The criminal police team was blocked out of the mountain by the mudslide, due to the heavy rain for several days, the county road leading to Luoshui Village collapsed in many places, and the already steep and difficult winding mountain road, the traffic was completely interrupted, although the government department also quickly called personnel to temporarily dredge, the landslide is still happening everywhere, for such a natural disaster, the municipal personnel are also powerless. According to news reports, there have been cases where workers have died due to secondary collapses during construction.

For safety reasons, the government can only slow down the construction progress and ensure the safety of personnel first.

It seems that several nearby villages want to resume normal traffic, which is basically impossible to achieve without ten days and half a month, which depends on whether the weather is beautiful or not, and whether the heavy rain can be stopped in time.

When Qiuxi brought this bad news to everyone, everyone's faces were solemn.

This is tantamount to announcing that there is no need to count on the support of the Interpol team.

After discussion, the indefinite waiting is meaningless for the protection of the site, and it is better to use the existing forces to investigate the site. Originally, as a relative of the deceased, he wanted to be police to avoid suspicion, but he was a real criminal policeman in the mountains, so he had no choice at all.

Chen Tianyu explained to Qiuxi in a timely manner, and asked Qiuxi to also participate in the on-site investigation work, although this person is immature, but in fact, he has also learned related majors, which is a good time to experience.

Li Yiting naturally agreed.

So the two took advantage of the rain to subside for an hour or two to conduct a careful survey of the vicinity of the trap where Li Qiumao was killed. Li Yiting's sword is not old, Qiuxi has a very high understanding, and the two cooperate tacitly and really find some useful clues.

First of all, judging from the surrounding situation of the scene, the grass and trees obviously have traces of being trampled, at first glance, it looks like a person is stepping on in one direction, but Li Yiting still found a suspicious point, in a certain direction opposite the trap, there are even signs of grass and trees lodging, due to the toughness of the shrubs, this lodging is not obvious. This location is still about 20 meters away from the trap, and if you don't pay close attention, you will miss it, and if it rains for a few more days, the plants will grow wildly, and this trace will disappear completely.

Secondly, about six or seven meters near the trap, there is a bamboo tree that creates a curvature. To be honest, if you are someone else, I am afraid that you will not be able to see this phenomenon of almost no deformation, but we know that Li Yiting is a native of this place since childhood, whether a bamboo has been bent by external forces, whether the bamboo branches and bamboo leaves are abnormal, can be determined after simple verification. Li Yiting himself is also a person who likes to climb bamboo, he tried to slip up, and coincidentally, the angle and position of the bamboo bending were just above the trap. Li Yiting felt a little bottom in his heart, so he carefully checked whether there were any signs of wear and tear on his climbing part, and sure enough, he found strangulation marks at the root of a relatively thick bamboo branch.

Again, the careful Li Yiting actually picked up a lot of fine iron sand near the trap, of course he is no stranger to this thing, it is the standard charge of the bird gun, the bird gun ammunition used in the general mountain not only has iron bars, but also iron sand, which is used to enhance the lethality, and the only drawback after adding the iron sand is that the meat of the prey is affected, and it is difficult to remove it completely, and it is often clucked to the teeth. He couldn't find any trace of the iron bar, and he didn't find the location of the iron bar, according to the walking law of the iron sand and the ballistic analysis of the bird's gun, the part that should have had the iron bar is now only a small hole.

They tried to find some obvious physical evidence such as shoe prints, but due to limited technical conditions, they did not even have an ordinary measuring stick, and finally had to give up. The point is that Li Yiting vaguely found that the scene seemed to have been cleaned up, but due to the infiltration of rainwater, it cannot be fully confirmed at this time.

There must have been a second person at the scene! Li Yiting was basically able to make a judgment.

As for whether this person is the murderer, why he climbed the bamboo and took Li Qiumao's bird gun, there is still an in-depth investigation, but the suspicion of murder has risen sharply.

Immediately after, the two cautiously got into the trap, and at this time, the young and thin Qiu Xi played a role, and he climbed along the rope, which was obviously much more convenient than the tall Li Yiting. Li Yiting was a little helpless, so he could only stand on the top half of the trap and shoot around with a flashlight, and the survey work at the bottom could only be handed over to Qiu Xi, but fortunately, Qiu Xi did not live up to his expectations.

At the bottom of the cave, Qiu Xi was lucky to find some ice slag, the temperature in the mountain is relatively low, after a day and a night, the ice slag has not completely melted, which makes him surprised and happy, although it is winter now, the possibility of natural formation of ice slag at the bottom of the cave is not high. Qiuxi thought about it, he had also read the weather forecast before the rain, the temperature in the city was about 8-10 degrees, and even if the temperature in the mountains was low, it could not be lower than 0 degrees, so there was no possibility of forming ice slag at all.

He stood at the bottom of the cave, collected the ice slag over and over again, and handed it to Li Yiting, Li Yiting took a look, almost all the ice slag showed a relatively regular shape, and he had a bottom in his heart, so he told Qiuxi to continue to search for other physical evidence.

About half an hour later—

Qiu Xi suddenly shouted happily, and Li Yiting asked, "What did you find?" He was also a little excited.

"A button!" Qiu Xi shouted.

Li Yiting was a little disappointed: "What button?"

Qiu Xi didn't answer, he had already finished the survey, shook the rope with his hand, and said that he wanted to get out of the hole, Li Yiting was not in a hurry, he climbed out first, and then pulled Qiu Xi up.

After reaching the ground, Qiu Xi clenched his fists and did not hand over the things to Li Yiting first, but trotted to Li Qiumao's corpse and carefully observed his dress until it was confirmed.

"Look at ......," Qiu Xi spread his hand, "This button is not Li Qiumao's." ”

Li Yiting also glanced at it a few times and nodded: "It's really not his, although the fifth uncle is also wearing clothes made of 'really good' material, but there is no one less button, the key is that the size of this button does not match the size of the button on the clothes." ”

He said "really good" clothes are a kind of work clothes, a kind of coarse cloth fiber products often worn by local people, wear-resistant and sweat-absorbent, generally green, and the buttons on it are brown round buttons.

And the buttons in Qiuxi's hands are also brown, and most likely they are also the buttons of good clothes, but they are obviously thicker and larger.

Chen Tianyu also came over to take a look, his brows furrowed slightly, and there was a little ripple in his heart.

He seems to have seen this button in his memory!

He has a professional habit, whenever he meets a person, he will first unconsciously observe the various characteristics of this person, so he generally does not say much, and often gives people a feeling of cherishing words like gold.

What he was curious about was that Li Yiting didn't seem to see whose button it was at all, and he looked at it over and over again with the button, and kept muttering: "Are there many kinds of good clothes?"

Alas, Yiting, you are a person in the game! Chen Tianyu sighed softly and did not make a sound.

Wan Yongkun, who has been assisting in the work next to him, interjected: "There are indeed many styles, and the buttons are also very different, I have changed several different ones in your house." ”

"Really? Li Yiting sneered, and he put the button in his pocket.

He turned back to Qiuxi and asked, "Are you sure there's nothing else down there?"

Qiuxi nodded: "I have checked it carefully, except that this button is just stuck in Tu Kelari, and the bottom is very clean." ”

Li Yiting nodded: "That's fine." He paused, "Didn't see the birds, did you?"

Although he knew that it was impossible, he still asked cautiously.

"Bird, how could I not have found something that big. Qiu Xi laughed.

Li Yiting was also happy: "It seems that I am still a little worried about you kid." He was quick to talk.

Qiu Xi scratched his head in embarrassment, showing his understanding, after all, he was a new hand.

"I will definitely learn from you. "He did come from the bottom of his heart.

Chen Tianyu opened his mouth and asked, "Yiting, are you a little eyebrow-raising?"

Li Yiting bowed: "There is a great possibility of murder, but I still have to pull back the body of the fifth uncle and examine it carefully." ”

"Hmm. Chen Tianyu didn't continue to ask.

Kuang Suo couldn't help it, he asked, "Who is the murderer?"

"Uh, how do I know, why are you suddenly so anxious?" Li Yiting was a little crying and laughing.

Kuang Suo's face was not very good, and he seemed to be in a bad mental state.

"Let's compare, whose button is this, isn't it easy for the murderer to be locked?" he paused, "To be honest, I haven't been able to eat for a few days, and I feel so depressed." ”

Wan Yongkun beside him was a little puzzled: "I remember that your psychological quality has always been very good, how can there be such an adverse reaction." ”

Kuang Suo sighed and said, "I can't tell, maybe the environment here is somewhat similar to Crescent Mountain, which makes me think of something." ”

Chen Tianyu suddenly spoke: "Jiudao, you might as well say it, what do you think of?"

Kuang Suo thought for a moment: "The remote environment, the weird legends, the bizarre death. ”

Everyone was somewhat creepy, and it was true that although the mountain village was quiet and peaceful, once there was a murder, this special sense of fear would be even stronger.

Several people also realized that the villagers must have the same fears.

Then generate or create more rumors.

Chen Tianyu thought of more than that, such as: like Crescent Island, artificially using these legends to cover up some unspeakable acts.

Qiu Xi proposed: "Fourth brother, why don't you find an opportunity to announce the true identities of the few." ”

Chen Tianyu nodded in agreement, Qiuxi is not unreasonable, now there have been two fatal accidents in a row, and the criminal police team cannot enter the mountain, it is the good atmosphere of the Chinese New Year for the common people, and they do have the responsibility and obligation to control the panic.

Just the identity of an ordinary policeman in Qiuxi is obviously no longer enough.

"Okay, Ichiki. Chen Tianyu thought for a while, "It's best to let your uncle do it, he is not only the most authoritative person in your village, but he has already guessed our profession a long time ago." ”

Li Yiting nodded solemnly when he heard this: "I'll explain this matter." ”

Chen Tianyu turned his head to look at Kuangsuo again: "Comparing evidence is your strength, otherwise, you can verify whose button it is, right? Anyway, with your memory, you can get results by walking around the village." ”

"Don't worry, you will complete the task as soon as possible. Kuang Suo took the ordinary button from Li Yiting's hand, and a sharp electric light shot out of his eyes.