The land temple is a very common building in the countryside.

There is one in almost every village.

Villagers would go to the land temple to worship when they build houses, break ground, plow in spring or harvest in autumn, etc.

Especially when there is a funeral in the family, during the "seven-day burning" period, family members will go to the land temple every day to offer food, which is also called "reporting the temple" to inform the land god that there is a new person and pray for guidance.

On the "fifth seventh", all relatives and friends will go to the land temple to perform rituals for the deceased, burning paper mountains of gold and silver, paper horses, young boys and girls, etc.

Chen Ting remembered that the land temple in Guojiadian was downstream from the intersection where the small stream merged into the river.

Next to the mountain wall!

Although the location is relatively remote, it is definitely a good place in the village surrounded by mountains and water.

Kira Yoshikage: “I remember where the land temple is.

There are walls around it blocking the view, so if someone were to be killed there, it would be possible.

But under normal circumstances, it is impossible to dump corpses in or around the land temple.

Because the surrounding environment is not suitable.

but!

If the land temple was under renovation when the incident happened, it would be different.

Regardless of the location and time of day, for common criminals, packing bodies into buildings is a good option."

Jigsaw: "That land temple is indeed suspicious.

If Zhou Xiaoxiao was really murdered, her body is most likely in the temple."

Hannibal: "Second!"

Then go to Guojiadian and take a look!

If Zhou Xiaoxiao's body could really be found, it would definitely be a major breakthrough in the case.

Shen Ting took a few people, got in the police car, and quickly went to Guojiadian.

Ten minutes after the police car drove out, Xiong Beibei suddenly called again.

During this period, he and Director Yang Xianxing were responsible for investigating rare earth practitioners in Cangshui City.

See if there were any suspicious people who suddenly disappeared twenty days ago.

Perhaps the identity of the deceased in the mining management area can be confirmed from this.

However, Shen Ting was disappointed again.

The news that Xiong Beibei brought was not good.

“Chen Ting, we haven’t found any major suspects yet.

Cases like Wang Fuzhong and his wife, who were defrauded and taken abroad, were definitely not discovered.

The murderer shouldn't be stupid enough to use a plot twice.

Quite a few people did resign, but we contacted them one by one and were able to get in touch with them all.

I discussed with Director Yang and guessed that Wang Fuzhong’s collaborators were either outsourced security guards or other marginal professionals.

Otherwise, there is something wrong with our assumptions.

He is not a practitioner in the rare earth industry.

As for the latter, there is naturally no way to check it.

In the former case, we intend to expand the scope of our investigation.

Look for anomalies among outsourced personnel."

"Can!

But for this direction, one person is enough, let Director Yang take charge!

You take your men back to Guojiadian. Sister Xu is there and has made a new discovery.

Oh, and let Director Yang ask high-level practitioners in the rare earth industry if there are any hidden rules that can be used to obtain rare earths and sell them secretly."

"no problem!

However, it’s difficult to ask anything!

Even if there are unspoken rules, those in the industry who have a conscience will probably plug the loopholes.

How heartless! He even resells them secretly!

You definitely won’t tell us!”

"That's the truth, but why not just ask? Just in case you find something!"

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Police cars sped past under the street lights, like a shuttle traveling through time.

More than twenty minutes later!

The group arrived at Guojiadian and parked near the land temple.

After getting off the car, Chen Ting saw from afar that many villagers were gathered outside the wall of the land temple.

The wall of this land temple is nearly two meters high.

However, due to the relatively low terrain, many villagers can see the scene inside the land temple by standing on the high slope outside the wall.

The key point is that the faces of these villagers are not very good.

Some were filled with righteous indignation, and some even held shovels with fierce eyes.

Soon, Xiong Beibei and his men came over.

After the two sides met, they walked through the crowd and entered the courtyard of the land temple.

The ground was obviously black, with many traces of burned yellow paper.

However, compared with the old courtyard walls and ground, the formal small temple, or shrine, in the northeast corner of the temple is built quite luxuriously.

The shrine is in the shape of a small house, only about one meter high, and is covered with small tiles.

Inside the shrine, there are two land gods.

The one on the left is the God of Land, and the one on the right is the Mother of Land.

On the temple doors on both sides of the shrine are engraved the words "The earth can produce all things, and the ground can bring forth thousands of auspicious things."

In the center of the temple gate is the "Land God Temple".

In front is a stone table with a lot of fresh fruits, cakes, etc.

On the ground in front is a large three-legged incense burner more than half a meter high, with incense sticks of varying heights inserted in it.

Most of them have burned out, but a few are still glowing red dots, emitting gray-white smoke into the sky.

Xu Xinyi, who was communicating with the village party secretary and the village head, saw Shen Ting and others coming and hurried over to explain the situation:

“Chen Ting, this is not easy to do!

The main part of the land temple, that is, the land shrine, was renovated not long ago by the entire village of Guojiadian, who contributed money and effort together.

The ground and walls were not demolished and rebuilt.

That is to say!

According to your speculation, Chen Ting, Zhou Xiaoxiao's body might be hidden under the land temple..."

Xu Xin turned around and pointed to the location below the land temple.

There is a platform more than half a meter high, on which the land temple is erected.

"My team members and I analyzed that the body is most likely inside this table.

But we must dig up the entire land temple to confirm it.

The villagers are now quite resistant.

The village chief has tried his best to coordinate, but the villagers still disagree. What do you think we should do?

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