This fish pond is about half an acre in size, with weeds growing all around it and a few old trees covered with dense branches and leaves, making it look quiet.
Not far away are the mountains and forests.
You Mingxu stood by the pond, observed for a moment, put on shoe covers, and began to observe along the muddy road beside the pond. Jingping followed her example, put on shoe covers, and followed closely.
The mud is soft and when people step on it, it leaves clear footprints. However, it remains unknown whether they can find useful traces.
After walking a short circle, You Mingxu squatted down. The road was very narrow, so Jing Ping squatted behind her. I saw a set of footprints coming down the slope next to it and leading to the muddy road beside the fish pond. The footprints were roughly estimated to be size 42, sneakers, and the footprints were neither deep nor shallow, with a normal step width, indicating that the owner of the footprints should be a man of moderate weight and build.
Seeing the footprints coming straight down the slope, You Mingxu was stunned. He moved forward and pushed aside the grass by the water. The footprints here were no longer complete, but it could still be seen that the person had rushed to the water's edge.
Ran into the water?
You Mingxu opened his cell phone and looked through the photos - just now at Guo Xing's house, all his shoes and shoe boxes, thanks to his meticulous and tidy lifestyle - were photographed and organized by You Mingxu and his friends, including the soles of his shoes.
She flipped through the pages one by one, and Jingping came close to her to look. Suddenly his ear touched her face. You Mingxu didn't even raise his eyebrows and moved his face to the side. Jingping's eyes were always fixed on her phone, as if he didn't notice anything.
A simple comparison is done.
"It's not Guo Xing's shoe print." You Mingxu stood up and said.
Jing Ping also stood up and pointed ahead: "There are more there."
You Mingxu looked over and saw a row of footprints two meters away. For no apparent reason, her heart skipped a beat. Although three days have passed, it is still impossible to confirm whether these footprints are related to Guo Xing's disappearance. But these footprints were suspicious.
The two walked to the second type of footprints to observe. After You Mingxu had just finished looking at all of Guo Xing's shoes and soles, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Guo Xing has a pair of shoes like this!" She turned to the photos on her mobile phone, which were the footprints collected at the door of Guo Xing's house. When she compared them next to this footprint, she found that the length of the patterns was exactly the same, and even the worn position on the sole was the same. And Guo Xingjia also has a shoe box for this pair of shoes. Then it can be basically confirmed that it was left by Guo Xing.
You Mingxu immediately stood up and called Ding Xiongwei, asking for support from footprint identification experts.
After hanging up the phone, I saw Jingping still squatting there on one knee, with a serious expression, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"What's wrong?" You Mingxu asked.
In the end, he smiled lazily again: "Nothing, just studying."
You Mingxu dared to bet that this man looked kind and amiable, but he was definitely not really sociable in his previous job. If he has 10 things on his mind, he can only tell others one or two at most. The rest are hidden in that delicate heart.
However, You Mingxu didn't care and continued to observe a series of footprints belonging to Guo Xing. She immediately noticed something unusual: his steps were larger than normal and deeper, splashing a lot of mud around him - thanks to the cold weather and the lack of people, these footprints were well preserved - that is, Guo Xing ran here.
At first she was squatting on the ground, examining each one of them, then she simply stood up and followed the footprints in the opposite direction, which led her to the fish pond. She was walking so absorbed in her thoughts when someone suddenly grabbed her wrist. The man's palms and fingertips had thin calluses from holding a gun for a long time, and they rubbed against her skin particularly clearly.
She turned and looked at Jingping.
He raised an eyebrow, motioned to a patch of loose soil under her feet, and put her hand down.
"Thank you very much."
He answered slowly, "You're welcome."
For some reason, You Mingxu smiled. There was also a hint of smile in Jingping's eyes, but he always looked calm and composed.
Guo Xing's footprints extended all the way to a big tree. You Mingxu's eyes lit up.
Here, they found even more.
There were two footprints belonging to Guo Xing, which were deep and moved by friction in the same place. At the back are four deep holes, and next to it is a round mark the size of a football, which is also quite deep.
You Mingxu made a brief association, and the complete picture emerged in his mind:
Guo Xing sat under a tree, using a small folding stool for fishing. The bucket was filled with water and the fish he had caught. Sat for quite a long time.
Why did he suddenly stand up and run over there quickly?
The other person's footprints rushed directly down the hillside and into the water.
What kind of weird scene is this?
"Detective, what are you thinking about?" Jing Ping's voice came in his ears.
"I was thinking..." You Mingxu answered slowly, "That Guo Xing seems quite unexpected."
A tidy room, meticulously organized. He loves fishing and has a particular taste in food. He keeps the fish he catches and sells them to the owner of a fish restaurant. The fish restaurant owner and the boss here all thought he was a kind and nice man.
He is quite different from the drug dealer and heinous criminal that You Mingxu has in mind. A living person seems to be right in front of you.
However, don't judge a book by its cover. Whether a person loves life and is kind has nothing to do with whether he has committed murder, arson, or drug trafficking behind the scenes.
When I raised my head, I met a pair of deep eyes. There seemed to be some warmth in them, but it also seemed that they were just teasing. You Mingxu was actually quite annoyed by men like him who looked at her that way. But behind these eyes is an old detective who is as upright and resolute as can be. After the two glanced at each other, they both looked away.
You Mingxu continued to search along the fish pond to see if there were any other clues. Jingping still followed silently.
After walking around a little bit, a very messy patch of footprints appeared in front of us. You Mingxu squatted down again. Some of the footprints were blurred and intertwined, but it was still easy to distinguish that there were four different footprints.
One belongs to Guo Xing, and the other belongs to the man who ran down from the opposite side of the fish pond.
There are two other types, both around size 42 or 43, also wearing sneakers. One is short and the other is tall, and both are of moderate weight, neither fat nor thin.
You Mingxu frowned and carefully observed the trajectory of each footprint.
First, she discovered that the footprints of Guo Xing and the original man actually came out of the water. Guo Xing's footprints were very deep, while that man's footprints were shallow and messy, and he stepped loosely, with some deep and some shallow. So she had a rough idea of the first half of the events that had happened near the fish pond.
Then, the two people's footprints stopped on the muddy path. At this time, Guo Xing's footprints were facing the fish pond and his back was to the bushes. These two footprints are relatively deep and clear, indicating that Guo Xing stopped here. The man's footprints disappeared, but there were some large indentations on the ground, which showed that the man had fallen down. .
The two people who came later had light footprints and small steps. They were jogging from the bushes to behind Guo Xing.
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