Just when Sun Zhenbang and others were confused, Hu Xiaocao stopped and said, "We're here."
Sun Zhenbang asked quickly, "Where is it?"
Looking around, there was no one else except them.
Hu Xiaocao pointed to a small house-like building on the ground, "It's right here."
It doesn't look like a small house. It feels like the earth temple they saw in their hometown before. It is less than one meter high and very simple.
Seeing the twisted statue in front of them, unable to tell whether it was an earthworm or a snake, Sun Zhenbang and others fell into silence.
They always thought that the "mountain god" was a human being!
What did you see as a result?
Just a snake? !
Sun Zhenbang said in disbelief: "Xiaocao, is this the mountain god you mentioned?"
Hu Xiaocao nodded matter-of-factly and took out an extremely precious candy from his pocket.
Sun Zhenbang recognized that he had given it to her yesterday. Hu Xiaocao had been reluctant to eat it, but kept it until now.
Because the temperature was too high, the sugar coating on the outside was a little melted. Hu Xiaocao carefully peeled off the candy, placed it in front of the temple, and bowed sincerely.
"Thank you to Grandpa Mountain God for blessing me and turning Xiaocao into a lucky one. If it weren't for you, Xiaocao might never be able to see her mother in this life. I came out in a hurry and didn't bring anything with me. I hope you don't mind it."
Seeing Hu Xiaocao's actions, everyone felt a little helpless. They felt like they were facing a formidable enemy and thought they would see a real person.
But he didn't expect that all he saw were statues of gods enshrined in a small temple.
It's also my fault that they didn't ask clearly beforehand and made a small mistake.
Sun Zhenbang couldn't help but smile. He looked at the temple in front of him. Although it was a bit crude, the sparrow was small, but it had all the internal organs.
Some people couldn't help but ask: "Why is the mountain god a snake?"
Hu Xiaocao said confidently, "Why can't Grandpa Mountain God be a snake?"
This question immediately knocked him down.
This seems to be the case.
Although in most people's impressions, most images of gods are human beings, there are exceptions.
The appearance and shape of the mountain god have distinctive regional characteristics.
For example, the mountain gods in the "Western Mountain Sutra" have a human face, a horse body, a human face, an ox body, and a goat body and a human face; the mountain gods in the "Beishan Sutra" have a human face, a snake body, a horse body, a human face, and a pig body and eight legs; the mountain gods in the "Eastern Mountain Sutra" are It has the body of an animal and a human face, and the body of a goat with horns.
There are really very few people who are completely snakes.
Let’s put aside the fact that the mountain god is a snake. The key is how he appears.
Hu Xiaocao said that the human traffickers were scared away. Is it related to the excessive fright that the forensic doctors later detected.
"Xiaocao, can you tell us in detail how the mountain god appears?"
Hu Xiaocao fell into memories, "At that time, I was caught by those bad uncles, and then Grandpa Mountain God led his men-"
She paused, as if she was searching in her mind for a better adjective.
"Then he came on stage with his men, the 'White Bone Immortal', and scared the bad uncles half to death. They ran away, and I don't know what happened next."
Everyone fell into silence again.
Those who didn’t know better thought they were here to listen to stories, and even such outrageous things as the White Bone Immortal came out.
"But when the traffickers called the police before, they seemed to have mentioned the White Bone Demon..."
Sun Zhenbang looked a little surprised, but after thinking about it, it didn't make any sense, which only made him more depressed.
Then he sent Hu Xiaocao back, and after visiting several more houses, it was getting late. The afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the hilltop, casting a faint golden light. The smoke rising from every house was intertwined with these lights. .
The originally ordinary small mountain village suddenly became something extraordinary.
Sun Zhenbang and others stood at the entrance of the village. The setting sun stretched his shadow very long. There were already many cigarette butts at his feet. He would smoke when he was upset.
Others also had their heads drooped, looking a little downcast.
At the end of the day, there was almost no progress. I originally thought that the visit and investigation would bring some breakthrough to the case, but in fact it had no effect.
"Captain Sun, is there really a mountain god in this world?"
Sun Zhenbang put out the cigarette butt in his hand and rolled his eyes at him, "What do you think?"
Another companion beside him joked: "A Ming, you must have been affected by the words of those villagers today. How can there be a mountain god in this world?"
"It's okay if the villagers say that. You are a policeman. Where did you go to the nine years of compulsory education?"
The policeman named A Ming scratched his head in embarrassment, "I just asked casually if what those villagers said was true."
No matter how mysterious the story was, they didn't believe it.
Although what Hu Xiaocao said was true, she was just a child after all, and it was too easy to be misled.
Maybe those snakes and bones she saw were real.
But maybe someone used a blinding method to deliberately confuse, and then used Hu Xiaocao's mouth to announce it to everyone, and put all this on the so-called "mountain god".
It seems to be a manifestation of the mountain god, but in fact it is all man-made.
There is no god in the world, everything is created by humans.
"I guess that this murderer is the same person who killed Li Han and the others before. Moreover, he has strong anti-investigation capabilities, is a highly intelligent criminal, and his force value is not low."
This is why the cause of Liu Siming's death is so strange. The other three seemed to be frightened and then killed each other. His handiwork must have been involved.
But how it was done, they couldn't know now.
"It can be seen that this person should hate evil as much as he hates it, and he is punishing evil and promoting good."
Because all the people he killed were bad people, even if these people did not die, they would probably be sentenced to life imprisonment or even shot.
"So he did something good? If it weren't for him, what would have happened to Hu Xiaocao is unimaginable."
Sun Zhenbang's eyes fell into the distance and he sighed quietly, "A good thing? You are still too young and don't see things thoroughly and long-term."
He did not approve of this approach.
"Everything has two sides. It would be a bit radical to decide justice by oneself. Moreover, he could have informed the police why he wanted to do it himself."
If Sun Zhenbang had known that the person he was attacking was a snake, he would never have thought this way.
"This person's ability is really too strong. He has evaded police investigation time and time again. He is killing bad guys now. What if he indulges in the joy of killing in the future? Or what if he leads the villagers to follow suit? manage?"
"Civil violence needs to be suppressed. This is the meaning of the existence of the law!"
Sun Zhenbang's words caused everyone to fall into silence.
Now he seems to be on the side of justice, but who can guarantee that he will always have such a fair and strict judgment ability?
All in all, such people are still too dangerous to society, and they still need to be arrested and brought to justice as soon as possible.
No useful information was obtained from the village, so the police could only continue searching the mountain.
Maybe that person had been hiding in the mountains and never left, so he committed the second crime.
However, the police found no trace of anyone living on the mountain, and they also checked the villages at the foot of the mountain and found no suspicious strangers.
At this point in the investigation, things reached a deadlock again.
In the end, there was no other way, and this case could only become an unsolved case and be sealed in the files.
But there was a red seal stamped on the surface of the portfolio:
[Level 2 unsolved case, archives sealed]
(End of chapter)
