Peng Liang looked at Gong Shiba's expression of despair, smiled, patted his head, and reminded: "Go, find Nie Bo and the others. Let them disperse into Youqu Town to find out more information. More, more detailed information.”
Whenever adults want to solve a crime, the corpse is the key. In the words of an adult: the dead can talk and tell him who the real murderer is.
It sounds suspenseful, but it seems to be true. After an autopsy, adults can quickly find clues and catch the real murderer.
As long as they can find all the bones of the four girls this time and find them as soon as possible, I believe it won't take too long to find out the case.
Just about that bad guy...
Peng Liang also had doubts in his heart: How do you know that the guy can't run away?
Is it possible? Will that guy rest in Youqu Town or Manxi County, waiting for their adults to finish solving the case and have time to track him down, before escaping?
Peng Liang was amused by the ridiculous idea that suddenly came to him.
"What are you giggling at?"
Di Ying glanced at Peng Liang, shook her head, stood up and went out, and then said: "Everyone, don't think about the right path. Let's go quickly and go take a look in that forest."
Perhaps because of the loss of life, no one dared to approach that forest.
And the pit where people were buried is still standing there.
It is indeed a vertical pit, but you can only look at it like this. The scene had been destroyed by the people who initially watched the excitement and the government officials who came to investigate the case.
The pit is very narrow, about three to forty inches wide and about one meter deep. There is a lot of floating soil inside. Obviously, when the officials came to pick up the corpse, they pulled out the person.
That also shows that the murderer did not bury the deceased very tightly.
Di Ying lay on the edge of the pit and looked down.
After watching for a while, he asked Peng Liang to find a shovel.
After Di Ying took it, he did not shovel the soil vigorously. Instead, he gently lifted up the floating soil in the pit without touching the walls of the pit.
Only half of the floating soil was removed, and some marks on the pit wall were exposed.
It's a scratch. Scratch marks left by fingernails.
This not only shows that the deceased was indeed buried in this pit, but also shows that... the person was still alive when he was buried.
There are still some very inconspicuous blood stains on the walls of the pit, and there are also blood stains on the bottom of the pit.
The murderer who used this method to bury people may really have a sense of anti-detection. He expected that the body would be pulled out and the floating soil would sink in, so he buried it softly, thus covering up the traces on the walls and bottom of the pit.
Di Ying could also expect that if the murderer really had this kind of consciousness, there would be very few clues that could be found even if the scene was not damaged.
How could a person with anti-detection consciousness be seen parked near this area? Have people appeared near here before?
What a big target is an oxcart?
It was early in the morning when the bullock cart was seen, and some people would still be awake at that time. The murderer could not have failed to take this into consideration...
As for the long hair on the bullock cart, that doesn't mean anything. The hair of adult men is longer than that of 8-year-old girls.
There are also rumors that there were blood stains on the bullock cart. This cannot be used as evidence. Because there is no way to prove whether it is human blood or the blood stains left by some animal.
Even if it can be proven that the blood was human blood, if the murderer wanted to get away with it, he could still say that it was left behind by him or his family after they were injured.
“Examine the forest, the grasses with different undulations, and the roots of every tree.
According to the scratch marks left on the wall of the pit, the deceased had at least one inch of fingernails.
If the murderer really committed the crime in this forest, the little girl must have caught something. And the undulating state of the grass must not be the kind caused by people stepping on it. "
Di Ying gave instructions to Peng Liang and Gong Shiba.
This Gong Shiba was more experienced, so he followed the order and started wandering in the forest.
The forest is not very big, with a vertical and horizontal length of about thirty meters. Perhaps because it is relatively close to the official road, the weeds on the ground are not lush.
Poor families dig weeds for food every day, and cut grass to feed poultry. Coupled with the fact that people step on it, the grass cannot grow in summer, and in winter it looks dry, thin, and not dense.
It's a bit difficult to judge from the undulating state of the grass. Not to mention it snowed.
Di Ying also went to check the roots of the trees and the abnormalities on the ground one by one.
Go around each tree.
After turning around, I finally found something.
In the open area at the far end of the forest, about five meters away from the foot of the mountain, there were traces of scratches on the ground.
Scratch marks, struggle marks, blood marks, kicking marks, etc. are all signs that they have been covered up.
It was precisely this cover-up that made Di Ying discover the anomaly here.
It was also thanks to the fact that the trees on the side of the forest near the clearing were denser and formed a semi-arc with the foot of the mountain, blocking the wind and snow.
There is only a thin layer of snow in this nearly five-meter open area.
Gently push aside the snow and then peel away the floating soil, and the traces will appear one by one.
"grown ups……"
Gong Shiba, who was helping to remove the loose soil, looked at the traces, clenched his fists, and wanted to say something, but only the word "adult" choked out from his throat.
Without looking at the corpse, it is not difficult to see just through these traces: the inhuman abuse the victim suffered before death, and the painful process he went through.
The murderer is really more cruel than an animal.
When a beast hunts, its first bite will be towards the prey's throat. No one can be sure how bad people and their hearts can be.
Di Ying said nothing.
He took out the paper he bought from the tool box, which was highly absorbent and was specially used to trace footprints, and traced out the relatively complete footprints of the murderer.
After finishing, he hesitated for a moment.
Asked Gong Shiba: "What do you scouts usually do if you want to clear away the traces you left behind?"
"Usually I will sweep it with branches. Especially the places where there are footprints. If there are no branches, I will sweep it with my feet while walking backwards. I will pick up the downed grass with my hands." Gong Shiba answered immediately.
Di Ying stood up and circled around the trace a few times again.
Then he touched his chin, stood at the foot of the mountain, and asked the two of them.
"You said that the murderer had anti-detection awareness. If the murderer is really Wang Hongmin, who has been a scout for six years, will this trace... be a little strange?
You see, there are no traces of being swept by anything on it, only signs that it was covered with loose soil...
The area of this trace is two to three meters in diameter. After the murderer finished killing people, he also got dirt from other places and spread it here... Doesn't it make sense? What mentality did the murderer have in doing this? "
