Chapter 577
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The officers who rushed to the scene searched the entire crime scene three times, but only found a few strangely shaped, half-burnt pieces of wood among the piles of sand and stones. As for the child, he had vanished into thin air.
"How could this be? Is there something wrong with our eyes? Or are we hallucinating together? I clearly saw the children hiding in the fire and crying for help. How could they suddenly disappear? "Hui Mo was exhausted and sat down on the ground. He was puzzled.
Could it be that the two children ran away? But it was such a big fire. Even if an adult encountered such a dangerous thing, it would be difficult to escape. How could the children escape? If they ran away, where could they go? Could it be that they had wings and flew away from the sky? This was too ridiculous. It wasn't like this was some kind of supernatural novel.
Ning Shu also had a big headache. Her body was burned. Looking at the black water on the ground and the oil and powder floating in the black water, she sighed and bent down to pick up a small piece of the black water. She sniffed and her eyes flashed: "Wood chips and tung oil?"
She raised her head: "I know how the fire started. The oil floating in the black water is tung oil. Because it is black, it is very difficult to detect at night. The murderer scattered a circle here in advance. As long as the target stepped into the circle, he would immediately ignite the fire and form a circle of fire. Originally, these fallen sand and stones would not be able to catch fire, but the bad thing is that they are mixed with a large amount of wood shavings, making them light and swollen. Once they come into contact with the sparks from the burning tung oil, they will spread into a vast sea of fire in the shortest amount of time, and no one will be able to escape.
Hui Mo was stunned: "But, how could the murderer predict that the children would run here in advance? We thought of the idea of using the copper coins temporarily. Only the three of us know it. Could it be that one of us — No, it's impossible! "
Ning Shu bit her lower lip hard and didn't say anything for a long time. Hui Mo and Tan Siwei, one was Xiahou Qing's most trusted person. He helped her many times. Tan Siwei just risked his life for her. She didn't want to doubt either of them. However, she couldn't answer what was going on.
After a short silence, the officers ran over with a piece of black thing and covered their noses: "Two imperial envoys, we found this thing on the shore."
Hui Mo frowned as soon as he got close, "Why is it so smelly? It smells like burnt meat." He took a deep breath and took three steps back, "Could it have fallen from those kids …"
Everyone's face suddenly changed. Their facial features twitched. They couldn't bear to get close to the black thing. The officer who grabbed the meat began to tremble. He didn't know whether to hold it or throw it away.
However, Ning Shu was not afraid at all. She walked forward and took the burnt meat in her hand. She even put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed it a few times. She said with certainty: "It's not human flesh. When I learned to investigate a case with my master, I dealt with a burnt corpse case. Although the burnt human flesh is very similar to this one, there are slight differences. Because when a living person is burned, the flesh is burned from wet to dry. The process is cooked first and then burnt. It takes at least two hours to completely burn into coke. Obviously, the time just now was not enough. But this piece of meat has been burned from the inside to the outside. Obviously, it doesn't match. Besides, the smell is mixed with a faint smell of grass and wood ash. So, it's better to say that it's not human flesh, but animal skin that has been tanned. "
But, why did this piece of skin appear in the fire? What role did it play in this strange disappearance in the fire?
While she was wondering, two officers came over with a short and thin old man: "The owner of this batch of sacks has been found. It's him."
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