Chapter 127 The Clues Have Gone Cold

The three people left after cleaning up their tracks, and a group of people arrived about half an hour later.

Seeing the corpses of those people, the people who had chased after them were somewhat bewildered. Who on earth had managed to intercept them? If those things had been taken out, then their years of hard work would have been for nothing.

After searching extensively, we still couldn't find who killed the person. There wasn't a single trace. It seems they were a master at evading tracking.

But they were unwilling to give up. Those things were the result of the professors' hard work in researching them, and they were stolen by accident. They had chased after them for more than half a month and finally got to this point, only to have the trail go cold.

"Boss, I found half a shoe print here, but it doesn't look like an adult's shoe print." Just when they were about to give up, they made a new discovery.

"A child? Impossible. Be careful, we have to bring these things back no matter how far away they are." If Lu Qingzhu and the others were here, they would definitely recognize the person called "the leader" as Meng Dong.

"Boss, we can make a rubbing of this shoe print. It's the only clue around here. After we make the rubbing, we can look further ahead and maybe find something else." Although Wang Dahu was a big, burly man, he was quite meticulous and could sense his surroundings, which was why Meng Dong always took him with him wherever they went.

"Okay, you take the map first. I'll go look around ahead. Split up a bit, not too far apart. Meet here in 10 minutes. Leave two people behind to thoroughly search these people. If that doesn't work, strip them of all their clothes and shoes. I refuse to believe we won't find anything." Meng Dong had never encountered anything like this before. They killed people and then thoroughly searched their bodies, leaving them, the newcomers, with no clues whatsoever.

As they walked toward the border, they discovered several children's footprints. Although they had been cleaned up, they were still visible after the rain.

"This came from overseas."

"When did the border become so easy to cross?" Meng Dong was puzzled. There were patrols here all day long, and there were also special devices. Why were people able to easily cross the border from outside?

Moreover, judging from these footprints, there should be three people.

"Captain, here's a footprint that matches the ones I traced around the body." Wang Dahu held up the paper and compared it to the footprints on the ground, discovering that the first half of one of the footprints was identical to the one he had traced.

"Does that mean it was people from outside the country who killed these people?"

"It shouldn't be said that their own people killed them; the valuable thing is the information and blueprints." Li Shengli felt that this was more likely.

“These are the footprints from the entrance. Everyone, take a close look around here. Are there any footprints from the exit?” Meng Dong searched around but only found the toes of the shoes pointing inwards.

"Boss, does that mean those blueprints weren't taken out?" After hearing the captain's analysis, Wang Dahu felt that the possibility of them being taken out was relatively small.

"Boss, don't you think this shoe print looks familiar? You know, everyone's shoe soles have different patterns. I think I've seen this shoe print somewhere before, but I just can't remember where." No matter how Li Shengli looked at it, the shoe print seemed somewhat familiar.

It's important to know that nowadays, apart from mass-produced liberation shoes and rubber shoes, many people wear cloth shoes made from their own soles.

When those old women take the soles of their shoes, they sew their own marks on the soles so that they can be easily identified.

Because there are often many shoe soles left to dry outside in a large compound, if they are all dried the same way, it's hard to tell them apart. Some people with bad intentions might take other people's things, so this is a way to prevent your shoe soles from being stolen.

"Victory, you need to think this through carefully, it's crucial." A teammate reached out and patted Lee Victory on the shoulder, hoping he could remember where he had seen the footprints before, so they could find those things more quickly.

"Commander... Boss, this shoe print looks a bit like the cloth shoes Xiaozhuzi wears. It's a shoe print made by Sister Wu herself." Li Shengli suddenly remembered the commander. The captain's son trained with them and didn't like their liberation shoes. He would wear the thousand-layer cloth shoes that his mother made herself.

"You mean the regimental commander's kid ran off here? What are you thinking? Qingfeng has already been assigned a job, and that bamboo is still in school. How could he possibly have run off here?" Meng Dong thought it was unlikely. One of the regimental commander's kids had gone to the south, and the other was still in school.

"But all we can do now is look for these shoe prints, because apart from these few faint homophones, there are no other clues around here. We can only follow these shoe prints for now." Li Shengli was also very helpless, after all, those documents were very important, and the clues had run dry at this point.

"I actually hope it's the commander's son. That little bamboo is very lucky. You guys remember, he found a lot of things last time. If he gets those blueprints and documents this time, that would be incredibly lucky." Meng Dong heard Li Shengli say this and prayed in his heart that if it really was taken by someone on their side, then those things could still be kept.

"We'll split into two groups. One group will continue tracking, while the other group will head towards Chuncheng. Let's see if we can run into the owner of those shoe prints." All Meng Dong could do now was try anything, even if it seemed hopeless.

"Yes, boss."

After the group separated, they split into two groups. Meng Dong led his men to search for clues, while Wang Dahu led the other teammates towards Chuncheng.

Wang Dahu's heart beat faster and faster as he walked, feeling that the closer he got to Chuncheng, the stronger that feeling became.

The next morning, as He Caiwei was getting ready to leave, she suddenly sensed someone coming from their direction.

Lu Qingfeng noticed this too and quickly pulled the person to hide, trying to breathe softly, for fear of being discovered again like before.

But who is Wang Dahu? He is someone who can sense his surroundings. He quickly spotted the three of them, but since they didn't know who they were, they all pulled out their guns.

He Caiwei did not know Wang Dahu, but Lu Qingzhu and Lu Qingfeng did. However, because they had guns, none of them dared to step out from behind the rock.

"Wang Dahu, Brother Dahu, it's me, Xiaozhu." Lu Qingzhu shouted towards Wang Dahu. Upon hearing the voice, Wang Dahu put down the gun in his hand, but the two next to him did not.

They didn't know if it was really Lu Qingzhu, whom they knew, so they were still observing.

Lu Qingzhu cautiously emerged from behind the rock, playfully waving at Wang Dahu: "Hey, what a coincidence, Brother Dahu, what are you doing here?"

When the two team members behind Wang Dahu saw that it really was Lu Qingzhu, they both put down their guns.