According to the police on duty at the local police station, the car was parked at the end of a very remote machine farming road, and the body was placed in the cab at the time, but it seemed that it was not sitting in the cab, but curled up in the driver's seat. No widespread burns were found within a five-kilometre radius, and there were some animal hairs in the car, which later turned out to be fox fur.

I said I needed to check the car again, and the police officer helped me open the cab door, and I turned on my phone flashlight and leaned in to check in.

There was still some glass residue on the cab pedal, it seemed that the door was opened by breaking the glass, and there were some brownish-black marks on the cab seat, and I looked closely, it was the residue of the charred and carbonized corpse.

I checked the back seat again, found nothing unusual, and checked the trunk, which also had brownish-black residue and blood stains on the bottom of the trunk. Apparently, the bodies were transported for cremation, as well as the incinerated bodies, which were placed in the trunk and then transferred to the cab.

After inspecting the vehicle, I said to Lao Lu: "The murderer was obviously premeditated in advance, and now I can determine that there were at least three at the scene of the crime." The first scene is the place where the deceased was killed, the second scene is the place where the body is burned, and the third scene is the place where the body is abandoned. ”

After listening to my words, Lao Lu was puzzled and asked, "Why did the murderer burn and abandon the corpse so tediously?" ”

I said, "This is a kind of self-preservation mentality after killing people, and this mentality prompts a thoughtful and calm person to make a series of abnormal actions, but his actions must be related to some things he has heard and seen and done." ”

"Can you be specific? What have you heard, seen, and done? ”

I smiled and said, "There are still a lot of doubts that have not been clarified, and when these doubts are solved, I will tell me the relevant connections." I thought about it again and said, "DNA comparisons need to be made as soon as possible." Tomorrow, I will trouble this comrade to take us to see the scene of the abandoned corpse. The first sentence was said to Lao Lu, and the second sentence was said to the police on duty.

The police on duty nodded, and Lao Lu also said that he had notified the forensic department to send a car to pick up the body, and the DNA comparison would be completed overnight.

I stretched my waist, closed the trunk of the car hard, and said, "Lao Lu, let's finish it early today, I haven't rested well in the past two days, so you can quickly arrange a place to spend the night, and go to the site of the abandoned body early tomorrow morning." ”

Lao Lu looked at me and Tang Zhenguo, and said, "Two brothers, then you can only be wronged in the office for one night." ”

The night in the countryside is quiet and cold.

Tang Zhenguo and I slept in a reception room, because there were two large sofas, one for each of us.

Lao Lu slept in another room, and he said that he snored very loudly when he slept, and he didn't sleep in the same room with us for fear of disturbing us.

I looked at my phone, it was already half past eleven in the evening, so I said to Tang Zhenguo, who was lying on the sofa and still looking at his phone, "What are you looking at?" Why don't you sleep yet? ”

"I'm looking at a picture of my daughter."

"Miss your daughter?"

"It's strange to say, I always feel that if I am far away from her, I will miss her."

I seem to understand Tang Zhenguo's words. "Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, thinking of relatives every festive season." "A glass of turbid wine is thousands of miles away, and Yan Ran has no plan to return." Aren't these classic sayings of the ancients all expressed when they were far away from their loved ones. But I don't have a daughter, and I don't have anyone to worry about, what is it like to miss me? I don't know, and I don't want to. Because when I devoted myself to the detective career, I seemed to deliberately erase some human emotions. I don't know if I'm imitating Sherlock Holmes or if I'm afraid of something, or if I've seen so much murder and tragedy that I've become ruthless and cruel?

I feel like my thoughts are getting a little confused, and my thoughts are rarely confused.

"You slept?" Tang Zhenguo lit a cigarette and said.

"Oh, not yet, give me one."

Tang Zhenguo threw the cigarette and lighter to me, I took out a cigarette and lit it, and the chaotic thoughts just now gradually calmed down.

"When is your daughter's surgery scheduled?" I asked, taking a puff of my cigarette.

"The 25th of next month."

"You can rest assured that you can take your daughter to the doctor, and you don't have to worry about me. If you hadn't been there for a few days, I don't think I would have been attacked by a suicide attack. ”

"Hehe, okay. I've never worried about you. ”

"Haha, it's so impersonal. Go to sleep. ”

"Sleep."

The cigarette butt slowly extinguished in the ashtray, and the scarlet spark was finally swallowed up by the darkness.

The next day, a thick fog filled the town, darkening the spring mood.

Under the leadership of the police on duty, we came to the place where the body was dumped. Very desolate, sparsely populated, fantastic location.

The policeman on duty pointed to the end of the machine ploughing road and said: "The car was parked here at that time, if it weren't for the old farmer who went to the mountains to protect the forest and took a curious look at the car, it is estimated that it would take several days to find out." ”

I looked at the scene, and there was a tall camphor tree next to the original parking location, which had already revealed some new shoots. The dirt on the ground was pressed out with deep wheel prints, apparently left by the trailer.

I looked at the road that I hadn't seen a car pass by for a long time and asked, "We just turned into this path from the main road, how far is the main road from Icheon?" ”

The police replied: "It's not far, less than two kilometers to Icheon." ”

I hummed and said to Lao Lu: "The murderer is estimated to have crossed the border to Hubei, and the murderer abandoned the body and car, and it is estimated that someone will answer at the junction of the two places." ”

Lao Lu nodded in agreement and said: "It is very likely, a checkpoint was set up at the border to check the car before, but it was mainly aimed at Lu Qiujun, I didn't expect this Shi Tao to slip through the net." It seems that the Hubei police need to cooperate with the investigation. ”

"It is not certain that Shi Tao is the murderer. Are the results of the DNA comparison out? ”

Lao Lu looked at his watch and said, "The results will be available at about half past nine, and there will be an hour." ”

"Okay, contact the colleagues who were in charge of checking the car here at the time, I have something to ask them." I said to Lao Lu.

"I know who it is, it's a colleague from the town's police station." The police officer on duty said to me.

"Get in touch."

Back at the police station, we met the police who were in charge of checking the car yesterday.

So I asked, "Did you meet a person with a wound on the face yesterday?" ”

Neither of them thought about it, and said in unison: "Yes." ”

I looked at them with wide eyes and said, "What kind of person, where is his injury?" Describe his height, clothing, etc. ”

One of the slightly chubby policemen said: "I am very impressed by this person, I interrogated him." He was wearing sunglasses, had blood stasis on the left side of his face, was about 1.7 meters tall, and was walking on the road with a big bag of a traveler on his back. He seemed stunned for a moment when he saw the police car, but continued to walk towards us, so I went up and did a routine check. He said that he was a fellow traveler who climbed Qiyue Mountain, and the wound on his face was left by a slippery fall on the road, and I saw that he was not suspicious, so I let him go. ”

I asked, "Have you checked your ID?" Is this person's name Shi Tao, and how big is the bag he is carrying? Where is he going? ”

The policeman said: "Yes, yes, it's called Shi Tao, I looked at the ID card." That bag is quite big, the kind of big bag that is commonly used by travelers, and the kind of big bag that is carried behind the back is high. He walked in the direction of Icheon. ”

"Is there anything tied to the side of the bag, like a wrapped tent or something?"

"Yes, it's a tent cloth."

I nodded affirmatively and said, "Old Lu, it seems that it is certain that it is Shi Tao who kills and burns the corpse." ”

Lao Lu was about to speak, his mobile phone rang, it turned out to be Xiao Xia calling, saying that the DNA comparison results came out, the DNA of Lu Qiujun's parents and the DNA of the cremation of the corpse basically matched, confirming that they were close relatives of the two, it seems that the cremated corpse is Lu Qiujun, and the hair DNA found in Cao Weihu's house is completely consistent with the DNA of the crematory.

Lao Lu told me the DNA test results, so at this time, I was basically able to sort out the whole case, so I explained my detection results to Lao Lu.

"In the case of Cao Weihu's murder, first of all, from the background picture of the high-quality imitation famous painting found in Cao Weihu's home and the murderer's familiarity with Cao Weihu's family, it can be concluded that the murderer has a close relationship with Cao Weihu, and Lu Qiujun is one of the people who is extremely close to Cao Weihu. Secondly, the strange knife marks on Cao Weihu's body and the bloody paw prints on the ground were also found in Lu Qiujun's house. The last is Lu Qiujun's hair left at Cao Weihu's house. These three points are very good to point the finger of the murderer at Lu Qiujun, but Lu Qiujun is dead and cannot get him to confess his guilt in person. ”

I lit a cigarette and continued: "But it doesn't matter, there is another person who knows that Lu Qiujun killed Cao Weihu, and that is Shi Tao." From the discovery of Shi Tao's shoes at Lu Qiujun's house, and Lu Qiujun's many visits to Shi Tao's den of thieves, it can be seen that the relationship between the two is not ordinary. And there is a great possibility that in the case of the spider man stealing Xu Beihong's famous painting, Lu Qiujun also assisted in the crime, mainly responsible for the safety rope in the mountaineering rope. ”

I took a puff of cigarette and continued: "Of course, the inference that Shi Tao is a spider-man is quite obvious, so I won't repeat it. After that, there is the cremation case, and it is certain that Shi Tao is the murderer. First, the injury on Shi Tao's face was left in the fight with Lu Qiujun, which can be inferred from Lu Qiujun's broken finger; Second, the fox fur found in the abandoned car, this kind of thing that adds to the snake and sets up suspicions proves Shi Tao's crime, and the fox fur found can be compared with the hair on the animal claws found in Lu Qiujun's house, and the two hairs are very likely to be exactly the same. Because I had observed the claws, which had been artificially cut out, I was sure that they were a whole taxidermy. It is also very likely that the fox fur found in the abandoned car was ripped from this specimen. As for why he threw fox fur, it was because Lu Qiujun told Shi Tao about his method of using fox monsters to kill people, and after Shi Tao killed Lu Qiujun, he planned to mislead the detective, but he didn't expect to be clever and generous. In the end, Shi Tao had already infiltrated Lichuan, Hubei Province with two famous paintings, and the way he carried the paintings was to disguise himself as a traveler and disguise the painting tube as a wrapped tent on his back. I suspect that Shi Tao's ultimate goal is to sell two famous paintings in order to obtain a high profit, so as to make up for his losses. ”

Lao Lu said solemnly and firmly: "Okay, I will immediately apply for a national wanted warrant to arrest Shi Tao!" ”