Chen Tian returned to the room, threw the file to the table beside him, first picked up a cup of tea in the teacup, and then filled himself, and so on three cups before the dry heat in his throat was suppressed.

It's just that no matter how cold the overnight tea is, the irritability in Chen Tian's heart can't be dispelled.

Putting down the teacup, Chen Tian no longer struggled meaninglessly, and chose to face the source of his inner irritability.

Without him, it's just because the new case handed over to him by the boss involves Kaicheng District.

The place that Chen Tian was most familiar with, the "home" that Chen Tian wanted to escape from countless times. He thought he had forgotten about it, but now that he remembered it, the sour smell of poverty that permeated the city seemed to emanate from him again.

In the past, Chen Tian imagined countless times that he would move out of the Chengcheng District with great wealth and nobility, but when the gears of fate turned, Chen Tian never imagined that he would leave the Kaicheng District as a "Dali Temple Catcher".

There is a saying that "when one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven". But this sentence obviously does not apply to Chen Tian, or this is just Lu Si's unilateral fantasy.

What happened to Chen Tian is more suitable to be described as "carp jumping over the dragon gate".

After crossing the "dragon gate", his identity has undergone a drastic change. He is no longer a "thing in a pool," but a "heavenly Holy Spirit."

What's more, Chen Tianke was a "thief" in the past, and he became a fast catcher in Dali Temple, and his identity was simply a 180-degree change.

But it is not easy to become the catcher of Dali Temple, first of all, it is necessary to break off with that inglorious past.

This is the reason why Chen Tian has not returned to Kaicheng District for so many years.

In some late nights, Chen Tian also thought that one day he would have an intersection with Kaicheng District, but every time he thought about it, he was so upset that he couldn't sleep.

It seems that the fantasy of returning to the hometown does not seem to be practical, and now I am more like I have turned my back on my hometown, and I have to return home one day after turning my back on the wanderer who has abandoned the past.

Chen Tian, who was sitting in the chair, thought about it for half an hour, and when he came back to his senses, he could only pick up the file, preparing to let the case suppress the boredom in his heart.

The files of the disappearance case were even more boring than Chen Tian had expected, and most of them recorded the missing persons who were finally identified by the county government officials visiting each household to investigate the population.

And such a boring process occupied more than half of the dossier, and Chen Tian didn't even hold on for half an hour before he began to fall asleep.

It wasn't until Chen Tian flipped through the file that a few inconspicuous words made Chen Tian feel refreshed.

"Mutilated corpses" "There are traces of ferocious beast gnawing"......

In the cookie-cutter record of this dossier, these words instantly caught Chen Tian's attention.

Chen Tian sat up straight, looked back quickly, and finally found a complete record of this case.

"At noon on June 12, Liu Zhi, a county magistrate, patrolled to the intersection of Wanmin Lane and Tianfu Street, and found stray wild dogs fighting for food in the garbage......

After Liu Zhi found the stump, he immediately reported it to the county government, and after several days of searching, he finally found the remaining stump of the body near Wanmin Lane and Tianfu Street.

But what frightened the county government was that not only did these stumps have traces of being eaten by fierce beasts, but all the internal organs of the corpses were hollowed out.

Because the face and all features of the corpse were destroyed, the county government tried for several days but there were no clues, and finally blamed an unknown homeless man who starved to death on the streets, and finally the body was eaten by stray dogs.

Chen Tian frowned after reading it, he was used to the county government closing the case in such a sloppy manner, but some of the details made Chen Tian notice a little unusual.

Chen Tian then quickly looked through the file and found that there was only one such case in the entire file.

This made Chen Tian feel strange.

First of all, according to Chen Tian's understanding of the past of the county government, the first task of each county government is to maintain stability in his own district and county.

Especially in a slum area like Kaicheng District, it is enough to give the county government a "conscientious" evaluation if there are no major murders.

The reality is that in a place like Kaicheng District, where "poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people", all kinds of cases emerge in an endless stream, and every county official often chooses to "report good news but not bad news" in order to keep his black hat.

Small cases such as cheating and abduction can be dragged out, and homicide cases can be hastily closed, or concealed and not reported.

In a murder case like this just now, the violent corpses on the street and the cruel dismemberment of corpses are extremely brutal, and the facts of the case are confusing enough to be called a major case.

Although the case ended with a homeless man being eaten and scribbled by wild dogs, it was Chen Tian's greatest surprise that it would be recorded in the file.

In Chen Tian's opinion, even if he is a novice who has just become a chacha, even if he has not seen the corpse, the first thing that comes to mind when he sees the file is that he killed him in this case.

But the county government closed the case like this, which shows that they have not caught the real murderer.

That's why Chen Tian quickly flipped through the dossier, wanting to find a similar case in the second half of the dossier.

But it turned out to be nothing.

Secondly, Chen Tian will be suspicious, and there is another reason.

Falsification of the case record!

The first is the time: "noon on June 12".

Chen Tian has lived in Kaicheng District for more than 20 years, and he knows how chaotic it is, especially at night.

It was for this reason that he had not seen anyone in Kaicheng District who dared to patrol at noon in more than 20 years.

Even if it is the county government's quick catch, patrolling the streets of Kaicheng District at noon is equivalent to an unguarded girl walking into a wolf's den.

The other is the location: "Wanmin Lane and Tianfu Street."

Chen Tian knows about it, and it can be called a slum in Kaicheng District.

The slums in the slums can be imagined how poor they are, not to mention stray dogs, even stray rats can be stewed and eaten by the beggars there.

Therefore, it is impossible for Liu Zhi to find stray dogs there!

In short, the case record is full of loopholes.

This also successfully aroused Chen Tian's curiosity, and when he entered the state of solving the case, he completely lost his previous "homecoming timidity", and rushed to Kaicheng District alone without even eating.

The midnight Kaicheng area is dangerous, there is no one on the streets, and it is even quieter than the inner ward, which has a strict curfew.

Although Chen Tian has been fishing for many years, his "old business" has not lost his housekeeping skills, and he quickly wanders in the shadows of the house like a ghost at night.

It is precisely because of the courage of the artist and his familiarity with Kaicheng District that Chen Tian dared to go to Kaicheng District alone on a dark and windy night to investigate the case.

Chen Tian first came to the fork in the road between Wanmin Lane and Tianfu Street, and although nearly three months had passed since June 12, when the crime occurred, Chen Tian still wanted to go to the scene to see for himself.

The street was full of garbage dumps, but Chen Tian still saw the garbage dump where the body was found at a glance.

Not because of anything else, but because the garbage dump had been fenced off with rope by the county government.

It can be seen that the garbage dump has been fenced for some time, but it is rare that these ropes that have been faded by the wind and sun have not been destroyed.

You must know that even if the guard set by the government in Kaicheng District has no deterrent effect on the beggars and homeless people here.

After all, the garbage dump is the foundation of these people's survival.

"There are only two possibilities for this garbage dump to be approached for so long."

"First, the county government has patrols every day, so that this place can be made a forbidden area."

"But the county government has closed this case, and with the county government's passive and slacking off work, it is unlikely that he will be on duty every day."

"Second, there were many people who witnessed the discovery of the body at the scene, and at the same time, the tragic condition of the body was too tragic for no one to dare to approach here."

Chen Tian secretly analyzed in his heart, and he was more inclined to the second possibility.

Chen Tian hid in the dark and observed again for a moment, and only after making sure that there was no one around did he turn into a black shadow and drill in.

As soon as he entered the garbage dump, Chen Tian was dizzy from a foul smell.

"It's a corpse!"

Although the garbage dump was filled with the stench of rotting and fermenting waste, Chen Tian still smelled a strong smell of corpses.

"How can there be such a strong smell of corpses?!"

Chen Tian was a little shocked.

In order to judge the case, Chen Tian can also be regarded as a half-expert in the autopsy, so Chen Tian knows that such a strong corpse smell can never be caused by the corruption of a corpse.

"If that's the case, there's definitely not just one corpse here!"

Chen Tian suppressed the surprise in his heart and quietly walked towards the depths of the garbage dump.

But Chen Tian, who was paying attention to the front, didn't notice that a dark shadow moved in the corner of his side.

When Chen Tian found out, it was already too late.

"Ahh......h

The black shadow was the first to discover Chen Tian, but he did not attack Chen Tian at the first time, but shouted at Chen Tian like a child who had found food, with slurred words but obviously excited.

Chen Tian broke out in a cold sweat, holding the Pu knife on his waist in his right hand, he quickly moved a step in the opposite direction, and pulled out the knife to protect his chest while turning.

This set of defensive moves is simple and extremely effective.

And after Chen Tian did this, he had the energy to observe the other party fixedly.

I saw that the other party saw Chen Tian pull out the knife and had no obvious fear, squirmed his body from the ground with difficulty, turned his whole body to one side, and lay on his side to face Chen Tian.

Only then did Chen Tian realize that the other party was just a down-and-out beggar, wearing tattered clothes, and at the same time, he could see that he had stuffed all the rags, forage, etc. he could find into his clothes to resist the cold wind of the September autumn night.

Despite the beggar's bloated silhouette in the middle of the night, his thin cheeks make it clear that he is skinny.

And Chen Tian's eyes were obviously stunned when he saw the skull-like withered yellow cheeks, and then he showed a brief surprise.

"Crazy man?!"

Chen Tian put the knife down and took a step forward, exposing himself to the faint moonlight. On the one hand, I want to get closer to see if the other party is the "crazy man" I know, and on the other hand, I also want the other party to see myself clearly.

And the distance of this step also made Chen Tian see that the other party was the crazy man he was familiar with.

"Crazy uncle, it's me, little ......."

Chen Tian's eyes revealed surprise, he didn't expect to see the crazy uncle.

But the crazy uncle who saw Chen Tian clearly immediately screamed.

"Ghost, ghost......