After a lap of searching, everyone was dead tired. They began sitting on the ground and chatting with each other. Xu Xiaodong said, "We searched more carefully today than grave robbers. Why didn't we find the body that old man talked about?"

A police officer said, "It's not necessarily a corpse though?"

"What could it be? It couldn’t be rotten green pepper shredded pork stuffed in a big bag and transported to the hills?"

Old Zhang waved his hand and said, "There’s still a large area of barren land in front of us. If we were to dig three feet into the ground, maybe we could actually find a body."

"No, it's impossible to search anymore today."

The police were a little reluctant to admit that sometimes unsolvable cases were a case of bad luck. They seemed to have grown accustomed to solving...