The Fantastical Beasts at World's End

When the car drove back to Ye Zhao Community, it was just getting dark. Nie Renyan asked them to go upstairs to eat and rest, and it would not be too late to go to the scene tomorrow morning, but Xia Zhiming was a workaholic.

Ye Zhao was also a workaholic before resigning, so he understood Xia Zhiming's mood quite well, knowing that he would not sleep well tonight if he didn't hang around for a while, so he asked Nie Renyan to go back first, and he accompanied Xia Zhiming to the construction site in front of him.

After this heavy fog, the streets became more and more deserted, and the construction site was temporarily suspended due to the fog and cases.

Xia Zhiming followed Ye Zhao out of the east gate of the community, and walked across the street towards the opposite side. He took out a pack of cigarettes, shook out one, lit it, and handed another one to Ye Zhao, saying, "By the way, I last time What I didn't finish talking on the phone was Nie Renyan, I met him the other day and told him your address, but I didn't expect him to come here so soon."

Ye Zhao took the cigarette, but didn't smoke: "Well, I guessed it."

"Yeah." Xia Zhiming took a deep breath, and half-closed his eyes in the smoke, "I used to think that if this bastard dared to appear in front of me, I would definitely beat him to the point of paralysis, so that he would never be able to see it for the rest of his life." Come in front of you again, lest you feel soft-hearted when you see him, and be fooled by him with a few words."

Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows: "Then what happened later, why did you change your mind?"

"I don't know." Xia Zhiming shrugged his shoulders, and joked: "I think he looks so poor, I think it's quite enjoyable, and I want you to see it too."

Ye Zhao thought about it for a while and dragged Nie Renyan back the day he looked like, "Yeah", "It's pretty down and out."

After Xia Zhiming finished smoking, he threw the cigarette butt into the trash can on the side of the road: "I have been working for so many years anyway, and I have arrested a lot of prisoners and interrogated a lot. It depends on the number of people... I Looking at his eyes, I thought, let you solve it yourself, and I won't interfere. Besides... In those years, how he treated you, I am actually very clear, and I am not blind. Back then, I always followed He was too young to make it through, and felt that he had led you into a wrong path, but later he actually understood that it was purely habitual for us to not deal with each other when we met, and he must have known it, otherwise he would not have asked me about you news."

Ye Zhao nodded: "I know."

Xia Zhiming said: "In short, if you two continue to be together, you can have a good time. These days, there are too few people who can live happily."

Ye Zhao laughed: "Well...don't always be alone."

"Oh, I'm not in a hurry." Xia Zhiming laughed irritably, "I'm too busy, I don't have time to go out and look around, I have to wait for some silly little girl to bump into me someday."

While chatting, the two had already walked into the construction shed. Ye Zhao took him to the place surrounded by the cordon based on the impression he saw upstairs that day.

"Just here?" Xia Zhiming tapped the ground with his toes.

"Well, it should be here." Ye Zhao looked to the side, the cement mixer was still in place, with a layer of cement dust attached to it, and the fog and rain in the past two days made it mottled. , some interfaces may have been corroded by fog and rust has grown.

Xia Zhiming took out the photos, squatted down, and compared each one with the scene.

Because this place is in the shadow of the blender, the sun rarely shines, and the air is very humid these two days, the ground looks a little soft, and there are some messy footprints on it, which should be stepped on after the cordon was withdrawn , because in the photo in Xia Zhiming's hand, there is only a pair of inconspicuous footprints in this place.

"Is this the victim's footprint?" Ye Zhao looked at him flipping through the photos and asked.

"This?" Xia Zhiming shook the one on his right hand and nodded, "Well, according to the report received, it was said that he had contacted the relatives of the victim, confirmed the identity of the victim, compared the size of the footprints, and The calculated approximate height should belong to the victim."

"Why did you say that there are footprints this time but it's more evil?"

"Because no footprints have been left before, we think that the murderer should have dealt with it afterwards. However, this time, there were more than one footprints of the victim, but there was still no trace of the murderer. If it was dealt with, why? Not all of them? However, some people think that the habit of the murderer has suddenly changed. Well, who can understand the perverted psychology... Let’s not talk about this for now," Xia Zhiming quickly flipped through a few photos, "Look at these... "

There are footprints in these photos, although they are not very obvious.And looking at the ground, it is not the same place taken from different angles.

Xia Zhiming handed the photo to Ye Zhao: "The report said that there were footprints every few steps on the scene, which they took."

Ye Zhao flipped through it, and quickly found something wrong: "These footprints are weird, the two feet are all side by side. If a person walks, the footprints left should be one in front and one in back."

"You can also see that normal people can't walk out of this kind of footprints at all. They don't want to walk out at all. It's like... every step feels like jumping. Who has nothing to do and eats enough to run Come here for the standing long jump?" Xia Zhiming responded with a look of horror, "This is not the most evil, look at the footprints carefully... This time the victim is very tall, about 1 meters tall, and weighs more than 95 kilograms. The ground has always been a bit soft, if such a big person jumped, the footprints should be much more obvious than this one, according to the shallow footprints in the photo, it would be as light as a swallow."

Ye Zhao nodded: "Indeed, and the footprints on these photos are only the front half, and there are a few complete ones where the front half of the soles are relatively clear, and the rear is almost invisible."

"That's right! We got the photos and studied them, and summarized..." Xia Zhiming frowned and recalled the results of their discussion, his face turned a little green, "This kind of footprints is like this person was carried away, and then his feet tapped from time to time The effect on the ground, the problem is, a person who is 1.9 meters tall, what kind of person can he be carried by?!"

Ye Zhao also felt that the result was a bit shocking, and his face was not very good after hearing it.

As the sky gradually darkened, Xia Zhiming stood up and patted the ashes on his trousers, walked around randomly twice, and said to Ye Zhao, "Forget it, my mind is confused now, and I probably can't get any inspiration out of it." Alright, let's go."

"Yeah." Ye Zhao nodded, and walked out side by side with him, "You may have not had a good rest for too long, and overtiredness affects your thinking. Go back and have a good sleep. It's not too late to think about it tomorrow. "