Ouyang Lan and the others walked briskly towards Xiaobao, about two hundred meters away, but the vine branches and weeds on the ground stumbled, and it took a while to get there.

"Xiaobao, how did you find this hole?" asked Ouyang Lan as he looked at the black hole.

Xiao Bao replied excitedly: "It's hard to find on the plane, but as long as you stand on that small dirt slope, you can see that there is a bare circle under this tree, not covered by weeds, I think it's strange, so I ran over to take a look." ”

Ouyang Lan nodded, picked up a branch from the side, carefully reached into it, shook it a few times, and felt that it was very deep inside, and the whole branch stretched down without touching the bottom, not even touching the edge.

"The hole is a bit deep. Ouyang Lan said to the left and right.

"There's not going to be anything in there, is it? Usually under the tree, there must be roots that spread. Shu Yulin looked into the cave, the black hole was empty, and he couldn't see anything.

Xiao Hu found a longer bamboo pole, stretched into the hole and tinkered with it, and finally touched the wall of the cave, but it seemed that there was still a distance inside, "This hole should not be straight, there are bends." Xiao Hu said tentatively.

Ouyang Lan thought for a moment and boldly guessed, "Could this hole be artificial?"

Everyone nodded, generally speaking, if it is a naturally formed earth cave, it will not be so deep, and it will not bend, which is different from those karst caves, the geology here cannot produce karst caves, as far as the current situation is concerned, it may be an air-raid shelter.

In order to further obtain the truth, Ouyang Lan was about to enter the cave to find out, but was stopped by Xiaobao.

"Captain Ouyang, let's do it with me. Xiao Bao saw that it was too dangerous for Ouyang Lan and a girl to break in, so he volunteered to stand up.

Ouyang Lan thought that as the captain, he should be at the front, so he smiled and said, "It's okay, I can handle it." With that, she put down the equipment in her hand and stepped into it cautiously.

The entrance of the cave is not very big, just enough for an adult to enter, Ouyang Lan turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, and slowly moved forward according to the depth of the cave, while carefully inspecting the situation inside the cave.

"Captain, how's it going?" asked a colleague outside.

"It's quite dry inside, it seems to be deep. Ouyang Lan could hear the echo of her words, and she realized that this hole must be very deep, and it was very big and mysterious.

Cautiously walked forward more than two meters away, a gust of wind blew, making Ouyang Lan shiver. Listening carefully, you can also hear a squeaky sound, like the sound of a mouse, a burst of fear accompanied by the yin wind, just when Ouyang Lan held her breath and concentrated, a bug flew to her face, making her scream.

Colleagues outside heard the screams coming from and asked inside, "Captain, what's wrong with you?"

Ouyang Lan calmed down, wiped his face, and said, "It's okay, a bug." It seems to be very big inside, so leave one person at the entrance of the cave while the others come in. ”

The situation inside really frightened Ouyang Lan, she didn't dare to break in alone, everyone would be better together.

After a while, others followed one after another, and at this time, Ouyang Lan's fear slowly disappeared, she looked at everyone, and asked, "Yulin is guarding outside?"

"Well, she just recovered, and I told her not to come in and stay outside. Xiao Bao said.

Ouyang Lan pointed the flashlight light source forward and led everyone to continue walking deeper into the cave, but the more she walked inside, the more she felt a sense of déjà vu.

I remembered that when I arrested Yu Junmin in Tianyu Park before, I used to have a cave similar to this one.

Sure enough, I walked forward carefully for ten minutes, the space in front of me was getting bigger and bigger, and at the same time, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the temperature was getting lower and lower, conservatively estimated to be about 5 degrees lower than outside, and everyone unconsciously hugged their arms tightly.

Suddenly, a space of about 50 square meters appeared in front of everyone's eyes, there was a slate table, a huge slate leaning against the side, some worn-out cups or something, and if you looked closely, you could find the remaining charcoal. Although it has been covered in a thick layer of dust, and it has accumulated for so long that even the wind can't blow, everything here looks like it was once inhabited.

This unexpected discovery made Ouyang Lan and the others see hope, it is very likely that this is the place where Li Tian came back then, assuming that he came here, then the next thing is to find out what he did here.

Ouyang Lan organized everyone to carefully check separately to see if there were any clues left. Similarly, due to the long time and the thick accumulation of dust, it is still difficult to find valuable clues, but Ouyang Lan is confident, she believes that something closely related to the flying knife murder case has happened here, which may be the reason why Li Tian was killed.

There was nothing on the slate table, no handwriting on it, nothing but dust on the cups, and only the dried corpses of insects in the crevices of the corners, which looked like an ordinary bomb shelter.

Ouyang Lan continued to carefully check through the white light emitted by the flashlight on her mobile phone, she was unwilling and unwilling to let go of every corner and every detail.

Under her leadership, the others did not give up easily, and searched carefully, more seriously than when they usually worked, because they knew that this was a case that Captain Ouyang had put a lot of effort into, and it had to be solved.

Suddenly, Ouyang Lan discovered a strange phenomenon, the soil in the south corner was different from other places, the color appeared darker, as if it was not the same as here, and the touch was more delicate and soft to the touch.

Why is the soil quality of this piece different from other places? Could it be that this place has been excavated before? Ouyang Lan's heart was full of doubts, but at the same time, a light also shone out, and she had a hunch that this was a major discovery.

So she asked Xiaobao to take the shovel and gently shovel it down and try it, it was indeed much softer, and there was a sign of being heavily weighed, and in some places the soil looked flat.

"There's something buried down here, dig it down and see. Ouyang Lan said, and shoveled up vigorously, and the others also picked up the shovel and came over to shovel together, and after a while, a pit of about one square meter was dug out, but there was nothing in it, not even a piece of paper, a piece of cloth, or a single insect.

This is a bit disappointing to everyone, maybe it's just someone filling in the hole.

Ouyang Lan saw everyone's dejected looks, and smiled and encouraged: "It's okay, there are not three places that haven't been checked, maybe the next one will find out." ”

"Yes, cheer up, everyone!" Xiaobao also encouraged everyone.

"Yes!" everyone agreed.

Confidence was regained, and everyone made a record of the investigation here, and they were ready to rush to the next location.

Just as everyone was walking towards the entrance of the cave one after another, Xiao Hu remembered that a bag was still left inside, so he went back to get it, and the others were waiting for him at the entrance of the cave.

Suddenly, he screamed from inside: "Come in!

Everyone heard Xiao Hu's shout, and hurriedly returned to the cave, only to see Xiao Bao staring at the top of the cave with big eyes, looking up at the top of the cave at an angle of 45 degrees in horror, and his fingers trembled slightly.

"What's the matter, Xiaohu?" Ouyang Lan walked up and asked.

Xiao Hu pointed in that direction again and said, "Captain Ouyang, look." ”

Looking in the direction of Xiao Hu's finger, Ouyang Lan also saw a frightened scene, and a rotten finger was exposed in the dirt on the roof of the cave!!

"Is it a corpse?" Ouyang Lan screamed as he covered his mouth.

Everyone let out an exclamation that there was a corpse hidden here!

However, everyone was a member of the criminal investigation team, and they quickly regained their composure, Ouyang Lan commanded a few male colleagues, carefully dug up the soil on the top of the cave, and a rotting corpse appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Due to the low temperature here, the rate of decay is relatively slow, and you can also get a rough idea of what it looks like.

"Captain, what now?"

Ouyang Lan thought about it calmly and said: "We need to get the identity of this corpse, contact the local police, and at the same time get in touch with Captain Yang, there must be a shocking case behind this corpse, and I have a strong feeling that this corpse is related to our flying knife murder case!"

Ouyang Lan asked Xiaohu to take some photos, conduct meticulous evidence collection work, and then stay where she was and wait for the arrival of the Ningzhou County police. During this period, Yang Ziming called her and asked her about the progress of the matter, and at the same time, he was arranging work and preparing to come here to assist.

In addition to the people from the city bureau, Ouyang Lan also received a letter from a person, Liu Chen.

Liu Chen sent a message and asked, "Is there anything new in Ningzhou County?"

Ouyang Lan was surprised for a while, she came to Ningzhou County, but she had never talked to him, she replied: "How do you know that I am in Ningzhou County?"

"I haven't seen you for a few days, and I haven't heard from you, so I think you workaholic won't play, so you must be going to solve the case. ”

Ouyang Lan smiled slightly, and replied: "You know me well, that's right, I'm handling a case, but how do you know that I'm in Ningzhou County?"

"It's not easy for me to find you. ”

"Didn't you install a locator on me?" asked Ouyang Lan jokingly.

"If you have to have this imagination at work, the case will be much smoother. Liu Chen also immediately replied with a teasing.

At this time, Captain Zhang Shaoxing of the criminal police team rushed to the scene with the team members, and after they briefly learned about the situation from Ouyang Lan and others, they carried out repetitive and professional evidence collection work on the corpse, and necessary work such as taking pictures and conducting autopsies was indispensable.

After doing the relevant work, the rotting corpse was carried out, and the work was called a day, Zhang Shaoxing came to Ouyang Lan and said: "Officer Ouyang, thanks to you this time, I didn't expect that there is such a bad case hidden in our Ningzhou County, we must find out the truth as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Shaoxing stood respectfully in front of Ouyang Lan as if he was reporting to the leader.