Looking in the direction of his finger, between the two stones, a cigarette butt was discarded on the ground, and Robin took it out with tweezers, looked at it a few times, and put it in the evidence bag.

He handed the loaded cigarette butt to Yang Zi and raised his chin: "Team Yang, this cigarette butt must be related to the case." ”

Yang Zi held the cigarette butt in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, he saw clearly that it was the cigarette butt of a 555 brand cigarette, he pulled the corners of his mouth and laughed silently, and said to Robin approvingly: "Well, it seems that today's trip has gained a lot." Hey, I said Robin, why didn't I find out about you before, I knew that there was a case, why did I have to drag you up, a top trick can save me a lot of trouble. “

"Hehe, Team Yang, don't fool me, who doesn't know that you are the best at finding suspicious clues from the scene, I am just doing this business, I will definitely observe these things more."

He paused and said: "Some time ago, I had something at home, I went on vacation, and I didn't just return to the team, hehe, if there is any case I can help in the future, you just speak." ”

When they found this cigarette butt, both of them felt refreshed and confident, and they couldn't take a break, so they packed up their things and continued to walk on the path to the cliff on the right.

The upward part of the road is a hundred times more difficult to walk than the road below, there has been no one to walk for a long time, and some parts of the path have been covered with thick bushes and weeds, and every step requires a small struggle with these obstacles that can hinder your footsteps at any time.

However, for Yang Zi and Robin, the more places like this the more excited they became, because the less people walked around, the better it was for the protection of the site.

Sure enough, after only walking a dozen steps, they found that there were traces of torn clothes in the bushes, and a thin clothing fiber hung on a low bush.

After collecting the fibers of the clothes into the evidence bag and taking a closer look at the surroundings, the two continued to climb to the top of the mountain.

Now the road is more difficult to walk, and Robin and Yang Zi's trouser legs have been harassed by thorns, but they are pleased to find that the footprints on the road are clearly visible in many places, and it is easy to extract the complete footprints without much difficulty.

After walking for a while, Robin was once again attracted by a plant that grew in the cracks, this is a dwarf sea buckthorn, which is rare in Central China such as S City, I don't know why there is a plant growing here, and in this rare deep mountain forest, it still grows very luxuriantly.

The sea buckthorn plant had already produced small yellow fruits, but what Robin noticed was not its juicy, nutritious fruit, but a new fracture in the branch of the sea buckthorn tree, and it was so flat and smooth that it was caused by a sharp blade.

In the bushes around the sea buckthorn tree, some sea buckthorn fruits are scattered, and in front of the tree there is a pair of deep male shoe prints, exactly the same as those of the C rubbing.

In addition, the careful Robin also found that there were a few dried blood stains on the side of the shoe print, which were dripping, and he exchanged a silent gaze with Yang Zi, first carefully collected the blood stains, and then took pictures of the broken wound with a camera before and after.

Continue to walk further, not far away to see the cut off sea buckthorn branches, the fruit on it has been picked clean, Yang Zi picked up the broken branches, but did not extract any fingerprints on it, but found that there are blood stains on it, and found that there are many sharp thorns on the broken branches, and on the largest of them, it was found that it was stained with blood.

This is really a very valuable clue, inferred from these traces, the suspect walked here, found that there was actually a sea buckthorn fruit, probably out of greed, ready to pick, but unexpectedly injured his finger by the sharp thorns growing on the sea buckthorn tree.

He took out the sharp blade he carried with him, cut off the sea buckthorn branches, picked food as he walked, and discarded the useless branches after eating, but he didn't know that it was this small sea buckthorn fruit that allowed Yang Zi and them to obtain a lot of information about themselves.

Robin, who was following Yang Zi, looked at the broken branch, pointed to the broken place and said to Yang Zi: "Go back and analyze it, you can know what kind of sharp weapon this kid used." ”

Searching for suspicious traces all the way, more than three hours passed unconsciously, and finally Yang Zi and Robin finally reached the top of Choke Horse Mountain.

A cold wind blew, which made people shudder involuntarily, and they didn't care about resting, let alone feeling the scenery on the top of the mountain, and the two of them immediately surveyed the surroundings.

Perhaps there was basically no one to come up, so the site here is very well protected, and the footprints on the ground can be clearly seen with the naked eye, and they mark them one by one according to the direction of the footprints, and judge the situation while taking pictures.

There is a line of the heaviest footprints from here all the way to the cliff, this line of footprints is very clear, each footstep stayed on the ground for a long time, deep into the ground, the soil in the middle of the footprints was trampled down, the soil on the side was slightly raised.

Robin took out a tape measure and measured it, and said to Yang Zi with a gesture: "The owner of these footprints should be Xu Zhanfei, he has no strength to walk here, it is estimated that he stopped walking for a long time, there is no trace of a fight here, could it be that he jumped off by himself under the coercion of the suspect?" ”

Yang Zi didn't answer him, and he was carefully looking at the five or six square places on the top of the mountain, wanting to find more clues.

But this time they didn't find anything else except footprints, and after more than half an hour of inspection, after confirming that nothing was missing, Yang Zi and Robin simulated it on the spot, only to see that one of them pretended to be Xu Zhanfei and the other pretended to be a criminal.

Robin pretended to be a criminal, pretended to have a knife in his hand with his fingers, and gestured to let Yang Zi jump down the cliff by himself, Yang Zi pretended to be Xu Zhanfei and refused to jump.

The two of them compared for a long time and didn't understand why Xu Zhanfei jumped down obediently according to the suspect's intentions, and did not find any traces at the scene that could indicate that there was a fight at that time.

After thinking for a long time to no avail, the sky was slowly darkening, looking at the sun that was about to set, Yang Zi decisively said to Robin: "Robin, let's get here today, let's go back first, analyze the physical evidence found one by one and get the results." As for why Xu Zhanfei jumped off the cliff by himself at that time, as long as the suspect was caught, this problem would be solved. ”

Robin agreed, and the two of them turned back to the bottom of the choke mountain. Along the way, Yang Zi was thinking about this case repeatedly, and now it can be confirmed that the kidnapping of Xu Zhanfei is a man and a woman, the male is more than 1.78 meters tall, and the female is more than 1.6 meters tall.

This can be seen from the fact that they were so bold that they escorted Xu Zhanfei here, and also took him to climb to the top of Choke Horse Mountain, and stopped more than twice on the way, and it is known that one was at the well, not only resting, but also smoking more than one cigarette, the evidence is the 555 brand cigarette butt.

Another time was in front of the sea buckthorn tree, the male suspect seemed to be in a good mood, and he also had the leisure to cut sea buckthorn fruit and taste it, what do these two things mean?

Yang Zi laboriously walked on the path with the severed branch of the sea buckthorn that had been cut down, and he had to deal with the unrecognizable road under his feet, and pay attention to get rid of the entanglement of enthusiastic bushes and weeds, not to mention how embarrassed it was.

Looking at the Robin next to him is no better than him, he is also panting and barely supporting, the huge toolkit is carried on his slightly thin body, and the whole person looks crumbling, so that Yang Ziping pinched the cold sweat for him, for fear that if a careless Robin will fall and fall down the mountain.

After returning to the bureau, Robin took the clothing fibers and sea buckthorn broken branches to his office, and Yang Zi prepared to send the bloody paper towels and 555 brand cigarette butts to Lao Zhang to extract DNA samples for comparison.

Lao Zhang was not in the office, and the door was locked, Yang Zi realized that it was already more than seven o'clock in the evening, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, doing criminal investigation work is like this, when you are busy, you forget the time, overtime is a common thing, and sometimes you can't even take care of eating.

Early the next morning, Yang Zi came to Lao Zhang's office again, and at Lao Zhang's place, Yang Zi heard an unexpected news, even if Xu Zhanfei could successfully escape the shackles of the kidnappers this time and not die in this incident, he would not live long.

"Huh? Lao Zhang, what did you say? Really? Yang Zi was shocked by the news for a while, but seeing Lao Zhang's serious expression, Yang Zi knew that with Lao Zhang's experience, his judgment would never be wrong.

"So that's ......" Yang Zi muttered to himself in his heart, he finally knew why Xu Zhanfei jumped off the top of the cliff by himself, he must have known this result a long time ago, sooner or later he will die, and choosing to cooperate obediently in front of the kidnappers should be a lot less suffering.

At this moment, Yang Zi's mobile phone rang, and when he opened it, it was Xiaopang calling: "Team Yang, we have basically mastered the materials of Zhanfei Group, including Xu Zhanfei's family history, and the situation here is quite complicated." ”

"Okay, you bring all the information back immediately, and we will start the next step immediately, as for the Xu family, we should still act according to the original plan, don't startle the snake, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble." After Yang Zi heard Xiaopang's report clearly, he put down the phone after making some arrangements for the work in the short term.

After listening to Xiaopang's words, Yang Zi keenly felt that this malicious kidnapping and murder accident was like the tip of the iceberg covering up the truth, and with the efforts of himself and his colleagues and brothers in the team and the bureau, the true face of Lushan would soon be revealed.