Chapter Twenty-Four: Footprints of Death

Jiang Xu stared blankly at the terrifying cave mouth at the bottom of the mountain, with almost zero visibility, and a pair of vigilant and cruel eyes were looking at him coldly.

Jiang Xu unconsciously took a step forward, but because the railing was blocked, he couldn't see it more realistically.

The figure in the distance didn't know if he saw Jiang Xu, from Jiang Xu's point of view, he should have noticed him, the man turned around and walked towards the mountain.

"I have a situation here, at the end of the boardwalk!"

After speaking, Jiang Xu pulled out his headphones, took a photo of the mountain with his mobile phone, and ran down the mountain, but he couldn't find a place to go in.

Jiang Xu glanced down again, and the position he was standing in was much farther away from the place where the suspicious person was found.

"Jiang Xu, Jiang Xu!"

Su Yang shouted Jiang Xu's name loudly in the headphones, and Qiao Jing also stopped and quietly listened to the movement in the headphones, but Jiang Xu did not respond at all.

Qiao Jing realized that Jiang Xu might have found a very important clue, and hurriedly roared into the headphones.

"Quick, let's go. ”

Su Yang got Qiao Jing's instructions, and the two ran in the direction of Jiang Xu together, and when they both arrived, they found Jiang Xu squatting at the end of the plank road, not knowing what they were observing.

Qiao Jing breathed a sigh of relief, and the two walked to his side.

"What are you doing? I'm scared to death, can you finish talking about it later?"

Jiang Xu raised his head and looked at Su Yang and Qiao Jing, both of them were sweating on their foreheads, and Su Yang was still panting.

"I'm sorry, the situation is urgent, so I didn't have time to explain. Inform Yang Wen that they are coming, we have to find a place to go down the mountain. ”

Su Yang glanced at the bottom of the mountain curiously, their location was not high, but the bottom of the mountain was still very deep, and the white mist was filled, and nothing could be seen.

"Did you find something?"

Qiao Jing looked at Jiang Xu strangely and asked, his eyes were still looking at the place where Jiang Xu was observing just now, and there were a few footprints on the ground.

Jiang Xu nodded, and then said.

"When I was about to reach the end of the plank road just now, I saw a cave under the mountain, and under the big tree at the entrance of the cave, a person was staring at me, I don't know if he was looking at me, but from my point of view, it felt like he was looking at me!"

Qiao Jing frowned, walked to the place where Jiang Xu saw the suspicious person, and stared down intently.

"It seems that the cave should have been formed for a long time, and since he dares to come out, he should assume that we can't find him, but if he does see you......"

Speaking of this, Qiao Jing's tone became a little panicked, and his eyes became sharp.

"Most likely...... He will find you just like he killed Liu Min!"

Su Yang also suddenly realized that Liu Min's death was the same as the death of the previous two corpses, if the murderer was killed because Liu Min knew too many clues, then when he saw Jiang Xu's murderer, he would definitely kill him.

"Jiang Xu, you better go back, don't get involved in the case for the time being, and leave the rest to us!"

Jiang Xu suddenly laughed, his face was calm and there was a hint of excitement.

"Even if it weren't me, he would be eyeing others, and if he had the ability, I don't think he would mind killing you all, so I don't need to dodge at all, instead, we should speed up the pace and stop his next move!"

When Su Yang and Qiao Jing saw the expression on his face, they both felt helpless, this is the legendary no zuo no die!

They looked at Jiang Xu worriedly, Jiang Xu still squatted down with a puzzled face, looking at the footprints on the ground, Qiao Jing looked at him and felt very interesting, a forensic doctor who is not afraid of death and is more active than the police in handling cases, it is indeed rare in this kind of social reality, I have to say that Jiang Xu is a competent, a policeman with a strong sense of justice and responsibility.

"Judging from the direction of these footprints, it seems that they are going down the mountain, but the footprints are gone here, and if he goes down from here, then the footprints should continue all the way to the side of the mountain. ”

Qiao Jing squatted down and leaned over to Jiang Xu's side and said, Jiang Xu raised his head and glanced at Qiao Jing, and then narrowed his eyes.

"Dr. Qiao is also very good at trace identification!"

Qiao Jing didn't speak, just smiled faintly, Jiang Xu, this guy, didn't forget to test him at this time.

Su Yang took two steps forward curiously, indeed as Qiao Jing said, the footprints came to an abrupt end when they reached about half a meter on the side of the mountain, and there was no mark to walk back, it was impossible to be half a meter away, so he jumped down directly, there was still a considerable height below, and if he didn't jump well, he would fall to death.

Thinking of this, a strange thought flashed through Su Yang's mind.

He lowered his head and looked at Jiang Xu and Qiao Jing.

"Eh, are you sure that this footprint is the suspicious person? If it really is, maybe he is a fairy or an acrobat, anyway, he has kung fu, otherwise he would have been disabled if he jumped down the mountain so far away. ”

Su Yang's half-joking words made Jiang Xu and Qiao Jing both stunned, and they both looked at him.

Su Yang felt a chill down his spine when they looked at him, as if they wanted him to jump once, he swallowed his saliva and took a step back, feeling that the two of them were not holding back anything.

Seeing Su Yang's reaction, Jiang Xu laughed.

"Why are you so scared?"

Su Yang shook his head and smiled awkwardly.

"No, it's okay, it's okay!"

Soon, Yang Wen came over with a few people from the forensic department, Shu Qing put down the toolbox and walked to the place where the footprints were, and waited until the traces department personnel got the model of the footprints ready, and then took a photo, Shu Qing took out the tools, picked off all the footprints of the soil, and put them in the model as they were.

Shu Qing stepped back, looked at the footprints in front of her with deep eyes, and after a while, she took a few steps forward, Yang Wen and the others saw that she had already walked to the side of the mountain, and she was about to fall down if she took one more step, so she hurriedly wanted to stop her.

"Shuqing, don't think about it, come back quickly!"

Unexpectedly, before Yang Wen could speak, Su Yang's damn voice sounded from behind Shu Qing, and Shu Qing turned around helplessly and glared at him.

"Don't worry, if you jump, I won't jump!"

Shu Qing took a step back and pointed to the side of the mountain and said.

"Come and see here!"

Jiang Xu, Qiao Jing and Su Yang glanced at each other and looked at Shu Qing suspiciously.

"Shuqing, I'm kidding you, don't you want to push me down!"

Shu Qing sank his face, his eyes were almost bursting with fire, and he glared at Su Yang fiercely.

"This person didn't go down from here, he should have been pushed down!"

When Jiang Xu heard this, he immediately walked over, Qiao Jing followed closely and walked to the side of the mountain, only to find that the edge of the mountain was muddy, as if it was left by the friction of the soles, and there were some marks on the soles, although they were very shallow, but they could be seen really.

"We weren't even aware of the footprints that we were attracted to just now. ”

Shu Qing took off her gloves and put one hand in her pocket, pointing to the row of footprints with the other.

"This is the only explanation, generally if you want to jump, or use other methods to go down, you must go to the edge of the place, will not jump directly at that far, so that the body is easy to lose balance, accidents, even if you want to jump off the mountain to commit suicide, you will stand on the edge and jump down, so far away there are no footprints, and there is friction on the edge, only it may happen suddenly without knowing it, and the edge of the mark and the direction of the footprint are opposite, that is, he left the edge of the mark posture, is facing our direction to fall!”

Shu Qing's explanation is very in place, it can be said to be perfect reasoning, Jiang Xu raised his eyebrows, although he had seen Shu Qing's careful thinking before, but this time, everyone, including him, looked at her in surprise.

She sighed and said.

"Moreover, this footprint is not recent, judging from the depth of the seal and the degree of destruction, it should have been a long time, I think it is necessary to find the staff of Yamashita to re-understand, they should know what happened, maybe this is what they have been hiding. ”

After listening to Shu Qing's words, Jiang Xu smiled knowingly, it seems that the members of the case-solving team can add another member.

Yang Wen seemed to have discovered a new continent, and pulled Shu Qing back.

"I didn't find out before, you're a talent!"

Shu Qing glanced at Yang Wen, turned around and looked at Su Yang proudly.

"That's definitely going to be a little more professional than the guy you found!"

Su Yang felt that Shu Qing was sarcastic about him, and said angrily.

"Yes, yes, your husband is so powerful, of course you are also amazing!"

When he spoke, somehow, with a deep taste of envy and jealousy in his tone, Qiao Jing laughed quietly.

Jiang Xu didn't refute, but Shu Qing's reaction was very big, there was a sigh around, the people in the bureau probably didn't know about Shu Qing and Jiang Xu, and when they heard that Shu Qing had a 'husband', they looked at them in disbelief, and a disappointed voice came out of their mouths.

Shu Qing was stunned for a moment, and suddenly blushed.

Jiang Xu saw the reactions of these big men, and already knew what they were thinking in his heart, so he lowered his face and walked to Shu Qing's side.

Shu Qing was shocked and wanted to retreat, but was pressed into his arms by Jiang Xu.

"Great reasoning, worthy of my girlfriend!"

Qiao Jing and Su Yang both laughed.

"Ahem, okay, okay, let's divide up and get back to the case. ”

As soon as Yang Wen's words fell, Jiang Xu let go of Shu Qing and turned around casually.

"Qiao Jing and Su Yang, you two went down the mountain to find the staff, it's still the same, Qiao Jing please observe their answers. ”

Qiao Jing nodded, and the two quickly walked down the mountain.

Before Shu Qing could sort out her thoughts, Jiang Xu turned to look at her.

She immediately put away the look of horror on her face.

"Let's deal with Liu Min's case first, the others will lock this place, find two people to watch here, don't let people get close, and leave a few people here to check if there is any other way down to the bottom of the mountain."

Everyone nodded and dispersed.

Jiang Xu walked up to Shu Qing and looked at her seriously.

"I have one thing I want you to ask you to solve with me immediately. ”