Chapter 208 Ugly
We broke into the construction site of the new building without any obstruction.
A small space is enclosed by the white courtyard wall, and the newly excavated foundation is inside the blue railing. Two excavators are on site excavating the foundation pit.
Ice cream went straight to the northwest corner, which was a wasteland covered with weeds.
Xia Mufan and the little boy Liangliang followed closely behind Xuegao, while Zhong Yinghong and Feng Xiaoyu walked slower and followed far behind.
"Woo..." Ice cream suddenly stopped.
Xia Mushi also stopped and looked at the ice cream: "What's wrong?"
Ice cream raised his head, sniffed, and suddenly sneezed. He took two steps back uneasily and refused to move forward, as if he had encountered some difficulties.
Liangliang asked anxiously: "Why didn't you leave? Didn't you see Lingling?"
Xue Gao circled around Xia Mufan anxiously.
[Unpleasant smell.] 】
[It's very pungent and smells unpleasant.] 】
Xia Mufan looked around and suddenly understood. He pointed to a clump of green in the corner of the wasteland near the courtyard wall and asked, "Is that it? That's wild mint." Dogs hate the smell of mint, and they also dislike floral water and perfume containing mint essence. Once you smell that smell, you'll retreat away.
Ice cream sneezed again.
[Yes, that’s it.] 】
[My nose can’t take it.] 】
[The smell on the rope is there. 】
Although the mint smell interfered with the ice cream's sense of smell, the well-trained dog was still able to tell that Lingling was there.
Xia Mufan's heart sank and he loosened the dog leash: "Xue Gao, step back. I'll go over and take a look."
Xue Gao obediently took a few steps back, squatted on the ground, pricked up his ears, and remained alert.
Xia Mufan stepped on the weeds to the bush of mint, bent down to observe carefully, and indeed found a patch of loose soil. Xia Mufan took out a small shovel from the outdoor tool bag around his waist and started digging.
Liangliang seemed to understand something, his face turned pale, and he squatted beside Xia Mufan, staring at the shovel up and down.
The loose soil was removed, and a flash of white came into view.
Liangliang's lips trembled slightly. She held her breath and stared at the white spot that was getting bigger and bigger.
"Lingling! Lingling!" When the small corpse buried under the soil was revealed, Liangliang burst into tears, rushed over and started digging the soil with both hands.
Xia Mufan stopped what he was doing and looked at Liangliang silently.
Liangliang picked up the body of a Pekingese with its limbs tied up from the mud. Tears fell like pearls from a broken string. He kept calling Lingling's name, but he could no longer get any response from it.
Xia Mufan's eyes fell on the ropes tied around the white puppy's limbs.
The puppy's front and hind paws were tied separately with the familiar cross knot, a gardening strap made of white PVC plastic outer skin and iron wire core.
The woven bag containing the cat corpse discarded in the zoo had the same rope and binding method as the one in front of me.
Xia Mufan stood up, patted Liangliang's back gently, and comforted him, "Don't be sad."
Liangliang sobbed and complained: "Lingling is very clingy. She takes me to school and waits for me to get out of school every day. She stays at the door of my house, waiting pitifully for me to play with her. She loves to bark. She barks when she sees a stranger. She is a little naughty. When she sees other dogs, no matter they are big or small, she will bark and rush over. But she is very well behaved. As long as my mother and I tell her to stop barking, she will shut up immediately. She will even play dead. I just need to make a shooting gesture to her and say "bang!" and she will fall to the ground with her belly exposed and stay motionless."
When talking about the little moments he had with his pets, Liangliang burst into tears. His mother just came over and her eyes also became red when she heard this.
Xia Mufan stretched out his hand towards Liangliang: "Here, give me the puppy, I'll check it out."
Liangliang held Lingling tightly, unwilling to let go. He raised his tearful eyes and shook his head stubbornly: "No, Lingling is mine!"
Xia Mushige is also a person who has pets at home. Of course, he knows the intimacy of the spiritual connection between humans and animals, and can also understand the pain of separation between humans and pets due to death. She sighed softly, her voice gentle: "Lingling might have been killed by someone, give it to me, I'll check it out."
Liangliang stopped crying and looked down at Lingling, whose body was stiff and covered in mud. She couldn't believe it and said in a trembling voice: "Lingling is so cute, who would be willing to kill it?"
Xia Mushige said: "There will always be some bad people in this world who don't know how to appreciate its cuteness."
Liangliang thought about it, and reluctantly handed Lingling to Xia Mufan: "Sister, then you check carefully, and make sure to find the bad guy and scold him severely!"
It can be seen that Liangliang has good family education. The heaviest punishment he can think of is just a few harsh scoldings.
Xia Mushige put on gloves, took the puppy's body, laid it flat on the ground, and began to examine it carefully. There was no forensic doctor in the team, so Xia Mufan had to do it himself.
Feng Xiaoyu walked over quickly and saw the white gardening straps on the puppy. Her pupils shrank and she immediately reacted and asked softly, "Director Xia, do we need to seal off the scene?"
Xia Mufan glanced at Feng Xiaoyu and said, "Well, check if there are any footprints nearby or any unusual items left behind." Unfortunately, the mint was growing so lushly that Xue Gao didn't dare to go forward, otherwise he would have let it come and smell it...
Thinking of this, Xia Mufan suddenly reacted. Although mint flavor is unpleasant in ice cream, it is also an important clue. If we continue searching along this line, we may make new discoveries.
Feng Xiaoyu notified Gong Weiguo and Sun Xianbing through the intercom to come and seal off the scene and search for evidence, while Xia Mufan began to perform an autopsy on the puppy.
There were no signs of beating or bruises on his body.
The puppy's limbs were tied very tightly and it was unable to break free. There were hemorrhages in the fundus of its eyes, cyanosis on its head, its tongue was stretched out, and there were traces of feces and urine on its body.
——The dog died of suffocation.
He opened the dog's mouth again and found a lot of dirt inside. Xia Mufan felt a chill on his back. He raised his head with uncontrollable anger in his eyes and squeezed out two words from between his teeth with difficulty: "Buried alive."
"What?!" Feng Xiaoyu's voice was very loud, and it was obvious that she had not expected that the cause of death of the puppy was being buried alive.
Liangliang burst into tears.
He raised his hand and wiped his tears. The mud on his hands mixed with his tears painted his face into a clown face. But he didn't care about all that and just cried sadly.
Zhong Yinghong walked over distressedly, held her son in her arms, and coaxed him softly, "Be good, Liangliang, don't cry. Let's get another dog to raise tomorrow, okay?"
Liangliang shook his head desperately: "No, no, no, I only want Lingling!"
Zhong Yinghong had no choice but to agree with him: "Okay, I only want Lingling, and no other dogs."
Liangliang raised his head from his mother's arms, tears welling up in his dark eyes: "Sister, that bad guy buried Lingling alive. Lingling must be very hurt and scared. He is so bad, police sister, you must catch him!"
Xia Mushige nodded: "Okay."
Gong Weiguo and Sun Xianbing rushed over, set up a cordon near the place where the bodies were buried, and signaled the workers to stay away. They soon found a set of footprints on the grass.
Sun Xianbing squatted down to take pictures of the footprints and measured them: "Rubber shoes, size 36, women's style, estimated height 157 cm, weight 52 kg."
Gong Weiguo followed the footprints and found that the other party walked from the grass to the gate of the construction site. After asking the construction workers, I learned that there were only two excavators on the construction site. Steel bars, bricks, cement and other construction materials had not yet arrived at the site. There was nothing valuable, so there was no one guarding the site at night.
Facing the police, the construction worker was still a little nervous: "But there are still people watching during the day. If there are criminals coming in, most of them come at night."
Zhong Yinghong said: "My dog Lingling got lost yesterday. This person must have buried it here at night."
The construction worker who had been standing nearby watching the fun muttered, "It's just a dog, why set up a cordon? Are the police so idle right now?"
Liangliang cried out, "More than just a dog! Lingling is my best friend."
The construction worker felt a little embarrassed by what Liangliang said. He looked at the dog's corpse lying in the mint bush, touched the back of his head, and said nothing more.
The focus now is to find Sister Hua. The physical evidence at the scene has been found almost completely. Gong Weiguo glanced at the construction worker with a serious expression: "Be careful to protect the scene."
The construction worker agreed without hesitation: "Okay, okay, I will guard it and prevent anyone from approaching the cordon you set up."
Xia Mufan walked out of the construction site with Xue Gao, looked around, lowered his head and said to Xue Gao: "Can you smell the mint?"
Ice cream sniffed the wind, snorted, and barked in one direction.
[I smell it.] 】
[Where did you go?] 】
The other party buried the body at night, and his hands and body must have been stained with the scent of mint. This taste is a torture for ice cream, so it is deeply memorable.
Xia Mufan looked in the direction of Xue Gao's call, pointed at the villa area hidden among the mountains and waters and asked, "Where is that?"
Zhong Yinghong replied: "That's the Shanshui Mansion where I live."
Xia Mushi said with certainty: "The murderer who killed Lingling lived in the same community as you."
Liangliang hugged his mother's arms tightly and asked in a tearful voice: "Why did he want to kill Lingling?"
Xia Mufan said, "Won't we find him and ask him and find out?"
Liangliang asked again: "Officer sister, can I take Lingling home?"
Xia Mufan responded in a negotiating tone: "Wait a little longer, until we find the murderer, and then bury Lingling together, okay?"
Liangliang thought about it and nodded sensibly: "Okay."
After comforting Liangliang, Xia Mufan looked at Xuegao and saw that it had been avoiding the strong and pungent smell of mint. He felt a little reluctant: "Xuegao, please bear with it for a while."
Ice cream yelled twice in response.
【yes! 】
It is the duty of a police dog to obey orders. Even if it is the mint smell that it hates to stay away from, as long as Xia Mushige gives the order, it will track the smell without hesitation.
Zhong Yinghong took out a silver flip phone and called: "Xiao Wang, yes, we are at the construction site, come over."
After hanging up the phone, Zhong Yinghong said to Xia Mufan, "Officer Xia, it's still a long way to get back to Shanshui Mansion. My driver will be here soon. How about we take the car together?"
Xia Mufan waved his hand and said, "I'll go first with the ice cream, you guys can come later."
Without waiting for Zhong Yinghong to reply, Xia Mufan moved the dog leash: "Go!"
The ice cream started running immediately.
Xia Mufan stretched out his long legs and followed closely behind. Just as he ran a hundred meters, a starling flew over his head.
[Xia Xia, found it, found the coal ash.] 】
[She is a psychopath. She caught a wild cat in a net and then set it on fire. 】
[That psychopath had a big burn scar on his face and a scar on his neck. His hair was sparse and he looked so ugly. 】
Xia Mufan stopped suddenly.
No wonder Sister Hua covers herself so tightly, even wearing a scarf in summer. It turns out that it is because she has scars from burns on her face and neck.
Previously, everyone thought that Sister Hua was just a cautious person, but they didn’t expect it was because of this.
Very good! With this feature, Sister Hua can be quickly picked out from the crowd.
Thinking of this, Xia Mufan raised his hand and said, "Thank you for your hard work in making a fortune."
Fa Cai circled in the air and landed steadily on Xia Muchan's fingertips, attracting Liang Liang's curious gaze.
The rough and loud voice of the little starling rang in everyone's ears: "Wait for the coal ash, wait for the coal ash."
After Feng Xiaoyu understood what it meant, she couldn't help but laugh: "Fa Cai is getting better at talking now. Coal Ash is not as fast as Fa Cai, so let's wait for it."
Xia Mufan said "hmm" and waited quietly.
A silver luxury car drove over and stopped beside Zhong Yinghong. The driver opened the door, respectfully took Zhong Yinghong and Liang Liang in, and slowly followed Xia Mufan and his group.
A minute later, Coal Ash jumped out from the bushes and threw himself into Xia Muchan's arms. Its expression seemed a little frightened, and its body was trembling slightly.
[Xia Xia, that person is ugly and psychotic.] 】
[She caught the cat and crushed it to death. 】
[She had a golden lighter and poured gasoline on the cat and then lit it. Then put out the fire and put the cat in a snakeskin bag. 】
[She drove her white car to the reservoir. 】
As Xia Mufan listened, the fire in his heart burned brighter and brighter.
Human life is life, but animal life is not life?
How could a wild cat or a pet dog bother her? Why do we kill animals at will and abuse them to death?
Sister Hua is not only guilty of child trafficking, but she also abuses and kills animals. She is really mentally twisted.
Xia Mufan hugged Coal Ash, rubbed its little head, and comforted it softly: "It's okay, it's okay, let's go find Sister Hua together."
Coal Ash felt the warmth in Xia Mufan's palm, and his trembling body gradually returned to normal. He became more confident and started to meow loudly.
[A few cats followed the car to where the psychopath lived and let them lead the way. 】
[Xia Xia, hurry over there and don’t let her run away! 】
Xia Mufan took out the dried fish from his pocket: "Okay, let them out."
Soot turned around and shouted twice at the bushes.
【Come out.】 】
[Lead us the way and we will have dried fish to eat.] 】
Smelling the fish and hearing Coal Ash's call, the two tabby cats poked their heads out with their eyes wide open.
[That ugly ghost, if you can catch her, we will lead the way even without the dried fish. 】
Hearing what the tabby cat said, Xia Mufan threw the dried fish over and said, "Don't worry, you guys are indispensable."
The tabby cat picked up the dried fish, ate it quickly, licked its lips with satisfaction, and started running towards Shanshui Haoting.
With more and more clues, Xia Mufan no longer hesitated and said to Feng Xiaoyu, "These two cats have seen Sister Hua. She lives in Shanshui Mansion. She is 1.57 meters tall and of medium build. She is a woman with sparse hair and large burn scars on her face and neck. Let Dayu drive over and we will go to Shanshui Mansion to arrest her."
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