"Leader," a police officer from Zhangze City said to Zhao Yu when everyone came to the well. "We've been looking for missing people in the nearby villages.
"We think that since the body appeared here, the murderer and the victim are most likely from the nearby villages!"
After hearing this, Zhao Yu did not reply. Instead, he focused his attention on the well that appeared halfway up the mountain.
The well was indeed made of bricks and cement, and it looked particularly rough. The edge of the well was smeared with more cement, but it was not particularly uniform. Bricks were exposed in many places, and it looked particularly perfunctory.
"What's the origin of this well?" Miao Ying asked. "Doesn't anyone know?"
"No," the local police officer replied. "I asked everyone in the forest, and they all said that they never paid attention to it."
"This well …" Zhang Yaohui said. "It looks like it was built in the eighties or nineties of the last century. The red bricks look very familiar. My hometown uses this kind of red bricks."
"Yes …" a guide said in the local dialect. "We use it to build houses now! But … if we need to dig a well in the forest, we usually use stones and get the materials from the place! "
"Stones?" Zhao Yu asked. "Stone wells?"
"Yes," the guide replied. "You can see that there are stone wells in the mountains. Stones are easy to find, but bricks are difficult to transport!"
"That's true …" Miao Ying said. "Such a deep well would require a lot of bricks. It's inconvenient to travel here, so it would be very troublesome to build a well with bricks!"
"Yes, sir," the local policeman said again. "This well came in a strange way. From here to the gully, there are streams all year round. If you didn't live here for a long time, you wouldn't need to dig a well here!"
"The point is, there's no water in the well, right?" Zhang Yaohui sighed.
Zhao Yu still didn't answer, but looked into the well.
"Leader, be careful," a police officer reminded him. "Because of the body excavation, the well has reached its end. It's more than five meters deep! Be careful! "
Zhao Yu looked down and saw that it was pitch black inside. It was indeed a little scary.
Zhang Peipei quickly turned on a high-power flashlight and shone it into the well.
A distance of 5.5 meters might not seem like much on flat ground, but in this deep well, it wasn't considered shallow!
If a person fell from a high place to the bottom of a well, even if he didn't die from the fall, he would be badly injured.
"Have we … reached the end?" Zhao Yu looked at the bottom of the well, then looked at the large amount of soil and stones that had been dug out.
"Yes, it has been dug to the bottom," the local policeman replied. "There is no well further down, and the soil has obviously changed, becoming harder.
"We dug a few more times, but we didn't find any more skeletons, so we stopped."
"Also," another local police officer added, "they didn't dare to dig until they reached the bottom. The well was squeezed out of shape, and they were worried that it would collapse!"
"Oh …" Zhao Yu nodded thoughtfully.
"Team Leader," Zhang Peipei said, "do you want us to bring the radar over to check?"
The radar that Zhang Peipei mentioned was the electronic pulse radar that the police used to find skeletons. It had been used in the video murder case before.
"Not for the time being," Zhao Yu said. "Let's wait for the identity of the deceased to come out first!"
"Mm, but …" Zhang Peipei said, "I've seen Chief Wang's analysis. The soil at the bottom of the well is obviously different from the soil where the bodies were buried. There shouldn't be anything down there!"
"Okay …" Zhao Yu stared at the bottom of the well, still deep in thought.
"I saw in the report that the well was sealed with a big stone?" Miao Ying asked the local police officer.
"Yes." The local police officer hurriedly gestured. Only then did everyone see a rectangular rock.
"Did you get any fingerprints on the rock?" Miao Ying asked.
"No," the police officer replied. "We only got the eyewitness's. At that time, there was a scientific research team that was camping here. They wanted to see if there was water in the well, so they pushed the rock aside and dug. Who knew that they would find skeletons! "
"Scientific research team?" Miao Ying asked again. "Where was the scientific research team from?"
"Northwest Agricultural University," the police officer replied. "They were studying biology. A professor led a group of students! They were supposed to stay here for a week, but now it's over. "
"That's good," Miao Ying said. "Inform them to come to the Qinshan Police Station tomorrow. We need to ask about the situation."
"Yes!"
Miao Ying was the commissioner of the Central Criminal Division, so the local police officers naturally did not dare to neglect her.
"Have you searched around here?" Zhao Yu finally left the well and asked the local police officer.
"Yes, after the crime, we searched the whole hill," the local police officer replied. "But we didn't find anything! All the footprints we found belonged to the scientific research team! "
"Team Leader," Zhang Peipei reminded him. "The last body was buried three years ago. If the murderer never came back during that time, there shouldn't be any more traces of him!"
Everyone nodded at Dr. Zhang's words.
Three years was a long time, and it was indeed enough to erase any traces.
However, Zhao Yu smiled and shook his head mysteriously. "No, that's not necessarily true! I can tell that you guys have never done any heavy labor! "
"Huh?" Everyone was confused by Zhao Yu's words.
Zhao Yu walked up to the two dark-skinned local guides, patted them on the shoulder, and said, "When I was eight years old, I followed my parents to build a house. What about you?"
"We?" One of the guides thought for a while and said, "I only started working with my parents when I was in junior high."
"I didn't …" The other one shook his head.
Zhao Yu walked back to the well and said to Zhang Peipei, "Dr. Zhang, I will send someone to dismantle this well!" "It doesn't matter. It's not that I want to ask you if you've done this before, but …"
"Oh?" Zhao Yu's words were always unexpected, so no one could follow his train of thought.
"Then, I will need you to personally lead the dismantling process of the whole well!" Zhao Yu stopped smiling and said seriously, "You will need to bring your people to carefully check every brick and extract all the fingerprints on the bricks and cement. Can you do that?"
"Oh …" Zhang Peipei finally understood. "You mean, we need to find the person who built this well?"
"Moving bricks, mixing cement, whether it's building a wall or building a well, the principle is the same!" Zhao Yu gestured as if he was smearing the cement. "The fingerprints will be perfectly sealed in the cement, which is a ready-made fingerprint mold!
So, no matter how many years have passed, the traces will still be there! "
"I understand," Zhang Yaohui said. "If we find the person who built this well, the case will be easier to solve?"
"Not only that," Miao Ying said. "This well was obviously used to bury people! So, the person who built this well is most likely the murderer of this case!!! "
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