Liang Zichen initially noticed the bloodstains on the upper part of the wheat ears, but now the bloodstains had clearly moved lower. Liang Zichen stared at the bloodstains on the wheat stalks, pondering the possibilities that had led to this.

"The location of the bloodstains has changed." Liang Zichen told Wang Shen the clue he had discovered, and then remained silent for a while.

“Captain Wang, I think the only possible explanation for this situation is…” Liang Zichen paused halfway through his sentence, perhaps even he didn’t want to guess the worst possible outcome.

Seeing Liang Zichen's expression, Wang Shen sighed softly. "You probably think the same way I do. We can probably start constructing a virtual scenario of the murderer committing the crime now."

Wang Shen straightened up, glanced at the dirt road behind him, and then focused his gaze on the bloodstains in front of him. Wang Shen began to construct a scene of the murder: "Dean Fu Ju or the child has probably been killed."

"or?"

“Yes, look at the distribution of these bloodstains,” Wang Shen said, pointing to the scattered bloodstains in front of him. “The distribution of the bloodstains is consistent, from initially being distributed at the ears of wheat to now being distributed at the roots. This regular arrangement of the bloodstains must have been caused by the murderer when transporting the same body. In addition, I don’t think the murderer could drag two bodies at the same time.”

"In other words, the murderer only went back and forth on this road once. To put it simply, is it true that one of Dean Fu Ju and Han Lin's child is still alive?" Liang Zichen seemed to see some hope and asked Wang Shen this question with eager eyes.

"It's not certain yet; there might be other places to transport the bodies. But we should always have hope," Wang Shen said, shaking his head while offering Liang Zichen words of encouragement.

Looking at the empty wheat field before him, Wang Shen continued, "The general situation we have so far is that the murderer must have already committed the crime before entering the wheat field. This wheat field is probably where the murderer disposed of the body. The murderer dragged the body from the roadside into this wheat field and then dumped it there."

"That means the end of the bloodstains is where the murderer dumped the body." Liang Zichen's eyebrows furrowed as he straightened up and looked into the deep wheat field before him.

Wang Shen nodded. "So, let's keep looking ahead and see what happens."

After saying this, Wang Shen remained in a crawling position, searching for the bloodstains and following their guidance deeper into the wheat field. Not long after, just as the weather forecast had predicted, several muffled claps of thunder sounded in the sky.

Wang Shen and Liang Zichen exchanged a glance but didn't speak. Instead, they simultaneously quickened their search. However, fate seemed to be on the side of the culprit, creating considerable trouble for Wang Shen.

Before long, the rain began to fall from the thick clouds, and it grew heavier and heavier. The wheat ears, which had been standing straight, were bent over by the rain.

"Oh no, the rain is getting heavier, what should we do?" Liang Zichen wiped the rain off his face and shouted to Wang Shen.

"It's probably just a thunderstorm, it should pass quickly," Wang Shen replied to Liang Zichen's question while still searching for bloodstains.

But the rain didn't go as Wang Shen had predicted. Half an hour passed, and the rain showed no signs of abating, even showing signs of intensifying. The already flooded wheat field had now become a small river. Wang Shen and Liang Zichen continued their arduous search and advance through the wheat field.

Suddenly, Wang Shen's phone rang. He immediately answered and shouted into the phone, "Take the dirt road behind the house, walk for about five minutes, and turn left into the wheat field."

From Wang Shen's conversation, it was clear that his reinforcements had arrived. About ten minutes later, the voices of a group of people could be heard behind Wang Shen and Liang Zichen.

Wang Shen and Liang Zichen stood still, ceasing their search, and waved to a group of police officers behind them.

"Captain Wang, hello, I'm the deputy captain of the district branch. Our captain is hospitalized, so I'm in charge of this operation." The lead policeman jogged up to Wang Shen and saluted him.

"Thank you for your hard work. I'm now pretty sure this wheat field is where the murderer dumped the body, so let's see if we can find the exact location. There were some bloodstains on the wheat ears, but they've been washed away by the rain, so we'll have to ask you to expand the search area, brothers." In the heavy rain, Wang Shen practically had to shout for the other person to hear him.

"No problem, Captain Wang, don't worry." After listening to Wang Shen's words, the deputy captain turned around and gave a few instructions to the six policemen standing behind him. Then, he saw eight people, including Wang Shen and Liang Zichen, begin to disperse throughout the wheat field to search for the so-called body disposal site.

During the search, several more claps of thunder sounded in the sky. Just then, a voice suddenly came from one of the wheat fields. "Everyone come here! Everyone come here!" It was Liang Zichen's voice.

Wang Shen, being closest to the sound, ran to Liang Zichen's side first. Liang Zichen pointed to a small puddle in front of them and shouted, "Look at the color of this puddle!"

It seems this rain wasn't entirely useless. In another sense, it actually helped Wang Shen. The puddle Liang Zichen pointed to had a faint pinkish hue. Although not very obvious, the difference was noticeable upon closer inspection.

"Captain Wang, although the bloodstains on the wheat ears have been diluted, the blood that seeped into the soil has been washed out by the rain." Liang Zichen said to Wang Shen with a slight smile on his face.

Liang Zichen wiped the rain off his face again, then continued, "Moreover, no such phenomenon was found in the soil elsewhere. Only this puddle is this color, which means that the murderer dragged the body here for quite some time, allowing a lot of blood to seep into the soil."

“Yes,” Wang Shen replied loudly to Liang Zichen in the heavy rain. While Wang Shen and Liang Zichen were talking, the other seven policemen arrived beside them.

"The body dumping site shouldn't be far from here. Captain Wang, look over there!" Liang Zichen said, expressing his guess, when he suddenly noticed a large fishpond not far from them.

Everyone understood Liang Zichen's meaning, and then they all ran to the edge of the fishpond. Wang Shen stared at the fishpond in front of him and fell into a brief silence, until the vice captain standing next to him asked, "Captain Wang, what do we do now?"

Wang Shen glanced at the deputy captain, pursed his lips, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "We'll have to trouble the brothers to fish out some more fish from this pond."

The deputy captain looked at Wang Shen and replied after a moment, "Okay, I'll have someone send some tools over."