"Medical staff?" Qin Shen raised his head. "Where are they?"
Fan Hong loudly called a young man in a white coat over, "Xiao Qi, come over here and explain to these two police officers what is going on with this tourist."
The medical staff member named Xiao Qi came over with a first aid kit. After learning the identities of Qin Shen and Xu Man, he explained to them: "After a preliminary examination, the tourist's pupil size is fixed, the light reaction has disappeared, there is no spontaneous breathing and heartbeat, and continuous artificial respiration has no effect. It is consistent with the physical signs of human death."
Qin Shen: "So he's confirmed dead?"
Xiao Qi didn't notice the look Fan Hong gave him, and nodded to confirm this statement: "That should be it."
"Should?" Qin Shen frowned, not liking this vague adjective. "Are you 100% sure?"
Xiao Qi: "This... I'm not sure. After all, it's just a temporary examination. The accurate examination report can only be made after the hospital."
Qin Shen pondered for a moment: "In other words, he still has a chance of being rescued?"
Xiao Qi: "From a probabilistic point of view, yes, but the probability is very small, almost non-existent. After all, he has not breathed on his own for more than fifteen minutes, and brain cells die very quickly after lack of oxygen. In addition, this kind of damage is irreversible, so -"
"So, there is still hope." Fan Hong interrupted with a smile, "No matter how small the hope is, it is still hope, Officer Qin, don't you think so?"
Qin Shen ignored him. He saw through this man's thoughts immediately. He just didn't want to admit that a tourist died in the scenic spot he was responsible for. He wanted to deceive himself and others by dragging the "tourist sudden death in the scenic spot" into "death after ineffective rescue in the hospital". It was ridiculous.
He continued to ask the medical staff: "Can you tell what caused this condition?"
Xiao Qi: "We found a wound on the back of the tourist's head, so we speculated that he might have accidentally hit something while slipping or falling, and then lost too much blood after falling into a coma, which led to his current condition."
As he spoke, he squatted down and turned over the head of the fallen tourist, pointed to an area at the back of his head and said, "This is the place."
Upon hearing this, Qin Shen handed the umbrella to Xu Man and asked her to hold it. He squatted on the ground and checked the wound that the other party had pointed to.
There were obvious wound scars on the back of the fallen man's head. The grass near his head had been washed by rain, and most of the marks had disappeared, but there was still a little dark red bloodstain. Judging from the depth of color and the size of the area, there was indeed a possibility of excessive blood loss.
After asking the staff for a pair of sterilized gloves, Qin Shen checked the wound on the head of the fallen tourist and measured his carotid artery. Then he stood up, took off his gloves and exhaled slightly.
"How is it?" Xu Man asked while holding an umbrella for him.
"There are no signs of life." He wiped the rain from his face. "There is little hope of rescue."
Xu Man was stunned for a moment, then said: "Has the death been confirmed? Was it an accident? Or..."
"There is insufficient evidence, and everything we say right now is just speculation." Qin Shen shook his head, "Anyway, let's take a look at the scene first."
He signaled to the staff on the scene to expand the cordon and asked them to stand outside the circle, leaving only himself and Xu Man at the scene. Then he asked Fan Hong across the cordon, asking him whether he knew the identity of the tourist and when the police would be able to arrive at the scene.
"We have asked around just now, but no one knows this tourist." Fan Hong answered under an umbrella in the heavy rain. "As for when the police will arrive, we don't know. We asked about this when we called the police, but they said that the roads were blocked in the rain and it would be difficult for them to arrive on time. They asked us to protect the scene first, so we cordoned off the area."
After he finished speaking, he asked Qin Shen again, "Officer Qin, is that man really beyond saving? Could he be faking his death or in deep shock? After all, we are not professional doctors, so it is not a good idea to just jump to conclusions. What if, by some unfortunate chance, we make a wrong judgment and delay his treatment..."
"Isn't the ambulance still on the way? How did it take time?" Qin Shen interrupted him. "Sending him to the hospital for treatment is one thing, and investigating the scene is another. I think you know what the tourist's current situation is. Instead of waiting here and wasting time, why not cooperate with us to speed up the investigation, so that the rain will not wash away all the traces. By the time we check, there will be nothing left, and your scenic spot will be in trouble."
"Yes, yes, yes," Fan Hong nodded and smiled apologetically, taking out a handkerchief to wipe the splashed raindrops on his forehead, "Officer Qin, you are right, we did not consider it carefully...Officer, please feel free to ask for anything, and we will fully cooperate."
Qin Shen: "Is there any surveillance camera around here?"
"This..." Fan Hong hesitated. "This is a small path. Although many tourists usually take it to take a shortcut, it has never been installed with surveillance cameras because it was not built by the government. But we have put it on the agenda and plan to install it next quarter--"
Qin Shen exhaled and interrupted his nonsense again: "If it is, then it is. If it is not, then it is not. Don't talk so much nonsense. There is no surveillance on this road, right?"
The tone of his voice was not very good, but Xu Man could understand it, because this supervisor really talked a lot of nonsense, as if he was facing an interview with a reporter, wanting to plug every loophole that was not conducive to the image of the scenic spot. It was both unnecessary and a waste of time, and she wanted to frown when she heard it.
Fan Hong: "This... is the case for now."
"There's no surveillance." Qin Shen said irritably, and continued to ask, "What about nearby? Where is the surveillance camera closest to this road?"
"They are on the two main roads nearby." Fan Hong replied, "One is in front, and the other is in the back. They are about 100 to 200 meters away from here. Officer Qin, do you want to go to the monitoring room to take a look?"
"No rush, let's take a look at the situation at the scene first." Qin Shen said this, then returned to the deceased, put on his gloves again, squatted down and checked the situation.
But this time he no longer tried to confirm the other person's vital signs. Instead, he reached out and searched the pockets of the dead person's clothes back and forth, trying to find something that could confirm his identity, but he found nothing except a ball of paper soaked in water.
"Didn't you find anything?" Xu Man held an umbrella and watched him search. "No cell phone either?"
Few people may carry their ID cards with them nowadays, but almost everyone carries their cell phones with them, so there's no reason why they can't find them.
"No." Qin Shen stood up and showed her the paper ball in his hand. "I searched for a long time, and this is the only thing I found."
Xu Man lowered her head and took a closer look. She could vaguely see the shape of the barcode blurred by the water: "Is this... an invoice?"
"Maybe." Qin Shen walked to the isolation zone and asked the staff for a medical sterile bag. He put the paper ball in it and sealed it. He said, "Don't just follow me and watch. Take pictures of the scene. It's raining so hard. When the police come, all the clues will be washed away. Take pictures now while there is still some left. Take as many as you can."
Xu Man blushed and responded with some shame, "Oh, OK, I'll go right away." She didn't expect that after such a long internship, her criminal investigation skills were still so poor that she needed to be reminded before she could remember to do something at the scene.
She took out her cell phone and prepared to walk over to the deceased to take a picture, but she stopped abruptly after taking a step forward, holding the umbrella handle in confusion.
The two of them were now sharing the same umbrella. No matter who walked away with the umbrella, the other would be exposed to the heavy rain. If it was just a light rain, it would be fine, but with the current rain, they would probably be soaked to the skin in less than ten seconds...
"team leader--"
She looked at Qin Shen with some embarrassment. Just as she started to ask for help, Qin Shen understood her thoughts. He immediately asked the staff to borrow an umbrella with a smile, opened it and held it over his head, and nodded at her, "It's okay now, go ahead."
Just like that, the two people acted separately, one was responsible for taking pictures and the other was responsible for finding clues. By the time Xu Man finished taking pictures, Qin Shen had also surveyed most of the areas within the security circle, but there was nothing to be gained.
After taking a few more close-up photos of the deceased, Xu Man returned to Qin Shen and reported to him that the photos had been taken.
Qin Shen was circling near the deceased. Hearing this, he just replied with a "hmm" and continued to look at his feet intently. Seeing this, Xu Man also put away her phone and followed him around in circles. In order to avoid disturbing the scene, she deliberately lagged behind by one or two steps and walked in the footprints he left behind.
When passing a place, Qin Shen paused, took two steps back, and stared at something on the ground.
Xu Man looked in the direction he was looking with some curiosity, and saw a stone lying quietly on the ground. The surface was uneven with some mottled marks, and one side was covered with moss and mud. At first glance, it looked like a very ordinary stone, nothing special about it.
But she knew that Qin Shen would not stare at a stone for no reason, so there must be something in it that she didn't notice.
A stone with a few edges and corners, not particularly prominent in shape, not particularly conspicuous in size, and about 15 centimeters in diameter... 15 centimeters, not too big or too small, just within the range that an adult can move... Could it be...
Just as Xu Man was trying to think, Qin Shen suddenly squatted down, facing the stone and waved at her: "Xiao Man, come and take a look."
She obediently moved over and squatted down to look at the stone with him.
"Look here." He pointed to the corner of the stone without moss. "Is there a little mark?"
trace? Xu Man looked in the direction he pointed, looked carefully for a few seconds, and shook her head: "I didn't see it..."
"Don't look at the outside, look at the concave part inside." Qin Shen said, turning on the flashlight on his phone and shining it towards the concave part of the stone. "Do you see it? It's right here, it's quite hidden, take a closer look."
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