Chapter 860

In the middle of the night in the jungle, a hare was nesting in a hole. Hearing the rustling sound, he immediately tensed up. His red eyes stared at the bushes not far away over the weeds covering the entrance of the hole.

In front of the bushes, a gray-black snake was spitting snake letters, and quickly swam through the grass leaves in an 'S' shape. The smooth scales rubbed against the grass leaves, making a slight and continuous sound. The dark snake eyes Under the moonlight, a glimmer of cold light flashed before its eyes.

The hare was on guard for a while, and after confirming that the snake was just passing by, he squatted down and rolled himself up, closing his eyes and taking a nap.

Soon, there was another slight sound near the bushes, once and for all, like the sound of wood scraping grass blades.

The hare woke up again, listening intently, staring at the bushes.

This time it was a human being, wearing a dark robe that it had rarely seen on those people in the village, and it also had a serene aura that was different from those people or beasts. It was a kind that could make it forget its fear and anxiety. breath.

There was a faint blue light in that human hand, faintly illuminating the path before his feet, and his footsteps walked around the bushes calmly and gently. away.

The hare tilted its head to look at the back, but still didn't stick its head out of the grass.

It's not safe in the jungle late at night.

...

Chi Feichi followed the trail all the way.

Wearing bathrobes and clogs during tracking is a bit strange, and it is inconvenient to move around. The dragging corners of the bathrobe are easy to catch things, and the shoes are easy to make noise, but whether it is suitable for tracking depends on the environment and personal physical fitness.

The soil in the jungle is soft and the ground is covered with weeds. If you can walk very lightly, choose clogs with wooden strips on the soles. The friction surface is smaller than that of sports shoes, and the noise will naturally be smaller. It will leave a circular arc shape, and even if you find traces of pressing on the grass, the traces of flat pressing are hardly reminiscent of footprints.

The point is that none of the villagers in this village will wear such inconvenient shoes, so that they can distinguish their footprints from those of others, so that they won't mess up their own and the other's footprints by turning around twice.

Wearing a bathrobe is to destroy the 'message'.

Yes, the corners of the bathrobe are prone to scrape blades of grass, but that's all he wants.

In the city, you need to wear neat clothes and try not to leave any traces indoors, but in the jungle, besides humans, there are many small animals active.

As long as you avoid being hung up by thorns and other plants, it doesn't matter if you brush the grass blades occasionally, it will only erase his 'information' as a human being, and people can't tell whether it is an animal or a human. under the traces.

As for the inconvenience of movement, with his physical fitness, there is no need to worry about being unable to cope with danger at all. Even if he is wearing a bathrobe and clogs, he can guarantee that he can win any young and middle-aged man in Fifteen Nights Village with one hand, plus he has a black card As a medium-to-long-distance attack weapon, that little inconvenience will not have any effect.

And he chose the fluorescent stick instead of the flashlight, because the light of the flashlight is too eye-catching in the jungle, and it is easy to be spotted, ambushed, and attacked.

Use a light stick to not attract attention, and the light is enough to illuminate some corners where the moonlight cannot find it. With the moonlight tonight, it is enough for him to track...

The other party didn't seem to be a cautious person, and left many traces, which were also obvious.

Judging from the traces, it is a person with a height of 173-178 and a weight of about 70Kg. These can be estimated by finding coherent footprints, judging whether it is running or walking, and then calculating the distance between footprints and the depth of footprints.

Of course, the specific calculation also needs to add factors such as the softness of the ground, which is more complicated.

After the other party threw them away, they ran, walked quickly for a while, and then began to walk normally again. The footprints of this section are no longer arcs, but much more complete. It can be seen that the other party is wearing straw sandals, and the left and right feet can also be distinguished from the soles of the shoes. footprint.

The footprint of the right foot is slightly larger and deeper than the footprint of the left foot, indicating that the person's dominant hand is the right hand.

People's hands and feet are actually different in size. Where the dominant hand is, the hands and feet will be bigger.

He is an exception.

After the strength of his arm was improved last time, his left and right hands have become equally flexible, and the size of his palm measured by the machine is not bad at all, and the size and depth of his footprints are gradually becoming the same...

Chi Feichi stopped suddenly, picked up a feather next to the footprints, looked at it, and continued to follow.

The other party really put on feathers.

The tail feather he picked up should be the tail feather of a pulsatilla. Judging from the root, it was pulled out after death, at least for more than a month.

The footprints and the brush marks between the bushes continued intermittently, all the way to a small square.

It is said to be a small square, but it is actually a relatively flat grassland. The sacrificial tree and the tree of the gods are placed in the grassland, some distance from other trees.

There are quite a few such small squares, scattered in the jungle on both sides of the road into the village. After he arrived in the village, he saw eleven of them.

The villagers should have their own numbers for these sacrificial trees and squares, such as the "second tribute" mentioned in the murderer's letter to He Cang Yangyi.

This place is not too close to the main road, it should be the most remote 'tribute platform', besides the jungle, there is also a stone tablet placed on a slant, hidden in the weeds, and a bouquet of flowers is placed in front of the stone tablet.

Chi Feichi stepped forward to take a look.

A line of words is engraved on the stone tablet: Machiko Konno.

Below it is a small horizontal row of date characters, with a word 'Li' at the end. Although there is no photo, judging from the bouquet, this is someone's tombstone, and the name is female.

It is not easy to be able to leave the tombstone next to the sacrificial tree, not to mention that the traces of the strange man have also reached the tombstone and stayed there. The bouquet should be left by the strange man.

The color of the bouquet is white, which represents sacrifice and mourning. The flowers are wild flowers in the jungle, tied with vines, and there is not much information.

Chi Feichi took out a handkerchief, wrapped the roots of the bouquet, picked up the flowers, looked at the fracture, resisted the idea of ​​finding tools to collect fingerprints, and observed the pinch marks at the fracture.

Collecting fingerprints is useless. They just offered a bouquet of flowers, which cannot represent anything, but the flowers were not cut with a knife, but were pinched with the strength of the hands and nails, so information such as the shape of the other party's fingernails can be obtained.

Chi Feichi put down the bouquet, looked at the footprints next to the stele again, and already had the answer in his heart.

Tu Shi Yicheng, the policeman.

The activities of people who have received formal training are different from those of ordinary people. So many footprints provide information, enough for him to judge that they are the footprints of a person who has received formal training.

Of course, this does not mean that the other party must be a policeman, but may also be a mercenary, a soldier, or even someone who has only participated in training camps or received physical training.

What allowed him to identify was the fingernail print.

Human nails also have differences, but the differences are not as big and easy to compare as fingerprints.

There is a dent in the middle of the thumbnail of Tushi Yicheng's right hand, the length and width of which are also consistent with the fracture at the root of one of the flowers.

The guy had wandered in front of them so many times that he couldn't help noticing.

Moreover, Tushi Yicheng's height, body shape, and handedness also matched the information he deduced from the footprints.

There is still a strange round hoarfrost trace at the lower corner of the stele, either sweat or tears, and with the bouquet of flowers offered in front of the stele, he is more inclined to the latter.

So, the motive for the murder was to avenge this 'Machiko Konno'?

Judging from the age, Machiko Konno was buried more than 20 years ago. At that time, Issei Tushi was only four or five years old. If there is a relationship, it is likely to be an elder in the family, or even Issei Tushi's mother...

Chi Feichi pondered, walked under the sacrificial tree, raised his eyes and saw the sacred tree and the big boulder in a straight line with the sacrificial tree, walked towards the sacred tree again, and lifted it with his hand.

There are two large logs with the waist thickness of adults, but they are very light, and the inside should be hollowed out.

After lifting the wood of the gods, you can see that there is an iron object like a bird's beak in the middle of the wood of the gods, and there is a hollow hole in the middle of the beak.

There is a deep hole on the opposite ground, just enough to put the bird's beak in, and you can feel the cold wind blowing from the hole when standing next to it.

The two ends of the wood of the gods and the base on which the two ends are placed are connected with hinges.

Chi Feichi turned his head to look at the sacrificial tree facing his back, knelt down and picked up a stone, and threw it into the cold hole in the ground.

The stone was thrown onto the pothole, but instead of falling, it was directly bounced off by the airflow blowing up from below.

In this way, the murderer's method of committing the crime has also been perfected.

Conan once raised a question: If the murderer used the air pressure explosion caused by the reservoir and the underground cave to kill people, why didn't they see the hole that lifted people up? And how did the murderer accurately let the deceased be impaled by the branch?

These two problems can be solved if the wood of the gods is added.

Just let the deceased hug or lie on the tree of the gods, open the gate of the reservoir with a remote switch, let the water in the reservoir flow into the underground cave, you don't even need to release all the water in the reservoir, you only need to open the gate with a high-pitched sound and then In a few seconds, the water pouring into the underground cave will cause the already high air pressure to rise again, the air will be squeezed, and it will rush up to the hole under the tree of God, and the burst of air at that moment will make God stay Like the cork of a champagne bottle, the tree of the gods bounces, and the dead man is struck by the tree of the gods against the pointed branch of the tree of sacrifice in a straight line.

Afterwards, the tree of the gods will hit the boulder and be pulled back by the hinges. Due to the short opening time of the reservoir gate, the influx of water is not the water of the entire reservoir. It will no longer be lifted up by the airflow, and everything will return to its original state.

Under the cover of high-pitched and sharp voices, the movement here will also be concealed.

Even the dead who were thrown into the branches and turned into corpses probably didn't know how they died until they died.

He Cangyang had a wound on his head, he should have been knocked out and placed on the tree of the gods, and as for Shirato Taimi...

He remembered that at that time, the people who came with him were trying to hug the tree of the gods and pray. Afterwards, Fukuura Reiji had a conflict with the villagers. Tushi Yicheng stepped forward to stop him, but was surrounded by the villagers pushing and shoving.

It is very likely that at that time, Shirato Taimi happened to be holding the tree of the gods, and the reservoir gate switch that Tsushi Issei put in his pocket was accidentally touched in the crowd, so Shirato Taimi became an unlucky person who was accidentally killed by the agency .

Chi Feichi put the tree back to its original position, stood up and continued to trace the traces on the ground.

He still needs to confirm whether the murderer is Tushi Yicheng.

Although the bird pretender ran to scare people with the Cang family, said threatening words, and offered flowers in front of the mysterious tombstone, but this does not mean that Tu Shi Yicheng must be the murderer, it can only be said that he is currently the most suspected...