Genius Detective - Chapter 222

Chapter 222

Chapter 222: Hitting the Grass and Alerting the Snake[1]

Everyone hurried to catch up to Peng Sijue . Even Xu Xiaodong couldn't catch up with Peng Sijue, who usually didn’t exercise much .

Peng Sijue ran to the second pit they previously dug up and started to dig up the ground without a word . The others followed as Lin Dongxue asked, “Captain Peng, what's the matter? What's up?”

Peng Sijue picked up the pile of dirt and looked closely at it . Then, he stood up to go inspect the third pit .

Everyone kept silent and just tried to keep up with him . Peng Sijue ran too fast and fell down . Chen Shi laughed . “He looks so happy, as if he’s a child that just got his New Year’s red envelope . ”

“You’re a guy without conscience!” Lin Dongxue scolded .

Peng Sijue stopped at the third pit and checked it carefully . The crowd finally caught up and Lin Dongxue said, “Captain Peng, don't act so mysterious . What did you find out?”

“Yeah, don't act alone anymore . Share it with us,” Chen Shi agreed .

“I also want to experience acting mysterious for once!” Peng Sijue said pointedly at Chen Shi .

“Haii!” Chen Shi squatted down . “Old Peng is the smartest . He’s the city’s . . . No, the province’s best forensic doctor . No clue can escape your keen eyes . . . ”

Peng Sijue felt very pleased getting complimented like that . He finally said, “Did you all notice it? It’s the fur! No fur was found in the soil!”

“Wouldn’t it have rotten away?” Xu Xiaodong guessed .

Chen Shi said, “Although hair is organic, there are very few types of bacteria that break down hair . It normally takes around 50 years to completely rot away . ”

Peng SIjue continued, “From the color of the surrounding vegetation and soil, these bones have been buried for only a few years . Why there’s no fur . . . There is only one possibility . When they were buried, they had no fur to begin with . ”

“I see! This was done by a psycho . They shaved the dog’s fur and then buried them alive!”

Everyone ignored Xu Xiaodong again . Chen Shi declared, “The dog has been skinned!”

“Skinned?!” Lin Dongxue was surprised . “Why did they skin them?”

“Is this related to the disappearance of the bodies?”

Lin Dongxue thought, “The dogs were skinned and buried here . The skins and the bodies are gone…”

“I see!” Xu Xiaodong shouted . “The dog's skin was put on the bodies and sold as a Tibetan mastiffs so nobody could find the bodies . ”

“How do you even think of these things?!” Lin Dongxue complained .

“Aren’t there some people in the past who disguised themselves as dogs? So I thought . . . ”

Xu Xiaodong's “blind talk” caused Chen Shi's to think in a different angle . The dog skin and the missing bodies may actually be directly related .

At this time, a bright light came towards them as a car drove up . The person in the car came out . From the shadow cast by the lights, he held a stick-like object in his hand .

“Who is it?!” Lin Dongxue subconsciously reached for her gun before remembering that she didn’t bring it .

“We have five people . We shouldn’t be afraid of him! Let’s check it out!” Chen Shi encouraged .

So the five stood up and walked towards the person . The two parties were far apart . When they reached about one hundred meters from them, the man suddenly turned around, ran away, and quickly started the car to flee .

“So suspicious!” Chen Shi ran over, took out his mobile phone, and took a picture of the tire print on the ground .

The professor looked at his watch . “Everyone, it’s a rare experience to accompany you all to investigate the case, but it’s already 1:00 AM . Shall we head back?”

Chen Shi said, “Thank you for your trouble tonight . I'll invite you to dinner another day!”

“No, no . It wasn’t trouble at all . I hope you can solve the case soon!”

Chen Shi didn't sleep well that night and thought about it over and over again as he rolled around in his bed . He even dreamed of a big dog who suddenly stood up and became a person . It was quite frightening and scared him awake .

When he opened his eyes, it was already beginning to brighten . The two girls and the cat in the apartment were still sleeping .

He decided to get up to make breakfast . He made fried omelette as the sun rose into the sky . His mood was fairly good today .

At 8:00 in the morning, Lin Dongxue lazily went to the living room and saw a plate of chicken on the table . When she sat down, she tasted a piece of it . “A little bit plain . Why are we eating chicken in the morning?”

“That's for the cat! I put it on the table to cool down!”

Beside her, Maoqiu was lying down and couldn’t wait to have breakfast . To alleviate her embarrassment, Lin Dongxue pretended to imitate the cat . “Meow~”

Chen Shi came out of the kitchen . “You’re so old, but you’re pretending to be cute? Isn’t it a bit late for that?”

“I’m younger than you though!”

“Eat . This is yours . ”

“Haii, I get up early every morning and stay up late at night . I heard two girls the same age as me talking on the streets yesterday . I couldn't even understand what they were saying . I don’t do anything for entertainment at all . ”

“When the case is over, I’ll invite you to watch a movie . ”

“I don’t need you to invite me . Since I'm staying with you, I'll invite you instead!” The thought of having to move after the case was over made Lin Dongxue depressed again . However, she knew that she’d have to leave one day anyway . She couldn’t just barge into someone else’s house endlessly .

Their two phones rang in unison . It was a notification from the group chat . Xu Xiaodong said in the group, “In the morning, Liu Hong and Li Biao met at a beef noodle restaurant on Wuli Street . ”

Chen Shi was holding his cell phone to check something while Lin Dongxue read the news again . Chen Shi said, “I see it . ”

“What are you doing?”

“Checking something!”

Lin Dongxue leaned over curiously to take a look . Chen Shi was looking at the photos of the tires on the Internet . Suddenly, Chen Shi exclaimed, “I found it! This is the tire of a Mazda . It was the same as the one taken at the scene last night . Liu Hong was the one who came last night . ”

“Going to the kennel in the middle of the night… I guess there would be no one who’d do that except him . ”

“Liu Hong's response is really intriguing . He clearly realized that someone is investigating him, but his first reaction was to see Li Biao . What does this mean?”

“Li Biao knows his background?”

“That's a good assumption, but can you brush your teeth before you eat?”

Lin Dongxue pouted and ran to brush her teeth .

Chen Shi guessed that Liu Hong was now suspecting that Li Biao had betrayed him . If Liu Hong started to attack Li Biao, they would be able to make a breakthrough in the case .

Chen Shi felt conflicted . A part of him hoped that Liu Hong would slip up, but the other part of him didn’t want anyone to be killed again .

After much deliberation, he decided to take a risk . Today, he would go see Li Biao to amplify the suspicion between the two of them . Of course, if Li Biao felt that he was in danger and was willing to proactively tell them everything, that would be even better .

He texted Xu Xiaodong and told him to monitor Li Biao . He would head over with Lin Dongxue in a bit .

At 9:00, the unemployed Li Biao finished his breakfast and went to a theater to listen to a play . The three happened to block him at the door . Li Biao was fat and looked at the three of them with a pair of triangular eyes[2] .

Lin Dongxue showed her badge . “We are criminal police officers and want to know something about Liu Hong . ”

“Who’s Liu Hong? I don’t know anyone by that name!”

Chen Shi said, “You were business partners ten years ago . You ran a kennel together . Then, you transferred the equity to him . You don't know him?”

Li Biao was in a dilemma and said, “Standing to talk is very tiresome . Let’s sit in the theater!”

“It’s too noisy!”

“Then, let’s go to a cafe!”

The four went to a nearby cafe and Li Biao was very polite . As he ordered a few things, Chen Shi noticed the beads around his wrist, the big gold ring on his finger, the gold tooth in his mouth, and the antique carved-walnuts in his hand . Along with the silk gown worn on his body, Chen Shi thought that he really did resemble a wealthy idler .

Chen Shi announced, “I won't beat around the bush!” He spread a few photos on the table one by one . “These people are all friends of Liu Hong and you must know a few of them . They have disappeared in recent years . ”

“I know . They were all killed by that kid, Liu Hong,” Li Biao said .

1 . Alerting the other party .  

2 . I found this on Google: Triangle eyes are not a common shape . Typically the point that causes a person's eyes to appear triangular in shape is not truly the eye shape, but rather a drooping eyelid that has a slant which cuts off the true shape of the eye . The eyelid itself can create a sharp triangle or a soft triangle .