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Chapter 141 Little White Makes a Great Contribution

Su Yang's voice echoed throughout the room.

A dozen pairs of eyes turned to look at them.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

They didn't want to offend anyone, but if they could catch the murderer before the police arrived, they could atone for their crimes.

Even when criticized by superiors, they can still have something to say.

"Then I'll have to trouble Captain Su!" Old Yang quickly seized the opportunity to back down.

Su Yang gave him a disgruntled look, then said, "Then I'll trouble Chairman Yang to have everyone from Mushroom Village gather at the threshing ground!"

The group exchanged glances.

Mushroom Village has a population of over 2000. Finding the murderer among these people is clearly like looking for a needle in a haystack.

They all thought Su Yang was going to use the cumbersome method of asking them one by one.

However, there is still a long time before the police arrive. If the Mushroom Village Farmers' Association and the militia do nothing during this time, the police will definitely criticize them when they arrive.

Now that Su Yang has taken the lead, they don't need to offend the villagers anymore.

"Hurry up and call everyone together!" Old Yang was overjoyed and shouted to the crowd.

Su Yang watched them go to gather the villagers, and then curled his lip in disapproval.

"Little White, come here!"

With a shout, Little White, who was standing at the entrance of the main room, rushed to him like a white lightning bolt, its tail wagging like an electric fan.

Su Yang stroked its head, then pulled Li's hand over and pointed to the bloodstains under her fingernails, saying, "Little White, smell this, remember this scent!"

"Woof!" Little White sniffed at Su Yang, then turned its face away in less than a second, barking at him to show that it remembered!

"Okay! Let's go!"

Su Yang vaguely remembered some science videos he had watched in his previous life.

It says that a dog's sense of smell is 1000 to 10 times stronger than a human's.

Wolves are close relatives of dogs, and Little White is a wolf that has been enhanced with its stats.

Its sense of smell is far superior to that of a trained working dog, Dunqiang or Dunruo, Su Yang doesn't know, but it's definitely much stronger than that of a human!

The threshing floor.

Almost everyone in Mushroom Village came; those who didn't come were mostly the elderly, weak, sick, or disabled.

The huge threshing ground was packed with people.

The scene was as bustling as the vegetable market Su Yang frequented in Shenzhou.

"Old Yang! What exactly do you want with all this?"

"I still need to go home and do the laundry."

"Exactly! I haven't even pulled the weeds in my field yet."

"So what if Widow Li died? Just wait for the police; why call us into a meeting?"

"They wouldn't let us go in earlier, so why are they making us come here now?"

Nearly two thousand people were chatting amongst themselves. If they hadn't just eaten a meal of tofu dishes today, they would have refused any invitations from the farmers' association or the militia.

"Ahem! I didn't call everyone here, it was Deputy Captain Su who called!"

Old Yang first distanced himself from the matter, and as for catching the murderer, he didn't even mention it to avoid upsetting anyone.

"Deputy Captain Su? Haven't we already distributed all the tofu dishes? Are we going to have to make more tomorrow?"

"It's all that widow Li's fault. Of all times to die, why today?"

"Who can argue with that? They promised to perform, the stage was all set up, but just because someone died, they're canceling!"

Wu Xinxue couldn't help but angrily say to Su Yang, "What kind of people are these? People are dead, and they're still thinking about eating tofu and watching TV."

"Exactly! They have no compassion at all." Sure enough, someone chimed in.

Su Yang had anticipated this situation.

Farmers now cultivate their own land and pay their own grain taxes, so they certainly don't have much of a sense of collective honor.

"Captain Wu, Deputy Captain Su, would you two like to say something? After all, you're the ones who asked me to gather everyone together."

Old Yang was already used to the way the villagers of Mushroom Village acted, and couldn't help but want to become a hands-off manager.

Su Yang gave Wu Xinxue a reassuring look, then led Xiaobai to the exit of the threshing ground.

He stood there and announced loudly, "Everyone can go home now! But please line up and walk past me one by one!"

"What the heck?"

"What's going on? You called everyone over here, didn't say anything, and now you want us to go back?"

"Are you kidding me?"

The villagers couldn't help but complain.

Old Yang and the others looked at Su Yang with complete bewilderment.

Su Yang simply smiled and remained silent.

Many people wanted to curse, but when they saw that Su Yang had already pulled out his pistol, they remembered that they had just eaten the tofu dish from the art troupe.

Even if you've been tricked, you can only curse in your heart.

"Let's go! Let's go home!"

"Hurry up, those in front!"

The villagers started pushing and shoving each other, just as Su Yang had hoped, and they all left through the exit he was standing at.

Su Yang silently reminded Xiao Bai to carefully distinguish between them.

Little White's two bright blue eyes were fixed on everyone who walked in front of it, carefully comparing their scents.

"No...this isn't either..." Su Yang received Xiao Bai's feedback through the soul connection.

In less than 5 minutes, only a few dozen people remained at the scene.

"Could it be that the murderer is too guilty to come? But Old Yang and the others didn't say they were catching the murderer. Could it be that the murderer is among the old, weak, sick, or disabled?"

Su Yang felt a little hesitant, thinking that such a general method would not be able to catch the murderer, and that he should still use the old-fashioned method of going door to door.

"Woof woof!"

Suddenly! Xiao Bai rushed past the last small group of people!

"Found it!" Su Yang was overjoyed and casually released the safety on his pistol.

"It's him!"

Based on the direction Xiaobai was looking, Su Yang instantly locked onto a person.

"Kuaishou Liu!"

As soon as Liu Jianbai from Kuaishou shot towards him like an arrow, leaving a white afterimage, his already tense nerves tightened even more.

As the militia went door-to-door notifying people to come to the threshing ground, he wondered if he should look for the murderer.

But if everyone else goes, it would be too obvious if he didn't go.

He did indeed kill Li's sister-in-law, and he also threw Li Xiaoya into the well.

Kuaishou's Liu comes from a family of thieves, but his parents were beaten to death in Shenzhou during the Republic of China era for stealing.

Because he was afraid of following in his parents' footsteps, he only dared to steal at the town market.

Actually, he had never stolen from the villagers of Mushroom Village before; after all, even a rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its burrow.

He was caught stealing in town more than six months ago and went to jail. After his release, his reputation was ruined.

Everyone in Mushroom Village, adults and children alike, laughed at him.

Because he went to jail, Mushroom Village converted all his good land into wasteland, which made his life very difficult.

Recently, he has been going without food for six meals in three days.

That's why he tried to steal grain from the truck when it entered the village from the Limin Flour Factory. Unfortunately, he didn't notice the dog in the truck bed and was caught on the spot.

Today, the art troupe is making tofu dishes for the whole village, and an idea popped into his mind.

He's going to pull off a heist while most people are out of the house!

Although, due to the outbreak of war, militia members with battlefield experience went to the front lines to join the stretcher-bearer teams.

But the village militia was no joke, because everyone in them had a gun.

Therefore, the most important thing is not to be discovered.

He chose Sister Li's house almost without thinking.

First, the Li family's remote location reduced the risk of being seen by others.

Secondly, the Li family was not poor; they were considered to be of a middle-to-upper standard in the entire village.

Finally, the Li family only had one sickly son, whom he could easily handle.

Things are going very smoothly.

Kuaishou Liu easily infiltrated the Li family's home, but when he tried to force the sickly woman to reveal the location of the family's valuables, she refused to say anything.

No wonder he went to such lengths.

After smothering the sickly boy with a pillow, Kuaishou Liu ransacked Li's house.

As a thief with a three-generation family tradition, he easily found all of the Li family's wealth.

Just as he was about to leave, that little brat Li Xiaoya suddenly returned.

Liu, who was hiding behind the door, took advantage of Li Xiaoya's inattention, covered her mouth, and threw her into the well.

He then found a bluestone slab and covered the well opening with it.

At first, Li Xiaoya was crying and shouting for help in the well, but the well was very deep and her voice could not be heard much. There were also no neighbors around the Li family.

Kuaishou Liu left only after Li Xiaoya had stopped talking.

To prove he hadn't been to the Li family's house, he went straight to the threshing ground and got a bowl of tofu and vegetables.

For some reason, he always felt inexplicably uneasy when he saw that boy captain surnamed Su.

Fortunately, he didn't reveal any flaws.

Later, when the medic brought Li Xiaoya to the threshing ground, Liu Yike's heart almost jumped out of his chest.

However, the thought that he had covered the girl's mouth and face and thrown her into the well, without her ever seeing his own face, put his mind at ease.

Then the militia notified everyone to assemble at the threshing ground, and his heart skipped a beat again.

But in order not to arouse suspicion, he went anyway.

When he saw Su Yang leading the dog and letting everyone walk past him, Kuaishou Liu panicked again.

While others might not have this knowledge, he knew that trained dogs could locate people and objects by smell.

He then dawdled and waited until the very end to leave, thinking that the dog must be tired after sniffing so many people, and that way it wouldn't be able to find him.

To his surprise, the dog came straight for him, clearly recognizing him!

As Kuaishou Liu watched Xiaobai rush towards him, reaching him in the blink of an eye, he panicked and instinctively pulled out a two-inch-long dagger from the sole of his shoe.

"Woof woof!"

"Gah!"

But not only did a dog come up, an eagle also descended from the sky.

"what!"

Xiaoyu pecked at Kuaishou Liu's hand, and he dropped the dagger in pain.

Xiao Bai bit his thigh directly, and the excruciating pain in both places made him scream like a banshee.

"Hold him down, he's the murderer!"

With Su Yang's loud shout, the militiamen, seeing that the person they had found was Quick-Hand Liu, no longer hesitated and all grabbed their Type 38 rifles...

With red-tasseled spears, they swarmed forward!

Whether he is the real killer is uncertain.

However, Liu from Kuaishou is disliked by everyone in Mushroom Village, so even if he caught the wrong dog, it wouldn't be a big deal.

"Okay, let me confirm first!"

Seeing the militiamen grabbing their weapons and about to attack, Su Yang stopped them.

"Ouch! That hurts! I didn't kill anyone! You're making baseless accusations!"

Kuaishou Liu curled up on the ground, still trying to argue.

Su Yang approached and bent down to examine him closely. He immediately noticed several red marks on Kuaishou Liu's neck, which looked like they had been scratched.

"It's settled! It's him!" Su Yang said with a smile.