Chapter 300 The three who died mysteriously discovered that the ship was abnormal. After the crew of the patrol boat called "Sea Spear-173" and received no response, they boarded the ship to check and saw a horrifying scene.
All three coast guard officers aboard the "Haiji-173" have died, lying dead in different locations.
Xia Zhining opened the file and read through it page by page.
The first page contains photos of the scene where Captain Li Mingdong died.
In the photo, he is lying on the floor of the cockpit. The autopsy result is that he died of asphyxiation, and there are deep ligature marks on his neck.
Strangely, no murder weapon, such as a rope or wire, could be found at the scene.
The cockpit door was locked from the inside, and the windows were fine.
The second page features Chief Engineer Ye Hai.
He died in the passageway of the lower engine room, his heart pierced by something sharp.
The report stated that it was likely pierced by a metal pipe, but all the tools on the boat were neatly arranged, none of them were stained with blood, and the murder weapon was not found at the scene.
Even more strangely, the heavy waterproof door in the engine room was also locked from the inside.
Turn to the third page, and you'll see Officer Wang Xu.
He was lying on the stern deck; he had drowned.
However, forensic examination revealed that the water in his lungs was not seawater, but freshwater exactly the same as that in the ship's freshwater tank!
There were no scratches on the railings, nor any signs of struggle on the deck; it was as if he had simply drowned peacefully.
On the large screen in the conference room, a simulated animation was recreating the eerie scene of the "Seahorse-173" hanging alone at sea that night.
The commander-in-chief's laser pointer lit up a red dot, which landed on the ship's 3D model.
“There are three things about this case that are most puzzling.” His voice was particularly clear in the quiet conference room.
"First, the secret room."
A red dot flashed across the tightly closed hatches and portholes. "When the ship was discovered, all its external openings were locked from the inside."
"It became a completely sealed double chamber floating on the sea."
“From the outside, it is almost impossible to get in without breaking the lock.”
"Second, without leaving a trace."
The scene switches to a close-up of a detailed ship survey report.
"No trace of outsiders could be found on the ship—no unfamiliar fingerprints, hair, DNA, not even a shoe print that shouldn't be there."
The commander-in-chief frowned: "It's abnormally clean."
"Third, the methods are contradictory."
Photos of the three deceased at the scene appeared side by side on the screen.
"Their deaths and locations were completely different: suffocation, being pierced by a sharp object, and drowning."
"This doesn't seem like something the same person could do repeatedly in a short period of time. It could be suicide or internal strife..."
The commander-in-chief shook his head. "There is no motive, and the weapons and methods used are completely inexplicable."
He looked at everyone present and said in a heavy tone, "Traditional investigative methods have reached a dead end here."
"There are no signs of an external perpetrator, and no reasonable internal conflict or motive can be found."
“The environmental evidence is even more troublesome.”
The images on the big screen transformed into a simulated animation of a storm pounding on the ship's hull. "The wind, rain, and salt erosion at sea have long since destroyed any trace evidence that might remain."
The red dot of the laser pointer finally settled on those cold, hard numbers representing the case.
"That's why, even after three years, it remains an unsolved mystery that hangs in our hearts."
"The deaths of the three coast guard officers cannot remain a mystery forever."
The commander-in-chief's gaze was sharp as he swept across the room. His voice was calm, yet every word carried immense weight: "Every murder has a logic behind it. Our mission is to find that hidden thread of logic."
In the following meeting, the commander-in-chief introduced six more long-standing unsolved cases, each with its own twists and turns.
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