Surprisingly, most of these footprints are plum blossom footprints, and only a few belong to human shoe prints.

Li Mi stared at these plum blossom footprints, and suddenly said loudly: "Cui Shangshu was bitten to death by a dog!" ”

Hearing this, the old man glanced at the strange man, and nodded slightly, "These footprints are all over the corpse, look at the shape and size of the plum blossom, they are indeed dog footprints, and it should be several big dogs rushing up collectively to bite and eat the deceased." ”

Everyone was shocked, from this point of view, after Cui Shangshu disappeared, he was tied to the chain of this brick house by the murderer, and then let the dog bite him to death.

And what about Cui Shangshu's head?

Li Mi said loudly: "If you don't guess wrong, the murderer had the act of abusing the corpse to vent his anger after Cui Shangshu's death. He cut off his head, perhaps to sacrifice it to someone, or to throw it to the dogs, and the dogs took it. ”

Shen Luo immediately ordered a lieutenant to conduct a carpet search around the abandoned mansion to retrieve the head.

Li Mi inspected around the corpse and basically confirmed that this brick house was the scene of the first crime, and many pieces of corpse meat that had not been gnawed clean by the dogs were found on the ground, and a large amount of blood was sprayed at the scene.

【Ding! The autopsy report of the deceased has been generated, please check the ......]

Li Mi's heart moved, and after judging by the comprehensive information of the grievance record, the deceased was determined to be Cui Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and the cause of death was death from massive bleeding. The corpse was gnawed horribly by the dogs, and the head was cut from the thyroid cartilage of the neck.

The wound was rough and due to the severe decomposition of the corpse, it was not possible to determine the characteristics of the murder weapon for the time being, and it was presumed that it was caused by multiple chops with a kitchen knife. Based on the degree of decomposition of the corpse, it is preliminarily inferred that the time of death of the corpse was about ten days.

The autopsy report only stated that Cui Shangshu's head was probably cut off by something like a kitchen knife, but because the body was badly decomposed, Li Mi was not sure whether this inference was accurate. As for the murderer, it is more likely that he is a man, but it cannot be ruled out that it is a woman.

Although the dismemberment of the corpse's head was rough and was chopped many times, it is difficult to determine whether it was because the murderer had too little strength to cut off at one time and caused repeated chopping and chopping, or because of other factors, so Li Mi could not rule out the suspicion that a woman committed the crime.

To sum up, the information that Li Mi can obtain at present is that Cui Shangshu did not know whether he fled here or was tied up by the murderer after he disappeared, and then he was chained by people, and after being eaten and bitten by a group of mad dogs, Cui Shangshu, who had lost too much blood, finally died.

After his death, Cui Shangshu was tortured by the murderer, which can be seen from the linear whip marks after the corpse's red umbrella reaction.

In the end, the murderer violently cut off the head of the corpse, completed the final murder, and disappeared.

Li Mi said to Shen Luo: "The case in Quliu Village has only been solved for a long time, and according to the time of death, almost as soon as the front foot is broken, Cui Shangshu on the back foot is missing and killed, which is also too strange." It is likely that there is a bigger force behind Cui Shangshu, and this force has come forward to solve Cui Shangshu's trouble. ”

Shen Luo's face was solemn and nodded, "Cui Shangshu will inevitably die sooner or later, but it is not the right time for him to die, there are still many important doubts in Quliu Village that have not been solved, and when he dies, those doubts will completely sink into the sea, and no one will answer them anymore." ”

She waved her hand to repel the six surrounding doors, approached Li Mi and whispered, "Do you know that there is anything else in the mountain behind Quliu Village besides the mountain villa that raises people?" ”

Li Mi shook her head.

"There is an underground workshop for smelting weapons, hidden in the mountain, if it weren't for Wang Dachun's confession in order to exonerate himself, he would have almost not found the six doors."

Li Mi was a little surprised, "A workshop for smelting weapons? This is a great crime of the Nine Clans, which is equivalent to rebellion! ”

Shen Luo lowered his voice, "Therefore, Commander Hong attaches great importance to this matter, and asks to solve this case within a time limit and find out where the weapons smelted in the workshop go." But now, Cui Shangshu, who is most likely to know, is dead, and the mastermind behind the scenes is cautious, and he must have cut off all the other clues. ”

"In this way, the courtesans raised in the mountain villa, as well as the weapons and soldiers created in the workshop, have no whereabouts in the end."

"Indeed, it doesn't matter where the courtesans go, but these weapons are worrying." Shen Luo said with a heavy heart, "In the past twenty years, I don't know how many weapons have been created in this underground workshop, and I don't know if there are similar workshops elsewhere. The spread of such a large number of weapons is a huge hidden danger. ”

Li Mi nodded, "Also, smelting so many weapons can only be used for rebellion." And rebellion is a rebellion for any ruler, and Commander Hong is naturally anxious about this matter. The only way now is to find out the murderer of Cui Shangshu, so that it is possible to pry the answer out of the murderer's mouth. By the way, I asked you to look for Xue Juan before, do you have eyebrows? ”

Shen Luo shook his head, "The six doors have never found Xue Xuan's whereabouts, and now that Cui Shangshu is dead, it is even more difficult to find." But don't worry, I've arranged for someone to take care of this matter, and I'll definitely find it. ”

Li Mi hummed a little worriedly, and then noticed that there was something strange about the corpse.

He stepped forward sharply, broke the right hand of the headless corpse that was chained, and with a click, the object clutched in the corpse's hand fell to the ground.

Li Mi squatted down and took a look and found that it was a paper ball.

To be exact, this is not just a ball of paper, but a piece of jewelry folded out of paper, but it looks a little deformed because it is held by hand.

Shen Luo also stepped forward and looked at the paper ball with some suspicion.

For the sake of safety, in order not to destroy the murderer's fingerprints that may be attached to the paper ball, Li Mi picked it up with a cloth and looked at it.

The folded thing of this paper looks like a cow, and from a distance, it looks a little like a sheep, and the head is a little strange.

The two of them looked at it for a long time, and they only felt that the four were not like it.

After Li Mi carefully memorized the appearance of the origami, he took the cloth and carefully opened it, and there were a few small characters inside.

"Please come and get me."

Provocation!

Shen Luo was furious in an instant, snatched the paper, flipped through and checked, except for a few words on the crumpled paper, there was only a small graffiti at the bottom.

Li Mi was horrified.

It was a little mask doodle.

The mysterious man appeared again, the last time I saw this graffiti was in Wushan County, and this time, it was Bianliang, the imperial capital thousands of miles away.

Was it a coincidence, or was it a premeditated conspiracy?

Li Mi couldn't guess, but it was obvious that the murderer of Cui Shangshu was not the same as the mysterious person who left a note in Wushan County to provoke him.

Because Cui Shangshu's death time was ten days ago, the mysterious person should still be in the jurisdiction of Wushan County at that time, and he was not an immortal, how could he teleport.

Is it someone who has a close connection to the mysterious person, or is they part of the same organization, and the mask is their common signature?

It's a tough puzzle to solve, and the only way to solve it is to find the killer.

Li Mi said: "Obviously, the murderer of Cui Shangshu was prepared, all of this was planned, and it is even possible that he was planning this matter before the case in Quliu Village was solved." If that's the case, the person behind the scenes is terrifying, he not only controls a terrifying organization, but also has a super high strategy, which is very bad for us. ”

Shen Luo sighed, "That's why I asked you to help solve the case." The case in Quliu Village is fully investigated by me, and the rest of the six doors are busy with the case, and now it involves Cui Shangshu's rebellion, and no one has the ability to continue to investigate the case except me. Although the six doors are full of talents, the way to solve the case is too old-fashioned and old-fashioned, and the only thing that makes me feel bright is you. ”

Li Mi asked for the note back and kept it carefully, "Leave this note with me for the time being, maybe it will be useful in the future." Now that the circumstances of the case are unclear for the time being, we can only find clues little by little, hoping that this long-planned rebellion can be temporarily postponed because of Cui Shangshu's death. ”

Subsequently, the two divided labor, with Li Mi making a final conclusion on the direction of the investigation of the case, and Shen Luo was responsible for the execution and staff officers, striving to solve the case as soon as possible.

First of all, to recover Cui Shangshu's head taken by the murderer, the search scope is temporarily locked within a five-mile radius of the house.

Second, widely publicize and solicit clues, and all those who have seen Cui Shangshu or the whereabouts of suspicious people ten days ago, as well as those who can find their heads, will be rewarded in all six doors.

Third, the shape of the origami paper held in the hands of the corpse was reconstructed and someone identified it, because the murderer deliberately folded the paper into this animal, which must have a purpose.

Fourth, investigate the officials, relatives and friends who have close contacts with Cui Shangshu one by one to look for suspicious people. In particular, we focus on those who have had serious disputes with Cui Shangshu, because the methods in this case are extremely tragic, and the murderer is obviously killing in revenge, and Li Mi speculates that he was used to take revenge with violence, so it can be characterized as a vendetta.

Finally, Li Mi conducted data analysis according to the footprints of the red umbrella reaction, which is a very great invention in ancient times, and its appearance greatly saved the blindness and randomness of ancient autopsies, and provided a more scientific and reliable basis, even now it is very practical.

Through the footprints that appeared on the ground, after Li Mi eliminated some shoe prints according to Cui Shangshu's soles, the rest should belong to the murderer.

This brick house has been abandoned for a long time, and basically no one comes here, and the timeliness of the red umbrella reaction is limited, so there must be a murderer in the shoe prints that appear.

According to the formula of the step push method in "Modern Criminal Police Theory", the height of the suspect = (left step length + right step length) + (1/3 of the length of a single footprint).

Li Mi finally estimated that the murderer of Cui Shangshu was about 175cm tall, which could be constrained within the error range of 173~178cm.

This result is not very helpful in finding the murderer, after all, this kind of height is not rare, but it is better than nothing to have more opportunities to judge the identity of the final suspect.