The next morning, the rain was still falling, but it was much lighter than last night, and the thunder and lightning had quietly receded while people were asleep. Director Ding knew that Gu Song and Xia Shi did not have the patience and time to wait for the rain to stop completely, so without waiting for the two to make a request, he handed out raincoats and rain boots to them, preparing to take them to find clues to solve the case.

The village was still shrouded in a white mist, and although it was not as eerie and gloomy as last night, it gave a feeling of extreme desertion, and there seemed to be little population and life.

Director Ding explained that their village is economically backward, the transportation is inconvenient, and all aspects of the conditions cannot meet the needs of modern people. Most of the young and strong villagers have gone out to work or school, and many have taken their parents and children with them. Nowadays, there are only a dozen scattered families left in this huge village, which naturally seems to be extremely deserted.

Despite this, Sanqiao Village is a place with beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery. The rolling green hills, the meandering rivers, and the scattered farmhouses are like a fresh and elegant splashed ink landscape painting under the shroud of mist.

Director Ding introduced the general situation of the village all the way, and took Gu Song and Xia Shi all the way to the mountains and forests to the east.

The trail is a bit muddy, but it's not difficult. When we were about to reach our destination, the rain had almost stopped. Gu Song looked at the time, it had taken two and a half hours from the time they set off until now, if it was sunny and the road conditions were good, it should only take more than an hour.

"Well, this should be the place you're looking for." Director Ding stopped in a clearing surrounded by a few dwarf trees and bushes, looked at the surrounding scene and said to Gu Song and Xia Shi.

Forty years have passed, and the traces left by that fire have been covered by newly grown plants. If he hadn't heard about the disaster that year, who would have thought that the land under his feet would ruthlessly take away the happy life and even the lives of several families.

Director Ding was a little puzzled, what kind of fame was hidden in this barren mountain and wild ridge that no one cared about, which made the two police officers who came from afar so nervous and valued? Looking at the desolate and monotonous scenery around him, the only thing he could think of was......

Sure enough, Gu Song and Xia Shi only paused for a moment, reconfirmed the precise location of the coordinates, and then began to dig up soil in the open space with the shovel prepared in advance.

"Could it be that the clue you are looking for is ......"

"If I'm not mistaken, there's a corpse buried down there." Without waiting for Director Ding to finish speaking, Gu Song replied with a wry smile. Although he still doesn't quite understand why the murderer would lead them all the way here, but when he thinks about it, he knows that there will definitely be nothing good buried under their feet.

Maybe it was because of the heavy rain yesterday, or maybe it wasn't buried deep enough. It didn't take long to dig for a while, and there was a major discovery over there in the summer. "Look!" He shouted as he quickened the movement of his hands.

Gu Song and Director Ding hurriedly leaned over, only to see a few Bai Sensen's bones emerging from the damp soil.

"That's not right!" Gu Song looked at the white bones buried in the ground in surprise, then looked at Xia Shi, and said suspiciously, "Dong Wei has only been missing for more than half a month, no matter what, it is impossible for him to rot into a pile of bones so quickly?" ”

Xia Shi certainly understands this, and at the same time realizes the complexity of the problem. If the pile of bones in front of them was not the suspect Dong Wei they were looking for, then who else would it be? Whoever it is, there must be another case involved, and judging from the degree of decomposition of the corpse, this case is probably some years old.

Seeing Xia Shi's solemn expression, Director Ding couldn't help but guess: "Could this be the villager who was burned to death in the fire back then?" ”

"No, it won't." Xia Shi shook his head resolutely, put down the shovel, put on gloves, carefully picked out a bone with obvious characteristics and held it in his hand, and said to Gu Song and Director Ding, "If you look carefully, the section of this leg bone is very neat, and it is obvious that it was cut by someone with a sharp weapon. If it was a villager who was burned to death by a wildfire, his bones would not have shown such characteristics. And this pile of bones is piled up here in a haphazard manner, and if someone hadn't deliberately turned them over, it means that when the bodies were buried, they looked like this. So ......"

"Do you think this case is murder?" Gu Song said the latter sentence for Xia Shi.

"It's very likely." Xia Shi nodded, and the expression on his face became even heavier.

Director Ding looked at the dirt pit at his feet in confusion, and his heart began to get nervous. To say that their small village has backward economic conditions, the law and order situation has always been very good. Except for the occasional neighborhood dispute and intra-family conflict, even things like stealing chickens and dogs rarely happen, let alone killing people or even mutilating corpses.

Especially in recent years, when more and more young men and women have gone out to work, and only the elderly and a few children are left in the village, and it is quiet all day and night, how can such a bad criminal case occur?

However, listening to the meaning of the two police officers, the case in front of me is afraid to go back many years, and the situation is very complicated. Could it be that there was really a murderous demon in their village, who buried the body in the barren mountain after killing people and breaking the corpse, and he, as a policeman at the local police station, didn't even know about it?

Just as Director Ding was thinking wildly, Xia Shi's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, "Director Ding, please contact the city's criminal police team, this case is a bit tricky, and we need the support of the forensic and technical teams." ”

"Eh, okay, no problem." Director Ding came back to his senses, hurriedly agreed, and then asked, "Otherwise, I'll call the people in the institute to come over and help." He was referring, of course, to the exhumation of the bones of the dead from the pit.

"No need." Xia Shi waved his hand, "When he arrives, we should have finished digging here." All that is left to do now is to wait for someone from the criminal police team to come and inspect the scene and dispose of the bones. ”

"Okay, then I'll call Captain Xu and ask him to bring someone over as soon as possible."

"Summer time!" Gu Song suddenly screamed, as if he had discovered something terrible. To confirm his suspicions, he dug a few more times with a shovel to widen the area of the pit, and more bones were exposed.

Xia Shi and Director Ding didn't react for a while, and it wasn't until more than ten finger bones were exposed in the pit that they all gasped.

"It seems that there are at least two dead bones buried in this pit......," Gu Song said in a low tone.