I raise furry animals and fly them to my motherland.

Chapter 310 Strangulation
[Then let's just make a heart shape for Brother Qi Xiao!] Boss Fox raised his paws and made a heart shape in the air with his two little paws.

The other little foxes also copied their leader's actions, drawing hearts for Xu Ying in front of the camera.

The little fennec foxes chattered and made a fuss. Qi Xiao shook his head and chuckled under their "attack." Although he couldn't understand fox language, he knew at a glance that these mischievous little guys were trying to sabotage him.

He caught the little foxes that were making heart shapes with their hands and held them in his arms. All five little fennec foxes were firmly imprisoned by Qi Xiao's arms, forming a large, fluffy ball with their big airplane ears twitching.

Qi Xiao's slender fingers sank into the warm orange fur, and the five little foxes stood up with their five fluffy tails raised in unison, like swaying orange seaweed.

The sound of the desert wind outside the rescue station window mingled with their joyful chirping, making it feel as if it were right there in front of you, even though it was just through the screen.

Xu Ying chuckled; the scene was just too adorable. Her ears turned bright red: "Okay, okay, you all wait patiently for me to come back!"

After dinner, Xu Ying was washing the dishes when a snow shovel suddenly scurried in through the small door of the rescue station.

[Station Chief Xu, important intelligence!!]
Xu Ying immediately stopped what she was doing: "What's wrong?"

The snowsweeper swished its thin tail tip: [A snowbird said that more than twenty days ago, it saw a man strangle a woman to death with a rope! It happened near a scenic spot in the cedar forest by the frozen lake!]
Xu Ying quickly wiped her hands clean. "Where is that snow sparrow now?"

It'll be flying over soon!
Xu Ying quickly went outside the rescue station to meet the snowbird.

A short while later, a small and delicate snow sparrow flew towards Xu Ying.

Xu Ying opened her hand, which was covered in warm gloves, and the little snow sparrow landed in her palm.

[Wow, Station Master Xu, your hands are so warm! I wish I could be held in your palms forever~]

Its feathers are as white as snow, its black bean-like eyes dart about cleverly, and its tender yellow beak opens and closes gently, like a fluffy cotton candy dotted with a few ink-like spots.

Xu Ying was completely charmed by the little snowbird's adorable melodies. "Haha, it's because my gloves are so warm. If you can provide me with a clue this time, I can give you a pair of gloves so you can take them back to your nest to use as a warm blanket~"

Xueque's eyes lit up immediately at the mention of a reward. "Station Chief Xu, I'll take you to the place where that man strangled someone."
The snow-covered mountains were even colder at night, so Xu Ying put on warm clothing. However, with snow shovels and snow sparrows by her side, Xu Ying wasn't afraid.

As the snow sparrow flew, it told Xu Ying what it had seen.

[Station Chief Xu, the man and woman I saw looked like a couple because they kissed after they came into the woods; they were very affectionate.]
Xue Que lowered her head shyly as she spoke.

[The boy had even built a snowman in the cedar forest beforehand, but it wasn't built that night; it had been there for several days.]
More than twenty days ago, the temperature in the snow-capped mountains dropped sharply, so we built a snowman in advance, and the snowman didn't melt.

Xu Ying raised an eyebrow, took out her phone, and showed Xue Que a photo of Lao San and Lin Qing: "Look, are the boy and girl in the photo the same two people?" Xue Que shook her head awkwardly: [Station Chief Xu, my eyesight gets really bad at night.]
[The faces of the man and woman are not clearly visible; their movements can only be barely discerned.]
Xu Ying suddenly remembered that the snow sparrow's eyes are sensitive to changes in light. When the light is good, their vision is very good, and they can even see through the morning mist at a short distance, but their night vision is extremely poor.

Xu Ying gently rubbed the snow sparrow's head with her fingers to comfort it: "It's alright, it's alright. So what happened next? What happened after that?"

Snowflake recalled the scene, her small eyes filled with terror: [A terrible thing happened!]

[After the man and girl hugged for a while, he asked the girl to turn around and close her eyes; he wanted to give her a surprise gift.]
[Then the girl turned around, closed her eyes, and the man dug out a bundle of rope from under the snowman.]
Xu Ying got goosebumps upon hearing this. It turned out that building the snowman in advance wasn't to surprise the girl, but to hide a murder weapon...

[I screamed incessantly after I saw it, but the girl didn't open her eyes. The next moment, the man strangled the girl with a rope.]
[The poor girl finally opened her eyes, but it was too late.]
She was strangled to death by the man.
Snow Sparrow's tone was melancholy.

[The man dug out a large bag from the snowman pile, put the girl's body inside, and then carried the bag to the frozen lake.]
He threw the girl's body into a hole in the frozen lake and then left.
Xu Ying quickly pressed, "Did the man take the rope he used to strangle the person, or did he throw it away?"

He threw the rope and the bag off a snow cliff.
The snow sparrow's expression was grave: "[I flew to the edge of the snow cliff and looked. The snow cliff is very high, and below it is a no-man's land. Apart from animals, no human would go there.]"
He put the rope in the bag containing the body, intending to light it, but the snowstorm was too severe that day, and it wouldn't ignite. Seemingly in a hurry, he simply threw the bag off the snowy cliff.
Xu Ying became excited immediately after hearing the man throw the things off the snow cliff.

As they spoke, Xueque had already led Xu Ying to the scene of the crime. It was a quiet pine forest, a relatively niche tourist attraction in Xishan. Only tourists who were very familiar with the terrain of Xishan or professional mountaineers would come here.

Xu Ying wasn't a professional criminal investigator and couldn't see anything wrong with it. She had placed a GPS locator there and then transmitted the signal to Ji Xuehui.

"Officer Ji, we've found a new lead! It's very likely the scene where the suspect strangled Lin Qing."

Upon receiving Xu Ying's message, Ji Xuehui immediately replied excitedly: "Okay, I'll head to the scene with my colleagues right away. Station Chief Xu, you truly live up to your reputation; you have eyes and ears everywhere in the snowy mountains!"

Xu Ying smiled, put down her phone, and poked Xue Que's round body: "Little Xue Que, can you take me to see that snow cliff?"

"Of course!" The snow sparrow flapped its little wings and carried Xu Ying to the snow cliff where the suspected criminal had abandoned his tools.

Xu Ying approached the snow cliff, squatted down, and crawled to the edge of the snow cliff in a prone position.

She was afraid that she might slip and fall off the snow cliff.

This cliff is particularly high and steep, as if the mountain had been suddenly cut open, giving people the feeling that they would be smashed to pieces if they fell down.

A cold wind howled at the edge of the cliff, and Xu Ying's heart trembled.

After careful observation, she discovered that although the cliff was steep, it couldn't be as smooth as a regular sloping surface; the uneven rocks on the cliff face could serve as footholds.