Chapter 232: Footprints and Bloodstains
It's late at night.
At this moment, it should be the time when people are sleeping soundly, but Luo Yi and Zheng Keke have not slept yet.
Glancing at Zheng Keke, who was still sitting in front of the dresser, Luo Yi put down the book in his hand and said with a smile: "Coco, rest early!" ”
"I haven't arranged my daughter's birthday party tomorrow, so you can sleep first." Zheng Keke didn't look back, and continued to write and draw on it.
"I can't sleep anyway, I'd better go to the lab and toss around and see what other clues I can find." Luo Yi stood up a little helplessly, shook his head with a wry smile.
"Go, if you can help the police find that demon one day earlier, one less girl will be victimized, I support you!" Zheng Keke turned his head and smiled at Luo Yi.
"Well, I'm also very stressed about this." Luo Yi nodded and continued: "Hurry up and sleep when you're done, don't let your girl see your panda eyes tomorrow!" ”
With that, Luo Yi walked out of the bedroom and entered the study.
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In the underground laboratory, Luo Yi did not go to the workshop, but walked straight to a safe.
Soon, he took out a rectangular box from the cupboard, and after taking out the handkerchief in his pocket and wiping it carefully, he carried it to a workbench.
Under the work lamp, the box was about 30 centimeters long, about 15 centimeters wide and thick, the style and shape were extremely simple, the material was rosewood, and the preservation was quite well, it can be inferred that it should have been placed in a container before it appeared.
The lid and body of the box are carved with nine dragons with teeth and claws, four on the lid and five on the body. Presumably the craftsmen who made it were highly skilled, the carved dragons not only came in a variety of forms, but also came to life as if they would suddenly fly off the box.
There is also a seal carved in the center of the lid.
Luo Yi has no interest in antiques and cultural relics, and of course he can't see what dynasty this box is. However, because of the needs of research, he has a deep knowledge of ancient writing.
On the lid of the box is the word 'Ji'.
The red sandalwood box is not locked, but the gap between the lid and the box body is completely sealed by a black substance, a bit like the fire paint used by the ancients!
After looking at it over and over for a while, Luo Yi found a tool knife and began to carefully remove the seal along the fire paint line.
A moment later, the box was opened: instead of gold, silver, jewelry, and antique jade, it contained stacks of bone fragments!
Luo Yi originally thought that this box was so well preserved, and the contents in it must be more valuable, not to mention, its origin was so strange and weird!
However, after seeing the contents of the box clearly, in addition to the accident, Luo Yi's face did not show disappointment, but more doubts and curiosity.
It's weird, that person exchanged his life for such a pile of garbage?! Luo Yi quickly frowned, he remembered what happened three days ago.
If there is anyone else who can distract Luo Yi, except for Hu Ling, I am afraid there is no second person in this world.
On the day when the results of the corpse came out, Luo Yi specially went to his and Hu Ling's secret residence, and also went to the Wutong community where Hu Ling's mother lived, as if all the evidence was telling him a fact: Hu Ling was dead!
Although Luo Yi had already left his anger, he was always restrained, he didn't want Hu Ling to die so inexplicably.
At the beginning, he was still suspicious of Zheng Keke, but as the investigation deepened, he found that although Zheng Keke had a motive, she had no conditions, saying that she was buying murder, and all her accounts were under Luo Yi's monitoring, and there was nothing unusual at all, not to mention, Zheng Keke never had the opportunity to meet Hu Ling at all, after all, there were too many women dating Luo Yi. Not to mention that Zheng Keke didn't care about him in the first place, the number of those people alone was enough to give her a headache.
Therefore, Luo Yi finally ruled out this possibility.
As the homicide case continued to happen and the police asked for help, his former colleague Zhao Dingyi finally appeared in front of Luo Yi, so he immediately decided that the person who killed Hu Ling was definitely Zhao Dingyi!
However, Luo Yi couldn't figure it out a little, even if the relationship between him and Hu Ling didn't even know the closest people around him, how did Zhao Dingyi know? Could it be that Zhao Dingyi secretly investigated and followed himself a long time ago?
And the actual situation shows that Zhao Dingyi is taking revenge on him in a planned way, so Luo Yi has confirmed this result.
Unlike Zhao Dingyi's brainlessness, Luo Yi is definitely a smart person, and he is not ordinary smart. He knew that Zhao Dingyi did have extremely high attainments in the field of research, but he was not a flexible person and liked to admit death, otherwise, he would not have lost his job because of a falling out with the leader Luo Yi.
To a certain extent, Luo Yi knows Zhao Dingyi very well, but Zhao Dingyi does not necessarily know Luo Yi! What's more, one is scheming, and the other is very rigid.
So, the outcome of many things is predestined from the beginning!
Now that you know who the real opponent is, and you also know the opponent, then, in addition to seeing the moves, the most important thing is of course to find the opponent's life, and then wait for the opportunity to defeat the enemy with one move!
Luo Yi and Hu Ling have only one fixed date place, since Zhao Dingyi knows Hu Ling's whereabouts, I believe he must have been to their secret residence, perhaps, Zhao Dingyi has left his flaws in this secret residence!
For Zhao Dingyi, Luo Yi didn't plan to do it himself from the beginning, after all, if he could let others do it for him, it was actually the stupidest thing.
At least, that's what Luo Yi thinks.
The liquid that the police asked him to study was actually one of the evidence that Zhao Dingyi gave himself, but this was far from enough, Luo Yi also needed more direct evidence!
So he went to his secret abode again. In Luo Yi's opinion, this place is not yet the time for him to make it public, and he wants to crucify Zhao Dingyi to death together with the other evidence in his hand at the most critical time, and there will be no day to turn over!
Luo Yi looked very carefully, not only inside the house, but even within two hundred meters outside the house, he was unwilling to let go of an inch. This not only requires careful observation, but also has to have enough patience, it is absolutely difficult to change to an ordinary person, but in Luo Yi's eyes, it is very ordinary!
Of course, this kind of work is both physically and time-consuming, from nine o'clock in the morning to half past three in the afternoon, except for drinking some water, Luo Yi did not eat anything. However, his efforts were not in vain.
In a patch of grass less than fifty meters behind the house, he made a major discovery.
The house is located on the halfway of the hill, and this hill was rented by Luo Yi in the name of his friend, saying that it was used to develop a flower and wood farm, although from the day it was rented, Luo Yi did nothing, but the money given to the village every year was not a lot, and later, he also paid the rent for five years in one go, so even if it has been idle there, the villagers have no objection - there are not many people in this world who can't get along with money after all!
Luo Yi's discovery was in a small mass of thorns, perhaps because of its small size, it was submerged in leg-length thatch, and it was indeed extremely difficult to find it until you looked closely, so it was easy for people who passed by here and did not know what to do.
Obviously, someone has already been tricked.
Not only did the thorn bush and the softer soil around it leave some clear footprints, but there were also many blood stains on the thorns of the thorns and some thatch leaves!