The three of them continued to glide cautiously down the ridge under the leadership of Wu Yun. At this time, they roughly figured out the truth about Bai Yunting's disappearance a year ago, and their determination to find her body buried in this snowy mountain became even stronger.

"But I still can't believe it," Wei Xiaofeng said as he slid away, "Isn't it because I like another person and want to break up with my current girlfriend?" Isn't it a big deal, is it necessary to brutally kill your girlfriend? ”

Liu Yi replied: "In fact, the reason for killing people is sometimes really cheap and strange. Because people are different, it seems to us to be a trivial matter, but in the eyes of some people, it may become the fuse that detonates their murderous intentions. An example, right? There was a murderer who killed a man in 1995 and then fled for 17 years before being caught. Guess what he killed for? ”

"On the run for 17 years?" Wei Xiaofeng exclaimed in disbelief, "There should be some deep hatred between that murderer and the person who was killed, right?" ”

Liu Yi shook his head. On the contrary, the murderer and the victim did not know each other at all. Just because the two came face to face, the victim looked at the murderer more, which made him feel very uncomfortable, so he took a knife and stabbed the victim to death. After killing someone, he was afraid of being caught, so he fled for 17 years. ”

If it weren't for the ski poles in both hands, Wei Xiaofeng would probably cover her mouth with them to express her surprise. "Just because a stranger looked at him more? Is he guilty of murder for such a trivial matter? Not only did he wipe out a fresh life with his own hands, but he also destroyed the happiness of a family, and more importantly, he ruined his own life for this. Is it worth it? I really can't figure it out! ”

Liu Yi said: "Yes, you also think it's just a trivial matter. A stranger who has never known each other in his life, maybe he will not have an intersection in the future, and he happened to look at you more than one second when they met, and that look may not contain any meaning. Most people would probably forget about the stubble after passing by, but the murderer felt that there was hostility or other uncomfortable hints in his eyes, and then this thought lingered in his heart, making him feel unhappy, like a fish in his throat, and then this unhappiness spread into a negative emotion, which then turned into murderous intent, and eventually led him to commit an irreparable crime. And at that time, when the killing intent occupied his mind, he only had the stranger in his mind who looked at him for no reason, and he didn't consider the consequences of killing at all. ”

Wu Yun, who was at the front, also interjected: "Everyone knows the consequences of killing, but some people, when they are blinded by the inexplicable killing intent, they will not think about what kind of unbearable consequences they will face after they kill people." From an outsider's point of view, people will think how stupid and unworthy it is for the person to kill for such a trivial matter, but if this happened to some of them, maybe they would also commit what they call stupid crime. This is the so-called 'the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear'. ”

"And in this matter," Liu Yi said after a little reorganization of his words, "Assuming that the motive I just speculated about Yang Guangcan's killing of Bai Yunting is valid, it also shows that some people can do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, even at the cost of committing crimes. Yang Guangcan must have tried a lot of ways to break up with Bai Yunting, but it didn't work, so he jumped off the wall in a hurry and made this move, right? ”

"But if you commit a crime, you have to accept the punishment of the law, even if you can achieve your goal, what's the point?" Wei Xiaofeng frowned and wondered.

"The law, after all, is just a tool. We have also learned in high school political textbooks that law is the embodiment of the will of the ruling class, the ruling instrument of the state, and a special code of conduct and social norm that is universally binding on all members of society. In layman's terms, the law restricts our actions to a level that does not infringe upon or endanger the security of other individuals, societies, and the country. Once a person's actions cross the boundaries set by law, they commit a crime. However, the law cannot be abused, and there must be corresponding evidence to support it, and the law enforcement agencies can impose corresponding sanctions in accordance with the law. So many people have such a fluke mentality, that is, I have done something illegal, as long as I deal with it properly afterwards and do not leave any evidence, the law will not be able to punish me. Sometimes you know that this person has committed a crime, but there is no evidence to prove it, and you can only watch him go unpunished. So that's why so many people in today's society dare to break the law and take risks. ”

Liu Yi gasped for a moment and continued: "I've seen it in a book before, what is the most perfect killing? It's two people who go out to sea in a boat without anyone else knowing, and then one of them kills the other and dumps the body in the sea, and in doing so, no one witnesses the murder, and the body and evidence disappear into the vast sea. Let's take a look at Bai Yunting's disappearance, right? Yang Guangcan found a reason to take her to the barren mountains and snow mountains of Liao and kill her, so that no one would see the process of his murder, and no one would even see him leave the ski resort with Bai Yunting and secretly run into the snow mountain, so that there would be no witness. After killing Bai Yunting, he buried her body, and then erased the traces of their previous visit, so that others could not find Bai Yunting's body and the specific location of the crime scene, so that he could also cover up the clues that he might have left when he committed the crime, and there was no physical evidence and other evidence, which can almost be said to be a perfect crime. ”

"It's just that he would never have imagined that after Bai Yunting was killed, her soul remained in the world because of her obsession, and she was still near the snow-capped mountain where her body was buried, and was seen by Xiao Feng." Wu Yun said, "Now that I think about it, Bai Yunting's ghost obsession should be more of a resentment towards Yang Guangcan, right?" Her ghost will appear not only in the hope that we can find her body, but also in the hope that we can use the opportunity to find her body to reveal the truth about Yang Guangcan's murder of her. ”

Wei Xiaofeng sighed and said, "I met Yang Guangcan for the first time the afternoon before yesterday and chatted a few words, although I didn't know him very well, I still couldn't believe that he would do such a terrible thing. I felt that there was a special relationship between him and Bai Yunting at the time, but I didn't expect this relationship to become his motive for killing Bai Yunting. ”

"Knowing people, knowing faces, but not hearts." Wu Yun said, "Xiao Feng, I told you after I met Yang Guangcan for the first time, my intuition as a reporter is that Yang Guangcan's sunny, easy-going, and frank labels are all false images that he deliberately shows, but in fact, there is another side hidden in his heart that cannot be known, which is more complicated than we imagined. In retrospect, my instincts were right. ”

Liu Yi said: "To borrow a sentence from Zhuang Han's classmate in the previous incident with Xiaotong: 'You never know what kind of skin the demon hides underneath. It's often the wolf in sheep's clothing that is the most terrifying. ”

The three of them slid down the ridge for about ten minutes, Wei Xiaofeng looked at the location of the hotel at the foot of the mountain, looked around again, and stopped Wu Yun, who was leading the way.

"Brother Xiaoyun, it should be here." After Wu Yun stopped and turned around, she gestured with her hand and said, "The place where I saw the pink ghost haunting last night should be there, and then she slowly walked to this side, and finally disappeared. ”

"The place where Bai Yunting was killed and where the body is located is near here, let's go to the neighborhood to find it together, don't scatter, in case of any accidents, you can take care of it." Wu Yun ordered.

Liu Yi didn't move, stood on the ridge and thought for a while, and said, "The place where Bai Yunting was killed should be this side of the ridge that you can't see from the hotel. ”

Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng, who were just about to descend to the other side of the ridge that Liu Yi said, stopped, turned around and asked in unison, "Why?" ”

"Do you remember what color Yang Guangcan wore last night?"

"Looks like orange-yellow, right?" Wei Xiaofeng said without much thought.

"Everyone has their own preferred color palette. Ski clothes are not worn very often, so people usually choose their favorite color. For example, I prefer black, Xiaofeng prefers maple yellow, and Brother Yun prefers sky blue, so we all chose ski clothes of the corresponding color. It can be seen that the color of the ski suit worn by Yang Guangcan a year ago should also be orange and yellow, while the color of Bai Yunting's ski suit is pink. Both of these colors were very conspicuous on the white snow, so Yang Guangcan categorically did not choose the location of the murder on this side of the ridge that could be seen from the hotel, because he did not dare to guarantee that no one would see them inadvertently in so many hotels. After all, if it is learned that Bai Yunting is missing, the ski resort will send a large number of people into the mountain to search and rescue, and it is impossible for the hotel not to hear the rumors. If someone happens to see two figures of orange and pink appearing on the snowy mountain during the time period of Bai Yunting's disappearance, they will inevitably associate this incident with the disappearance. In that case, the truth that there was another person dressed in orange and yellow clothes by Bai Yunting's side when she disappeared would be revealed, and the spearhead of suspicion would be directed at Yang Guangcan. Therefore, Yang Guangcan will definitely choose to commit murder on the side of the ridge where the hotel cannot be seen, and reduce the possibility of others witnessing him to zero as much as possible. ”

Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng reversed direction, and the three of them went down to the southeast of the ridge together. In front of him is a coniferous forest, and the ground between the forests is undulating and complex, which is indeed a good place to kill people and hide corpses.

"Where do we start with such a large area?" Wei Xiaofeng made a mistake.

Liu Yi didn't have an idea now: "After all, it's been a year, even if Yang Guangcan missed anything at that time, he should have disappeared." I can only look for it slowly. ”

But at this moment, a pink figure appeared between the jagged tree trunks of the coniferous forest in front of them......