In the captain's office, Qiao Yifan was leaning on a chair and smoking with his back to the door, and Feng Shuo walked in with a man and a woman.

"Yo-ho, when did you learn to smoke?"

Qiao Yifan was startled, got up and hurriedly extinguished the cigarette and saluted Feng Shuo, and then said with a dry smile: "Feng Ju, why are you so elusive every time?" ”

"Because that's how you can see the real you!" Feng Shuo snorted and said, "Come, I'll introduce you to two people." As he spoke, he leaned sideways and let go of the two people behind him.

"These two are colleagues sent by the CZR to assist you in your investigation of these six homicides."

"Hello Team Joe!" The beauty on the right stretched out her hand to Qiao Yifan: "My name is Momo, it's nice to meet you!" ”

This woman is dressed in white casual clothes, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, tall and tall, although she is plain-faced, her facial features are extremely exquisite, and she has the charm of a mature woman, and she looks very capable.

Qiao Yifan hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook her: "Hello, Comrade Momo, welcome, welcome!" ”

Momo smiled slightly: "You're kind to Team Qiao." ”

After that, she introduced Qiao Yifan to the young man with a blank face next to her and said, "This is my colleague Hongyi!" ”

"Red?!" Qiao Yifan was a little surprised, and said in his heart What kind of department is this CZR, the names are so weird, are they all with names and no surnames? Or do you also use a codename? Then why did Guo Zhijian, who came last time, have a name and a surname?

Seeing Qiao Yifan in a daze, Momo seemed to see through his thoughts, smiled indifferently, and said, "Don't be surprised, this is the need of work!" We will only be able to announce our names when necessary when we have reached a certain position! ”

Hearing this, Qiao Yifan was taken aback: Hold the grass, how does she know what I'm thinking?!

"Oh, understood." Saying that, Qiao Yifan smiled again and stretched out his hand to the red clothes: "Welcome, comrade red clothes!" ”

Who knows, Hongyi didn't even raise his eyelids, and said coldly: "I'm not used to shaking hands with people!" ”

This was embarrassing, Qiao Yifan's hand immediately froze in mid-air, and he was in a dilemma. But before he could come back to his senses, the red clothes said again: "Also, please don't add 'comrade' after the salutation, I don't like it!" ”

"Team Qiao, please don't care, he is this virtue, the same for everyone, cold." Momo hurriedly played a round game.

"It's okay, I prefer casual people." Qiao Yifan withdrew his hand and used a dry laugh to hide his embarrassment.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was blazing. South of the city, next to the highway along the river.

On a hill on the west side near the estuary, Xiao Ling and the three of them were pulling around with a stick in their hands.

"Thirteen, this ghost local police have already searched through it, what else can we find out?" Wang Hui already saw sweat on his forehead, and complained: "We have been looking for more than two hours, and we haven't even found a single hair." Don't listen to the monk's nonsense! ”

"Except for eating, you know a fart!" Liu Can (Dong Yukun) glared at Wang Hui. "The same thing, different people, the result will be completely different! What the police didn't find, maybe we can find out! ”

Xiao Ling ignored the bickering between the two and continued to search carefully.

"Monk, it's not that I have an opinion. It's been a few days since this happened, and the police have even withdrawn the protection line, so with the three of us amateurs, can we be more powerful than the professionals? Wang Hui was obviously not convinced, and continued: "We have also seen the scene above, what did you find?" ”

"Don't you call yourself Li Yuanfang, you don't even have this patience, you are blind to this title!" Liu Can glanced at Wang Hui.

At this time, Xiao Ling had already walked into a half-human-high thatch.

"Hold the grass, thirteen, be careful, I heard that there are a lot of poisonous snakes on this mountain." Wang Hui immediately shouted.

"Are there any other animals on this mountain besides snakes?" Xiao Ling suddenly asked loudly, and then squatted down.

As soon as they heard this, Liu Can and Wang Hui immediately glanced at each other, and the two hurriedly rushed over. Before the two of them could squat down, Xiao Ling pointed to some traces in the grass and spoke: "What kind of animal footprints are these?" ”

I saw that there were a few strange footprints in the grass that had been pushed aside by Xiao Ling, because the thatch was relatively dense and could not be found carefully, fortunately, it had not rained in the past few days, otherwise these traces would have disappeared long ago.

The reason why it is strange is that it is the first time that all three have seen such footprints. It is about 30 centimeters long, and the toe part at the front end is very long, accounting for almost half of the length of the entire footprint, and there are five toes, each toe is in the shape of a thin strip, and the soil at the very front end of the footprint seems to have been cut open by a sharp object, which should be caused by the toe claw.

Judging from the distribution and shape of these footprints, it looks like they were caused by some kind of animal.

"Hold the grass, do we still have such a big lizard in this place?" Wang Hui could see it at a glance. "These footprints look like lizards!"

"Meat ball, look carefully, have you seen a lizard that walks on two legs?" Liu Can immediately retorted: "If you look at the shape of each pair of footprints, it is clearly completely consistent!" ”

"But as far as I know, we don't have such a huge animal in our area. Judging by these imprints, the weight of the thing was at least more than a hundred kilograms! Xiao Ling said slowly.

"It's not surprising, didn't there be a golden python that he raised last time and threw it into the mountains, I don't know how many people were frightened at the time!" Wang Hui said disappreciatively. "Some people just don't like to raise some weird things! Maybe this is another one who has no conscience, saw that the pet was too huge, and secretly threw it in the mountains. ”

Wang Hui's words are indeed very reasonable, because these things he said often appear in this city.

"The monk is right, it's not like a reptile like a lizard." Xiao Ling pointed to the imprints and the thatch that had been trampled on and said, "If it is crawling, these thatchs will fall down a large piece, and it will not be like now, as if it was wading over." And the exact consistency of each pair of footprints indicates that the thing is walking upright. ”

"Is this just a refinement?" Wang Hui rolled his eyes and retorted: "In "Animal World", aren't many lizards running on two legs! ”

"Besides, are even lizards these days?" Wang Hui added.

Hearing this, Xiao Ling frowned and said, "The little lizard does land with two feet when running, but it obviously can't do it with such a large size!" ”

"Have you noticed that these footprints are going in the direction of the road down the mountain, don't look forward anymore!" Liu Can said suddenly.

Xiao Ling and Wang Hui didn't speak again, continued to separate the grass with sticks, and followed the footprints all the way down the mountain.

But it didn't take long for the footprints to suddenly disappear, and a pair of shoe prints were replaced on the ground!

What's going on? Xiao Ling almost jumped up.

"Nima, it's getting more and more evil, can this lizard still change its shoes?" Wang Hui immediately muttered.

"Not necessarily! This may be a shoe print left by the police, which happened to be connected to these footprints! Liu Can said slowly.

"Didn't the cops find these footprints?" Xiao Ling was a little puzzled.

"The discovery must have been discovered, and in their opinion, the lizard would not run down the mountain to catch a beautiful woman! At least, I don't believe it! Wang Hui laughed.

"I don't think it can be ruled out that the murderer deliberately wore a pair of shoes that resemble lizard claws!" Liu Can said with a smile.

"It's a possibility, but it's not too big. A grown man's feet can't be smaller than fifteen centimeters! Xiao Ling sighed.

"Thirteen, I think we should not bother with this god, just go to that Qiao Yifan and ask if it is enough!" Wang Hui began to get a little impatient.

"Your office is the Public Security Bureau, and all the details of the criminal case are not known if you want to know." Xiao Ling glared at Wang Hui angrily.

Liu Can didn't answer immediately, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I have a way, I don't know if it's reliable or not." ”

"What's the solution?" Xiao Ling and Wang Hui glanced at each other, and a sense of surprise appeared on their faces.

"I have a friend who works with animals a lot, and he is said to know the language of beasts!" Liu Can looked at the two with a smile.

"Walter?!" The black line at Wang Hui's end. "What do you mean, let's catch some small animals from here and go back, and then torture them to extract confessions!"

But Xiao Ling was not surprised, and said indifferently: "What do you mean, there are animal witnesses here?" ”

"Hold the grass, animal witness, Lao Tzu has finally mastered a professional vocabulary!" Wang Hui laughed.

"The only difficulty is that there are so many animals here that it's impossible to know who the real witnesses are!" Xiao Ling is actually serious.

"Thirteen, do you have a fever?" As he spoke, Wang Hui reached out and touched Xiao Ling's forehead.

"Don't bother, I should be able to bring him here in the evening." Liu Can showed a meaningful smile at Xiao Ling. "But you've got to treat me to a big meal first!"

"Why?" Wang Hui glared.

"Because this friend is not easy to invite, I have to waste a lot of saliva!" Liu Can laughed and took the lead to walk down the mountain.

(End of chapter)