Chapter 437: Look at the Feet

It is well known that women are less involved in cases of direct violence.

For example, in businesses without capital like robbery, very few women take the initiative to do it. Even among the 108 heroes of Water Margin, the only three women—Hu Sanniang was forcibly abducted, while Sun Sun Erniang and Gu Gu Dasao ran black shops. Their daily work was presumably killing guests while they were asleep or drunk, which fits the standard template for female murderers very well.

The victim of the corpse abandoned in the wilderness in Qu'an died because of a blunt object striking the back of his head, which is one of the reasons why the skull was always preserved.

Based on Liu Liu Jinghui's understanding of homicide cases, there are women who use blunt objects to kill, but most are crimes of passion. If it is premeditated murder, they would not choose a method of direct confrontation, and they would also be less likely to use blunt objects, preferring sharp ones instead.

Simply put, just like Sun Sun Erniang and Gu Gu Dasao, female perpetrators are more inclined to take direct violent measures only when the victim has basically lost the ability to resist.

To put it simply, without professional training, it is very difficult for a lady of this age and state to have the confidence to kill a male of the same age alone.

Perhaps the one who threw the stone and the paper was an accomplice of hers?

Liu Liu Jinghui thought about it for a while, and it wasn't until the outside was brightly lit that he realized he should go out.

The four criminal police officers in the next room had already cordoned off the area around the green belt.

There was a small path here, originally a gravel path built around the small temple, only wide enough for one person to pass. Two police officers stood on either side, blocking the people who came to watch the excitement.

Actually, not many people came to watch the excitement. Excluding the police, there were only eight people living in the small temple. Except for the abbot who was a bit younger, the remaining seven were all elderly. At this moment, some were asleep, some lived far away, and none of them heard the commotion here.

Two of the three female lay Buddhists who lived there long-term came out, whispering a few meters away.

Liu Liu Jinghui took a look; the one who wasn't there happened to be Zhang Fen.

The sky was dim.

The stars in the sky were exceptionally bright, twinkling like beauty contact lenses.

Liu Liu Jinghui's gaze met Captain Han's, and they gathered together involuntarily.

"I've had people guard the road up the mountain. If no one goes up or down, this case must have been done by someone in the temple. A crime in an ancient castle in the wilderness—just thinking about it is... cool!" Captain Han was a little excited. Having been a police officer for a long time, such a fresh current case could be considered interesting.

On a normal day, Liu Liu Jinghui would also find it interesting, but today he was a bit uninterested, "Jiang Yuan is here."

"So what if Jiang Yuan is here?" Captain Han hadn't spent much time with Jiang Yuan, and since it was night, the high ground of IQ had lowered.

Liu Liu Jinghui curled his lips, like someone who rolls dumpling skins himself and dislikes the store-bought ones, "I'll have the lighting set up better later. He can check the footprints. Fingerprints can be checked on the stone and paper. If they all dodge it, we can search other rooms to see if we can find cut-up magazines or newspapers... We don't have the chance to play the 'crime in an ancient castle in the wilderness' game."

Captain Han thought about it and clicked his tongue, "Technology destroys romance, huh."

"Liberal arts students are the ones who engage in romance." Liu Liu Jinghui discriminated first, then urged Captain Han, "Have people send the survey lights and such up quickly, and find a few strong young men."

The small hill where the small temple was located wasn't high, but for a normal person to climb up, it would take half an hour. It wasn't far from the county seat, and the main time-consuming part was the mountain climbing section.

Captain Han said "En," took out his phone, and said, "I'll call the young people in the brigade to climb up first. Survey lights, power supply, survey box, flashlights... what else is needed?"

"Get a few more types of fingerprint powder, brushes..." Jiang Yuan walked over and said.

"No problem." Captain Han looked around and couldn't help but laugh, "Let these guys see the advanced nature of modern criminal investigation technology."

The police officers present all laughed.

In this day and age, as long as it's a current case, the probability of solving it is very high. In front of the police, especially high-end criminal science people, the possibility of getting away is too low.

With the development of criminal science technology, even if Moriarty came, he would have to sit at the children's table.

Jiang Yuan didn't even enter the survey state immediately. On one hand, the light source wasn't good; on the other hand, there weren't enough police in the temple.

Regardless of how many of the 8 civilians in the temple were involved in the crime, the 8 police officers at the scene weren't necessarily able to control the perpetrators—control here doesn't just mean arrest or restricting freedom, but also preventing the perpetrators from escaping or even committing suicide.

On such a short hill, if the perpetrator got angry and jumped off and died—it would be better to shoot them on the spot.

A group of police officers just waited silently for the support from the foot of the mountain, and tried their best to prevent over-stimulating the perpetrators.

From the police's perspective, they were like holding three Aces, carefully placing bets while preventing the perpetrators from running, and testing whether the other side had a 2-3-5.

"Who do you guess did it?" Captain Han sat next to Liu Liu Jinghui, bored and making small talk.

Liu Liu Jinghui said, "First, rule out the abbot."

"Why?"

"Young people at least know a little bit. Hanging a ladder and sending a message from outside the wall would be better than throwing a stone and paper. Throwing a stone like this is no different from a burglar dropping their ID card in someone else's house."

Captain Han laughed when he heard this, because there really were thieves who dropped their ID cards when stealing things.

Captain Han said, "Just now, Mu Mu Zhiyang didn't catch up. If he had, he would have broken his bones."

"If he broke them, we'd have to carry him down. People are here." Liu Liu Jinghui stood up.

A beam of light flashed up from the hillside.

The first to arrive were two panting young men.

At the age of just graduating from the police academy, they were full of energy. The two police officers wrapped their jackets around their waists, carried huge survey boxes on their backs, and were steaming with heat.

"Good job." Captain Han felt quite prestigious, patted the two on the shoulders hard, and said, "Just put the things down. Can you still fight?"

"Yes!" Both hadn't been on any big missions yet, and their morale was high at this moment.

Captain Han nodded, "Not bad, they are my men. You two put your clothes on properly. Now guard this road up the mountain. No one is allowed in or out. If someone tries to run, give a warning."

"Yes." Both stood tall and chest out.

Captain Han called the police officer who had just been sent to guard the road over and whispered, "You guys go around to the back of the temple now. There is no road there, but you have to guard against someone jumping over the wall in desperation."

"Yes." The two understood and immediately went to deploy.

In this way, the small temple was truly like a turtle in a jar.

After a while, more criminal police climbed up the mountain, and Jiang Yuan began to sweep for fingerprints and footprints and other traces.

The lay Buddhists and the abbot were all woken up.

At this time, Captain Han didn't stand on ceremony either. He gathered the 8 people in the main hall and began to collect everyone's footprints.

"Captain Han, what if it's someone from outside climbing up? You are now assuming it's us, which is too arbitrary." Sister Li had a relatively sharp personality from doing business when she was young.

Captain Han smiled, "The probability is low, because even if he could climb up quietly, he couldn't leave quietly."

"Maybe he's hiding somewhere."

"The police dogs will be here in a while, and we also brought a life detector." Captain Han didn't explain much. But hearing the name "life detector," they knew what it was for.

Speaking of which, the development of this thing was more to deal with natural disasters like earthquakes and mudslides to save lives. But with a slight modification, a detection range of about 20 meters was enough to find criminal suspects playing hide-and-seek.

Several people stopped talking after hearing this.

After a while, Jiang Yuan walked in, smiling, and said to everyone, "Look at the feet." ===== CHAPTER 438 =====