The Famous Detective of the Red Mansions

The so-called merit forest is actually not a real forest, but hundreds of merit monuments built on the hillside.

What is recorded on this merit monument is the good deeds done by Fayuan Temple believers over the years. Of course, ordinary good deeds can't be on the list. At least they also repair bridges and pave roads, large-scale porridge, or invite high monks to pray for Li Shu and other things.

It took more than three hundred and seventy years before and after about it, before finally accumulating so much.

Looking from a distance, these hundreds of merit monuments are as dense as forests, so the monks in the temple often call it ‘Merde Forest’ mainly for explaining to the guests the great achievements of Fayuan Temple.

It was originally a scene of Fayuan Temple. There are often believers here to pay tribute to the achievements of the predecessors, but recently it has been affected by successive homicides, and relatively remote locations like Gongdelin have naturally become unstoppable.

If it weren't for the time for regular inspections, even the little monk Xuanci might not have the heart to come here to wander around.

And it was during the process of patrolling the Gongde Lin, Xuanci heard a wild dog barking and looked for it under curiosity. He saw Monk Jienian lying on the ground with a **** neck and surrounded by six. The seven wild dogs seem to be fighting each other for this piece of fat.

Xuanci, have you seen this before?

I was scared and ran back to the temple in one breath, and was about to report to the prison. At this time, I suddenly remembered the official of Shuntian Mansion, as if he was investigating the case in the temple, so I inquired all the way and found the monastery. .

Fortunately, he didn't report it to the prison first, so when Sun Shaozong and others arrived, the site was still intact. Of course, this so-called intactness does not include any corpse that was chewed by a dog.

Sure enough, it is the monk Jienian!

Think of how arrogant he was when he burned the house under house arrest?

But he didn't want his corpse to be discarded on the open space in the center of the stone tablet just half a month later, letting wild dogs trample and bite!

Sun Shaozong stopped when he was a dozen steps away from the corpse. When others saw him stop, naturally they all followed.

Only the monk of anger, still striding forward, yelled: "Go away, go away! You **** dog monsters!"

Those wild dogs were accustomed to bullying and fearing hard work. Seeing these many people surrounding them, they had long since retreated. They didn't run away immediately, just because they were reluctant to bear the fat on the ground.

At the moment I heard the anger loudly yelling, another look menacing, busy running away without a trace with his tail clamped.

The monk Jiai scared away the wild dogs. He was waiting to rush to Jiunian to check his situation. He suddenly heard Sun Shaozong say: "Master stays behind, and the murderer took pains to make this good show. It is not for you to destroy casually. ."

Quitting his footsteps, he turned his head and frowned and said, "What do you mean by this sir?"

"You bald donkey can't be blind?!"

Before Sun Shaozong could reply, Qiu Yunfei jumped out, drew a circle around the corpse with his arms stretched out, and then said with his arms akimbo: "Look carefully at the footprints on the ground to see if there is anything wrong!"

Quit being scolded by him as a bald donkey, his already ugly face turned dark again, and his throat surged, as if he was sneering at each other. In spite of the fact that at the end he just chanted the Buddha's name, he followed Qiu Yunfei's instructions and probed the corpse. The surrounding situation.

But from this look, Jie An's face showed a bit of complacency, and he turned around and sneered again: "The poor monk said that it was the work of the tengu evildoer, isn't this now fulfilled?!"

But it turns out that the mess on the ground is all the marks of dog's paws, but there is only one row of human footprints!

And the footprints extended to Jienian's corpse, but there was no trace of it coming out!

It's no wonder that the monk of Ji'ai thinks it is the demon.

However, Sun Shaozong first thought of the old routine used in many mystery novels, stepping back on the same path.

Because the stone slabs were laid in the gongde forest, only a layer of floating soil was on the surface, so from the depth of the footprints, the weight of the owner of the footprints could not be judged.

Therefore, Sun Shaozong ordered everyone to stay where they were, being cautiously alone, preparing to walk along the footprints, and then try to step on their own footprints to return the same way.

But when he was halfway there, he stopped, and at the same time completely denied the possibility of stepping on his footsteps to return.

Because Sun Shaozong found some slippery footprints, and on both sides of these footprints, there were two unclear palm prints and traces of struggling to get up.

Obviously someone had almost slipped and fell here, but they held it with their hands in time, and then got up.

Normally, if the murderer was carrying Jienian, and the hands of this fall were resting on the ground, Jienian would have fallen.

To take a step back, suppose the murderer's strength surpasses ordinary people, and he binds the mindfulness tightly to his body to ensure that mindfulness does not fall. I am afraid that he will still encounter insurmountable obstacles.

Because in the process of climbing forward, there was a mark of nearly a meter in the middle, which was a trace of touching the ground with your toes and sliding slightly backwards.

This kind of trace, if you want to imitate it in the process of walking backwards, it is impossible to do at all, but in the backwards, there is no way to accurately span the distance of more than one meter and step on the shoe before the slip. Printed on.

So this trace of slippage has completely denied the possibility of stepping on the footprints and falling back!

This footprint is also certain, and belongs to the Jie Xian himself!

How did the murderer kill Ji Nian without leaving his footprints? !

Could it be the use of ropes to set up an air passage?

Sun Shaozong looked up at the stone monuments on the north and south sides, about 15 meters apart, and said: "Walk around the scene carefully to see if there are any other traces on the scene! Especially on these merit monuments, every inch Don't miss it for me!"

Following this order ~www.readwn.com~Wei Ruolan, Shiye Qi, Qiu Yunfei, and Zhao Wuwei were divided into two groups, each leading a few government officials, and launched a carpet search.

however……

A half hour passed, and the search range expanded to 50 meters in radius, but no abnormal traces were found!

how can that be? !

Footsteps have been rejected, and the possibility of using ropes and other tools has also tended to zero.

And the possibility of attacking with long-range weapons...

When the crowd searched the carpet, Sun Shaozong had also carefully confirmed that the fatal injury of Jienian was that the throat was cut by a sharp blade and then repeatedly cut, creating the illusion of being bitten to death. Of course, behind There are indeed wild dogs who have bitten corpses.

However, it is absolutely difficult for long-range weapons to repeatedly cut and create illusions.

How did the murderer manage to kill Jiinian at close range, and then leave without a trace? !