Chapter 9: Paw Prints

"How did those people know that calling your neighbor's phone could find you?" asked Hein. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ni Sheng's mother shook her head, and she couldn't say anything: "I was relieved just because I thought my son was fine, I didn't think to ask so much, I guess it may be because when my son usually calls us, he calls our neighbor's house, our two yards are next to the yard, and we can climb over from the wall, and it is convenient to call their house to find us, and the relationship between our two families is also good, so my son calls there every time." ”

"Does Ni Sheng usually call home frequently?"

"It's not high, it's a call once a week or two, sometimes it's less than that. When Ni Sheng's mother heard this question, her expression became even more gloomy, "In the future, ...... I won't hear my son call back again......"

Saying that, she cried again, He Ning hurriedly got her tissues, and at the same time secretly guessed in his heart that the frequency of Ni Sheng's calls home was not high, and it could even be said to be relatively low, the incident that Ni Sheng's mother just said, if it was really just a simple person who didn't know who he offended, and was robbed of his mobile phone to scare his family, then how would the other party know that making a call to a neighbor's house would definitely be able to find Ni Sheng's parents? Obviously, the person who called to scare Ni Sheng's mother should have a close relationship with Ni Sheng on weekdays, so he knew Ni Sheng's habit when he called home.

After finding the bloody raincoat in the dumpster outside the crime scene by Tonic Li, he and He Ning did not really regard this case as a simple burglary converted into an intentional homicide case, after all, in a season like this, the precipitation in City A is generally not much, and it is still snowing, few people will come out in raincoats, let alone how the burglary thief would choose to wear that kind of poncho style, which is inconvenient to move, and is easy to make noise.

Ni Sheng's mother didn't know much about her son's life in the city, what kind of work he was engaged in, and what friends he had around him, and she couldn't ask any valuable clues, so He Ning and Tang Li didn't ask her too much about the roots, and asked her about the last time she saw Ni Sheng, and some other questions that needed to be understood, and then sent her out of the public security bureau. Ni Sheng's mother still seemed to be a little relieved, and apologized to He Ning again before leaving, begging her not to hold grudges no matter what, and not to pretend not to be angry on the surface, but in fact, she was angry and did not solve the case for Ni Sheng, and did not catch the murderer of Ni Sheng.

He Ning was very helpless, so he had to comfort Ni Sheng's mother with kind words, and then put her in a taxi and sent her to the station to take the car home, Ni Sheng's father was still worried at home waiting for the result.

"I was really wrong," He Ning sighed helplessly after waiting for Ni Sheng's mother to leave, "Alas, if I had been very angry at the beginning and ignored it, and then eased my emotions a little and showed understanding, maybe Ni Sheng's mother would feel a little more down-to-earth in her heart." ”

Tonic also felt a little helpless about this, and smiled: "Human psychology is the most complex thing. ”

"Now the identity of the deceased has been confirmed, it is Ni Sheng, I have also preliminarily grasped Ni Sheng's personal situation before, he has no bad records, and he has no criminal record. Now after talking to his family, I don't know his specific occupation, his computer, mobile phone and other items that may collect personal information have been stolen, the dilapidated house where Ni Sheng lives, there is no monitoring equipment around, and the neighbors have almost moved away, it is difficult to find someone who can usually have an impression of Ni Sheng and help us provide a little clue, how can I have a feeling that I don't know where to start, and I don't know how to check!" He Ning sighed, " The previous cases were very complicated as soon as they came up, and there were too many directions that could be investigated, and it was not easy to screen, but this time it was good, it seemed simple, but in fact, it couldn't find the direction, and it was the same difficulty!"

"Let's find a way to find out what Ni Sheng does, what he usually makes a living, and who he deals with more. Tang Li also felt that this matter was not as simple as it seemed, so he planned to solve it according to the ordinary murder case thinking, "Ni Sheng does not live in a vacuum, he always has to deal with people. ”

"That's fine, but it's a matter of luck. ”

The two of them walked around the crime scene a few times in the afternoon, one to find a neighbor who could recognize Ni Sheng, and the other to see if the people around them who opened a shop had seen Ni Sheng or even dealt with him. It's a pity that after going around in a big circle, the neighbors are still unanswered, and they all seem to be empty houses one by one, and at least half of the surrounding businesses have not opened for business, and the rest of the small restaurants, barber shops, etc., which are already in business, also have no impression of Ni Sheng's photos, which means that He Ning and Tang Libai ran away and returned to the Public Security Bureau empty-handed without any gain.

But as soon as they returned to the Public Security Bureau, there was a new discovery waiting for them.

"Are you back?" Tang Hongye saw that they were back, and hurriedly beckoned them over, "Xiao Zhang from the criminal technique came to look for you just now, and he said that you should be very interested in discovering it." To be honest, I wasn't involved in this case, but when I heard about it, I thought it was interesting. Didn't you see a small piece of blood on the kitchen windowsill that was irregularly shaped and shallow?"

"Yes, is there anything special about that bloodstain?" When He Ning heard Tang Hongye say this, he knew that there must be some special discovery of that bloodstain in terms of criminal skills, and hurriedly asked.

"Special! That's quite special! I guess it's definitely the first time we've encountered a situation since we became a policeman," Tang Hongye nodded, and said a little mysteriously, "That bloodstain is a handprint." ”

What is so special about the mudra? He Ning was a little puzzled, looking at Tonic Li, Tonic also frowned, obviously having a similar feeling to himself. The area of that bloodstain is very small, if it has to be said to be a handprint, it is more like a fingerprint, but the size of the area looks very close to a fingerprint, but the shape seems to be a little wrong, and now coupled with Tang Hongye's mysterious expression, it is even more problematic.

"Are you sure it's a mudra?" He Ning asked Tang Hongye again, Tang Hongye nodded, she frowned and thought about it, and suddenly a bold guess popped up in her mind, "Could it be that it is not a human hand?"

"It's still He Ning's cleverness, I deliberately said 'handprint' to confuse you, but I didn't expect to guess it!" Tang Hongye nodded, "Xiao Zhang said, from that small piece of blood, there are indeed fingerprints or palm prints, but the lines do not match human fingerprints, so it is suspected that it is some kind of animal." ”

"Animals?" I didn't expect my flash of inspiration to guess correctly, but such an answer still made He Ning feel a little surprised, after all, judging from the environment of the crime scene, it doesn't look like a small animal, she once had a puppy when she was a child, although He's mother worked hard to keep the house clean, but the unique smell of dog hair and animals will still make people feel it easily, so if it is said that Ni Sheng has raised a pet, but after the murderer broke into the house and left, and did not close the door tightly and slipped out of the door and got lost, then they must have felt it when they came out of the scene。

"Yes, animals, but they can't identify what kind of animal will be left, so they let people go to the agricultural university, and consulted with experts who specialize in animals, and finally the experts' opinions are that it is the paw prints of primates, or the front paws to be exact, so I deliberately said it was a handprint just now, trying to confuse you," Tang Hongye nodded, this time he did not continue to sell Guan Zi, but said the final conclusion," After consulting several experts in this area, in the end they all prefer to be monkeys, to be precise, it should be a macaque that is not particularly large, that is, the kind of people who are now fashionable or pursuing uniqueness, through some less legal to buy a pet at home. Let's take another example that is easier to evoke memories, that is, when people of our age were young, they could occasionally see that kind of monkey trickster, with a few monkeys juggling, and the kind of monkey used to play monkeys is a kind of macaque. The small bloodstain found at the scene of the crime is supposed to come from the front paws of a monkey of this size. ”

This answer really surprised He Ning and Tonic Li, even if the blood stains are mouse paw prints, it may be easy to imagine, and it is easier to accept, but monkeys are animals, usually hear about it a lot, and there are few opportunities to see it up close in life, although it occupies the title of a close human relative, in fact, except for children's stories and cages in the zoo, most of the time it is still relatively unfamiliar to people, why suddenly there will be blood-stained monkey paw prints at the scene of the crime?

He Ning couldn't react all of a sudden, and turned his head to look at Tang Li with a little dazedness, and Tang Li was also a little stunned, so he turned his attention to Tang Hongye, who conveyed the news to them.

"What else did they find, Xiao Zhang?" he asked Tang Hongye.

Tang Hongye spread his hands: " Not for the time being, he said, there were no other more obvious monkey paw prints found at the scene, experts also said, monkey paws are relatively small, and the lines are obviously different from our humans, plus the body size is relatively small, it is not so easy to leave obvious traces on the indoor ground, plus we are usually not particularly familiar with the fingerprint footprints of monkeys, in fact, there should still be other monkey footprints indoors, it is impossible to appear such a paw print out of thin air, but otherwise the traces are relatively shallow, not so easy to collect, or it was inadvertently destroyed, I am afraid it is unlikely to collect again。 ”

After listening to him, He Ning felt that there were still questions that had not been solved: "But how did the blood-stained paw print on the windowsill leave on it? The shape doesn't look like a complete paw print." ”

"Oh, if you don't ask, I almost forgot about it!" Tang Hongye slapped his head violently, " After all, the monkey's claws are still relatively similar to our human hands, not exactly the same, but the function is almost the same, so according to our daily experience in analyzing the traces, and referring to the opinions of experts, I finally thought that it was possible that the monkey wanted to climb the windowsill, and the paws had caught the edge of the windowsill, but I don't know for what reason, I took off again...... No, I guess I took off my claws, so I left that irregular paw print. ”

"Whose blood does it belong to?" said Ttenley, the most crucial question.

"It's not a monkey," Tang Hongye knew what he was thinking, "The blood components have been compared, not only human, but also the deceased himself, all the blood stains found in that house are the deceased's own, there is no second person, including the water containing blood components extracted from the sewer." ”

This is interesting, originally He Ning thought that this case seemed simple, but in fact he didn't know where to start, at such a time, such an episode suddenly appeared, and the scene of the crime was shocked by the monkey's paw prints, and it was also stained with the blood of the deceased Ni Sheng.

In City A, which is not a first-tier city, it is said to be small but also quite prosperous, the probability of wild monkeys running into the dwellings is similar to the probability of aliens visiting the earth, and I have not heard of any news about the kind of news about animals running out of the zoo in City A recently, so the way of this monkey is easier to explain, or it is related to the deceased Ni Sheng, or it is related to the murderer.

Considering the living conditions at the scene of the crime, it doesn't look like a small animal that usually raises it, so He Ning and Tang Li are more inclined to the monkey to come with the murderer, and then leave with the murderer, why there is no way to accurately analyze and explain the question of why there is a paw print stained with the blood of the deceased, but at least it gives He Ning and Tang Li an entry point.

There are many people, but monkeys are rare, and there are probably not many people who raise monkeys. Monkeys, which are not openly allowed to be kept privately, are not openly allowed to be kept as pets, and it is difficult for them to travel long distances by public transportation unless they drive a private car, so they are still optimistic in terms of the scope of their searches.