After breaking up with the two women, I visited other people in the village, but I didn't get any more useful information, so I returned the key to Li Geng's mother first.

After that, I still went out of the mountain from the same road that Li Shan took me yesterday.

First, the road is closer to the main highway, and second, I want to stop by and take a look at the sawmill as I pass by.

I didn't think there would be any other important discoveries, it was just a passing move.

But when I approached Li Geng's house and peeked in through the window, I vaguely saw a shadow flickering inside.

Unfortunately, the glass was reflective, and the inside of the room was definitely darker than the outside, so I couldn't see it clearly.

But I immediately thought that there was a child who said that his third aunt was passing by here and saw a female ghost inside through the window.

In fact, I would have walked over and looked at it, and it had something to do with what the kid had mentioned.

So I didn't hesitate to find the Swiss Army knife, use the locksmith to open the lock on the door again, and then push the door open and enter.

The house was empty.

However, on the ground in the middle of the guest hall, a tattered women's mid-heeled shoe was tilted.

I'm 100% sure that when I left this morning, there was nothing on the hall floor, and who put these women's shoes here?

I stepped forward and picked up the shoe.

It was a red shoe, and because of the moisture, the whole shoe had become moldy and rotten, and it smelled bad.

And the upper, the sole, and the inside of the shoe were covered with a lot of dirt, as if they had just been dug out of the soil.

Even though I've been through a lot of horrible things, I still feel like the owner of these shoes is staring at me somewhere.

I subconsciously looked around, and then looked at the big bedroom and the small bedroom in front of me, and made sure that the two houses were empty and clean.

Then I walked to the little bedroom with a pile of rotten wood, opened the door, and looked inside.

Because this bedroom is very narrow, in order to save space inside, the door is not pushed in, but pulled out.

But there were no windows or electric lights in the room—or the lights were broken, and it was still very dark in broad daylight anyway.

There was also a room full of rotten wood, piled up in a mess, and I tried to go in and investigate, but I couldn't find a place to put my feet.

Only the smell of decay and mildew came to my nose, and I suddenly had a thought: If Li Geng really killed someone, would he bury the body in this house?

He was piling up wood in this house, could he be deliberately preventing others from entering the house to investigate?

But this thought flashed through my mind and was quickly overturned by myself.

First of all, 100% of these woods were moved in later, and it was impossible for Li Geng to pile up rotten wood in this room when he was still living here.

Even if Li Gengken is willing to do so, Huang Lili will not agree.

Secondly, there are places in the ravine where corpses are thrown away, and Li Geng has no need to kill people by himself and bury them in his own home.

As for whether it would be Li Geng who killed someone after moving away, and then buried the body in the room, it is even less likely.

Because Li Geng's half of his palm is gone, even if he can kill someone, it is difficult to dig up the ground and bury the corpse, and he has moved in so much rotten wood.

What's more, these rotten woods are basically "three hundred taels of silver here", and everyone in Lijia Village said that Li Geng was smart and capable, and would never do such a stupid thing.

However, since this thought came to me, I still decided that after I went to meet Li Geng's son, if I could confirm that Li Geng's had indeed killed someone, then this house would be the first place I should check.

I found the rotten women's shoes in a bag and stuffed them into my backpack.

After that, I opened the back door, applied the lock technique, and went into the kitchen to take a look.

The kitchen was also empty, except for the stove, and even the cutting boards had been removed.

In other words, the only thing in question about the whole house is the small dark room full of rotten wood.

I re-locked the kitchen door and latched the back door.

After glancing in a few more rooms, he went out, still locking the front door with an iron lock.

After that, I went to the highway and waited for the passing bus, and first took the car to the county seat of Lingxian County.

Before it was dark, I found a courier company and sent the small glass bottle and the rotten women's shoes to a high-end laboratory in Linnan City.

- I would like to explain here that I am a native of Linnan City, and Lingxian County belongs to Linnan City.

It just so happened that I had a buddy who, after graduating from Linnan University of Science and Technology, went directly to the university's affiliated laboratory as a researcher. So if I want to test anything, I will directly hand it over to my buddy to help.

Of course, it can't be completely free, but a discount is certainly inevitable.

This buddy's surname is Yang, and his name is Yang Shuang.

And when I dialed the phone and told Yang Shuang that something was sent to him, Yang Shuang asked me with a smile over there: "What strange things did you send this time?" It won't involve any gods, right? ”

He knew who I was, and sometimes he envied me for having such a stimulating and very well-paying job.

As soon as I told the small glass bottle and the rotten women's shoes, Yang Shuang agreed, and said: "There is no other business in the laboratory in the past two days, and as soon as I receive these two things tomorrow, I will identify them as soon as possible!" ”

I thanked him, bought a train ticket from my phone, and got on the train that night to a small county town where the little boy who kidnapped his sister lived.

That small county town is called Fanxian, and there is only one trip between it and Ling County.

However, because it was a sleeper, I didn't feel very sleepy when I arrived early the next morning, so I went directly to the child's adoptive parents' house.

The kid's current name is Fan Yaoqiang. The child's adoptive father is named Fan Shuwei.

The door of Fan's house was locked, and according to neighbors on the left and right, Fan Shuwei and his wife opened a small supermarket, which was right next to the community.

I didn't rush to the small supermarket immediately, but asked the neighbors about Fan Yaoqiang's situation.

It's a pity that in the city, there are many people who don't know each other, so they haven't been able to ask for any useful information.

I had to go to the intersection to find a small supermarket.

In the middle of the morning, there were no customers in the supermarket, a man and a woman were counting the shelves, thinking that it was Fan Shuwei and his wife.

I asked, "Which one is Master Fan?" ”

The man immediately replied, "I am," while looking me up and down.

I showed my ID and said I wanted to ask about their son.

Fan Shuwei was more careful, took my documents over and took a closer look.

The document did not indicate the word "supernatural", and several Chinese words read "investigator of difficult cases."

In addition, it is available in English, French, Arabic and other languages, and is stamped with an Interpol official seal.

Although Fan Shuwei couldn't recognize the weight of that official seal, the delicacy and high-end of this document still made him full of apprehension, and said: "How can there be several foreign languages here!" Wouldn't our son's incident still alarm foreigners? ”

I laughed dumbly.

However, this is not the first time I have encountered such a situation, so I immediately explained, "Do you think I look like a foreigner?" Don't worry, I'm Chinese, and I'm from Lingxian. Your son's matter is a bit strange, but he is a child after all, and if the official police officer investigates in depth, I am afraid that it will affect his life and learning, so I took over this case. ”

I spoke as if I hadn't told a single lie.

But Fan Shuwei immediately became alert and asked me: "What do you mean, you are not a formal police officer?" ”

"I'm not!" I shook my head, "But if you want the regular police officers to continue the investigation, then I can hand this case back to the Lingcheng police!" ”

Fan Shuwei was frightened by me, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

The woman next to her hurriedly spoke and said, "Since the comrade is here, just ask if you have any questions!" Merely...... What's so weird? To be strong and not to see what about the girl in the Li family, what else is there to check? ”

"Actually, it's not a big problem, I just want to meet Fan Yaoqiang and verify one or two things!" I say, try to be relaxed and natural.

"He's in school right now, and he won't even be back at noon!" The woman said, looking at me with a little pleading, "I beg you, comrade, no one here knows about this, and you must not spread it to their school, or he will not be able to stay in the school!" ”

"I understand! As I just said, the child is still young, and the reason why I took over the investigation is to avoid affecting the child's life and learning! I said, very sincere and caring.

The woman was very grateful, and hurriedly opened a can of drink and handed it to me.

I didn't excuse myself, took the drink and took a sip, and then chatted with them very casually about Fan Yaoqiang's usual temperament.

(See Chapter 008 "Kill Me")