When I arrived in Ping'an Town, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was drizzling at this time. When he went back, Lin Keren was waiting in the office, and Zhang Tianyi greeted the two and went straight to the scene of the crime.

"How's it going?" Zhang Tianyi in the car took a sip of water and asked. Lin Keren shook his head and said, "I'm not optimistic." However, as you might have guessed, and the modus operandi of the previous two attempts, the missing limbs of the two deceased were mutilated from the waist down. ”

Zhang Tianyi's brows furrowed and asked, "What did Lin Fan say?" Lin Keren cleared his throat and said: "The deceased this time is a man and a woman, which coincided with the time of the previous two crimes, and they were also killed in the early morning. The modus operandi is the same, there is no blood left at the scene, and the technical team has not extracted any fingerprints, but we caught suspicious people at the scene of the crime, and there are still some footprints around the deceased, but ......"

"But what?" Zhang Tianyi asked. Lin Keren coughed and said, "But those footprints are not human footprints. ”

"Not human footprints?" Zhang Tianyi lowered his head and muttered, and then asked, "Where is the deceased?" Lin Keren replied: "A native of Ping'an Town." After receiving the police call, we also thought it was from Sanli Coffin Town, but after investigation, we found out that it was a local. ”

When he arrived at the scene of the crime, the rain was still falling, and Zhang Tian got out of the car without holding an umbrella. The location of the crime was in a factory warehouse in the town, and Lin Fan was already waiting inside at this time.

As soon as Zhang Tianyi went in, he covered his nose and asked, "What kind of smell is this?" Lin Fan handed over a mask and said, "Fox smell." ”

"Fox smell?" Zhang Tian felt much better with a mask on his belt. Lin Fan nodded and said, "That's right, specifically the smell of the fox." Both of the deceased were bitten to death, and we also found some white hairs on the deceased, from which the smell emanated. ”

Zhang Tianyi twisted it, then looked at Lin Fan and didn't speak.

"You're right, it's the hair that fell off the fox." Lin Fan took off his mask and walked to the door of the warehouse and said, "Tianyi, have you ever thought that the murderer is not a human being?" ”

Zhang Tian lit a cigarette and didn't speak. It's not that he hasn't thought about it, but he thinks it's unrealistic, although he has encountered a lot of strange things in the past few days, but it's still a bit far-fetched to say that the murderer is not a human.

"But the footprints of the people should be the white fox's, right?" Zhang Tianyi spat out the smoke and said. Lin Fan nodded and continued: "Two wooden cards were also found at the scene, counting the previous two, this is already the fourth." Zhang Tianyi threw away the cigarette butt and sighed and said, "I'm afraid there will be a fifth piece." ”

At this time, it gradually became noisy outside, and as soon as Zhang Tianyi walked out, the surrounding area lit up with flash and the sound of pressing the shutter to take pictures.

"What's going on? How did the journalist come? Zhang Tianyi asked Lin Keren. Lin Keren shook his head and said helplessly: "I came this morning and waited until now." ”

"May I ask if you are the director of Zhang Tianyi? There have been several murders in Ping'an Town, do you have any clues about this? A female reporter asked Zhang Tianyi with a microphone, and then all the reporters swarmed up.

"Hello Director Zhang, according to the judgment of professionals, it was found that the deceased was bitten to death, some people say that it was a vampire who committed the crime, and some people say that Ping'an Town was cursed, what do you think about this?"

"Also, do you think the murderer will commit the crime again? Some netizens speculated that the deceased in the next case would lose his body, is this statement correct? ”

Zhang Tianyi pressed his hand to signal everyone to calm down, and then raised his voice and said to reporters: "Before the truth comes out, I hope you don't wantonly spread rumors." ”

"If it wasn't a vampire, who would the murderer be? I hope Director Zhang will explain it to us. ”

"Obviously, this is a serial murder case, and the murderer has obvious negative feelings towards the community, and the reason why he chose Ping'an Town is because it is far away from the city and convenient to commit the crime. There is no such thing as a curse, and there are no vampires committing crimes, and we police have the key evidence and caught the suspicious person, and we will definitely catch the murderer before the next case happens. After Zhang Tianyi finished speaking, he waved his hand and asked Lin Keren to get these reporters away.

Originally, Zhang Tianyi didn't want to say more, but now that the social atmosphere is declining day by day, some media reporters distort the facts in order to attract attention or even have no lower limit, and if they don't come out to clarify, it is estimated that they will be published in the daily newspaper tomorrow morning.

It was slowly getting dark, Lin Fan said hello and was about to go back to the hospital to make an autopsy report for the deceased, Zhang Tianyi asked him to wait, and then took out the totem spirit seat brought from the ancestral hall and handed it to Lin Fan and said, "You go back and check the origin of this thing." ”

"What is this?" Although Lin Fan was surprised, he still took it. Zhang Tianyi hadn't mentioned this matter to everyone before, so he explained to Lin Fan: "You take the red cloth and take a look." Lin Fan uncovered the red cloth at the moment, and his hand suddenly trembled, almost not falling off the spirit position.

"No, what are you doing for me?" Lin Fan has become a bitter gourd face. Zhang Tianyi continued: "I'll let you see the things on it. After hearing this, Lin Fan found that there was something carved on the spiritual seat, and he looked back and forth and said, "Tianyi, ...... thing on it?" ”

Zhang Tianyi walked to the door, lit a cigarette and said, "That's right, it's exactly the same as the totem carved on the wooden sign at the scene of the crime." Then I heard Lin Fan say with some confusion: "It's not the same, the totem on this has limbs, but the strange thing is why it doesn't have a body?" ”

"What body?" Zhang Tianyi bit the cigarette and took over the spiritual position, and when he saw the totem above, the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground with a "snap".

"How so!?" Zhang Tianyi muttered to himself: "Shouldn't it? I've examined the spiritual seat, and it's just a carved head. But...... Why did you suddenly have more limbs out of thin air? ”

Zhang Tianyi rubbed his finger and found that the traces depicted on it did not look like they were added later, and the spiritual position was put in the suitcase and placed in the police car, so it was impossible for anyone to touch it. Could it really be that I was dazzled and misunderstood? Zhang Tianyi was also a little suspicious.

The totem on the spiritual seat was originally a head, but now there are limbs under the head, but the strange thing is that there is no body, and it is just a body away from connecting the limbs and heads into a complete totem.

"Tianyi, come and see!" Lin Fan greeted with a magnifying glass. Zhang Tianyi rushed over when he heard the sound, took the magnifying glass, and looked at it under Lin Fan's instructions, only to see that there were many symbols densely carved at the bottom of the spiritual position, these symbols were of different sizes and shapes, saying that they were tadpoles and like hieroglyphs, there was no logic at all.

"It's supposed to be a kind of text." Lin Fan put down the magnifying glass and said. Zhang Tian nodded a little to agree with his statement, but the two had never seen this kind of writing, and they couldn't even search for information related to it in their heads.

"Lin Fan, do you think this will be the ancient script of a nation or tribe?" Zhang Tianyi then expressed his opinion: "Do you remember the wooden plaque we found at the scene of the crime? It's a totem, yes, but it's not a complete totem, and it's one body away from a complete totem. ”

Zhang Tianyi swallowed his saliva and continued: "The word totem was passed down from the Indians, and in ancient China, primitive tribes represented superstitious beliefs about some kind of natural or blood relatives, ancestors, protectors, etc., and we can also understand it as the carrier of the soul of the gods. In the primitive tribes of ancient China, there would be a position similar to that of a modern goddess, according to the name at the time, it was supposed to be the main worship, specially presiding over the sacrifice to pray for the blessing of the gods, and at the same time was praised by the tribe as a person who could communicate with the gods. ”

After hearing this, Lin Fan patted his thigh and suddenly realized: "The primitive tribes of ancient China basically had their own writing, including some ethnic minorities that still exist and use them now. I think the totem and the text should belong to the same tribe, as long as you figure out the secret of one of the wooden cards, you will be ready to come out! ”

Zhang Tianyi responded to a few words and found that it was already late outside, so he patted Lin Fan on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, it's not early, I'll send you back to the hospital." Lin Fan followed and asked Zhang Tianyi: "What did that suspect say?" ”

Zhang Tianyi said while starting the car: "But the person is interrogating over there, hoping to get some useful clues from his mouth." After the car caught fire, Zhang Tianyi changed gears and asked Lin Fan: "By the way, how did you find him?" ”

Lin Fan took off his glasses, wiped them, and then put them on and said: "When we came to the scene of the crime, he was mixed in the crowd of onlookers, and at that time, people saw that his eyes were not quite right, so they called him back. Later, some people reported that they had seen him near the crime site that night, and Ye Zi and they found that he had bought a controlled knife in a hardware store the day before the crime, and you will know what happened after that, because his suspicion was relatively big, so he was temporarily detained. ”

"But there's one thing you can't think of." Lin Fan pretended to be mysterious. Zhang Tianyi asked him not to sell Guan Zi and said quickly. Lin Fan lowered his voice and said, "The suspect is also from Sanli Coffin Town. ”

"People from Sanli Coffin Town?" Zhang Tianyi repeated.

At this point, Zhang Tianyi felt that the murderer had a purpose, because the first three deceased were all from Sanli Coffin Town, and the reason why the murderer chose the target was because the so-called curse of Sanli Coffin Town could make him hide his eyes. However, what the murderer didn't expect was that the people of Sanli Coffin Town really believed in the curse and no longer went out of the town, so the murderer randomly committed a crime and killed the locals of Ping'an Town.

Zhang Tian always felt that there was some kind of connection in the clues, but he couldn't connect them, all the clues were fragmented, and there seemed to be something missing.

What's missing......?