During the daytime, the merit forest of Fayuan Temple is solemn and solemn, especially the Buddha relief on the stele, all of them are solemn treasures, showing the scenery of the pure land of Buddhism.

But when it was dark at night, when I was in it, I saw the shadow of the stone monument, and I felt that there was only a few dirt steamed buns from the cemetery.

Especially from time to time, there will be a few wild dogs barking from nowhere, and the less timid ones may not dare to go deep into it.

Sun Shaozong's courage is naturally undoubted, so after arriving at Fayuan Temple, in order to hurry, he simply passed the temple gate without entering, and went directly to the back of the temple, without even picking a lantern, and strode into the merit forest.

Although it was difficult to identify the direction in the dark, Sun Shaozong still easily found the scene of the murder by following the only firelight.

Several officials guarding this place were originally sitting on the ground around the bonfire, and when they saw Sun Shaozong suddenly appear, they all hurriedly got up and stepped forward to salute.

On this big night, it is not easy to be on duty in the wilderness, Sun Shaozong originally wanted to encourage them a few words, so as to show his consistent pro-people style, but as soon as he got closer, he smelled a sour smell of wine.

Obviously, these guys are secretly drinking together.

He didn't bother to bother any more, and only ordered straight to the point: "Fetch me a torch!" ”

The officials knew that they had violated the rules, and they were all shrunken, lest Sun Shaozong blame him, and they didn't pursue it, so they suddenly won the amnesty, and they lit a torch rolled into a bark and rosin, and sent it to Sun Shaozong respectfully.

Sun Shaozong took the torch, first circled around the scene, and found the footprints he stepped on during the day, and then carefully arrived at the place where the corpse was ambushed, and leaned down to carefully examine the dog paw prints on the ground.

Previously, through the flower relief on the soles of the mandarin ducks, Sun Shaozong roughly deduced that the murderer may have used a similar technique to carve the appearance of a dog's claws on the soles of the shoes, and then drove the wild dogs in the vicinity to hide his footprints.

This technique, if there is only one dog paw on each sole, mixed with many chaotic dog paw prints, it is naturally impossible to distinguish.

However, the claws of ordinary wild dogs are much smaller than the soles of human feet, and if only one dog claw is carved, the murderer is equivalent to stepping on stilts, which is already difficult to maintain balance, and on the slippery ground after the rain, the difficulty of committing the murder is simply outrageous.

And once the flaws are seen by the precepts, they can be counter-killed in minutes!

This kind of risk will not be taken by even a fool, not to mention that the murderer is still cautious.

Therefore, there should be at least two or more dog claws engraved under the murderer's feet, so as to better maintain balance, so as not to fail in the division and lose the whole game first.

However, in this way, every time the murderer steps on the mud, he will leave dog paw prints with equal spacing, if he is unintentional, it is still difficult to distinguish, but since Sun Shaozong has already peeked through the murderer's mechanism, it is naturally much easier to find it again.

But even so, Sun Shaozong searched for more than a quarter of an hour before he finally found the three dog paw prints that he was looking for were arranged equidistantly in the shape of a zigzag!

"What a cunning fellow!"

Looking at the dog's paw prints, Sun Shaozong couldn't help but laugh and scold as if he was really happy.

But it turned out that the three dog paw prints, not only different sizes, but also different directions, at first glance, there is nothing strange at all, if it were not for Sun Shaozong's heart has already made a conclusion, and after repeated comparisons, it is impossible to say that it is really going to be fooled.

After laughing and scolding, Sun Shaozong straightened up and instructed the officials who were watching from afar: "Leave two people here, and the rest of the people bring torches and follow behind the official!" ”

Naturally, the officials did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly left two people with bad eyes to guard here, and the rest followed behind Sun Shaozong, all the way along the zigzag dog paw print, towards the mountains and forests in the north.

At the beginning, because the officials destroyed a lot of traces when they searched, Sun Shaozong was also quite laborious to find.

But as he moved away from the scene of the crime, the zigzag dog paw prints lost their cover, and there was nothing to hide.

And at this time, the officials behind finally discovered the strange place of the paw prints, and they were all inexplicably excited, if it weren't for Sun Shaozong's explanation, let them follow him, and they would not have rushed to the front early.

And just like that, all the way to the northeast corner of Gongdelin, the dog's paw prints suddenly disappeared without a trace, and were replaced by the footprints of ordinary human shoes.

Apparently, after arriving here, the murderer took off his shoes carved with dog paws.

Sun Shaozong's spirits were lifted, and he wanted to immediately launch an investigation and probe the torch down, but he almost burned his fingers, and then he found that the torch had burned less than a foot long.

"Get me a new torch!"

So he hurriedly asked the official behind him for a torch that had not yet been used, and after lighting the old one, he searched the ground inch by inch with his waist.

Not long after, Sun Shaozong found some fresh sawdust in the middle of those footprints.

The murderer was really cautious, and before he threw away the dog's paw print shoe, he even split it into pieces!

Rubbing the solid and heavy wood chips, Sun Shaozong looked up at the dense jungle not far away, and immediately dispelled the idea of going in to search for fragments and murder weapons, not to mention whether he could find it.

So he carefully put away the fragment and searched the neighborhood carefully.

This time, however, it took him about two quarters of an hour before he found two threads that had been trampled into the mud in the middle of a footprint.

These two thin lines are only the thickness of a hair, slightly curved, showing a dull yellow color, and the whole body is only half a fingernail long, but Sun Shaozong carefully pinched it out of the mud and put it in front of his eyes to carefully study it for a long time, but it was like a treasure, and laughed.

It's a pity that the status of the official around him is too low, and no one comes up to ask 'why is the adult laughing', which greatly reduces his full of surprise.

Therefore, after laughing a few times, Sun Shaozong raised his hand and said categorically: "Let's go, go to the temple with this official to point out the murderer!" ”

is the so-called clever but is mistaken by cleverness, if the murderer did not set up a mechanism, trying to link the death of the abstinence with the demon, just after killing people, discarding the murder weapon, Sun Shaozong may not be able to catch him.

But for now......

If Sun Shaozong is not bad as expected, he only needs to take a simple look at it, and the true murderer will be revealed!