Chapter 98 Embedding
"arrive."
It's about five o'clock in the afternoon. The two guides dragged Liu Jinghui to a small platform on the edge of the cliff.
He is old and can still hold on in the first half of the mountain road, but in the second half he basically loses his temper.
Of course, in Liu Jinghui's own words, he was just "too tired to drive yesterday."
Jiang Yuan was equally tired. Taking advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun, he quickly took a set of photos. After carefully observing the environment around him, it quickly became dark.
Jiang Yuan helped prepare for camping again. LV2's camping skills finally came into play. Although it was not as calm as the two guides, it still speeded up the overall progress a lot.
The cliff here has been cleaned up by humans. Although the ground is also covered with plants, they are not big and can let in a little light. Behind the platform composed of several large stones is a cave three to four meters deep. The inside has also been tidied up, with a fire prepared in advance and a small amount of firewood, branches and leaves.
A few people quickly cleared an open space on the small platform. After gaining a foothold, they erected a small tent, collected water from the mountain stream, and lit a fire.
The cave behind the small platform was the first scene of "Wu Long Savage Eucalyptus", but the four of them didn't mention it. They just sorted out their own place.
An experienced guide sprayed a large amount of insect repellent on the ground of the small platform, and saw bugs of different colors crawling out from under various rotten branches and leaves, and waddling into the grass next door.
Liu Jinghui's face changed slightly when he saw it, and he asked again: "Is no one here now? I remember it was like this the last time I came here..."
The more experienced guide said: "We are taking the path used by the herb collectors in the past. The caves here were also prepared by the herb collectors."
Another guide said a little nostalgically: "If you go out and encounter rainy days or get injured or sick and can't go back for a while, you can stay in the cave for one or two nights, light a fire, boil some water, and then go back to the cave for a while." People who come over and have time can add some firewood to it... There are also these at the foot of the mountain, much less."
"What about now? It can't be completely abandoned, right?" Liu Jinghui asked, "At least you will still come here."
"We are currently taking orders from some customers, including travel friends who come to play, and hikers... Hikers generally don't take this route. It's too remote. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't be able to do it in a few years. Let's go this way." As the guide said, he chopped down several saplings with a hatchet, feeling that it would prevent future troubles.
But everyone knows that when we come up next year, the place will be full of saplings again. "What about the village? People from the villages down the mountain will also come up the mountain." Liu Jinghui had asked a similar question before, but this time he specially changed to a new young tour guide, so he wanted to ask it again.
The guide, who looked about 20 years old, didn't take it seriously and said: "Most of the people in the village come here because someone in their family is sick and they come to collect some medicine for themselves. We can't get here, so let's go here. After walking for eight or nine hours, we still went to Pishan Mountain. The village is now filled with old people and they can’t afford this effort.”
Liu Jinghui said "Yes", thought for a moment, and then said to Jiang Yuan: "Then let's go into the cave and investigate first? It's best to stay in the cave at night. We have to investigate all the big areas tonight."
He has been here before and knows that living outside the cave is troublesome. The environment in the mountains is not like outside. The cold and damp conditions can make people sick, and poisonous insects and beasts don't know where to hide.
However, in order to minimize the impact on the crime scene, he only found Jiang Yuan and two guides this time, instead of a huge team like last time.
Jiang Yuan nodded. He came here just to conduct on-site inspection, and there was no need to be lazy.
Liu Jinghui asked the two guides to get water for cooking, and then said: "You have seen the previous photos, where do we start?"
The photo was taken by Jiang Yuan on his iPad on the road. It was also the most useful evidence that had been preserved before, but as far as Jiang Yuan was concerned, it was of little use.
The first and second waves of police officers who went up the mountain found almost no effective evidence other than corpses. The forensic doctors involved made little progress in forensic pathology after struggling to prove the identity of the corpse.
Because the corpses are incomplete, current speculation is that the fatal wound on the corpse was in the abdomen, and the soft abdomen is the most popular with wild animals. Before the corpse decomposes, the visiting animals dig out the abdomen containing the death information into a Big hole...
Of course, there's nothing surprising about it. As far as the situation is concerned, any footprints on the ground will be wiped out by bugs, fungi or other strange things. The evidence commonly used by criminal police has no reason to exist in this environment.
Jiang Yuan held up the flashlight, waved it twice, and said slowly: "Fingerprints are probably unlikely, and there is no hope for DNA. The most likely thing is physical evidence, such as plastic packaging, iron tools, etc. I'll start with the fire. Look inside the burning ashes and don’t touch anything."
Among the three treasures of criminal police, video and mobile phone DNA, Jiang Yuan thinks that the most promising one is probably the mobile phone. For example, if you pull a mobile phone out from under the cave, that would be the best.
The dream did not come true.
Jiang Yuan then sat next to the fire, put on his gloves, and smoothed out the ashes inside bit by bit.
To be honest, these black ash and other things have been almost eliminated by nature, but branches or part of food can be preserved longer after being smoked. However, considering that the policemen also lit a fire to barbecue here last time, it is difficult to say who made the things Jiang Yuan pulled out.
Despite this, Jiang Yuan still checked here first, and then went around to look for clues and evidence.
This search took half the night.
After barely resting for half the night, the sun had just risen the next morning. Jiang Yuan quickly took advantage of the time to search through the evidence he had found yesterday.
Really lackluster.
Jiang Yuan sat next to the fire, lighting the fire with a branch, frowning and thinking.
This place doesn't look like a residential building. Even if you try to clean the cave, you probably won't be able to clean anything. A rich variety of microorganisms can easily destroy all biological evidence.
Extracting some soil and doing chemical analysis may yield some results, but I'm afraid it won't be of much help to the situation.
Liu Jinghui also got up. He washed himself with cold water first, then turned around and said slowly: "Look for whatever you can find. Calling you here is just a dead horse. The first two groups of criminal police officers Not counting them, the last time I came, I brought several technicians with me, and still found nothing."
In fact, Jiang Yuan didn't need Liu Jinghui to comfort himself. He only rubbed his shoulders, then stood up and said, "There is nothing visible in the cave. I'll go around first."
"Let Xiao Yang accompany you." Liu Jinghui called to the more experienced guide and followed Jiang Yuan to look at the nearby situation.
Of course, the main focus is still on the mountain stream where the body was found.
At noon, Jiang Yuan returned to the fire. Seeing that the fire was a little small, he found firewood and built a new frame for the fire.
As he was doing this, Jiang Yuan's eyes fell on one side of the wall.
The color of the walls here has changed slightly. Most people probably subconsciously think that this is caused by the fire.
However, with the preparation of LV2 camping skills, Jiang Yuan could easily judge: No.
Even if the fire from the fire affects the growth of organic matter on the wall, the part closest to the fire and flames should be affected first.
As a result, the biggest change in color of the wall occurred farther inside.
Jiang Yuan thought of this and immediately walked forward and looked at the wall of the cave carefully.
Judging from the crime scene skills he has mastered, the wall should be contaminated to some extent. As for what it is...
Jiang Yuan's gloved fingers touched it lightly, and his attention was quickly diverted.
What pollution.
what colour.
Jiang Yuan broke open a section of the vine and clearly saw a semi-black object embedded in the wall behind him.
Peeling off the soil next to the semi-black object, an unusual word flashed in Jiang Yuan's mind: bullet.
Jiang Yuan immediately took the camera to take pictures, then set up a tripod, switched to photography mode, then took the on-site survey box, and carefully peeled off the soil, plants and stone debris around the semi-black object.
A fragmented bullet stabbed firmly 30 centimeters from the bottom of the cave.