Chapter 310: Strangled
[Then let’s just help Brother Qi Xiao make a heart with our hands!] The fox boss raised his paws and drew a heart in the air with his two little paws.
The other little foxes also imitated their boss's actions and drew a heart for Xu Ying in front of the camera.
The little fennec foxes were chattering and making a fuss. Qi Xiao shook his head and laughed under their "siege". Although he couldn't understand fox language, he knew at once that these naughty little guys were ruining his plan.
He caught all the little foxes hanging on his body and making a heart shape with their hands, and held them in his arms. The five little fennec foxes were firmly restrained by Qi Xiao's arms, gathered into a big furry ball, with their big airplane ears shaking.
Qi Xiao's slender fingers were stuck in the warm orange fur. The five little foxes all raised their fluffy tails in unison, like swaying orange seaweed.
The sound of the desert wind outside the rescue station window mixed with their laughter, and even through the screen, it seemed as if it was within reach.
Xu Ying burst out laughing. This scene was so adorable. Her ears flushed red. "I know, I know. You all just wait for me!"
After dinner, Xu Ying was washing dishes when the snow weasel suddenly came in through the small door of the rescue station.
[Stationmaster Xiao Xu, important information! !]
Xu Ying immediately stopped what he was doing: "What's the matter?"
The snow weasel twitched the tip of its thin tail. "A snowflake said they saw a man strangle a woman with a rope about twenty days ago! It happened near a cedar forest near the glacial lake!"
Xu Ying quickly wiped his hands clean. "Where is that snowflake now?"
[It will fly over soon!]
Xu Ying hurried to the outside of the rescue station to pick up the snowflake.
After a while, a small and exquisite snowflake flew towards Xu Ying.
Xu Ying opened his palm, which was wearing warm gloves, and the little snowflake fell into his palm.
[Wow, Xiao Xu, your hands are so warm. I wish I could hold them in your palm forever~]
Its feathers are as white as snow, its black bean-like eyes are smart and its tender yellow beak opens and closes gently, like a ball of fluffy marshmallow dotted with a few ink spots.
Xu Ying was melted by the cuteness of this little snowflake, who opened its mouth and flirted with people. "Hahaha, it's my gloves that are very warm. If you can help me provide some clues this time, I can also give you a glove and let you take it back to your nest as a warm blanket~"
Xue Que's eyes lit up immediately when he heard about the reward. "Stationmaster Xu, I'll take you to the place where that man strangled someone."
The snow-capped mountains were even colder at night, so Xu Ying brought warm gear with her. However, with the company of snow weasels and snow sparrows, Xu Ying was not afraid.
As the snowbird flew, it told Xu Ying what it saw.
[Xiao Xu, the man and woman I saw looked like a couple. They kissed in the woods, and their actions were very intimate.]
When Snowbird said this, she lowered her head shyly.
[The boy had already built a snowman in the cedar forest. However, he hadn't built it that night; it had been there for several days.]
The temperature in the snow-capped mountains dropped sharply more than 20 days ago. If you build a snowman in advance, the snowman will not melt.
Xu Ying raised an eyebrow. She took out her phone and showed Xue Que the photo of Lao San and Lin Qing: "Look at the boy and girl in the photo. Are they these two people?"
Snowbird shook his head in embarrassment: "Master Xu, my eyesight is very poor at night."
[I couldn't clearly see the man and woman's appearance, but I could barely make out their movements.]
Xu Ying suddenly remembered that the snowbirds' eyes were sensitive to changes in light. When the light was good, their vision was very good, and they could even see through the morning mist at a short distance, but their vision at night was very poor.
Xu Ying rubbed the snowflake's head with his fingers to comfort it: "It's okay, it's okay. What happened next? What happened next?"
Snowbird recalled the scene, his eyes filled with fear: [Something terrible happened!]
[After hugging the girl for a while, the man asked her to turn around and close her eyes. He wanted to give her a surprise gift.]
[The girl turned around and closed her eyes, and the man dug out a bundle of rope from under the snowman.]
Xu Ying got goosebumps when she heard this. It turned out that building a snowman in advance was not to surprise the girl, but to hide the murder weapon...
[I screamed non-stop after seeing this, but the girl didn't open her eyes. The next moment, the man strangled her with a rope.]
[The poor girl finally opened her eyes, but it was too late.]
[She was strangled to death by the man.]
Snowbird said in a sad tone.
[The man dug out a large bag from the snowman pile, put the girl's body into the bag, and then carried the bag to the edge of the frozen lake.]
[He threw the girl's body into a hole in the ice and left.]
Xu Ying quickly asked, "Did the man take the rope he used to strangle the victim with or throw it away?"
[He throws the rope and bag over a snowy cliff.]
The Snowflake's expression was solemn: "I flew to the edge of the snow cliff and looked around. It's very high, and there's no one below. Apart from animals, no one would go there."
[He placed the rope inside the bag containing the body, intending to light it with fire, but the snow was so strong that day that it wouldn't catch fire at all. He seemed to be in a hurry, so he simply threw the bag off the snow cliff.]
When Xu Ying heard the man throw something onto the snow cliff, he immediately became excited.
As they were talking, Xue Que had already brought Xu Ying to the crime scene. It was a quiet cedar forest, a relatively niche tourist attraction in Xishan. Only tourists who were familiar with the terrain of Xishan or professional climbers would come here.
Xu Ying was not a professional criminal police officer and could not see anything. She placed a GPS locator here and then transmitted the signal to Ji Xuehui.
"Officer Ji, we've found a new clue! This is probably the scene where the suspect strangled Lin Qing."
Ji Xuehui received Xu Ying's message and immediately replied excitedly, "Okay, I'll rush to the scene with my colleagues right away. Stationmaster Xu, you're worthy of your reputation. You have spies everywhere in the snow-capped mountains!"
Xu Ying smiled and put down her phone. She poked Snowbird's chubby body and said, "Little Snowbird, can you take me to see that snow cliff?"
[Of course you can.] The snowflake flapped its wings and took Xu Ying to the snowy cliff where the suspect had abandoned the tools used in the crime.
Xu Ying approached the snow cliff, squatted down and climbed to the edge of the cliff in a prone position.
She was afraid that she would slip and fall off the snow cliff.
This cliff is extremely tall and steep, as if the mountain was suddenly cut in half, giving people the feeling that they would be smashed to pieces if they fell down.
The cold wind howled at the cliff, and Xu Ying's heart trembled.
She observed carefully and found that although the cliff was steep, it could not be as smooth as a regular oblique surface. The uneven rocks on the cliff could be used as footholds.
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