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Chapter 90: Not the same person? And there are remains?
"Um…"

she knows.

only……

Nan Shu looked up, staring intently at the photos taken at the scene. The skeletons in the luggage bag were piled up in a jumble, and dark green aquatic plants were still attached to the skeletons near the breach.

"Xiao Nan, what are you looking at?"

Following the gaze, Li Feng saw it was a picture of the scene and asked in confusion.

"That finger bone..."

Nan Shu murmured, "It doesn't seem like the same person."

She was looking at a short finger bone in the corner of the pile of bones, which at first glance would be mistaken for the deceased's little finger bone.

But Nan Shu had dissected hundreds of corpses in her previous life, and her intuition told her that this finger bone... seemed too strange.

"Not just one person?"

Li Feng couldn't help but raise his voice, "How is this possible?" The corpse in the suitcase was quite intact.

"Li Feng!"

Nan Punian frowned.

"Yes, Captain Nan!"

Li Feng jolted awake and quickly sat up straight.

"What are you talking about?" Nan Punian looked at Nan Shu, then at Li Feng. This brat's head was almost touching Xiao Shu's just now.

"Report to Team Leader Nan, Xiao Nan says there might be another body in the luggage bag."

Li Feng told the truth.

Nan Punian was taken aback. Before he could ask any more questions, the conference room door was pushed open from the outside, and Xu Yunli walked in holding a few sheets of paper. He handed them to Nan Punian and said, "The latest data shows that two different DNA sets have been detected. We initially suspect that there may be more than one skeleton in the luggage bag."

'Swish'—

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at Nan Shu.

Nan Shu: ...

Nan Shu silently shrank back into the chair and looked down at her shoes.

The shoelaces are tied nicely today.

"what happened?"

Seeing everyone's reaction, Xu Yunli quickly glanced at Nan Shu and asked in confusion.

Nan Punian moved his lips, about to speak, when the phone rang urgently. He took out his phone and pressed the answer button, "Okay, I understand."

"The frogmen reported that they've retrieved another set of remains." Nan Punian's expression was grave. He had initially thought it was just a murder and body disposal case, but it turned out to be a case within a case. He wondered if the two victims knew each other, and whether being found in the same location was a coincidence or intentional on the part of the killer...

"Xiaoshu."

Nanpu called out.

"South Team".

Nan Shu stood up, averting her gaze to avoid meeting his eyes.

"You're coming with me to the scene."

Nanpu Niandao.

"Oh……"

Upon hearing this, Xu Yunli glanced at Nan Punian, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.

The three got into the black Hummer.

Nan Shu sat in the back seat, looking down at her phone and glancing out the window, but refusing to look at Nan Punian. She hadn't yet come up with a reason to defend herself.

"Xiao Shu, how did you figure out there were two corpses in the luggage bag?"

Sure enough, what was supposed to come came.

Nan Shu unconsciously tapped the screen with her fingertips. Before she could speak, she heard Nan Punian continue to ask, "Have you read any professional forensic books?"

"Hmm... I was quite interested, so I specifically looked it up and took a look."

Nan Shu didn't expect that Nan Punian had even come up with a reason for her, so she simply went along with it.

"So, that's why you had to extend your studies in your major?"

Nan Punian then asked.

Nan Shu: ...

That's not very polite of you!
It wasn't her who was supposed to be delayed, but since she was now Nan Shu, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

"No wonder. I knew you were so smart, Xiaoshu, that you wouldn't have to go through the hardship of graduation. It turns out you chose the wrong major."

Nan Punian suddenly realized.

Nan Shu smiled, "Garlic bird, garlic bird, smile, garlic bird." Xu Yunli sat in the passenger seat, remaining silent. From their conversation, he finally understood why everyone in the conference room had that expression.

He looked up and glanced at Nan Shu through the rearview mirror, a thoughtful look flashing in his dark eyes behind his glasses.

……

The Hummer was parked on the side of the road.

This is a rural cement road, a two-lane road, with lush camphor trees behind which stretches an endless expanse of rice paddies, and scattered rural self-built houses can be vaguely seen.

Following a path downhill, we soon arrived at the riverbank. The riverbank was lush with aquatic plants, and we could vaguely see a few mineral water bottles that had been pushed to the bank by the current.

A waterproof tarpaulin was laid on the grassy bank of the slope, on which lay the skeletal remains that had been retrieved.

The shinbone was short and the bone was slender, indicating that the deceased was not tall and was rather light.

Nan Shu glanced at the teeth but couldn't see any, so she couldn't judge a person's age by the wear and tear on their teeth.

Fortunately, the pelvis is still relatively intact.

"Has the skull not been found yet?"

Nan Punian glanced at it and asked.

The SWAT frogman, dressed in diving gear and soaking wet, had bluish-purple lips from working underwater for a long time. He took out his waterproof earplugs, patted his ears, and shook his head, saying, "No, the search area has been expanded to 500 meters. Should we continue searching?"

Nan Punian frowned and looked at the calm water.

Today the weather is sunny and the breeze is gentle, with ripples on the water. But no one knows that beneath this seemingly calm surface, so much filth is lurking.

"try to find!"

Nan Punian looked at the special police frogman and said, "This is troublesome."

"For the sake of the case."

The other party smiled, said nothing more, and turned to give the instructions.

As the two were talking, Xu Yunli had already taken out the evidence bag and started sorting the bones piece by piece—a meticulous task.

We don't know yet whether there are any remaining bones underwater, so we can only wait.

Nan Punian stood on the bank, looked around, and finally his gaze settled on the upstream of the river. He said to Nan Shu, "Qingyu Village is about three kilometers ahead."

Nan Shu was taken aback.

"The village where Jin Zhicheng grew up?"

"Yes, further ahead are Liujia Village, Heshun Village, and Ankang Village. Further up, you leave Hangzhou and enter Jiaxing, which is next door."

Jiaxing is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Qiantang River. In the past few days, there has been heavy rain, and the river water level has risen.

The duffel bag was most likely washed ashore at that time.

The scope of this missing persons is thus broad.

Nan Shu turned her head to look at Nan Punian. He had his brows furrowed and was looking upstream, seemingly lost in thought, but she could vaguely guess what he was thinking.

This case is not easy to handle.

The sound of gurgling water could be heard.

Nan Shu was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and saw that Xu Yunli had stopped sorting bones at some point and had set up a simple burning pot by the roadside.

Below was a burning alcohol lamp, and in the pot lay the pubic bone of that incomplete skeleton.

Nan Shu knew what he was doing: boiling bones.

The age of the deceased can be determined based on the pubic symphysis.

This is a technical job.

Nan Shu walked over to him and squatted down, staring at the bones in the pot. Soon, a fragrant aroma of bones wafted out.

"hungry?"

Xu Yunli used hemostats to fidget with the bone, then turned to look at Nan Shu. It was nearing noon, lunchtime.

Nan Shu: ...

That's not quite it, she just misses the lamb spine hot pot from the cafeteria.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Xu Yunli took out the cooked pubic bone, revealing a perfectly shaped pubic symphysis.

He glanced at it, his expression darkening.

Nan Shu glanced at it.

I understand why Xu Yunli has a cold face.

This is the skeleton of a child who was about fifteen years old.

(End of this chapter)