Coroner Coroner

The case seems to have made new progress:

"The murderer is really a bear?!"

Chapter 286 Reminder from Girlfriend

"It seems that the murderer is a bear!"

Director Kakuda was the first to support this conjecture.

For him, the police officers present, and even Lin Xinyi, this was also the "best" guess.

After all, if the killer was a bear, then it was a mere accident, not homicide.

With this conclusion, there is no need to continue the investigation.

You don't have to dig around in the woods to touch ashes and eat dirt, and you can go back and lie down comfortably.

"Conclusions cannot be drawn so early."

Of course, Lin Xinyi would not agree to this trouble-saving approach.

He frowned slightly, and his gaze towards Director Kakuda quietly changed:

At first, the grassroots colleague just complained.

Now, it has shown the idea of ​​muddling along, perfunctory, and wanting to rush through the investigation.

Let such a policeman handle the case, can't every case be turned into an accident?

Thinking of this, Lin Xinyi not only felt relieved that he did not have these latest important discoveries, but became more cautious and suspicious:

"Well, Director Kakuda, why don't you help me urge the police station?"

"I still want to see the file files of death cases in scenic spots in recent years as soon as possible."

"Eh..." Director Kakuda was slightly taken aback.

He seemed to think that Lin Xinyi was too busy, so his expression was a little unhappy:

"Haven't the murderer been found, why bother?"

"As I said, the conclusion can't be made so early." Lin Xin put his tone a little more seriously: "Now I just confirm that there have been bears here recently. As for whether the murderer is a bear, that is another matter."

As he said that, Lin Xinyi also ignored Director Kakuda's silent complaints.

He began to focus on the tree that had been ravaged by bears:

"There seems to be something wrong with these claw marks..."

"Why did the bear just stare at this tree and even tore off most of the tree's bark?"

"Is there something about this tree that attracts it?"

Lin Xinyi muttered to himself, but Director Kakuda felt that such doubts were unreasonable:

"Bears sometimes grind their paws on trees."

"If you spend more time on the mountain, you may find many similar trees."

"That's right..."

Hayashi Shinichi did not refute Director Kakuda's doubts.

But he pointed out a new doubt:

"However, there are not only many claw marks on this tree, but they also extend from bottom to top to very high places."

"The highest claw mark is almost 3 meters long."

"Judging from the size of the claw marks, the bear should be an adult."

"But even according to the exaggerated data of the longest adult brown bear of 2.8 meters, it has to stand up and tiptoe to reach it."

"And more importantly, the lowest claw mark is actually at the bottom of the tree trunk, close to the ground."

"This distribution of claw marks..."

Lin Xinyi simulated the scene at that time in his mind.

He is accustomed to using this method of role substitution to restore the specific actions of the murderer when committing crimes, but this is the first time he has simulated as a bear.

"I'm afraid the bear wasn't sharpening its claws..."

"It should be climbing a tree!"

A big brown bear appeared in Lin Xinyi's mind, climbing a tree with hands and feet.

Yes, except for polar bears, all bears can climb trees.

And polar bears won't, just because there are no trees in the North Pole.

Don't believe that when you encounter a brown bear in the wild, you can escape by climbing a tree. This is a widely circulated and long-standing saying.

The best way to face a brown bear is to rush forward with a headbutt.

In this way, the bear can bite off its own head in one bite, and die cleanly, avoiding more pain.

"There must be something in the tree attracting it..."

"This thing may be the 'prey' it fancy."

"Otherwise, adult bears are huge and shouldn't be climbing trees for no reason."

"And it seems to give up after climbing up a little... Otherwise, the claw marks at the highest point would not just stay at a height of more than 3 meters."

"The trunk of this tree is large enough that it doesn't look like it can bear the weight of a bear."

"Then why did it give up climbing?"

"Could it be...the 'prey' on the tree launched some attack on it and drove it away?"

This reasoning is actually not rigorous.

Because he had only investigated the murderer before, not Xiongshou.

Lin Xinyi, who lacks relevant experience, is now completely relying on the limited knowledge he has learned from "Animal World" to randomly speculate on the bear's actions.

But... This imprecise speculation can easily be verified to be right or wrong.

"I'll go to the tree and have a look."

Without saying a word, Lin Xinyi climbed up the big tree lightly with hands and feet.

The bark of the tree is very rough, even if someone has climbed it before, it will not leave any obvious traces such as handprints and footprints.

But what he was looking for was a different kind of trace:

"Textile fibers."

"If someone had climbed the tree before and the rough bark had rubbed against the clothes, there would have been textile fibers caught in the gaps in the bark."

As soon as Lin Xin thought about it, his eyes became more and more careful.

Soon, he really discovered something:

It was a few strands of white textile fibers stuck in the gaps in the bark of the tall tree trunk.

"Sure enough... this tree was climbed before."

"The bear was chasing a person at that time, and this person is probably not the dead!"

Lin Xin confirmed during the autopsy that the deceased did not have any white clothes at all.

So the guy who was chased by the bear and thrown into the tree at that time was probably not Miss Yoshiko Yamaguchi who slipped and fell off the cliff.

But this still doesn't seem to explain anything...

It can only show that recently, a person here was chased by a bear.

As for whether that person had anything to do with the deceased, or whether the bear had any encounter with the deceased, nothing is known.

Even Lin Xinyi couldn't judge whether these two people and Xiong appeared here at the same time.

With doubts in his mind, he climbed down the tree solemnly.

The case seems to be progressing, but instead there are more mysteries.

"Continue to investigate..."

"We must search this forest thoroughly."

Lin Xinyi earnestly ordered everyone to continue working:

"Also, Director Tsunoda, please help me to remind you of the materials I want."

"Yes..." Director Tsunoda reluctantly replied.

But the young master of Hattori Headquarters was watching from the side. No matter what complaints he and the other police officers had, they could only honestly hold them in their stomachs and bury their heads in their work.

But Lin Xinyi did not participate in this round of survey work.

There are too many doubts in his heart that cannot be answered.

"Why did the bear climb up a little bit and then gave up."

"There are no claw marks of 'continuous sliding' on the trunk. From this point of view, it is not because it can't climb the tree and slipped from the tree, so it gave up climbing the tree."

"Then why did it suddenly give up hunting the prey in the tree?"

"Could it be that a human attack can scare away such an adult brown bear?"

"And... the string of footprints before..."

"Why do I have that inexplicable feeling?"

Lin Xinyi frowned and paced slowly in the forest.

There was a thick mat of fallen leaves in the woods, making it difficult for both human and bear tracks, and this had a great influence on his investigation and judgment.

So he walked out of the woods unknowingly, and returned to the slope beside the cliff.

On the dirt slope were the only clear footprints they could find from the scene.

Lin Xinyi looked at the long string of footprints, his gaze became deeper and deeper.