Zheng Tan looked at the scenery outside the car window. The car had already left Chuhua City, and he didn't know where it was going.
An hour ago, Zheng Tan was rushed out by Er Mao Huo Liao. The phone call to Jiao’s mother was still made by Er Mao in the car. He made up an excuse to take Zheng Tan out to play. It might take a day or two. This is just a conservative estimate. In the expressions and words at the time, Zheng Tan felt that this matter might take longer.
When he was out of the city, Zheng Tan heard Er Mao briefly explain the matter. He only said that Brother Walnut disappeared in order to handle a case. Before he disappeared, he went out with black money. Open, no matter what happened, find someone first.
Compared to those people, Er Mao believed in himself more. When he just left the city, he received another text message, and a friend who helped with the investigation sent several addresses, which were possible addresses for other transactions that the company that declared bankruptcy secretly made.
Er Mao is not interested in those black deals, he is neither a policeman nor a superman, he just looks for someone.
Several of their brothers and sisters know each other's little habits relatively well, and they once unified a behavior. If they feel that something is dangerous, or even life-threatening, they will engrave a certain mark somewhere.
Each of them has their own special marks and their own habits. Even if others know what they will be marked with, they may not be able to find them.
Zheng Tan saw Ermao drive the car off the expressway, and then stopped in a place that looked quite desolate. There are some green brick houses scattered around, most of which are vegetable fields and some trees.
Er Mao asked Zheng Tan to stay in the car first, and he went down to make sure.
After Ermao got off the car, Zheng Tan lay on the car window and saw Ermao approaching a low blue-tiled house, then stood in front of it, stretched out his hand to compare, I don't know how to compare, with five fingers open and palm down. , turned to the east in the horizontal direction, and then turned a little bit to the south. Finally, in the direction pointed by the thumb, Ermao ran over there, aiming at a tree that was not very high, and looked at a branch. He got back into the car and drove to the next place.
Next, I went to three places in succession, all repeating this kind of action, and Ermao returned disappointed three times. It seems that Brother Walnut is not in these places.
When he arrived at the fifth place, Zheng Tan was still looking at Ermao outside in the car to find the mark left by Brother Walnut. There is a small stream here, and there are no green tile houses nearby, and there are large fields in the distance. , you can see someone moving there.
Just when he was thinking that this place is really desolate, Zheng Tan saw Ermao looking for it in a tree and came back quickly. The difference from the previous times is that Ermao's face was a little different this time, and he didn't have the disappointed look in his eyes. .
It appears to be here.
After driving the car to a stop, Er Mao got out of the car and greeted Zheng Tan to follow.
If you go there, it is not easy to drive.
"Black coal, can you smell anything?" Er Mao looked at Zheng Tan.
Zheng Tan took a sniff, but he didn't seem to smell anything, but there were many other people's odors, as well as other animals, which were too disturbing, or the smell dissipated after a long time, and it was difficult to smell it. If you want to look for it, you have to look at a wider range of sniffing, but Ermao seems to be in a hurry and has a target route. He doesn't rely on Zheng Tan very much, so Zheng Tan just sniffs in place, keeping up with Ermao's pace.
Zheng Tan didn't expect that one day he would be used as a tracking dog. In terms of technical content, he really can't compare to those "trained" dogs. Even if you have that smelling skill but don't know how to use it better, the same no good.
Er Mao wasn't too disappointed with Zheng Tan's performance. He was still looking for the marks left by Senior Brother Walnut, so it would be faster to follow him this way. He brought the black cat with him, but it was just an extra layer of insurance.
Although what Brother Walnut left looks like a simple mark, it contains a lot of information. Zheng Tan looked at a few out of curiosity, and found that the mark looked like the single person in the radical radical, which is the left part of Brother Walnut's surname "He".
Moreover, each mark has changes. It is not written directly, nor is it simply pointing the direction. Perhaps only Ermao and the others can find the correct information from it. You can see that by seeing Ermao stretched out his palm and gestured there. The above is more complicated than Zheng Tan imagined.
Zheng Tan was not far behind Er Mao, and now he does not need to do anything, just keep up. Er Mao said on the road that he might not be able to help, so Zheng Tan is not under too much pressure, but he sincerely hopes Tao and Heijin Ping'an, although not very familiar with each other, have not met a few times until now, but because of the relationship between Wei Ling and Er Mao, Zheng Tan hopes that senior Walnut can do well.
Just thinking about it, Zheng Tan paused, raised his head and sniffed, and looked in a direction ahead, where he deviates a little from the route Er Mao took.
Zheng Tan thought about it for a while, but still ran over there. When the smell became stronger and stronger, Zheng Tan saw a black bug crawling under his feet. Looking ahead, there are more bugs, just crawling on the ground, if it is not blocked by those dead leaves, maybe you will see more.
Er Mao, who was looking for the sign, found the situation on Zheng Tan's side, so he trotted over.
"What's wrong?" Er Mao asked.
Zheng Tan ignored him and continued to walk there until he came to a dry "ditch", which looked like it had been used as a canal. There are many trees around, and most of them are deciduous species. I don't know who swept the fallen leaves from the ground into this "ditch", so the leaves inside are a little thicker. If not, Zheng Tan just left. There are not only a few leaves in the places where they pass. Where there are more bugs, it looks slightly more protruding than other places.
Now, Zheng Tan and Er Mao's attention is not on the leaves, but on the bugs.
"There are still insects so active in this weather?" Er Mao frowned, he also smelled some not-so-good smells.
Zheng Tan watched Ermao walk towards the "ditch", while he stayed on the side and watched, he didn't want to get too close. Those worms were the same as the worms he had seen in the villa area and were regarded as "evidence" by Black Gold, and when he thought of some of the words he had heard at the time, Zheng Tan felt a chill down his spine and was very nervous. What's under those leaves
Er Mao had already used a branch to poke the leaves away and saw the objects under the leaves.
It was a body that was almost gnawed with only the skeleton left, but what made Er Mao's heart drop a little bit was that this man was shorter than Senior Brother Walnut.
Zheng Tan glanced over there and didn't look at it again. Judging from Er Mao's expression, this was not Senior Brother Walnut, and he was a little relieved. However, this is really the same as those people said, only the skeleton is left. It seems that it was the bugs that ate it.
Forcing himself to divert his attention and stop thinking about the terrifying picture he saw just now, Zheng Tan walked around and smelled the smell of Senior Walnut and Hei Jin.
I was so nervous just now that I paid all attention to the bugs and the smell of the "ditch", but I missed the trace of this person and dog.
Although Er Mao was able to find the general route left by Senior Brother Walnut, the one here is not in that general route.
Zheng Tan tried hard to identify the smells, then followed the smells and came to the back of a big tree. There is still a slope here. If the light is not good, someone lying here will not be easily noticed.
It seems that Brother Walnut and Heijin have stayed here for a little longer, and the smell left behind is more obvious. It is speculated that when those people were dealing with the "ditch", Brother Walnut and Hei Jin should have been watching here. Then those people left, and Senior Brother Walnut continued to follow.
Er Mao took a few pictures after seeing it over there, then covered the leaves again, followed Zheng Tan towards this side, and after seeing the situation here, he could also guess some of the situation at that time.
"Well done, Black Coal."
After making sure that Zheng Tan found no other clues, Er Mao continued to look for those marks.
After searching for a distance along the road, Er Mao stopped.
The mark is gone here. The last mark does not tell Er Mao where to go next, nor does it mean to stop. Could it be that the time was too tight and the incident happened suddenly, so Brother Walnut didn't have time to leave a mark
Er Mao does not know. He looked around carefully. There were traces of people staying here. He also found some footprints. There were at least three people and some cigarette butts. Those people had smoked cigarettes here, and then... Ermao turned his attention to the one about ten meters away. The concrete road that was not wide, and then those people probably drove away.
But where to go
There are several places pointed out by the information in Er Mao's hand, there is one nearby, but there is another place on the other side of the road.
Are you going to check both places
Er Mao stood there and thought for a while, and was about to let the cat behind him try it out. When he turned around, he found that the cat had gone in a different direction.
After Zheng Tan knew that Er Mao could not find the mark, he tentatively sniffed around. In addition to the smells of strangers, there was also the smell of Brother Walnut, which was not easy to smell, and there were also black and gold ones.
The smell of black gold was already obvious, but when Zheng Tan was looking for the smell, he found something unexpected and stopped there for a while.
"Something?" Er Mao asked. At the same time, he took out his folding knife and squatted down to start turning the soil.
With the skeleton that was almost gnawed before, Er Mao now thinks what happened here as soon as he sees the cat pause. And he also found that there are traces of earth moving here, although the scope is not large, but it can be seen.
Zheng Tan took a few steps back, thought about it, and then took two steps back. Then squatted there to watch Er Mao dig soil. If Zheng Tan could express his meaning clearly, there would be no need for Ermao to dig up the trouble. He would definitely stop it, but the current situation is that Zheng Tan can't speak, and he doesn't know how to express his meaning. Moreover, even now Zheng Tan tries to If you stop him, Er Mao will definitely move.
The soil was not buried tightly, and Er Mao could easily pick up the soil above. After digging a few times quickly, Er Mao saw what was buried underneath.
A piece of shit.
Er Mao: "… "
Is this pulled by the black gold guy? !
When did the dog and cat learn this habit