Chapter 247 The Out-of-Control Bus
Later, You Xi thought about it. The situation on Paradise Island had changed since that night.
This was the first night of the waning moon.
The three of them stood outside the gate of the deserted villa, wondering if this incident was caused by other tourists.
If it was caused by tourists, then this incident was just an accident. But if not, it was just one of the incidents that happened on Paradise Island. If it was investigated carefully, it might trigger a mission or get clues about the hidden station.
According to the number of times the station was confirmed this time, two times means that the hidden station is not so easy to find. Fortunately, they are now a team, which means there are a total of six chances. As long as one of the six confirmations is successful, they can get on the bus and leave together.
This should be considered one of the advantages of the team.
"It smells bloody." You Xi suddenly spoke.
Among the three people, her physical fitness and five senses are still the strongest. But even she didn't notice the faint smell of blood in the air until this moment.
"Where?"
"It should be inside the villa." You Xi said, taking out three masks, "Let's go in and take a look."
The three of them had night vision, and they wore masks just in case their faces were not photographed.
This villa was at the end of this road, and the structure was the same as theirs. You Xi walked in front, following the faint smell of blood, passing through the entrance, through the living room and onto the south-facing terrace.
The sliding door between the living room and the terrace was open, and there was a bloodstain in the corner outside the glass door.
Tang Yatong took out her mobile phone and took a picture of the bloodstain. Soon, You Xi followed the smell again and found the second and third traces of blood at the lower end of the outer side of the terrace handrail.
Below the balcony handrail is a slope cliff about four stories high, and further down is the beach. There are no buildings on the beach to block the view, so it is clear that there is no situation below, and there is nothing suspicious.
Judging from the traces of blood, the family of four in the villa seemed to have been taken away from the villa by someone after being attacked.
But Youxi remembered that the other party had four people, and the two children were big boys of sixteen or seventeen years old. To be able to attack such a family of four in such a short time and quietly take them away from the four-story balcony, it must be no ordinary person.
But tourists usually attack the natives of the station for supplies and money. They do things without scruples, will not clean up the mess, and are even less likely to take people away.
So, was it an incident at the station itself?
Lin Wu, who had gone to check the room, came over and said, "It wasn't done by tourists. The property is all there."
This was confirmed.
The three of them couldn't find any clues in the villa, so they took another road around the bottom of the hill and checked under the cliff where the villa was located. They also found blood stains on a clump of tropical shrubs near the beach.
It seems that the track did go all the way down. This place is not far from the sea, with large stretches of sand on both sides and no buildings to hide.
Tang Yatong frowned and looked at the sea, and suddenly said, "Did it go into the sea?"
"If you follow this line of thought, it could be a non-human creature." You Xi said.
They continued to search in the direction of the sea, but the water on the beach near the sea was rising and falling, and the sand was wet. Even if there were traces of blood, they would soon seep under the sand.
Moreover, the sea originally had a damp smell. Even if Youxi had a keen sense of smell, it was impossible to identify whether there was the smell of blood nearby in such a large environment.
It was almost dawn, and the three people searched in vain and finally returned to their villa.
**
According to past experience, if strange events begin to occur at the station, it will not happen only once, but only in one place. So the next day, the three of them divided the work, and Lin Wu and Tang Yatong went out to search nearby and other areas to see if there were similar missing incidents.
Youxi stayed in the villa, paying attention to the movements of the villa next door, and turned on the TV to see if he could get some information from the news.
In the afternoon, Tang Yatong and Lin Wu came back one after another. Tang Yatong went to the hotel area of Moonlight Bay in the west. She said that there was nothing unusual there for the time being.
Lin Wu checked all the nearby water houses, beach villas and cliff villas, and said that there were indeed several houses that were empty, but it was not certain whether they had gone out on their own or were missing, and there was no abnormality in a short period of time.
Youxi said that everything was normal in the news, and there was no news related to missing. As for the villa next door, no one had returned. After
the three exchanged information, they found that there were still too few clues at present, so they decided that all three of them would go out the next day and check in different areas.
However, on the next morning, the three people in Youxi heard the sound of cars and people coming from the villa next door.
The three turned the corner and saw two black cars parked outside the villa. Several people in protective clothing were getting out of the car, carrying tool boxes and quietly walking into the villa, seemingly collecting samples and analyzing the situation on the spot.
It was about six in the morning, and the weather was not very good that day. The sky above the sea was gray and the clouds were very low, as if a rainstorm was brewing.
In addition to a few people in protective clothing, there were also several men in suits in the car. They were all very quiet, without talking or discussing, and each was doing their own thing.
When the other party saw the three people from Youxi coming over, they all showed surprise expressions, probably because they didn't expect someone to appear here at such an early time.
After all, the villa is at the end of this road, and they moved very quietly, and didn't expect to attract people.
"What happened?" You Xi acted puzzled. Among the three people, her face was the youngest and the most deceptive.
"Nothing happened." The leading man in a suit was about 20 years old, but his expression was stern and he looked difficult to approach. He didn't say much and took out his ID directly, "Police business, unrelated people should not approach."
Police?
Aboriginal people?
Do they need to answer questions to trigger prompts?
You Xi didn't come forward again. She tugged at her clothes and said, "Officer, we are all here to travel to Paradise Island. We don't know what happened, but you are quite scary. If something bad happened, can you explain it a little bit? We can also move to another place to live?"
The other party looked at You Xi for a few more times, then walked towards them: "Do you live next door?"
"Yes."
"Did you hear any noise the other night?"
"What's the noise?" You Xi opened her red lips slightly, her eyes widened, her expression suddenly became innocent and frightened, "Mr. Police Officer, what are you talking about? Don't scare me, I'm very timid..."
Lin Wu: ...
Tang Yatong glanced at Lin Wu and gave him a look that said "bear with it".
Because of You Xi's words, the other party's expression eased, and he took out his ID again for her to see: "Don't be afraid, my name is Ron, I'm just asking routine questions, just tell me what you know, or what you three know, don't be afraid."
You Xi nodded: "We have been here for several days. We met the residents here once on the road before. They are a family of four. They smelled that we were eating hot pot, so they asked where we bought the vegetables and seasonings. But we only met this time, and we haven't met each other since then. I didn't hear anything the past two nights. We were tired from playing during the day and went to bed early at night..."
As she said, she turned her head and looked at Lin Wu and Tang Yatong, "What about you, did you hear anything?"
Lin Wu spent a lifetime of acting skills, frowned and thought before shaking his head.
"No." Tang Yatong looked puzzled. "What happened to them? Are they not in the villa? Did they leave or something?"
"Nothing. I can't tell you about other things, but the situation here will not affect you. You can stay here with peace of mind. If you think of anything else, you can call me on this number." Ron took out a small notebook, wrote down his number, tore off the paper and handed it to Youxi.
"Okay." Youxi took it, and then went back to his residence with Lin Wu and Tang Yatong.
"The people in protective clothing are also looking for bloodstains and taking samples at the same time." This is what Youxi just heard in the house.
Tang Yatong poured herself a glass of water: "So the police should know the inside story of the disappearance. They are conducting a confidential investigation. This is probably why there are no similar missing incidents in the news."
"Well, maybe the same thing happened in other places, but the police's actions were kept secret, so we don't know." Lin Wu asked You Xi to take out the map and circled a few places, indicating that these were the places he had been to yesterday. Tang Yatong also circled the places he had been to on the map. The
remaining places that have not been visited are mostly located in the north of the central part of Paradise Island. Today, the three of them will divide the area and investigate the situation again to see if it will trigger any prompts.
The three of them quickly washed up, and then took the sandwiches that Tang Yatong had prepared from Youxi for breakfast. Before leaving, Tang Yatong reminded everyone to be careful of their tails, after all, they had just had a face-to-face conversation with the police, so they should not be followed.
Youxi always had doubts about the Heibola village in the northern hilly area. She said she would go there first because it was the farthest from where they lived, so Lin Wu and Tang Yatong let her use the electric car, and they said they would go to a nearby car rental company to rent another car.
This time, there was no need to go to other places, so Youxi did not go around the coastline, but chose a shorter route - passing through the middle of the island.
After the car left the central city, the road soon turned into a winding mountain road. To get to the village of the Hebola tribe from here, unlike passing through the coastline, you need to pass through several hills. Some of the hills have winding roads and narrow roads, which are very difficult to drive.
But the nearby hills are also one of the attractions of Paradise Island. She has read about it. There are large waterfalls on the mountain, and there are deep pools and caves in the valley below the waterfall. It is a good place for adventure sports enthusiasts to ride and explore.
It is said that there is an underground river inside the cave. The water in that underground river is turbulent and it is rumored that it leads directly to the sea.
After entering the mountain, a thunderbolt streaked across the sky, and the heavy rain that had been brewing for a morning finally fell.
She turned on the wipers, slowed down the car slightly, and continued to move forward on the winding mountain road. The accident happened very suddenly. She first heard a horn coming from the back of the mountain road, and then a silver bus appeared in the rearview mirror through the rain.
The bus was going very fast. It caught up with the rear of her car not long after it appeared in the rearview mirror, and almost hit it.
You Xi quickly stepped on the accelerator to speed up, and at the same time, she turned the steering wheel sharply, giving up the original lane and driving on another reverse lane. There are only two lanes on this mountain road. The reverse lane is close to the mountain wall, and the main lane is close to the cliff.
She had just given way when the bus behind her almost brushed the body of her car and rushed forward.
The rearview mirror of her car was knocked off, and the left front of the car scraped against the mountain wall, creating sparks and almost crashing into it. At the same time, she heard the tourists on the bus screaming in fear, and the driver panicked and stepped on the brakes.
"Oh my God, stop quickly!"
"Mom, I'm scared..."
"Help, have you called? Call for help!"
"I just tried, there is no signal here!"
"Why did the brakes fail! Step on them hard! You idiot!"
"Stop screaming! Do you think I don't want to stop? There is a sharp turn ahead, and I will die if I can't stop the car!"
In just two or three seconds, all kinds of sounds came from the bus that passed by Youxi's car.
As the driver said this, the tourists on the bus soon burst into tears.
"No, no, no - stop the bus -"
"Stop the bus -"
Youxi tried hard to stabilize the bus and finally stopped it. When she looked up, she saw that the bus had already rushed to the sharp turn at high speed. Because the brakes failed, the bus could not slow down, and the whole bus flew out of the cliff where the turn was.
She was startled for a second, and started the car again and drove towards the turn. She stopped the car at the edge of the cliff. The mountain road here was winding and long, and there was no guardrail at all. There was a slope outside the mountain road.
She got out of the car and ran to the side of the mountain trail, only to see the out-of-control bus rushing down the sloping slope, rolling several times, making a loud crash, and finally falling into the woods at the bottom of the valley.
The heavy rain was still falling, and everything around was blurred by the rain.
Probably because of the rain, the little flame that had just appeared where the bus fell was quickly extinguished, and there was no explosion.
You Xi was stunned for two seconds, and immediately returned to the car and dialed the emergency number with her mobile phone.
The signal in the mountains during the heavy rain was very poor. She tried several times but failed to get through. However, the Endless Train World mobile phone placed close to her body suddenly vibrated.
She took it out to check.
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