As soon as Du Ping slept the next morning, when he got up, there were two more people in the house, a man and a woman.

The man's name was Dixon, he was in his fifties, Caucasian, with dirty hair and a long, hideous scar that cut from his left eye and passed through the middle of his lip. It looks extremely vicious, and he has been wiping and trying the barrel of the shotgun he has on his back.

The woman's name was Mild Reed, also in her fifties, Caucasian, who gave people a thin and hard feeling, brought two revolvers, her hair cut into a very short pattern, no rules, shapes, messy, and always a melancholy look.

Noah introduced, "This is Uncle Dixon, this is Aunt Mild, don't be afraid, they are all good people." ”

Noah looked familiar to them, and kept adding coffee to them. This is a very old and traditional coffee brewing method in the southern countryside, which is actually to grab a handful of roasted coffee beans, smash them with the back of a knife or other random ones, pour them into a kettle, and just keep rolling on the stove. There is no such delicacy and delicacy as in the city, only the feeling of antiquity and roughness. There is nothing particular about how to drink, just serve it and drink it like boiling water.

Dixon, "I'm Dixon, I heard Old Wood say, can you find that bastard?"

As Dixon spoke, the old woman named Mild also raised her head at the same time, staring at Du Fair. The gaze was filled with deep, unquenchable hatred.

Du Ping, "I'm Du Ping, you can call me, Du." I'm a senior consultant at the FBI's Crime Lab, and I'm here to try to solve this case. I will do my best to solve this incident......"

Dixon interrupted, "I hate the twists and turns of you Dongzhou people the most!, says Old Wood, you have this ability, right?"

Dixon looked at Du Ping without blinking for a moment, Du Ping thought about it, and felt that it would be better to communicate in the way that the residents here were more accustomed to.

Du Fair, "Yes!"

Dixon, "Okay! I'll help you." ”

The old woman, Mild, also stood up, walked up to Du Fair, and pointed to herself.

Mild, "Mild, the mother of the mistress of the house. Dixon and I have been looking for the murderer together for more than a year, so count me in this search!"

Woman!

Du Ping was about to refuse, but Noah quickly pulled Du Ping into the bedroom and closed the door.

Noah, "Mild, the mother of the hostess, after the death of her daughter's family, her own husband died in less than a month because he could not accept this fact. Now finding the murderer is the only spiritual pillar for her to live. ”

Du Fair, "That Dixon?"

Noah, "He turned out to be a police officer, very, very responsible. After the case, he always believed that it was one of the long-distance truck drivers who passed by here to commit the crime. So I chased it down the highway. One day in a motel bar, I heard several long-distance drivers bragging, one of whom said that he had just killed a man in an unknown town. Dixon heard it and thought that this person was probably the murderer. So in order to obtain the man's DNA to compare the samples left over from this case, he deliberately clashed with that person, and then bit off half of the man's ear in one bite during the conflict. Then he was beaten by those people and stayed in the hospital for half a year, leaving the huge scar on his face. It's a pity that the person is just bragging, not the murderer. Uncle Dixon lost his job as a result. But after he was discharged from the hospital, he still did not give up, and searched for the murderer everywhere with Aunt Mild. ”

These are a pair of poor, persistent, serious people, and Du Pingping can't even say the reason for rejecting them.

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In the dining room of this old house, the old-fashioned long table, the male owner sat Du Ping at one end, the hostess sat Lisa at the other, and the other three people sat around the table in a ferocious posture like bandits, constantly arranging their weapons.

Dixon, "Old Wood says, you're very interested!Tell me, what did you find?"

Du Ping looked at Mild and then at Lisa.

"You won't want to know. ”

Dixon, "There's nothing I can't accept! ”

Du Fair looked at Mild again, and Mild felt Du Fair's gaze, his eyes calm, very calm, like 10,000 years of ice and snow that never thawed.

Mild, "Say, there's nothing I can't accept!"

Du Ping looked at Lisa, and Lisa nodded.

"The murderer has actually appeared in this neighborhood a long time ago, maybe the family has paid attention, or maybe they haven't paid attention." The murderer was here for at least five days to observe. ”

Dixon, "Reasons, Evidence." ”

"There is no reason, no evidence. ”

Dixon stared at Du Ping for another moment, like a ferocious wolf. Du Pingping remained motionless, without the slightest idea of explaining his reasons.

Mild, "Dixon, listen to him!"

Mild interrupted Dixon and said to Du, "Please continue." ”

"It must have been dinner one night, he knocked on the door of the house, and the little daughter of the house who opened the door immediately hijacked the little daughter, and threatened the little daughter's life, and asked the hostess to tie up the man." ”

Dixon, "It's not a gun? Isn't it a gun threat?"

"It's not a gun. ”

Dixon, "Why did John listen to him?"

Du fair, "because he cut off one of the little girl's fingers." ”

Du Ping uses a tablet to show Dixon a photo of a little girl's corpse. When the photo is zoomed in, a small hand missing a finger appears in the eyes.

Dixon, "John that idiot!"

Mild nodded to Du Ping and motioned to continue.

"Then he used his mother to coerce the two children to stay in the room obediently and be honest and obedient." He also used the child to coerce the mother and raped her. ”

Du Ping looked at Mild, and Mild's gaze was calm.

Mild, "This situation, we have guessed it. Nothing, I can take it. ”

"He was like the man of the house, and he lived with them for several days. Until one day, he dragged the hostess by the hair and threw her on the bed, strangled her, and then raped the corpse again. ”

Dixon, "Damn it!"

Dixon wanted to burst out, but Mild, who was beside him, held his hand down and stared at Dixon with a calm look in his eyes.

Mild, "Dixon, it's nothing! it only strengthens our belief that we have found the murderer." We'll find him and punish him, right?"

Dixon nodded and sat back down.

"I think the starting point of all this is actually this. ”

Du Ping took out a crumpled calendar paper and opened it, and there was only one date on it, the 19th.

"This date must have been of great importance to him, so he had to give up the game he was happy about, kill everyone here, and leave here." And the direction of departure should be in the grove. ”

Dixon, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure. ”

Dixon, "So what are we waiting for?"

"Yes, we can pack our things and head out now." In fact, if it weren't for your sudden appearance, we should have set off a long time ago. ”

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Du Ping stood at the door of the house, looking at the people who were constantly busy, in a daze from time to time. Lisa came to his side.

Lisa, "Are you alright?"

"It's troublesome! I didn't expect me to enter this state of mind this time." ”

Lisa, "Is this mental state bad?"

Du Pingping, "When I was in Dongliuqiu, I had a very admired senior, who was very good at using this mental state to reorganize and simulate cases, and his level of solving cases was very, very high, and he was called a detective. ”

Lisa, "What happened to him?"

"Yes, he had an accident later. In a simulated case, he cut off one of his ears with a paper cutter in public in the middle of a conference room in the Metropolitan Police Department. He was then admitted to a psychiatric hospital. In the hospital, he attacked the patient in the same room and cut that person into countless pieces of minced meat......"

Lisa, "He's crazy?"

Du fair, "It's pretty much the same." So this mental state is very troublesome, although it may be an artifact for solving the case, but if you are not good, you will not be able to distinguish between reality and illusion, so you will go crazy. ”

Lisa, "Then you don't want to be mentally simulated anymore!

"That's the trouble with this state of mind, it's not something you can have if you want it, and you can leave if you don't want it." Based on the situation of my senior, it will only really recover if the case is completely dealt with. So now I'm riding a tiger, and I have to solve this case, or I don't know what will happen to me. ”

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In the grove outside the house, where Du Ping fainted, Du Ping stood there, followed by 4 people and 7 horses.

"This is here, according to the information available, this person disappeared in it. Since almost one and a half years have passed, there are no traces that should have been. I don't know what to do next. ”

Dixon, "Any suggestions?"

Du Pingping, "Let's go in this direction first, look for it, since he went inside, and he also resisted rice and salt, I believe it is impossible to go too far." ”

As a woman who was born and raised here, hunting and gathering food in the forest was a skill that we had to have when we were young, unlike our youth now, who have slowly stopped learning such skills and knowledge. ”

Dixon took the initiative to let it come, and it seems that in terms of hunting and searching in the forest, Dixon also thinks that he is inferior to this old woman named Mild. Du Ping thought that he was even worse in this regard, so he also let it come. Mild threw the reins of his horse to Noah on the side, pulled out a nearly 1-meter-long mountain knife from his back, and walked at the front of the line, followed by Du Ping, Dixon, Lisa, and Noah.

The team was not moving quickly, and everyone in the team struggled to find possible clues around. Even at noon, there was no rest, and each one was given a dry bread, and they hurried away while eating.

Suddenly, Mild raised the sword in his right hand.

Mild, "Stop. ”

Dixon, "What did you find?"

Mild, "I don't know. ”

Mild took the knife and walked two steps to a large tree full of vines, and quickly cleaned the vines on the tree pole with the knife, and then a pattern carved with the knife was revealed.

Mild, "2 years, what do you think?"

Mild looked back at Dixon behind him, who nodded.

Dixon, "That's right, no more than 2 years." Do you recognize this mark?"

Mild, "I don't know, but hunters in the forest, there are usually no more than a few things to mark here, one is a temporary camp, two is directions, and three is a trap. There is no direction for this marker and the direction that the trap mark should have, that should be to tell your partner or mark yourself that there is a temporary campsite here. ”

Dixon, "Okay! Let's look for it." ”

Mild and Dixon turned their heads to look at Du Pingping, and took a posture led by Du Pingping. This is a very good situation, because the group has basically recognized the authority and leadership of Du Pingping.

Du Ping nodded, and several people began to look for each other. It wasn't long before Mild found out. It was a bush-like patch, and after being cleared by Mild with a mountain opener, a small herringbone shack just over 1 meter high appeared, which could only be accessed by a crawler.

Dixon stopped Mild, who was about to enter, and took the mountain opener.

Dixon, "I'll go in first!"

Mild nodded, and Dixon slid headlong into the little shack. Noah stood next to Du Ping and explained to Du Ping.

Noah, "This is in the forest, this place looks like it hasn't been inhabited for a long time, maybe there will be beasts inside!"

After a while, Dixon crawled out again, and came out with half a bag of rice and a small bag of salt in his hand. Mild took two quick steps, took the bag of rice, and made a careful discernment.

Mild, "It's my daughter's." Here is a letter '' sewn on. ”

Several people glanced at each other, and it seemed that although it was nearly 2 years later, the direction of tracking was still correct. Although it was only a trivial achievement, the morale of the whole group was immediately high.

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At this time, it was already dark, and a few people could only clear a clearing, light a fire, set up a tent, and prepare to rest. It was a marked campsite, and Mild soon found clean, drinkable water from nearby. A kettle with coffee beans was thrown over the fire and began to heat up. Several people began to sit together.

Du Pingping, "What do you think?"

Dixon, "It's supposed to be this guy." Damn! We were looking in the wrong direction, and this guy was going to get away with it! If he had found the right direction like this, he would have been able to outrun us who had been living here. ”

Du Pingping, "In fact, the difficulty in this case is not that the murderer is superb and has no clues. It's that there is no DNA information about this guy in the police database. So even though the room was full of this guy's fingerprints and DNA, there was still nothing anyone could do. From this point of view, this guy should be a marginal person, like my last corpse shredding case in Manhapur City, a marginal person who has been ignored by society. ”

Lisa, "You said it's an illegal stowaway?"

"There are many people on the fringes of this kind of society, and some homeless people are actually such people. And the person we are tracking now is even more special, it seems that he has a wealth of wild life skills, or he himself has actually been living in the wild all year round and living a wild life. I say that, right?"

Du Ping looked at Mild, the forest survival expert in the group.

Mild, "Judging by this little shack, this guy lives in the wild. Nearby, I also found some dandelions and other herbs, which also seem to have been planted there on purpose, as well as yasava. ”

Mild pulled a piece of roasted yash from the fire and handed it to Du. This is the edible material she brought back casually when she was collecting firewood and drinking water. Now it seems that she has completed a relatively complete search of her surroundings by then.

Mild, "If I'm not mistaken! this guy may have lived here for a while every year before. The hateful thing is that we never knew anything like this!"

When Dixon heard Mild say this, he also hated and cut off a small branch with his machete and threw it into the fire. There was a moment of silence. Mild took out a box of cigarettes from his body, took out two and threw them to Dixon and Noah, and the man smoked silently.

Lisa stood up, refilled herself with a cup of coffee, and sat back down. Du Pingping kept looking at the tablet in his hand.

"Where do you think he should have come from?"

Mild, "I don't know! It's not the direction of the highway, it's the forest beyond that, unless he's been living in the forest all along." ”

The present face fell silent again, if this person lived in this forest with a radius of hundreds of square kilometers, no matter how many people were coordinated to come in and search together, there would be no results.

Dixon sighed, "If we had gone in the right direction, that guy wouldn't have been able to run away." ”

No one answered, and the scene was quieter.

"I don't think that's going to be the case. ”

Du Ping took out the calendar paper and pointed to the time on it: the 19th of the month.

"If he were a savage in the true sense of the word, he wouldn't care so much about the date." If he cares about the date, it means that it means something extraordinary to him. ”

Several people fell into deep thought at the same time, constantly trying to think.

"I remember that the date of the case was the 16th of the month, which means that this guy needs a few days to rush to a place. What is the maximum walking distance per day in the forest?"

Mild, "In terms of the environment here, at most 0 kilometers, I'm still a veteran, and I'm familiar with the environment. ”

"That's about 100 kilometers." ”

Du Pingping turned the screen of his phone to everyone, and on it was a map, and Du Pingping was pointing to one of them.

"What kind of place is this?"