At the demolition site of Chengzhong Village in the Provincial New District, an excavator pushed a skeleton out of the ground. The arms are close to the torso, the legs are close together, and the finger bones are stacked side by side - this is not a random burial, but a carefully arranged ceremony.
Forensic doctor Lu Chenzhou discovered a set of extremely fine marks on the pubic bone of the skeleton: "0726". The same date appears in old case files from seven years ago. The unnamed skeletal case that was hastily characterized as "natural death" had the same scene techniques as the new case - skull nail holes, bone suture clips, numbered labels, and even the angles at which the fractures were healed were exactly the same.
Two bones, seven years apart, say the same thing: someone died, was numbered, displayed, and hidden underground. And everyone who tried to get closer to the truth disappeared - the young forensic assistant Qin Zhao disappeared after being transferred; the senior forensic doctor Zheng Guodong who signed the certificate retired and lived in seclusion; the key evidence in the file was stolen and the signature column was blacked out.
Lu Chenzhou is not alone. His partner, trace inspector Jiang Yuan, makes jokes but is very careful. Criminal psychology consultant Shen Zhiyi wrote the word "unnatural" in his objection seven years ago. The three of them found a brass key from an empty ashes and heard four words from a forgotten audio - "Qin Zhao remembers it."
The numbers "W.01" And "C. Y.03" Appeared one after another, and the sequence pointed to five people. The "0726" on the wall and the notch on the pubic bone repeat the same day like a countdown.
The murderer hid testimony in the bones. The rainy night seven years ago, an alloy nail driven into the skull, and a torn file page——
