In the dark night, the moonlight shines through the lush branches and leaves of the plane trees, scattered on a secluded path, everything seems so quiet and peaceful.

But when the night wind blew, I could vaguely smell a faint smell of blood in the air, and when I looked towards the source of this blood, I saw that on the side of this path, a cold corpse was lying on the same cold asphalt road.

Li Ye and Ye Mengying both looked at this corpse with solemn eyes at this time, because the owner of this corpse was Dick.

The blood spread from Dick's chest like a gorgeous rose, and from a distance it looked like a shocking abstract painting, both terrifying and dazzling.

Although he had been dead for a long time, Dick's eyes were still wide open, and his gaze was so complex, with shock, sadness, pain, and a hint of relief.

Dick's arm was still raised upward, and his hand was slightly clenched, as if he wanted to grasp something, but all he grasped was nothingness.

Dick can be said to be the key figure in the case of Earl Edward, and it is highly likely that he knows who the real culprit is, but now that he has been killed, there is no doubt that this should be a murder.

But who did it?

Li Ye was thinking about it, and a police officer from the police station who arrived at the scene of the crime earlier than Li Ye and the others brought a hunchbacked old man to him and Ye Mengying, "Team Leader Li, I brought you the informant." ”

Dark-skinned, old-looking, hunchbacked old man with messy hair like a chicken nest, no sparkle in his eyes, and in the summer the hunchbacked old man was still wearing a thick cotton jacket and dragging a bulging snakeskin bag in his hand.

Looking at the appearance of the hunchbacked old man, Li also knew that this was a wandering scavenger, and he may have happened to pass by here and accidentally found Dick's body, so Li also felt that from the mouth of this hunchbacked old man, he should not have gotten any useful information.

So Li Ye gave Ye Mengying a look to Ye Mengying beside him, and motioned for Ye Mengying to routinely ask the hunchbacked old man, while he himself went to find out if the murderer had left any traces nearby.

"Hello old man, may I ask what is your name?" After Ye Mengying received Li Ye's instructions, she immediately cheered up one hundred percent and began to inquire about the hunchbacked old man.

However, if Ye Mengying knew that Li Ye could not ask any valuable clues from the hunchbacked old man, so he threw this matter to her, I am afraid that his interest would not be so high.

"My name is King Paul. ”

The foreign name reported by the hunchbacked old man really didn't match his age and appearance, so Ye Mengying couldn't help but laugh out loud.

However, Ye Mengying quickly realized that it seemed a bit disrespectful for her to smile like this, so she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, and waited for her face to straighten again before she continued to ask, "Old man, when did you find the deceased." ”

"About an hour ago! I'm not sure! Because I don't have a watch. ”

"Then when you saw the deceased, he was already dead?"

"Comrade policeman, you don't suspect that I killed someone, do you? I didn't kill him! I really didn't kill him!" The hunchbacked old man thought that Ye Mengying was suspicious of him by asking this, and his emotions immediately became very excited, and the small messy goatee under his chin began to tremble violently.

"Old man, you don't have to be excited, I don't doubt your meaning, I just want to know something. Seeing this, Ye Mengying hurriedly reassured.

Of course, Ye Mengying would not suspect the hunchbacked old man, because if an ordinary scavenger like the hunchbacked old man could kill Dick, then I am afraid that Ye Mengying would have to wonder if Dick was a vampire.

"Forget it, I'll change the question. Old man, when you found the deceased, didn't you see any suspicious people nearby? ”

"No, I didn't see anything, and when I walked into this road, there was no one on the road. The hunchbacked old man looked down and thought about it for a moment, and finally replied in the affirmative.

After that, Ye Mengying asked the hunchbacked old man a few more questions, but the answers he got were not satisfactory, and Ye Mengying could only say to the hunchbacked old man in the end: "Old man, thank you for your cooperation, you can go." ”

After Ye Mengying finished speaking, he was ready to ask the police to take the hunchbacked old man away, but at the moment when the hunchbacked old man turned around, his pale temples and deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyebrows suddenly touched Ye Mengying.

"Wait a minute. Ye Mengying stopped the hunchbacked old man, and then took out a hundred yuan from the wallet he was carrying and handed it to the old man.

"Comrade policeman, who are you?" the hunchbacked old man looked at the money in Ye Mengying's hand and asked in surprise.

"The old man is still wearing such a thick cotton jacket in this summer, don't get sick from the heat. This 100 yuan will be given to you, go buy a thinner dress!" Ye Mengying said to the hunchbacked old man gently.

"Thank you, comrade policeman, you are such a good person!" The corners of the hunchbacked old man's mouth twitched twice unconsciously and thanked him, his eyes that had been numb for a long time finally had a glimmer of light in his eyes looking at Ye Mengying at this time

The hunchbacked old man stretched out his skinny and calloused hands, tremblingly took the hundred yuan from Ye Mengying's hand, and then didn't say anything, but looked at Ye Mengying deeply before leaving.

Looking at the back of the hunchbacked old man from afar, Ye Mengying clearly saw the hunchbacked old man's hand quietly touching his tears, maybe he hadn't felt the warmth of people's hearts for too long!

Unconsciously, Ye Mengying remembered her grandfather, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, and suddenly her nose was sour and her eyes were moist.

I don't know if grandpa is in good health?

Cleaning up the faint sorrow in his heart, Ye Mengying walked towards Li Ye, who was surveying the scene.

At this time, Li was also squatting next to a telephone pole, using his mobile phone as a flashlight to shine on the road, as if he was carefully observing something.

But in fact, the scene where Ye Mengying handed a hundred yuan to the hunchbacked old man just now was all seen by Li Ye.

Maybe 100 yuan is not much, but for Ye Mengying, who has just stepped on the job, she can give this 100 yuan to an old man who has never known her, which has fully demonstrated her kindness.

This made Li also a little moved, because he asked himself, he would definitely not be able to do it if he was himself.

"Did you ask something?" Li Ye saw Ye Mengying coming over, looked up and asked.

"No!" Ye Mengying drooped her head, showing a very depressed expression.

However, this was expected by Li Ye, so he didn't care, but pointed to the ground he was shining with his mobile phone, and said to Ye Mengying: "Mengying, look at this." ”

Ye Mengying looked in the direction of Li Ye's finger, and saw that under the slightly dazzling light from Li Ye's mobile phone, there was a blurry blood-colored footprint on the ground.

"The murderer cleaned up the rest of the scene, but he still left this footprint. Hmph! It can only be said that it is a hundred secrets. Li also snorted lightly.

Although Dick's death may affect the process of solving the case, it also shows that his investigation direction is not wrong, and the murderer has shown his feet in the process of this crime, which means that he is not far from catching the murderer.

"Mengying, what can you see from this footprint?" Li also wanted to test Ye Mengying's ability to identify footprints, so he asked.

"Hmm-" Faced with Li Ye's question, Ye Mengying did not rush to answer, but squatted down like Li Ye, lowered his head and carefully examined the traces on the ground, and changed the angle several times during the process.

After Ye Mengying consciously observed almost, he said calmly: "This shoe print is about twenty-seven centimeters long, the whole is relatively wide and clear, the forefoot pattern of the shoe print is mostly horizontal and vertical lines and oblique lines, there is no obvious edge, the outside of the front tip and the inner longitudinal arch have imaginary edges, the indentation of the shoe print is relatively uniform before and after, inside and outside, and a small number of picks and scratches appear. Based on these characteristics, I deduced that the murderer should be between twenty-five and thirty years old, about 1.78 to 1.82 meters tall, and weigh at least 65 kilograms. ”

After listening to Ye Mengying's analysis, a black line had already appeared on Li Ye's forehead, and he originally wanted to pass on some of his experience to Ye Mengying, but now it seems that in terms of footprint identification, Ye Mengying's professionalism can even be his teacher.

"Sir, you can't go over!"

Just as Li Ye and Ye Mengying were studying the bloody shoe prints left by the murderer, they suddenly heard the shouts of the police officer from the police station just now at the intersection.

Li Ye and Ye Mengying got up and looked over, and saw that the police officer from the police station was holding the arm of a red-haired young man, trying to prevent the red-haired young man from breaking into the murder scene.

The red-haired young man's strength was very strong, so the police at the police station couldn't stop him at all, but after the red-haired young man dragged the police from the police station forward for a few steps, he gradually became a little impatient, and shouted angrily: "Let go!"

The police officer at the police station had never seen such a lawless person who dared to ignore the police and break into the scene of the murder, so of course he was unwilling to let go.

The red-haired young man saw that the police officer at the police station was like a kraft candy, so stubborn, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light.

"Comrade, let him in!"

Fortunately, when the angry red-haired young man was about to slap the police officer in the face of the police station, Li also spoke in time to let the police officer release the hand holding the red-haired young man's arm.

This allowed the police at the police station to escape the fate of being opened to the dye shop on his face, because the red-haired young man was Liam, the son of Earl Edward.

When Lee also learns of Dick's death, he immediately informs Liam and Carl, and Liam is apparently the first to arrive.

"Officer Lee, what's going on, my father's murderer hasn't been caught yet, and now even Dick is dead. As soon as Liam came to Li Ye's face, he immediately questioned Li Ye viciously.

"I'm sorry Master Liam, but we also feel very sorry. In the face of an angry Liam, Lee also expressed his apologies.

But Lee's formulaic answer not only failed to make Liam get rid of the anger in his heart, but became even more angry, and he almost roared: "I still trust your special management bureau very much, but I didn't expect you to be as wasteful as those ordinary policemen." If you can't, I don't mind using blood to let the people of the whole River City know that our blood clan is definitely not easy to provoke!"

Liam's words were tantamount to scolding Li Ye and Ye Mengying for being waste, which made the young and vigorous Ye Mengying immediately blushing with anger, and she stepped forward to reason with Liam, but was stopped by Li Ye.

Of course, Lee was also very dissatisfied with Liam's words, but they really hadn't solved Count Edward's case yet, and in any case, the Blood Clan had killed two important people in a row in a short period of time, and Liam did have reason to be angry.

"Master Liam, I hope you can stay calm and give us some more time, I believe it won't be long before I can give you a satisfactory answer." Li also said.

"Hmph, give you some time, I'm just giving you more time and it's a waste!"

Although Li Ye has tried his best to appease Liam, Liam is still unrelenting, which makes Li Ye not know what to say for a while.

Fortunately, at this moment, a man arrived, successfully diverting Liam's attention.

"Liam, why do you want to cry and fake mercy!