Chapter 173 Someone Is Secretly Watching

Qi Yan quickly found a place that looked like a cave-in near where Tang Hua stepped in the air. There were traces of someone trying to climb up by grabbing the roots of trees on the edge.

Half of the root system was torn off. It must have been unable to support the man's weight, and he eventually fell down together with the roots.

Cen Lian found what looked like the entrance to a cave among the messy vegetation and looked down with a flashlight.

He didn't see where the person was, but word bubbles were already popping up.

[Name: Tao Sheng]

【Sex: Male】

[Age: 29 years old]

[Crime record: Yao Hang was seriously injured in Kang'an City 3 hours ago

Killed Tian Lele in Kang'an City 4 hours ago]

[Jail record: None]

The good news is that the person has not been found. The bad news is that Cen Lian found that the person was motionless.

"Go down and take a look." Li Zhang was right next to him. Using the light of Cen Lian's flashlight, he noticed that the man lying underneath didn't look well. "I hope he's still alive."

"I'll go down with you." Wu Qiushan was the only professional trace examiner present, so he shouldered the responsibility of extracting evidence from the scene as soon as possible. "I doubt he fell because of an accident."

Although Wu Qiushan didn't explain why he said this, Cen Lian could tell that he must be suspicious because he found some traces.

It's just that the environment at the scene was very chaotic, and it's hard to tell what was the reason.

The ground was slippery, and the nearby tree trunks seemed a little unreliable. Cen Lian tied the rope to the tree trunk and then wrapped it around himself, which was a double insurance.

Tang Hua also wrapped a circle around himself when he saw this.

"I always find it strange that this person came here." Tang Hua watched Wu Qiushan and Li Zhang begin to descend, then turned to talk to Cen Lian, "He probably doesn't know that we have found Tian Lele's body."

"It stands to reason that we don't know," Yuan Chenxi was also listening to their chat. "The footprints we saw him leaving from the top of the mountain were at least more than an hour ago. At that time, we had just come down from the top of the mountain, and we hadn't even reached it yet. It’s near Wanhua Peak.”

Cen Lian recalled it and was sure that there was nothing wrong with the time mentioned by Yuan Chenxi.

"Then why did he run in such a panic?" Tang Hua was even more puzzled, "It's like he encountered a ghost in the mountains. He should know that this place is not very safe when it rains."

"Then he was chased here." Cen Lian was actually wondering why Tao Sheng was running in this direction.

He had previously wondered whether something unexpected happened when the two men attacked Tian Lele on the top of the mountain, so they escaped in two directions.

But looking at the criminal record above Tao Sheng's head, it is certain that he was the one who injured Yao Hang and caused Yao Hang to bleed heavily.

Then the conflict should be between the two of them.

Yao Hang's situation at that time was completely impossible to pose any threat to Tao Sheng, unless he met someone else in the mountains.

During the Qingming Festival, there are more innocent people in the mountains than real ghosts.

"It depends on what Brother Yue found." Cen Lian estimated that Wu Qiushan must have found something when he just checked the surrounding environment. "If there is another person chasing the fallen person on the way, I suspect it may be He broke something."

Tang Hua's brain was running rapidly, and he had already thought of the finger bones that Wu Qiushan had just found.

If this is the case, then it is possible that Tao Sheng was pushed in.

…

Wu Qiushan and Li Zhang went down for a while, but there was no movement. Qi Yan stood at the place where they went down and looked for a while. He didn't know what he found, and then walked forward a short distance.

"There is something here, come and take a look!" About half an hour later, Qi Yan's voice came from a place deep in the jungle where no one could be seen.

Cen Lian and Tang Hua exchanged positions with the two policemen from Linshan Branch, and they continued to protect the rope, and then followed the footprints left by Qi Yan.

On the way, Cen Lian did see something unusual.

To be precise, that's not a thing.

A text bubble flashed past the mountains and forests in the distance.

Of course, this distant place is actually still within their line of sight, which means there are still people here quietly staring at them.

[Name: Tu Wenjing]

【Sex: Male】

[Age: 48 years old]

[Crime record: Killed Yu Jiayue 1278 days ago

Killed Lan Hong 1278 days ago

Killed Lan Xiaofei 1278 days ago

Killed Gu Zheyu 1278 days ago

Killed Liu Ke 1278 days ago

Killed Yang Ziyu 1278 days ago]

[Jail record: None]

[System prompt: This person is a Class A fugitive wanted by the Ministry of Public Security]

Cen Lian's first reaction after seeing these text bubbles was why on earth did this guy kill so many people on that day more than three years ago.

The second reaction is that I don't know if this guy has weapons on him.

When they went on a trip, they definitely didn't bring guns.

Cen Lian's pace suddenly slowed down a bit.

"Tang Hua, you go over first. I think the rope is still not strong enough. I'll check again when I go back." Cen Lian's voice was not quiet. Although it was not deliberately amplified, it was still enough for Tu Wenjing to hear.

Tang Hua continued walking forward without knowing why.

Cen Lian pretended to casually come to where Li Zhang took off his coat, put the gun he had left on it on his waist, and made a silent gesture to other people who saw what he did.

The expressions of several policemen from Linshan Branch suddenly tensed up, but they cooperated with Cen Lian and said nothing.

Cen Lian put the gun on his waist and carefully concealed it, and then he found Qi Yan again with Tang Hua.

"What's the situation?" He asked pretending to know nothing.

"This should also be a place that collapsed after the rain, which is the downstream of the underground river in the cave where they went down." Qi Yan gestured, "Something rushed out of this hole, like a piece of clothing."

Cen Lian picked up the piece of cloth that was obviously torn, and basically guessed why Tu Wenjing was hiding and observing secretly.

He should have something torn off by Tao Sheng, maybe not just the cloth on this piece of clothing, but also other things that can better prove his father's identity.

"Don't move." Cen Lian suddenly lowered his voice and said.

He didn't explain what he was going to do at all, but Qi Yan and Tang Hua did it out of trust in him.

The three of them were just behind a not-so-tall rock.

Cen Lian had just used his peripheral vision to see Tu Wenjing moving slowly towards them, and he had a shotgun in his hand.

Before he was about to get closer.

"Bang, bang, bang!" Three consecutive gunshots came without warning.

Before Tu Wenjing's brain could react, his body was knocked to the ground by inertia.

Cen Lian rushed out without hesitation, followed by Tang Hua and Qi Yan who realized what was going on when he fired the first shot.

Twenty seconds later, the three men held Tu Wenjing's body tightly, and the shotgun was kicked far away by Cen Lian, completely losing its threat.