Outdoors, the untouched wilderness might be the best place to hide a body.

The outdoor locations frequently visited by Li Bing are highly suspicious.

However, from Li Bing's profile, his lifestyle seems quite regular.

He essentially moves in a routine between two main points in his work and life.

Home, feed factory, mostly just traveling between these two locations.

No frequently visited outdoor locations were found.

Lu Chuan thought for a moment, closed the file: "Group Leader Ren, do you have a map?"

"Map? Yes! Just a moment."

Soon, Ren Qiang returned with a map of Haizhou City.

"Where are Li Bing's home, the feed factory, Huang Lan's house, and the farm located?"

Ren Qiang had already made countless trips to these places.

As Lu Chuan was speaking, he marked them on the map.

Four small dots clustered in the northwest corner of the map.

Lu Chuan picked up a marker and a ruler, and drew a straight line between Li Bing's home and the feed factory.

He also drew a straight line between Huang Lan's house and the farm.

The two lines crossed, and Lu Chuan pondered: "Group Leader Ren, how do these two usually commute, have their commuting routes been checked?"

"Checked, both walk to and from work, I've personally walked their routes."

While saying that, Ren Qiang drew two winding curves on the map.

Roughly aligned with the straight lines Lu Chuan had drawn.

But since the straight lines crossed buildings, the walking curves naturally couldn't perfectly match the straight lines.

What caught Lu Chuan's eye was that the walking routes for both coincided for a stretch on Tongguan Road.

"Group Leader Ren, let's go take a look at Tongguan Road."

The stretch of overlapping walking routes on Tongguan Road.

Ren Qiang already understood what Lu Chuan meant.

In the car.

"You suspect that Li Bing acted on Tongguan Road?"

Currently, this is the only place where the two could possibly cross paths.

But, as for what kind of place Tongguan Road is, no one knows better than Ren Qiang.

Geographically speaking, Tongguan Road is indeed somewhat remote, located near the northwest corner of the city.

However, being remote doesn't imply low pedestrian traffic.

Along Tongguan Road, there are numerous massage parlors with little red lamps hanging in front.

There's not much activity during the day, but at night especially late at night, there's a significant amount of foot traffic.

If Li Bing acted there, there would definitely be witnesses.

This is also why Ren Qiang finds it hard to believe that anyone would choose to act there.

As a local, Lu Chuan of course knows the reputation of Tongguan Road.

"I just looked at the times they finish work, Huang Lan finishes at six in the evening, and Li Bing finishes at nine."

"In terms of timing, although their routes home overlap, the likelihood of them meeting is slim."

"Moreover, with the unique characteristics of Tongguan Road… the chances of Li Bing acting there are indeed not high, but..."

Lu Chuan opened the map on his phone: "Tongguan Road is backed by Cock's Comb Mountain, I used to play there as a child, and there are quite a few abandoned air-raid shelters inside."

"Considering the current weather temperatures in Haizhou City, if the perpetrator disposed of the body in the air-raid shelter, the temperature inside would be just right to allow the body to decompose within three months."

Hmm?

Lu Chuan's analysis was clearly on a different wavelength from Ren Qiang's.

He was always considering the external conditions leading to skeletal formation.

Then matching it with potential locations where Li Bing might appear.

Twenty minutes later, Tongguan Road.

During the day, Tongguan Road was deathly quiet, with most of the shops along it closed.

Of course, there were some dedicated ones, though given the current scorching weather, there were hardly any people outside.

Only behind the frost-patched glass doors, could shadows vaguely be seen.

Occasionally, one or two men passing by would peek inside, then quickly leave.

Soon, they would return again, taking another look inside.

As if trying to confirm the faces of the people inside.

Tongguan Road is about a kilometer long, and Lu Chuan and Ren Qiang walked from one end to the other.

After experiencing the unique atmosphere, they stopped at the crossroads of Cock's Comb Mountain off Tongguan Road.

"Group Leader Ren, did the surveillance on the day Huang Lan disappeared show anything?"

Ren Qiang nodded: "Huang Lan left the farm at six-ten in the evening on the day she disappeared, we checked all the surveillance along her route."

"On that day, Huang Lan arrived home at the normal time of six-fifty in the evening, and all the surveillance spotted along the way was fine."

"But that same night, at eight, Huang Lan left home again, and was not captured in any subsequent surveillance."

"Why did Huang Lan go out again at eight that evening?"

"It's not clear now, Huang Lan lived alone, her husband works out of town, and the child is raised by their grandparents."

"However, according to Huang Lan's neighbors, she generally leaves around eight every night and returns around midnight."

Lu Chuan nodded, pointing to Cock's Comb Mountain: "Group Leader Ren, has Cock's Comb Mountain ever been searched?"

Ren Qiang shook his head: "Do you think the initial crime scene could be on Cock's Comb Mountain?"

"This isn't certain, but considering the spatial intersection between Li Bing and Huang Lan, Cock's Comb Mountain has lots of air-raid shelters, and the temperature there could facilitate the body decomposing over three months."

"Moreover, for a lone woman like Huang Lan to go out every night and return past midnight, there might be issues in that itself."

Organizing a mountain search isn't a decision that Ren Qiang can make on his own.

However, he agrees with Lu Chuan's deduction.

In the current situation, Ren Qiang isn't prepared to overlook any clue.

"I'll seek Captain Qin's approval, a mountain search will need manpower, and it would be best to bring in police dogs."

An hour later.

Qin Yong personally led his team to Cock's Comb Mountain.

"Can you confirm it?"

"There's no evidence suggesting that Huang Lan's first encounter with harm was here."

As the proposer of the mountain search, Lu Chuan was explaining to Qin Yong: "But, based on the decomposition timeline of Huang Lan's body, Cock's Comb Mountain matches the environment and temperature conditions, especially the abandoned air-raid shelters inside."

To be honest, Lu Chuan's suggestion lacked sufficient evidence.

However, at least it provides a direction now.

Qin Yong frowned and thought for a moment, before waving a large hand: "Search the mountain!"

The whole of Cock's Comb Mountain isn't very large, but even a hundred people scattered across the dense forest seemed stretched thin.

Fortunately, Qin Yong had mobilized the entire 12-dog police dog squad, which sped up the search considerably.

Woof woof woof!

Continuous barking disrupted the serenity of Cock's Comb Mountain.

Everyone, including Lu Chuan and Qin Yong, showed a shocked expression.

The police dogs are strictly trained and don't usually bark without cause.

The steady barking now signified a discovery.

"Captain Qin, there's a discovery at the entrance of air-raid shelter number three!"

Sure enough, good news came over the intercom.

Qin Yong and Lu Chuan, who had been following him, hurriedly ran over.

A handsome and robust German Shepherd squatted next to the bushes beside the entrance of air-raid shelter number three.

Panting while guarding a red high-heeled shoe.

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