Chapter 53: The Third Possibility
Bang!
The calm village of good people rippled again.
Everyone was attracted by the sound of gunshots, like a piece of stinky meat emitting some kind of peculiar smell that attracted countless flies to gather.
Li Jing and Hai Sheng didn't want to join in the fun, after all, where the gunshots rang out, most of the time there would be no good things, their trip was originally to look for little oranges, naturally they tried to be as low-key as possible, more things are better than less things, but Li Jing suddenly caught a glimpse of a somewhat familiar sneaky figure, hesitated for a while, or disguised himself, dragged Haisheng over, but after coming to the scene of the crime, because there were too many people around him, he lost the figure.
Li Jing sighed lightly, pouted, and was about to turn around to leave, but was suddenly grabbed by Hai Sheng, frowning, "What's wrong?" ”
Hai Sheng pointed to the green tree in the center of the crowd, and said with an ugly face, "Something is wrong......
Li Jing's brows furrowed a little deeper, and he said in a low voice, "What's the big deal?" Now for us, the biggest thing is to find the little orange quickly, this child has never been away from home for such a long time, and I don't know if he is hungry......"
"What a big deal!" Hai Sheng interrupted Li Jing's words and swallowed his saliva, "He's dead!" ”
"Who? Little oranges? Li Jing was shocked when she heard this, and immediately turned her head to look at the center of the crowd, and said anxiously, "There are too many people, I can't squeeze through, and I can't see clearly!" ”
"It's not a little orange...... Hai Sheng shook his head, "but it's also a friend we know...... It's that bull-nosed Taoist Yang Bucheng! ”
Li Jing was relieved when she heard that it was not the little orange, but when she heard that it was the Taoist priest Yang Bucheng who died, she immediately stood on tiptoe, her eyes widened, and she looked at the green tree with a shocked face.
Under the green tree, Taoist priest Yang Cheng sat paralyzed on the ground, his back against the trunk of the tree, his clothes were ragged, his face was gray, and there was a small blood-red hole in the center of his eyebrows, and his expression was extremely hideous and terrifying, as if he had seen something frightening when he died.
Just when Li Jing and Hai Sheng were about to push aside the onlookers in front of them to check, they suddenly saw that on the other side of the crowd, Hai Tao and Hai Xing, the head of Good People Village, squeezed out of the gap between their shoulders.
Li Jing looked sideways at Hai Sheng, blinked his eyes and said, "Have you met an acquaintance?" ”
Hai Sheng coughed lightly, lowered his voice and said, "It's not an acquaintance, it's just that it will be a little troublesome for him to see it, he was the one who drove me out of the village in the first place, there was a little conflict in the middle, others may not recognize me, but he is likely to be impressed by me, in layman's terms, even if he turns into ashes, he can recognize ......"
Li Jing looked at Hai Sheng with a strange face, and then at Hai Tao, the village chief in the center of the crowd, and said meaningfully, "I'm afraid this conflict is not small." ”
Coincidentally, at this time, the village chief Haitao suddenly glanced around, his eyes stopped on Li Jing and Haisheng, and frowned slightly.
The starfish next to him noticed his father's expression and asked curiously, "Abba, is there anything wrong with those two people?" ”
Haitao retracted his gaze, glanced at the starfish lightly, shook his head and said, "It's nothing, maybe I saw it wrong...... turned his head to look at the corpse of Taoist priest Yang Bucheng, his face sank, "It's dead again, there must be something strange in this...... Right in the middle of the eyebrows, the marksmanship is very accurate! ”
"Not only is the marksmanship very accurate, but the movements are very fast, and Yang Cheng has barely been given any time to react."
A somewhat tired voice suddenly sounded behind Haitao and Haixing, Sima Bei led Haiyan over, stared at the corpse of Taoist priest Yang Bucheng under the tree, and said with a solemn expression, "The murderer should be someone Yang Bucheng knows, and the relationship is not bad...... That's why Yang Bucheng was so surprised and angry. ”
Haitao looked coldly at Sima Bei's left hand holding Haiyan's right hand, and said in a cold voice, "Who are you?" ”
Haiyan noticed Haitao's gaze, immediately blushed, pulled out her hand, and explained, "Abba, he's ......"
"He's Wu Yesu!" Starfish replied with a smile, "When I was in the Bad Guy Village, thanks to Wu Yesu's care, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to come back smoothly!" ”
Haitao sneered and squinted at Sima Beidao, "Are you Wu Yesu?" ”
Sima Bei coughed dryly, touched his nose and said, "Each of us is a black coconut su...... And I can only be regarded as one of the thousands of people left by Wu Yesu in the world, everyone is a brother and sister, and it is right to help each other. ”
Haiyan pursed her lips, seeing that Haitao's face became even more ugly, she hurriedly said, "Abba, his name is Zhang Xiaoman, he is not a bad person, and now he is helping the little fifth brother and them investigate the murder of Uncle Wang and a priest...... And he saved my life last night......"
"Since you and Haixing both say that he is a good person, then I will believe that he is a good person for the time being......" Haitao snorted lightly, tilting his head to look at Sima Beidao, "Xiao Wu can actually let an outsider intervene in the investigation of the case, which shows that you should have some ability, I heard the meaning of your words just now, you know this deceased?" ”
Sima Bei nodded and said, "I have some friendship, he is a partner who came here from Good People Village with me...... In fact, more than an hour ago, Captain Xiao Wu had also seen Yang Bucheng, and we were all at the scene of Father Edward's murder at that time. ”
"Who is that priest?"
"It's also the one who came from the Bad Guy Village with me."
"Now they're all dead."
"I know what you mean...... But the murderer is definitely not me, first of all, I have no motive and conditions for committing the crime, the priest was suffocated to death, judging from the current evidence, he should have been strangled to death, and there were also bullet casings left by the murderer after shooting at the scene, Yang Bucheng's cause of death was even more obvious, and he was killed by one shot...... I searched the scene just now and found the same type of bullet casings as the priest's scene, plus these shells are the same as the bullet casings at the scene of Lao Wang's murder, so these three cases were all committed by the same person, and I didn't have a gun on me, so naturally it can't be the murderer. Secondly, when Father Yang and Yang Bucheng died, I was with Haiyan and had no time to commit the crime. ”
"It's a set of words, it seems to be quite professional...... But there is a loophole in what you just said, since the murderer has a gun, and he fired all the shots at the scene, why do you have to strangle that priest to death, isn't this taking off your pants and farting, and doing more? ”
"I don't really understand this, and the place where the priest's body was found was not the first scene...... I speculate that it may be that the murderer suddenly had something wrong when he transferred the body after killing the priest, so he fired a few more shots, which is both similar and opposite to the situation at the scene of Lao Wang, the murderer killed Lao Wang after using a shotgun, and then used other methods to kill the victim, the murderer used a shotgun at both scenes, but the fatal injuries were not gunshot wounds, only Yang Bucheng in front of him died directly under the gun. ”
"It sounds complicated and contradictory...... village chief Haitao squinted at Sima Bei and said in a deep voice, "Can you put it simply, who do you think the murderer will be?" ”
Sima Bei picked his head, did not answer Haitao's question directly, remembered the strip of cloth hanging on his father's body, smashed his mouth and said, "Maybe it's a mental illness who thinks he can judge others...... I've been exposed to this kind of case before, and the taste is very similar. ”
Suddenly, a bright light flashed in his mind, and Sima Beisu searched around for the corpse of Taoist priest Yang Chengcheng, and sure enough, he found a handful of cat hair on a certain branch, and sighed, "It's here...... But he's not here. ”
"What do you mean," Haitao frowned, "Don't talk riddles, the last person who spoke like this in the village was already more than three meters tall." ”
Sima Bei smiled, "Professional habits, forgive me...... I also found a handful of cat hair at the previous two sites, exactly the same as here, so I said it was here, and this one it was the big orange cat. And the second he refers to the priest's body, Yang Bucheng took the priest's corpse when he was separated from us, but now he has not seen the priest's corpse here...... Do you know what that means? ”
Haiyan lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then suddenly interjected, "What kind of priest's body did the murderer take?" ”
"Not necessarily, in fact, there are three possibilities," Sima Bei raised two fingers and said, "The first is that Yang Bucheng has already settled the priest's body and has not brought it with him, which is also reasonable, after all, no one will take a corpse with him at any time...... The second is that, as you said, the murderer took away the priest's body, which is a bit surprising, but it may also be because of some kind of accident, the murderer had to take the priest's body, which barely makes sense. ”
The village chief Haitao sneered and said with a cold face, "It's another accident, there have been changes in the three murders, this murderer won't pick the right time to kill!" ”
"This is also normal, even if a vicious villain is, when murdering others, it is inevitable that he will be nervous, and it will inevitably cause accidents......" Sima Bei squatted down, carefully inspected Yang Bucheng's body, found a blue gem in his tattered clothes, and gently checked it, "There are good things hidden in this bull's nose, and it is quite heavy, it should be worth a lot of money...... This may involve the cause of Yang Bucheng's death, after all, it is usually impossible for him to have such a valuable treasure in such a poor person, so I will take it as one of the evidence. ”
The village head, Haitao, watched Sima Bei quickly put the blue gem into his pocket, his face twitched slightly, and he cleared his throat and said, "You just said that there are three possibilities for not having a priest's body here, but you only said two, what is the third possibility?" ”
Sima Bei straightened up, licked his lips, and said with a faint gaze, "The third and most unlikely ......"
As soon as he was halfway through the words, the crowd around suddenly became noisy, like a pot of hot oil, suddenly mixed with a little cold water, which immediately exploded, noisy, and no one paid attention to the third possibility that Sima Bei only said halfway, and looked somewhere in unison......