Lu Qi said that he had never doubted him, he knew very well that if it wasn't for Xu Chunliang that day, he might have been strangled to death by the big snake, he just couldn't figure out who would have such a ability to make those two big snakes obedient and help him commit theft.

Xu Chunliang remembered that Lu Qi came to the store to buy plasters that day, and he had long doubted himself if he couldn't keep it, so he found an excuse to go back to the Spring Hall to investigate.

In fact, this is understandable, after all, there are not many people who can make the two big snakes obedient, and they only blame themselves for being negligent at the time, but they didn't expect that there was a case behind them. The person who manipulated this must be very familiar with the process of dealing with such an incident.

The female snake had a swollen abdomen, and the male snake was supposed to be in charge of intimidating the crowd to divert attention, and after everyone was scared to flee the store, the female snake calmly moved into the warehouse through the vent and swallowed the mobile phone one by one.

Originally, the division of labor between the two snakes was clear, and the female snake responsible for the theft should retreat first, but Lu Qi and Li Zhong's timely dispatch of the police threatened the safety of the male snake, and the female snake on the way to escape appeared to attack Lu Qi.

From this point on, the plan had deviated from the control of the snake rider, and after Xu Chunliang stepped forward, the direction of things changed completely.

Xu Chunliang told Lu Qi that generally speaking, Wang Jin Snake does not have pica and will not take the initiative to swallow the mobile phone, there must be someone behind the manipulation, and at the same time he is very interested in the whereabouts of the two snakes, who did the police hand over the two snakes to in the end? And who is responsible for the release?

These are all things that Lu Qi did not consider before, Xu Chunliang's reminder made him realize that this case is more complicated than he imagined, usually this kind of incident is the emergency treatment of the fire department, they will arrange a special snake catcher, and the captured animals will be handed over to the relevant departments of the Forestry Bureau to deal with, the matter has passed so long, the two snakes should have returned to the mountains and forests a long time ago, and this case is likely to be undetectable.

Xu Chunliang's eyes fell out of the car window, and the colorful neon lights on the side of the road rendered the world bizarre, and it seemed that this world was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

Early Saturday morning, Xu Chunliang received a call from Lu Qi, asking him if he was okay and wanted to ask him to go to the place where the Forestry Bureau released the animals, after all, Xu Chunliang knows the habits of snakes and insects very well, and may be able to help the case.

Xu Chunliang didn't have anything to do with resting anyway, so he agreed to come down.

Half an hour later, Lu Qi and Li Zhong drove a police car to the door to pick him up.

Li Zhong was in charge of driving, and Lu Qi accompanied Xu Chunliang to sit in the back.

Lu Qi told Xu Chunliang about the follow-up of the two king snakes, and after Xu Chunliang subdued the two big snakes that day, they handed over the two snakes they caught to the Municipal Forestry Bureau.

At that time, there was also a professional snake catcher named Fan Yajun, who was an employee of the Forestry Bureau, and after a routine physical examination of the two king snakes, he sent them to the Qinglong Mountain Reserve for release on the same day.

"Does he have a problem?"

Lu Qi shook his head and said: "This person has a good reputation in the unit, works diligently, and has been rated as a municipal model worker many times. ”

"You can't just look at the surface."

"He had an alibi, and he wasn't alone in the release. We also investigated his itinerary for those days and found nothing suspicious. ”

Xu Chunliang said: "Maybe it's a gang." ”

Li Zhong, who was driving in front, couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Xiao Xu, you shouldn't study medicine, you should be a policeman." ”

Lu Qi didn't think it was funny, Xu Chunliang said it was not unreasonable, the handling of the incident was ostensibly done in accordance with the process, but after the investigation, some unusual places were found, such as being sent to the reserve for release on the same day, and the wild animals that are usually captured are kept in captivity for a few days before they are released into the wild after determining that their physical condition is normal.

It is not good to suspect that Fan Yajun has a problem from this point alone, the release is approved by the Forestry Bureau, and it is not Fan Yajun alone to go to Qinglong Mountain to release life, there are a total of three employees who went with him, and there is a special person to hand over in the Qinglong Mountain Nature Reserve, after the release is completed, the four people of the Forestry Bureau immediately returned, and the relevant personnel have not been out of the urban area from that day to now.

Li Zhong thinks that it is meaningless to go to the release site, so many days have passed, and the two snakes have long since disappeared, and he doesn't believe that Wang Jin Snake swallowed his mobile phone, and he can still pull it out completely after swallowing it? But Lu Qi had to go on this trip, and as a partner, he had to accompany him.

Qinglong Mountain is 25 kilometers away from Dongzhou City, with an altitude of more than 400 meters, and can be regarded as a big mountain in Pingjiang Province, which is dominated by plains.

They followed the map navigation to find the Qinglongshan Nature Reserve Office, and had already contacted it in advance, and Zhou Meng, a forest ranger who participated in the release activity that day, was already waiting there.

Seeing the police car coming, he hurriedly greeted him.

Zhou Meng took over his father's class to enter the Forestry Bureau, and there are few succession talks in today's society, but Zhou Meng's father was honorably injured in the operation to extinguish the mountain fire seven years ago, and the organization arranged for Zhou Meng to succeed him in recognition of his heroic behavior.

Zhou Meng has a proud height of 1.92 meters, dark complexion, and a strong body, and enthusiastically stretched out his hand to shake the three of them one by one, welcoming their arrival.

When I shook hands with Xu Chunliang, I found that he was not wearing a police uniform, according to Zhou Meng's perception of life, generally speaking, those who did not wear a police uniform were big leaders, and I wondered a little, this young man looks younger than me, so he should be a leader?

Xu Chunliang found that Zhou Meng's palms were thick and firm, the palms were covered with calluses, and the fist joints of both hands were also covered with thick calluses, and the grip was rough like old bark.

Lu Qiluo went to the link introduced by the two parties, they were here for business and not to make friends.

Zhou Meng knew their purpose and pointed to the mountain, telling them that the place where they were released was on it.

"Far away?" Li Zhong asked.

"It's not far, it's only a few steps away."

They quickly understood the true meaning of Zhou Meng's mouth, and walked through the mountains and forests for nearly forty minutes before approaching the release point deep in the dense forest.

Li Zhong was so tired that he couldn't breathe, Lu Qi was no better than him, Zhou Meng was tall and long-legged, his stride was huge, and his usual job was to shuttle and patrol in the mountains and forests, walking this kind of mountain road was like walking on flat ground, today he began to deliberately slow down his pace in order to take care of the police comrades, and he walked in more than 20 minutes instead of usual.

The best performance among the three was Xu Chunliang, who was not left behind by Zhou Meng from beginning to end.

Zhou Meng secretly praised in his eyes, he really can't underestimate this white and pure young man, his physique is really good.

Li Zhong really couldn't hold it anymore, so he stopped on the spot, leaned on a crooked neck tree and bowed his waist, panting: "Xiao Zhou...... Rest...... Go ...... again."

Zhou Meng stopped, turned around and said, "It's not a few steps ahead." ”

Li Zhongxin said, I believe you are a ghost.

"Don't move!" Zhou Meng suddenly yelled.

Lu Qi and Li Zhong didn't know what was going on, so they were frightened and didn't move.

Xu Chunliang had already seen that on the branch above Li Zhong's head, a red and black red chain snake was spitting out a letter and was ready to attack.

Zhou Meng took out a red sandalwood slingshot from his waist, and the outside of the Y-shaped bow frame was covered with a thick layer of slurry because of long-term use, and the oil was shiny.

He raised his hand and shot a stone, the rubber band was only half pulled, the force was just right, the stone broke away from the leather pocket and shot out, hitting the head of the red chain snake, driving it away without hurting it.

Xu Chunliang watched from the sidelines, Zhou Meng's slingshot was accurate, from taking it out to shooting in one go, he didn't expect this big man to have such good marksmanship, the key is the control of strength.

The red chain snake fled in panic, and disappeared into the depths of the trees in an instant, leaving only a series of rustling sounds from near and far, which were soon hidden by the mountain wind.

Lu Qi and Li Zhong breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and Li Zhong said with palpitations: "I almost died." ”

Xu Chunliang said with a smile: "This red chain snake is very weak and will not hurt your life." ”

Zhou Meng glanced at Xu Chunliang in some surprise: "Leader, do you know this?" ”

"I'm not a leader."

Lu Qi walked over and said, "I forgot to introduce, this is a snake expert we invited from Changxing Hospital." ”

Zhou Meng was in awe, in his heart the expert is obviously higher than the leader, he only has a beginner Chinese background, the most admired is the learned person.

When the four of them came to the release point, Zhou Meng pointed to the grass under his feet and said that they were released here that day, and he watched two vegetable melon snakes swim from here into the depths of the dense forest.

Lu Qi and Li Zhong checked around at the release point, but in fact, they couldn't find any clues, not to mention that so many days had passed.

Zhou Meng was curious: "Are you looking for those two big snakes?" ”

Lu Qi said: "Can you still find it?" ”

Zhou Meng shook his head: "Although Qinglong Mountain is not high, the area of the mountain forest is not small, and the twelve peaks of Qinglong are connected to each other. ”

Lu Qi was at a loss, and looked at Xu Chunliang for help, do you want to run for nothing today?

Xu Chunliang said: "Rats have rat paths, snakes have snake paths, two snakes are so big, there must be traces where they pass." "Looking at the dense forest in front of me, the snake's body is born with a fishy smell, which is different from fishy, mixed with the smell of earth.

The fishy smell is different for different species, and the fishy smell should have dissipated long ago after so many days, but when the king snake passes through the grass, the fishy smell will stick to the blades of grass, and usually this fishy smell will not disperse for many days.

Ordinary people can't smell this fishy smell even if they put their nose on the blades of grass, but for Xu Chunliang, who has a keen sense of smell, he can easily recognize this smell. The initial cultivation of the "Treasure Book of Heaven" was to improve people's five senses.

Although Xu Chunliang's internal strength was greatly reduced, the smell of various snake and insect poisons had long been integrated into his memory, and the body odor of the king snake was extremely heavy, and the anal gland emitted a unique stench.

The unique fishy smell seemed to form a winding road sign in front of Xu Chunliang's eyes, Xu Chunliang strode forward, the three of them followed behind, and Zhou Meng naturally had no problems.

Lu Qi and Li Zhong couldn't keep up with their physical strength, and as policemen, they couldn't show their cowardice, so they could only grit their teeth with perseverance to keep up, and although they tried their best, they were still thrown away from a distance of more than ten meters.

After walking in the dense forest for about ten minutes, Xu Chunliang stopped, sniffed and said, "It's nearby." ”

Zhou Meng sniffed hard as he did, smelling a foul smell, so disgusted that he almost didn't vomit.

Xu Chunliang pointed to the front right, Lu Qi picked up the grass with a bamboo pole, but saw a big snake curled up in front of him that had been stripped of its skin, it seemed to be dead, the body was decomposed in many places, and the disgusting stench was emanating from its corpse.

Zhou Meng pinched his nose and said, "Why did you die?" In fact, this phenomenon is not uncommon, many animals are released into the mountains and forests, because they cannot adapt to the wild environment, and the corpses go out into the wilderness.

There are all kinds of indications that it should be hunted.

Lu Qi put on a mask and gloves, came to the big snake that had been dead for many days, turned its body, and found that its abdomen was cut a foot-long opening, reminiscent of the stolen fifteen mobile phones, it seems that it should have been swallowed by this king snake.

After the release of the animals by the Forestry Bureau, someone was waiting here in advance.

Li Zhong said: "Why kill it by such cruel means? Wouldn't it be okay to spit it out? "He'd seen in the animal world in the past that snakes can spit out if they can't eat something.

Lu Qi said: "The packaging of the mobile phone is square, and it shouldn't be able to spit it out, so I can only take things out in this way." ”

Xu Chunliang said: "You open its mouth and take a look." ”

Lu Qi took out a knife and pried open the mouth of the king snake, although he was wearing a mask, the rancid breath almost didn't faint him, and the snake's fangs found blue clothing fibers, Lu Qi deduced that the snake should have attacked someone, so it angered the other party, and then killed it, but the person who could kill such a big king snake was not an ordinary person.

Xu Chunliang said: "This snake should have been summoned here. ”