A moment of silence.

Yan Zhi never enjoyed the moment of revealing the murderer's face, everyone has their own reasons for killing.

Some people's reasons are understandable, while others' reasons are ridiculous. Some people do it for a few dollars, some people want to have a negative lover, and some people just enjoy the hunt......

Before that layer of black fog cleared, everyone was an ordinary person. Ordinary people, seven emotions and six desires, can be understood. Looking forward to a better life, but too lazy to change, most people live so sadly and happily, Yan Zhi has always felt that this is also very good.

However, there is no denying that things can sometimes get out of hand. Extreme measures will occasionally be used to calm the love and hate beyond the scope of tolerance. At this time, even if the answer is found. What Yan Zhi often feels is not so much a sense of satisfaction as a sense of sadness.

However, the game against a high-IQ killer is always exciting: with each trick she solves, she gets closer to the cold leopard behind the curtain - swift skill, brilliant disguise, desperate courage. Although it is dangerous, Yan Zhi has to admit that this dangerous creature has its own charm.

At this moment, Yan Zhi's hand brushed over the moss-mottled stone wall at the end of the dungeon, and thick dark green moss fell between her fingers, and there was a familiar coldness on it.

She raised her head, looked at the two lampstands, and said to everyone: "The strangest of them is the lamp oil in the prison, which has always been calculated, and each one can be lit until the end of the night, and now it is almost noon, and there is no reason why there is so much left." ”

"Can't it be blown out by the wind?"

"Of course it is possible, but on the night of the crime, I personally prefer to interpret it without coincidence...... Secondly, the dungeon is damp, and the moss should be strong and lush. But on the surface of this moss stone, there is obviously a wrong crack, and it falls off a lot at the slightest touch, is it also a coincidence?"

Yan Zhi stood on tiptoe, carefully took off the copper plate filled with oil, handed it to the little jailer who had just been called, and carefully advised: "Hey, take it carefully, don't scatter it, I still have to use it to find out the time of the crime." ”

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"I said that the oil lamp went out because the murderer had moved, and although he remembered to put it back in its place, he forgot to light it again, so the other lamp oil was burned out, and only here was left. ”

Yan Zhi replied, while reaching out to the place where the lamp dish was placed and groping carefully, sure enough, it was almost undetectable, and there was a slight protrusion on the wall. She suddenly felt much more stable in her heart, there are always so many mountains and rivers in this world, but when two things come into contact, they will leave traces, which has always been the golden rule of their forensic discipline.

Yan Zhi aimed at the mechanism and pressed it hard, only to hear the creak of the stone wall, the cracks of the moss, the green bricks slowly retreated to both sides, and a damp and cold wind swept in, revealing a portal that could only pass through one person.

"See, we've always shut ourselves up in secret rooms. But the boundaries that trap us often don't exist, don't they?" Yan Zhi looked back at Su Huan and smiled slyly.

Su Huan glanced at her, and a trace of strong interest rose in his dark eyes. But that look was fleeting, and he quickly returned to his usual cold face. Yan Zhi twitched the corners of her mouth, as a crazy woman who judged the three generations of her ancestors without meeting, she estimated that she was dying again.

"The girl is really good. I don't know if it can lead to the next view?" Su Huan's voice sounded coldly.

A jailer had already brought lamps, candles, torches and other things, and Yan Zhi leaned sideways to illuminate the dark secret passage. The corridor here is only one person high, and when Su Huan's figure enters, he has to bend down slightly.

When the candlelight passed, I saw that the top of my head and the walls were thinly arranged with the same blue-gray stone bricks as in the prison, and as I went deeper inward, the damp air became heavier, and the stucco that had accumulated on the floor of the corridor for many years was slightly sticky when stepped on.

If so...... Yan Zhi raised the candle and shone it into the distance, and sure enough, two lines of deep and shallow footprints were particularly conspicuous in the flickering firelight, and there was a circular sky light at the end of the footprints, which was estimated by direction and distance, it should be the dry well on North Street.

Yan Zhi hurriedly stepped back, wanting to stop Su Huan first, and then call someone to draw a picture to save evidence, but she didn't expect Su Huan to be taller, and he had already seen the footprints and had stopped. Yan Zhi was in a hurry to retreat, and her center of gravity was unstable, but when she realized that Su Huan was no longer behind her, and when she wanted to stabilize her body, the green bricks slipped too much, and she was about to fall, and she secretly thought in her heart that she and this Lord Su really didn't match, and it was not a good thing to be together.

Su Huan saw it and wanted to step forward to help her, but he was from a military general family, and he arrived in front of Yan Zhi with a mistake. But pull the sleeves, I'm afraid that she will still slide, help the girl slim her waist, and I'm afraid that it will be too thin, and if I don't make a move, I guess she will still fall. was struggling, only to see Yan Zhi in a panic, grabbed the hem of her robe, and pulled it down hard, slowing down her figure. Although the posture is extremely awkward, in the end I didn't fall.

"Master Su is righteous, the little one will definitely not mutter to you behind your back in the future. Yan Zhi jumped up, stuck out her tongue at him, and scribbled her mistake in a volume that only Su Huan heard.

I have always borrowed a donkey from the slope, after all, he is a young and noble son, and it is not easy to pull a small catch. Seeing that his clothes were torn by herself, Yan Zhi smiled embarrassedly and patted him for him.

Su Huan grimaced, took her hand away, and took a step back.

Yan Zhi was bored, but she didn't care, she withdrew along the way she came, and found Wei Huan: "Please come down the painter." ”

"There's a discovery in there?"

"It's just a few footprints. Yan Zhi recalled what she saw in the cave, and always felt that the footprints seemed unusual, and said: "Take down the gypsum powder too, make a mold, and always have more evidence." ”

As soon as Wei Huan agreed, he was about to leave, but Yan Zhi chased after him and said, "I'll be with you." ”

"You leave that one, alone in the tunnel, you are not afraid of ......" Wei Huan was surprised.

"There are so many people in there, he wants to run around, and someone always pulls him. When I saw him, I just turned my back on it. Yan Zhi yawned and said nonchalantly: "Do you believe it, some people are naturally suitable for this business, such as this one in it." Let's go to North Street......"

The North Street of the Criminal Department Prison is where some of the yamen where the case files are stored, which is a little secluded, except for the scribe of the official gate of the Criminal Department, there is no one to see. Although it has been less than two hours since she went to prison, Yan Zhi feels that it has been like a long night, and she is a little lucky to be able to return to the world at this moment.

Turning the corner of the street, Yan Zhi saw Su Huan holding something in his hand, already standing by the well and waiting.

She was just about to ask, but Su Huan handed something to her and Wei Huan: "Except for the footprints, there is only this one." ”

Yan Zhi and Wei Huan looked at it fixedly, it was a small piece of rag that had been burned, and it was no longer possible to see what color it was, but it was a very ordinary material to the touch, quite thick, maybe it was because of this, it was not burned.

"What is it?" asked Su Huan curiously.

Yan Zhi yawned and shook her hand: "Shoes, this kind of fabric, are used by ordinary people to collect shoe soles, and they can be bought everywhere." ”

I didn't sleep well last night, and now I'm tossing and turning to this time. But why did the murderer burn the shoes, I think the shoes left footprints in the secret passage of the well.

However, there were no footprints in the dungeon, so I thought I had changed into another pair of shoes when I entered the dungeon, so as not to leave mud stains and hide the entrance to the secret passage. Before climbing to the mouth of the well, the murderer burned the shoes that would inevitably leave footprints in the secret passage, replaced them with another pair of shoes and left.

There are so many clues left by the footprints that the height and weight of the murderer can be estimated based on the size of the footprints, the length of the stride, and even which side of the hand is used. The murderer is obviously a veteran, and since he has calculated the shoes early, there is no reason to leave real footprints.

And if he was so planned, would he be careless enough to forget the lamp on the alcove......

Yan Zhi still wanted to reason, but her brain was already a piece of mush, her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and her temples were poking with pins and needles.

Su Huan looked at her like this, and estimated that the Criminal Department had been making trouble all night in this case, and this little arrester was almost tired, so he said to Wei Huan: "You take her back to rest first, I will come to the Criminal Department to find you if there is something." ”

"Congratulations to Master Su. Yan Zhi heard the amnesty, and without waiting for Su Huan's figure to disappear at the corner of the street, she pulled Wei Huan away.

"What do you do when you wake up and come back?"

"Retry the one who is not dead, and then go to Qixuan Temple, and wait for the results of the autopsy to come out, what else can I do?" Yan Zhi spread her hands and made a helpless statement.

"I thought you had a general direction. Wei Huan glanced at her as he walked forward.

Yan Zhi did have a vague suspicion in her heart, but she hesitated for a moment, then immediately shook her head again, and whispered, "I'd rather think wrong." ”

Yan Zhi found a room where the case file was placed, and the cat had been catten for more than an hour, and when she came out, she already felt much better. She devoured the remnants of tea, swallowed last night's tofu skin buns, and was about to go to find Wei Huan, but was caught by Director Lu.

"I heard that you are in the limelight again in prison?" Director Lu had a straight face, and as soon as they met, he asked the teacher for his guilt.

Yan Zhi thought that it was bad, good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles, and she blamed herself for being cheap, so she squeezed out a bitter look and said pitifully: "My lord, I was wrong." Don't drive the small ones away, the small ones would rather deduct the monthly money, can't you?"

"Who's going to want that little money from you...... I'm here to tell you, you're in the limelight, and Master Xie called the entire Criminal Department to cooperate with you in investigating the case. You have to be careful, don't disgrace me!"

"Hey, come on, you're going to see the old man. As soon as Yan Zhi heard this, she immediately became vibrant, arched her hand to Director Lu, and disappeared under the corridor like a gust of wind.

"There are talents in the seven places, and there is nowhere else to find them. Director Lu said "hey", quite proud, and raised his feet into the room.