Chapter 2013
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"Junior Brother Gu, is this the place you are talking about? How uncomfortable is it to live under the pier in this weather?" Lu Weiwei followed Gu Chen and walked along the river.
Gu Chen didn't speak, but Police Officer Wang hurriedly answered, "Lu Weiwei, if you think so, you're making a big mistake."
"Big mistake? How to say?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled.
But Police Officer Wang said involuntarily: "Under the pier, it is cool and windy. Living here in this weather, there are basically no major problems except for mosquitoes."
"And have you forgotten? Among the lying people we have contacted before, which one of them doesn't live under the bridge? Not under the flyover, or under this kind of river bridge."
"That's right." Yuan Shasha, who was walking at the end, couldn't help but nodded and said in tacit agreement:
"But I always feel an ominous premonition. Do you think we can find Wang Xinyu so smoothly?"
"She is so smart, will she stay in one place all the time?"
"this……"
Hearing what Yuan Shasha said, Police Officer Wang hesitated to speak.
According to everyone's previous investigations, it seems that they can always catch some clues about Wang Xinyu in the key clues.
But it is always at the last moment that they lose contact with Wang Xinyu.
It seems to be a little bit different every time.
Police Officer Wang said thoughtfully, "I hope there won't be too many mistakes this time, let's go and have a look."
"From now on, everyone, keep quiet." Seeing that the Rainbow Bridge was right in front of him, Gu Chen hurriedly reminded everyone to keep quiet.
Everyone stopped communicating immediately and began to slow down.
Gu Chen, who was walking in the forefront, began to approach the bottom of the Rainbow Bridge gradually, using the cover of the dense weeds around him.
According to the old fish seller, he had seen Wang Xinyu under the pier before harvesting the fish today.
Therefore, Gu Chen didn't dare to neglect, and could only maintain a cautious attitude, approaching slowly.
50 meters.
30 meters.
20 meters.
10 m.
...
Seeing that the target was right in front of him, Gu Chen also became nervous.
After passing a pier, Gu Chen realized that the so-called tent was actually a rain tarpaulin, with a few pieces of wood, and then tied to the ground by a few ropes.
Looks like a proposed camping tent structure.
On the innermost side of the rain tarpaulin, there seemed to be some simple luggage.
"Swish, swish!"
Gu Chen tried to walk as lightly as possible, and when he found that there was no one inside the tent, Gu Chen rushed forward.
However, except for some messy and discarded food packaging bags, there were almost no figures on the scene.
However, the clothes inside the tent have been kept at the scene.
Gu Chen put on white gloves, picked up one and observed it carefully.
Lu Weiwei also touched the temperature of the ground with her hands immediately.
After a while, Lu Weiwei's face changed suddenly, and she hurriedly reminded: "There is still warmth on the ground, it shouldn't be long since you left."
"Search separately, hurry up." Gu Chen realized that the situation was wrong, and quickly gave orders.
Everyone immediately started searching for strangers.
Because I knew that Wang Xinyu lived under the bridge, and my luggage was still in the tent.
As well as the remaining temperature on the ground, this gave everyone reason to believe that Wang Xinyu had indeed stayed here before, but he just couldn't leave.
Just when Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha began to search around.
Gu Chen stood in place, carefully observing the surrounding terrain.
Generally speaking, there are only two exits under the pier, and one is the road along the river that everyone searched just now.
Since there is a towering hillside on the left, it seems impossible to climb from the bottom of the hillside for a while.
And at that time, everyone searched from the other side of the road, and they also paid attention to Wang Xinyu's whereabouts along the way.
Therefore, this channel is basically blocked.
But if you don't leave from the path that everyone found at that time, there is only another path left.
Gu Chen glanced at another location under the pier.
In front of it is the embankment of a reservoir, and you can climb up the embankment along the path next to it.
On the back of the pier is a steep vertical slope, and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb up the bridge without professional tools.
Right in front of the pier is a deeper river.
Although according to the old fish seller, he often fishes here, he also told Gu Chen that the water condition of this river is complicated.
Swimming is not recommended unless the water is very good.
"But can this Wang Xinyu swim? If she can swim, then she should be able to see her since she came here just now."
Gu Chen pondered in his heart, and slowly walked to the shore.
But judging from the situation at the scene, Gu Chen did not find Wang Xinyu's footprints.
It stands to reason that the soil by the river is soft, if you want to enter the water from this end, there will be footprints to some extent.
However, judging from the many footprints by the river, it seems that they have been left for a long time, and there are almost no new footprints.
"Xiao Yuan." Seeing that everyone was still searching around, Gu Chen called Yuan Shasha who was beside him.
"Brother Gu, what's the matter?" Yuan Shasha trotted over.
"You stay here, find a place to hide, and if Wang Xinyu comes back, let us know immediately." Gu Chen said.
"Understood." Yuan Shasha nodded silently, expressing that she understood everything.
Then Gu Chen looked at Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang again, and reminded, "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, let's go to the other side of the reservoir and see if Wang Xinyu is escaping towards the reservoir."
"Then what are you waiting for? It probably won't be far." Because the ground is still warm, Lu Weiwei also has reason to believe that Wang Xinyu didn't go far, just in a certain area around her.
Officer Wang didn't say much, and took the lead and walked over.
So, the three of them immediately formed a search formation and found a narrow path along the corner of the reservoir embankment.
In fact, if you want to climb the embankment, the location here is not ideal at all.
Because on the other side of the river, there is a road extending from the Rainbow Bridge.
Through the narrow cement road, you can directly come to the periphery of the reservoir management center.
To enter the reservoir, you only need to pass through an iron gate.
But the iron gates here are usually locked, and idlers can't get in at all.
And if Wang Xinyu lived under the bridge pier mentioned by the old fish seller, it would be impossible to escape to the other side.
Even if she is given this chance, she needs to go through swimming.
However, this method was quickly rejected by Gu Chen.
Because the ground of the tent was still warm, judging from this point, Wang Xinyu left not long ago.
If the rain is good for Wang Xin, it will take a lot of effort to swim across the other side.
If there are people swimming or diving in the river, they will be easily spotted by Gu Chen.
However, none of this seems to have happened.
And to swim to the other side, you still need to climb a steep slope, which is impossible for ordinary young adults, let alone a woman?
Therefore, the only route now is to climb up to the middle of the embankment along the passage on the left, and then slowly climb up to the top of the embankment according to some stone steps on the periphery of the embankment.
This requires some climbing skills.
When Police Officer Wang came to the bottom of the embankment and looked at the uneven protruding stones in front of him, Officer Wang's heart skipped a beat. He felt that climbing with bare hands seemed to require enough courage.
Turning around, Officer Wang looked at Gu Chen and complained, "Gu Chen, it seems difficult to climb the embankment. Do you think Wang Xinyu can do it?"
Gu Chen didn't answer right away, but looked down at the dirt on the ground.
As I imagined, there are some new footprints in the soil.
Gu Chen squatted down, observed carefully, then looked at the surrounding environment and the friction marks on the stone steps, then turned around and said:
"It's not wrong. Wang Xinyu probably noticed us coming from a distance, so he dropped his luggage and climbed up the embankment with his bare hands."
After thinking about it, Gu Chen quickly reminded Officer Wang, "Senior Brother Wang, why don't you go back quickly and climb up to the Rainbow Bridge along the slope under the Rainbow Bridge."
"Then pass the Rainbow Bridge, go to the other bank, and block the concrete road leading to the reservoir on the other bank."
"On my side, take Senior Sister Lu and climb over here to find out. Wang Xinyu can't be a fish that slipped through the net."
"Understood." Knowing that climbing was difficult for him, Police Officer Wang also had self-knowledge, so he quickly took a long detour, preparing to go to the opposite bank to encircle him.
Gu Chen turned to look at Lu Weiwei.
Lu Weiwei nodded confidently to confirm: "No problem, Junior Brother Gu, the climbing route is trivial, she Wang Xinyu can do it, and I, Lu Weiwei from Jiangnan, can do it too."
"That's all right, pay attention to safety, I'll go up and have a look first." Gu Chen said.
Lu Weiwei nodded silently: "Brother Gu, pay attention to safety."
As Gu Chen wiped the sweat from his hands and began to climb the stone steps with his bare hands, Lu Weiwei also tensed her nerves.
Although Gu Chen has always been a master of climbing, but masters will inevitably stumble sometimes.
Therefore, Lu Weiwei, who stayed below, was still very nervous.
But when she saw that Gu Chen's hands and feet were nimble and climbed up the embankment in twos and twos, Lu Weiwei's suspended heart suddenly let go.
Gu Chen came to the middle of the embankment, then looked around, then looked down at Lu Weiwei, and asked, "Senior Sister Lu, is there a problem?"
"No problem." Lu Weiwei wiped the sweat from her hands on her trouser legs, and immediately followed Gu Chen's climbing method just now, and quickly climbed towards the middle of the embankment.
During the process, Lu Weiwei discovered that it seemed that there were many difficulties, but in fact it was just that.
In other words, Police Officer Wang will have psychological pressure, but for Lu Weiwei, who is in good shape, this is not difficult.
Also when climbing to the last step, Gu Chen stretched out his hands and grabbed Lu Weiwei firmly.
Then pull hard.
Lu Weiwei climbed directly to the middle of the reservoir in a very relaxed way.
Lu Weiwei took short breaths, and then asked again: "Where is Wang Xinyu?"
"I don't know, let's go up and talk about it." Gu Chen said.
From the middle of the embankment to the top of the embankment, there is an iron guardrail and stone steps.
Therefore, the safety factor is very high, and everyone does not have to work hard.
However, when they came to the top of the reservoir, everyone realized that the two sides were empty.
And at the other end of the reservoir, which is the other end that Police Officer Wang needs to block, a building with a watchtower structure stands there.
"Like a duty room." Lu Weiwei pointed to the building ahead.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "Go and have a look."
The two trotted all the way, starting from the top of the reservoir dam to the door of the duty room.
At this moment, the surrounding noise was very loud, and it took a lot of effort for both of them to speak.
On the other side of the reservoir, that is, inside the sluice, the movement of the water crashing and the movement of the small gate opening and the discharge of the water increased the noise here a lot.
Through the window, Gu Chen found a middle-aged man in the duty room, lying on a bunk bed, leisurely playing with his mobile phone.
So Gu Chen knocked on the door.
Not long after, there was movement in the house, and the middle-aged man opened the door.
Seeing two policemen in uniform standing in front of them, they were stunned for a while, and then looked back in disbelief, and then asked again:
"By the way... by the way, how did the two police officers get in? The big iron gate outside is locked."
"We climbed up from there." Lu Weiwei directly pointed to the route she came up from.
"Over there?" The middle-aged man on duty felt his heart skip a beat. He hurried out of the duty room and tiptoed to take a look in the direction where Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came.
Looking back, the middle-aged man also said in an unbelievable tone:
"My God! I told you two police officers, if you want to come in, just come through the iron gate?"
"There is a surveillance camera over the iron gate, and there is a doorbell. Usually, as long as you ring the doorbell, I can hear the movement from here."
"Then I can use the surveillance to see what's going on outside the iron gate. I'll just come over and open the door for you. I can also use the visual device on the iron gate to talk to you."
"Are you saying... are you willing to work so hard to climb up from such a dangerous place over there?"
"Stop talking nonsense." Lu Weiwei didn't listen to the middle-aged man's various beeps, and went directly into the duty room, checked left and right, then turned back again, and asked the middle-aged man:
"A woman climbed up this dam from the area we climbed up just now. Do you see where that person is?"
"What? Someone else climbed up? Impossible?" Hearing what Lu Weiwei said, the middle-aged man who was shocked enough just now was even more dumbfounded at the moment.
It feels like staying in the duty room is completely useless.
Lu Weiwei also sighed when she saw the middle-aged man's ignorant appearance, and said helplessly:
"I said, aren't you on duty at the dam? How come people don't know when they come up?"
"I'm wronged." Seeing that he was misunderstood by the police, the middle-aged man hurriedly complained:
"You don't know the environment of this reservoir, and you don't listen to it. There is the sound of water flowing everywhere here, and it is booming."
"I usually stay in the duty room. If I don't close these soundproof windows, I can't even hear the phone call clearly."
"What's more, the road leading to the reservoir is blocked by iron gates."
"Anyone, any vehicle wants to come in, they need to get in touch with my duty room. Only when I press the button, the iron door will open."
"Other than that, it's really hard for me to imagine that anyone would climb up the slope over there regardless of their own safety. How is this different from risking their lives?"
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"Junior Brother Gu, is this the place you are talking about? How uncomfortable is it to live under the pier in this weather?" Lu Weiwei followed Gu Chen and walked along the river.
Gu Chen didn't speak, but Police Officer Wang hurriedly answered, "Lu Weiwei, if you think so, you're making a big mistake."
"Big mistake? How to say?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled.
But Police Officer Wang said involuntarily: "Under the pier, it is cool and windy. Living here in this weather, there are basically no major problems except for mosquitoes."
"And have you forgotten? Among the lying people we have contacted before, which one of them doesn't live under the bridge? Not under the flyover, or under this kind of river bridge."
"That's right." Yuan Shasha, who was walking at the end, couldn't help but nodded and said in tacit agreement:
"But I always feel an ominous premonition. Do you think we can find Wang Xinyu so smoothly?"
"She is so smart, will she stay in one place all the time?"
"this……"
Hearing what Yuan Shasha said, Police Officer Wang hesitated to speak.
According to everyone's previous investigations, it seems that they can always catch some clues about Wang Xinyu in the key clues.
But it is always at the last moment that they lose contact with Wang Xinyu.
It seems to be a little bit different every time.
Police Officer Wang said thoughtfully, "I hope there won't be too many mistakes this time, let's go and have a look."
"From now on, everyone, keep quiet." Seeing that the Rainbow Bridge was right in front of him, Gu Chen hurriedly reminded everyone to keep quiet.
Everyone stopped communicating immediately and began to slow down.
Gu Chen, who was walking in the forefront, began to approach the bottom of the Rainbow Bridge gradually, using the cover of the dense weeds around him.
According to the old fish seller, he had seen Wang Xinyu under the pier before harvesting the fish today.
Therefore, Gu Chen didn't dare to neglect, and could only maintain a cautious attitude, approaching slowly.
50 meters.
30 meters.
20 meters.
10 m.
...
Seeing that the target was right in front of him, Gu Chen also became nervous.
After passing a pier, Gu Chen realized that the so-called tent was actually a rain tarpaulin, with a few pieces of wood, and then tied to the ground by a few ropes.
Looks like a proposed camping tent structure.
On the innermost side of the rain tarpaulin, there seemed to be some simple luggage.
"Swish, swish!"
Gu Chen tried to walk as lightly as possible, and when he found that there was no one inside the tent, Gu Chen rushed forward.
However, except for some messy and discarded food packaging bags, there were almost no figures on the scene.
However, the clothes inside the tent have been kept at the scene.
Gu Chen put on white gloves, picked up one and observed it carefully.
Lu Weiwei also touched the temperature of the ground with her hands immediately.
After a while, Lu Weiwei's face changed suddenly, and she hurriedly reminded: "There is still warmth on the ground, it shouldn't be long since you left."
"Search separately, hurry up." Gu Chen realized that the situation was wrong, and quickly gave orders.
Everyone immediately started searching for strangers.
Because I knew that Wang Xinyu lived under the bridge, and my luggage was still in the tent.
As well as the remaining temperature on the ground, this gave everyone reason to believe that Wang Xinyu had indeed stayed here before, but he just couldn't leave.
Just when Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha began to search around.
Gu Chen stood in place, carefully observing the surrounding terrain.
Generally speaking, there are only two exits under the pier, and one is the road along the river that everyone searched just now.
Since there is a towering hillside on the left, it seems impossible to climb from the bottom of the hillside for a while.
And at that time, everyone searched from the other side of the road, and they also paid attention to Wang Xinyu's whereabouts along the way.
Therefore, this channel is basically blocked.
But if you don't leave from the path that everyone found at that time, there is only another path left.
Gu Chen glanced at another location under the pier.
In front of it is the embankment of a reservoir, and you can climb up the embankment along the path next to it.
On the back of the pier is a steep vertical slope, and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb up the bridge without professional tools.
Right in front of the pier is a deeper river.
Although according to the old fish seller, he often fishes here, he also told Gu Chen that the water condition of this river is complicated.
Swimming is not recommended unless the water is very good.
"But can this Wang Xinyu swim? If she can swim, then she should be able to see her since she came here just now."
Gu Chen pondered in his heart, and slowly walked to the shore.
But judging from the situation at the scene, Gu Chen did not find Wang Xinyu's footprints.
It stands to reason that the soil by the river is soft, if you want to enter the water from this end, there will be footprints to some extent.
However, judging from the many footprints by the river, it seems that they have been left for a long time, and there are almost no new footprints.
"Xiao Yuan." Seeing that everyone was still searching around, Gu Chen called Yuan Shasha who was beside him.
"Brother Gu, what's the matter?" Yuan Shasha trotted over.
"You stay here, find a place to hide, and if Wang Xinyu comes back, let us know immediately." Gu Chen said.
"Understood." Yuan Shasha nodded silently, expressing that she understood everything.
Then Gu Chen looked at Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang again, and reminded, "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, let's go to the other side of the reservoir and see if Wang Xinyu is escaping towards the reservoir."
"Then what are you waiting for? It probably won't be far." Because the ground is still warm, Lu Weiwei also has reason to believe that Wang Xinyu didn't go far, just in a certain area around her.
Officer Wang didn't say much, and took the lead and walked over.
So, the three of them immediately formed a search formation and found a narrow path along the corner of the reservoir embankment.
In fact, if you want to climb the embankment, the location here is not ideal at all.
Because on the other side of the river, there is a road extending from the Rainbow Bridge.
Through the narrow cement road, you can directly come to the periphery of the reservoir management center.
To enter the reservoir, you only need to pass through an iron gate.
But the iron gates here are usually locked, and idlers can't get in at all.
And if Wang Xinyu lived under the bridge pier mentioned by the old fish seller, it would be impossible to escape to the other side.
Even if she is given this chance, she needs to go through swimming.
However, this method was quickly rejected by Gu Chen.
Because the ground of the tent was still warm, judging from this point, Wang Xinyu left not long ago.
If the rain is good for Wang Xin, it will take a lot of effort to swim across the other side.
If there are people swimming or diving in the river, they will be easily spotted by Gu Chen.
However, none of this seems to have happened.
And to swim to the other side, you still need to climb a steep slope, which is impossible for ordinary young adults, let alone a woman?
Therefore, the only route now is to climb up to the middle of the embankment along the passage on the left, and then slowly climb up to the top of the embankment according to some stone steps on the periphery of the embankment.
This requires some climbing skills.
When Police Officer Wang came to the bottom of the embankment and looked at the uneven protruding stones in front of him, Officer Wang's heart skipped a beat. He felt that climbing with bare hands seemed to require enough courage.
Turning around, Officer Wang looked at Gu Chen and complained, "Gu Chen, it seems difficult to climb the embankment. Do you think Wang Xinyu can do it?"
Gu Chen didn't answer right away, but looked down at the dirt on the ground.
As I imagined, there are some new footprints in the soil.
Gu Chen squatted down, observed carefully, then looked at the surrounding environment and the friction marks on the stone steps, then turned around and said:
"It's not wrong. Wang Xinyu probably noticed us coming from a distance, so he dropped his luggage and climbed up the embankment with his bare hands."
After thinking about it, Gu Chen quickly reminded Officer Wang, "Senior Brother Wang, why don't you go back quickly and climb up to the Rainbow Bridge along the slope under the Rainbow Bridge."
"Then pass the Rainbow Bridge, go to the other bank, and block the concrete road leading to the reservoir on the other bank."
"On my side, take Senior Sister Lu and climb over here to find out. Wang Xinyu can't be a fish that slipped through the net."
"Understood." Knowing that climbing was difficult for him, Police Officer Wang also had self-knowledge, so he quickly took a long detour, preparing to go to the opposite bank to encircle him.
Gu Chen turned to look at Lu Weiwei.
Lu Weiwei nodded confidently to confirm: "No problem, Junior Brother Gu, the climbing route is trivial, she Wang Xinyu can do it, and I, Lu Weiwei from Jiangnan, can do it too."
"That's all right, pay attention to safety, I'll go up and have a look first." Gu Chen said.
Lu Weiwei nodded silently: "Brother Gu, pay attention to safety."
As Gu Chen wiped the sweat from his hands and began to climb the stone steps with his bare hands, Lu Weiwei also tensed her nerves.
Although Gu Chen has always been a master of climbing, but masters will inevitably stumble sometimes.
Therefore, Lu Weiwei, who stayed below, was still very nervous.
But when she saw that Gu Chen's hands and feet were nimble and climbed up the embankment in twos and twos, Lu Weiwei's suspended heart suddenly let go.
Gu Chen came to the middle of the embankment, then looked around, then looked down at Lu Weiwei, and asked, "Senior Sister Lu, is there a problem?"
"No problem." Lu Weiwei wiped the sweat from her hands on her trouser legs, and immediately followed Gu Chen's climbing method just now, and quickly climbed towards the middle of the embankment.
During the process, Lu Weiwei discovered that it seemed that there were many difficulties, but in fact it was just that.
In other words, Police Officer Wang will have psychological pressure, but for Lu Weiwei, who is in good shape, this is not difficult.
Also when climbing to the last step, Gu Chen stretched out his hands and grabbed Lu Weiwei firmly.
Then pull hard.
Lu Weiwei climbed directly to the middle of the reservoir in a very relaxed way.
Lu Weiwei took short breaths, and then asked again: "Where is Wang Xinyu?"
"I don't know, let's go up and talk about it." Gu Chen said.
From the middle of the embankment to the top of the embankment, there is an iron guardrail and stone steps.
Therefore, the safety factor is very high, and everyone does not have to work hard.
However, when they came to the top of the reservoir, everyone realized that the two sides were empty.
And at the other end of the reservoir, which is the other end that Police Officer Wang needs to block, a building with a watchtower structure stands there.
"Like a duty room." Lu Weiwei pointed to the building ahead.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "Go and have a look."
The two trotted all the way, starting from the top of the reservoir dam to the door of the duty room.
At this moment, the surrounding noise was very loud, and it took a lot of effort for both of them to speak.
On the other side of the reservoir, that is, inside the sluice, the movement of the water crashing and the movement of the small gate opening and the discharge of the water increased the noise here a lot.
Through the window, Gu Chen found a middle-aged man in the duty room, lying on a bunk bed, leisurely playing with his mobile phone.
So Gu Chen knocked on the door.
Not long after, there was movement in the house, and the middle-aged man opened the door.
Seeing two policemen in uniform standing in front of them, they were stunned for a while, and then looked back in disbelief, and then asked again:
"By the way... by the way, how did the two police officers get in? The big iron gate outside is locked."
"We climbed up from there." Lu Weiwei directly pointed to the route she came up from.
"Over there?" The middle-aged man on duty felt his heart skip a beat. He hurried out of the duty room and tiptoed to take a look in the direction where Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came.
Looking back, the middle-aged man also said in an unbelievable tone:
"My God! I told you two police officers, if you want to come in, just come through the iron gate?"
"There is a surveillance camera over the iron gate, and there is a doorbell. Usually, as long as you ring the doorbell, I can hear the movement from here."
"Then I can use the surveillance to see what's going on outside the iron gate. I'll just come over and open the door for you. I can also use the visual device on the iron gate to talk to you."
"Are you saying... are you willing to work so hard to climb up from such a dangerous place over there?"
"Stop talking nonsense." Lu Weiwei didn't listen to the middle-aged man's various beeps, and went directly into the duty room, checked left and right, then turned back again, and asked the middle-aged man:
"A woman climbed up this dam from the area we climbed up just now. Do you see where that person is?"
"What? Someone else climbed up? Impossible?" Hearing what Lu Weiwei said, the middle-aged man who was shocked enough just now was even more dumbfounded at the moment.
It feels like staying in the duty room is completely useless.
Lu Weiwei also sighed when she saw the middle-aged man's ignorant appearance, and said helplessly:
"I said, aren't you on duty at the dam? How come people don't know when they come up?"
"I'm wronged." Seeing that he was misunderstood by the police, the middle-aged man hurriedly complained:
"You don't know the environment of this reservoir, and you don't listen to it. There is the sound of water flowing everywhere here, and it is booming."
"I usually stay in the duty room. If I don't close these soundproof windows, I can't even hear the phone call clearly."
"What's more, the road leading to the reservoir is blocked by iron gates."
"Anyone, any vehicle wants to come in, they need to get in touch with my duty room. Only when I press the button, the iron door will open."
"Other than that, it's really hard for me to imagine that anyone would climb up the slope over there regardless of their own safety. How is this different from risking their lives?"
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,! "Junior Brother Gu, is this the place you are talking about? How uncomfortable is it to live under the pier in this weather?" Lu Weiwei followed Gu Chen and walked along the river. Gu Chen didn't speak, but Police Officer Wang hurriedly answered, "Lu Weiwei, if you think so, you're making a big mistake." "Big mistake? How to say?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled. But Police Officer Wang said involuntarily: "Under the pier, it is cool and windy. Living here in this weather, there are basically no major problems except for mosquitoes." "And have you forgotten? Among the lying people we have contacted before, which one of them doesn't live under the bridge? Not under the flyover, or under this kind of river bridge." "That's right." Yuan Shasha, who was walking at the end, couldn't help but nodded and said in tacit agreement: "But I always feel an ominous premonition. Do you think we can find Wang Xinyu so smoothly?" "She is so smart, will she stay in one place all the time?" "this" Hearing what Yuan Shasha said, Police Officer Wang hesitated to speak. According to everyone's previous investigations, it seems that they can always catch some clues about Wang Xinyu in the key clues. But it is always at the last moment that they lose contact with Wang Xinyu. It seems to be a little bit different every time. Police Officer Wang said thoughtfully, "I hope there won't be too many mistakes this time, let's go and have a look." "From now on, everyone, keep quiet." Seeing that the Rainbow Bridge was right in front of him, Gu Chen hurriedly reminded everyone to keep quiet. Everyone stopped communicating immediately and began to slow down. Gu Chen, who was walking in the forefront, began to approach the bottom of the Rainbow Bridge gradually, using the cover of the dense weeds around him. According to the old fish seller, he had seen Wang Xinyu under the pier before harvesting the fish today. Therefore, Gu Chen didn't dare to neglect, and could only maintain a cautious attitude, approaching slowly. 50 meters. 30 meters. 20 meters. 10 m. ... Seeing that the target was right in front of him, Gu Chen also became nervous. After passing a pier, Gu Chen realized that the so-called tent was actually a rain tarpaulin, with a few pieces of wood, and then tied to the ground by a few ropes. Looks like a proposed camping tent structure. On the innermost side of the rain tarpaulin, there seemed to be some simple luggage. "Swish, swish!" Gu Chen tried to walk as lightly as possible, and when he found that there was no one inside the tent, Gu Chen rushed forward. However, except for some messy and discarded food packaging bags, there were almost no figures on the scene. However, the clothes inside the tent have been kept at the scene. Gu Chen put on white gloves, picked up one and observed it carefully. Lu Weiwei also touched the temperature of the ground with her hands immediately. After a while, Lu Weiwei's face changed suddenly, and she hurriedly reminded: "There is still warmth on the ground, it shouldn't be long since you left." "Search separately, hurry up." Gu Chen realized that the situation was wrong, and quickly gave orders. Everyone immediately started searching for strangers. Because I knew that Wang Xinyu lived under the bridge, and my luggage was still in the tent. As well as the remaining temperature on the ground, this gave everyone reason to believe that Wang Xinyu had indeed stayed here before, but he just couldn't leave. Just when Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha began to search around. Gu Chen stood in place, carefully observing the surrounding terrain. Generally speaking, there are only two exits under the pier, and one is the road along the river that everyone searched just now. Since there is a towering hillside on the left, it seems impossible to climb from the bottom of the hillside for a while. And at that time, everyone searched from the other side of the road, and they also paid attention to Wang Xinyu's whereabouts along the way. Therefore, this channel is basically blocked. But if you don't leave from the path that everyone found at that time, there is only another path left. Gu Chen glanced at another location under the pier. In front of it is the embankment of a reservoir, and you can climb up the embankment along the path next to it. On the back of the pier is a steep vertical slope, and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb up the bridge without professional tools. Right in front of the pier is a deeper river. Although according to the old fish seller, he often fishes here, he also told Gu Chen that the water condition of this river is complicated. Swimming is not recommended unless the water is very good. "But can this Wang Xinyu swim? If she can swim, then she should be able to see her since she came here just now." Gu Chen pondered in his heart, and slowly walked to the shore. But judging from the situation at the scene, Gu Chen did not find Wang Xinyu's footprints. It stands to reason that the soil by the river is soft, if you want to enter the water from this end, there will be footprints to some extent. However, judging from the many footprints by the river, it seems that they have been left for a long time, and there are almost no new footprints. "Xiao Yuan." Seeing that everyone was still searching around, Gu Chen called Yuan Shasha who was beside him. "Brother Gu, what's the matter?" Yuan Shasha trotted over. "You stay here, find a place to hide, and if Wang Xinyu comes back, let us know immediately." Gu Chen said. "Understood." Yuan Shasha nodded silently, expressing that she understood everything. Then Gu Chen looked at Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang again, and reminded, "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, let's go to the other side of the reservoir and see if Wang Xinyu is escaping towards the reservoir." "Then what are you waiting for? It probably won't be far." Because the ground is still warm, Lu Weiwei also has reason to believe that Wang Xinyu didn't go far, just in a certain area around her. Officer Wang didn't say much, and took the lead and walked over. So, the three of them immediately formed a search formation and found a narrow path along the corner of the reservoir embankment. In fact, if you want to climb the embankment, the location here is not ideal at all. Because on the other side of the river, there is a road extending from the Rainbow Bridge. Through the narrow cement road, you can directly come to the periphery of the reservoir management center. To enter the reservoir, you only need to pass through an iron gate. But the iron gates here are usually locked, and idlers can't get in at all. And if Wang Xinyu lived under the bridge pier mentioned by the old fish seller, it would be impossible to escape to the other side. Even if she is given this chance, she needs to go through swimming. However, this method was quickly rejected by Gu Chen. Because the ground of the tent was still warm, judging from this point, Wang Xinyu left not long ago. If the rain is good for Wang Xin, it will take a lot of effort to swim across the other side. If there are people swimming or diving in the river, they will be easily spotted by Gu Chen. However, none of this seems to have happened. And to swim to the other side, you still need to climb a steep slope, which is impossible for ordinary young adults, let alone a woman? Therefore, the only route now is to climb up to the middle of the embankment along the passage on the left, and then slowly climb up to the top of the embankment according to some stone steps on the periphery of the embankment. This requires some climbing skills. When Police Officer Wang came to the bottom of the embankment and looked at the uneven protruding stones in front of him, Officer Wang's heart skipped a beat. He felt that climbing with bare hands seemed to require enough courage. Turning around, Officer Wang looked at Gu Chen and complained, "Gu Chen, it seems difficult to climb the embankment. Do you think Wang Xinyu can do it?" Gu Chen didn't answer right away, but looked down at the dirt on the ground. As I imagined, there are some new footprints in the soil. Gu Chen squatted down, observed carefully, then looked at the surrounding environment and the friction marks on the stone steps, then turned around and said: "It's not wrong. Wang Xinyu probably noticed us coming from a distance, so he dropped his luggage and climbed up the embankment with his bare hands." After thinking about it, Gu Chen quickly reminded Officer Wang, "Senior Brother Wang, why don't you go back quickly and climb up to the Rainbow Bridge along the slope under the Rainbow Bridge." "Then pass the Rainbow Bridge, go to the other bank, and block the concrete road leading to the reservoir on the other bank." "On my side, take Senior Sister Lu and climb over here to find out. Wang Xinyu can't be a fish that slipped through the net." "Understood." Knowing that climbing was difficult for him, Police Officer Wang also had self-knowledge, so he quickly took a long detour, preparing to go to the opposite bank to encircle him. Gu Chen turned to look at Lu Weiwei. Lu Weiwei nodded confidently to confirm: "No problem, Junior Brother Gu, the climbing route is trivial, she Wang Xinyu can do it, and I, Lu Weiwei from Jiangnan, can do it too." "That's all right, pay attention to safety, I'll go up and have a look first." Gu Chen said. Lu Weiwei nodded silently: "Brother Gu, pay attention to safety." As Gu Chen wiped the sweat from his hands and began to climb the stone steps with his bare hands, Lu Weiwei also tensed her nerves. Although Gu Chen has always been a master of climbing, but masters will inevitably stumble sometimes. Therefore, Lu Weiwei, who stayed below, was still very nervous. But when she saw that Gu Chen's hands and feet were nimble and climbed up the embankment in twos and twos, Lu Weiwei's suspended heart suddenly let go. Gu Chen came to the middle of the embankment, then looked around, then looked down at Lu Weiwei, and asked, "Senior Sister Lu, is there a problem?" "No problem." Lu Weiwei wiped the sweat from her hands on her trouser legs, and immediately followed Gu Chen's climbing method just now, and quickly climbed towards the middle of the embankment. During the process, Lu Weiwei discovered that it seemed that there were many difficulties, but in fact it was just that. In other words, Police Officer Wang will have psychological pressure, but for Lu Weiwei, who is in good shape, this is not difficult. Also when climbing to the last step, Gu Chen stretched out his hands and grabbed Lu Weiwei firmly. Then pull hard. Lu Weiwei climbed directly to the middle of the reservoir in a very relaxed way. Lu Weiwei took short breaths, and then asked again: "Where is Wang Xinyu?" "I don't know, let's go up and talk about it." Gu Chen said. From the middle of the embankment to the top of the embankment, there is an iron guardrail and stone steps. Therefore, the safety factor is very high, and everyone does not have to work hard. However, when they came to the top of the reservoir, everyone realized that the two sides were empty. And at the other end of the reservoir, which is the other end that Police Officer Wang needs to block, a building with a watchtower structure stands there. "Like a duty room." Lu Weiwei pointed to the building ahead. Gu Chen nodded silently: "Go and have a look." The two trotted all the way, starting from the top of the reservoir dam to the door of the duty room. At this moment, the surrounding noise was very loud, and it took a lot of effort for both of them to speak. On the other side of the reservoir, that is, inside the sluice, the movement of the water crashing and the movement of the small gate opening and the discharge of the water increased the noise here a lot. Through the window, Gu Chen found a middle-aged man in the duty room, lying on a bunk bed, leisurely playing with his mobile phone. So Gu Chen knocked on the door. Not long after, there was movement in the house, and the middle-aged man opened the door. Seeing two policemen in uniform standing in front of them, they were stunned for a while, and then looked back in disbelief, and then asked again: "By the way... by the way, how did the two police officers get in? The big iron gate outside is locked." "We climbed up from there." Lu Weiwei directly pointed to the route she came up from. "Over there?" The middle-aged man on duty felt his heart skip a beat. He hurried out of the duty room and tiptoed to take a look in the direction where Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came. Looking back, the middle-aged man also said in an unbelievable tone: "My God! I told you two police officers, if you want to come in, just come through the iron gate?" "There is a surveillance camera over the iron gate, and there is a doorbell. Usually, as long as you ring the doorbell, I can hear the movement from here." "Then I can use the surveillance to see what's going on outside the iron gate. I'll just come over and open the door for you. I can also use the visual device on the iron gate to talk to you." "Are you saying... are you willing to work so hard to climb up from such a dangerous place over there?" "Stop talking nonsense." Lu Weiwei didn't listen to the middle-aged man's various beeps, and went directly into the duty room, checked left and right, then turned back again, and asked the middle-aged man: "A woman climbed up this dam from the area we climbed up just now. Do you see where that person is?" "What? Someone else climbed up? Impossible?" Hearing what Lu Weiwei said, the middle-aged man who was shocked enough just now was even more dumbfounded at the moment. It feels like staying in the duty room is completely useless. Lu Weiwei also sighed when she saw the middle-aged man's ignorant appearance, and said helplessly: "I said, aren't you on duty at the dam? How come people don't know when they come up?" "I'm wronged." Seeing that he was misunderstood by the police, the middle-aged man hurriedly complained: "You don't know the environment of this reservoir, and you don't listen to it. There is the sound of water flowing everywhere here, and it is booming." "I usually stay in the duty room. If I don't close these soundproof windows, I can't even hear the phone call clearly." "What's more, the road leading to the reservoir is blocked by iron gates." "Anyone, any vehicle wants to come in, they need to get in touch with my duty room. Only when I press the button, the iron door will open." "Other than that, it's really hard for me to imagine that anyone would climb up the slope over there regardless of their own safety. How is this different from risking their lives?" ...
