[Criminal Minds] Wooden Legs of Justice

"Kid, are you okay?" Leo's worried voice woke up the little doctor who was in a daze.

Leo felt that the limp little doctor in his arms was frightened by his own reflex action.Seeing those beautiful eyes become dull, Leo suddenly felt a pinch in his heart.

"Hiss, no, it's okay." Reid quickly withdrew from the other's embrace, feeling the pain shoot up from his wrist.

Leo tried to ignore the sudden emptiness of his arms, focusing on Reid's right wrist.

The next moment Leo felt that he didn't have to pay special attention - Reid's right wrist was rapidly turning red and swollen.

"Kid, don't move around." Leo tensed up, tearing off the hem of his shirt, trying to ignore Reid's gasp, and simply fixed his wrist.

Leo didn't think that that kind of strength would hurt his bones, but what he was facing was this thin little doctor, not a mercenary.So Leo became uncertain, and even began to doubt his strength just now.

God knows he once broke the neck of a full-grown cougar with his bare hands!

"Hey, Leo, I'm fine and take it easy." Reid felt the tingling in his wrist go away, as he was starting to lose all feeling in his forearm.

Numbness may not be a good thing at this time.

Reid is proficient in medicine, of course he knows it.But the Leo in front of him is now full of depression, and he can't even hide the gloom in his eyes.

In fact, the little doctor has always known that this big lion is not as simple as an iceberg handsome man or an inconspicuous libertine as he has always shown - he is a man with a hidden story.But knowing it doesn't mean liking it, Reid still likes a big lion playing in the world.

Anyway, at this moment, the little doctor didn't want to see Leo showing such an expression.

Reid felt that he should comfort his colleagues - he took care of me all the way!

Leo's jaw line is taut, making his already sharp features appear deeper.

"He can't even hide his emotions," Reid thought.

"Kid, I think you need a professional doctor." Leo tried to persuade Reid to go down the mountain to see a doctor first.

He'd almost, no, probably had disabled Reid's right hand. Leo understood that Reid liked BAU's career, and he couldn't imagine what would happen if Reid couldn't lift a gun anymore.

Reid needs immediate medical attention. Leo affirmed in his heart, trying to persuade Reid.

But obviously, Reid is stubborn like a cow sometimes: "No, no. We are here now, let's take a look at the scene first, it's only a few steps, just a few minutes."

Reid didn't want to miss this opportunity, knowing that he'd been exhausting for almost a day, and he had sacrificed his wrist.

Leo didn't move at all, his side face was hidden in the shadow, and the shadow caused by the high brow bone also hid the eyes that would reveal emotions.

However, Reid was depressed to understand Leo's uncompromising.Who made him a profiler! Reid thought angrily, almost ignoring the numb arm.

"Hey, Lion," Reid called Leo by his nickname for the first time, trying to keep his tone light-hearted. "My left hand is as flexible as my right!"

Leo knew that Reid was comforting him for his accidental injury, and wanted to explain that he could use a gun with his left hand.

But given Reid's abysmal shooting, it's unlikely that switching hands will make a difference. Leo swallowed the thought wisely.

"No compromise at all...Okay!" Reid finally succumbed to Leo's silence, and took a step away depressed.

"It's only a few minutes away!" Reid cursed.

However, when he saw the situation outside, Reid smiled happily.

On the contrary, Leo's face became even more gloomy.

The snow had fallen, covering the humus layer on the ground in just a few minutes.Now, going down a mountain in a blizzard is a very unwise thing to do - there is no road, and the view is blocked, everything will be white.

They were trapped, and they could not even think about going down the mountain that night.The rescue team couldn't come up either, at least until the snow stopped.

Leo thought he saw the fleeting smirk on Reid's face, with pleasure, from the bottom of his heart!

Damn it, why does he have no sense of crisis! Leo gritted his teeth and glared at the little doctor who almost laughed out loud.I swear that if I have the chance, I will arrest the little doctor and beat him hard!

The mountains are blocked by heavy snow, the shelter is surrounded by drafts, and there is no food... What's worse, there are beasts that are always hungry in winter!

Leo can swear that Reid has no experience of surviving in the wild!And they only had two guns, more than a dozen bullets, and a flashlight.

Satisfied, the little doctor went back to visit the crime scene.Behind him falls a sullen lion.

"The fire started here." The little doctor gestured to the scorched iron bed.

Obviously, if the fire started from the outside of the house, they would be facing a whole piece of ruins, not a half-collapsed house.

"Hmm... Let me see, there seems to be something else." Reid's eyes widened.

Leo leaned forward, a little puzzled: "This is soot."

Thanks to Leo's profession as a painter, he has a solid knowledge of how everything should look.Dozens of different ashes have different states, and Leo can even outperform his colleagues in the appraisal department in identifying them just by observation.

"My God! What's this?" Reid scraped off the charred ash on the bed frame with his fingers, and there were a few scratches on the mottled paint surface - the marks left by the binding.

Reid felt bad all of a sudden.

Coal was placed under the iron bed, burning the iron bed red.It's like a giant grill.A 13-year-old girl was tied up on the bed... The temperature was getting higher and higher, and the burnt flesh began to roll up, showing the color of cooked food, and then began to become charred and carbonized...

Reid couldn't think of anything else but cannibalism.

"It's no wonder that there was no smoke in the victim's lungs. She didn't die in an ordinary fire! She was roasted alive... Others even thought it was a half-burned corpse! It was believed to be caused after death!" Xiao The doctor has become a little incoherent.

"Don't think too much." Leo patted Reid's furry head lightly, looking at Reid's pale face with some distress.

"It doesn't have to be cannibalism, maybe it's just pure torture."

Although the little doctor lowered his head and buried most of his face in the scarf, he knew that Reid's lips must be as pale as his face.

"Besides, the corpses are all charred." Leo comforted, trying to make Reid understand that even if he was a cannibal, he wouldn't eat charred things.

But obviously unsuccessful.

"So, we don't know if something is missing." Reid looked at Leo with wet eyes.

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