Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

In the middle of the night in the jungle, a hare nestled in a hole. Hearing the rustling sound, he immediately tightened his nerves. His red eyes crossed the weeds that covered the entrance of the hole and stared at the bushes not far away.

In front of the bushes, a gray-black snake spit out a snake letter, and quickly swam between the blades of grass in an 's' shape. The smooth scales rubbed the blades of grass, making a slight and continuous sound, and the dark snake pupils. In the moonlight, a icy light flashed before its eyes.

The hare was on guard for a while, and after confirming that the snake was just passing by, he squatted and rolled himself into a ball, closing his eyes and taking a nap.

Soon, there was a slight sound near the bushes, one after another, like the sound of wood brushing the blades of grass.

The hare was awake again, listening intently, and staring at the bushes.

This time, it was a human being, wearing a dark robe that he had rarely seen on those people in the village, and also had a peaceful atmosphere different from those people or beasts, it was a kind of thing that could make it forget its fear and anxiety. breath.

There was a faint blue light in the hands of the human, which dimly illuminated the road in front of his feet. He walked around the bushes calmly and gently. The wooden slats at the bottom of the wooden shoes brushed the blades of grass, making a slight rustling sound, and soon. go away.

The hare tilted his head to look at the back, but still didn't look out of the grass.

It is not safe in the jungle late at night.

...

Chi Feichi followed the trace all the way.

Wearing bathrobes and clogs during tracking is a bit strange, and it is inconvenient to move around. The corners of the bathrobe are easy to hang on, and the shoes are easy to make noise. However, whether it is suitable for tracking depends on the environment and personal fitness.

The soil in the jungle is soft and the ground is covered with weeds. When you can put your footsteps very lightly, choose clogs with wooden strips on the soles. The friction surface is smaller than that of sports shoes, and the sound will naturally be smaller. It will leave a circular arc, and even if there are traces of pressing on the grass, the traces that are flattened horizontally are hardly reminiscent of footprints.

The key is that the villagers in this village will not wear such inconvenient shoes, so that they can distinguish his footprints from other people's footprints, so as not to mess up their own and each other's footprints by turning around twice.

Wearing a bathrobe is to destroy the 'message'.

Yes, the corners of the bathrobe are easy to wipe the grass, but that's what he wants.

In the city, you should wear neat clothes and try not to leave traces indoors, but in the jungle, in addition to humans, there are many small animals moving.

As long as the thorns and other plants don't hang the fabric threads on the bathrobe, it doesn't matter if you wipe the blades of grass occasionally, it will only erase the 'information' of him as a human being, and people can't tell whether it is an animal or a human left. traces below.

As for the inconvenience of movement, with his physical fitness, he does not need to worry about being unable to cope with danger at all. Even if he wears a bathrobe and clogs, he can guarantee that he can win any young adult in Shiwuye Village with one hand, plus he has a black card. As a medium-to-long-range attack weapon, that inconvenience will not have any impact.

And he chose a light stick instead of a flashlight, because the light of the flashlight in the jungle is too conspicuous, and it is easy to be discovered, ambushed, and attacked.

The light stick is not noticeable, and the light is enough to illuminate some corners where the moonlight cannot find it. With the moonlight tonight, it is enough for him to track...

The other party does not seem to be a cautious person, and there are many traces left, which are also obvious.

Judging from the traces, it is a person with a height of 173-178 and a weight of about 70kg. These can be estimated by finding coherent footprints, judging whether they are running or walking, and then calculating the distance between the footprints and the depth of the footprints.

Of course, the specific calculation also needs to add factors such as the softness of the ground, which is more complicated.

After the other side got rid of them, he ran, walked quickly, and then started to walk normally again. The footprints of this segment were no longer arcs, but were much more complete. It could be seen that the other side was wearing straw sandals, and the left and right feet could be distinguished from the soles of the shoes. footprint.

The footprint of the right foot is slightly larger and deeper than the left footprint, indicating that the person's dominant hand is the right hand.

The sizes of people's hands and feet are actually different. Where the dominant hand is, the hands and feet on that side will be larger.

He is an exception.

After the last arm strength improvement, his left and right hands have become equally flexible, the size of the palm measured by the machine is not bad at all, and even the size and depth of the footprints are gradually becoming the same...

Chi Feichi suddenly stopped, picked up a feather next to the footprint, looked at it, and continued to follow.

The other party really wore feathers.

He picked up the tail feather that should be a Pulsatilla. Judging from the root, it was pulled out after death, at least for more than a month.

Footprints and scratches between the bushes were intermittent, all the way to a small square.

It is said to be a small square, but it is actually a relatively flat grass. The tree of sacrifice and the tree of the gods are placed in the grass, and there is some distance from other trees.

There are many such small squares, scattered in the jungle on both sides of the road into the village. After he arrived in the village, he saw eleven.

The villagers should have their own numbers for these sacrificial trees and squares, such as the 'second tribute' mentioned in the murderer's letter to Yoichi Wakura.

This place is not close to the main road, it should be the most remote 'tribute table', and in the place near the jungle, there is a stone tablet that is placed obliquely and hidden in wild grass, and a bouquet of flowers is placed in front of the stone tablet.

Chi Fei came forward to take a look.

A line of words is engraved on the stone tablet: Machiko Imano.

Below is a horizontal row of small date characters, and at the end there is a word 'standing'. Although there is no photo, in combination with the bouquet, this is someone's tombstone, and the name is female.

The tombstone that can be left beside the tree of sacrifice is not simple, not to mention that the trace of the eccentric has also stayed in front of the tombstone, and the bouquet should be left by the eccentric.

The color of the bouquet is white, which represents memorial service and mourning. The flowers are wild flowers in the jungle, bunched with vines, and there is not much information.

Chi Feichi took out the handkerchief, wrapped the root of the bouquet and picked up the flower, looked at the fracture, resisted the idea of ​​finding a tool to collect fingerprints, and observed the pinch marks at the fracture.

It is useless to collect fingerprints. People just offer a bunch of flowers, which can't represent anything. However, the flowers are not cut with a knife, but are pinched with the strength of the hand and fingernails, and then the shape of the other's fingernails and other information can be obtained.

Chi Feichi put down the bouquet, looked at the footprints next to the stone tablet again, and already had the answer in his heart.

Tushi Issei, the resident police officer.

The way of activities of a person who has received formal training will be different from that of ordinary people. So many footprints provide information enough for him to judge that it is the footprint of a person who has received formal training.

Of course, this does not mean that the other party must be a policeman, but it may also be a mercenary, a soldier, or even someone who has only participated in a training camp or received physical training.

It was the nail prints that made him sure of his identity.

People's fingernails also have differences, but the differences are not as large and easy to compare as fingerprints.

There is a dent in the middle of Tuishi Issei's right thumb nail, and the length and width are also the same as the fracture at the root of one of the flowers.

The guy was dangling in front of them so many times it was hard for him not to notice.

Moreover, Tuishi Issei's height, body shape, and dominant hand also matched the information he inferred from the footprints.

There was also a strange circular hoarfrost trace on the lower corner of the stele, either sweat or tears, and the bouquet offered in front of the stele, he preferred the latter.

So, the motive for the murder was to avenge this 'Machiko Konno'?

Judging from the age, Machiko Konno was buried more than 20 years ago. At that time, the local master Ise was only four or five years old. If you want to talk about the relationship, it is likely to be the elders in the family, or even the mother of the local master...

Chi Feichi thought about it, walked under the tree of sacrifice, raised his eyes to see the tree of gods and boulders in a straight line with the tree of sacrifice, walked to the tree of gods again, and lifted it with his hands.

There are two large logs about the size of an adult's waist, but the weight is very light, and the inside should be hollowed out.

After lifting the wood of God's residence a little, you can see that there is an iron thing like a bird's beak in the middle of the wood of God's residence, and there is a hollow hole in the middle of the bird's beak.

There is a deep hole on the opposite ground, just enough to put the bird's beak in, and standing next to it can feel the cold wind blowing from the hole.

The two ends of the sacred wood and the bases on both ends of the rest are linked with hinges.

Chi Feichi looked back at the sacrificial tree facing his back, squatted down, picked up a stone, and threw it into the air-conditioned pothole on the ground.

The stone was thrown on the pothole, but it did not fall, but was directly bounced by the airflow blowing up from below.

In this way, the murderer's method of committing the crime is also perfected.

Conan once asked the question: If the murderer used the air pressure explosion caused by the reservoir and the underground cave to kill, why did they not see the hole that lifts the person up? And how exactly did the murderer get the deceased to be punctured by a branch?

If you add the wood of the gods, these two problems can be solved.

As long as the deceased is hugged or lying on the wood of the gods, use the remote switch to open the gate of the reservoir~www.NovelMTL.com~ let the water of the reservoir flow into the underground cave, and you don't even need to release all the water in the reservoir, the gate only needs The high and high-pitched sound sounded for a few seconds, and the water pouring into the underground cave would make the originally high air pressure rise again, and the air would be squeezed, and it would jump up to the hole under the tree of the gods. The air current will make the wood of the gods bounce up like the cork of a champagne bottle, and the deceased will be hit by the wood of the gods and hit the sharp branch of the tree of sacrifice in a straight line.

After that, the wood of the gods will hit the cobblestone and be pulled back by the hinge. Because the gate of the reservoir is open for a short time, the water that flows in is not the water of the whole reservoir. It will no longer be pushed up by the airflow, and everything will return to its original state.

Under the cover of the high and sharp voice, the movement here will also be covered.

Even the deceased who were thrown to the branches and turned into corpses would probably not understand how they died when they died.

Wakurayo had a wound on his head, he should have been knocked unconscious and put it on the wood of the gods, as for Shirato Taimei...

He remembered that at that time, all the people who came with him were trying to hold the tree of the gods and pray. After that, Reiji Fukuura had a conflict with the villagers. The local master Ise stepped forward to stop him, but he was pushed and surrounded by the villagers.

It is very likely that at that time, Taimei Shirato was holding the tree of the gods, and the reservoir gate switch that Tu Shi Ise put in his pocket was accidentally touched in the crowd, so Taimei Shirato became an unlucky person who was accidentally killed by the agency. .

Chi Feichi put the wood of the gods back in place, got up and continued to track the traces on the ground.

He also had to confirm again whether the murderer was the Tu Shi Ise.

Although pretending to be a bird man, ran to the Hecang family to scare people, said threatening words, and offered flowers in front of the mysterious tombstone, this does not mean that the Tu Shi Ise must be the murderer, it can only be said that he is currently the most suspect...