Shen Xin asked for a pair of gloves and squatted down to inspect Li Xingping's bag.
There wasn't much inside, just a few pieces of clothing.
There was also a phone charger, a plastic bag with a few steamed buns and several hard-boiled eggs, and a jar of pickled vegetables.
It was a depressingly simple collection of belongings.
Shen Xin took out the clothes and unfolded them for a closer look.
He hadn't seen the body yet, but there was a significant amount of blood on the ground at the crime scene.
Although the brain has a rich blood supply, a blow to the back of the head with a blunt object rarely causes the kind of wild, face-covering arterial spray you see in movies.
The blood at the scene must have seeped out slowly after the victim fell to the ground.
Getting splattered all over was unlikely, but the cuffs of the sleeve holding the weapon could easily have been spattered with some blood.
