Ji Yan, as the leader, had already made a decision, and Sun Dayong could only sigh secretly and didn't say anything more.

After listening to Ji Yan's words, Mei Yuning nodded, turned around and went back to the house, investigating to see if there were any more clues.

Ji Yan's eyes widened at first, his hands patted his cheeks, and then shook his head vigorously from side to side, hoping that this would make his brain spin faster.

Afterwards, Ji Yan instructed the two of them: "The three of us, one person and one corpse, first examine the wounds, find out what blade the murderer used, and see if there are any other clues." ”

After speaking, Ji Yan and Sun Dayong each squatted down, and one of them investigated a bodyguard of Chen Sihan.

Mei Yuning was in the house, and she decided to start examining Chen Laohan's body first.

Ji Yan thought in his heart, there is another question to investigate: What is the motive for the crime?

In fact, he has neither investigated the case nor tried the case, so he can only follow the ideas in some detective novels or movies that he has seen before.

The corpse, the murder weapon, the modus operandi, and the motive for the crime should be clarified one by one before taking action.

The motive seemed to be found quickly, Ji Yan's mind was clearer, and now he had a good idea, and he soon realized that the aroma of Qi Nan that he had smelled before was gone.

He raised his head and asked Mei Yuning, who was searching in the back room, to look around to see if Qi Nan Xiangmu was still there.

After a while, Mei Yuning's voice came from the house: "The Qi Nan fragrant wood is gone, and now the Qi Nan fragrance in the house is basically gone." ”

Ji Yan hurriedly instructed the two of them to check all corners of the house and whether the money on the victims was still there.

When Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong heard Ji Yan's words, they immediately searched the bodies of Chen Sihan and the others and the luggage they carried, and Ji Yan also touched the waist and abdomen of the person in front of him, only to feel a burst of coldness, and there was nothing else.

The money on everyone's body also disappeared with Qi Nan Xiangmu.

From this point of view, the motive for committing the crime is very simple, and the most primitive and common reason for the crime is to make money.

At this time, Sun Dayong stared at the footprints on the ground, as if thinking about something.

Because there is still a drizzle here in the morning, the courtyard is still half mud and half water, and no matter who walks, there are footprints.

However, when Ji Yan entered the hospital, he was shocked and didn't think too much about it, so he actually accidentally destroyed the scene.

Coupled with Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong's own footsteps, the footprints on the dirt floor of this courtyard are a little messy.

Sun Dayong was about to lie on the ground, and after looking at it for a long time, he found a trace of clues.

He noticed that there were many people's footsteps, especially in the direction of leaving the courtyard, but there was one person's footprint, which was always shallow and deep, and continued to the outside of the courtyard.

Sun Dayong followed these footprints to the outside of the courtyard, and looked all the way, the chaotic footprints continued, until he reached a small puddle a few feet away, and these footprints disappeared completely, and there was no trace to be found.

After Sun Dayong investigated this clue, he returned to the courtyard and said to Ji Yan: "Among the several people who committed the crime, there should be one of them who was injured in his legs and feet, and he walked with a limp. ”

Sun Dayong looked in the courtyard again, pointed to Chen Sihan, a member of the fallen in the courtyard, and said: "The posture of this person's palm seems to have been holding a weapon, it may be him, after reacting, he took out a weapon and slashed a murderer." ”

Ji Yan looked at Sun Dayong's fingers, and sure enough, as Sun Dayong said, this person clenched his right hand into a fist, but he didn't clench it, as if he had taken a weapon.

So he crouched down next to the corpse and took a closer look at the blood around him.

I saw that there were indeed some blood marks around the corpse, and judging from the shape, it didn't seem to belong to this corpse.

Ji Yan got up and stood near the strange blood stain, comparing the posture of this corpse, and roughly simulated the situation at that time in his mind.

He looked closely at the man's wounds, and there were several cuts, of varying depths.

It is estimated that this person was the first time that he was sneak attacked, and it was not fatal, so he took up his weapon and made some counterattacks, but after all, it was difficult to defeat the opponent's outnumber.

Not only Qi Nan Xiangmu and Qiancai, Chen Sihan and his two bodyguards should all be carrying weapons, but now, their weapons are also gone.

The investigation of the scene of the murder has basically been completed.

Ji Yan then beckoned Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong to stand in the courtyard and discuss the idea of chasing the murderer.

Mei Yuning was the first to speak: "If it is the case committed by the 'Ming Dynasty Five-Person Squad' that Chen Sihan said, then they should hurry back to the Ming Dynasty and get rid of Qi Nan Xiangmu as soon as possible." But they probably won't take the coastal road, which is probably similar to the road we used when we came, and it was a mountain road. ”

What Mei Yuning said was actually not much different from what Ji Yan thought in his heart.

The territory of the city is long and narrow, and the widest part of the country is only 100 miles, and the country is bordered by the sea in the east and the mountains in the west.

The place near the sea is flat, but at this time, not only are there many troops from all walks of life coming and going, but there are also all kinds of refugees and prefecture capitals, villages and counties, and there are more people coming and going.

When Ji Yan and the others came, they only walked for a few days, and then they turned to the inland line and walked by the mountains.

If the murderer is really the five-person incense digging team, although there should be no other possibility now, those Ming Dynasty people robbed Chen Sihan and others dug up the Qi Nan fragrant wood, the smell of this fragrant wood is difficult to hide, and it is easy to provoke the same wrongdoers as them, so they are estimated to be low-key and hurry, the more concealed the better.

Then they will naturally not take the road by the sea, but will still quietly take the land route, that is, the mountain road that Ji Yan and others took when they came.

The weapons used by the murderer, judging from the fact that the victims were basically hacked to death, should be some ordinary knives, considering that they themselves are still digging incense, it is estimated that they are some ordinary short knives or firewood knives and the like.

After all, the sword bayonet cuts, the wounds of these people are basically no other kind.

Ji Yan touched the temperature of the five corpses in turn, only the body of the "Chen Laohan's daughter" in the back room was slightly warm, it is estimated that she was the last to be killed, and it also shows that the time of the murder is not too far away.

The gang of murderers was estimated to have been away for a maximum of an hour or two, and one of them had a weak leg and foot, so he would not walk too fast.

That's pretty much the information that needs to be gathered.

Ji Yan looked up at the thick clouds and the sky that had begun to darken, and said to Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong: "Let's set off now, chase the murderer by night, and wait for us to avenge Chen Laohan, and then turn back and bury them." ”