Chapter 16: One Step Late

We searched for Dai Kairui all the way to the depths of Dubao Mountain, and we first found his hunting dog, and then followed the hound to find Dai Kairui's traces.

He lay under a tree, his straw hat over his face, as if he were asleep. But under the straw hat, blood stained the green grass red.

I went up to check his snort, but Dai Kairui was already dead, and we were still late......

There was no forensic doctor at the scene, but judging from the fact that Dai Kairui only had the only wound on his head on his body, the cause of his death was the same as Xie Tianjun and Dai Xiaowu in the small hotel in Chenglin County, who were both killed by blunt blows to the head.

There were no obvious traces of a fight at the scene, and the murderer who entered the mountain with Dai Kairui was nowhere to be found, and the circumstances of the crime were easily restored.

The murderer asked Dai Kairui to go into the mountains to hunt, and the murderer had already planned to kill Dai Kairui, but Dai Kairui did not perceive the danger at all, and drove a pickup truck into the mountains with him. They first sat on the grass and rested for a while, and then continued to walk to the depths of Dubao Mountain, when Dai Kairui was defenseless, the murderer took out the iron rod murder weapon that had been prepared long ago, and smashed it on Dai Kairui's head, so that Dai Kairui died on the spot, and his hound fled and went down the mountain to ask for help.

Although I was able to find out the cause of Dai Kairui's death, I could not tell the time of Dai Kairui's death by the wounds of the corpse and the degree of stiffness. It would be nice if there was a forensic doctor present who could know exactly when Dai Kairui died, so that we could judge how long the murderer had been gone and how far he had gone.

"His gun is gone!" Xue Hang said immediately.

My heart tightened suddenly, and Dai Kairui had brought a barrel shotgun with him, but we didn't find his shotgun at the scene.

The murderer has *** gun on him, and now there is another shotgun, and the danger level of the murderer has increased by another level.

Now that three people have been killed, we are even more convinced that the scraps of paper have put together a list of killings.

Now the pressure on our hearts is extremely great, and the murderer still has the possibility of continuing to commit crimes and killings according to the list.

Of the twenty-six names on the list, twenty-three remain.

So far, we still have too little information about the murderer, only a vague surveillance video photo, we know that he is now wearing a black peaked cap, the color and style of clothes on his body, a middle-aged chubby man, a club and two guns in his hands.

A pistol of his own, a barrel shotgun snatched from the old generation.

In addition to this, the murderer's psychology also has a death list, and he is killing people one by one according to this list.

The list is three pages long, and what really makes us nervous is the last sentence on the third sheet: other than that, both adults and children will see one and the other.

Until now, we don't know which village the murderer has such a deep hatred with the villagers, and what kind of grudge can make the murderer have such a distorted idea of making a death list to kill people.

What kind of contradictions and grievances made him make the whole village a target for revenge.

We have not had an answer to this question.

"Team Qin, what now?" Tang Wenbo looked at the corpse of Dai Kairui on the ground, walked up to me, and asked my opinion.

I frowned, watched the sunset on the horizon, and pondered for a moment.

The murderer is more familiar with the environment of Dubaoshan than we are, and we have too few police forces to complete the search for Dubaoshan, so if we continue to waste time, it is very likely that the murderer has already left Dubaoshan and attacked the next person on the list.

It's getting dark, we can't spend the night in the mountains, and now we have to find his next target and protect him before he does.

I turned on my phone and flipped out the photo of the death list that Jiang Tingbai sent me.

According to the order, the murderer's next target was a person named Director Xu.

Our current location is Mulintun, and near us are Yushugou and Daliushugou, all of which are villages, and the person who can be called "director" in the village must be the village director.

But we don't know which village this Director Xu is, no matter what, we must go down the mountain immediately to find this Director Xu and protect him.

"Take Dai Kairui's corpse, and let's go down the mountain immediately!" I fixed my mind and commanded.

It was easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, and we walked the mountain road for several hours in a row, and our legs were already a little weak.

We are tired, the murderer must be very tired, this route we went into the mountain is the closest route, and the murderer wants to go down the mountain from other routes, and he needs to detour a long distance.

So no matter what, we're going to get down the hill faster than the murderer.

By the time we arrived at the foot of Mt. Dubao, it was already visibly dark, and in any case, we finally descended the mountain before dark.

At this time, I suddenly found that there was a person squatting next to Dai Kairui's pickup truck!

"Big brother?" I frowned and asked a tentative question.

When the man heard my question, he stood up abruptly and said excitedly, "You have finally come down the mountain, and if you don't come down again, I will call the police." ”

I smiled and walked towards him, but I didn't expect this villager to be really honest and have been waiting for us at the foot of the mountain after sending us up the mountain.

"How? Have you found the old generation? He asked me excitedly.

I thought about it, and instead of telling him the news of Dai Kairui's death, I asked him instead, "Do you know a person named Director Xu?" ”

"Director Xu?!" The villagers were stunned.

His reaction made me a little confused, whether I knew it or not.

"Yes, Director Xu." I nodded in the affirmative.

The villagers smiled: "Director Xu, of course I know, our village director of Mulintun!" ”

I breathed a long sigh of relief, everything is developing in the direction we want most, otherwise we will have to go to Daliushugou and Yushugou to find this Director Xu, and we don't know how much time it will take to come and go.

"Do you know where Director Xu's family lives?" I asked very eagerly.

The villagers nodded again and again, and said loudly: "I know, I'll take you there!" ”

Before getting into the car, I instructed the police to use a car to pull Dai Kairui's body back to the Chenglin County Public Security Bureau, so that the forensic doctor could conduct an autopsy to see if he could find some clues. The rest of us went to Director Xu's house together.

When the villagers learned the identity of our policemen, they immediately raised their eyebrows, walked with their waists straight, and helped us very enthusiastically. Soon, we came to Director Xu's house.

Walking into the courtyard, there were no lights on in the room and the door was open.

Director Xu is gone......