Chapter 171 Disappearing Footprints

The mountain road after the rain was not easy to walk on. After hearing the noise here, Forensic Doctor Lin immediately chased after them, leaving Tang Hua and the others to guard the body and wait for the local police station to come.

"This amount of bleeding is a bit dangerous," Forensic Doctor Lin had been observing the blood on the ground, "I don't think he can go far."

Wounds that can cause such heavy bleeding often hinder movement. After hearing this, Cen Lian and Wu Qiushan slowed down slightly and searched around with flashlights.

It is not easy to find a person in the mountains, but if there are text bubbles on this person's head...

Thinking of this, Cen Lian saw a row of text bubbles slowly floating out in the distance.

He did not run far.

"This way." He quickened his pace and found the man named Yao Hang along the mountain road.

He is currently in a coma, and Cen Lian is not sure whether he has gone into shock due to blood loss.

Forensic Doctor Lin came over to take a look, and immediately took out a first aid kit from his bag. It looked like it had been pressed in the deepest part, and when he took it out, he pulled out many things.

Cen Lian and Wu Qiushan helped to find several wounds on Yao Hang's body. After a simple cleaning, Lin, a forensic doctor, immediately bandaged him temporarily.

Qi Yan squatted behind him and quietly sorted out the other things that Lin, a forensic doctor, pulled out of his bag and put them back.

There were voices and footsteps in the distance. There were many people, and they were unusually clear in the quiet deep mountains and old forests.

"Here!" One of them shouted, and then there were dense footsteps approaching.

Cen Lian didn't look up. He didn't need to guess that the local police station that had just received the alarm was the first to arrive.

But everyone gathered around, but no one took action directly. Instead, they gathered around and waited for Lin, a forensic doctor, who was bandaging Yao Hang urgently.

Cen Lian saw that Wu Qiushan had no intention of moving, and Qi Yan was also concentrating on packing Lin's bag. He had to stand up and greet the police officer with the highest rank among them.

"Cen Lian, the support squadron of Taishan Branch." After Cen Lian introduced himself, he saw the person in front of him performing Sichuan Opera face-changing in front of him.

"Li Zhang from the Second Squadron of Linshan Branch." This criminal policeman who looked to be in his thirties greeted Cen Lian.

Cen Lian was a little surprised. He thought that the first people to arrive would be people from the police station at the foot of the mountain.

"We are handling a case nearby," Li Zhang saw that Cen Lian was a little confused, so he took the initiative to explain, "What's the situation with this person?"

"Currently, it is suspected that he may be one of the murderers who killed Tian Lele." While Lin, the forensic doctor, was still treating Yao Hang's injuries, Cen Lian told Captain Li about the cause and effect of rushing to rescue the woman in white hanging on the tree on the top of the mountain when they were hiking from the opposite mountain.

Li Zhang's expression was full of shock.

But it only took him a few seconds to pull his thoughts back to the case.

"Captain Cen means that another murderer may have escaped from the path we took to the mountain?" His expression immediately became serious.

They didn't encounter anything wrong along the way up the mountain.

"It may not be the road you took to go up the mountain," Wu Qiushan helped fix Yao Hang on the stretcher before standing up and talking to Li Zhang, "It's just the general direction."

"There is only one road down the mountain," a middle-aged policeman from the local police station said, "If the villagers here want to go up Wanhua Peak, they all go that way."

Cen Lian frowned. If there was only one road, the man might have escaped from the mountain.

"Let's take the man and the body down first." Cen Lian and Li Zhang discussed it, "We will continue to track where the other person ran to with the trace inspection."

Li Zhang arranged for the local police station to quickly lift the man down and send him to the ambulance, and then took four or five people with Cen Lian and others to see the footprints on the other side.

When Cen Lian went back, he passed by the place where Tian Lele's body was hung up before, and saw that the hikers who went up the mountain with them had been persuaded to leave, and he didn't know whether their activities would continue.

It had nothing to do with them anyway.

This case did not happen in their jurisdiction, so the subsequent autopsy and other work had nothing to do with them, but they were not in the mood to continue playing outside.

Li Zhang did not know what Cen Lian and the others were thinking. He was very glad that Tian Lele was seen when he was killed. Otherwise, someone would have found the body during the Qingming Festival, and their few holidays would have been completely ruined.

However, I heard that this support squadron was a bit weird, and the cases they encountered would not be too simple.

Thinking of this, Li Zhang became a little nervous again.

If this was really an extremely brutal serial murder case, it would be impossible to solve it during the Qingming Festival, not to mention the May Day holiday.

Li Zhang was struggling with his mind at this time, but he did not expect that Cen Lian and Wu Qiushan in front of him stopped almost at the same time.

He quickly stopped his steps and did not bump into anyone.

"Why is there blood here?" Wu Qiushan frowned. "There's not much blood. It could be from the injured man just now, but it could also be from someone else."

Cen Lian observed carefully and said, "This is definitely not the road they took Tian Lele up the mountain. We saw dragging marks before, but not on this road."

Wu Qiushan took out a telescope and looked into the distance, then asked Li Zhang, "Captain Li, this shouldn't be the road you took when you went up the mountain, right?"

There are very few footprints and traces on this road.

Just now, Captain Li led a large group of police officers to the top of the mountain. There should be footprints everywhere.

"No, we came up from that side." Li Zhang pointed them in a direction. "We saw the footprints and drag marks you mentioned when we went up the mountain."

"It seems that he took a different road when he went down the mountain than when he went up the mountain," Cen Lian knew what Wu Qiushan was thinking, "He is very familiar with the road on this mountain."

Wu Qiushan nodded, "If he is very familiar with this mountain, it will be difficult for us to find him."

After all, they were all here for the first time in Jiuding Mountain.

"Let's continue to follow the blood trail," Wu Qiushan observed the surrounding environment, "If he was also injured, he should find a place to treat the wound."

Although it is not certain who the blood trail on this road is from, it does play a good role in guiding the way.

Captain Li led people and several people from the support squadron to follow the blood trail, but they suddenly stopped halfway where there was no road.

The blood trail disappeared, and the footprints disappeared at the same time.

Just like after arriving at this forest that was no different from other places, this bloody man disappeared out of thin air.

Wu Qiushan didn't believe that he could really leave no trace, so he immediately began to survey the forest.

Tang Hua whispered to Cen Lian, "He disappeared out of thin air, do you think he might not be a human?"

"Can you be more materialistic..." Cen Lian's speechlessness was written directly on his face.