reborn as an official

Chapter [-]: Tracking Footprints

Xu Li shook his head and said, "No hurry, it's fine even if you go down the mountain, let's go around again!" Xu Li walked around the yard and still found nothing, then he went out of the yard and surrounded the wall of Ma's courtyard circled up.

Of course, Song Feng was worried about letting Xu Li walk around alone in the deep mountains in the dead of night, and followed Xu Li closely all the time, and there were two policemen also following behind, protecting Xu Li's safety at all times.

When Xu Li walked to the west side of the yard, he saw a primeval forest more than 20 meters away by the strong light of the flashlight, but there were rows of messy shoe prints between the courtyard wall and the forest. It seemed that this was where the murderer escaped. The escape route to the forest. Except for those left by the murderer when he fled, these shoe prints should have been left by the police investigating the scene.

Xu Li shined a flashlight on these messy shoe prints, and asked Song Feng, "Do you still remember that those footprints were left by the murderer?"

Hearing Xu Li's inquiry, Song Feng hurried forward and said, "Remember! And the footprints left by the murderer are also very recognizable, completely different from the footprints when we investigated the scene!" After speaking, Song Feng pointed to the pile of messy footprints A row of more obvious marks said: "This row of footprints was left by the murderer. After research and consultation with experts from the provincial department, we finally determined that he should be wearing a pair of leather boots..."

Xu Li stared at the row of footprints carefully, and at this time the others followed.When Li Xiaoguo saw the footprints left by the murderer, he was shocked and said, "I've seen this kind of shoe prints..."

"Head Li met him? When and where?" Xu Li immediately stood up and asked urgently.

"It should be years ago!" Li Xiaoguo recalled it carefully, and then said: "Yes, it was years ago, we invited the leaders of the garrison on the other side to visit our army. He was wearing military boots, and because it was snowing that day, I walked with him and happened to notice the footprints left by his military boots, which should be consistent with this footprint!"

Before anyone else could speak, Song Feng said excitedly: "Could it be that regiment leader who escaped this time? Then let's contact the other side as soon as possible to see if they can provide some useful clues!"

But Li Xiaoguo smiled and said: "Nothing! When our regiment was transferred yesterday, the other side also found out about our regiment's movement, and even called to ask about the situation. The person who called was the regiment leader. How could he sneak over here a week ago? What I mean is that this kind of military boots should be their standard equipment, but at least they must be equipped by leaders above the deputy regimental level, so it can be seen that this murderer is really unusual, at least he is also an officer at the deputy regimental level!"

After listening to Li Xiaoguo's explanation, Song Feng's excitement just now disappeared. He thought he had found a useful clue, but in the end he found that he could only confirm that the other party might be a regiment-level cadre.But even this deduction is not necessarily accurate, the pair of military boots may have been stolen by the murderer on the other side!

Xu Li also sighed after hearing this, since Li Xiaoguo didn't give any valuable clues, let's continue to check the traces left at the scene.Xu Li followed the footprints of the murderer all the way to the bottom of the pine tree where the footprints disappeared.Xu Li stood under the tree and looked up. The big tree was almost as thick as a person, with luxuriant branches. The branches as thick as an arm stretched out five or six meters away, intersecting with the surrounding big trees. If the murderer was really agile, with the help of these big trees It is indeed possible to disappear into the forest without leaving any traces on the ground.And if you want to find clues from these trees, it is basically not a problem that can be solved by human beings.

The pine tree is more than ten meters high, and the branches are intricately traced. Which direction did the murderer escape from?And if you want to go up the tree to check, where do you go to find so many ladders?And with only a few soldiers climbing up and down the tree, even if they are exhausted, they will not be able to find a few meters away.Besides, the murderer had escaped for more than a week, so he didn't know where he got off the tree and hid there.

Since there were no good clues to be found on the tree, Xu Li stopped looking at the tree, but lowered his head to carefully study the footprints left by the murderer.After all, these footprints can be said to be the most obvious evidence left by the murderer.The most obvious evidence?Xu Li's heart suddenly moved. According to the murderer's method, how could it be possible to leave such obvious footprints?And it doesn't take much effort to deal with these footprints. Just break off a branch at random, and walk backwards while smoothing out the footprints, so that everyone can't find any clues, but what is the purpose of the murderer leaving these footprints?Does he think that these footprints are irrelevant, even if they are found, they are useless?Or are you setting up doubts and misleading yourself?

Holding a flashlight, Xu Li carefully inspected these footprints, but he didn't find any useful clues for a long time. The footprints were lined up one by one, about [-] centimeters apart, and the traces around the footprints were clear without any scratches. , It can be seen that the murderer was still calm when he left, without any panic.

After walking about seven or eight meters, these footprints gradually became blurred. Xu Li raised his head and looked around. This place is far away from the forest, and the shadow of the trees can't cover it. In addition, the temperature has risen during the day these days, and under the sunlight, it has already These snows melted.

Seeing Xu Li carefully inspecting these footprints, other people also gathered around to inspect them.But half a day passed, and nothing was found.

Xu Li followed the footsteps and walked a few more steps, and he had already arrived under the wall of Ma's house.He thought he couldn't find any clues this time, but Xu Li suddenly found some soil traces under a vague footprint.

Xu Li frowned, squatted beside the footprints and looked carefully for a while, and found a wooden stick from one side, but Xu Li didn't dare to destroy the footprints, but pushed away the snow beside the footprints, and the snow on the ground Although it has melted, it is still about an inch deep. After peeling away the snow, I can see the frozen black ground below.

Seeing this, Xu Li frowned even deeper.Since there is still about an inch of snow next to it, how can there be soil traces under the footprints?Xu Li thought for a while, and then used a wooden stick to scrape away the solid snow under the footprints, but he didn't expect that there would be a problem with this scraping.What was picked off was not a piece of snow, but a piece of it!And under this thin piece of snow, I saw footprints again!

"Everyone, come and have a look!" Xu Li shouted excitedly to the others.

When everyone heard Xu Li's shout, they hurriedly gathered around.Before Zhang Guixiang arrived, the voice had already passed: "Secretary General Xu, did you find any clues?" Everyone looked at Xu Li expectantly.

"Look here!" Xu Li pointed at the footprint with his wooden stick, and all the flashlights in everyone's hands focused on Xu Li's wooden stick and the footprint.But everyone looked at it for a while but found nothing.