Chapter 70: The missing person has an obsession. As long as she is not found, I always feel...

The day after Gao Luo and her friends had the car accident, the owner of the following vehicle, Wen Cheng, took the initiative to surrender to the public security authorities.

Because he acted on impulse and had no plan, he knew it would be easy for the police to investigate and he thought that turning himself in could reduce his sentence.

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After meeting Ning Heng at Xi Que Terrace that day, Wen Cheng returned home and learned from Jun that Xu Man did not take him out to play, but instead pulled him into a room to chat, and the content of the chat was to take him to see Guan Liuliu.

Wen Cheng was furious at that time because he knew he was being tricked. He thought it was Guan Liuliu who signaled Ning Heng to do this. The next day, he ran to the Western Suburbs Rehabilitation Center. He originally wanted to scold Guan Liuliu, but he unexpectedly saw Gao Luo and Gao Shule there, and heard their conversation with Guan Liuliu.

It turns out that the people who plotted against him were not only Guan Liuliu and Ning Heng, but also Gao Luo and Gao Shule. Even the person in charge may not be Guan Liuliu, but Gao Luo and others. Because Guan Liuliu was not familiar with Ning Heng at all, she would not think of letting Ning Heng and Xu Man interfere in this matter.

Wen Cheng was extremely angry.

All the misfortunes he was experiencing were brought about by Gao Luo and the others. I didn't expect that I have fallen into such a state, and they still won't let me go, as if they want to kill me!

Anger welled up in his heart, and evil was brewing in his heart. Wen Cheng immediately decided to teach them a lesson.

Wen Cheng confessed that he had cut off the other car, but he did not knock the other car into the river. It was his own car that suddenly rushed out.

Through the surveillance provided by the traffic brigade, we can see that Wen Cheng did more than just cut in. He first rear-ended the other car with malicious intent, then cut in. Gao Shule's vehicle behind him began to lose control, crashed into the guardrail and fell into the river.

Before Wen Cheng surrendered himself, he had read related cases. In one case, a truck rear-ended the vehicle in front, killing three people and injuring one. The court sentenced him to three years in prison. Gao Shule is safe now, but Gao Luo's whereabouts are unknown. If a lawsuit is filed, it will not be counted as death.

In comparison, the circumstances of his case were much lighter. Even if he was sentenced, he would be released in two or three years at most.

Everyone knows that Gao Luo is in danger now, but as long as she cannot be found, she can only be considered missing. I would give up two or three years of my freedom in exchange for her life, and Gao Chengsheng would have to spend the rest of his life in pain. This deal was simply too good to be true.

People's evil thoughts are like vines. Once they start to grow, they will spread and expand wildly, occupying the space of conscience and humanity, and eventually strangling them.

Wen Cheng's conscience was truly eroded for the first time when he took action to overthrow Guan Liuliu. Although he had used some improper means to achieve his position in the past, and asked Shen Siyan to deal with Gao Luo and Gao Shule, he still had a bottom line at that time.

But when he pushed Guan Liuliu to the ground in a rage and saw her faint, he suddenly felt an indescribable excitement and pleasure in his heart.

There were only two of them in this bathroom, and he was the only one who was conscious. No one would know what he had done, including Guan Liuliu.

So later he grabbed her hair and slammed her head against the sandstone tiles twice more.

He hated Guan Liuliu. They had been together for so many years, and no matter how he tried to please her, she was always unwilling to reveal his identity to the public, as if he was an existence that should not be seen in the light. The suppressed dissatisfaction and frustration grew day by day, until now, when he heard that she was planning to abandon him and leave when he had no other choice.

All his emotions exploded, and he became so desperate that he wanted to kill Guan Liuliu.

Later, he heard Jun knocking on the door outside, asking if they were arguing again. Only then did Wen Cheng gradually regain his senses and call the emergency number.

The night Guan Liuliu was taken away, Wen Cheng thought, it would be best if she never woke up, so that she would never be able to leave him. This is certainly not out of love, but out of revenge out of hatred.

Unfortunately, Guan Liuliu woke up, and her ex-husband returned to China to take care of her when he heard that she was in trouble.

When seeing Si Yu, Wen Cheng just wanted to laugh at him, a man who was cuckolded but acted as if nothing happened, cowardly and incompetent. He looked down on Si Yu and didn't want to see him, so after Guan Liuliu was transferred to the Lincheng West Suburb Rehabilitation Center, he rarely visited her.

With the experience of doing evil the first time, it will be much easier to do it the second time.

He followed Gao Shule's car and deliberately hit her car. He wanted to intimidate them, but Gao Shule panicked and increased the speed to get rid of him. As a result, the car lost control and rushed off the bridge.

He felt that it was unintentional and that it was the other party's own problem to fall into the river, so he only took partial responsibility.

If what he said is true, the court will indeed give a lighter sentence.

But Guan Liuliu provided the police with another idea. She learned from the nurse at the rehabilitation center that the person who visited her that afternoon was Wen Cheng, and that he had heard the entire conversation between her and Gao Luo.

Guan Liuliu put her own case together with Gao Luo's car accident, saying that Gao Luo was her witness, and accusing Wen Cheng of malicious rear-end collision was actually an attempt to deliberately murder the witness.

The penalty for premeditated murder is completely different from the penalty for causing a traffic accident due to rear-end collision, especially when the other party is a minor. This is an extremely serious and vicious crime. The judicial authorities will take into account the motive of the crime, the age of the victim, the social impact, etc. and impose severe punishment.

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While Guan Liuliu was accusing Wen Cheng with judicial authorities, she also posted a video using her own account. This was her first public appearance after the accident. She looked emaciated and prematurely aged, completely different from her previous appearance on the screen.

Guan Liuliu didn't want everyone to see her face like this. This time she had to make a public appearance, not for herself, but for Gao Luo.

When Guan Liuliu learned that Gao Luo had been in a car accident, she felt very guilty. She felt that she had harmed Gao Luo. If she had not been asked to be a witness, she would not have been targeted by Wen Cheng and nothing would have happened.

There is an internationally recognized post-disaster rescue time limit, which is the golden 72 hours. However, the rescue time for drowning accidents is greatly shortened. Basically, if it exceeds twelve hours, there is no hope of rescue.

And now, Gao Luo has been missing for three whole days.

Guan Liuliu felt that she had to do something.

She recorded a video and told everything that happened at the Yingsheng Hotel that night, including Gao Luo accidentally overhearing their secret, her quarrel with Wen Cheng at night and being pushed down by him, and later asking Gao Luo to help as a witness, Jun refusing to see her, and Wen Cheng overhearing their conversation and following them for revenge.

After the video was released, Ning Heng reposted it using the official account of "Wonderful Holiday", the significance of which is self-evident. There was an immediate uproar on the Internet, with people accusing Wen Cheng of being cruel and inhumane.

Under the heavy pressure of such online public opinion, even without a complete chain of evidence, Wen Cheng will definitely be severely punished.

Because the most important party in the case had been missing and the trial could not be held in a short period of time, Wen Cheng was detained in the detention center.

The investigators did the math for Wen Cheng. Even if the murder of a child was unsuccessful, the sentence would still be heavier than the maximum allowed by the criminal law. A sentence of more than ten years, life imprisonment, or even heavier was possible, because everyone knew Gao Luo's current situation.

When Wen Cheng learned about the situation he was about to face, he finally panicked and took the initiative to confess to the other party, saying that it was indeed him who pushed Guan Liuliu down and injured her. He also stated that he overheard her conversation with Gao Luo that afternoon and felt hatred for her and wanted to teach them a lesson. However, he did not admit that he committed murder with subjective intent, insisting that it was an accident.

He knew that the results would be very different if it was intentional or unintentional.

But what is certain is that when Song Rui came out, he must still be inside.

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Half a month after Gao Luo went missing, public attention gradually decreased and rescue units had stopped the corresponding search and rescue operations, but there were still two groups of people searching silently. One group was the rescue team hired by Gao Luo's parents, and the other group was the people organized by Ning Heng.

Ning Heng always believed that he had a responsibility that he could not escape.

Everyone knew that Gao Luo had no chance of survival, so it was useless to keep looking for her. The river is nearly 300 kilometers long and its lower reaches lead to the sea. After so many days, Gao Luo is likely to have been washed away.

But people are obsessed, as long as they haven't found her, they always feel there is a glimmer of hope.

That afternoon, Ning Heng received a call from Gao Shule, saying that she had something to discuss with him and asked him to meet in the restaurant of a five-star hotel.

Ning Heng couldn't understand why Gao Luo, who had disappeared, was not busy looking for her instead of asking him out. Moreover, she made the appointment in a restaurant of a five-star hotel - it was not a random place, it was obvious that she had put a lot of effort into it.

Ning Heng found it unbelievable that Gao Shule could still spare the energy to do these unimportant things.

So when we met, he acted a little cold.

Ning Heng asked her why she wanted to see him out.

Gao Shule hesitated and said, "I think, Director, you don't need to keep looking for A'Luo. It seems that A'Luo can't be found anymore. You should put your time and energy back into work."

This was not the first time Gao Shule had told Ning Heng about this. As early as the fifth day after Gao Luo disappeared, she had tactfully suggested that Gao Luo's parents had hired the most powerful rescue team, and whether he participated in the search and rescue or not, the result would be the same.

Ning Heng was unhappy at the time, but considering that Gao Shule was also a victim of the car accident, he did not lose his temper with her.

Now she has been discharged from the hospital and is fine, nothing has happened to her, but she actually said such words to him. Ning Heng's face suddenly stretched long.

"You accepted the possibility that Gao Luo would die, but I didn't. My decision to find her was my own business, and I didn't need anyone to give me advice."

The smile on Gao Shule's face gradually turned into embarrassment. She thought that normal people would not understand this kind of hint because it was too outrageous.

"Do you have anything else to say? If not, I'm leaving."

Ning Heng didn't want to stay any longer and wanted to leave immediately.

Gao Shule stood up to stop him and said, "Yes, yes, I have something else to do. There is another person who wants to see you today, but there is a bit of traffic on the road, so he may be late for a while."

"who?"

"A Luo's sister, Xie Ran."

Hearing this name, Ning Heng's heart suddenly moved.

"A Luo said she promised you a request and would ask her sister to come out to meet you. Do you remember?"

Ning Heng was stunned for a long time, and then finally heard his own hesitant voice: "Remember."