Strange Life of a Cat

Zheng Tan looked at the scenery outside the car window. The car had already left Chuhua City and he didn't know where it was going.

An hour ago, Zheng Tan was brought out by Ermao in a hurry. The call to Jiao's mother was made by Ermao in the car. He made up an excuse to take Zheng Tan out to play. It might take a day or two. This is just a conservative estimate. From Ermao From his expression and words at that time, Zheng Tan felt that this matter might take longer.

When leaving the city, Zheng Tan listened to Er Mao briefly explain the matter. He only said that Senior Brother Hetao disappeared to solve a case. Before disappearing, he went out with black gold. The Bureau is still hiding the truth from Senior Brother Hetao and his family. Open it up, no matter what happened, find the person first before talking about it.

Compared to those people, Er Mao believed in himself more. When he just left the city, he received another text message. The friend who helped with the investigation sent several addresses. These were possible addresses for other transactions secretly made by the company that declared bankruptcy.

Er Mao has no interest in those black transactions. He is not a policeman or a superman. He just wants to find people.

The senior brothers among them all know each other's little habits quite well, and they have once unified a behavior. If they feel that something is dangerous or even life-threatening, they will carve a certain mark somewhere.

Each of them has his own unique mark and his own habits. Even if others know how they will mark, they may not be able to find it.

Zheng Tan saw Er Mao drive the car off the highway and stop in a desolate-looking place. There are some scattered green brick houses around, most of them are vegetable fields, and there are also some trees.

Er Mao asked Zheng Tan to stay in the car while he went down to make sure.

After Er Mao got off the bus, Zheng Tan lay down by the car window and saw Er Mao approaching a low blue-tiled house, and then stood in front of it, stretched out his hands and made a gesture. He didn't know how to make a gesture, and he spread his fingers with his palms facing down. , turned horizontally to the east, then turned a little to the south, and finally in the direction pointed by his thumb, Ermao ran over there, took a look at a tree that was not very high, and looked at a certain branch. Then he returned to the car and drove to the next place.

Next, he went to three places in succession, all repeating this kind of action. Three times, Ermao returned disappointed. It seemed that Brother Walnut was not in these places.

When they arrived at the fifth place, Zheng Tan was still looking outside in the car, looking for the mark left by Brother Hetao. There was a stream here, and there were no blue-tiled houses nearby. There were large fields further away. , only then can you see people walking around.

Just when he was thinking how desolate this place was, Zheng Tan saw that Er Mao came back quickly after searching in a tree. The difference from the previous times was that this time there was something strange on Er Mao's face, and there was no disappointed look in his eyes like before. .

It seems this is it.

After driving the car to a place and parking it, Er Mao got out of the car and asked Zheng Tan to follow him.

It's not convenient to drive there.

"Black coal, can you smell anything?" Er Mao looked at Zheng Tan.

Zheng Tan sniffed and didn't seem to smell anything. Instead, the smells of many other people and other animals were too disturbing, or perhaps the smells had dispersed over time and were difficult to smell out. If you want to search, you need to sniff around a wider area, but Er Mao seems to be in a hurry, and he also has a target route, and doesn't seem to be very dependent on Zheng Tan. Zheng Tan just sniffs in place and follows Er Mao. pace.

Zheng Tan didn't expect that one day he would be used as a tracking dog. In terms of technical content, he was really not as good as those dogs with "professional background". Even if you have the smelling skills but don't know how to use it better, the same no good.

Er Mao is not too disappointed with Zheng Tan's performance. He is still looking for the marks left by Senior Brother Hetao. It will be faster to follow him this way. He brought the black cat with him as just an extra layer of insurance.

Although what Senior Brother Walnut left seemed to be just a simple mark, it contained a lot of information. Zheng Tan looked at a few out of curiosity and found that the mark looked like the single part in the radical, which is the left part of "He" in Brother Walnut's last name.

Moreover, each mark has changes. It is not written directly, nor is it simply pointing out the direction. Perhaps only Ermao and the others can find the correct information from it. You can know this by looking at where Ermao stretched out his palm to gesture. The above is much more complicated than Zheng Tan imagined.

Zheng Tan was not far behind Ermao. He didn't need to do anything now, he just had to keep up. Ermao had said on the way that he might not be allowed to help, so Zheng Tan wasn't under much pressure. However, he really hoped that He Although Tao and Heijin Ping'an were not very familiar with each other and had never met each other a few times, Zheng Tan hoped that everything would go well for Senior Brother Hetao because of the relationship between Wei Leng and Er Mao.

Just as he was thinking about it, Zheng Tan paused, raised his head, sniffed, and looked in the direction ahead, which was a little off the route Er Mao had taken.

Zheng Tan thought about it and ran over there. When the smell became stronger and stronger, Zheng Tan saw a black insect crawling under his feet. Looking forward, there are more bugs crawling on the ground. If it were not blocked by the dead leaves, you might be able to see more.

Er Mao, who was looking for the mark, noticed what was going on over there with Zheng Tan, so he turned and trotted over.

"What's wrong?" Er Mao asked.

Zheng Tan ignored him and continued walking that way until he came to a dry "ditch", which looked like it had been used as a ditch. There are many trees around, and most of them are deciduous trees. I don’t know who swept the fallen leaves on the ground into this "ditch", so the leaves inside are piled up a little thicker. If not for this, Zheng Tan would have walked away just now There are not only a few leaves in the places I pass. The places where there are more bugs look slightly more protruding than other places.

Now, Zheng Tan and Er Mao's attention was not on the leaves, but on the insects.

"Are there insects so active in this weather?" Ermao frowned, and he also smelled some not-so-good smells.

Zheng Tan watched Er Mao walk towards the "ditch", while he stayed on the side and watched. He didn't want to get too close. Those bugs were the same as the bugs he had seen in the villa area before and were regarded as "evidences" by Heijin. Thinking about some of the words he heard at that time, Zheng Tan felt a chill down his spine and felt very nervous. What's under those leaves?

Ermao had used branches to push aside the leaves and saw the objects under the leaves.

It was a body that had been chewed up to almost nothing but a skeleton. But what made Er Mao feel relieved was that this man was shorter than Brother Walnut.

Zheng Tan glanced over there and stopped looking. Judging from Er Mao's expression, this was not Senior Brother Walnut, and he was a little relieved. However, this is exactly what those people said, only the skeleton is left. It seems that it was eaten by those insects.

Forcing himself to divert his attention and stop thinking about the horrifying scene he just saw, Zheng Tan walked around and smelled the scent of Brother Walnut and Heijin.

I was so nervous just now that I was paying attention to the bugs and the smell of the "ditch", but I missed the trace of this man and the dog.

Although Er Mao was able to find the general route left by Brother Walnut, the one here was not within that general route.

Zheng Tan tried his best to identify the smell, and then followed the smell and walked behind a big tree. There was a slope here. If the light was not good, it would not be easy to notice someone lying down here.

It seems that Brother Walnut and Heijin have both stayed here. The time was a little longer, and the smell left behind is more obvious. It can be speculated that when those people were dealing with things on the other side of the "ditch", Senior Brother Walnut and Heijin should have been watching here. Then those people left, and Brother Walnut continued to follow.

Er Mao looked over there, took a few photos, then covered the leaves again, and followed Zheng Tan over here. After seeing the situation here, he could also guess some of the situation at that time.

"Well done, Black Coal."

After making sure that Zheng Tan found no other clues, Er Mao continued to look for those marks.

After searching for some distance along the road, Ermao stopped.

There are no more marks here. The last mark did not tell Ermao where to go next, nor did it mark a stop. Could it be that time was too tight at the time and something happened suddenly, so Brother Walnut didn't have time to leave a mark?

Ermao doesn't know. He looked around carefully and saw signs that someone had been here. He also found some footprints, at least three people, and some cigarette butts. Those people had smoked here, and then... Er Mao lowered his sight to about ten meters away. On the not-wide cement road, those people probably drove away.

But, which way to go?

Among the places pointed out by the information Er Mao obtained, there is one nearby, but there is another place at the other end of the road, a little further away.

Should I check both places?

Er Mao stood there and thought for a while, and was about to let the cat behind him take action. When he turned around, he found that the cat had gone in the other direction.

After Zheng Tan knew that Er Mao couldn't find the mark, he tentatively sniffed around. In addition to the smell of the strangers, there was also the smell of Brother Walnut, which was not easy to smell, and there was also black gold.

The smell of black gold was already more obvious, but when Zheng Tan was looking for the smell, he also discovered something unexpected and stopped there for a moment.

"Is there something?" Er Mao asked. At the same time, he took out his folding knife and squatted down to start turning over the soil.

After seeing the almost-gnawed skeleton, Er Mao now thinks about what happened here whenever he sees the cat pause. And he also found that there were traces of soil disturbance here. Although the area was not large, it could be seen.

Zheng Tan took several steps back, thought for a while, and took two more steps. Then he squatted there and watched Ermao dig the soil. If Zheng Tan could express his meaning clearly, there would be no need for Ermao to bother digging. He would definitely stop him, but the current situation is that Zheng Tan cannot speak and does not know how to express his meaning. Moreover, even if Zheng Tan tries now If he was stopped, Ermao would definitely do something about it.

The soil was not buried tightly, and Er Mao could easily pick up the soil above. After digging several times quickly, Er Mao saw what was buried underneath.

What a piece of shit.

Ermao: "..."

Could this be pulled by that guy from Black Gold? !

When did dogs and cats learn this habit?

(4.21) The buzz has gotten tighter recently, and even the word "chong" for "chong" has an asterisk.