My conversation with Fa Yi came to an abrupt end.

"Brother Ludong, you're here too, master, that's great!" Hao Minyuan hurriedly ran to the two of us, "Brother, does you already have some clues about the suspect?" ”

I glanced at Fa Ying and nodded slightly, but I didn't dare to say anything:

"Remember yesterday's case in Otomura?"

Hao Minyuan frowned and smiled bitterly: "We are here for this case, can we forget it?" ”

"Don't you think these two cases are very similar?" I continued to ask.

"We've just discussed it, but it's not yet final that we should combine the two cases." Hao Minyuan nodded back.

Liu Xili interjected: "I have carefully examined the skinning method of the two corpses, although I dare not say that it came from the same person, but at least eight or nine points are similar, this level of proficiency, I think it is impossible without decades of butcher experience!" ”

Hao Minyuan then said: "But there is one thing that seems to be inexplicable, the two villages are dozens of miles apart, we have checked before, the old man in Donghu Village has not left the village in the past two days, and there are many villagers who can prove it." ”

I recalled Zhang Yuting's description before, when he opened the door to the old beggar, it was in the afternoon, if you rush from Donghu Village to Yangmiao Village, it will take two hours to go back and forth, and the dam must pass between the two villages, which is the main road in this area, and if you go back and forth, someone will definitely see it.

What makes even more inexplicable is that on the afternoon of Zhang Yuting's murder, the old man herded sheep on the dam slope outside the village, and would drive the sheep back to the village at dusk.

But if not him, who would it be?

Several people suddenly fell into deep thought.

After chatting in the courtyard for a while, the atmosphere was a little depressing, and I called a few people to the village branch office, and the four of them came, including a driver, each drank two large glasses of water.

Hao Minyuan wiped his mouth and listed all the clues of the two murders on a piece of paper.

I glanced at it a few times and suddenly noticed a problem.

"It turned out that Zhang Yuting from Yangmiao Village was killed first!"

Liu Xili nodded: "Yes!" Zhang Yuting was killed six to ten hours earlier than Wang Huaiwen, probably because Zhang Yuting's body was soaked in the river, and her actual time of death was about 12 hours earlier than I had guessed at my first autopsy. ”

I nodded: "It seems that people will make preconceived mistakes, thinking that Wang Huaiwen's body was found first, so Wang Huaiwen's death time was earlier than Zhang Yuting, but in fact, when we found Zhang Yuting's body, she had been soaked in the river for more than 24 hours, which affected the autopsy judgment, and she probably rushed to this area from upstream." ”

Hao Minyuan gave me a thumbs up: "Brother is very powerful!" After I go back this time, I will apply to Liu Suo no matter how to transfer my brother to our team! ”

Liu Xili also cast an approving gaze: "The analysis makes sense, continue!" ”

I smiled embarrassedly: "In this case, maybe there is a possibility!" Wang Huaiwen and Wang Huaijun are twins, they look almost identical, and they can't be identified without looking carefully, maybe the villagers see that the person grazing sheep on the dam slope outside the village is Wang Huaiwen. ”

The two of them glanced at each other and nodded almost at the same time.

"This can explain the past, but if you want to prove that it was Wang Huaiwen who appeared in Yangmiao Village that afternoon, you have to have a witness!" Liu Xili said.

At this moment, Hao Minyuan's mobile phone rang, and he quickly picked it up: "Hey! Who is it? ”

Later, when chatting, he once said that as an old criminal policeman, whether it is sight, smell, or feeling, it has reached the point where it cannot be explained by common sense, for example, this time, he only heard the ringtone of his mobile phone, and he had a premonition that this call was very important.

"It's Captain Hao! I'm the little grandson of the Dongji Police Station, and I need to report something to you......"

Hao Minyuan directly pressed the hands-free.

"What's the matter, let's talk about it!"

"Captain Hao, that's the case, just now we received a call from the police, it was a villager surnamed Wang from Dahu Village who called, saying that the previous body of their family was missing......

When I heard this, my scalp was numb.

Is Wang Huaiwen's body missing? How is this possible! Could it be that Wang Huaijun was so bold that he dared to come back and steal the corpse?

Then again, after all, they're brothers! There is no deep hatred, is it just to practice some kind of evil crooked way, for the so-called longevity, he ruthlessly killed his own brother, and peeled off his skin with his own hands?

Humanity! I think sometimes it is not enough to describe it as "evil", this is simply ruthless and vicious!

After hanging up the phone, Hao Minyuan spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "We are tired and running around, let's go!" After saying that, he waved his hand, put his hands in his pockets, and walked out.

I didn't know where the impulse came from, so I hurriedly shouted, "I'll go with you!" ”

What I didn't expect was that Fa Dian also smiled: "I'll go too!" ”

Soon arrived at Dahu Village, a cordon had been set up outside the courtyard of Wang Huaiwen's house, and the fat men from the police station were discussing something in a whisper around them, and when they saw our car coming, they hurriedly greeted us with a smile.

"What the hell is going on?" After Hao Minyuan got out of the car, he asked the fat man directly.

The fat man shook his head: "We have never encountered such a case!" I've taken over cases of stealing money, stealing things, and even stealing people, this ...... This stealing corpse is unheard of—it's not an ancient corpse, and it's not valuable! ”

Hao Min gave him a blank look, picked up the cordon and walked in.

"What about the families of the deceased? Do you know the basic information of the family? ”

The fat man behind him hurriedly nodded like pounding garlic: "I understand this, a few family representatives are in the courtyard next door, and they are being guarded by our people!"

"Nonsense! It's not a prisoner, it's not even a suspect, why do you treat people like this? ”

The fat man wanted to ask for credit, but he didn't expect to be reprimanded, and he hid to the side with a disgraced face.

I followed Hao Minyuan into Wang Huaiwen's courtyard again, the mourning shed in the courtyard had been removed, and the black coffin seemed to be still in its original place, with the coffin lid on one side, and the coffin was empty.

"Liu Ke, let's get this certificate again!"

Liu Xili nodded, put on white gloves, and got to work.

Hao Minyuan circled around the coffin, didn't seem to find anything, and then turned around and walked to the gate: "What about the family of the deceased!" ”

Soon two local policemen came over with a few villagers, two of whom I looked familiar with, should be a certain filial son in the wake.

Hao Minyuan glanced around: "Who was the first to find that the body was missing?" ”

A man in his thirties raised his hand: "Yes...... I found out first, and I wanted to come to my uncle's house to get something, but ...... But before he could enter the house, he saw the coffin lid stretched to one side. Subsequently...... Only then did I realize that there was nothing in the coffin. ”

"What about time?"

"About half-past nine! I remember when I went out, I glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and it was not yet half past nine. ”

"What are you going to get so late? What's more, this is still an empty house where corpses are parked! Hao Minyuan asked urgently.

The man didn't say why, and his face turned red.

"I ...... I didn't ...... either Didn't take anything ......."

Hao Minyuan's eyes widened: "You can't come and steal something, right?"

The man's face turned even redder: "It's all a family, so I want to use it first, how can it be stealing!" ”

Suddenly there was a sound of swearing in the crowd.

Hao Minyuan waved his hand: "Your own family's affairs, handle them yourself!" What did you do when you found out that the body in the coffin was gone? ”398

The man hurriedly replied, "I immediately ran to inform the brothers!" Then I dialed 110......"

At this time, Liu Xili walked out, and Hao Minyuan hurriedly asked, "How is it?" What's the clue? ”

Liu Xili shook his head: "The scene has been destroyed, and no useful information has been found for the time being." ”

"What about Fa Ying?"

After calming down, I noticed that Fa Dian had not followed us into the courtyard.

Several people walked in the direction of the car and saw Fa Yi squatting on the ground, playing with a small black dog.

This is a dirt dog, no knees tall as an adult, covered in dirty hair, wagging its tail towards Fa Zhuang! All of a sudden, the tension in my head vanished.

Not to mention, Fa Dian's popularity is not very good, but the "dog relationship" and "donkey relationship" are not bad, and the scene of communicating with the black donkey at the entrance of the village suddenly came to my mind.

"Master, I have to ask you for help!"

Hao Minyuan smiled and leaned over.

Fa Xuan turned around and glanced at him, and smiled: "Don't make noise yet!" Didn't you see that I was trying the case! ”

"Ahh Master, you ......"

Fa Yi made a silent gesture and continued to lower his head and "communicate" with the little black dog.

Liu Xili also came around, and seemed to feel that the scene in front of him was very strange.

Fa Ying made some strange noises towards the little black dog, and the little black dog wagged its tail and stuck out its tongue, and it really seemed to be able to understand Fa Ying's words.

After three or four minutes, Fa Dian stood up: "I'm almost right!" ”

Hao Minyuan and Liu Xili glanced at each other, and Hao Minyuan hurriedly asked, "Master, are you ...... What do you ask? ”

Before Fa Dian could speak, the little black dog had already run towards the mouth of the alley, and after running for more than ten meters, he turned his head to look at us.

Fa Dian pointed and grinned: "Follow it, I believe Xiao Hei will give you a big surprise!" ”

Fa Yi was in front, and a few of us followed, and seven or eight people followed the little black dog to the dam outside the village in one go. Don't look at this black dog, it is really spiritual, it runs in front, and it turns around to look at us in a few minutes, pulling the distance, and knows to wait.

Soon the little black dog ran to the edge of the Yellow River and barked wildly into the water.

The crowd also gathered around, and several flashlights shone on the surface of the river at the same time.

"What's that?" Just one glance, my scalp suddenly went numb.

Among these people, of course, my eyesight is the best, before their flashlight shines, I first saw a corpse floating in the water, and what is even more terrifying is that next to the corpse, half of the body leaned out of the water, and when the light went away, the body quickly retracted into the water, and the time before and after did not exceed two seconds.

"It's a corpse!"

Hao Minyuan yelled.

In fact, I was not referring to this corpse just now, but the half of the body, and my heart trembled.

That's a person? It looks like a person with long hair, I recall the scene I just saw, its entire head is wrapped in black hair, but if it is a person, when he sees someone on the shore with a flashlight, he should shout for help, and he should not sink into the water, and besides, the average person does not hold his breath in the water for more than a minute, even if it is a specially trained person, it is rarely more than ten minutes.

But the man had been in the water for two minutes......

If not people, what would it be?

Thinking about it like this, my scalp went numb again, and a strange feeling welled up in my head.

"You see, this person has no skin, is it Wang Huaiwen?"

"But...... But why did you get the body out of the coffin and throw it into the river? ”

At this time, Fa Dian spoke: "This is the last step of the river sacrifice, before he only barely finished peeling the skin, and did not really complete the river sacrifice...... This guy is really bold enough, but he didn't expect to kill a horse pistol the next night. ”

"Master, do you mean that this person is definitely Wang Huaiwen?"

Fa Dian smiled: "Absolutely can't be wrong!" ”

Hao Minyuan instructed the fat man behind him to ask his subordinates to send ropes, hooks and long bamboo poles, and after a few clicks, the body was salvaged.

The skinned corpse was soaked in the river water, which was simply "white and red and different", and it looked extremely terrifying.

"Don't move!"

As soon as the corpse was put on the ground, Liu Xili immediately scolded, which frightened the fat man and the two policemen.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Xili pointed to the corpse's shoulder: "Look, what is this!" ”

Looking for his fingers, I saw two handprints on the shoulders of the dead body, and the fat man behind him also saw them, trembling and shouting, "Handprints! How can there be someone's handprints! ”

This is not a man's handprint! Liu Xili said categorically.

"Not human? What a mudra is that! The fat man behind him muttered.

"That's right! Xili, according to his previous confession, was only two or three hours before the body was stolen...... The point is, if it's not a human handprint, it's still ......"

Liu Xili shook his head: "You look at these handprints, the fingers are obviously slender, judging from this point, they look like some kind of primate, but...... However, looking at the links, there are two more links than all the primate palms. I can't guess what exactly this left behind. ”

"It's clear! Can you tell the time when the handprints were left? Hao Minyuan asked.

Liu Xili glanced at it with a flashlight a few more times: "Look at the traces...... Plus there is no skin...... It's in the water again......"

Liu Xili slowly opened his mouth, and a surprised expression appeared on his face.

"It's really possible! Incredible, simply incredible! ”

"What did you find? Hiri! ”

"You ...... Haven't you noticed that this mudra mark is different from the one just now? ”

As soon as the words fell, the fat man behind him hurriedly shouted, "Huh? These two handprints don't seem to be as clear as they were just now! ”

I took a closer look, and it seemed that this was really the case, just now in the light, I looked very clearly, and now I can barely see it.

"Could it be because of the water?" Hao Minyuan asked.

Liu Xili nodded: "There are reasons for this, but the main reason is that you don't think of it, and I'm afraid you don't dare to think about it!"

"Huh? If you have something to say, say it! I urged.

"The mudra should have been left just a few minutes ago...... According to the time, it should have been two or three minutes before we came to the river...... I know it's hard to accept, but I believe in my professional abilities even more. ”

Hao Minyuan nodded: "I believe in you too!"