After some greetings, Tang Ze also became familiar with the local police chief Yamashita.
"Detective Tang Ze, our superiors told us to cooperate with you throughout the operation. We brought shovels and other things with us before we came up."
Inspector Yamashita stroked his beard and smiled, "If you need us to dig a hole, please tell us what to do."
"Thank you very much." Tang Ze smiled and thanked the other party when he heard the other party was so polite.
"But this is such a large area after all. I wonder what Detective Karasawa thinks?" Inspector Yamashita asked.
"Xiyuan Sheng disappeared for three hours, and the criminal wanted to kill and bury the body within this time."
Tang Ze said, "I speculate that Xiyuan Sheng's body should be buried on the plateau on the south side."
"The southern plateau..."
Inspector Yamashita pondered, "We've actually investigated that area, but we didn't find anything..."
"But looking at the mountains in this area, the east and west slopes are all rock and sand, making it difficult to bury a body. The north side is even more steep, making it convenient to dump a body, but it would also be easily seen."
Tang Ze said, "In summary, the only place left to bury the bodies is the southern slope.
In addition, the scope of the southern slope can be further narrowed down, for example, by paying more attention to areas with lush vegetation. After all, the vegetation below the corpse will be more lush.
Of course, we should also pay more attention to areas with sparse vegetation."
“Sparse?”
Upon hearing this, Inspector Yamashita couldn't help but ask with some confusion, "I can understand if it's lush, but why is it sparse?"
"Because once a human corpse decays, it will be transformed into nutrients needed by plants. It is a very good fertilizer in this barren mountain land."
Tang Ze explained, "But if the murderer wrapped the body in a plastic bag, it would prevent the plants there from absorbing water, and their growth would not be so good."
"I see."
Inspector Yamashita was stunned, then immediately nodded and said, "I'll tell them to be more careful."
After Inspector Yamashita gave the order, all the criminals responded and began a carpet search.
It wasn't long before they came upon a spot where the flowers appeared to be blooming luxuriantly.
But after everyone dug with great anticipation, they only found a large stone underground.
It’s not that no one has discovered barren or fertile areas since then, but after digging, they found nothing.
The land on the mountain is no different from other lands, and digging holes is also hard work. Everyone was full of energy at the beginning, but after digging a few holes, they were all exhausted and out of breath.
But Tang Ze firmly believed that the body was buried nearby.
Because the deceased had only disappeared for three hours, within these three hours, the criminal could only carry the body on his back after killing the person.
In this case, he couldn't have gone too far, and considering the time it took to dig the hole, the body must be nearby.
Tang Ze wandered around the land in the south while deep in thought.
But at this moment, a flash of gold suddenly appeared in his eyes. He subconsciously took two steps forward, then suddenly stopped and turned to walk towards the golden flower.
"sunflower?"
Tang Ze stared at the flower in the distance, stunned for a moment, and muttered, "Logically speaking, there shouldn't be sunflowers in a place with such a high altitude and generally low temperatures.
Is it the deep mountain goldenrod...?"
Tang Ze walked forward, took a closer look, and finally confirmed that it was a sunflower.
After confirming this, he immediately called all the people together to dig the land beneath their sunflower.
"Detective Tang Ze, are you sure there's a body buried down here?"
Inspector Yamashita wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "The plants nearby are as tall as the surrounding ones..."
"The body must be buried here."
Tang Ze said, "In fact, the plants here are taller than those nearby. When you get closer, you will find that the ground here is actually a little lower than other places.
This is why the plants growing on it look similar to the surrounding ones.
But normally for a flat land, there should be no additional ground subsidence.
The only possibility that caused this place to collapse is that Mikura Heiji dug a pit here to bury the bodies, causing the soil to loosen and eventually sink."
“It’s true!”
After hearing what Tang Ze said, Inspector Yamashita looked at his men excitedly and said, "Bring that guy over here and see his reaction."
The young detective behind him nodded repeatedly after hearing what his superior said, and after a while he brought Mikura Heiji over.
"Do you want me to help you find a burial place?"
When Mizore Heiji arrived, he seemed to recognize the environment. He suppressed his inner panic and pretended to be calm and disdainful, saying, "Give up. I'm not the murderer, so I don't know where the body is buried."
"No, we've found the body. It's right at your feet, isn't it?"
Tang Ze said this with a smile, and looked at Mizore Heiji, who was like a master of face-changing and could no longer maintain his previous calm expression, and a look of panic could not be stopped on his face.
He originally thought that everyone called him over to ask him about his location, so when he saw that this was the burial ground, he pretended to be calm and composed so as not to be noticed.
But he didn't expect that they had already found the place where the body was buried, and now they called him over simply to let him witness.
“Start digging!”
Seeing the uncontrollable horror on Mikura Heiji's face, Inspector Yamashita excitedly called on his men to start digging the ground.
After digging and digging under the tall sunflowers, they soon found a human skeleton.
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