In the spring of 1999, when Qinshan City was renovating the Qinhe Bridge, some of the nearby villages were required to be demolished and rebuilt.
The Qinhe Bridge was under the jurisdiction of Ruyang City. During the demolition process, a villager with the surname Wang suddenly ran to the local police station to report the case. He said that when they were moving the graves, they found a scary and strange corpse in their ancestral grave!
After receiving the report, the police went to the scene to check it out. They were also shocked. In their family's graveyard, there was indeed an extremely strange corpse!
At that time, although the corpse showed signs of decomposition, it was not completely decomposed. It could be clearly seen that it was a young woman!
The most inexplicable thing was that the female corpse was wearing a bright red ancient costume, which looked extremely creepy!
The news spread like wildfire, and the villagers who did not know spread the news. The more the news spread, the more bizarre it became. Many people were scared, and it almost affected the demolition work.
The weirder thing was, after the experts confirmed that the ancient costume that the female corpse was wearing was actually a real cultural relic! It was a Han Chinese female costume from the Qing Dynasty, called a velvet embroidered jacket with large sleeves. Not only was it a cultural relic, but it was also very expensive.
Besides that, there were many mysteries surrounding the corpse. Although the corpse was slightly decomposed, the woman's face could still be recognized, and her fingerprints were well preserved. However, until today, the police had not been able to find out the woman's real identity!
The police only knew that she was around thirty-five years old, and was one hundred and sixty centimeters tall. The notice for the corpse had been published for a long time, but no one came to claim the corpse.
In the end, as the corpse was too decomposed, the police could not continue to preserve it, so they had to cremate and bury it officially. However, before the cremation, the police kept the corpse's complete DNA, fingerprints, blood samples, and other information, hoping that one day they would be able to uncover the deceased's identity.
However, even with the advancement of technology, there was still no match. In the end, it became one of the unsolved cases in the Ruyang Branch.
As Zhao Yu had been in the Cold Case Unit, he had come into contact with this case, so he still remembered it.
Back when he had solved the Uptown Slaughter Case, Zhao Yu was full of confidence and had thought of reopening the case. However, because of the Mianling Case, it was put on hold.
However, Zhao Yu was very clear that investigating the Female Corpses in Ancient Costume Case would be much harder than investigating the Slaughter Case! Because the identity of the deceased had never been confirmed, they did not even know who the victim was. How could they talk about solving the case?
Sitting in the Ford Focus on the way to Qinshan, Zhao Yu suddenly remembered the case.
The reason why he thought of this case was because this case seemed to have something in common with the Tomb Murder Case that he was currently facing.
In the Tomb Murder Case, a corpse wearing modern clothes appeared in an ancient tomb!
As for the Female Corpses Case, a corpse wearing ancient clothing was found in a modern tomb!
Other than the fact that the victims were all modern people, the two cases were almost completely contradictory! However, in this seemingly contradictory situation, Zhao Yu faintly smelled some kind of connection.
At the end of the day, it was Fu Jianxing's words that reminded him. Fu Jianxing believed that the deceased had deliberately put the corpse in the coffin just for fun!
Hence, when Zhao Yu re-examined the Female Corpses in Ancient Costume Case, he realized that the murderer who killed the woman seemed to have the same tendency of doing it for fun!
Think about it, a normal murderer, who had already killed someone, would not put ancient clothing on the corpse and put it in someone else's ancestral grave!
Since that was the case, could it be that these two cases, which were separated by 18 years, really have some kind of secret connection?
If the murderer of the Tomb Murder Case had a criminal record, could it be that the Female Corpse in the Ancient Costume Case was also committed by the same person?
Yeah!?
The more Zhao Yu thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible. Because the ancient costume on the female corpse was really a cultural relic. Why would a normal person have ancient clothing?
But, if the murderer was a grave robber, it would be different! He had stolen so many ancient tombs, so it would not be surprising for him to have one or two pieces of ancient clothing!
God!
This grave robber, who is he?!
Just as Zhao Yu was deep in thought, his phone finally rang. The Municipal Bureau Criminal Investigation Department had sent the detectives the latest autopsy report. Through the forensic department's comparison, they had found the identity of the victim of the Tomb Murder Case and the cause of death.
The cause of death, as expected, was a fatal wound to the head.
As for the identity, Zhao Yu was shocked!
From the beginning, Zhao Yu was sure that the victim was not a grave robber. But, he would never have thought that the victim was not only not a grave robber, but an old expert from the Qinshan Cultural Relics Bureau!!!
God!
Suddenly, Zhao Yu felt that his brain was not enough. What is going on? Why would an archaeologist, who had worked all his life, die in a coffin in an ancient tomb?
On one hand, there was an archaeologist, on the other hand, a grave robber … This … Is this a National Treasure? A battle between good and evil? In the end, an old expert from the good side was unfortunately killed by an evil grave robber?
But …
That's not right …
Thinking about it carefully, Zhao Yu felt that there were more and more unexplainable questions in the case!
Could it be …
In the whole case, there was no grave robber? From the beginning to the end, the grave robber was an expert in the field of cultural relics? Did the expert lack money?
What … What is going on?
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Since you got in the car, you have been frowning. Is there something you want to do?" The female driver asked with concern. "It's okay. You'll feel better if you say it out loud. I'm happy to be a listener!"
"Dong Peizhuo!" Zhao Yu muttered a name subconsciously.
"What? What Zhuo? What's wrong? "The woman asked curiously.
"Nothing, just drive your car!" Zhao Yu was secretly glad that he had foresight and was one step ahead of the others. As long as he got to the victim's house, he would definitely be one step ahead of the others!
Dong Peizhuo was the name of the victim of the Tomb Murder Case.
According to the information, not only was this person highly respected in the field of cultural relics, but he was also very accomplished in calligraphy and painting. This person was fifty-seven years old that year. As he had a chronic illness and had undergone major surgery, he had retired early!
But, if the Cultural Relics Bureau came across any difficult problems, they would still come to him for advice! It was hard to imagine that such a highly respected old expert would die tragically in a coffin in an ancient tomb.
After he got the information, Zhao Yu quickly called Miao Ying. Miao Ying was naturally very shocked. She helped Zhao Yu find the address at the first instant, and told Zhao Yu that she was closer to Dong Peizhuo's house. So, she rushed over first, to investigate together with Zhao Yu!
Ya!
Sh * t!
Zhao Yu then thought of something. Although he was one step ahead of the other expert investigators, the other investigators would also ask for help, right?
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