After seeing them disappear, Xu Mingzhi looked away and asked Zhang Liangcheng: "Generally speaking, besides the people in your village, who else knows that your family's cemetery is here?"
Zhang Liangcheng thought for a while and replied: "I don't know about this. Generally speaking, it is unlikely that outsiders will know. However, the other party may not have come for our family's grave. He may just have discovered that there is a grave here." , just follow the trend." He thought clearly and quickly, and immediately pointed out the meaning of Xu Mingzhi's words.
After Xu Mingzhi glanced at him, he raised his hand and pointed at the surrounding mountains and forests, saying: "This place is surrounded by wild forests. Generally speaking, if he does not have a clear destination, it is more likely and safer to just casually Find a secluded place to dig a hole and bury the body directly. Moreover, your cemetery is not an ownerless grave at first glance. It is easy to be discovered if the soil is turned over. Don't you think so?"
Zhang Liangcheng looked at Xu Mingzhi, and his expression gradually became more serious: "What Captain Xu means is that the murderer is probably someone we know?"
Xu Mingzhi said ambiguously: "This possibility cannot be ruled out. We can only investigate from this direction first. By the way, after the forensic department completes the autopsy later, we will have to trouble you to go over and identify the body."
When Zhang Liangcheng heard this, he frowned: "Do you have to go?"
Xu Mingzhi hummed without rejection.
Zhang Liangcheng pursed his lips and said nothing more. It was obvious that he was very resistant to this matter. But this is normal. Generally speaking, no one likes to see dead people, especially a dead person who died an unexpected death and was buried in a grave.
Xu Mingzhi didn't ask him any more questions. Zhang Liangcheng is from the Discipline Inspection Commission and is usually involved in interrogations. Even if he knows something, he will not reveal it easily until the situation is clear.
While waiting for He Yu to return, Xu Mingzhi walked around the forest again and made sure that nothing was missing before returning to the cemetery. Director Yuan and the others had just completed the preliminary autopsy. He called Xu Mingzhi aside and said: "Preliminary inference is that the victim was hit hard by a sharp object and died. The fatal injury was on the back of the head. In addition to the wounds on the body that were not dismembered, There are also many bruises. It seems that he had an argument with the murderer before his death, and then the argument escalated, causing the murderer to impulsively hit the victim to death. The wounds on the dismembered body were initially judged to have been caused by a weapon such as a bone chopping knife. , but the murderer should not be very strong. Except for the knife in the neck, the rest of the wounds basically only injured the surface of the bone. Of course, it is not ruled out that the murderer may have been injured at the time. However, judging from the blood retention in the victim's body, Look, the dismemberment should have happened some time after the victim died, so the amount of bleeding on the victim was not large. Part of the blood on the sack oozed from the dismemberment wound before freezing, and part of it oozed after thawing. of."
After hearing this, Xu Mingzhi was silent for a while and suddenly asked Director Yuan: "Tell me, why did the murderer bury the body in someone else's grave?" As he said that, he pointed to the surrounding mountains and forests and said, "Look at this place, everywhere. It's all in the wild forest, so if he can just find a place to bury him, isn't it safer than burying him in someone else's grave?"
Director Yuan followed his hand and looked around. After thinking for a while, he said: "You are a professional in this area, but I am not. However, I think if the murderer just made an impulsive mistake, then he should handle the body All kinds of behaviors are probably just the result of a hot head and cannot be inferred based on common sense. You think the place where the body is buried is a bit unreasonable, but it is also possible that the other party suddenly feels that the cemetery may be safer after arriving here. After all, this grave There are dead people inside, right?”
Xu Mingzhi looked at him and had to admit that what he said made sense.
"You think, if the dog hadn't done something bad, as long as ten days and a half passed and the grass grew again on the grave, no one would have noticed that there was an extra corpse in the grave. In other places, there may be accidents It is basically impossible to open up wasteland or other cemeteries." Director Yuan added.
Xu Mingzhi nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Director Yuan sighed and said: "I'm afraid this case is not easy to solve. There seem to be many flaws in this corpse, but in fact, it is not easy to trace it. You will have a headache from now on."
Xu Mingzhi frowned and did not answer.
As Director Yuan said, this case is not easy to investigate.
The murderer seemed to have committed the murder impulsively, but he was very careful when handling the body. Not only did he remove all the clothes on the body, leaving nothing that could indicate his identity, but he also did not leave anything behind at the scene where the body was dumped. What traces were left were enough to prove that even if the murder was impulsive, the murderer must be a cautious person by nature.
Xu Mingzhi estimated that He Yu was unlikely to gain anything, and now he could only hope for surveillance on the rural road outside. It was impossible for the murderer to bring such a corpse without the help of transportation.
However, it's a rural road outside, so there won't be many surveillance cameras on the road, and I don't know if I can capture it just right.
Thinking of this, Xu Mingzhi happened to see Xiao Wu walking by, so he stopped him and asked: "Has the surveillance on the road outside been adjusted?"
Xiao Wu was a little stunned.
Xu Mingzhi understood it immediately, and it must have not been adjusted yet.
After he sighed helplessly, he didn't bother Xiao Wu anymore. He simply took out his mobile phone and made a call, asking his colleagues from the city bureau to handle the matter. While Xu Mingzhi was waiting for the monitoring results, Zhang Liangcheng came over.
Xu Mingzhi frowned when he saw him being led over by the police.
"Captain Xu, there's something urgent in my unit. I have to go back, okay?" Zhang Liangcheng asked as soon as he saw him.
Zhang Liangcheng was not a suspect, so he had no need to detain anyone, so he nodded and said, "No problem, you don't need to come and tell me."
"I still have to say something." Zhang Liangcheng said politely.
"Do you have a car? How about I have someone take you out on the road?" Xu Mingzhi said politely.
Zhang Liangcheng was very sensible and hurriedly waved his hand to refuse.
After the two of them exchanged some polite words, Zhang Liangcheng was ready to leave. Xu Mingzhi watched him turn around, and suddenly thought of something, so he stopped him and said, "You're already here anyway, why don't I delay you for another minute or two to identify the body." He didn't give Zhang Liangcheng any attention in his words. After rejecting the opportunity, he led Zhang Liangcheng towards the corpse.
Colleagues from the forensics department had already put the body into the body bag. When they saw Zhang Liangcheng leading the people over, they immediately understood. Without his instructions, someone stepped forward and unzipped the body bag, exposing the side of the body. Face.
"Come on, come up and take a look." Xu Mingzhi stood next to the body bag and stretched out his hand to ask Zhang Liangcheng to stand over as well.
Zhang Liangcheng glanced at him, endured the discomfort and walked over. He only glanced at him and immediately looked away.
"Do you know him?" Xu Mingzhi stared at him and asked.
Zhang Liangcheng frowned, his face turned a little pale, he pursed his lips and shook his head.
"Take a closer look." Xu Mingzhi said, and asked his colleagues in the forensics department to help straighten the body so that Zhang Liangcheng could see the face of the body more intuitively and completely.
There was a hint of displeasure in Zhang Liangcheng's brows, but he turned around and took another look, then shook his head again: "Captain Xu, I really don't know him." After saying that, he turned around and walked away. After walking a few steps, there was the sound of retching.
The feeling of a corpse that died unexpectedly is different from that of a corpse that died normally. The subconscious mind will cause people to have strong fear when they see a dead body. This is a subconscious reaction of life to danger, and strong fear will make people feel sick.
Xu Mingzhi followed and asked, "Are you okay? Do you want to sit down for a while?"
Zhang Liangcheng waved his hands, took a few deep breaths, and finally calmed down. He turned to look at Xu Mingzhi, his expression obviously colder than before: "If there is nothing else, Captain Xu, I will leave first. There is really an emergency in my unit."
"Okay." Xu Mingzhi nodded in agreement.
