Chapter 218: Signs
Zheng Si looked at the scenery outside the car window, the car had already left Chuhua City, and he didn't know where to go.
An hour ago, Zheng Si was taken out by Ermao in a hurry, and the phone call to Jiao's mother was still made by Ermao in the car, and he made up an excuse that it might take a day or two to take Zheng Si out to play, this is just a conservative estimate, from Ermao's expression and words at the time, Zheng Si felt that this matter might take longer.
When he went out of the city, Zheng Si listened to Ermao briefly talk about the matter, and only said that Senior Brother Walnut disappeared in order to handle a case, and he went out with black gold before he disappeared.
Compared with those people, Ermao believes in himself more. As he left town, he received another text message, and a friend who helped with the investigation sent several addresses, which were the possible addresses of other transactions that the company had declared bankrupt was secretly doing.
Ermao is not interested in those black trades, he is not a policeman, nor is he a superman, he just looks for someone.
The brothers and sisters knew each other well about some of their little habits, and they had once unified an act of carving a mark somewhere if they felt that something was dangerous, perhaps even life-threatening.
Each of them has their own unique mark, and they have their own habits, and even if others know that they will be engraved, they may not be able to find it.
Zheng Si saw Ermao drive the car off the highway, and then stopped in a place that looked quite desolate. There are a few green brick houses around, and most of them are vegetable fields. There are also some trees.
Ermao asked Zheng Si to stay in the car first, and he went down to make sure.
After Ermao got out of the car, Zheng Si leaned on the window and saw Ermao approaching a low blue-tiled house, and then stood in front of it, stretched out his hand to compare, I don't know how to compare, five fingers opened the palm of the hand downward, turned east in the horizontal direction, turned a little west, and finally pointed in the direction of the thumb. Ermao ran over there. He spotted a tree that was not very tall, looked at a branch, and then returned to the car, and drove to the next place.
Then I went to three more places in quick succession. It's all repeating these kinds of actions. Three times Ermao was disappointed. It seems that Senior Brother Walnut is not in these places.
When he came to the fifth place, Zheng Si was still looking outside at Ermao in the car looking for the mark left by Senior Brother Walnut, there was a stream here. There are no blue-tiled houses nearby, and there are large fields further afield, and people can only be seen walking there.
Just thinking that this place is really desolate, Zheng Si saw that Ermao had looked for it on a tree and came back quickly, unlike the previous times, this time Ermao's face was a little strange, and there was no disappointed look before.
Looks like this is it.
drove the car to one place and parked it, and Ermao got out of the car and beckoned Zheng Si to follow.
If you go that way, it's not easy to drive.
"Black coal, can you smell anything?" Ermao looked at Zheng Si.
Zheng sighed and sniffed, but he didn't seem to smell anything, but there were many other people's smells, as well as other animals', which were too disturbing, or because time had passed, the smell had dispersed, and it was not easy to smell out. If you want to look for it, you have to look at it a little wider, but Ermao looks very anxious, and there is also a target route, and he doesn't rely on Zheng Si very much, so Zheng Si only sniffed in place and kept up with Ermao's steps.
Zheng Si didn't expect that one day he would be used as a tracking dog, in terms of technical content, he is really not as good as those "professional" dogs, even if you have that olfactory skills but don't know how to use them better, it is also useless.
Ermao didn't have much disappointment with Zheng Si's performance, and he was still looking for the marks left by Senior Brother Walnut, so that it would be faster to track them. He took the black cat with him, but it was just an extra layer of insurance.
Although Brother Walnut left a seemingly simple mark, it contained a lot of information. Zheng Si looked at a few of them curiously, and found that the mark looked like a single person in the radical, that is, the left part of the surname "He" of Senior Brother Walnut.
Moreover, each mark has changed, it is not written positively, nor is it simply pointing out the direction, maybe only Ermao and a few of them can find the correct information from this, looking at Ermao there to stretch out his palm and gesle, you can know that this is much more complicated than Zheng Si imagined.
Zheng Si followed not far behind Ermao, he didn't need to do anything now, just keep up, Ermao said on the way that he might not let him help, so Zheng Si was not under much pressure, but he really hoped that He Tao and Heijin would be safe, although they didn't know each other very well, and they hadn't met a few times until now, but because of the relationship between Wei Ling and Ermao, Zheng Si hoped that the walnut senior brother would go well.
Just thinking about it, Zheng sighed for a moment, looked up and sniffed, and looked in the direction ahead, where it deviated a little from the route Ermao took.
Zheng Si thought about it, but ran over there, and when the smell became stronger and stronger, Zheng Si saw a black insect crawling under his feet. Looking ahead, there are more insects, crawling on the ground, and if it weren't for the obscuration of those dead leaves, you might see more.
Ermao, who was looking for the marker, noticed the situation on Zheng Si's side, so he turned to trot over.
"What's wrong?" Ermao asked.
Zheng Si ignored him and continued to walk there until he came to a dry "ditch" that looked like it had been used as a canal. There are many trees around, and most of them are deciduous trees, I don't know who swept the fallen leaves on the ground into this "ditch", so the leaves inside are piled up a little thicker, if not, the leaves where Zheng Si walked just now would not be so little. And where there are more bugs, it looks a little more protruding than other places.
Now, Zheng Si and Ermao's attention is not on the leaves, but on the insects.
"Are there still insects so active in this weather?" Ermao frowned, he also smelled some not very good smells.
Zheng Si watched Ermao walk towards the "ditch", while he stayed on the side and watched, he didn't want to get too close. Those bugs were the same as the bugs he had seen in that villa area that were regarded as "evidence" by black gold, and he thought of some of the words he had heard at the time. Zheng Si felt a chill down his spine, and he was also very nervous. What's underneath those leaves?
Ermao had already used the branches to remove the leaves and saw the object under the leaves.
It was a body that had been gnawed almost only a skeleton, but what made Ermao's hanging heart a little more relaxed was that this person was shorter than Senior Brother Walnut.
Zheng Si glanced over there and didn't look at it anymore, judging by Ermao's expression, this was not Senior Brother Walnut, and he was a little relieved. However, it is really the same as those people say. Only the skeleton remains. Seemingly. It's the ones that the bugs gnaw.
Forcing himself to divert his attention and stop thinking about the terrifying scene he had just seen, Zheng Si walked around the neighborhood, and then smelled the smell of Senior Brother Walnut and Black Gold.
I was too nervous just now. Pay full attention to the bugs and the smell of the "ditch" where they went. But I missed the trace of this person and a dog.
Although Ermao was able to find the approximate route left by Senior Brother Walnut. But it's not in that general route.
Zheng Si tried to identify the scents, then followed the scent and walked behind a large tree. There is also a slope here, and if the light is not good, it is not easy to be noticed if someone is lying here.
It seems that Brother Walnut and Black Gold have both stayed here, and the smell left behind is more obvious after a little longer. It is speculated that when those people were dealing with the affairs of the "ditch", Senior Brother Walnut and Heijin should have been watching here at that time. Then those people left, and Brother Walnut continued to follow.
Ermao looked at that side, took a few photos, then covered the leaves again, and followed Zheng Si to this side, after seeing the situation here, he could also guess some of the situation at that time.
"Well done, Black Coal."
After making sure that Zheng Si had not found any other clues, Ermao continued to look for those marks.
After looking for some distance along the road, Ermao stopped.
The mark is gone here, and the last mark didn't tell Ermao where to go next, and it didn't mean to stop, could it be that the time was too tight and it happened suddenly, so Brother Walnut didn't have time to leave a mark?
Ermao didn't know. He looked around closely, there were traces of people who had stayed, and he found some footprints, at least three people, and some cigarette butts, who had smoked here, and then ...... Ermao looked at the not wide cement road more than ten meters away, and then those people probably drove away.
But which way to go?
There are several places pointed out by the information obtained by Ermao, and there is one near here, but at the other end of the road, a little farther, there is another place.
Do you want to check both places?
Ermao stood there and thought about it, and was about to let the cat behind him try it, but when he turned around, he found that the cat had passed in other directions.
After Zheng Si knew that Ermao couldn't find the mark, he tentatively sniffed around, in addition to the smell of those strangers, there was also the smell of walnuts that were not easy to sniff, and there were also black gold.
The smell of black gold was already obvious, and when Zheng Si was looking for the smell, he also found something unexpected and stayed there for a while.
"Something?" Ermao asked. At the same time, he took out a folding knife, squatted down and began to turn over the soil.
With the fact that the skeleton that was almost gnawed away before, Ermao now thinks about what happened here when he sees the cat pause. And he also found that there were traces of moving earth here, although the scope was not large, but it could be seen.
Zheng Si took several steps back, thought about it, and took two more steps back. Then squat there and watch Ermao dig the soil. If Zheng Si could clearly express his meaning, he wouldn't need Ermao to dig it up, he would definitely stop it, but the current situation is that Zheng Si can't speak, and he doesn't know how to express his meaning, and even if Zheng Si tries to stop it now, Ermao will definitely move.
The soil is not tightly buried, Ermao can easily pick up the soil above, and after a few quick digs, Ermao sees what is buried underneath.
A piece of.
Ermao: "......"
Could it be that the black gold guy pulled it?!
When did dogs and cats learn this habit? (To be continued.) )
ps: (4.21) Recently, the wind has become tighter, and even the chong character of chong is an asterisk.