Two little girls, Yang Lexin and Zhu Li, were squatting next to the bushes.
Lu Yao walked over and saw Yang Lexin carefully picking up a bracelet from the grass, wiping it clean with a handkerchief, and then handing it to Zhu Li's hand.
Lu Yao's instinct as a police officer made him want to stop him for a moment, but after thinking for a moment, he still controlled this behavior which he shouldn't do as a classmate.
"Is this the bracelet you dropped?" Lu Yao asked curiously.
The light of Tang Qian's flashlight as he walked over hit Zhu Li's wrist, making the jade shine brightly. She turned her head and nodded to several people, indicating that this was indeed the one she lost. Then she turned back and looked at her wrist and the floor where she found the bracelet, as if she was thinking about something.
"But that's some distance from the farthest she's ever been."
Song Qiaoyu heard someone whispering next to him, and turned around to see that the speaker was Tang Qian following him.
Before Song Qiaoyu could ask the question, Tang Qian continued to whisper in Song Qiaoyu's ear as if he had read his mind: "I remind you because I'm afraid you won't be able to tell; continue to tell them without telling them, firstly, to avoid embarrassment. , Secondly, it’s useless to say it, even if she knows something, she won’t say it.”
Although she did have a sudden feeling, Song Qiaoyu always felt that her image in Tang Qian's heart seemed not quite right?
"Yes, I am cooperating. At least in this matter, I am telling the truth - I don't know anything." Tang Qian found that Officer Song looked at him in shock, with an unnatural look on his face. said.
"Put it on, don't lose it this time." On the other side, Yang Lexin didn't notice the strangeness of the people who were getting closer to him biting their ears. She stood up, pulled Zhu Li up, and patted the grass blades on the knees of her school pants. "Although it is difficult to find, it is fortunate that it is in such a remote place. If such a valuable thing is picked up by a greedy person, If you leave, it will be difficult to get back.”
"This is my mother's dowry." Zhu Li was pulled up, seemingly distracted. Her first move was to look around, but what she saw was a dark space that was not illuminated by the flashlight. Then she suddenly realized that she was in the dark, and she didn't have a flashlight in her hand, so she didn't have such a good field of vision.
"It turns out that it fell here... I might... Sorry, I might be a little confused." She raised her hand, looked at her jade bracelet, and murmured to herself.
"It's even more suspicious. She is deliberately emphasizing this fact. She wants to correct the possibility of 'she walked to this area by herself and lost the bracelet.'" Tang Qian continued to whisper in Song Qiaoyu's ear, letting Song Qiaoyu felt as if there was a guide named Tang Qian growing next to him, specializing in providing some types of insights.
I don’t know if it’s professional or not, but it sounds quite interesting.
Lu Yao was closer to them and could hear their whispers. He was not so surprised because he also had some insights. She squinted her eyes and looked at Zhu Li's wrist, which was still illuminated. The jade had a soft luster and was not too dazzling under the strong light of the flashlight. She is not an expert on jade, and she has no clue about it. But Yang Lexin kept shining the flashlight beam in that spot, so everyone could see it.
"Actually, it's not a very valuable thing, but it's just of more commemorative significance." Zhu Li noticed many eyes on her wrist and retracted her hand in a panic.
Yang Lexin also put down the flashlight, patted Zhu Li on the shoulder, and asked warmly: "Are you still looking for it?"
Lu Yao felt more and more that Squad Leader Yang was really considerate. He cared about Zhu Li all the way and was closer to her than his own sister.
She couldn't help but ran to Tang Qian and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Tang, you always think there is something wrong with Zhu Li. What do you think about this Yang Lexin, Squad Leader Yang?"
Tang Qian gave her a strange look: "Human, female, alive. How can I see it?"
Lu Yao was also choked by him.
"I have to talk about characteristics. He is quite nosy." Tang Qian shifted his eyes and looked in the direction of the previous tree again.
It's really concise and to the point.
He didn't seem to be particularly shocked or impressed by Yang Lexin's excessive enthusiasm. Or maybe this kid was still planning something and chose to give a perfunctory answer to what others said. Or maybe he just thinks it doesn't matter whether he talks about it or not?
This kind of perfunctory... made Lu Yao feel a little familiar.
"I think you should be sent to talk to our boss." She couldn't help but shook her head and sighed.
"Who are you sending away?" Tang Qian's voice suddenly became louder, attracting the attention of the two girls over there.
"What's wrong?" Yang Lexin was still talking about something with Zhu Li, and turned around when he heard the sound.
Tang Qian turned around, already prepared, and said calmly: "I'm telling you, if someone steals the bracelet, the police will definitely bring him to justice."
He also deliberately emphasized the word police.
It's really difficult to deal with, Lu Yao thought to himself.
At this moment, there was another movement from Song Qiaoyu's side. He frowned and looked at his palm.
"Cousin, what did you find?" Lu Yao leaned over curiously, remembering to emphasize the personalities of the two of them.
Song Qiaoyu's face was a little solemn, and his flashlight was turned off, and he only relied on the scattered light and his night vision function to stare at the things in his hands. Tang Qian also followed, and the flashlight shone on his hand. Lu Yao, who was not used to the darkness of the night, could see what was on it clearly.
"A fly?" Tang Qian was stunned.
"I just felt that the sound here was not right." Song Qiaoyu glanced at the dying fly in his hand, "I originally thought it was because the types of mosquitoes here were different and the sounds were different. But in fact, even the species were wrong. No wonder the entire environment There’s something wrong with the sound.”
"You mean... no... you actually understand this?" Lu Yao lowered his voice and said in surprise.
Song Qiaoyu also gave her a strange look at this moment: "Do you think I... what was the most common thing in the place I was before?" He originally wanted to say the place name, but suddenly remembered that Tang Qian was still there.
Only then did Lu Yao turn his head around and suddenly realized.
Finally having such a sense of superiority, Song Qiaoyu felt a little relieved, but she did not forget what she had discovered now.
At this moment, Tang Qian used the light of a flashlight to observe the insects around him and caught one.
"It doesn't seem to be an isolated phenomenon." He opened his palms.
That's a fly too.
What has been disturbing a few people here is actually not the mosquitoes they had always imagined, but a large number of flies.
Flies are usually attracted to the place where the body is. They like to lay eggs and reproduce around decaying or soon-to-decay remains. The condition of their eggs is often an important basis for judging the time of death. In the quiet countryside, the sound of mosquitoes and flies flying around is hard to ignore. But there are some difficulties in distinguishing the difference in quantity and composition between them.
But from an optimistic point of view, it is not as bad as we thought.
Maybe it was a misunderstanding caused by the remains of small animals that died suddenly nearby? But especially at this point in time, it’s hard not to think too much about the mutated insect environment.
"I think it's better not to tell those two people first." Tang Qian glanced back.
Lu Yao nodded, then looked at Song Qiaoyu.
This place is almost unobstructed, the biggest obstacle is the bushes, other species of forest trees and the independent type of tree, it is difficult to see anything different. Even if there was one, it was directly discovered with a glance at the single-cultivated sapling just discovered.
On the ground, several people looked over it with flashlights - before finding the jade bracelet.
In other words, everything that can be directly touched by sight has been turned upside down.
"Is it possible that the body has been buried underground?" Tang Qian frowned, "I don't know much about this aspect."
To put it this way, he is just an ordinary high school student. All relevant knowledge can only rely on hearsay and has not received professional training.
"The turf here looks quite normal. Burying a person like a coffin and occupying such a large area to dig soil... I don't think it is possible." Lu Yao whispered.
"Perhaps we can dig vertically?" Tang Qian's knowledge blind spot was involved, and he began to make random ideas, "Wouldn't this be too laborious?"
Song Qiaoyu squatted on the ground and looked up at the saplings and shrubs.
The entire terrain here is covered with knee-high weeds, only ridiculed shrubs, and in the distance - more than ten meters away, are concentrated woods. Of course, it is different from the one planted here alone.
In this place where there seems to be no obstacles and nothing unusual, as long as you stand in a place with a wide field of vision, you seem to have control over everything. This is also where it’s easiest to let your guard down, because everything seems to be in plain view, especially on a sunny day, as opposed to such a gloomy night. The blind spots of vision are often hidden in the seemingly bright and aboveboard world.
But the crisis... is hidden inside.
He vaguely thought of something.
Song Qiaoyu took a deep breath.
A scene from the past suddenly flashed before his eyes. It was an equally desolate hillside - although there was no shortage of people, every person who walked around would arouse his own vigilance and even fear. That was the most thrilling mission he had performed so far, perhaps in his entire life, and it was also the mission that brought him the greatest achievement.
That was a stealth walk on the edge of a knife. The starting point of the subsequent battle, the familiar sound of a gunshot, was the source of his achievements.
But without the thrilling and long-term lurking, nothing that follows will happen.
Although he asked himself that he was not afraid, it was the same feeling as when he always performed tasks, but the illusion that his experience and reality were beginning to overlap made him vaguely feel... an intuitive strange feeling.
Maybe this time, you can use your own experience to find a breakthrough?
Song Qiaoyu looked around.
He started looking for a special place.
If it were daytime, the shadows would be different here. Then refer to the degree of looseness of the soil, the thickness of the leaf layer, etc...
If it were him...
His eyes turned to a cluster of strange-shaped shrubs growing there. There happened to be two big trees near the bush. In summer, the trees lose few leaves and are even sparse. But the topography of this place is slightly special. To the naked eye, it forms a ravine with a small number of leaves accumulated, mixed with weeds.
There aren't many fallen leaves in summer, and even in places like this where trees are thick, there are few places where there are clearly several layers of fallen leaves. What can provide more shelter is the lush weeds.
The terrain here is not completely level, and occasionally there are such places - because of the ravines formed by the terrain, even the weeds are twisted and twisted, making it uneasy.
He walked through all the ravines that were at an appropriate distance from the marked saplings. Compared with other ravines in this area, what is special about these places is that they are some distance away from the single type of tree landmark they found, but not too far apart. Take a few more steps. You can reach it, and you can even directly detect the movement there.
Song Qiaoyu picked up the flashlight and shined it on the weeds, examining every leaf caught in the gaps between the weeds.
Finally, his gaze stopped at one of them.
In addition to the leaves of shrubs, the ubiquitous leaves of trees, there is one other type of leaf that appears in sight.
Those are the leaves from that "marker" tree, which are very fresh. Only two slices, but suspicious enough.
You know, this is a season when leaves don’t often fall.
Leaving rare and precious leaves in such a place...
He held his breath and carefully stretched out his hand towards the two leaves.
