Pixar on the left
Chapter 16
After asking several islanders on the way, they finally found their destination. At this time, Yu Shi followed Xiang Ling and walked side by side, but Xiang Ling stopped suddenly, stood still, and watched a woman from afar. There is dried fish in the yard at the gate.
Without urging him to move forward, Xiang Ling said the first sentence after a long time: "I suddenly don't know whether I should go over or not."
Walking over is tantamount to reopening the other party's scars and sprinkling salt on them. Maybe the other party does not want sudden comfort from others, nor does he want others to dig into the past and re-present unacceptable facts in front of them.
"I remember you said that what people are most afraid of is being forgotten. You see, they are living a good life now, but the thorns in their hearts are still there. They have been there for more than 20 years, and the wounds continue to rot. I have seen many, many The family members of the victims did not wait for the truth to come, and the thorn remained in their hearts until they were brought into the coffin. No one knew the thorn in their hearts, and no one tried to pull it out. Only they knew the pain, but just Like you, people need the truth, even if they are going to die, they must die clearly, we may not succeed in knowing why, but at least we have tried to find the answer." Yu Shi's tone was very light.
She is very young, but she has already seen too many dark sides in this world that others don't want to see.
After thinking for a long time, Xiang Ling took another step.
The woman who was drying the fish was Li Jue's mother. She laid out the dried fish, and when she raised her head, she saw two strange women standing at the door of her house. As soon as she heard the other party's intention, she brought them into the house and served them up. [-] glasses of water.
"I didn't expect that someone would come to me for this matter."
Li Jue's mother spoke in a very flat tone, and she couldn't hear the sadness, which gave people the illusion that time had healed the wound.
Actually not.
"I want to collect some information and investigate it again. If it goes well, I may write a report. I hope to get your permission, and on the premise that it will not embarrass you or cause any trouble."
Xiang Ling was very careful in what she said, she didn't want her unexpected actions to touch other people's wounds.
"It's okay. Although after so many years, even the prosecution period has passed, I still feel unwilling about Xiaojue's matter. If I can get the truth, no matter what the result is, I will accept it."
Sometimes all people need is the truth.
So Mother Li, under Xiang Ling's question, told what happened back then...
Back then, Li Jue took advantage of the summer vacation to go back to his hometown. One evening, Li's mother asked Li Jue to deliver food to Li's father who was working, but Li Jue didn't come back until after ten o'clock in the evening. After successfully seeing Li Jue himself, the two couples were startled and began to inquire about the nearby neighbors. In the end, they called dozens of islanders to search, but they couldn't find Li Jue in the end. They continued to search without giving up. Nearly a week later, Li Jue's body was found on the beach.
Li's father and Li's mother rushed to the beach as soon as they heard the news. They still remember the scene at that time. People were discussing around the corpse that had swelled several times. When they arrived, everyone gave way. The picture still makes the couple wake up from their dream at midnight.
At the scene at the time, the two of them were almost certain that it was their missing daughter when they saw the safety rope on the wrist of the corpse. Li's mother fainted from crying on the spot, and Li's father fell to his knees and howled loudly.
Afterwards, the body was taken over by the police and sent for examination, but nothing was found. Only the wound on the back of the head was known to have been injured with a blunt instrument, which was also a fatal injury, and no clues about the murderer could be found. At that time, they couldn't even determine whether the murderer was from the island or an outsider.
One month... two months... one year... two years... At this moment, the couple finally realized that they would never know the truth about their daughter's death for the rest of their lives.
After the incident, Father Li’s condition was not very good. Every time he saw a photo of his daughter, he would cry and say that he had killed her. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he would also say that he dreamed of his daughter, that she blamed him, that he killed her. For her, this state lasted for more than a year.
Afterwards, no one of the islanders who knew the situation dared to mention Li Jue in front of Li's father. So many years passed in a flash, and I don't know if it was intentional, or time really played down everything, and no one mentioned it again.
"What did your husband do back then? Where did he work?"
Li's mother said: "He is the captain of the carpentry team. The place where he works is not fixed. It depends on where the wood is to be felled. They built the studio there. That place was half an hour away from here. The place, the location is a bit wild, but not too wild."
"Can you tell me about that place? I want to go and have a look."
After Li's mother informed the location, Xiang Ling and Yu Shi put a stick of incense on Li Jue's memorial tablet, bid farewell to Li's mother before leaving, and went to the carpentry team's studio. One road was feasible, and the workers all used that road to go back. The police and islanders searched the entire road rigorously, but no trace of Li Jue was found. After 20 years, this area has also developed, and the nearby There are more houses, the road has been widened, and several new roads have been paved. Overall, it is completely different from the past. If someone walks on this road alone now, he will definitely not be as easy to be poisoned as he was back then.
The two came to the so-called workshop of the carpentry team. The studio looked like a tin house, because it was used as a place for the carpentry team to rest and meet temporarily, so it was very simple. Because of other reasons, this forest was not successfully cut down. The tin house studio was abandoned.
"The place now looks like it's really to the criminal's liking."
Remote, inconspicuous, lifeless...
When there is no metaphor, Xiang Ling stepped over the dead branches and leaves to get close to the iron house. After years of rain, it was covered with green moss and unknown dirt, and there was a whole row of bird nests on the eaves. The bird was flying in and out, looking for food for the baby bird. Looking at the latch again, it was locked. It should have been done by the carpentry team back then.
While worrying about how to open the lock, Yu Shi picked up a small rusty stick from his feet and inserted it into the lock. When the two of them worked together to pry it, the lock broke.
Raising the camera to Zero, he took pictures of every part of the house before he began to examine it carefully.
The tin house is smaller than ordinary houses, and the whole interior looks square. There are a few straw mats piled up in the corners, which should have been used by the carpentry team for rest, but they were not taken away later.
There are two light bulbs hanging on the top of the head, just connected by wires, and there is no lampshade. The light bulbs are black and covered with thick dust, because they are temporarily built, and there is no electricity, so the carpentry team can only bring them. Come to the generator to light the bulb.
There was a long table and a few simple chairs in the house, all covered with dust. A tree map was pasted on the blackboard beside it, and a circle was drawn on it with a red pen to indicate the felling area.
Looking at the tree map, Xiang Ling asked, "Yu Shi, do you know about logging?"
"One is to develop the land, and the other is to sell it after cutting it down. The area drawn on this forest tree map does not seem to be large, so it should not be the land for development."
Moreover, the South Island 20 years ago was not famous enough to need to develop land. Only some local South Islanders lived a small life. Later, the development plan came here, and then began to build bridges and roads, and became a major tourism development area. .
"If it is sold, the carpentry team will evaluate which trees are suitable and which are not suitable. If they are not suitable, they will not be cut down because they cannot be sold for a good price."
Unsuitable trees are those that are not of good quality, or that have had the interior of the trunk hollowed out by worms and termites, and this type of wood is destined not to be processed into anything.
"It reminds me of the butterfly tree I saw yesterday, the carpentry team gave up on that tree, and now it's a secret attraction on the island."
The Butterfly Tree is surrounded by felled trees, leaving only the stumps and roots in place.
"Maybe because the surrounding trees were cut down, so it came back from the dead."
Of course, there is also such a possibility, because other trees rob nutrients, causing some trees to be short and unable to grow up. When other trees that rob nutrients are cut down, those short trees can grow healthily.
"There doesn't seem to be any clues here." If there were, it's gone after all these years.
"I didn't expect it either." She mainly came here to take a few photos to get a profile.
In addition to the tin house, Li's mother also told them that there is a small woodworking factory near here, which was owned by Li's father's team. It closed down later, and Li's father's carpentry team was transferred to other employers to continue working. The police also focused on searching. The carpentry factory, however, found nothing.
The two moved to the wood factory, which was said to be small, but it was actually not small. At least there were all the machines that should be there. The islanders felt it was a waste, so they took the tree trunks home and processed them into furniture by themselves. Now the wood factory has only dust and rotten wood chips left.
After carefully looking around the wood factory, they didn't find anything. After taking a brief photo, the two of them stopped at the same time.
"Did you hear that too?"
"Um……"
It was the footsteps of a third person, just behind them.
Turning around resolutely, there was no one behind him, Yu Shi signaled Xiang Ling to follow behind him, the two went to check carefully, but found no trace of anyone, but on the thick dust on the ground, there was a third person's shoes They followed the shoe prints to the outside of the factory, but they could not continue to track them down, because they were all weeds and would not leave shoe marks.
"I didn't realize I was being followed." Yu Shi rested his forehead.
Who was that person just now?Why follow them?Could it be the murderer who killed Li Jue back then?
Countless question marks appeared in her mind.
Xiang Ling took a picture of the clear shoe print without saying a word, and said, "It's a man."
"Then it looks like there's something here." I had to search more carefully.
The two started a blanket search, and they didn't let go of the surrounding areas outside the factory. In the end, they really let them run into a dead mouse, and found an iron cover in a field overgrown with weeds.
The iron cover is similar to the sewer cover that can be seen everywhere on the road. There used to be small holes on it, but now it has been sealed with cement. When the cover is opened with force, the weight of the iron cover is not a joke at all. Not open.
Opening a gap, Yu Shi turned on the phone's light and looked down. Although he couldn't see anything clearly, what he was sure of was that there was space underneath.
The iron cover was moved aside by the two of them, and Yu Shi asked Xiang Ling to stay on it by himself, and went down to have a look first, lest both of them go down and be plotted against by the person who just followed him.
Less than a minute after Yu Shi went down, Xiang Ling heard the rustling of the grass nearby. She took a look and saw that someone had been there just now, and the grass was still shaking.
"Yu Shi, come up!" Xiang Ling yelled into the cave, and immediately got up to chase, not forgetting to pick up the bricks that were just used to press the iron lid before chasing.
Following the other party into the woods, she could only vaguely see the other party's figure shuttling through the forest, wearing dark green clothes, everything around her was green, she was a little dazzled, she could feel that the other party was more beautiful than herself. She was more familiar with the terrain in the woods and ran faster, so she pointed the brick in the direction of the man and threw it hard. The brick hit the tree trunk next to the man, making a dull sound, and broke into two halves.
I can't catch up.
Panting, Yu Shi arrived at this time, and the man had completely disappeared.
"Height 1.7 meters, male."
"Next time you can't go after him by yourself, it's dangerous!" Yu Shi put her hips on her hips, she didn't even have time to see the man's back.
"That's why I called you up." Xiang Ling glanced at the tree trunk he hit just now, some sawdust fell from it, and the broken bricks lay there quietly.
"Well, it's dangerous..." Yu Shi looked at Brick and sighed.
She couldn't tell who was in danger.
"So what did you find underneath?" Xiang Ling asked on the way back.
"I found something that should be reported to the police."
When Xiang Ling knew what should be reported to the police, she was already standing at the bottom, with rough cement under her feet, and the space was not big, not much bigger than a toilet. Looking at the wall, it could be seen that this was not a man-made space, but a It was a natural landslide, but it was later processed by people, poured cement, and built a simple floor.
But now she saw large black stains on the floor, and there was a smell of rust in the air.
"It is indeed something that should be reported to the police..."
After the police arrived, they sealed off the scene, and the big man and others rushed to the scene immediately after receiving the news. Suddenly, the wood factory that had been abandoned for many years welcomed the breath of strangers again.
"You guys are really good at making trouble, don't forget that we are here for vacation, okay?"
Shuxia had no choice but to help her forehead, God knows they had already negotiated a good price with the boatman and were ready to go to the island, only to receive the news that it might be the scene of the crime.
"I only know it's blood, I don't know if it's animal or human, but from my personal experience, it's most likely human blood." Yu Shi leaned against the wall, talking very businesslike, just like he usually handles cases.
"Wait, this is not your jurisdiction, so whether it is human blood or not, you have no right to intervene, and you are on vacation now, don't mess around."
Jiu Hua waved his hands and said the facts with a serious face. The police have their own jurisdiction, and cross-district investigations are not allowed in terms of work rules unless they are approved by the local police officer in charge.
Moreover, not all police officers welcome foreign police officers to intervene in cases in their jurisdiction.
"I never said I would intervene in the investigation." At least she had no intention of intervening in the formal investigation.
The captain of the criminal police who was in charge of the scene was an acquaintance of the big man. He used to take special care of him when he was a child. His name was Wang Ze. After the two chatted for a while, the group left without disturbing others to handle the case.
Walking back to the way we came here, it was already past noon, and everyone was very hungry, so we found a noodle stall and sat down for lunch. Xiang Ling received a call from Tudou at this time, and left his seat to answer it.
Tudou was helping her. She insisted on investigating by herself at the beginning, but Tudou insisted that she had her own contacts and could help, so she stepped in. Once this foot was inserted, she never left. Calling her now is not only about the recent investigation, but also greetings.
They don't see each other very often, because they each have their own business to do, so they haven't seen each other for several months.
After finishing the short conversation, she hung up the phone. As soon as she turned her side, she felt something brushed her arm and fell to the ground, and then the sound of glass bursting was heard next to her ear. She instinctively took a few steps back, waiting for her to see When clearing the situation in front of him, his heart began to be uncontrollable, beating violently with hindsight.
A potted plant just nearly hit her.
The people nearby were also startled by the sound of the flowerpot falling to the ground, and they all looked over. The flowerpot was shattered all over the ground, and the soil splashed everywhere. Everyone is dumbfounded.
Yu Shi glanced at the top of Xiang Ling's head. She was surrounded by a four-story building. Several potted plants were hung on the wall on the fourth floor. The wire that originally fixed the potted plants broke, and the potted plants would fall down.
Yu Shi got up to pull Xiang Ling away from the falling range of the potted plant, and carefully checked whether Xiang Ling had been smashed anywhere. Only then did a few people in the same group belatedly realize that their companion was almost killed just now.
"Did you see anyone?" This was Xiang Ling's first sentence when he came back to his senses.
"No." Yu Shi shook his head and said, although she didn't see it, she still wanted to go up and have a look.
How could it be so perfect? The scene of the crime was discovered just now, and the person who found it was almost hit by a flowerpot.
In shock, I followed other people upstairs to check. When I came to the place where the potted plants were, I could see that the potted plants were reinforced with several turns of wire, and they would never fall off easily. Cut with pliers.
"This is murder!" Jiu Hua frowned, she hadn't seen the whole process just now, but even if she wasn't standing there, she still had goose bumps all over her body.
"Remind owners of potted plants to keep them in a safe place."
The big man knocked on the door of the resident behind him, and after ascertaining that the potted plant belonged to them, he informed them of what had just happened, and the owner of the potted plant removed the potted plant on the spot.
"Potted plants shouldn't be hung in this kind of place." But for the sake of beauty, many people still do it.
"Can you still eat it?" Shuxia asked suddenly.
She wanted to lighten up the current atmosphere.
Xiang Ling realized it, and then replied: "I have to eat a bowl of noodles to suppress my shock."
Then everyone returned to the noodle stall and continued their lunch. The noodle stall owner who witnessed everything gave Xiang Ling a particularly large bowl of noodles, comforting her and the owner of the potted plant by the way.
Yu Shi's face was still not very good-looking. Anyone who looked at her had a serious expression. Xiang Ling patted her on the shoulder, and the other party restrained himself a little, but besides the two heartless forensic doctors, he had seen many The big man in the big scene, Baa Baa and Xiao Lang, who are subordinates, still feel the pressure.
Team Yu was in a terrible mood and was not to be trifled with.
After going back, Xiang Ling rubbed her arm, and now there was a bruise on the place where the potted plant had just rubbed. She suddenly felt that she had thrown a brick at the other party, so the other party returned her a potted plant in retaliation.
Yu Shi borrowed medicinal wine from the front desk, helped Xiang Ling rub the bruise, and said while rubbing, "You're lucky this time."
"Then I'm luckier than I imagined." The fright just now has completely disappeared, replaced by a lot of things to think about, "It should be the same person who followed and attacked, so did he appear at the wood factory by accident, or did he intentionally Follow our past?"
"I'm more inclined to the latter. First of all, the blood in the hole has turned black. It can be concluded that it has been a few years since the incident occurred. This proves that the prisoner has never gone back since then. He has no reason to be here. After being silent for so long, I suddenly wanted to go back and look at that hole." Yu Shi rubbed the bruise vigorously, and the room was filled with the smell of medicinal wine.
"The only one who knows we are going to the wood factory is Li Jue's mother." Xiang Ling thought while feeling the pain from his arm, "But it can't be ruled out that he found us going there on the way, so he followed of."
"I always feel that everything that happened today seems to be related to something, but I can't think of it specifically..."
"Don't rack your brains to think about it at a time like this, that's not how the flash of inspiration comes out." Xiang Ling patted the opponent's hand to show that it was enough, and the opponent let go of the rubbing hand.
It was still early, and she still wanted to walk around to see if she had any new ideas.
Leaving the B&B, Xiang Ling still remembered the small fork leading to the butterfly tree on this road. She suddenly had the idea of taking another look, so she came to the location of the butterfly tree again. The butterfly that flew away yesterday had returned. On the trunk, but now besides the two of them, there is another person here.
"Oh! Are you tourists?" The other party stopped their work when they saw them.
"Noodle stall owner?" The two were more surprised than the other party, because the other party had an expression of not recognizing them at all.
The man standing not far from them at this time was undoubtedly the owner of the noodle stall they ate noodles with just now, but with different clothes and hairstyles.
"Have you eaten noodles at my brother's stall? I'm his younger brother." He didn't put down the tools in his hand, and continued to busy himself with the work in hand after he finished speaking.
Stepping closer to Zero, he looked at the guy on the ground and asked, "Is this a fence?"
"That's right!" The man dexterously wrapped the string around the bamboo and made a pile of bamboo into a net shape, "Because there have been more tourists recently, more or less they will hear news about the butterfly tree. There are a lot of people, Most of them are not obedient to disturb the butterflies without authorization, so they should be surrounded.
When the two heard it, they were the ones who were talking about it!They just touched it yesterday.
Yu Shi said with some embarrassment: "In fact, simply enclosing them like this will not have any practical effect, because those who are disobedient will still be disobedient."
"That at least lets them know not to approach casually."
The man spoke firmly, as if as long as the fence was closed, no one would dare to approach it.
After chatting briefly for a few more words, the two left. After walking a few steps, Xiang Ling unconsciously turned back to look at the man, only to see that he was staring at her with a gloomy expression. In a second, when she blinked before reacting, the other party was smiling and waved at her.
"There is a problem." Yu Shi whispered without turning his head, "The South Island is not a recent development. It stands to reason that the number of tourists has increased a few years ago, and the news about the butterfly tree has already spread. But they waited until now to build the fence."
"Do you think it has something to do with the hole outside the wood factory we found!" This sentence is not an interrogative sentence, but almost an affirmative sentence.
"There's definitely something wrong with that tree."
"Come again tonight."
As night fell, Yu Shi, Xiang Ling and several other people quietly went to see Butterfly Tree after dinner.
Because there is no light, the butterfly tree looks no different from other trees at this time. Only when they use a flashlight to illuminate the whole tree does it emit a faint blue light, which is very strange.
"I'll go, the scene now, even the sound of the wind sounds terrible." Yu Shi couldn't help feeling his scalp tingle.
"Anyway, let's take a look around the tree first!" Xiang Ling raised the flashlight, bypassed the fence that had just been surrounded by a third, and approached the butterfly tree.
She didn't even know what she was looking for, so she could only look around blindly. She looked at the branches above her head, the dense leaves, and the soil on the ground.
no feeling.
Yu Shi shook her head, she didn't have the feeling she should have. When she was working normally, if she encountered a special situation, she would have a little special feeling, even if it was subtle, it could be the key to her solving the case, but that feeling is now gone. didn't show up.
She raised her head, crossed her arms in confusion, but saw Xiang Ling staring straight at the tree trunk, which was full of sleeping butterflies. She suddenly asked, "What do butterflies eat?"
"Nectar, dung, rotten fruit..." What else?
"Corpse."
Yu Shi flicked, she seemed to have a feeling.
"The reason why butterflies cling to this tree instead of other trees should be that this tree has something they like, maybe it's smell or something."
"Wait for me, I'll go up and have a look."
Yu Shi handed the flashlight to Xiang Ling, and she reached out and touched a few butterflies, just like before, the butterflies woke up from their sleep one after another, flying around, and Xiang Ling felt that many butterflies were touching her face and hands. Flying with flapping wings.
"If possible, I hope you can let me know first, so that I can stand far away..."
Yu Shi didn't listen to her at all, and climbed up the tree with every movement of his hands and feet. Xiang Ling had to help the flashlight below, and when the other party finally climbed to a branch that seemed to be able to bear the weight, he sat on it with his hands and feet , she threw the flashlight up at the other party's greeting.
Yu Shi clapped his hands first, the palms were covered with brown powder, she didn't intend to smell it, holding the flashlight, she observed the trunk, this was almost the top, and the ones above were messy and different in size Branches, she patted here, touched there, and looked around the trunk in an extremely awkward posture, and her intuition told her that it was here.
Immediately she saw a large bird's nest, which seemed to be the nest of a relatively large bird. She stretched out her hand to check, and saw that the branches above were shaking for a while, and a few leaves fell with the shaking, and an owl flew past her. Above her head, she could feel the wings slamming against her forehead, and then it stopped beside the bird's nest and called out to her a few times.
She took a picture into the nest and found that there were a few newborn owls inside, and this big guy was protecting her nest and babies.
She raised her hand in the air, neither advancing nor retreating, and the other party's eyes were fierce, and it seemed that she would attack if she dared to invade, "Do you have a way to deal with the owl full of maternal love?"
"You can get it, it's not a child who wants to eat it."
Xiang Ling was bored waiting below. She could see the owl clearly, and the eyeballs were still shining under the flashlight.
Yu Shi licked her lips, then reached out to touch the bird's nest, and the owl immediately hooted and pecked at her hand. She quickly lifted the bird's nest, which was quite heavy, and carefully moved the bird's nest to a safe place. On the nearby branch, the mother owl stopped attacking her, but her eyes were still fierce.
"I feel like I'm going to dream of its eyes when I sleep tonight."
Yu Shi shook the hand that had just been pecked, there were small wounds on it, and some blood spots appeared, most of them were in the state of subcutaneous bleeding.
But it might as well have beaten the prisoner's hand hard.
Looking again at the place where the bird's nest was originally placed, there was a big hole, and it was so dark inside that she couldn't see clearly. She moved her body a little, and she looked closer. When the flashlight shone into the hole, she almost slipped and fell down. , stabilized his body, and frowned.
In this case, she would rather not find anything.
She climbed down and waited until her feet landed on the ground before saying solemnly, "Call the police! There are at least two of them inside."
When the police rushed to the scene after receiving the notification, the originally eerily quiet forest suddenly became lively. Many islanders also rushed over to join in the fun after receiving the news. Suddenly, the area around Butterfly Tree was full of people.
After some hard work, the local police brought out several sets of bones from the hollow tree trunk, all of which were obviously children.
"Four..." Yu Shi covered his mouth with one hand, his expression unconsciously becoming extremely serious.
At least finding bones in the trunk was something she hadn't expected.
"It's difficult now." Zhang Tu, the policeman in charge who knows the big man very well, murmured to himself, "I've been here for so long. In the past 20 years, except for Li Jue's case, I haven't received any reports of missing children. Not to mention four."
"So it can't be the child of a foreign tourist." The big man leaned against the tree, and a group of them were now a few steps away from the place where the bones were placed.
"You also have to worry about the issue of the genetic database. The database has only been established for more than ten years. Even now, there may still be some people in it that have not been included. If there are no children missing in the entire 20 years as you said , then these four children may have been killed earlier, which means that their identities will never be found with the database."
Jiuhua, who was hastily called to identify the bones, did not complain at this time. It was not that she had never seen the children's bones, but four at a time was indeed too cruel.
"Three of them were aged between 12 and 15, and the fourth was at least [-] years old. They were all girls. No signs of trauma were found on the bones."
Shuxia took off her gloves, and she didn't want to see the bones at night, but this is just an island, there is no forensic doctor, so they can only go there.
"Without trauma, it is impossible to accurately determine the cause of death. Asphyxiation and myocardial infarction are all possible."
Jiu Hua spread his hands, the resources here in the South Island are not as good as those in the city, and it was not easy to find out the cause of death, but now there are only bones left, and there are even fewer things that can be tested.
It was simply too difficult.
After a few people handed over the picture of the scene to Zhang, they walked back to the hotel on foot. There were still a lot of onlookers, including many tourists. They even took photos of the scene, which may have been spread on the Internet by now.
"I reasonably suspect that the two of you are not here for vacation, but to find the corpse." Shuxia put his hands on the back of his head and kicked stones under his feet.
Today, two scenes can be found in one day, and if we stay for two more days, we may even find the murderer.
"happen."
"By the way."
"I hit it..."
Xiaolang frowned, the two had a tacit agreement on whether to agree or not.
"Anyway, can I concentrate on playing tomorrow?" Jiu Hua raised her eyebrows, she always felt that these two had their own little world, and that a bunch of them were meaningless.
"perhaps."
"possible."
"I hit it again..."
Xiaolang turned his head to look at the baa-baa who had been muttering to himself just now. The other party seemed to say something, but he didn't hear anything clearly.
They each went back to their rooms, Xiang Ling thought about it, found bones in one place, but their identities could not be traced, because no one had lost a child for so many years, neither inside nor outside the island, these bones seemed to not exist Like most people, it is only today that they suddenly broke into this world.
This is outrageous!
"Is it possible that people outside the island killed these children, and then transported them into the island to discard the corpses?" This was her initial thought, and it was not impossible.
Yu Shi sat on the bed, turned off the hair dryer that had just been turned on, and replied: "From the outside, everything in that tree looks normal. If it wasn't for climbing up today and uncovering the bird's nest, this hole might never be opened by anyone for the rest of its life." I found that if, as you said, an outsider killed someone outside and then transported in to discard the corpse, then the outsider must first know that the tree is hollow, and after discovering it, he must have a criminal motive and a criminal object , the combination of these conditions can be close to your hypothesis."
After all, a prisoner can't kill someone first, and then transport the corpse into the island to find a place to hide the corpse, and he must have the confidence to find a good place.
Even entering the island from the coastal area is definitely not a simple matter. Ten or twenty years ago, people used ferries or small speedboats to enter and leave the South Island. Even if they could hide the dead bodies, they felt uncomfortable. After all, walking in the sun with a dead body, unless the prisoner is really cold-blooded and ruthless to the extreme, otherwise there is still a little psychological pressure of being afraid of being discovered. These inner emotions will be reflected on the outside, and then affect a person's expression and posture , movements, and aura, people can feel that this person has a problem at a glance.
"Then what kind of person would find out that the tree is hollow?"
Xiang Ling tried to change his thinking, instead of thinking about the identity of the deceased, he first found out what kind of person would find the hollow tree.
"Or someone who likes to climb trees..." Yu Shi suddenly slapped his head, staring at Xiang Ling, and said, "Here comes a flash of inspiration! Die Shu and Li Jue's father is a lumberjack. There is a crime scene outside the wood factory, and it's all about trees!"
Without urging him to move forward, Xiang Ling said the first sentence after a long time: "I suddenly don't know whether I should go over or not."
Walking over is tantamount to reopening the other party's scars and sprinkling salt on them. Maybe the other party does not want sudden comfort from others, nor does he want others to dig into the past and re-present unacceptable facts in front of them.
"I remember you said that what people are most afraid of is being forgotten. You see, they are living a good life now, but the thorns in their hearts are still there. They have been there for more than 20 years, and the wounds continue to rot. I have seen many, many The family members of the victims did not wait for the truth to come, and the thorn remained in their hearts until they were brought into the coffin. No one knew the thorn in their hearts, and no one tried to pull it out. Only they knew the pain, but just Like you, people need the truth, even if they are going to die, they must die clearly, we may not succeed in knowing why, but at least we have tried to find the answer." Yu Shi's tone was very light.
She is very young, but she has already seen too many dark sides in this world that others don't want to see.
After thinking for a long time, Xiang Ling took another step.
The woman who was drying the fish was Li Jue's mother. She laid out the dried fish, and when she raised her head, she saw two strange women standing at the door of her house. As soon as she heard the other party's intention, she brought them into the house and served them up. [-] glasses of water.
"I didn't expect that someone would come to me for this matter."
Li Jue's mother spoke in a very flat tone, and she couldn't hear the sadness, which gave people the illusion that time had healed the wound.
Actually not.
"I want to collect some information and investigate it again. If it goes well, I may write a report. I hope to get your permission, and on the premise that it will not embarrass you or cause any trouble."
Xiang Ling was very careful in what she said, she didn't want her unexpected actions to touch other people's wounds.
"It's okay. Although after so many years, even the prosecution period has passed, I still feel unwilling about Xiaojue's matter. If I can get the truth, no matter what the result is, I will accept it."
Sometimes all people need is the truth.
So Mother Li, under Xiang Ling's question, told what happened back then...
Back then, Li Jue took advantage of the summer vacation to go back to his hometown. One evening, Li's mother asked Li Jue to deliver food to Li's father who was working, but Li Jue didn't come back until after ten o'clock in the evening. After successfully seeing Li Jue himself, the two couples were startled and began to inquire about the nearby neighbors. In the end, they called dozens of islanders to search, but they couldn't find Li Jue in the end. They continued to search without giving up. Nearly a week later, Li Jue's body was found on the beach.
Li's father and Li's mother rushed to the beach as soon as they heard the news. They still remember the scene at that time. People were discussing around the corpse that had swelled several times. When they arrived, everyone gave way. The picture still makes the couple wake up from their dream at midnight.
At the scene at the time, the two of them were almost certain that it was their missing daughter when they saw the safety rope on the wrist of the corpse. Li's mother fainted from crying on the spot, and Li's father fell to his knees and howled loudly.
Afterwards, the body was taken over by the police and sent for examination, but nothing was found. Only the wound on the back of the head was known to have been injured with a blunt instrument, which was also a fatal injury, and no clues about the murderer could be found. At that time, they couldn't even determine whether the murderer was from the island or an outsider.
One month... two months... one year... two years... At this moment, the couple finally realized that they would never know the truth about their daughter's death for the rest of their lives.
After the incident, Father Li’s condition was not very good. Every time he saw a photo of his daughter, he would cry and say that he had killed her. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he would also say that he dreamed of his daughter, that she blamed him, that he killed her. For her, this state lasted for more than a year.
Afterwards, no one of the islanders who knew the situation dared to mention Li Jue in front of Li's father. So many years passed in a flash, and I don't know if it was intentional, or time really played down everything, and no one mentioned it again.
"What did your husband do back then? Where did he work?"
Li's mother said: "He is the captain of the carpentry team. The place where he works is not fixed. It depends on where the wood is to be felled. They built the studio there. That place was half an hour away from here. The place, the location is a bit wild, but not too wild."
"Can you tell me about that place? I want to go and have a look."
After Li's mother informed the location, Xiang Ling and Yu Shi put a stick of incense on Li Jue's memorial tablet, bid farewell to Li's mother before leaving, and went to the carpentry team's studio. One road was feasible, and the workers all used that road to go back. The police and islanders searched the entire road rigorously, but no trace of Li Jue was found. After 20 years, this area has also developed, and the nearby There are more houses, the road has been widened, and several new roads have been paved. Overall, it is completely different from the past. If someone walks on this road alone now, he will definitely not be as easy to be poisoned as he was back then.
The two came to the so-called workshop of the carpentry team. The studio looked like a tin house, because it was used as a place for the carpentry team to rest and meet temporarily, so it was very simple. Because of other reasons, this forest was not successfully cut down. The tin house studio was abandoned.
"The place now looks like it's really to the criminal's liking."
Remote, inconspicuous, lifeless...
When there is no metaphor, Xiang Ling stepped over the dead branches and leaves to get close to the iron house. After years of rain, it was covered with green moss and unknown dirt, and there was a whole row of bird nests on the eaves. The bird was flying in and out, looking for food for the baby bird. Looking at the latch again, it was locked. It should have been done by the carpentry team back then.
While worrying about how to open the lock, Yu Shi picked up a small rusty stick from his feet and inserted it into the lock. When the two of them worked together to pry it, the lock broke.
Raising the camera to Zero, he took pictures of every part of the house before he began to examine it carefully.
The tin house is smaller than ordinary houses, and the whole interior looks square. There are a few straw mats piled up in the corners, which should have been used by the carpentry team for rest, but they were not taken away later.
There are two light bulbs hanging on the top of the head, just connected by wires, and there is no lampshade. The light bulbs are black and covered with thick dust, because they are temporarily built, and there is no electricity, so the carpentry team can only bring them. Come to the generator to light the bulb.
There was a long table and a few simple chairs in the house, all covered with dust. A tree map was pasted on the blackboard beside it, and a circle was drawn on it with a red pen to indicate the felling area.
Looking at the tree map, Xiang Ling asked, "Yu Shi, do you know about logging?"
"One is to develop the land, and the other is to sell it after cutting it down. The area drawn on this forest tree map does not seem to be large, so it should not be the land for development."
Moreover, the South Island 20 years ago was not famous enough to need to develop land. Only some local South Islanders lived a small life. Later, the development plan came here, and then began to build bridges and roads, and became a major tourism development area. .
"If it is sold, the carpentry team will evaluate which trees are suitable and which are not suitable. If they are not suitable, they will not be cut down because they cannot be sold for a good price."
Unsuitable trees are those that are not of good quality, or that have had the interior of the trunk hollowed out by worms and termites, and this type of wood is destined not to be processed into anything.
"It reminds me of the butterfly tree I saw yesterday, the carpentry team gave up on that tree, and now it's a secret attraction on the island."
The Butterfly Tree is surrounded by felled trees, leaving only the stumps and roots in place.
"Maybe because the surrounding trees were cut down, so it came back from the dead."
Of course, there is also such a possibility, because other trees rob nutrients, causing some trees to be short and unable to grow up. When other trees that rob nutrients are cut down, those short trees can grow healthily.
"There doesn't seem to be any clues here." If there were, it's gone after all these years.
"I didn't expect it either." She mainly came here to take a few photos to get a profile.
In addition to the tin house, Li's mother also told them that there is a small woodworking factory near here, which was owned by Li's father's team. It closed down later, and Li's father's carpentry team was transferred to other employers to continue working. The police also focused on searching. The carpentry factory, however, found nothing.
The two moved to the wood factory, which was said to be small, but it was actually not small. At least there were all the machines that should be there. The islanders felt it was a waste, so they took the tree trunks home and processed them into furniture by themselves. Now the wood factory has only dust and rotten wood chips left.
After carefully looking around the wood factory, they didn't find anything. After taking a brief photo, the two of them stopped at the same time.
"Did you hear that too?"
"Um……"
It was the footsteps of a third person, just behind them.
Turning around resolutely, there was no one behind him, Yu Shi signaled Xiang Ling to follow behind him, the two went to check carefully, but found no trace of anyone, but on the thick dust on the ground, there was a third person's shoes They followed the shoe prints to the outside of the factory, but they could not continue to track them down, because they were all weeds and would not leave shoe marks.
"I didn't realize I was being followed." Yu Shi rested his forehead.
Who was that person just now?Why follow them?Could it be the murderer who killed Li Jue back then?
Countless question marks appeared in her mind.
Xiang Ling took a picture of the clear shoe print without saying a word, and said, "It's a man."
"Then it looks like there's something here." I had to search more carefully.
The two started a blanket search, and they didn't let go of the surrounding areas outside the factory. In the end, they really let them run into a dead mouse, and found an iron cover in a field overgrown with weeds.
The iron cover is similar to the sewer cover that can be seen everywhere on the road. There used to be small holes on it, but now it has been sealed with cement. When the cover is opened with force, the weight of the iron cover is not a joke at all. Not open.
Opening a gap, Yu Shi turned on the phone's light and looked down. Although he couldn't see anything clearly, what he was sure of was that there was space underneath.
The iron cover was moved aside by the two of them, and Yu Shi asked Xiang Ling to stay on it by himself, and went down to have a look first, lest both of them go down and be plotted against by the person who just followed him.
Less than a minute after Yu Shi went down, Xiang Ling heard the rustling of the grass nearby. She took a look and saw that someone had been there just now, and the grass was still shaking.
"Yu Shi, come up!" Xiang Ling yelled into the cave, and immediately got up to chase, not forgetting to pick up the bricks that were just used to press the iron lid before chasing.
Following the other party into the woods, she could only vaguely see the other party's figure shuttling through the forest, wearing dark green clothes, everything around her was green, she was a little dazzled, she could feel that the other party was more beautiful than herself. She was more familiar with the terrain in the woods and ran faster, so she pointed the brick in the direction of the man and threw it hard. The brick hit the tree trunk next to the man, making a dull sound, and broke into two halves.
I can't catch up.
Panting, Yu Shi arrived at this time, and the man had completely disappeared.
"Height 1.7 meters, male."
"Next time you can't go after him by yourself, it's dangerous!" Yu Shi put her hips on her hips, she didn't even have time to see the man's back.
"That's why I called you up." Xiang Ling glanced at the tree trunk he hit just now, some sawdust fell from it, and the broken bricks lay there quietly.
"Well, it's dangerous..." Yu Shi looked at Brick and sighed.
She couldn't tell who was in danger.
"So what did you find underneath?" Xiang Ling asked on the way back.
"I found something that should be reported to the police."
When Xiang Ling knew what should be reported to the police, she was already standing at the bottom, with rough cement under her feet, and the space was not big, not much bigger than a toilet. Looking at the wall, it could be seen that this was not a man-made space, but a It was a natural landslide, but it was later processed by people, poured cement, and built a simple floor.
But now she saw large black stains on the floor, and there was a smell of rust in the air.
"It is indeed something that should be reported to the police..."
After the police arrived, they sealed off the scene, and the big man and others rushed to the scene immediately after receiving the news. Suddenly, the wood factory that had been abandoned for many years welcomed the breath of strangers again.
"You guys are really good at making trouble, don't forget that we are here for vacation, okay?"
Shuxia had no choice but to help her forehead, God knows they had already negotiated a good price with the boatman and were ready to go to the island, only to receive the news that it might be the scene of the crime.
"I only know it's blood, I don't know if it's animal or human, but from my personal experience, it's most likely human blood." Yu Shi leaned against the wall, talking very businesslike, just like he usually handles cases.
"Wait, this is not your jurisdiction, so whether it is human blood or not, you have no right to intervene, and you are on vacation now, don't mess around."
Jiu Hua waved his hands and said the facts with a serious face. The police have their own jurisdiction, and cross-district investigations are not allowed in terms of work rules unless they are approved by the local police officer in charge.
Moreover, not all police officers welcome foreign police officers to intervene in cases in their jurisdiction.
"I never said I would intervene in the investigation." At least she had no intention of intervening in the formal investigation.
The captain of the criminal police who was in charge of the scene was an acquaintance of the big man. He used to take special care of him when he was a child. His name was Wang Ze. After the two chatted for a while, the group left without disturbing others to handle the case.
Walking back to the way we came here, it was already past noon, and everyone was very hungry, so we found a noodle stall and sat down for lunch. Xiang Ling received a call from Tudou at this time, and left his seat to answer it.
Tudou was helping her. She insisted on investigating by herself at the beginning, but Tudou insisted that she had her own contacts and could help, so she stepped in. Once this foot was inserted, she never left. Calling her now is not only about the recent investigation, but also greetings.
They don't see each other very often, because they each have their own business to do, so they haven't seen each other for several months.
After finishing the short conversation, she hung up the phone. As soon as she turned her side, she felt something brushed her arm and fell to the ground, and then the sound of glass bursting was heard next to her ear. She instinctively took a few steps back, waiting for her to see When clearing the situation in front of him, his heart began to be uncontrollable, beating violently with hindsight.
A potted plant just nearly hit her.
The people nearby were also startled by the sound of the flowerpot falling to the ground, and they all looked over. The flowerpot was shattered all over the ground, and the soil splashed everywhere. Everyone is dumbfounded.
Yu Shi glanced at the top of Xiang Ling's head. She was surrounded by a four-story building. Several potted plants were hung on the wall on the fourth floor. The wire that originally fixed the potted plants broke, and the potted plants would fall down.
Yu Shi got up to pull Xiang Ling away from the falling range of the potted plant, and carefully checked whether Xiang Ling had been smashed anywhere. Only then did a few people in the same group belatedly realize that their companion was almost killed just now.
"Did you see anyone?" This was Xiang Ling's first sentence when he came back to his senses.
"No." Yu Shi shook his head and said, although she didn't see it, she still wanted to go up and have a look.
How could it be so perfect? The scene of the crime was discovered just now, and the person who found it was almost hit by a flowerpot.
In shock, I followed other people upstairs to check. When I came to the place where the potted plants were, I could see that the potted plants were reinforced with several turns of wire, and they would never fall off easily. Cut with pliers.
"This is murder!" Jiu Hua frowned, she hadn't seen the whole process just now, but even if she wasn't standing there, she still had goose bumps all over her body.
"Remind owners of potted plants to keep them in a safe place."
The big man knocked on the door of the resident behind him, and after ascertaining that the potted plant belonged to them, he informed them of what had just happened, and the owner of the potted plant removed the potted plant on the spot.
"Potted plants shouldn't be hung in this kind of place." But for the sake of beauty, many people still do it.
"Can you still eat it?" Shuxia asked suddenly.
She wanted to lighten up the current atmosphere.
Xiang Ling realized it, and then replied: "I have to eat a bowl of noodles to suppress my shock."
Then everyone returned to the noodle stall and continued their lunch. The noodle stall owner who witnessed everything gave Xiang Ling a particularly large bowl of noodles, comforting her and the owner of the potted plant by the way.
Yu Shi's face was still not very good-looking. Anyone who looked at her had a serious expression. Xiang Ling patted her on the shoulder, and the other party restrained himself a little, but besides the two heartless forensic doctors, he had seen many The big man in the big scene, Baa Baa and Xiao Lang, who are subordinates, still feel the pressure.
Team Yu was in a terrible mood and was not to be trifled with.
After going back, Xiang Ling rubbed her arm, and now there was a bruise on the place where the potted plant had just rubbed. She suddenly felt that she had thrown a brick at the other party, so the other party returned her a potted plant in retaliation.
Yu Shi borrowed medicinal wine from the front desk, helped Xiang Ling rub the bruise, and said while rubbing, "You're lucky this time."
"Then I'm luckier than I imagined." The fright just now has completely disappeared, replaced by a lot of things to think about, "It should be the same person who followed and attacked, so did he appear at the wood factory by accident, or did he intentionally Follow our past?"
"I'm more inclined to the latter. First of all, the blood in the hole has turned black. It can be concluded that it has been a few years since the incident occurred. This proves that the prisoner has never gone back since then. He has no reason to be here. After being silent for so long, I suddenly wanted to go back and look at that hole." Yu Shi rubbed the bruise vigorously, and the room was filled with the smell of medicinal wine.
"The only one who knows we are going to the wood factory is Li Jue's mother." Xiang Ling thought while feeling the pain from his arm, "But it can't be ruled out that he found us going there on the way, so he followed of."
"I always feel that everything that happened today seems to be related to something, but I can't think of it specifically..."
"Don't rack your brains to think about it at a time like this, that's not how the flash of inspiration comes out." Xiang Ling patted the opponent's hand to show that it was enough, and the opponent let go of the rubbing hand.
It was still early, and she still wanted to walk around to see if she had any new ideas.
Leaving the B&B, Xiang Ling still remembered the small fork leading to the butterfly tree on this road. She suddenly had the idea of taking another look, so she came to the location of the butterfly tree again. The butterfly that flew away yesterday had returned. On the trunk, but now besides the two of them, there is another person here.
"Oh! Are you tourists?" The other party stopped their work when they saw them.
"Noodle stall owner?" The two were more surprised than the other party, because the other party had an expression of not recognizing them at all.
The man standing not far from them at this time was undoubtedly the owner of the noodle stall they ate noodles with just now, but with different clothes and hairstyles.
"Have you eaten noodles at my brother's stall? I'm his younger brother." He didn't put down the tools in his hand, and continued to busy himself with the work in hand after he finished speaking.
Stepping closer to Zero, he looked at the guy on the ground and asked, "Is this a fence?"
"That's right!" The man dexterously wrapped the string around the bamboo and made a pile of bamboo into a net shape, "Because there have been more tourists recently, more or less they will hear news about the butterfly tree. There are a lot of people, Most of them are not obedient to disturb the butterflies without authorization, so they should be surrounded.
When the two heard it, they were the ones who were talking about it!They just touched it yesterday.
Yu Shi said with some embarrassment: "In fact, simply enclosing them like this will not have any practical effect, because those who are disobedient will still be disobedient."
"That at least lets them know not to approach casually."
The man spoke firmly, as if as long as the fence was closed, no one would dare to approach it.
After chatting briefly for a few more words, the two left. After walking a few steps, Xiang Ling unconsciously turned back to look at the man, only to see that he was staring at her with a gloomy expression. In a second, when she blinked before reacting, the other party was smiling and waved at her.
"There is a problem." Yu Shi whispered without turning his head, "The South Island is not a recent development. It stands to reason that the number of tourists has increased a few years ago, and the news about the butterfly tree has already spread. But they waited until now to build the fence."
"Do you think it has something to do with the hole outside the wood factory we found!" This sentence is not an interrogative sentence, but almost an affirmative sentence.
"There's definitely something wrong with that tree."
"Come again tonight."
As night fell, Yu Shi, Xiang Ling and several other people quietly went to see Butterfly Tree after dinner.
Because there is no light, the butterfly tree looks no different from other trees at this time. Only when they use a flashlight to illuminate the whole tree does it emit a faint blue light, which is very strange.
"I'll go, the scene now, even the sound of the wind sounds terrible." Yu Shi couldn't help feeling his scalp tingle.
"Anyway, let's take a look around the tree first!" Xiang Ling raised the flashlight, bypassed the fence that had just been surrounded by a third, and approached the butterfly tree.
She didn't even know what she was looking for, so she could only look around blindly. She looked at the branches above her head, the dense leaves, and the soil on the ground.
no feeling.
Yu Shi shook her head, she didn't have the feeling she should have. When she was working normally, if she encountered a special situation, she would have a little special feeling, even if it was subtle, it could be the key to her solving the case, but that feeling is now gone. didn't show up.
She raised her head, crossed her arms in confusion, but saw Xiang Ling staring straight at the tree trunk, which was full of sleeping butterflies. She suddenly asked, "What do butterflies eat?"
"Nectar, dung, rotten fruit..." What else?
"Corpse."
Yu Shi flicked, she seemed to have a feeling.
"The reason why butterflies cling to this tree instead of other trees should be that this tree has something they like, maybe it's smell or something."
"Wait for me, I'll go up and have a look."
Yu Shi handed the flashlight to Xiang Ling, and she reached out and touched a few butterflies, just like before, the butterflies woke up from their sleep one after another, flying around, and Xiang Ling felt that many butterflies were touching her face and hands. Flying with flapping wings.
"If possible, I hope you can let me know first, so that I can stand far away..."
Yu Shi didn't listen to her at all, and climbed up the tree with every movement of his hands and feet. Xiang Ling had to help the flashlight below, and when the other party finally climbed to a branch that seemed to be able to bear the weight, he sat on it with his hands and feet , she threw the flashlight up at the other party's greeting.
Yu Shi clapped his hands first, the palms were covered with brown powder, she didn't intend to smell it, holding the flashlight, she observed the trunk, this was almost the top, and the ones above were messy and different in size Branches, she patted here, touched there, and looked around the trunk in an extremely awkward posture, and her intuition told her that it was here.
Immediately she saw a large bird's nest, which seemed to be the nest of a relatively large bird. She stretched out her hand to check, and saw that the branches above were shaking for a while, and a few leaves fell with the shaking, and an owl flew past her. Above her head, she could feel the wings slamming against her forehead, and then it stopped beside the bird's nest and called out to her a few times.
She took a picture into the nest and found that there were a few newborn owls inside, and this big guy was protecting her nest and babies.
She raised her hand in the air, neither advancing nor retreating, and the other party's eyes were fierce, and it seemed that she would attack if she dared to invade, "Do you have a way to deal with the owl full of maternal love?"
"You can get it, it's not a child who wants to eat it."
Xiang Ling was bored waiting below. She could see the owl clearly, and the eyeballs were still shining under the flashlight.
Yu Shi licked her lips, then reached out to touch the bird's nest, and the owl immediately hooted and pecked at her hand. She quickly lifted the bird's nest, which was quite heavy, and carefully moved the bird's nest to a safe place. On the nearby branch, the mother owl stopped attacking her, but her eyes were still fierce.
"I feel like I'm going to dream of its eyes when I sleep tonight."
Yu Shi shook the hand that had just been pecked, there were small wounds on it, and some blood spots appeared, most of them were in the state of subcutaneous bleeding.
But it might as well have beaten the prisoner's hand hard.
Looking again at the place where the bird's nest was originally placed, there was a big hole, and it was so dark inside that she couldn't see clearly. She moved her body a little, and she looked closer. When the flashlight shone into the hole, she almost slipped and fell down. , stabilized his body, and frowned.
In this case, she would rather not find anything.
She climbed down and waited until her feet landed on the ground before saying solemnly, "Call the police! There are at least two of them inside."
When the police rushed to the scene after receiving the notification, the originally eerily quiet forest suddenly became lively. Many islanders also rushed over to join in the fun after receiving the news. Suddenly, the area around Butterfly Tree was full of people.
After some hard work, the local police brought out several sets of bones from the hollow tree trunk, all of which were obviously children.
"Four..." Yu Shi covered his mouth with one hand, his expression unconsciously becoming extremely serious.
At least finding bones in the trunk was something she hadn't expected.
"It's difficult now." Zhang Tu, the policeman in charge who knows the big man very well, murmured to himself, "I've been here for so long. In the past 20 years, except for Li Jue's case, I haven't received any reports of missing children. Not to mention four."
"So it can't be the child of a foreign tourist." The big man leaned against the tree, and a group of them were now a few steps away from the place where the bones were placed.
"You also have to worry about the issue of the genetic database. The database has only been established for more than ten years. Even now, there may still be some people in it that have not been included. If there are no children missing in the entire 20 years as you said , then these four children may have been killed earlier, which means that their identities will never be found with the database."
Jiuhua, who was hastily called to identify the bones, did not complain at this time. It was not that she had never seen the children's bones, but four at a time was indeed too cruel.
"Three of them were aged between 12 and 15, and the fourth was at least [-] years old. They were all girls. No signs of trauma were found on the bones."
Shuxia took off her gloves, and she didn't want to see the bones at night, but this is just an island, there is no forensic doctor, so they can only go there.
"Without trauma, it is impossible to accurately determine the cause of death. Asphyxiation and myocardial infarction are all possible."
Jiu Hua spread his hands, the resources here in the South Island are not as good as those in the city, and it was not easy to find out the cause of death, but now there are only bones left, and there are even fewer things that can be tested.
It was simply too difficult.
After a few people handed over the picture of the scene to Zhang, they walked back to the hotel on foot. There were still a lot of onlookers, including many tourists. They even took photos of the scene, which may have been spread on the Internet by now.
"I reasonably suspect that the two of you are not here for vacation, but to find the corpse." Shuxia put his hands on the back of his head and kicked stones under his feet.
Today, two scenes can be found in one day, and if we stay for two more days, we may even find the murderer.
"happen."
"By the way."
"I hit it..."
Xiaolang frowned, the two had a tacit agreement on whether to agree or not.
"Anyway, can I concentrate on playing tomorrow?" Jiu Hua raised her eyebrows, she always felt that these two had their own little world, and that a bunch of them were meaningless.
"perhaps."
"possible."
"I hit it again..."
Xiaolang turned his head to look at the baa-baa who had been muttering to himself just now. The other party seemed to say something, but he didn't hear anything clearly.
They each went back to their rooms, Xiang Ling thought about it, found bones in one place, but their identities could not be traced, because no one had lost a child for so many years, neither inside nor outside the island, these bones seemed to not exist Like most people, it is only today that they suddenly broke into this world.
This is outrageous!
"Is it possible that people outside the island killed these children, and then transported them into the island to discard the corpses?" This was her initial thought, and it was not impossible.
Yu Shi sat on the bed, turned off the hair dryer that had just been turned on, and replied: "From the outside, everything in that tree looks normal. If it wasn't for climbing up today and uncovering the bird's nest, this hole might never be opened by anyone for the rest of its life." I found that if, as you said, an outsider killed someone outside and then transported in to discard the corpse, then the outsider must first know that the tree is hollow, and after discovering it, he must have a criminal motive and a criminal object , the combination of these conditions can be close to your hypothesis."
After all, a prisoner can't kill someone first, and then transport the corpse into the island to find a place to hide the corpse, and he must have the confidence to find a good place.
Even entering the island from the coastal area is definitely not a simple matter. Ten or twenty years ago, people used ferries or small speedboats to enter and leave the South Island. Even if they could hide the dead bodies, they felt uncomfortable. After all, walking in the sun with a dead body, unless the prisoner is really cold-blooded and ruthless to the extreme, otherwise there is still a little psychological pressure of being afraid of being discovered. These inner emotions will be reflected on the outside, and then affect a person's expression and posture , movements, and aura, people can feel that this person has a problem at a glance.
"Then what kind of person would find out that the tree is hollow?"
Xiang Ling tried to change his thinking, instead of thinking about the identity of the deceased, he first found out what kind of person would find the hollow tree.
"Or someone who likes to climb trees..." Yu Shi suddenly slapped his head, staring at Xiang Ling, and said, "Here comes a flash of inspiration! Die Shu and Li Jue's father is a lumberjack. There is a crime scene outside the wood factory, and it's all about trees!"
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