South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

Chapter 260 New clues added

You can tell whether a piece of land has been turned over by careful observation. Even if the other party conceals it well, it will be discovered.

"Dig!" Yuan Mu pointed at the ground and said.

"Yes!" The two police officers picked up shovels and started digging.

Before they had been digging for two minutes, a woven bag appeared in everyone's sight. After pulling out the woven bag, Yuan Mu found bloodstains on it.

"Keep digging and see if there is anything else underneath!" Yuan Mu continued to command.

The two police officers then began to dig, but after digging more than a meter deep, they did not find anything else. Yuan Mu also observed the soil layer below and saw no signs of being disturbed, so he asked the two officers to stop, as they would not find anything else if they continued digging.

After digging out the woven bag, Yuan Mu did not rush back, but continued to order everyone to search around to see if there were any similar places. What if the murderer had three burrows?

At this time, we cannot give up any clues, even the smallest ones, but it is obvious that Yuan Mu was overthinking and there is no other similar land, so everyone withdrew their team directly back to the Municipal Bureau.

Call the comrades from the laboratory to take the woven bag away to compare the bloodstains to see whether the bloodstains on it are Zhao Xuemei's. In fact, Yuan Mu is now very sure that the bloodstains on it are Zhao Xuemei's, but he still needs to confirm it in the end.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the other teams also came back one after another, all bringing back an identical woven bag, the kind that was sky blue with red stripes, which was also the most common woven bag.

A total of four woven bags were sent to the laboratory for testing. Tomorrow we will know whether the bloodstains on them correspond to the four victims.

In the conference room.

"I suggest that we go to the store again to investigate and see if anyone has purchased woven bags multiple times in the past month or so. This time the scope of the investigation will be much smaller." Yuan Mu said to everyone, holding a cigarette.

"Okay! I agree. Now we need to race against time. No one can guarantee whether the murderer will commit a crime again." Jiang Nan said directly.

"I agree too. Shall we set off now?" Director Zhao stood up and said.

"Let's go!" They set off as soon as they said they would. Not long after they came back, the group set off again.

Yuan Mu brought his men to a state-owned store and directly showed his ID.

"Hello comrade, there are some things I need your cooperation with!"

"Comrade police, please tell me and I will cooperate!" The salesperson, a woman in her thirties, nodded.

"Has anyone bought two or more of these woven bags multiple times or at the same time in the past month?" Yuan Mu asked, picking up a woven bag placed aside.

The woman frowned when she heard this. He thought the question had changed, but it turned out to be still the same question. The key was that she couldn't remember. There were so many people who bought woven bags. How could she remember so many people?

"I'm sorry, police officer, there are so many people coming and going every day, I can't remember so many people."

"Comrade, don't be anxious, think about it carefully. This matter is very important to us. Many people buy woven bags, but you should remember not to buy a lot at a time or buy woven bags multiple times, right?" Yuan Mu said in a soft tone.

The woman had no choice but to recall carefully. Just like Yuan Mu said, if it was just a one-time purchase, she really couldn't remember it. But if someone bought it multiple times or bought a lot at one time, she should have an impression.

But she usually doesn't pay attention to these things. Her brain subconsciously thinks that these are unimportant things and she will slowly forget about them. This is her current state.

She was not the only salesperson in the store. Several other salespersons were also being asked the same question, and they were all in deep thought at the moment.

Yuan Mu was not in a hurry. He took out a cigarette, lit it up and smoked quietly, waiting silently.

I originally wanted to take a few people back to the police station for questioning, but then I thought it was inappropriate. They didn't break the law, and they were still at work. In this day and age, if you go to the police station, you'll probably have people pointing fingers at you behind your back, so I decided to give up.

"Police comrade!" At this moment, a woman in her twenties shouted excitedly, and everyone's attention was attracted by her.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Mu walked over and asked.

"Comrade police officer, I remember now. It was probably at the end of July. I forgot the exact date, but it was probably around the 26th or 27th. A man came to the store. I was quite impressed by him at the time."

"Oh? Tell me about it in detail." Yuan Mu immediately became interested.

"It was probably around 2pm that day. A man wearing a hat, blue overalls and a pair of black cloth shoes came into the store."

Yuan Mu frowned slightly and then spoke.

"This is an outfit that couldn't be more ordinary. Why are you so impressed by him?"

"Because, in addition to the work clothes on the outside, I saw he was wearing several layers of clothes inside. I just took two glances and estimated that there must be four or five layers. Just imagine, in the middle of summer, he was wearing such thick clothes. In addition to wearing such thick clothes, I also saw that he was wearing two thick masks!" The woman frowned slightly and recalled carefully.

"And then?" Yuan Mu raised his eyebrows when he heard that the other party was wearing a mask. This was very abnormal. Wearing several layers of clothes and a mask in such a hot day was certainly not normal.

"Then he bought two woven bags from me. Oh, that's it." The woman pointed to a woven bag with blue and red stripes outside the counter.

"Think about it carefully. Does he have any other abnormal behavior?"

"Oh, that's right!" The woman's eyes suddenly lit up.

"He had a bad odor on him. It looked like he had put some kind of vanishing cream on him, but I could smell that he had a bad odor on him."

"Please describe it in detail. What does this smell sound like?" Yuan Mu seemed to have grasped the key point and continued to ask.

"Well, it seems to be the stench in the toilet. To be honest, my grandfather was transferred to work as a night soil collector during the movement, so I am quite familiar with this smell." The woman thought for a moment and then said.

"Is it the smell of a dung collector?" Yuan Mu's eyes lit up.

"Yes, it's correct. Although my grandfather has passed away for several years, I have smelled that scent for seven or eight years. It's correct." The woman nodded affirmatively.

He was wearing several layers of clothes and a mask, and he had a bad smell but he covered it up with cold cream. All these clues put together prove that the person who bought the woven bag is a high suspect in the crime.

"Comrade, can you think again about his face? Apart from the mask on his face, are there any other obvious features?"