Luo Feng looked at me blankly, and he asked me why I had changed my story so quickly. In his opinion, at this stage when Lao Jiu and several people were taken to the country house, the murderer had not officially committed the crime, so it was entirely possible that his physical characteristics were not left in the house.

I asked Luo Feng if he remembered what we encountered when we got out of the car, Luo Feng thought about it and replied that we met a group of dogs barking at us. I nodded, and the problem was with the dogs. Luo Feng couldn't wait, and he asked me what was going on.

When we entered the village, we had already asked the villagers, and the villagers said that that night, the village was very quiet, and they did not hear the sound of the car entering the village, which was considered normal by us, after all, the car was driving slowly and did not make too much noise.

However, the sound of barking dogs, especially from a group of dogs, can be heard throughout the empty village in the quiet of the night. I remembered what the name of the village told us, that there were many dogs in the village, and no one had them, but those dogs were running around the village all day long. Generally speaking, dogs are very alert and will bark when they see a living person or a strange person, especially at night, when the dog's alertness reaches its peak.

For those dogs, the villagers in this village are acquaintances, and outsiders like me and Luo Feng are living people. Those dogs are powerful, Luo Feng and I have seen it, on such a quiet night, a group of strangers entered this village, but they were quiet and did not bark, this is the strange place.

"A lot of animals are territorial, and dogs are one of them." I explained to Luo Feng: "Dogs with owners, when they see living people, they don't bark often because they are raised, and stray dogs, when they see people all over the street, they don't bark because those people and dogs don't have a fixed place." And the dogs in this village, no one keeps them, but they settle in this village, this village, is their territory, and we, a group of people who are strangers to them, have intruded into their territory, and they feel threatened, so they bark at us. ”

Luo Feng was stunned when he heard this, and he asked me: "What you said is right, but animals are not human beings after all, and their behavior may not have rules to find, and it is normal not to bark." ”

I nodded, "It's normal." However, there are so many dogs in the village, and it is a little strange that every one of them does not bark when they see a living person. It is often a dog barking and bringing up a piece, this village is very remote, there are basically no outsiders to enter, and the dog's territorial awareness will be stronger, and, I see that the group of dogs just now, the temper is very fierce. ”

Luo Feng thought about it and said that he would go out and ask again. Luo Feng ran out, and soon, I heard a dog barking again, and about ten minutes later, Luo Feng returned. While scolding, he told me that when he went out, he was really a little chilled when he faced so many dogs alone.

Luo Feng asked the villagers, and sure enough, the villagers said that the village was too remote and there were no outsiders, and every time an outsider came to the village, the dogs in the village had to bark, and it was also because there were no outsiders, so the villagers didn't care about those dogs. Originally, it was just speculation, but Luo Feng's inquiry made my speculation more accurate.

The information of the short-haired woman, the police investigation is very clear, and I also asked from Chen Fan. The short-haired woman had nothing to do with this village at all, and when she confessed, she only said that this place was remote, so she brought Lao Jiu and a few people here. The short-haired woman, like us, is also an outsider.

An outsider brought another group of outsiders to this village, but the dog was uncharacteristically unusual, not barking or barking, there is a possibility, but it is not particularly large. I don't dare to deny any possibility, but probability is also often used in reconnaissance.

I told Luo Feng that if people who live carefully can find a phenomenon that is not common but relatively common: the owner or acquaintance passes by with strangers, and the dog usually does not bark. So, I speculate, that night, there was a local from the village who brought the short-haired girl and Lao Jiu to this village, so that the dog did not bark, or barked not so badly, so that none of the sleeping villagers were awakened.

Coupled with the fact that there was no dust on the floor of this house, I was sure that the murderer or someone suspected of being a murderer had been to this house. Suppose that only the short-haired woman came with Lao Jiu and them, and the short-haired woman did not need to clean up the dust of the entire house, because the physical characteristics of the short-haired woman were found at the scene, which was a bit of a multi-faceted move.

In connection with the same phenomenon that the ashes at the scene of the ghost meal were also cleaned up, it can also be speculated that the murderer came here.

Based on various clues, it is almost certain that the real suspect has been here, and that person is likely to be a native of the village.

Luo Feng teased: "Why do you have such a study of dogs?" ”

I just smiled indifferently: "It's just speculation, there is no 100% guarantee of accuracy, but we can continue to investigate according to this clue." ”

Luo Feng and I continued to walk out, and we searched the surroundings of the house carefully. The house is surrounded by weeds, and the port area is located in the south, so even in the cold winter, the weeds do not wither badly. After the owner of this house died a few years ago, the place was completely unused, and naturally no one took care of it.

Luo Feng had the rare patience to accompany me to search for more than an hour, but after finding nothing, Luo Feng lost his patience a little. He asked me again if I was sure I could find anything, and I thought about it and didn't answer in the affirmative. The police found this place based on the short-haired woman's confession, and the scope of their investigation was the traces inside the house.

They are just looking for trace evidence to prove the authenticity of the short-haired woman's confession, and naturally they will not look for so long like headless flies like us. We searched for a long time, and slowly, we got farther and farther away from the house. We came to a garbage dump that stinked so badly that I put on a pair of gloves and turned up the garbage.

"Fang Han, aren't you afraid of being disgusting?" Luo Feng is the person who talks about the gang, and he hasn't done this, which is normal.

"When I was in the police academy, I saw the corpses of maggots, and I also came into contact with the swollen green corpses of the drowning giants, which was much more disgusting than this." As I answered, I found a strange branch in the garbage.

I picked it up, and it was a large syringe with blood stains that had dried up in it.

Luo Feng finally came up, I carefully observed the syringe, put it aside, and rummaged through the garbage heap, and soon, I found a few more syringes, which also had dried blood stains. I didn't have time to talk to Luo Fengduo, so I immediately took the little ghost and looked for it in the village.

The dogs in the village kept barking, as if they would rush over and bite us at any moment, and after walking from house to house, Luo Feng and I stood in the middle of the village.

"Did you find out?" I asked Luo Feng.

Luo Feng didn't understand: "What did you find?" ”

"There is no clinic in this village." I replied.

Luo Feng finally understood what I meant, and he pulled a villager over with a big grin, and asked the villager again. The villagers told us that the village is so remote and poor that there is naturally no clinic. If the villagers are usually sick, they go up the mountain to pick some herbs and make do with it.

If you are seriously ill, go to the city to see a doctor.

The villagers who settled in the village were all uneducated, and they would not use such a thing as a syringe at all. The place where the syringes were found was the closest to the house, and each syringe had dried blood stains inside, which was enough to prove that there was something wrong with those syringes.

I put the syringe away, and after finding no more clues, Luo Feng and I left the village temporarily.

When I got in the car, I called Chen Fan, and I asked him to remind the police to pay attention to the people in this village. Chen Fan quickly called me back, and he told me that the police had begun to prepare for the transfer of the case and entered the judicial prosecution stage. I felt even more urgent, the police didn't help, I could only put my hope on Luo Feng.

Not long after the car drove out of the village, Luo Feng asked his subordinates to investigate the people in this village according to my wishes.

After everything was explained, Luo Feng asked me what those syringes had to do with this case.

"Have you forgotten the bloody handprints on the walls of the murder scene?" I asked Luo Feng rhetorically.

Luo Feng was a little surprised: "You mean, that bloody handprint has something to do with this syringe?" ”

I nodded, before, when we arrived at the scene of the crime, I saw the bloody handprints all over the wall, and I always felt that something was strange, but now, I seem to have figured it out. I asked Luo Feng to drive the car to the scene of the crime, and I wanted to observe the bloody handprints on the wall again.

Back in the city, it was almost dark. Before the sky was all dark, Luo Feng and I went to the scene of the crime again. This was our third visit, and I immediately set my eyes on the bloody handprints on the walls. This time, I finally discovered what I had always found strange.

The scene had not been cleaned up, and the traces of bloody handprints were as obvious as before. When I first looked at this handprint, I found that according to the size and other characteristics, the handprints on the wall can be divided into four types, which belong to four people, such as Lao Jiu, and each of the same type of handprints has almost the same shape.

I searched my mind for the photos on the dossier.

"This one is Lao Jiu's." As I spoke, I matched each mudra with the person.

Luo Feng looked at the bloody handprints on the wall, then at his palm, and he laughed twice: "I don't understand what you mean." ”

I went on to explain.

Each handprint is very complete, I took Lao Jiu's handprint as an example, under my explanation, Luo Feng soon discovered that all Lao Jiu's handprints are almost identical.

"Even if we put our own handprints on the wall, there is no guarantee that the handprints we leave will be the same every time, because our palms are moving." I said to Luo Feng.

Luo Feng suddenly realized: "You mean, everyone's handprints left on the wall are the same, because their hands can't move?" ”