You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 130 The Scene of Exhuming the Corpse! (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader, Star-Clad Sword Immortal! Requesting monthly votes.)
As the sun began to set in the west, the citrus grove to the southeast was already shrouded in shadow; it was past three in the afternoon.

From time to time, shouts could be heard from the woods.

"I've found something here! I've found a body!" a police officer shouted in the woods.

Wen Ling, covered in sweat, trudged through the forest; this was already the fifth mass grave she had discovered.

They are all buried at the edge of the forest, and there is already a pattern to follow.

Every time a body pit is discovered, Wenling places a yellow sign. Police officers from the city's technical team take photos from different angles, making sure the sign is also included in the picture.

With such a large scene, there simply weren't enough forensic and technical personnel. Wen Mo kept making phone calls to request more people from the Chengnan and Jiaxing branches.

Jiang Bala, Fu Yun, and Maozi crawled through the woods like three cadaver dogs, searching inch by inch with shovels.

They were already exhausted, but they still refused to rest for even a moment.

Jiang was covered in sweat, his knees were worn sore, and his fingernails were full of dirt.

Yang Jinwen walked over and handed him a bottle of water: "Captain Jiang, take a break."

Jiang sat down on the ground, wiped the sweat from his face, twisted open the bottle cap, tilted his head back and drank the water all at once, then threw away the empty bottle and continued crawling on his knees.

He gritted his teeth and said, "I haven't found Qin Xuelan and Zhang Huiqun yet, I'll keep searching!"

Yang Jinwen picked up a shovel and joined him in the search, asking, "Were there any obvious distinguishing features of Qin Xuelan and Zhang Huiqun before they disappeared?"

"The most obvious feature is that Qin Xuelan has short hair, and her mother also has short hair."

Yang Jinwen nodded. On the photo wall in the darkroom, Qin Xuelan had a student-style haircut, while Zhang Huiqun's hair was much shorter, covering both sides of her ears.

Five bodies have been found so far. Jiang Bala carefully compares each one, but none of them are them.

The technical police officers are working intensively to identify the photos of the victims on the wall, with Ma Boming leading the comparison.

The message that came in was that there were photos of eight women in total, not including Ma Weiwei.

That means there are still three bodies that haven't been found!

Right now, Yang Guochang and Wen Mo are arranging for people to prepare for the nighttime search for the body.

The area around the citrus grove has been cordoned off, and a crowd of onlookers has gathered outside the cordon.

Upon hearing that a body had been found in the woods, nearby farmers rushed over, some climbing trees to look, others standing on the slopes to watch.

The elderly farmer responsible for managing this citrus grove has been put into a car by police officers, who are questioning him.

People from the city also came, so Yang Guochang had no choice but to go and greet them, explaining the situation to them.

Around 5 p.m., a wave of intense heat swept through the ground, and the wind suddenly stopped.

Dark clouds from the western sky obscured the setting sun.

Half an hour later, the wind howled and large raindrops, like soybeans, began to fall from the sky.

Pale lightning flashed through the dark clouds, followed by thunder.

"Boom, boom!"

The thunder pierced everyone's eardrums. Wen Ling shouted to the police officers around her, "Set up a tent, quick! Cover the mass grave so it doesn't get wet in the rain!"

The rain started suddenly, and the treetops of the citrus grove were swayed wildly by the strong wind.

Wen Mo quickly organized people to find waterproof cloth or plastic sheeting from the homes of the locals, and had people cut bamboo poles to make rain shelters to cover the five corpse pits that had been discovered.

The technical police officers who were investigating the cellar and darkroom also rushed out to help collect the remains from the burial pit.

Five mortuaries would require more than a dozen boxes to hold the bodies, which was simply not enough, so they had to use bags instead.

If it weren't for the rain, the technical police officers wouldn't have been so panicked.

Since Zhang Qian disappeared in 92, almost every year a body has been found. In other words, this damned Hu Aihua kills someone every year and buries the body.

From 92 to 97, these skeletons and not-yet-fully-decomposed corpses were the most direct evidence of murder, but at the same time, to put it sadly, they were also of the greatest research value.

Based on the condition of the skeleton and the first body found carrying a fetus, Yang Jinwen had already concluded that it was most likely Zhang Qian, or a woman who had been murdered even earlier than Zhang Qian.

At this moment, Wen Ling was running around in the heavy rain, reminding the technical police officers who were collecting the remains not to damage them.

Yang Jinwen and his group braved the heavy rain to search for the remaining corpse pits bit by bit in the forest.

The cat wiped the rain off its face and, through the rain and mist, saw an empty pesticide bottle lying in the mud ahead.

Cat stood up, gripped the hoe, and crouched down to run over.

He squatted down, picked up the pesticide bottle, and looked around.

The first body he found was the one with an empty pesticide bottle lying next to it.

At first, the cat didn't think there was anything wrong, but now he finally understood, because these pesticides were used to kill corpse worms!

When a human body is buried underground, three months later, it is the period when necrophilic maggots break out, and the eye sockets and nasal cavity of the corpse are the places with the most maggots.

In other words, if there are the most insects in a place, then that place is definitely not right.

Of course, if the body has been buried for too long and has become skeletonized, then the accuracy may not be accurate.

Thinking of this, Maozi looked at the muddy ground washed by the rain. His hair and clothes were completely soaked, but he didn't even realize it.

Sure enough, at a point three o'clock away from him, there was a slightly raised mound of earth, and a swarm of flies had landed on a nearby citrus tree.

The maggots that appear during the decomposition of a corpse mainly refer to fly larvae (maggots). They are hatched from eggs laid on the corpse by specific flies and eventually emerge as adult flies.

Cat had attended police academy and had some understanding of the decomposition of corpses.

He immediately called over Yang Jinwen, who was not far away.

Yang Jinwen ran over in the rain, and Maozi pointed to the mound. The two looked at each other, wiped the rain from their faces, knelt down together, and slowly began to dig into the soil.

As soon as the soil is turned over, rainwater flows into the pit.

The rain was so heavy that it blurred their vision.

Seeing that the technical team had gone from initial chaos to collecting the remains in an orderly manner, Wen Ling found two large black umbrellas and ran to Yang Jinwen and Maozi's side.

She held up two umbrellas, one in each hand, to shield them from the rain.

The cat dug very quickly, and when it dug to a depth of about an inch, it found the roots of the citrus tree.

They continued digging, and when they reached a depth of half a meter, rainwater from nearby areas started to flow in.

Based on the conditions of the other five pits, the depth at which Hu Aihua was buried was at least half a meter, and would not exceed one meter.

Digging a pit to bury a body is a physically demanding task, and most people don't have the patience for it.

At this moment, Yang Jinwen dropped the shovel and used his hands to dig away the soil bit by bit.

“It’s my turn!” Cat said.

Yang Jinwen nodded. His hands were covered in yellow mud. He wiped the rain off his face with his forearm and looked up to see Wen Ling's pale face under the umbrella.

Wen Ling has always been lively, cute, and carefree, but at this moment, she pursed her lips tightly and her eyes were red.

Her hair was soaked by the rain, and the wet strands clung to her face.

She tried to smile, and the muscles at the corners of her mouth twitched, but she couldn't manage a smile.

Seeing her like this, Yang Jinwen smiled.

With his encouragement, Wen Ling smiled, then let out a long sigh to ease the suppressed emotions in her heart.

Just then, the cat shouted, "Found it! Found the clothes!"

Yang Jinwen and Wen Ling quickly looked down and saw that the cat had dug out a woman's undergarment from the mud pit. The clothes were already brown and were almost rotten into shreds.

Judging from the five bodies mentioned above, the female victims were all naked when they were buried, and their clothes were buried along with their bodies.

Yang Jinwen shouted to the people around who were still searching for the body: "Come over here, a few people, we've found another mass grave!"

Hearing this, Jiang Bala, who was still crawling on his knees searching for the body in the distance, suddenly shuddered. He stood up, leaning on his shovel, and ran wildly towards Yang Jinwen and Maozi.

He shouted, "Is it Qin Xuelan and her daughter? Is it them?"

But no one answered him, and now no one knows who is buried in the mass grave.

Furthermore, given the current situation, after being exposed to high temperatures and scorching sun, followed by strong winds and heavy rain, everyone appears listless and dispirited.

Only Yang Jinwen and Maozi mustered their strength and painstakingly dug through the soil.

The body in the mud pit was still wrapped in several layers of plastic film, which was covered with tiny holes, probably made by earthworms and carrion worms.

Jiang Bala and Fu Yun rushed forward and took over from Yang Jinwen and Maozi. The two of them began digging with their bare hands.

Half an hour later, a complete corpse was revealed.

Compared to the previous corpses, this one was wrapped in the most plastic film, making it impossible to discern the corpse's approximate appearance.

Several police officers carried a homemade rain shelter and spread out bamboo mats they had found at a villager's home on the ground.

Jiang Bala, Fu Yun, Yang Jinwen, and Maozi carefully lifted the body onto the bamboo mat. Wen Ling handed an umbrella to someone nearby and took out a pair of scissors from her investigation kit.

She knelt on the bamboo mat and, with scissors, slowly cut open the plastic film from the middle of her lower limbs, all the way up to her skull.

Next, Wen Ling and Zhang Lei from the forensic department carefully separated the plastic film.

A woman's skeleton was presented to the crowd.

Wen Ling examined the knees of the corpse; the soft tissue had been completely mineralized, and the bones had entered the stage of environmental alteration.

The body has been dead for over two years!

Unlike Wen Ling, Jiang Bala and Fu Yun stared intently at the upper half of the skeleton.

This is the body of a woman with long hair; it is neither Qin Xuelan nor Zhang Huiqun.

Jiang wiped the rain off his face, looked up with disappointment, turned around and looked into the citrus grove, where six mass graves had been discovered.

In addition, there are countless mud pits that have already been dug.

They've dug up the entire citrus grove, but only found six bodies!

At this moment, some of the police officers from the technical team were holding umbrellas, while others were taking pictures of the skeleton.

Everyone stood around the corpse, watching intently as cameras clicked away. Their expressions were solemn, their lips tightly pressed together.

Yang Jinwen turned slightly to the side and saw Jiang Bala slowly walking into the woods in the heavy rain, muttering to himself.

"Qin Xuelan, Zhang Huiqun, where are you and your daughter?!"

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