Lu Yuan took a sip of water and laughed: "Alright, you've clearly surprised me! If you have any work to hand over now, go do it. I'll give you ten minutes!"
However, Sun Tao shook his head slightly: "No need, my daily work is very leisurely, and I don't think this construction engineer job is challenging for me at all! I had already finished my work when I came in this morning! Here are my design drawings, just put them on the table and the leader can take them when he comes!"
Seeing the other party's casual demeanor, Lu Yuan couldn't help but exchange a glance with the two police officers, whose eyes were also full of interest in Sun Tao.
"Alright, now that you've finished taking care of it, come with me!"
Then, Lu Yuan led the other party directly out of the office and into the desert.
Lu Yuan pointed to the things that had been dug up in the desert and said, "Look. I accidentally dug all these things out from under here, but I regretted it a little after I found them. Now can you help me see when these things were lost, why they were lost, and where they were lost from?"
Hearing Lu Yuan's words, Sun Tao nodded, then squatted down to look at the things before pointing to the unfilled pits in front of him: "Mr. Lu, are these the places where you dug these things out?"
Lu Yuan nodded: "That's right, this is the place. Do you think it might affect your judgment?"
Sun Tao suddenly laughed: "Haha, Mr. Lu, don't worry, these things were meant to be dug out anyway, so it won't have too much of an impact. Besides, there are still many things inside that you haven't dug out yet! Alright, leave the rest to me!"
After saying that, Sun Tao took out a rubber glove from his pocket: "By the way, Mr. Lu, you may have to take me back later!"
"No problem! I'm waiting for you right now! Just tell me when you're done, when you need me to take you back, and what equipment you need!"
Sun Tao nodded: "Okay, then I'll trouble you, Mr. Lu. I don't think the wait will be long. I need to take all these things back for analysis. Based on my deduction, there are more things lost in this place than just these!"
After saying that, Sun Tao reached out and took out a tent pole, then squeezed it in his palm a couple of times: "Very sturdy, no wonder it's from the Dimensional Space Factory, the quality is really good!"
Next, Sun Tao checked the other things, and after looking at them, he stared at the ground in the distance and pondered for a long time.
"I need a shovel!"
Lu Yuan quickly handed the shovel to the other person.
"Okay, I might have to dig up an area of over 100 square meters around here! It will probably take a little while!"
Lu Yuan nodded: "Okay! You designate a location! I'll take care of it for you!"
Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, Sun Tao's face immediately lit up with excitement: "Mr. Lu, would you mind if I excuse myself?"
"Haha, no need. My ability isn't a secret anymore. You can just watch from the sidelines!"
Sun Tao nodded immediately, then stood aside and drew a circle around the area with a shovel: "Mr. Lu, the sand inside this circle needs to be removed! There should be something underneath!"
Lu Yuan looked at the place: "Hmm! Any other requirements? Where should we take it?"
Sun Tao pointed to the empty space next to him: "Why don't we just put it here? By the way, I suspect there's another car around here! It looks like a four-wheeled SUV!"
Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment upon hearing the other person's words: "How did you know that?"
Sun Tao immediately pointed to some sand in the pit and said, "Mr. Lu, look, there's some residual engine oil in here, and this kind of engine oil is only used in high-performance vehicles such as off-road vehicles!"
Curious, Lu Yuan grabbed a handful of sand and smelled it carefully. Sure enough, he detected a faint smell of engine oil. He was even more impressed by Sun Tao's professional criminal investigation skills.
"Wow, you're amazing! I wouldn't have noticed any of this if you hadn't told me!"
Sun Tao smiled slightly: "People who have been doing criminal investigation for many years basically have some subconscious reactions, which is that when they arrive at the crime scene, they first smell it, then look at the surrounding situation, and finally check what physical evidence is inside."
Lu Yuan nodded, but he made a mental note of Sun Tao, thinking that he would train him well in the future.
After all, while there is a severe shortage of talent in urban development within the dimensional space, it would be a waste of talent to have expert-level criminal investigators with mismatched expertise do things that do not match their original abilities.
Although there aren't many cases happening in the dimensional space right now, a few ordinary criminal investigators are perfectly adequate.
Therefore, professionals like Sun Tao are unable to fully utilize their abilities.
Then, as instructed, Lu Yuan moved all the sand to an open space to the side.
When the sand was removed, a slightly bent car hood was indeed revealed underneath.
Lu Yuan's heart sank when he saw it.
"Holy crap, there really is a car! Could it be that something really happened to Hanwen and the others?"
Sun Tao, standing nearby, suddenly said, "Mr. Lu, don't jump to conclusions. This might not be a tragedy; it could simply have been left behind. After all, we didn't find many items among what we just discovered! For example, Han Wen and Xi Wen's exploration team came here on a mission, so they must have conducted extensive geological and topographical surveys along the way. But we didn't see any research data among these items; they only left behind food and supplies!"
Lu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "What if the items have all been moved to other places?"
Sun Tao pointed to the SUV in the pit and said, "Mr. Lu, to find out whether they encountered a disaster or deliberately abandoned these things, we need to check if the research data I just mentioned is in the car below!"
Lu Yuan nodded immediately, and then with a thought, he pulled the car out of the sand again.
The car's windows were completely shattered. When the car door was opened, a large amount of sand fell down the door, and soon a sand pile formed in front of the door.
Sun Tao took off his rubber gloves, then climbed into the car and used his hands to remove all the sand inside. He then opened the trunk.
Inside the trunk were more than a dozen unopened bottles of water, some food, and two unused computers.
Next, Sun Tao went to the passenger seat again, opened the cover, and found it full of discarded writing papers, which contained topographical maps and other meaningless writings that they had scribbled along the way.
Lu Yuan glanced through it briefly but found nothing of importance inside.
Sun Tao, standing to the side, flipped through the contents one by one, then shook his head after reading them: "They're all unimportant things! Next, let's see if there's any important information on the computer!"
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