During the daytime, the merit forest of Fayuan Temple is solemn and solemn, especially the reliefs of the Buddha statues on the stele, all of which are solemn and solemn, showing a view of the pure land of Buddhism.
But in the dark night, when I was in it, I saw the shadow of the stone monument, and I felt that it was only a little bit worse than the cemetery.
Especially from time to time, there will be a few wild dogs barking from nowhere, and those who are less timid may not dare to go deep into it.
There is no doubt about Sun Shaozong's courage, so after arriving at Fayuan Temple, in order to hurry up, he simply passed the temple gate and did not enter, and went straight to the back of the temple, without even picking a lantern, he strode into the Gongde Forest .
Although it was difficult to identify the location in the dark, following the only light of fire, Sun Shaozong easily found the murder scene.
Several yamen guarding this place, who were sitting around the bonfire, saw Sun Shaozong suddenly appear, and they hurriedly got up and stepped forward to give salute.
On this big night, it is not easy to be on duty in the wilderness. Sun Shaozong originally wanted to encourage them to show his usual style of being close to the people, but as soon as he got close, he smelled a sour smell of alcohol.
Apparently, these guys were just drinking together secretly.
He was too lazy to spend any more time, and just said straight to the point: "Bring me a torch!"
The yamen knew that they had broken the rules, and they all held back, for fear that Sun Shaozong would be blamed, but he did not pursue it. Respectfully sent it to Sun Shaozong.
Sun Shaozong took the torch and circled around the scene for half a circle to find the footprints he had stepped on during the day. Only then did he cautiously arrive at the place where Jiannian's corpse was buried, and leaned down to carefully examine the dog's paw prints on the ground.
Sun Shaozong roughly inferred from the flower embossing on the sole of the mandarin duck before that the murderer may have used a similar technique to carve the appearance of dog claws on the sole of the shoe. After the murder, he would drive the nearby wild dogs over and trace his own footprints. The fish-eyes hid.
This method, if there is only one dog paw on each shoe sole, it is naturally impossible to distinguish it among the many disorganized dog paw prints.
However, the paws of ordinary wild dogs are much smaller than the paws of humans. If only one dog paw is carved, the murderer is equivalent to stepping on stilts. It is already difficult to maintain balance. On the slippery ground, the difficulty of the murder is simply outrageous.
And once Ji Nian sees the flaw, he can be counter-killed in minutes!
Even a fool would not take such a risk, not to mention the murderer is still cautious.
Therefore, there should be at least two dog claws engraved under the murderer's feet, so as to better maintain balance, so as not to fail, and to fall and lose the whole game.
However, in this way, every time the murderer steps on the mud, there will be dog paw prints with equal spacing. If it is unintentional, it will still be difficult to distinguish, but since Sun Shaozong has already penetrated the murderer's mechanism, he can find it again. Naturally it is much simpler.
But even so, Sun Shaozong searched for more than a quarter of an hour before he finally found what he was looking for - three dog paw prints arranged at equal distances in the shape of a character!
"What a sly guy!"
Looking at the dog's paw print, Sun Shaozong couldn't help laughing and scolding.
But it turned out that the three dog paw prints were not only of different sizes, but also of different orientations. At first glance, it was impossible to tell what was strange at all. If it wasn't for Sun Shaozong's conclusion, he went through repeated comparisons. , I can't say that I really want to be fooled by it.
After laughing and scolding, Sun Shaozong straightened up and instructed the yamen who were watching from afar: "Leave two people here, and the rest bring torches and follow behind this official!"
Naturally, the yamen did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly left the two with bad eyes to guard here, and the rest followed behind Sun Shaozong, following the dog paw prints in the shape of the character all the way, towards the mountains to the north.
At first, because the yamen officers destroyed a lot of traces when they searched, Sun Shaozong struggled to find them.
But as he gradually moved away from the crime scene, the dog's paw print in the shape of the character lost its cover, and there was nothing to hide.
At this time, the yamen in the back finally discovered the strangeness of the paw prints, and they were all inexplicably excited. If Sun Shaozong had not explained, and let them follow him, they would not have rushed to the front in a hurry.
And just like this all the way to the northeast corner of Gongdelin, the dog's paw print suddenly disappeared without a trace, replaced by the footprints of ordinary human shoes.
Obviously, after coming here, the murderer took off the shoes with dog's claws.
Sun Shaozong's spirit was lifted, and he wanted to investigate immediately and probed the torch down, but it almost burned his finger - only then did he realize that the torch was already less than a foot long.
"Get me a new torch now!"
So he hurriedly asked the yamen behind him to ask for an unused torch, and after igniting the old one, he searched the ground inch by inch.
Not long after, Sun Shaozong found some fresh sawdust among those footprints.
The murderer was indeed prudent. Before throwing away the dog's paw print shoe, he even chopped it into pieces!
Rubbing the solid and heavy wood chips, Sun Shaozong looked up at the dense jungle not far away, and immediately gave up the idea of going in to search for the debris and the murder weapon. Accidentally lit a mountain fire, it's not a joke.
So after he carefully put away the debris, he searched the neighborhood carefully.
But this time, it took him about two quarters of an hour before he found two threads that had been stepped into the mud in the middle of a footprint.
These two thin threads are only the thickness of a hair, slightly curved, showing a dark yellow color, and the whole body is only half the length of a fingernail, but Sun Shaozong carefully squeezed them out of the mud, and put them in front of him for a long while. But it was like a treasure, and he laughed.
It's a pity that the status of the yamen around him is too low, and no one came up to ask "Why are you laughing?", which greatly reduced his full of surprises.
Therefore, after laughing a few times, Sun Shaozong raised his hand and said decisively: "Let's go, go to the temple with this official and point out the serious murderer!"
As the saying goes, cleverness is mistaken by cleverness. If the murderer didn't set up a mechanism and tried to link Jienian's death with the evildoer, if he just killed the murder and discarded the weapon, Sun Shaozong might not be able to catch him.
But right now...
If Sun Shaozong's expectations are not bad, just a simple inspection will reveal the true culprit!