Sure enough, under the guidance of the God of War, the police quickly found the gold dust wrapped in tarpaulin in a hidden crevice in the rocks.

Just as everyone was rejoicing at finding the stolen goods, Sand Fox, carrying a tattered backpack, trotted over like a victorious general, tossed the bag at Xia Zhi Ning's feet, and proudly reported: "Boss! I've found more important evidence!"

[This bag smells exactly like that guy, and there's a strong stench of blood, just like what I smelled that night!]

"That's fantastic!" Xia Zhining rubbed the sand fox's little head and praised it against her will, "You're so agile and intelligent!"

Ji Shuyun put on gloves and carefully opened the backpack—

Inside was a dagger with dark brown marks and several pieces of rope.

He skillfully sealed these crucial pieces of evidence in an evidence bag and said in a deep voice, "The murder weapon has been found."

Faced with irrefutable evidence, Jian Yan finally confessed to his crimes.

He confessed that while leading three backpackers on an expedition deep into the desert as a guide, he unexpectedly discovered traces of a gold mine.

Because he was most familiar with the desert geology and undertook most of the logistical work, he considered himself to have made the greatest contribution.

"But those three rich men looked down on me from the very beginning!"

Jian Yan shouted excitedly, "Later, one of them even tried to break away from me and go it alone... In a moment of impulse, I attacked him on the road and managed to embezzle the gold mine."

Having already started killing, he decided to go all the way and kill the other two as well.

Because the incident happened so suddenly, Jian Yan could only dispose of the body nearby.

There happened to be some bleached cloth that had been pilfered from the hotel's linen room on the car.

Water drawn from puddles and lakes scattered throughout the desert needs to be filtered.

These bleached cloths were originally used to filter drinking water, but in the heat of the moment, Jian Yan used them to wrap the body.

To Jian Yan's utter surprise, the burial site he had carefully chosen was spotted by a film crew just half a month later!

After confessing to all his crimes, Jian Yan even muttered under his breath, "...I guess I'm just unlucky."

The interrogating officer looked at him incredulously: "Even now, you still think you were just unlucky and did nothing wrong?"

"What did I do wrong!" Jian Yan suddenly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, and his long-suppressed greed and obsession erupted completely at this moment. "I discovered the gold first! It should be mine!"

"I've had enough of being looked down upon. I've finally got my chance to turn things around, and nobody's going to take it away from me!"

Jian Yan screamed as he was being led into the police car. Even at the end, he still didn't think he had done anything wrong. He was just unlucky that he was discovered before he could even sell the stolen goods.

But in fact, whether it was Jian Yan's initial choice to bury the body or the film crew's later choice of location, they both chose the same area of ​​soft, easy-to-dig sandy soil.

The gears of fate had already quietly turned the moment greed took hold, and his so-called "bad luck" was nothing more than the inevitable price he had to pay for his crimes.

A young police officer squatted by the sandpit, carefully collecting tiny, shimmering particles from the sand with an evidence bag. "Is there really a gold mine here?"

Guided by the sand fox, Xia Zhining gently parted a clump of camel thorns and indeed found a gerbil burrow.

Several gerbils were busy at work, their little paws digging rapidly in the soil, constantly throwing the "waste soil" out of their burrow.

"Heave-ho, heave-ho!" A round gerbil vigorously kicked its hind legs, sending clumps of glittering sand flying out of its burrow, complaining: [This shiny wasteland is the worst! It glows so brightly at night that I can't sleep!]

Another gerbil, carrying a pinch of golden sand, spat it out of the burrow with a "Ptooey!": [Exactly! It takes up space and is useless; we'd be better off storing more grass seeds!]

Xia Zhining stared in disbelief as the golden sand, which the gerbils had thrown out as "garbage and wasteland," glittered in the sunlight.