctor had finished the examination and stood up and walked towards them: "Based on the characteristics of the body parts, it should be a minor who has not yet fully grown. The gender is undetermined, but I tend to think it is a girl. The time of death is no more than 24 hours, and it is most likely between yesterday afternoon and evening. The specific time of death will have to wait until we go back and test it."

"Minors?" Qin Shen frowned and sighed, "It's actually the body of a child... This case is going to be troublesome."

The female medical examiner shrugged. "Minors do not have enough self-protection ability and are the most vulnerable group. However, many crimes are committed in the heat of the moment, and dismemberment is rare."

"That's why I said it's troublesome." Qin Shen turned his head and looked at the other places he pointed out. Police officers had already dug something out in one or two places and were now carefully removing the last bit of dirt. "It seems there's something found over there. Let's go and take a look."

The female forensic doctor nodded and walked over with him.

Xu Man hurried to catch up, and when she turned around, she accidentally stepped on a stone and almost sprained her foot. Fortunately, she reacted in time and stood firm.

"Why are you so careless?" Qin Shen turned around and looked at her when he heard the noise. He glanced at her feet and frowned. "Why did you come here wearing these shoes?"

"I... I didn't know I would be at the scene at first." Xu Man replied nervously, "But it's okay, these shoes won't affect my walking."

"It doesn't affect your walking, but did you almost stumble just now?"

"It was an accident. It was an accident." Xu Man smiled awkwardly.

The female medical examiner looked at her from head to toe, and asked Qin Shen in a relaxed but subtle tone: "Who is this? Why haven't I seen him before? Is this the special consultant you invited?"

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