Time: around 9 pm the next day

Xie Yunmeng listened to Mo Haiyou's advice and asked the police officers on the scene to stop building work. He asked the forensic doctor: "Where do you think that mud well will be? Lao Zhao's colleagues have turned the oak area several times before. If there were indeed dry wells that were landfilled, they would have discovered it long ago."

"Maybe the secret is hidden in an unintentional place. You can take me to see the scene where the third and fourth corpses were found, and then we will go to the first grass field to investigate. I believe that the lost corpses must be in that mud well. Only then can I further analyze the murderer's face."

"It would be great if I could find Xiaoyao as soon as possible. I don't know how Lao Zhao is doing." Xie Yunmeng said, he was really worried about Yun Yeyao.

Mo Haiyou's eyes also showed concern. At present, the forensic doctor has no way to answer the detective's question, so he can only pray in his heart that Xiaoyao can contact them as soon as possible.

In fact, the message the two of them were waiting for was about to arrive, because Lao Zhao was returning to the surrounding area of ​​Oak District with Yun Yeyao's souvenir.

We have previously said that in order to find Yun Yeyao and the reporter, Lao Zhao set up police officers along the way and around the oak area for search and surveillance, and went to the reporter's home to investigate.

Because the police car rushed to the reporter's house at night, it was unimpeded. After knocking on the door without success, Lao Zhao chose to force his way in. After all, the personnel related to the missing case were not a joke at this time.

There was nothing unusual at the reporter's home, everything was in order. When the police extracted the footprints and fingerprints, they found three footprints that had been in and out of the way, two of which were men, and one was a petite woman. This can be roughly judged from the size of the footprints and the span of the pace.

It was past 8 o'clock in the evening when Lao Zhao arrived at the reporter's house. After careful searching, they finally found a souvenir under a pile of inconspicuous manuscripts on the desk, with the words Yun Yeyao clearly signed on it. At a glance, they knew it was written to the police.

After turning on the letter paper, what Yun Yeyao had experienced was clearly written. At the end of a short manuscript, Yun Yeyao pointed out the names of eight people, and he explained that the murderer was extremely likely to be among these eight people.

The eight people Yun Yeyao mentioned are the current residents of Atum cottage. At this moment, Yun Yeyao himself was in a place they unexpectedly thought. The actors in this place did not state in the letter because they decided to go after they left the reporter's house.

Lao Zhao didn't delay for a minute and quickly rushed back to Oumu District with his souvenir.

So where is Yun Yeyao? He has entered a small village with only a dozen people, and it was Qingye who guided them to this place. In the small village, Yun Yeyao and the reporter saw the abandoned mud well.

After confirmation by the reporter, it was indeed very similar to what he saw at night. The edges of the mud well have been completely removed, leaving only an empty wellhead, filled with black mud. If you don’t observe carefully, you will really step into it like a mud pond.

Yun Yeyao squatted at the edge of the well and said to the reporter: "It seems that you need to know what is in this well? It must be salvaged from the bottom. If the silt is sludge, the body will easily sink into it. It is impossible to see any problem on the surface."

"It's true," the reporter responded: "Why would you find a few villagers to come and help with salvage."

"The villagers here shouldn't be able to help! And I suspect Aoye is still lying to us."

"Why? Didn't she want to save her companions? The place where they lived was almost impossible. If they had to be exposed, it would be impossible to choose collective transfer!"

The reporter seemed to think this possibility was not great and continued to retort: ​​"Besides, I have been to the village where Aoye brought us, and it is indeed very close to the oak area. I think the words she said afterwards should be credible.

"And didn't you leave a souvenir to the police at my home? Once your friends arrive in the city and cannot contact you, the police will definitely go to my home to search."

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as you thought," Yun Yeyao said while fiddling with the mud at the wellhead and looking for subtle traces: "First, the girl you saw at the murder scene was sure that you were not Qingye, but Qingye knew what the murder scene looked like, so why didn't you mention the whereabouts of the girl?"

"Second, I suspect from the beginning that the girl you see has nothing to do with the murderer, and no matter what she got all over her body, just look at her on-the-spot reaction after discovering the body, we can roughly infer it."

"If the murderer is to confuse everyone, scream and make others think he is an eyewitness. But he will definitely stay at the scene and wait afterwards, and will not dismantle the scene. This is one of them. Secondly, even if she accidentally screams and then runs away immediately in panic, isn't it too dangerous to come back to dismantle the factory afterwards? And can a girl have that courage?"

"Third, suppose the girl at the murder scene is the real Aoba. Where did the girl in front of us come from? I have always had such suspicion. She said that she was very timid. After hearing what we said on the plane, she was very scared, so she told us the matter, hoping to help his family."

"But I kept looking at her face on the plane. There was nothing but calm on that face, and I didn't even look at us secretly. Is this like a timid person? Should he show?"

"After you greeted her, you never looked back?" the reporter asked.

"If you want to observe a person, how can you keep looking back blatantly? I was observing her through the glass window of the plane. When I found Aoba, I started to pay attention to her because she was wearing the same motorcycle jacket as you described."

"I'm not sure if it's a motorcycle jacket, I just had this impression in a vague way. There was no moonlight that night,"

"But you didn't see the girl's face clearly at night, right? You can say with certainty that the girl on the plane was not the one you saw. During the investigation, we cannot let go of any subtle doubts. The motorcycle jacket may not prove anything, but it is enough to attract my attention to Aoba."

"I still can't determine whether Aoba and the girl at the murder scene are the same person? You say they are not, but don't forget that there will be illusions in the dark. Even during the day, as long as a person's temperament and dress slightly changes, other places will be very different."

"There is another point. Since there are eight people in that house, five men and three women, why don't they let a man come out to do such a thing? Or let a brave person come out to ask for help!"

"Maybe every man is a patient?" the reporter analyzed.

"No, Aoba clearly stated that they were four lovers, each of whom took care of a patient, which means that one of them was a normal person. This is what I was confused about. They could choose someone with stronger ability and higher efficiency, but they chose Aoba."

"Mr. Yun, what do you think we will do next?"

"Anyway? We must go to the Atum cottage to take a look. If Aoba said all the truth, then these people would go to the villages around the Oak District one after another since last night. If Aoba told a lie, I am very worried that the people in the Atum cottage might have been in crisis."

"Did you say you were killed? The murderer is not enough to kill people here, and he also killed people in your city?"

"I just guess that I have to start with Aoye. In this way, you can wait and tell Aoye that she will take us around all the surrounding villages to check if there are any new witnesses."

"We need to pay special attention to the patients in these villages, or those who are not willing to deal with strangers. As for other information, I will confirm with Aoye in detail. In short, if you don't find the people we want to see in these villages, then I will immediately return to S City and find Xiao Meng and Xiao Zuo. In any case, we need to conduct a comprehensive investigation of Atum hut."

When Yun Yeyao said this, the reporter began to become more and more suspicious of the girl named Qingye. He said: "You investigate here first. I will deal with the surrounding villagers. Qingye just said that the eight of them had not left the Atum hut for many years, so the surrounding villagers must not be very familiar with her. If the villagers' attitudes are very friendly with her, it must mean that Qingye is fake."

After the reporter finished speaking, he wanted to leave, but Yun Yeyao grabbed him and said, "Don't ask. Have you ever thought that if Qingye is really fake, wouldn't there be accomplices hidden in the village she brought us specifically? First of all, it would not be so easy to demolish an abandoned factory in a short time. If there is no helper, do you think one person can do it?"

"Secondly, this place is so close to Oak District, why can these people live here safely? Didn't they react to the murder? If there was a serial murderer here, they would have normally been hiding at their relatives' homes! Also, more than a dozen people in this village are young and middle-aged people. Generally, in remote small villages like this, young and middle-aged people should go to the city to work and look for development opportunities. What can they do to support their families when they stay here?"

"So Mr. Journalist, it's better to be careful. The oak area is not very small compared to the surrounding villages. No one lives in it, and even becomes an abandoned area. There must be a special reason. People around you should not know about this reason! If you really want to ask, why they don't live in the oak area."

"I know," the reporter immediately said when he heard the question: "The reason for the abandonment of the oak area is..."

"It is because you know that I want you to ask. At present, we only know the first one. I can only make a judgment on the two points of the murderer's separation of the body and the incompleteness of the body. But this is far from enough. After the police learned about our whereabouts, the status of the other three bodies must also be understood."
Chapter completed!