Thorns

All things are enigmas, and the key to one enigma...is another enigma. — Emerson

Under Si Qingyang's calm expression, Gu Mengping took the phone from him, and the dull person on the other side looked serious on the surface, but he was actually very vengeful!

In a bad mood, he tapped on the phone screen a few times, and Gu Mengping handed the phone to Mu Zhiyuan, and the other party answered it quickly.

"With this thing, the identity of the deceased should be determined soon." Gu Mengping said.

There were no other documents on the deceased, and the hands and feet were cut off and taken away. It was not easy to collect fingerprints. Moreover, depending on the degree of decay of the corpse, it might not be possible to collect the fingerprints of the deceased. The comparison of DNA databases is too time-consuming. Gu Mengping will never wait for the time to get clues on the mobile phone. Solving the case is a job that needs to race against time.

He looked back at the bloodstains on the ground. Those who handled the case were professionals, so they naturally knew how to protect the scene, and did not destroy the traces of the scene. The clues left behind were not difficult to find.

Excluding the shoe print of the deceased, there was a size 43 shoe print left. According to the depth and shape of the shoe print, Gu Mengping already had a suspect in his heart.

After the limbs were cut off, the deceased crawled for a while, and finally died a few meters away. Just looking at the traces of the scene, Gu Mengping found that the direction of crawling was not the road, but deeper in the forest. A moment of deep thought.

This location is very remote. The road leading here is a rural cement road, and there are no farmland or ponds around. The only person who reported the crime was an old street sweeper, about 60 or [-] years old, with a few brooms tied to the back of the tractor while driving. , Several brooms took turns turning around, accidentally found the body, and then reported the case.

Finding dead bodies is a common thing for the police station, but this is not an ordinary case. Being able to dispatch a special investigation team shows that the matter is not as simple as imagined, which is why Gu Mengping came here.

"This is already the third case in which the deceased lost his siblings this month, and the higher authorities attach great importance to it." Mu Zhiyuan's solemn voice came.

"Give me a copy of the previous two cases when you go back," Gu Mengping said.

He fixed his eyes on the road, and then at the corpse. Are these sudden abnormal murders, or murders?The situation at the scene was not complicated. There were footprints of the murderer and wheel marks, but no signs of struggle. The scene looked clean. Even though the corpse had rotted, there were many clues left at the scene. In his opinion, this book It shouldn't be a difficult case.

But the specific situation will have to wait for him to read the materials of the previous two cases.

Sometimes, a thing may not be as complicated as imagined, or it may not be as simple as imagined.

"What did you find?" Gu Mengping took off his gloves, and asked a person who was motionless and had no sense of participation. This person seemed to have no sense of being an assistant.

"No." Si Qingyang answered quickly, without any hesitation.

Gu Mengping looked at him calmly for a few seconds, then withdrew his gaze, avoided him, and took a few steps forward.

"This is a planned murder." Gu Mengping spoke again. Si Qingyang knew that he was talking to him. Overhead.

"Or, the murderer stepped here a bit." Gu Mengping glanced back, and the people behind him were listening carefully.

He continued: "Most murderers generally have a characteristic. They will put the corpse in a place they are familiar with, such as in the refrigerator, under the floor of the house, familiar rivers and lakes, abandoned houses, sewer pipes, etc. Some murderers From time to time, I will go to the place where the body is dumped to check the state of the body, because this way the murderer will have a sense of security."

"Only in a situation where he is very sure that the body is very safe, the murderer chooses such a remote place and will not come back again." Pointing to the clear tire marks, Gu Mengping said.

Except for the tractor's wheel marks, there are only two particularly obvious wheel marks on the wheel marks. It can be seen from this that the murderer never came back after driving away. There are no redundant footprints or tires. Yin, the murderer is so confident.

There are no residents nearby, and the only possibility is that the murderer stepped on the spot, but this is only one of the analysis. The existence of any situation needs a reason. There are so many woods, why the murderer chose this place, these are all necessary Slowly to explore.

"Why did the deceased crawl in that direction?" Gu Mengping asked suddenly, pointing to the depths of the forest.

Throwing a question over, Si Qingyang pondered for a moment, opened his thin lips lightly, and spit out two rare words.

"Fear."

"What are you afraid of?" Gu Mengping asked again.

"People." He met Gu Mengping's gaze and said clearly word by word: "The people sitting in the car."

After the dead man's hands and feet were cut off, the murderer didn't leave immediately. He stood still, moving his feet back and forth, watching the dead man crawling in embarrassment with some anxiety or excitement.At this time, the desire to survive will make the deceased make a choice. The best choice is to choose to face the road. They may pray to a passing person to save themselves, and he can feel his life is slowly passing away.

However, the dead did not...

The reason why he chose to crawl towards the depths of the forest was because he didn't dare to climb towards the road. He had no choice, because there, there was another person who wanted his life, or calmly looked at him in distress. The attitude of indifference and indifference.

Because there are no extra traces on the ground, it can be preliminarily guessed that this person sat in the car and did not get off.

"Yes, this is a gang of two or more people." Gu Mengping was quite satisfied with Si Qingyang's answer. His analytical ability was very strong, just like what was written in the investigation report in prison.

A calm mind, keen analysis and reaction skills, and strong skills, plus lost identities and memories.

He is not a violent person, on the contrary, he is surprisingly calm. Gu Mengping is actually curious why he entered that prison like a tomb, but one thing cannot be denied is that Si Qingyang is the cleanest picture. Paper, such a person is extremely malleable, which is what Gu Mengping needs now.

The finished product needs to be carved slowly, and I hope that the day when his memory and identity are restored will not waste his hard cultivation.

"I don't think the purpose of chopping off the hands and feet is to hide the identity of the deceased. The degree of corruption of the corpse does not require such a troublesome thing as chopping off the hands and feet. The murderer may have used them for other purposes." Gu Mengping walked to Mu Zhiyuan's side Said.

"The result of our profiling is the same." Regarding this point, Mu Zhiyuan who came over did not deny it.

"Is there a profiler here?" Gu Mengping raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise.

"Over there." Mu Zhiyuan pointed, and Gu Mengping followed the direction he pointed and looked over. A very young child, not more than 20 years old, squatted on the ground looking at the corpse seriously.

Sensing their gaze, he turned his head and smiled shyly at them, then stood up and walked towards them, standing beside Mu Zhiyuan.

"Hello, I'm Zhou Yi, a profiler who just joined the industry." Zhou Yi looked at Mu Zhiyuan's face when he spoke.

"Detective Gu Mengping, his assistant Si Qingyang." Mu Zhiyuan introduced.

"Hello." Both of them said at the same time.

For this newcomer, Gu Mengping did not underestimate him, young age is not a problem, and those who can enter the special investigation team are not ordinary people.

"What did the murderer do with the hands and feet of the deceased?" Mu Zhiyuan asked the core question of the case.

There are tens of thousands of ways to kill, but why did you choose this one, and also took the limbs of the deceased away from the scene.

"I don't know, maybe it's used to make pickled pepper claws." The little newcomer didn't lose his appetite because of a case, he was expressing to the captain that he was hungry, and the way he used it was extremely rude.

Neither Gu Mengping nor Si Qingyang could react, Mu Zhiyuan stroked his forehead with some headaches.

"The forensic doctor is going to take the corpse back. Let's have a meal first when we've seen the scene." Mu Zhiyuan knew his new team member very well, and he was very cheerful, but he didn't know if he was getting old or something. Can't keep up with the thinking of young people, obviously he is only thirty.

The place to eat was chosen by Gu Mengping. He has a bit of a cleanliness freak, and when he left the scene, this grinding habit came out.

"Brother Meng Ping, what do you think the murderer did with the hands and feet of the deceased?" Zhou Yi asked while gnawing on the chicken feet.

He is a newcomer, and he doesn't know much about Gu Mengping, but even if the other party is not a registered police officer, but just a detective, Zhou Yi has heard his name many times in the team.

To be honest, he has a little worship.

"Don't talk about the case while eating." After throwing the sentence away, Zhou Yi honestly said "Oh".

He is really a serious person, a bit like the old professor who gave them a criminal psychology class, even the glasses are the same style.

Si Qingyang ate very fast, which surprised Mu Zhiyuan and Zhou Yi a little. His eating posture was not ugly, his movements were not rude, and his face was not ferocious.

But in such an ordinary-looking state, Si Qingyang easily solved a large bowl of beef noodle soup, which took only 5 minutes.

"Another bowl?" Gu Meng put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and asked calmly.

"No need." He refused.

"Then finish my bowl." Pushing the bowl in front of him, he ate half of it. Gu Mengping had no appetite, and he said that he would not discuss the case while eating, but his mind was filled with all kinds of fragmentary clues , can't feel at ease.

Mu Zhiyuan and Zhou Yi originally thought that Si Qingyang would refuse, but they didn't expect that Si Qingyang just took a look at Mu Zhiyuan, then lowered his head, and took the chopsticks to finish the noodles in the bowl seriously.

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