blenderwars Chapter 421: Tracking Skill, This Person’s Footprints Are Highly Suspicious!
Chapter 421: Tracking Skill, This Person’s Footprints Are Highly Suspicious!
The air instantly froze.
Lin Xi also looked at Jiang Le in surprise.
Chen Xiao furrowed his brows even more.
"Is there not much hope for treatment?" Chen Xiao asked instinctively.
Although after asking, he felt that such a question was not appropriate for a fifteen-year-old boy.
But Jiang Le stubbornly said, "I heard it clearly, but it doesn’t matter. There’s no hope of saving him anyway, I just want to be my dad’s son before I die, not a tomb raider’s son!"
Jiang Le’s words seemed as light as the wind.
Chen Xiao thought for a moment, perhaps only at his age could one be like this.
"Although I haven’t found anything yet, let me cover for you, I’ll give you an answer no later than a week, how about that?"
For Chen Xiao, he has yet to encounter a case that took him more than seven days to investigate.
And upon hearing his words, Jiang Le blurted out excitedly:
"Really?"
After speaking, Jiang Le added, "You’re not bluffing, are you!"
"It seems you know nothing about me. Let me tell you... I’m actually quite famous and impressive."
Chen Xiao rarely spoke such words.
He said this not to boast in front of a young man.
He had one purpose, to fill Jiang Le with confidence and hope during this time.
Lin Xi then chimed in: "Yes, there’s never been a case that took him more than a week. Whether it happened now or ten years ago, he always found the real culprit."
Perhaps it’s just as Liao Cheng said.
Lin Xi has a kind of magical trustworthiness about her.
Jiang Le nodded heavily: "Can I find your information online?"
"You can use the internet?"
"I can, it was too boring staying in the hospital, luckily some brothers came to visit me, so we sneaked into an internet café for an afternoon. We played Beach Landing while leveling up on QQ."
Chen Xiao chuckled, "There should be internet cafés in town, you can go check if you’re suspicious of me. Oh right, could you give me your QQ number? I have a computer, I can help you level up."
"Really? You can help me level up!"
"Of course, starting today, as long as I have my computer and internet connection, I’ll help you hang it up. I’ll definitely make your QQ number the first in your class with a sun!"
"That would be great, thank you! I won’t doubt you anymore, I believe you’ll give my dad justice in a week!"
Jiang Le is, after all, just a boy.
And in 2006, teens of his age didn’t have ready access to the internet like later generations.
As for Jiang Le’s last words, Chen Xiao had no intention to correct them.
After Jiang Le wrote down his QQ number and password, Chen Xiao remembered it and reminded him:
"It’s getting late, go rest at your place. I’ll let you know as soon as I have news."
"Okay!"
Jiang Le left happily.
Chen Xiao waited until Jiang Le was out of sight before his expression became grim:
"Wife, have you found the connection between the six deceased?"
"Yes, I brought it up at the first meeting I attended at the task force. It’s the direction I believe is the easiest to solve right now."
"Then keep looking, you have all the case details, right?"
"Yes."
"Good, I’ll look over those materials tonight, and after I attend Dali’s engagement ceremony tomorrow, I’ll bring Wu Liuxian over to try something."
"Wu Liuxian? You mean the Six-fingered Man?"
"Yeah, and I’ll bring Dayou too. I want to see what kind of spark a descendant of a Tufuzi and someone skilled in Divination and Bone Reading will create!"
Chen Xiao had a direction in mind, so Lin Xi didn’t say anything more.
Soon, they were back at their residence.
Lin Xi was showering, but Chen Xiao, with a clear mind, had already started going through the case files.
[The 91 July 16th Marquis Jinguang’s Tomb Case!]
[On the evening of July 16, 1991, at 10 PM, Zhu Datong, a villager from Jingguang Village, Wangshan Town, found an abandoned baby while retrieving a trap and reported it to the police.]
[When the police arrived at Jingguang Mountain, they confirmed the baby girl was in good condition. However, during the investigation, they discovered suspected tunnels on Jin Mountain.]
[Subsequently, relevant departments arrived at Jin Mountain again, confirmed the existence of the tunnels, and conducted a thorough investigation.]
[During the investigation, it was confirmed that there was an ancient tomb on Jin Mountain, and six deceased were found one after another in the tomb path.]
[After investigation, Deceased No. 1: Wang Shidu, male, 35 years old, from Honggu County, Provincial City, Jiang Province, unemployed.]
[Jiang Pinggui: male, 31 years old, from Pinghe County, Provincial City, Jiang Province, worked in masonry.]
[Wang Shiji: male, 33 years old, from Honggu County, Jiang Province, unemployed, brother of the deceased Wang Shidu.]
[Wu Qing: female, 42 years old, from Celestial Valley District, Hai City, ran a grocery store.]
[Wu Xue: female, 41 years old, from Celestial Valley District, Hai City, sister of the deceased Wu Qing.]
[Ye Jiadong: male, 51 years old, from Provincial City, Jiang Province, former archaeology department teacher at Shengdong University, later resigned and went into business.]
......
Chen Xiao looked at the description of each deceased.
The description clearly stated that of the six deceased, there was one pair of brothers and one pair of sisters.
The remaining two seemed to have virtually no connection with the other four.
One was Jiang Le’s father, Jiang Pinggui, and the other was an archaeology teacher at Shengdong University.
Looking again at the Wang brothers, described as unemployed, they were likely just drifters in society.
A mason, a university teacher, two drifters, and a pair of sister street vendors.
Even Chen Xiao found it difficult to connect these six people.
But he wasn’t in a hurry. He quickly found photos of the footprints taken at the time.
Although the clarity of the photos didn’t match today’s standards, upon seeing the footprints, Chen Xiao immediately started calculating.
His hand was continuously recording in a notebook.
By the time Lin Xi came out of the bathroom, Chen Xiao had already written down the physical characteristics of nearly four or five people.
Lin Xi, at first, casually drying her hair, but as she saw what Chen Xiao wrote, her movements slowed.
Because Chen Xiao had noted not just simple physical information, like approximate height and weight,
He even recorded walking postures, and noted that one person’s foot had seemed somewhat inconvenient while walking!
Seeing this, Lin Xi’s movements literally froze.
She asked in shock, "Honey, you... know Tracking Skill!"
Chen Xiao had learned Tracking Skill on his own in Hai City.
After returning to Dongzhou, he had forgotten to mention it to Lin Xi.
But Chen Xiao didn’t immediately respond to Lin Xi’s words; he was busy calculating someone’s data.
As he wrote, his brows furrowed, and he couldn’t help but say:
"No, this person is unusual!"
"What’s unusual?" Lin Xi asked, and Chen Xiao replied:
"According to my calculations, there’s something very wrong with this person’s footprints!"