Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 83 The Case of Burning the Corpse 1
At midnight, it was time for everyone to collectively watch videos explaining murder cases.

Today's "Mystery Case" series welcomes a new case, with eerie background music and videos that are both real and fake, making it extremely thrilling.

"Good evening, everyone. I'm Lao Jiu. Today I'm going to talk about a case that can be described as an extremely heinous case of burning a body in the middle of the night."

"The incident occurred at the infamous Ghost Ridge Slope, which has a continuous downhill curve stretching for two kilometers, causing more than a dozen accidents every year. At 11 p.m. that night, a car was speeding through the curve when it collided head-on with a car with its high beams on. The headlights were so bright that it was impossible to see the road ahead. By the time the driver realized what was happening, it was too late to turn again, and the car scraped against the guardrail. He thought it was just a minor scrape, but then he heard a loud thud. He had hit someone in front of his car!"

"The driver was terrified and quickly got out of the car to check. The figure tumbled down the nearly ten-meter-high cliff in the dark, and the sound of the falling rocks was like a landslide. After a few minutes, there was no sound at all below the cliff; the silence was terrifying."

“The person is definitely dead! If the driver knew he would be fully responsible if he got caught, the car with its headlights flashing would have already disappeared, and there are no security cameras here… Right, there are no security cameras here.” He hesitated for a few seconds, not daring to look any further, and hurriedly returned to his car, disappearing without a trace a few seconds later.

"Originally, this was just a car accident, but the person who was supposed to be dead at the bottom of the cliff miraculously survived. He struggled to move his hands and feet to climb up, but suddenly his body burst into flames in the darkness, burning him and causing him to scream in agony..."

The faint cries of the seriously injured could no longer be heard from the cliff face, which was nearly ten meters away; all that could be seen were the burning flames.

She opened her eyes, the light of the flames reflected in them.

The person in the light was distorted and deformed by the high temperature, and was on the verge of death. He was unable to make any big movements, and with his last breath, he reached out his hand to try to climb up and call for help.

But in the end, that hand couldn't grasp any path to survival; instead, it was completely engulfed by the spreading flames.

She watched from above, the tension and unease after the murder gradually turning into a twisted sense of triumph as the corpse remained motionless and the flames spread.

There's still one regret.

It's too far away to hear him kneeling down like a lapdog, crying and begging for help. What a pity.

The fire grew larger and larger, engulfing the distorted human figure at its edges, and the stench of burning flesh wafted to our noses on the wind. "She" gave a cold laugh, and under the cover of night, silently turned and left the cliff edge.

At one or two in the morning, the mountain road was as black as thick, viscous ink. The wind blowing against the road made the heavy shadows of the trees on the cliffs groan and laugh, like ghosts demanding lives.

Tan Jia suddenly awoke with a start—

Panting filled the room, her heavy heartbeat stirred up a sweat. She threw off the thin blanket, grabbed her phone, and called Zheng Yan.

"Captain Zheng, I dreamed about another murder case."

……

Zheng Yan picked up Tan Jia on an empty street in the early morning.

The car door slammed shut, and Zheng Yan asked directly, "Tell me the specific location."

"It's a downhill bend, with hills both above and below. There are no lights, very few cars, and there's a guardrail on the right side of the road."

She quickly described a few sentences, paused, and after careful recollection, deduced two key points: "The place where the victim rolled down should be the angle between two hills, with many low bushes. The murderer was standing on the bend looking down, and the short bridge connecting the two hills should be on the left."

Zheng Yan drew upon his more than ten years of experience in the industry and quickly came up with several similarities.

Then I found aerial photos of each location in the system and showed them to her.

"Try to find it. Don't rush. If you can't find it, we can ask the traffic police for help."

While identifying the body, Tan Jia said, "I'm not in a hurry. Judging from the dream, the victim is most likely already dead, and the murderer left after watching him until he was burned and unable to move."

Therefore, there was no need for rapid rescue, nor was there a chance to catch the murderer in one fell swoop.

She recalled the flame and said, "It's summer now, there are no dry leaves to help it burn, and the clothes are thin. For it to burn so thoroughly, it's possible that gasoline or some other accelerant was poured on it."

Zheng Yan frowned: "He deliberately dumped and burned the body on the mountain road in the early morning, and even stood there for a while. The murderer must know that section of the road very well. He dumped it far away and buried it nearby. He should not be someone from the surrounding area, but he frequents that section of the road."

Tan Jia nodded, his gaze, which was searching the map, suddenly fixed on one particular spot.

"The surrounding environment here is very similar."

"Ghost Ridge Slope." Zheng Yan recognized the location, immediately started the car, and sped away after a few seconds of engine noise echoing below the residential area. It was a sound that a sleeping person could easily ignore if they turned over, but suddenly a window on the thirteenth floor clicked open.

Lin Zhiyue watched the car disappear into the distance and gazed in the direction they had gone.

That's the North Gate area.

Once you exit the residential area outside the North Gate, there is a winding mountain road leading to other provinces, with a two-kilometer-long downhill section in the middle.

At three o'clock in the morning, Tan Jia and Zheng Yan arrived at Guilingpo.

The car headlights pierced the foggy night as Zheng Yan took a multi-functional, powerful flashlight from the car and stood by the guardrail, shining it down.

"is it here?"

"Let me think." Below was the dark bottom of the slope. Tan Jia closed his eyes and recalled the blurry scene from his dream.

She watched the deceased burn at the foot of the cliff. The feet were probably partially covered by vines. At the time, the fire was drifting to the left, and the legs were closer to the concrete railing on the right...

She opened her eyes and moved around until the scene in her vision was the same as in her dream.

"Here—"

The powerful flashlight shone over, and Zheng Yan grabbed onto the vines beside him and took a few steps down, finally finding a few remaining sparks.

“Found it,” he said in a heavy voice. “Call someone.”

After daybreak, the members of the Criminal Investigation Team 2 gathered at Guilingpo.

Police cars flashed red and blue lights, and road closure warnings were set up two kilometers away, with the cordon extending to one kilometer in front and behind.

When the forensic team arrived, they took a deep breath upon seeing the protected site at the bottom of the slope.

"A case of a body being dumped and burned in the wild, how long has it been burning?"

"About five or six hours."

"You guys found it really quickly. People often die and it might not be discovered for years at the bottom of a hillside where no one would pass by."

Zheng Yan and Tan Jia exchanged a glance, then looked away, each looking in a different direction.

"It was pretty fast; someone just happened to see the fire. What about Lao Li? These kinds of cases mainly rely on autopsies."

Old Li had just gotten off the bus with his suitcase, his eyes half-open. He took out a piece of candy from his pocket, tore it open, and stuffed it into his mouth before he had the strength to speak.

“Recently, I’ve spent 20 out of every 24 hours either performing autopsies or on my way to one. I’ve almost finished all the snacks I carry with me.”

Then they would ask, "Where is the body? How badly was it burned?"

"It's quite serious; most of it is carbonized."

"It shouldn't be completely carbonized. When a person is burned, their muscles contract, and they are usually curled up in a prone position. Some body tissue will remain. As long as there is a little bit, we can check the DNA."

They descended the rope to the bottom of the slope and carefully examined the scene. They found that the body was indeed highly carbonized, but they also discovered some good news.

Old Li found a wallet burned to half a corner on the only part of the body that wasn't carbonized; the ID card inside was still barely legible.

“Zhou Qiao… I can’t see the last character clearly, 197… should be someone born in 1974,” Tan Ming took it and identified it, then breathed a sigh of relief, “We have the deceased’s identity now, that’s a good start.”

Sorry, I had something come up and I'm a little late posting (sending you guys some sunflower seeds.jpg)

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