When night fell, Aruna, a Mongolian female police officer, received a call from home asking her to go home.
The traditional Mongolian people choose water and grass to live without a fixed place. The so-called home is actually a mobile yurt.
Aruna is a traditional Mongolian, but as a public servant, she has a fixed income, so she no longer needs to live a nomadic life. Instead, she settled down for her dependent mother on the northern shore of Huotun Lake.
Hotun Lake is about ten kilometers away from the police station, so it is relatively convenient to drive to and from it.
My yurt is very big, even under this hazy starry sky, I can see the outline from a long distance.
Lights leaked from the gaps in the yurt, and these tiny lights were the beacon for Aruna to return home.
Parked the car outside the yurt, Aruna just opened the door of the cockpit when she smelled a fragrance.
This is the smell of horse intestines, mutton, and oily naan, which are just out of the pan. For Aruna, this is the taste of home.
Opening the door curtain, under the light, a stalwart figure came into view.
This man has gray hair and a big frame. Even if he is currently sitting on the edge of the table, he feels like he is standing upright.
Beside the man is his short and thin mother.
Seeing Aruna's return, the woman stood up with a smile and said to Aruna, "Aruna, your father is back."
Aruna was startled, then turned and left without saying a word.
Walking to the door, just touching the curtain with her hand, Aruna paused for a moment, and asked in a deep voice, "Do I have a father?"
After saying this, the female police officer lifted the door curtain, and her tall figure disappeared into the yurt.
There was the sound of a car starting outside the door, and the roar of the engine pierced the sky, and soon went away.
Hearing these movements, the stalwart figure in the yurt seemed to be a little hunched.
He sighed and said in a deep voice, "Don't blame her, blame myself."
"Don't say such things." Aruna's mother looked outside the door for a while, then turned around and said, "It will be fine when you come back. What have you been doing these years? I heard that you were imprisoned in China?"
"Yes." The man sighed, "I've been in prison for twenty years."
"Then why don't you send me a message? I might as well go and see you."
"After I went in, I didn't expect to be able to come out alive. I thought this is the way I am in this life, so why bother you. I think you wait for a while to see if I don't come back. The orphans and widows have no one to rely on. Remarried. This is also good for you two. When I come out this time, I just want to take a look at you from a distance to make sure you are safe. I didn't expect you to recognize me at a glance from a few hundred meters away. "
"Your head is easy to recognize."
"Why don't you remarry? Why wait for me for so many years?"
"I couldn't have waited so long." The woman said softly, "But after waiting for three years, I feel that I have already waited for three years. It is better to wait for another three years. After waiting for ten years, I feel that it is already ten years. It is better to wait another ten years." .The days go on like this day by day, and you come back."
After the man heard these words, his back began to tremble, and he choked up and said, "I, Fan Ping'an, a man of nine feet, have been worthy of everyone in my life, but I have failed you two."
This man is the original guard of the Cao family, boxer Fan Ping'an.
Thirty years ago, his first transaction after becoming an artist was to kill a group of horse bandits on this grassland.
After the deal was completed, he was seriously injured, struggled to walk a few kilometers, and fell in front of a yurt.
Thirty years later, this yurt is still standing, but the girl inside is already gray-haired.
…
Early the next morning, just after dawn, Lin Shuo and the others woke up.
Anne first went to the morgue of the police station, and together with the young female forensic doctor, took the victim's body tissue and entrusted the Mongolian police to send it to the Lanzhou Institute of Biology.
Yang Tuo is the new dean there.
After everything was ready, everyone was ready to go.
Unlike yesterday's stretched situation, the police station sent two vehicles today.
Lin Shuo and Anne, sitting in the police car driven by Aruna, cleared the way ahead.
Wei Xingshan was admonished by Lin Shuo yesterday, but he was quite honest. He and Liu Qing got into another car driven by Su Heba.
Lin Shuo and Anne learned about the situation yesterday and knew that the two victims' locations they were going to go to today were more than 100 kilometers apart. If they went around in a circle, the day would pass.
The delicate Anne noticed that Aruna, the female police officer, looked worse today than yesterday, with a tense face.
Aruna looks handsome and has three-dimensional facial features. Her smile is very contagious, but once she lowers her face, Anne feels that the atmosphere in the whole car is oppressive.
This made Anne feel a little strange. It stands to reason that this Aruna treated Lin Shuo differently. Yesterday, Lin Shuo showed her tricks in the conference room. This Aruna should be more respectful to Lin Shuo. Add is.
But the reality is not like this. The female police officer had a sullen face early in the morning, as if she was in a bad mood.
Anne couldn't help thinking: Who is this look for? For Lin Shuo, that's impossible.
Could it be that she came for me
This thought made Anne a little ridiculous, and she quickly put it aside.
Lin Shuo was naturally ignorant of these things. He first asked Anne about the autopsy on the victim in the morning, and after learning that the results were consistent with Miao Guangqi's autopsy report thirty years ago, he closed his eyes and began to doze off. up.
But the question and answer between the two caught Aruna's attention.
The female police officer asked: "You mean, there have been similar cases before?"
"Yes." Anne said, "A thousand kilometers away from here in China's Qinghai Province, a similar case happened 30 years ago."
"Oh, then that case was also handled by your International Society for Biological Research?"
"No. At that time, the International Society for Biological Research had no experience in dealing with cases of heterogeneous organisms. It was handled by a non-governmental organization in China."
"The people in the door dealt with it?"
"Officer Aruna, do you know the person in the door?" Anne was a little surprised.
"My father is a member of the sect in China." Aruna said softly, "When I was young, he told me a lot of things about the sect. I remember that in China, once such incidents happened, it would be the hunter sect It's up to someone to deal with it. If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Lin, he should be from the hunting gate, right?"
"That's right." Lin Shuo opened his eyes, and looked at Aruna through the rearview mirror in the car, "Officer Aruna, do you have a Chinese name?"
Lin Shuo knew early on that this Aruna was not simple. From the fact that she could carry Master Chase on her back, it could be seen that her level of strength was not normal.
What she did, not to mention Wei Xingshan, even Anne couldn't do it.
This is a member of the sect who bears the inheritance, but he is abroad, so he may not know the rules of the sect.
Lin Shuo intends to find out her tone, as long as she gives her Chinese surname, Lin Shuo will know what her father's surname is, and then Lin Shuo will be able to figure out her inheritance.
Except for a few common surnames, the family members in the country have been scattered since ancient times. It is difficult to determine what the way is based on just one surname, but the vast majority of surnames still have clear information.
Coupled with the attribute of highlighting strength, the scope is very small.
During his previous trip to Xing'an Mountains, Lin Shuo once ignored Liu Shunfu, the emissary of the Dragon King, who was a member of his family. When they first met, he didn't go to find out his details, which made him very passive.
Lin Shuo didn't want to make a similar mistake this time.
And judging from the power that Aruna showed before, her inheritance deserves Lin Shuo's attention.
But unexpectedly, when Lin Shuo asked this question, the female police officer's cheerful expression suddenly became gloomy again.
"I don't have a Chinese name, I will follow my mother's surname." She said coldly, and then continued to drive away.
Lin Shuo and Anne looked at each other, and they both saw confusion in each other's eyes.
The two nodded in agreement at the same time.
There is something going on here.
…
The 400mm rainfall line in Eurasia marks the boundary between farming civilization and nomadic civilization.
South of this line, rains were plentiful, allowing crops to grow and a farming civilization to be born. North of this line, it is difficult to grow crops, and humans can only nomadic, living by water and grass.
On the other hand, the grassland area north of the 400 mm rainfall line in Eurasia, from west to east, is getting higher and higher and more barren.
The northern part of China, the Mongolian Plateau, is a relatively barren land, even for nomads, it is very difficult.
This is why, since ancient times, the grassland peoples in the north have continued to move southward and westward at the same time.
Lin Shuo's car bumped on the grassland for a while, and after more than an hour, he arrived at the scene of the first attack.
It is already November in the Gregorian calendar. This is the westernmost end of the Mongolian plateau, and the vegetation is withered and yellow.
The herdsmen have already started resting their grazing. They are looking for water sources and preparing for the winter.
The location of the first incident was by the lake.
This lake, called Huergan Lake, is one of the three large lakes in the national park.
This is the south bank of Huergan Lake, and four or five kilometers further south is the Altai Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles.
After everyone got out of the car, they inspected the scene, and they found the string of footprints in the swamp by the lake.
Anne extracted the soil under the footprints and entrusted the accompanying Mongolian police to send it to Yang Tuo, then looked at Lin Shuo, waiting for his next instruction.
"There's no need to go to the second crime scene." Lin Shuo said, "Let's go into the mountains."