At present, there is no forensic doctor in this house, and there are no medical personnel who can make a preliminary judgment on the condition of the corpse, so the corpse can only be judged and examined by several criminal police officers in turn.

Liu Qiaopu has much more experience than Xie Yunmeng and Mei Xiaoxiao, at least in his decades of criminal police career, there are not a few forensic doctors who have cooperated with him to solve cases. Now, he mustered himself together and rushed to the basement of the ruins with Mei Xiaoxiao.

Of course, they took the secret passage inside the house, which used to save a lot of time compared to the outside, and it was also convenient for Liu Qiao Pu to familiarize himself with the route of the rock cave.

When the two of them arrived in the basement, it was already seven o'clock in the morning on December 31, and Mei Xiaoxiao was also tired for a day and a night, and had not rested properly.

Stopped, Liu Qiaopu said to Mei Xiao: "Xiaoxiao, we can already see the entrance to the basement, or you go back to Xiaomeng to sleep for a while, if you go on like this, you will not be able to bear it." ”

"But, teacher, I'm worried that Yan Muheng will be unfavorable to you, and we have no way of determining which side he is on right now. The previous investigation was incomplete at all, and it was me and Xiaomeng who were careless. ”

"It doesn't matter, even if he is the murderer, he will not do anything to me, otherwise, the murderer did yesterday would be superfluous. Didn't he frame me and Xiaomeng just to hide his identity? You can go back with confidence, wait for the clues, and I'll bring that kid back with me. ”

Liu Qiao Pu said very easily, he didn't want to worry too much about himself, the policewoman needed to rest well and keep her brain clear.

Waiting for Mei Xiaoxiao to nod in agreement, Liu Qiaopu walked a few steps in the direction of the basement, he did not go in directly, but took a look inside the basement, and after making sure that no one was lying on the edge of the wooden board to listen to their words, he returned to Mei Xiaoxiao's side and whispered: "You go back first, go to the room where Xiao Yao fell asleep just now, and then ......"

The old man's words were hidden in the ears of the little one, and after the policewoman listened to it, her eyes suddenly lit up and asked; "Really?"

"Shhhh This matter is determined by Xiao Yao, he didn't sleep at all in the second half of the night, don't alarm the others, after the notification, go back and stay with Xiao Meng, wait for me to come over, as for Yan Muheng, I will send him a new task. ”

In the cold corridor, Mei Xiao walked briskly, and she had to let someone's shadow return to Liuqiaopu before she turned around.

Fortunately, the goal is clear, and action can also be done with half the effort. Mei Xiaoxiao pushed open the door in front of him with great force, and pulled the person lying inside violently, and the person looked at the policewoman with a frightened look in an instant.

"I don't have time to explain more, come with me." After the policewoman finished speaking, she took the huddled human body into another space behind the corridor.

After about a moment, the figure of another girl suddenly rushed out of the place where she had disappeared and rushed in the direction where she had come, as if she was anxious about something, and the expression on her face was full of fear.

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Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng sat in the corner, at this moment, several boys in the house had already gone downstairs to freshen up, they divided everyone into two groups, the first group was men, they were a little bolder.

While the men were leaving, Yun Yeyao was in charge of guarding the remaining women in the room, and Xie Yunmeng needed to seize every minute of rest. Yun Yeyao looked at the tired side face of the criminal policeman, and gently moved closer to his shoulder. Although people have not been touched, it is at least a comfort to Yun Yeyao.

I once again remembered the scene when Xie Yunmeng rescued Yun Haizuo from the tree when I was a child, how much Xiao Zuo valued him at that time, and Xiao Meng was also very kind to him, and wanted to become good friends with him when they met him for the first time.

If Xiao Zuo hadn't resolutely taken me away at that time, maybe we could have become confidants at that time. Yun Yeyao thought about it, and his head unconsciously leaned over to Xie Yunmeng's side a little more.

These few invisible subtle movements attracted Wen Manman's attention, and the smart little girl had noticed Yun Yeyao's feelings from the beginning, and now she looked at Mr. Actor with a kind of pity, and said, "Mr. Yun, he only treats you as a friend." ”

“…… I know, I think of him as a friend. ”

When Liu Qiaopu saw Yan Muheng, he was not angry, but asked lightly: "Have you found any traces of the murderer?"

Yan Muheng had just come down from the ladder at the moment, and he hadn't stood firm yet, when he heard the old man ask, he didn't know how to exit the explanation he had thought of, and he was stunned in place.

He thought that according to the temper of this old criminal policeman, he would definitely say a bunch of questioning words, but now, he actually directly gave himself a high-sounding reason, so that Yan Muheng didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

Liu Qiaopu was not in a hurry, squatting next to the corpse to check and inspect himself, waiting for Yan Muheng's answer.

After a while, Yan Muheng finally came back to his senses and said, "Grandpa Liu, I haven't found any clues, and I've been to the cave in the rocky ground, but there are no footprints or bloodstains. ”

"This is normal, come here, do you still have battery on your phone?" Yanagihashi asked.

"No, you want to take pictures, right?"

Yan Muheng walked up to Liu Qiaopu and squatted down like him. Yan Muheng's body was almost as tall as Xie Yunmeng, so after squatting, he blocked most of Liuqiao Pu's people.

"What do you think about the bloodstains?" Liu Qiaopu continued to ask questions as if he was deliberately trying to guide Yan Muheng to discover the clues of the deceased today.

"I ...... I don't see anything out of the ordinary......"

"Let's talk about it, it's not a police question, I'm just discussing with you, no matter what comes to mind, you can tell the truth."

"Hmm... It's a matter of blood, I think Mr. Chef ......."

As soon as Yan Muheng said the beginning, Liu Qiaopu interrupted him and said, "Can you be sure that the deceased is Mr. Chef?" I remember the restaurant chef we saw on the day of the avalanche as if he was not quite the same as the deceased. ”

"Grandpa Liu, your memory is really good, when the chef usually works in the restaurant, he is not forced to do so, he will not appear in front of the guests, the avalanche that day is too dangerous, Mr. Chef has to help together, I originally thought that no one noticed him!"

"Go ahead." Liu Qiaopu wrapped his fingers in a handkerchief and turned over the deceased's face, and while checking, he motioned for Yan Muheng to continue.

Yan Muheng waited for Liu Qiaopu to continue, and he was full of doubts about the sentence 'The people in the house are not everyone'.

If Yanagihashi Pu said, 'Not all the people in the house are together. Or, 'Not everyone in the room.'" That's much easier to understand, because the meaning of these two sentences is very clear, that is, there are still fish in the house that have slipped through the net, and they are people that the criminal police can think of.

But now, what does the phrase 'not everyone' mean? In the end, everyone is there, but some people don't count; Or does it mean that someone is not in the house?

Yan Muheng didn't dare to ask, afraid that he would say something that he shouldn't say, so that Liu Qiaopu would grab the handle, in this extraordinary period, whether it is a murderer or not, everyone needs to be cautious in their words and deeds, right?

Liu Qiaopu was not in a hurry, he was determined to remember the appearance of the footprints, and then straightened his back before explaining to Yan Muheng: "Someone sneaked out in the middle of the night in the house, although we are not sure who that person is?" It is not known how he slipped out, but in this way, the people in the house may also have sinned. ”

"Oh, that's why you say it's not everyone, you mean everyone is there, but someone is sneaking up, right? But how did you find out? Yan Muheng asked.

"I can't tell you how we found that now, but I mean, the people in the house are also suspicious, and, most likely, the person who got the footprints is not the murderer at all."

"Why?"

"In the middle of the night, someone sneaked in someone else's shoes at the entrance and killed the cook. You think, the people in the room were all wearing slippers, and these two footprints were obviously left by the man's leather shoes. When the murderer is in action, he can go to the door and put on someone else's shoes first, and then sneak into the basement of the ruins to kill people. ”

As for the route he chose, it was supposed to be through the secret passages and rocky caves in the house. First, the house was full of wooden floors, and if you wiped the soles of your shoes, you wouldn't be able to leave footprints. Second, if he walked around the ruins from the outside, not only would it take a long time to clean up the footprints, but after entering the basement, the snowflakes on his clothes would melt and drip to the ground to form water stains. ”

"You may still not understand when I say this, but if you look closely at the footprints in front of you, what are the characteristics?" Liu Qiaopu said, pointing to the footprints under the corpse.

"That makes the chef and the butler even more confusing." Liu Qiaopu continued: "But the murderer didn't expect that you and Xiaoxiao would temporarily decide to return with Xixi and make peace with us. And it was precisely the path he chose to commit murder. ”

"This caught the murderer off guard, and when you entered the ruins, he may still be there, and when he heard footsteps outside, he quickly left the cave in the rock."

When Liu Qiaopu said this, Yan Muheng asked: "But, doesn't the murderer still have to eliminate the footprints?" If he had just fled when we entered the ruins, wouldn't that be too time-sensitive? ”

Liu Qiaopu stood up, he walked to the edge of the wall and asked Yan Muheng: "Put aside the question of footprints and time, do you feel that the air here is much drier than in the rock cave?" ”

"yes!" Yan Muheng didn't understand why the old man suddenly mentioned the matter of air and walls. He looked at Liu Qiaopu a little stupidly, waiting for him to continue.

Liu Qiaopu pointed to the crack on the wall with his finger and said to Yan Muheng: "Come here, pick it with your fingers and see, what's in here?" ”

Yan Muheng immediately walked over, he put a finger into the crack, picked it hard, and then retracted it, and found that the nails were all gray-black, that is, like dirt and powder. Yan Muheng looked at it carefully, and then suddenly realized and said, "This is sand? ”

"Yes, it's sand, someone recently buried the sand between the wooden walls and the rocks, the sand absorbs water very well, and the water vapor emitted from the rocky holes is absorbed by the sand, so it will be extremely dry here."

"But how do you know that the sand has recently been filled in?"

"If you look closely, the sand on your fingers is already very wet, and it won't be long before the moisture returns here. The sand absorbs water temporarily, and when the water is sufficient, the entire wooden wall will be damp or even rot. ”

"So, the killer couldn't have buried the sand in it a long time ago. It seems to me that it is not only the people in this house who can do this, but also the people on the periphery, and there is no lock on the entrance and exit cover of the basement, so anyone who knows how to enter can bring sand and dirt here. ”

Yan Muheng hugged his shoulders, stood a little stunned and asked, "Grandpa Liu, is it really necessary to bring that kind of thing in?" Yan Muheng felt that the chickens in the food warehouse, in addition to being made into food, were useless to bring to the house, and they would also cause panic among the survivors.

Yan Muheng didn't want to hide his true thoughts from Liu Qiaopu, so he simply said all of them, and after listening, Liu Qiaopu said: "Those things really have no substantive meaning, and we don't want to use them to intimidate anyone, we just need an autopsy." ”

Liu Qiaopu's words sounded like a joke, Yan Muheng looked at the old criminal policeman with wide eyes, and he almost blurted out: "What are you kidding?!" Such rude words.

After holding it for a long time, Yan Muheng asked, "Grandpa Liu, do you want to examine the carcasses of those chickens?" ”

"Yes, in order to compare something obtained at the scene of the murder, and also to get the key evidence at the time of Meng Qi'er's death."

"But I still don't understand at all!"

"Time is running out now, and I can't explain everything to you in detail, so you and I have to act quickly and take away the things left in the food warehouse before the murderer destroys the evidence. Now, it's impossible for the killer to turn his attention to you, so it's easier for you to act."

Obviously, Liu Qiaopu didn't want to tell Yan Muheng all the results they deduced, he needed to leave key things behind, so that the young man in front of him could not be fathomed, so that he could not guess how much information they had about the murderer? Those chickens were indeed the key to two homicides.

One of them was the death of a middle-aged woman in a brown tower; The other is the death of Meng Qi'er, who was preparing to frame Xie Yunmeng. There is a certain key piece of evidence in both incidents, and it is very important for the criminal police to get corroboration from those chickens.

The first time they searched for the restaurant proprietress in the periphery, Xie Yunmeng and Yun Yeyao didn't look closely at the chickens, but found that they had been drained of blood, and now, after so many homicides, Yun Yeyao and Liuqiao Pu realized that blood was not the key, it was just a cover to hide the real key.

Under the dim light, the small square space is like a cage that people can't get out of, and the doors in the front and back of the room are not locked, but Shu Xue still feels a breathless restraint in it.

She loves the owner of this family, not only because the owner of this family has taken care of her wholeheartedly before, but also because Shu Xue can realize the connection between the same blood.

She came here with someone first, and the person who protected her would be outside for her to block all possible suspicions, as well as those people and things that were not good for her, and Shu Xue just had to hide herself.

With mechanical movements in her hands, Shu Xue didn't know when she would be able to finish her work. The clothes on her body were exactly the same as someone's, and they were already soaked in dots of dark liquid, no matter how careful Shu Xue was, she still couldn't avoid soiling her clothes.

After more than an hour, Shu Xue didn't bother to care about these details. He just wanted to finish the task quickly, get out of this suffocating place quickly, the door behind him opened a crack, and the cold wind kept blowing on Shu Xue's thin back, but the cold in the air was almost nothing compared to the chill emanating from inside her body.

didn't notice that the people who were talking outside had secretly come back to see her a few times, Shu Xue was still engrossed in her thoughts, when was the other girl coming? She is so similar to herself, but completely different.

Shu Xue has no way to explain the problem revealed by the pair of antonyms of similarity and difference, but as long as she understands it in her own heart, in fact, she doesn't need to explain it to others.

The time was almost close to one o'clock in the afternoon, and there was a foul smell on the ground of the space where Shu Xue was, including herself, and finally finished her work, Shu Xue stood up after throwing the last thing in her hand to the ground.

At this time, the clean clothes were already on the side, and she was also preparing to return to the place where she had been hiding after the avalanche, where there was a kind couple who were helping Shu Xue and someone she had loved before, but now she could no longer love.

"Alas!" Sighing lightly the turbidity in her heart, Shu Xue sighed for the blood veins that she didn't know whether she should be happy or disgusted. When she was young, she never thought that there was anything wrong with her bloodline, but now, Shu Xue began to waver.

Liuqiao Puzhi walked away Yan Muheng and returned to the cave in the rock alone, at this moment, the person who should be waiting for him here had already arrived, it was a girl who was not very beautiful, but she was very good at makeup like Xiaoxiao.

Seeing the person in front of her, Yanagihashi Pu was still taken aback, not only because of her appearance when she saw it in the blue tower room, but also because of her somewhat disapproving eyes.

Liu Qiaopu stood still, waited for a few minutes, and waited until the footsteps of Yan Muheng leaving in the basement could no longer be heard before he spoke: "Did Xiaoxiao tell you about that incident?" ”

"I said, but I'm not sure I can do it well, maybe I'm the same as Yan Muheng, why do you still ask Xiaoxiao to come to me?" The girl asked the question back, but there was not the slightest doubt on her face.

Yanagihashi Pu walked up to her and said, "I believe that you are kind, and I believe that you have the ability to control. ”

"Grandpa Liu, to be honest, I am not as confident as you, some things are irreversible, just like Anze at the beginning, but I will try my best, if things change again, then please arrest me without hesitation!" The girl replied in a very frank voice, as if she were saying something that had nothing to do with her.

Liu Qiao Pu sighed in his heart, and he said, "You must disappear, disappear with the people we arranged for you." I'm not sure if what Xiao Yao said is the truth, after all, even I haven't encountered anything like this before, everything is still in speculation, including yours. ”

"When Xiao Yao first had this idea, it should have originated from Shu Xue's death in front of me, there will always be a flaw in the weirdness, but this flaw itself is full of unreality." Liu Qiaopu continued: "Anyway, you have to be careful with yourself, and if you find any changes, you must notify each other in time, regardless of whether there is a hostess in this house?" Is the killer what we guess he is? Both of you must return safely. ”

"I know, and I'll do everything I can to protect him, as long as the 'ghost' hiding in the Night Forest doesn't take me away......," the girl said, gesturing her hand above her head, her eyes showing sincerity.

And in front of her, Liu Qiao Pu, there was more uncertainty and doubt in his eyes, indeed, when Yun Ye Yao secretly said his thoughts, Liu Qiao Pu was shocked almost from beginning to end, without any other emotions.

If these words came from Xie Yunmeng and Mei Xiaoxiao's mouth, maybe Liu Qiaopu's trust would be higher, but when he said it from Yun Yeyao's mouth, he felt as if he was listening to an unimaginative suspense story.

Lian Fan, Qin Sen, Qiao Keli and Lu Haoyu were all crowded in the entertainment room of the main house, just now Qiao Keli came out of the bathroom and replaced Lu Haoyu to enter, he did not talk to Lian Fan and Qin Sen, but went straight to the inside of the tower.

It's not that Qiao Keli felt that they were all murder suspects and deliberately alienated them, but because his mind was all on the few people who solved the case, and Qiao Keli himself had Xie Yunmeng and the case that happened before he came.

It was also a murder, and it was closely related to Chokley himself, and with so much going on in the treacherous house now, he couldn't feel at ease anyway, and just wanted to stay with the detectives and get the latest news.

The murder case outdoors, Qiao Keli kept thinking that Yan Muheng himself should know more than him, but when the police asked for verification, there were some key issues, but Yan Muheng took an evasive and ambiguous attitude.

If he didn't speak, Chokley naturally couldn't speak, because those things were all connected to the treacherous house, and they had a lot to do with Sissy and the young man who was still lying in bed today.

Qiao Keli has been thinking about using an appropriate way to tell the police what Yan Muheng has avoided, and his question is, how to say it so that he will not be suspected by the police, and he can explain the matter completely?

Qiao Keli thought as he walked, among the peripheral matters, only Yan Muheng knew the testimony related to the treacherous house, even if he said the doubts in his heart, at most he could only knock on the side, and in the end, Yan Muheng had to narrate it completely.