refining fire

Chapter 16 The Man in the Jar

Aunt Tian's home is next to the supermarket, a self-built house outside the community.Aunt Tian's own room is right after entering the door, and the other partition is the bedroom of the eldest daughter Tian Li, and her two children are still in it.

As soon as he entered the house, Zhou Shen smelled an unpleasant smell, an indescribably disgusting fragrance, mixed with a rotten smell, and he ordered the team members who came in together to take care of it. There are two young children, and they continue to go to the attic to check.

The attic is a room full of pink, surrounded by dolls. It may be because it has not been cleaned for a long time. These dolls are covered with thick dust, which adds to the expression of each doll. A strange color.In the middle of the room was a double bed covered with dirty dusty pink sheets.

The roof was so low that Zhou Shen had to bend down to get to the window.The smell in this room is terrible.He opened the slanted skylight to ventilate the room.

A gust of cold spring breeze blew in, Zhou Shen poked his head out to breathe the fresh air, and by the way looked at the environment outside the window, at this moment, a little girl in a pink skirt ran past his legs - obviously a ghost .Zhou Shen turned around to observe her movements. This little girl did not seem to be in a normal state of soul, and her image was very vague, intermittent.She opened her mouth, feeling as if she was screaming, and suddenly flashed beside the bed, and the next second appeared in front of the wardrobe in the corner of the room.

Zhou Shen walked over and opened the cabinet door, and he was a little shocked by the next scene - a child's corpse in a copper jar appeared in front of his eyes! !

Zhou Shen hurriedly called the team members downstairs.

He put on his gloves and checked briefly. The child who had no limbs and was packed in a jar should have died about a day or two ago, and he had already started to emit a rancid smell, and the weird smell was also faintly coming from the corpse. Let it out.Zhou Shen squatted down and leaned closer, wanting to smell it carefully.

At this moment, a giant bee the size of a palm and covered in burrs suddenly emerged from the copper pot!The giant bee climbed out of the jar, fluttered its wings, arched its back, and was about to pounce on Zhou Shen!Its bee needles were long and sharp, and just as it was about to attack, it was blown away by the doll that Zhou Shen randomly picked up.Fortunately, this giant bee was not fond of fighting. It struggled a few times to get up, saw the window in front of it was open, and flew out.

The instant nervous stimulation and timely defensive response made Zhou Shen startled in a cold sweat.

When several team members came up, Zhou Shen was panting, squatting on the ground with lingering fear.

"Captain Zhou, did you get scared when you saw the corpse?" Brother Li got another chance to tease him.

Zhou Shen stood up in embarrassment, patted his clothes and said, "Don't talk nonsense, call Chen Ming quickly!"

The space upstairs is small, and only two people from the forensic department were left to do on-site collection. Zhou Shen smoked a cigarette by the window to calm himself down.

After smoking, he noticed the same strange smell near the bedside table, so he went to open the drawer and found a small glass bottle inside, filled with black viscous liquid, and the smell came from here.He unscrewed the bottle cap and sniffed it, and almost didn't spit it out. The disgusting sweet smell was continuously emitted from the small bottle. He quickly tightened the bottle cap and put it into the evidence bag.

After Chen Ming arrived, he looked at the body, and said to Zhou Shen, "Your judgment is correct, you did die within 48 hours."

He took out the child's torso again and examined it, saying: "This limb was not amputated recently, and there are traces of surgery, indicating that the limb was amputated for a long time and then died of other reasons. The specific cause of death will only be determined by an autopsy." come to a final conclusion."

"Look again, what is this?" Zhou Shen took out the small glass bottle and handed it to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming took it, unscrewed the bottle cap, looked at it, and rubbed it on his white gloves lightly, shaking his head and said: "I don't know, I have to take this back for testing to find out."

Seeing that he didn't react at all, Zhou Shen asked curiously: "Are your forensic doctors particularly resistant to odors? How can you be so calm?"

"Huh? No smell?" Chen Ming was a little confused by the question, looked at Zhou Shen with a puzzled face, took the bottle up to his nose and sniffed it carefully, and said with certainty, "It really has no smell!"

Zhou Shen felt that his sense of smell must have been broken, and said unconvinced: "Can you not even smell such a disgusting smell? It seems that your work is really ruining your nose! The smell in this bottle is obviously the same as that on the corpse. It’s the same, you can’t even smell it?”

"I can smell the corpse's decay! But there's nothing in the bottle!" Chen Ming was still confused.

"Okay, let's take it back and test the ingredients first!" Zhou Shen was also speechless, and couldn't understand people with bad noses.

Forensic dissection room——

"The corpse died of hypoxia and suffocation, and there were no signs of injury on the surface. In addition, the deceased suffered from meningitis, and the amputation operation may have been performed at least three months ago. We also found that there were old injuries on the genitals of the corpse, and there were erosive condyloma acuminata , After the blood test on the corpse, HIV was also positive..." Chen Ming stated with a deadpan expression.

"Such a young child...?" Xiao Duan couldn't believe it.

"The simple speculation is that the deceased was infected with the HIV virus first, which then caused cryptococcal meningitis. It is likely that arterial thrombosis occurred due to lack of proper treatment, which eventually caused limb necrosis, so amputation had to be done. As for why You will die from lack of oxygen, so you need to investigate carefully to get the answer." Chen Ming said, took off his gloves, went to the sink and began to wash his hands carefully.

Zhou Shen asked: "How is the substance in that bottle checked? Is there any result?"

"The substance is very strange. It is not a conventional chemical composition. There is no result yet. I also asked several colleagues, and they all said that it does not have the smell you described. It is an odorless black translucent liquid and is highly volatile." Chen Ming said.

"I'll smell it!" Duan was curious.

Chen Ming handed a glass petri dish to Xiao Duan, Zhou Shen quickly covered his nose and hid away, Xiao Duan indifferently put his nose up and smelled it carefully for a long time, and said for a long time: "It doesn't smell!"

"That's right! He also said that my nose is bad! Obviously it's his own nose!" Chen Ming said to Xiao Duan with a rare smile.

Then, he remembered another thing, called Zhou Shen over, took a magnifying glass, pointed to the chest of the corpse and said: "Look here, there is a tiny hole mark in the same place as the headless corpse before." , isn’t God miraculous?”

Zhou Shen walked over, carefully identified, and said with certainty: "Indeed!"

"And this time, because he died not long ago, it looks more obvious." Chen Ming was very happy to get Zhou Shen's approval, and said excitedly.

Xiao Duan also came over to look at it, and Chen Ming suddenly stood up and asked, "I heard that you two are getting married soon?"

"Next month, I'll treat you to a wedding wine!" Zhou Shen said with a smile.

"Okay, you! The speed is fast enough. Let's see if there are any beautiful girls in the bridesmaids. Don't forget to introduce one to your buddies!" Chen Ming teased him with a smile.

Zhou Shen patted him on the shoulder and agreed: "That's absolutely fine! I'll send you an invitation then! Don't forget to come!" Then he took Xiao Duan's hand and said goodbye to Chen Ming, "We two Let's go back now, there are still suspects to be interrogated over there, shall we see you later?"

"See you!"

After leaving the forensic anatomy room, the two went straight to the interrogation room——

"Tell me! Don't think about any concealment or chance, we have already found the body of your second daughter!" Zhou Shen sternly interrogated Aunt Tian who was trembling.

Aunt Tian was trembling, and said hesitantly: "...We didn't expect Tiantian to die! We really can't blame us!"

"Then prostitution is not your fault? Let alone such a young child?!" Zhou Shen shouted angrily.

"It's not because the family is poor, and we really can't get rid of it, otherwise, who would force our daughter to pick up the guests..." Aunt Tian said, crying, but there was no tear in her eyes.

"Where are there so many excuses? Hurry up and tell the truth! Also, where is the source of your "laughing gas"?"

Aunt Tian had to continue shivering and slowly recalled: "It's Brother Sen, he gave it to us! It's because of him that my daughter is what she is now! You should go and arrest him! It's true. It has nothing to do with our mother and daughter!"

"Brother Sen? Which Brother Sen? Be more specific!" Zhou Shen asked.

So, Aunt Tian began to explain her "tragic experience" and the facts of the crime intermittently——

She said that she came from the rural areas of Northeast China and had no money when she first arrived here, so she rented this self-built house with her remaining savings.Later, she started a skin business here, and because she was pretty and young, her income was not bad.

At that time, there was a regular customer who came here often, and then the two became concubines. She also gave birth to a daughter for him, Tianli.But the good times didn't last long. The "regular customer" who had promised to divorce and marry her soon disappeared, and he was never seen again.So the young Auntie Tian had to go back to her old job, and this time she had to support the newborn child by herself. Fortunately, the man who built this self-built house had already bought it for her, so she didn’t have to pay the rent anymore. .

Eight years later, in her 8s, she finally met the second man in her life who was willing to "help" her.That time was really sweet. They also took over a small nearby store and opened a supermarket, and she was ready to be a good man.After a year of preparation, Aunt Tian gave birth to a daughter for that man. The birth of Tian Tian made the man so happy that he pampered this daughter like a princess.Therefore, the eldest daughter was neglected during that time, probably because she hated the second sister, so she started to learn bad things and became a little sister.Once, when he was being bullied by several boys, his stepfather bumped into her. The stepfather tried his best to protect his eldest daughter, and fought with several young people. As a result, he stabbed one of them to death and was sentenced to death.

Since then, the family has returned to the way it was before. There is no one to protect the three mothers. It is far from enough for the family to rely on a small supermarket for their livelihood.Aunt Tian can only "go to the sea" again, but she is already old and fading. She has to take care of the shop and raise Tian Tian who is still in her infancy, which is really too much for her.As a result, the eldest daughter also had to take the initiative to join the prostitution business.