The stolen magic is a bit magical

Chapter 200: Is the real murderer a human or an animal?
"I don't dare to call myself the best detective in Jiangcheng, but I have never made a mistake before." He Jiang said, "The claw marks of the strange beast are clearly shown in front of us, telling us that the strange beast entered this crack in the rock. But I don't know why Detective Lin said that the strange beast was not in the cave?"

"Indeed! I agree with the first half of your answer. The murderer did enter this crevice, but does that mean he is still there?"

"What do you mean?" The smile on He Jiang's face disappeared.

"The meaning is very clear. It went in, but came out again!"

"Going in and coming out... Impossible!" He Jiang said, "There are only claw marks going in at the entrance of the cave, no claw marks coming out!"

Only he is qualified to make this assertion because of his miraculous "footprint floating art".

"There is definitely nothing at the entrance of the cave!" Lin Xiaosu said, "But what about the cave roof? Is it possible... that it crawled out from the stone wall on the top of the cave?"

They all looked up and stared at the top of the cave.

Li Chu snorted coldly: "Nonsense, absurd! The so-called ferocious beast has its own movement habits. Why doesn't it walk on the ground and must climb from the top of the cave?"

Lin Xiaosu said calmly: "If you don't climb from the top of the cave, how can it lead you astray?"

Captain Zhang was shocked: "You mean... this beast has anti-detection awareness?"

Lin Xiaosu said: "Captain Zhang is so sure that the murderer must be a strange beast, not a human?"

Now, everyone was stunned...

Zhou Mei's heart was pounding, and she stared at Lin Xiaosu and forgot to breathe...

She brought Lin Xiaosu here.

Captain Zhang helped her hold up the tank.

However, she was also questioning herself whether it was necessary to bring him here.

But now, when he said this, it was a denial of He Jiang.

He Jiang has already determined that the real murderer is a strange beast, and all the evidence chains support the theory that the murder was committed by a strange beast.

However, Lin Xiaosu now says that the real murderer is actually a human!
If it was a strange beast, Lin Xiaosu's statement that he withdrew from the top of the cave was actually untenable, because animals could not have a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness, and it was impossible for them to set up a maze and lead the investigators astray.

But if the real murderer is a human, his statement is highly credible.

"The real murderer...is not a beast but a human!" He Jiang laughed. "What a sensational statement, Detective Lin. Solving a case requires evidence, not wild imagination."

"Isn't Detective He good at collecting evidence with a spray?" Lin Xiaosu said, "Why don't you take out your spray bottle? I'll point out a few spots and you can spray them!"

He raised his hand slightly and pointed to a location.

Captain Zhang looked in the direction he pointed and his heart was slightly shocked. If it was before, he might not be able to understand what was going on on this stone wall, but now, after the genetic modification, his eyesight was extraordinary. He noticed that several stones had fallen off the stone wall.

He Jiang stared at this position, and his expression changed quietly.

Everyone stared at him.

"Detective He, it might be worth a try!" Captain Zhang said.

He Jiang took out a spray bottle and sprayed it at this location, and something strange happened.

A paw print emitting green fluorescence was clearly visible.

Director Li's expression really changed.

Zhou Mei's eyes really lit up.

"Here, continue!" Lin Xiaosu said.

This spray left another green claw mark...

Soon, following Lin Xiaosu's guidance, the clear claw marks on the cave wall formed a line, came out of the cave, reached the rock on the top of the cave, and then went down the hillside until a stream appeared in front, and the green claw marks disappeared at the edge of the stream.

At this point, even the most stubborn person has to admit it.

The real murderer did not actually enter the cave.

It simply pretended to enter the cave and then retreated from the top of the cave.

"Detective Lin, I admire you!" He Jiang smiled cheerfully: "It seems that the old saying is true, heroes have always been young!"

His words were frank and generous.

Lin Xiaosu smiled slightly: "Thank you for the compliment, it was just luck! Next, Detective He, do you have any way to continue tracking it?"

"Of course there is a way!" He Jiang said, "My He family has seven tracking techniques, so we will definitely use it on this thing."

"Then I won't bother Detective He!" Lin Xiaosu sat down by the stream.

He Jiang checked up and down, crossed the river, and checked on the other side of the river. The scope of the inspection became larger and larger, gradually getting about one or two miles away from them.

Lin Xiaosu didn't follow, and he didn't seem to intend to continue interfering, but there was a strange light in his eyes...

A sigh came from behind, "I invited you here today, and you have become quite popular, but I am afraid that you are in trouble. I think you have offended the provincial department leaders."

"So? I need to handle this case thoroughly and use solid achievements to offset the damage you have suffered?"

"What do you mean?" Zhou Mei asked, "Have you found a breakthrough point?"

"Maybe!" Lin Xiaosu answered with two words. Although these two words were somewhat vague, all the cells in Zhou Mei's body seemed to have suddenly received the greatest stimulation.

"where is it?"

"Let's cross the river!" Lin Xiaosu stretched out his hand, grabbed Zhou Mei's shoulders, and gently pulled her across the eight-meter-wide stream and came to the other side.

His eyes were fixed on the ground opposite. In fact, He Jiang had already sprayed the ground with a spray bottle. The biggest advantage of this "Footprint Floating Technique" was that it could clearly present the footprints of passing creatures. In the previous round of operation, everyone could see many footprints on the other side of the river, but no familiar footprints were found on this side of the river.

Therefore, everyone speculated that the beast had gone down the river, or up the river, and landed somewhere else.

"The man named He has already sprayed here. There are no special footprints." Zhou Mei said.

"This footprint is a bit special." Lin Xiaosu pointed to a footprint in the mud on the ground.

Zhou Mei looked down and saw that it was a standard human footprint, barefoot, very clear.

"These are human footprints, not..." Zhou Mei's voice suddenly stopped and she stared at Lin Xiaosu.

"I just reminded them that the real murderer is most likely not a beast but a human! They are still stubborn..."

Zhou Mei asked, "Do you suspect that he removed his disguise in the stream and turned back into a human? He used this unimaginable method to cut off the tracking chain?"

"Yes!"

"But this is just your guess! It's hard to say whether it's a human or a beast. It's normal for a human footprint to appear here. There are villages around here."

Lin Xiaosu said: "It's normal to have footprints, but is it normal to be barefoot?"

Zhou Mei's heart moved slightly, it's true!

It was late autumn now and the river was not very wide. You could just jump across the narrow part. So what reason was there to take off your shoes?
It is illogical to take off your shoes in order to cross a river.

It is even more abnormal to walk on the grass without shoes, because the grass is covered with a local grass called Imperata cylindrica. At this time of year, the Imperata cylindrica is very hard and it hurts like needles when it pricks the soles of your feet.

Is it possible that this person has no shoes?
This may have happened during times of war, but in modern society, even the poorest families have several pairs of shoes. In short, these footprints are very abnormal.

After walking a dozen steps, Lin Xiaosu's eyes lit up: "Look!"

Zhou Mei leaned closer and stared at a thorn beneath the footprint.

This thorn is called dog thorn, which is the hardest kind. When it was stepped on by a bare foot, three of its thorns broke off.

"He can step on thorns without hurting his feet. This is irrefutable proof!" Lin Xiaosu said, "Perhaps only people with special genes can have such thick skin tissue."

Zhou Mei's heart skipped a beat. She took out a plastic bag and put the thorns in it.

Although this man had thick skin and no blood was left on the thorns, genetic tissue is a very strange thing. Once touched, there will always be residues. The genetic tissue extracted from it is also an integral part of the chain of evidence.

In front of an ancient tree, Lin Xiaosu's logic came to a complete halt...

The barefoot man put on his shoes in front of the ancient tree.

Explain what?
This means he put his shoes in the tree hole in advance.

In fact, he could see clearly by looking back in time...

Zhou Mei's mind was also in a state of logical closure. Although she didn't have Lin Xiaosu's ability to solve cases, she was a police officer and had handled many cases...

He hides his shoes in a tree hole, walks on thorns barefoot, changes his form when crossing a river, leads people astray after killing someone, returns to the stream to restore his true form, goes back to the tree hole to put on his shoes, goes up the road above, and is drowned in the vast sea of ​​people.

Is this the entire chain of crime committed by the real murderer?
Go up from this shore, get on the upper road, and go down along the simple road until you reach a farm house.

This farm stay is called "Chunshui Villa".

The area ten miles above is called Bishui Villa, and it is also called Chunshui Villa.

Although it is a follow-up industry, Chunshui Villa's business is pretty good.

The key is that its geographical location is very good. It is backed by Tashan Mountain and faces the end of Tashan Lake. It is surrounded by mountains and water, and city people like it.

Lin Xiaosu entered Chunshui Villa. There were already quite a few people there at that time. There were many cars parked on the large platform outside, and several pavilions were full of people.

Smoking, eating melon seeds, drinking tea, swinging...

Several children were running around...

Lin Xiaosu and Zhou Mei came over, and a middle-aged waiter greeted them: "Do you want to eat or stay?"

"Let's eat!" Lin Xiaosu said.

It was almost lunch time, so they ordered two dishes and sat at the table waiting for their meal.

Zhou Mei poured a cup of tea, put her lips close to the cup, and lowered her voice: "Did you find anything?"

Lin Xiaosu said: "Yes."

Zhou Mei's teacup swung gently...

"Don't get excited. Eat your meal peacefully first. After lunch, we can formulate an action plan."

Zhou Mei had no appetite for this meal.

After she finished eating in a few bites, she stood there watching Lin Xiaosu count the rice grains slowly.

Lin Xiaosu smiled: "I didn't mean to whet your appetite."

"Then what do you mean?"

"I want to wait for Detective He..."

"Wait for him? Do you think he can find this place?"

"Logically speaking, as the number one detective, he should be able to discover the suspicious points we just found."

"That's not necessarily true. Human thinking is conditioned. He first determined that the murderer was a beast. Under the guidance of his subconscious, he would consciously or unconsciously deviate from the path and naturally ignore any traces of humans..."

"That's right!" Lin Xiaosu said, "No more waiting! I'll arrange an action plan..."

(End of this chapter)