The essence of shame is not our personal mistake, but the shame seen by others.

——Milan Kundera

1

"Secretary Qin," Dabao ran into the house panting, "I have forgotten that today is my grandmother's death day. I will rush back to my hometown Qingxiang to bury her."

Early in the morning, I turned on my computer and looked at the autopsy photos that had been involved in the murder case. I planned to choose some in it and give a forensic lecture to the students of the police academy. I stared at the display screen, but my mind was involuntarily rolling with the case of "eleven fingers". In the past two weeks, the investigation department conducted layer-by-layer investigations on the social relations of the deceased Fang Jiang, and conducted a comprehensive investigation around his accommodation, eating, and working place in Longfan City, the provincial capital, but no clue was found in more than ten days. On the other hand, the DNA of the eleventh finger kept rolling in the database, the system comparison and manual comparison were carried out for several rounds, but nothing was found. The identity of the finger owner has not surfaced until now, and the body of the finger owner has not been found.

The case was named "June 3 Special Project" because it was inferred that the party would be killed on June 3. Although the special project command still exists and the core of the special project is still in operation, many police officers have obviously become afraid of difficulties and want to wait for the situation to be investigated and handle the case until a new situation is discovered.

I am just a forensic doctor. The work I can do in a murder case has been done, and I really can't make any good suggestions on the investigation. Logically speaking, the preliminary work was well carried out and it was very detailed, and there should be some clues. But why is our police still know nothing until now? Did we miss something?

Seeing that my eyes were dull and did not answer his question, Dabao knocked on the counter: "Hey, can you hear it? I'm going to rush back to bury on my grandmother's death day."

I seemed to wake up from my dream: "Ah? Oh! I'm sorry, you mourn."

Dabao said: "Well, there is no need to be a festival. After a year of mourning, can the forensic doctor still not see through life and death?"

"A year? A sad day? A death date? A burial?" I woke up, "Why can't I understand what you said? Your grandmother passed away a year ago and is only buried now?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Dabao looked puzzled, "What's so strange? The custom here is to bury the urn in the cemetery a whole year after death and cremation."

"Oh." I nodded, "I said, the customs are different. After the old man died, he will be buried immediately after he is cremated."

"Then I'm going." Dabao tidied up his backpack and said to himself, "You have to know more about customs as a forensic doctor."

"I'll take you to the station, and by the way, I'll go to the task force of Longfan Municipal Bureau to see if there are any clues in the case of Eleven Fingers." I said.

Dabao quickly refused: "That... no need, the vehicle management is very strict now, I'll take a taxi."

I smiled and raised the electric bicycle key in my hand and said, "For personal car, try my convertible trot."

When we both stepped on the electric bicycle at the same time, the electric bicycle tires exploded with a "bang".

I jumped out of the car, looked at the deflated tires, and subconsciously pinched my belly: "We are always on business and eating a hundred families, and are not suitable for trotting open."

Dabao laughed aside and leaned back and forth. I glared at him: "Your grandma's death day is still laughing, a spendthrift."

A police car suddenly drove to us, and Lin Tao in the passenger seat waved to us: "Why are you not in the office? You have work, leave quickly."

"What case?" I moved the electric car to the carport with difficulty. "So urgent? I didn't even bring my underwear."

"Two girls died in Qingxiang City, just discovered it." Lin Tao said, "The command center just ordered us to rush over."

"Qingxiang?" Dabao's eyes lit up, "It seems that I have saved dozens of dollars in bus tickets again."

"The Provincial Public Security Department's Physical Evidence Identification Management Office, in the bathroom of a female worker in a black coal mine in the suburbs of our city, someone found two female dead bodies this morning. After preliminary judgment by technicians, they were killed for homicide. As a result, the two people died due to the social impact. In addition, the scene was damaged, and the case was difficult, so the provincial department's technical experts were invited to Qinghai to guide the solution. Please support it. The Criminal Police Detachment of Qingxiang Public Security Bureau. June 29."

Lin Tao finished reading the urgent internal fax he had just received in the shaking carriage, "Please ask the Forensic Department, the Trace Laboratory Department immediately sends personnel to support him and hurry to the scene. Zhang Xiaoxi. Look, Director Zhang gave the instructions as soon as possible, so I was in a hurry to find you, but fortunately you didn't run far."

"Bathroom? Female worker?" Dabao stared at the roof of the police car and said, "Last time I saw a news story, two best friends in the bathroom laughed at each other's chest and became enemies and fought each other. This is not the same, right? Self-produced and self-sales 1[1· Self-produced and self-sales is a common slang term used by the police, which means killing people and then committing suicide.

]?"

I ignored Dabao's speculation and closed my eyes and wanted to use the time to make up for my sleep. Every time there is a mystery that cannot be solved, it will always affect my sleep. This may be the reason why I have worked for seven years but I feel like I am aged teenagers.

In the dark, I felt the car get off the highway and hurriedly opened my eyes that I didn't want to open. Captain Chen, the Criminal Police Detachment of Qingxiang Public Security Bureau, who had been waiting at the toll station, got into our car quickly and patted my shoulder without hesitation and said, "Let's go, I'll lead the way, and tell you this story."

Captain Chen is very young, handsome and talkative. He is the youngest and most promising criminal police detachment captain in our province.

Qingxiang City is a city built on coal, which is not an exaggeration to say. Ninety percent of the tax revenue in Qingxiang City comes from the coal industry, and even the city’s iconic place names are “one mine”, “two mines” and “three mines”. Even in the mining area, the central area is as prosperous as the city center, and people who rely on coal live there for generations.

"I only realized this case," Captain Chen looked mysterious. "The coal industry actually has many marginal industries, such as the incident where this case occurred was a property company."

This "for example" disappointed Dabao and said, "Where is there a property company? There are properties in the community, properties in the company, properties in the market, and now there are property companies in universities and even in the public security bureau."

Captain Chen smiled mysteriously: "But property companies in the coal industry have their own tricks."

After listening to Captain Chen’s introduction, we were all shocked.

Property companies in the coal industry are actually an industry that sells dog meat under the guise of sheep. Their main responsibility is to clean up the "garbage" that combines the mud on the bottom of a coal mountain with the ground after it is transported away and before the next coal mountain is piled up. I put the word "garbage" in quotes here.

These "garbage" jargons are called "coal slime". After the coal slime was cleaned up by the property company, it was not abandoned, but was transported to a wilderness near the railway station that pulled coal and stored it. So, what is the function of coal slime? The property company will contact some middlemen who resell coal and mix half-train slime with one-train slime coal, so that it is easy to "turn" a railway slime coal into one-five train slime coal. The reseller and the property company jointly make profits.

Although it was mixed, because coal slime also contains coal and has similar color properties, although the availability of this coal is greatly reduced, it is difficult for buyers to identify and discover. Therefore, this coal slime business quickly became a popular underground industry.

There are generally some inseparable relationships between the boss of the property company and the party secretary of the mine. Since the property company takes time and effort to clean up the "garbage" from the mine, the mine factory pays the property company a property management fee every year. Just this property management fee is no problem to support the old and young people of the entire property company. Therefore, the boss of the property company started the business of repaying the other party.

"Guess, how much is the net profit of this property company in a year?" asked Captain Chen.

"One million?" I guessed boldly.

"Five million!" Lin Tao is much more promising than me.

Captain Chen shook his head and said, "Twenty million."

"Two...two...two...two?" Dabao stuttered as he was excited, "This is all black money!"

"There are usually some very hidden places where property companies store coal slime." Captain Chen said, "The villagers near the company also know that working in the property company can make money, so they also rush to rely on relationships and find acquaintances. They have to go to the company with their brains. The company needs to strengthen labor and find the strongest man in the local area; the company needs accounting, and find the most skillful accountant in the local area; they want public relations and find the most beautiful girl in the local area."

"How many rich people started their business with bad intentions?" I sighed.

"In China, are there any entrepreneurs who start a business without making a bad heart?" Lin Tao said.

"Too extreme, too extreme." I disagree with Lin Tao's point of view.

"That..." Dabao said, "Don't anyone care about these black-hearted property companies?"

"I think after this case is published, the relevant departments will pay more attention to it." Captain Chen said, "Not only that, they also hire child labor. The two beautiful girls who died in this case are not sixteen years old."

"Unless than sixteen years old?" Lin Tao said, "Don't you have to go to school?"

"What do you have to do with such a young girl?" Dabao asked, "This job depends on the strength of the big men."

"Public relations." Captain Chen said, "Do you understand PR? That kind of PR."

Looking at Lin Tao and Dabao's confused eyes, I sighed deeply how great it would be if I was as innocent as they were. I interrupted Captain Chen and said, "Until now, I haven't told us about the basic situation of the case."

"Ah, yes." Captain Chen slapped his head and said, "This is how the case occurred."

From June 25th to 28th, Qingcheng Property Company had no business yet, and the entire company had four days off. Because the holiday was long, basically all the employees left the company in the wilderness and took the bus to their homes. Only Huang Rong and Xie Linmiao, two girls under the age of 16, did not go home because they wanted to stay in the company for free Internet. The security guard on duty saw that they were taking care of each other and could voluntarily act as on duty staff, so they slipped back home.

It was dawn today, and Liu Jie, a security guard who lives near her, rode a motorcycle to the company first.

When he stopped the motorcycle and had breakfast in the security room, he seemed to hear the sound of "swinging" water coming from the quiet hills. As expected, it was the sound of showering from the bathroom.

Qingxiang Property Company, in addition to the company's main building with relatively advanced facilities, other settings, including dormitories, bathrooms, toilets, and warehouses, are dilapidated. The bathroom of the female worker is located in a corner of the company's compound, with a red brick bungalow and old-fashioned frosted glass windows. The most popular thing for this group of old bachelors in the company is to listen to the people in the female worker's bathroom taking a bath. Because the old-fashioned bathroom window can't cover the squinting eyes outside the window.

Security guard Liu Jie looked at the wall clock on the wall in the security room. It was only a little over six o'clock, and there were more than two hours before the workers came to work. At this time, you can use an idiom to interpret it. What is it called? By the way, it’s so refreshing!

When he approached the bathroom, Liu Jie saw the orange lights in the bathroom, but he did not see the graceful girl who should have seen reflected on the window. When he was still a few meters away from the bathroom, he felt his sandals step into the water.

"What? Why is the water in the bathroom leaking out of the crack in the door?" Dabao asked anxiously.

Captain Chen nodded and said, "Yes."

"Is the bathroom door closed?" I asked, "Is the deceased dead in the bathroom?"

"It's closed. The old-fashioned door lock needs to be opened with a key from the outside, and can be twisted directly from the inside." Captain Chen nodded and said, "But the door lock has fallen off and should have been kicked open with someone. The security guard said the door was closed and he didn't touch the door, so he didn't know that the door was actually just a false cover."

"Why do I feel like someone in the factory killed someone?" Dabao said, "Peeling caused rape and murder."

"Then the company's courtyard does not have a gate?" I asked.

Captain Chen shook his head and said, "The gate of the company's courtyard is never closed. Because the company's main building has an anti-theft access control system, there is nothing valuable outside the main building, so just keep the main building under control."

"Wait, wait." Lin Tao said, "No one is like me. I can't figure out why the security guard didn't push the door and knew that someone was dead inside?"

"The security guard said," said Captain Chen, "He stepped into the water and wondered why the water in the bathroom was so much that it overflowed outside the door. When he looked down, he found that the white socks in his sandals were actually a little red. He squatted down and looked carefully. He saw that this was not water, it was obviously bloody! So he reported the case."

2

"Can you do an experiment and see how many days the faucet will be turned on before the water will continue to come outside the door?" Dabao asked.

When I opened the bathroom door, a bloody smell came to my nose. In order to prevent the water from continuing to destroy the scene, the command center had sent people to close the main tap water valve of the property company and the faucets were no longer sprayed. However, in this hot weather, the bathroom was airtight and the warm water kept spraying for so long. Even though the faucet had been turned off for several hours, the indoor temperature was still several degrees higher than that outside. In a warm and humid environment, the corruption of the corpse accelerated. As soon as we entered the door, the air mixed with the smell of corruption and bloody smell stimulated our olfactory nerves.

"In this environment, it is impossible to judge the death time based on the temperature and degree of corruption of the body?" Lin Tao asked.

Several floor drains were draining at the same time, but there was still some water accumulation on the ground. We arranged the on-site investigation pedals and walked towards the location where the body was like a single-plank bridge.

The two corpses were far apart. The corpse of the yellow-haired girl was lying on the ground two meters away from the bathroom door, naked; while the black-haired girl was curled up in the innermost corner of the bathroom, lying on her side, facing the ground, naked. Both of them were covered with light red blood and hair, and they could not see their eyebrows and eyes.

"The degree of corruption in the body is too much related to the air environment." I sighed while turning on the eyelids of the body and pressing the skin on the back of the body, "The deceased's lower abdomen has appeared in corpse green and spread to the upper abdomen. This is a sign of the intestine corruption. Generally, it takes more than three days in this season. However, the cornea of ​​the corpse is cloudy and translucent, and the pupils can be seen. This is a sign of death within 48 hours. The corpse spots are basically stable, and the finger pressure does not fade, which means death is more than 24 hours."

"What should I do?" Lin Tao said.

"In this environment, the degree of corneal turbidity and the condition of the corpse spots are closer to the real time of death. As for internal organs, it is normal to speed up in warm and humid environments." I said.

Lin Tao looked up at the flashing waterproof light on the top of the bathroom and said, "The light is on, and he dies for more than 24 hours, and within 48 hours, which means they were killed the night before yesterday."

I nodded.

"The corpse can talk." Dabao said happily, "We don't have to fill the bathroom with water for experiments, it's not environmentally friendly."

"When we came, we saw these two faucets spraying water." The investigator frowned and pointed to the two faucets on the innermost side of the bathroom. Obviously, he could hardly stand the breath in the bathroom.

"How high was the water level when you came?" I asked.

"It basically flooded two-thirds of the body," the investigator said.

I sighed: "If it is a rape case, the probability of extracting biological samples is also very small."

"Why?" Lin Tao asked.
To be continued...