When night fell, Arjuna, a Mongolian police officer, received a call from home asking her to go home.

The traditional Mongolian people live on water and grass, and have no fixed place, and the so-called home is actually a mobile yurt.

Arjuna is a traditional Mongolian, but as a civil servant with a regular income, she no longer has to live a nomadic life, but has a home for her mother, who is dependent on her, on the north bank of Lake Huotun.

Huotun Lake is about ten kilometers away from the police station, and it is relatively convenient to drive back and forth.

The yurt is so large that even under the hazy starry sky, you can see the silhouette from afar.

The light leaked through the cracks in the yurt, and these subtle lights were the beacon of Arjuna's homecoming.

Parking outside the yurt, Arjuna had just opened the door in the cockpit when she smelled a scent.

This is the smell of horse intestines, mutton, and naan, which are just out of the pot, and for Arjuna, this is the taste of home.

Pick open the door curtain, and under the light, a majestic back comes into view.

This man has gray hair and a large skeleton, and even if he is currently sitting on the edge of the table, he has a feeling of standing on the ground.

Next to the man is his short and thin mother.

Seeing Arjuna return, the woman stood up with a smile and greeted Arjuna: "Arjuna, your father is back." ”

Arjuna was stunned, then turned away without saying a word.

Walking to the door, her hand had just touched the curtain, Arjuna paused slightly, and asked in a deep voice, "Do I have a father?"

After saying this, the female police officer lifted the curtain of the door, and the tall figure disappeared into the yurt.

The sound of the car starting outside the door was heard, and the roar of the engine pierced the sky and soon disappeared.

Listening to these movements, the majestic figure in the yurt seemed to be a little more awkward.

I only heard him sigh and say in a deep voice: "Don't blame her, blame myself." ”

"Don't say things like that. Arjuna's mother looked outside the door for a moment, then turned around and said, "It's good to be back." What have you been doing all these years? I heard that you're in prison in China?"

"yes. The man sighed, "Twenty years in prison." ”

"Then why don't you give me a message? I'm better to go see you. ”

"When I went in, I didn't expect to come out alive. I thought that this life is like this, so why bother you again. I think you will wait for a while, and see that if I don't come back, the orphans and widows will be helpless, so they will remarry. It's good for both of you. This time, I just wanted to look at you from a distance to confirm whether you were safe, but I didn't expect you to recognize me at a glance from a few hundred meters away. ”

"You're a good head. ”

"Why don't you remarry? Why wait for me for so many years?"

"I couldn't have waited that long. The woman said softly, "But after waiting for three years, I feel that I have been waiting for three years, so it is better to wait for another three years." After waiting for ten years, I feel that it has been ten years, and it is better to wait for another ten years. The days go by like this, and you come back. ”

After hearing this, the man's back began to tremble, and he choked up: "I, Fan Ping'an, a dignified nine-foot man, is worthy of everyone in this life, but I only let you two down." ”

This man is the original Cao family's bodyguard, boxer Fan Ping'an.

Thirty years ago, his first transaction after his art was to kill a group of horse bandits on this grassland.

The deal was done, but he was seriously wounded, struggled for several kilometers, and collapsed in front of a yurt.

Thirty years later, this yurt is still standing, but the girl inside has long been gray-haired.

......

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Lin Shuo and the four of them got up.

Anne first went to the morgue of the police station, and together with the young female forensic doctor, took the victim's internal tissue, and entrusted the Outer Mongolia police to send it to the Lanzhou Institute of Biology.

Yang Tuo is the new dean there.

When everything was ready, everyone was ready to go.

Unlike yesterday's overstretched, today the police station sent two vehicles.

Lin Shuo and Anne, sitting in a police car driven by Arjuna, opened the road ahead.

Wei Xingshan was admonished by Lin Shuo yesterday, but he was a lot more honest, and he and Liu Qing got into another car driven by Suheba Beast.

Lin Shuo and Anne learned about the situation yesterday and knew that the two victim locations they were going to today were more than 100 kilometers apart.

Anne, who was delicate, found that today, Arjuna, the female police officer, seemed to have a worse face than yesterday, and her face was tense.

Arjuna is handsome and has three-dimensional features, and her smile is very infectious, but once she sinks her face, Anne feels that the atmosphere of the whole carriage is oppressive.

This made Anne feel a little strange in her heart, it stands to reason that this Arjuna had treated Lin Shuo differently, and Lin Shuo showed her hand a little in the conference room yesterday, this Arjuna should be more respectful to Lin Shuo.

But the reality is not like this, the female police officer has a calm face early in the morning, and seems to be in a bad mood.

Anne couldn't help but wonder: Who is this face for? Chong Lin Shuo, that can't be.

Could it be that she is coming at me?

The thought made Anne laugh a little, and she quickly put it away.

Lin Shuo seemed to be born with little roots and tendons, he first asked Anne about the autopsy of the victim in the morning, and after learning that the results were consistent with Miao Guangqi's time report thirty years ago, he closed his eyes and began to doze off.

However, the two of them asked and answered, which attracted Arjuna's attention.

The female officer asked, "You mean, there have been similar cases before?"

"Yes. "A thousand kilometres from here, in China's Qinghai Province, there was a similar case 30 years ago. ”

"Oh, then that case was also handled by your International Biological Research Society?"

"No, at that time, the International Biological Research Society had no experience in handling xenobiological cases, and it was handled by a non-governmental organization in China. ”

"Handled by the doorman?"

"Officer Arjuna, do you know the doorman?" said Anne, surprised.

"My father is a Chinese man. Arjuna whispered, "When I was a child, he told me a lot about the door. I remember that in China, once this kind of incident happened, it was all sent by Hunter to deal with it. If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Lin, he should be a hunter, right?"

"Not bad. Lin Shuo opened his eyes, looked at Arjuna from the rearview mirror in the carriage, "Officer Arjuna, do you have a Chinese name?"

Lin Shuo knew early on that this Arjuna was not simple, and it could be seen from the fact that she could carry the chasing master on her back that her strength level was not a normal person.

With her hand, let alone Wei Xingshan, even Anne can't do it.

This is a person who has a heritage, but he is abroad, and he may not know the rules of the door.

Lin Shuo plans to probe her tone, as long as she reports her Chinese surname, Lin Shuo knows what her father's surname is, then the inheritance on her body, Lin Shuo will be able to touch the eight, nine, and ten.

Domestic people, except for a few big surnames, have spread out since ancient times, and it is difficult to determine what the way is based on a surname alone, but the vast majority of surnames are still very clear.

Coupled with the fact that strength highlights this attribute, the range is very small.

During his previous trip to Xing'anling, Lin Shuo once ignored Liu Shunfu, the envoy of the Dragon King, and did not touch his details when they met for the first time, which made him very passive for a while.

Eat a trench and grow wise, this time Lin Shuo didn't want to make a similar mistake.

And judging from the strength that Arjuna showed before, the inheritance on her body is worthy of Lin Shuo's attention.

But I didn't expect Lin Shuo to ask this question, and the female police officer's face, which had just become cheerful, suddenly became gloomy again.

"I don't have a Chinese name, I take my mother's surname. She said coldly, and continued to concentrate on driving.

Lin Shuo and Anne glanced at each other, and they both saw confusion in each other's eyes.

The two nodded at the same time.

There's something going on here.

......

The 400 mm rainfall line in Eurasia drew the line between agrarian and nomadic civilizations.

To the south of this line, there was abundant rain, allowing crops to grow, giving birth to an agricultural civilization. To the north of this line, crops are difficult to grow, and humans can only live in nomadic herding and live on water and grass.

The steppe zone north of the 400 mm rainfall line in Eurasia is getting higher and more barren from west to east.

The northern part of China, the Mongolian Plateau, is a relatively barren land, and even nomadic herding is very difficult.

This is also the reason why, since ancient times, the steppe peoples in the north have continued to move south, and at the same time continue to move westward.

Lin Shuo's car jolted on the grassland, and more than an hour later, he arrived at the site of the first attack.

It's November on the solar calendar, and it's the westernmost part of the Mongolian plateau.

Herders have already begun to fallow their grazing, looking for water sources and preparing for the winter.

The site of the first crime was by the lake.

This lake, called Huergan Lake, is one of the three large lakes in the national park.

This is the southern shore of Lake Huergan, and four or five kilometers further south is the Altai Mountains, which stretch for thousands of miles.

After everyone got out of the car, they investigated the scene, and sure enough, in the swamp by the lake, they found the series of footprints.

Anne extracted the soil under the footprints, entrusted the Mongolian police accompanying her to send it to Yang Tuo, and then looked at Lin Shuo, waiting for his next instructions.

"There is no need to go to the second place of the crime. Lin Shuo said, "Let's go into the mountains." ”