wavenovel Chapter 930: Dredging
Chapter 930: Dredging
Chapter 930: Dredging
Pushui Town.
The fish pond where the incident occurred is not far from the highway exit, with an area of about one hectare, or 15 mu, or about 10000 square meters, which is exactly the same as the area of a playground with a 400-meter standard running track. The area of a football field often used in news reports is 7140 square meters, or about 10.7 mu.
The water in the fish pond has been drained. The sunlight shines on the surface of the mud, revealing a thin, crispy shell. But with the slightest touch, the crispy shell will break and sticky mud will flow out.
Shen Yaowei, wearing a full set of thick leather clothes, jumped into the mud. Before he could say anything, he felt his whole body slowly sinking, sinking and sinking, and it felt like he could hardly reach the bottom.
"How deep is the mud?" Shen Yaowei did not panic, although his feelings at this moment were similar to those of a person falling into quicksand or trapped in a swamp.
The policeman on the shore was from Changle City Police Station. He said truthfully: "The shallowest part is about one meter, and the deepest part is more than two meters."
"2 meters? Won't it be submerged?" Shen Yaowei started to panic.
The police officer on the shore smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm holding the rope."
"How can it be so deep?" Shen Yaowei was still sinking and couldn't help but ask, "I checked in a book. Aren't ordinary fish ponds only a few dozen centimeters deep?"
"In an ordinary fish pond, there is no need to wear a leather jacket." The police officer on the shore also laughed and pointed out Shen Yaowei's logical error.
Shen Yaowei looked down at his leather jacket, then at the mud that was getting closer and closer, and felt a little panicked: "Is this all right..."
"It should be almost at the bottom. This is the shore after all. A normal fish pond only has 20 to 30 centimeters of silt. So there is something wrong with this fish pond. One is that it hasn't been silted for a long time, and another is that fish haven't been raised in a long time. The silt is getting thicker and thicker. So we know that the fish sank here. We initially suspect that it is familiar with the environment here..." The police on the shore have already started thinking about the case.
Gumbling.
Shen Yaowei felt small bubbles starting to appear around him.
"Brothers, pull it out, it's really deep here." The policeman on the shore said with a smile, and then said to Shen Yaowei: "Open your arms and pull it out."
Shen Yaowei quickly did as he was told.
The police on the shore shouted one, two, three, and together with three other people they pulled Shen Yaowei out.
puff……
A rope flew out of the pond quickly, and Shen Yaowei felt his body lighten and then sink, and suddenly his whole body tilted.
"What should I do?" Shen Yaowei was really a little panicked now, and his mind began to flash back to fragments of various times in his life. Among them, the scene of aiming and shooting on Su Island and hitting the criminal with the first shot was particularly clear.
That was Shen Yaowei's highlight moment.
"Director Shen, we caught him." The policeman on the shore shouted in panic and threw the slippery mud rope in front of Shen Yaowei.
Shen Yaowei grabbed the mud rope, and the police shouted and pulled him up.
"Hi..." Shen Yaowei climbed ashore, and the smell of silt in the fish pond was also brought out. The fresh smell mixed with the newly dried smell was even more pungent.
"Give Shen...Ke a rinse." The policeman in charge said, and then someone took a rubber tube and squeezed it with his hands. A stream of water with a little force hit Shen Yaowei's leather jacket, just like washing a pig in the village.
Shen Yaowei took a few deep breaths, inhaled enough of the stench, and then turned over. While having his back washed, he looked at the fish pond in front of him that was as big as a playground, and said, "How can we dig something out of this?"
"Yes, but when I told my leader, he didn't quite understand." The police officer in charge seemed aggrieved. He couldn't put thousands of words into one sentence and didn't know what to say.
"If we were searching for evidence normally, we would usually just dig up the mud next to the body and then focus on the surface search. We wouldn't necessarily let the water go." Shen Yaowei also didn't quite understand.
In such a large fish pond, it would take all your energy to turn over the silt, let alone swim in it. It is not easy to find evidence.
In fact, even searching for objects in muddy water is very difficult, let alone in mud, which makes this solution itself a bit difficult to implement.
The detective leading the team could only sigh, think for a moment, and then said, "Well, we have solved all the homicide cases for three consecutive years..."
"I understand." Shen Yaowei nodded: "I just want a good reputation, but I'm reluctant to spend money."
He and the others in front of him all laughed.
"After saving so much, we still had to find Captain Jiang in the end." Shen Yaowei curled his lips. With Huang Qiangmin's stingy personality, he would definitely not let Changle City get involved with both.
Shen Yaowei stood up, water pouring out of his leather jacket, and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"The corpse in this case is quite special. First, the murderer tied the corpse with ropes and stones and sank it into the pond. The corpse was fully clothed and it is suspected that it had been soaked in water for more than three months. During this period, there were several heavy rains in Changle City, and a lot of water entered the fish pond. Therefore, we speculate that if some items on the corpse fell off, they might have been washed away."
The leading police officer here gestured as he spoke, and then said: "The situation of the silt is actually similar. The fish pond here has been in disrepair for a long time, and a lot of mud has been washed in when it rains. If it were a good fish pond, there would be measures to prevent it. The fish pond here is unattended, and the mud and sand that washed in may have buried the evidence again."
Shen Yaowei nodded: "That makes sense, so what do you want to do?"
"If we can't find the source of the body through the corpse, then we can only find the objects around the body." The leading police officer emphasized, and then said: "We suggest using an excavator to dig out all the silt in the fish pond, at least a few dozen centimeters thick, but this is quite expensive. Lang Zhi has always asked us to exercise our subjective initiative. How can we move such thick silt?"
"That's easy. Give me my phone." Shen Yaowei stretched out his hand.
Someone handed the phone to Shen Yaowei.
Shen Yaowei called Huang Qiangmin, explained the reason, and then hung up and said, "It's agreed that the excavator will come in soon. We have to find another place to dump the silt. It must be a place with convenient water so that we can wash the evidence."
"Lang Zhi agreed?" The leading police officer was surprised. Lang Heng always believed in saving where necessary and spending where necessary, so how could he agree so readily?
Shen Yaowei curled his lips and said, "If our backlog case team is in charge of the case now, then Political Commissar Huang will make the decision."
Of course, the subsequent expenses must be borne by the Changle Bureau.
The leading police officer understood: "Lang Zhi is reluctant to spend the money, so why don't you spend it for him?"
……
Shen Yaowei asked for four excavators at once, and together with a truck and several three-wheeled motorcycles in the village, he began to collect evidence.
Huang Qiangmin gave other members of the backlog case task force three days off. By the time everyone returned from vacation, Shen Yaowei's dredging work was almost completed.
The debris that was cleared out was so much that it could fill an entire room.
At this time, the problem everyone faced was no longer a lack of evidence, but a shortage of objects, and they didn't know which one was the evidence.
Shen Yaowei didn't care about anything else and hired a car to transport all of them back to the Criminal Police Detachment of Changle Municipal Bureau.
The detachment's yard immediately became smelly.
Lang Heng looked at the objects he had dug out with his own funds, most of which would not be used as evidence, and wondered if he had been too wasteful.
At the same time, Jiang Yuan also decided to abandon the body after briefly examining the remains and photos of the remains.
The weather in Changle City is hot, and after the body sank into the pond, it decomposed quickly. In addition, there were still fish in the pond. By the time the body was salvaged, although there was still some organic matter on the body, it was difficult to use it to generate DNA. In the end, it could only be boiled in a pot and only the bones were taken out for later use.
At this time, Jiang Yuan still had the skull restoration technique available, but it was indeed too time-consuming.
In comparison, forensic anthropology is more noble. Just by looking at each bone, a lot of information can be read.
(End of this chapter)