Animal Detective

Chapter 257 Take a Gamble

Logically speaking, DouDou should be the most suitable.

Highly liked, intelligent, and with extensive work experience.

However, going back to the branch office from here takes at least an hour round trip.

Considering that Comrade Ding Yuwei was relatively free, Shen Xin called her and asked her to help bring Dou Dou over.

While waiting, Shen Xin didn't sit idle. He took Odin's hand and prepared to give it a try.

It is said that blood has the most sensitive sense of smell.

Unverified news reports online claim that blood tracing can track scents from two weeks ago.

At the same time, it can continuously track odors for up to 200 kilometers.

It sounds like bragging.

Odin has also reached the second stage. Although he hasn't had any formal training, it's worth a try.

"I'll go as well."

Li Jiahui hurriedly followed.

And then there's Li Mo, staring longingly at Shen Xin.

Even Tian Kui leaned forward and said something to Shen Xinwang, as if to say, "Why didn't you take me with you?"

He also barked at Odin, trying to frighten him.

Shen Xin pointed at Li Mo and said, "You shouldn't go. Stay here and keep an eye on Tian Kui and the others."

"what?"

Li Mo glared at Shen Xin with resentment and displeasure.

You are blinded by lust and forget your principles.

Shen Xin ignored him.

Li Jiahui is a professional instructor, and her work experience was referenced in Zhu Tianshun's case.

She has to go with her.

Li Jiahui was secretly delighted, but immediately got back into work mode, saying that Odin hadn't received formal tracking training yet, so why not get steel teeth?

This is a German Shepherd, the highest-rated professional tracking dog at the facility.

"Need not."

Shen Xin shook his head and refused, saying that their abilities were different.

Now, let's set off with Odin by our side.

On the way, Shen Xin took the opportunity to tell Liu Baoqing that Odin was a police dog trained by their new district branch.

"Oh?"

Liu Baoqing perked up immediately and couldn't help but touch Odin a couple more times.

He also told Zhao Tong, who was standing next to him, to use the team's funds to buy some good food and drinks online and send them to Odin.

Shen Xin inquired about Hu Yueqin's situation.

More than half an hour has passed; if things go quickly, Hu Yueqin's alibi should have been verified by now.

Liu Baoqing nodded slightly: "The hotel checked. Hu Yueqin arrived at the hotel at 9:54 pm last night and went upstairs to room 1126. The surveillance footage shows that she has not appeared since."

“That room was booked by a man named Zhang Di. I asked Hu Yueqin, and he said he was her lover.”

"She and Huang Weili are going through a divorce. Huang Weili is in the building materials business and owns a trading company. They haven't agreed on the division of property, so they've been making a fuss."

"The reason she came to the reservoir to find Huang Weili was because Huang Weili had been avoiding her these past few days. She remembered that Huang Weili liked fishing, so she came looking for him."

"The hotel, Zhang Di, and the surveillance footage from the surrounding roads—we're verifying everything. But for now, her suspicion is very low."

Shen Xin nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

It's clear that Liu Baoqing is also anxious.

Soon, the group arrived at the reservoir.

Li Jiahui subconsciously grabbed Shen Xin's arm.

She saw the spot on the shore where Huang Weili had been pulled out of the water.

The body has been removed, but traces remain at the scene.

Shen Xin noticed that some people had already started going into the water to feel for stones.

Such a large reservoir, and there's still a lot to search for.

We arrived at the crime scene again.

The cordon has been expanded, and the search has begun one by one.

There was actually a lot of evidence at the scene, especially cigarette butts, which were everywhere.

Maybe one of those cigarette butts was left by the murderer, so we have to look for them all, and collect any that look newer.

There are also footprints. Since the area has been expanded, all the clear footprints on the outer perimeter must be recorded.

Perhaps even my footprints will be recorded.

Shen Xin didn't rush to have Odin start tracking. He said, "Captain Liu, how about this? You call over everyone who was at the scene."

"And Huang Weili's belongings, which should be in his car, plus Hu Yueqin."

"Anyway, everyone who was here during the time of the incident needs to come over. I need Odin to identify them."

The key now is to identify the killer's scent.

Therefore, we need to eliminate all the people present at the scene first.

Liu Baoqing immediately understood and asked Zhao Tong to call Hu Yueqin to find the source of the odor in the car.

Then, all the technical personnel who were on site were gathered together.

Soon, the people assembled.

There were a total of nine people who went to the crime scene, including technicians and members of the criminal investigation team.

This doesn't even include Shen Xin and Liu Baoqing.

Shen Xin brought Odin into the scene.

Then let him start sniffing.

I sniffed every corner.

Then they started pointing at people.

"Can you smell this person?" Shen Xin asked, holding up one of Huang Weili's coats.

He has spare clothes in his car.

Odin leaned closer to sniff, then sniffed around, and barked.

"Captain Liu, it seems promising." Zhong Yu looked on curiously.

Liu Baoqing nodded, agreeing that police dog tracking was convenient.

“This isn’t what we’re looking for,” Shen Xin instructed Odin, then tossed the clothes to Li Jiahui.

This is exclusion.

【Know】

Odin's inner thoughts are clear.

"Did you smell this person?"

Shen Xin pointed to a technician and said.

Odin came over and sniffed it, then sniffed the scene again, and barked.

"He's not the one we're looking for either."

Shen Xin continued to rule out the possibility, gesturing for him to leave the scene.

Then we used this method to eliminate them one by one.

The whole process went relatively smoothly.

After all, these technicians had been working nearby, and the smell was quite clear.

However, later on, Shen Xin heard some rather bewildered thoughts such as "Who is he?" and "Strange."

There must have been too many people for Odin to remember.

It is said that the Bloodseeker ranks 74th in intelligence among dogs.

Simply put, his nose is sensitive, but his brain isn't. So he started getting confused and couldn't match so many smells with people.

Fortunately, I could still hear his thoughts, otherwise I wouldn't have known that he hadn't distinguished between them.

If you can't distinguish them, go through it again and memorize them repeatedly.

They kept going on like this until Ding Yuwei brought Dou Dou over, finally eliminating the smells of Shen Xin and the others who had been there.

When DouDou saw Shen Xin, she immediately called out happily.

She hadn't seen Shen Xin much for many days.

Ding Yuwei grabbed her, preventing her from coming up and disturbing them.

When DouDou called out, Odin began to lose focus.

Shen Xin quickly grabbed his head: "Odin, look at me."

Once Odin's gaze was focused, Shen Xin asked, "Aside from those people, is there any human scent left here?"

【Man】

Odin tilted his head slightly, his gaze puzzled.

His brain started failing him again.

Shen Xin patiently continued to explain, saying that it smelled just like himself.

Most importantly, Odin needs to understand that he must completely eliminate the scent of the person from before.

Moreover, it's relatively fresh, and you can smell it.

Odin barked and thought to himself, "Yes."

Shen Xin quickly told him to go after him.

Odin hesitated for a moment, lowered his head to sniff, and then went to a technician.

Shen Xin immediately realized that he still didn't fully understand.

Li Jiahui couldn't help but say, "Shen Xin, this is too difficult."

In other words, there are countless odors left at the scene, and these odors have been there for different periods of time.

Odin didn't know which scent or time period Shen Xin was looking for.

He couldn't tell the difference, so he could only say it was normal.

To be honest, Li Jiahui already found it incredible that Shen Xin could communicate directly with Odin and have Odin distinguish the scents of so many people.

Liu Baoqing walked over and said, "Xiao Shen, if it doesn't work, then forget it. Maybe I was too presumptuous and didn't consider the difficulties involved."

Shen Xin crossed his arms and thought for a while before deciding to try a different approach.

"Captain Liu, shall we take a gamble and see if the murderer had blood on his hands or body when he struck, threw, or dragged Huang Weili?"

“Let’s just have Odin track Huang Weili’s blood.”

If they're lucky, the murderer might have Huang Weili's blood on him.

Tracing the blood directly is tantamount to tracking the murderer.

Liu Baoqing's eyes lit up, and he immediately took out his phone and called Wang Xiaojin, asking him to quickly collect Huang Weili's blood sample and send it over.

Not long after, the items were delivered.

A blood-stained cotton ball was placed in the evidence bag.

"Odin, smell it, remember this scent."

After Odin finished sniffing, Shen Xin let Dou Dou sniff.

Odin was untrained and was still waiting for Shen Xin's orders.

DouDou had already started sniffing around skillfully, and soon she barked, probably having discovered something.

Under Shen Xin's guidance, Odin also understood what he needed to do.

He seemed to be more sensitive to smells, and immediately turned around and walked along the shore.

Liu Baoqing's eyes lit up, and he immediately followed.

Shen Xin was equally excited.

The gamble paid off; the murderer did have Huang Weili's blood on him.

The others quickly followed.

DouDou has extensive work experience, so Ding Yuwei immediately untied the dog's leash.

Odin still needs Shen Xin's guidance.

But when it comes to tracking ability, Odin seems to be better.

Their sense of smell for blood may be stronger than that of other dog breeds.

The overall route is along the north side of the reservoir, heading up the cement road.

This should be the route the murderer took to escape.

Once you reach the paved road, turn right and go down the mountain.

At the location where Huang Weili's body was found, Dou Dou stopped, ran over, and called out to Shen Xinwang.

【found it】

Odin followed.

Huang Weili's body was found here, so there must be a smell of blood left here.

"Not here, go further down."

Following Li Jiahui's previous method, Shen Xin skipped this section and walked down the cement road for twenty meters before letting the two dogs search.

Sure enough, the smell returned.

After walking about two hundred meters forward, nearing the foot of the mountain, with farmland cultivated by nearby residents on both sides, the two dogs turned around.

Turn left and you'll enter a vegetable garden.

Shen Xin looked ahead and saw that the wire mesh processing factory was less than a hundred meters away.

There are surveillance cameras over there.

Shen Xin said, "Captain Liu, the other party is intentionally avoiding surveillance; they have a certain level of counter-surveillance awareness."

Liu Baoqing nodded and told the technicians to watch the ground to see if any footprints or anything were left.

There's a vegetable garden ahead, so there's a high chance of leaving footprints.

The murderer likely moved along the ridges between the vegetable fields, twisting and turning, until finally arriving at a nearby residential area.

There are some houses scattered here.

The further Shen Xin went, the more certain he became that this guy had definitely scouted the area, taking all the back roads to avoid all surveillance cameras.

Of course, there aren't many surveillance cameras here either.

We walked through the residential area until we reached the main road outside, Shanming East Road.

By this point, DouDou's pace had slowed down.

The last time we tracked Zhu Tianshun, we dropped the scent source on a busy road.

Odin's performance was relatively stable.

He had been following behind DouDou, but now he's in front.

He walked along the road for a while, then crossed the road and reached the other side.

Sniffing around, it headed east.

Liu Baoqing searched everywhere for traces of surveillance footage.

This area is not a residential area, so there is only road surveillance.

After walking more than a hundred meters to the east, DouDou had lost her sense of direction.

Odin is still in pursuit.

But it was clear that his pace was slowing down, and he needed to sniff around constantly.

There are too many distractions on the road.

Finally, after chasing for about seven or eight hundred meters, Odin stopped and kept pacing around the same spot, unable to find the scent.

They must have lost track of them.

(End of this chapter)