Chapter 60: Meeting Herself She died, maybe for a moment Gu Yifeng would remember...
In the night, the street lights were dim and the air was still filled with the smell of rubber from braking.
Gu Yifeng glanced back at the woman who fled the scene, and after confirming that she was not injured, his scrutinizing gaze fell on Wen Chi.
He pulled his ID from his jacket pocket and quickly revealed his identity:
"Investigation Bureau agent, Gu Yifeng." His voice was cold and hard. "Why are you chasing her?"
The moment he heard the name, Wen Chi's pupils suddenly shrank and his body suddenly stiffened.
A sudden burst of anger erupted from him. He stared at Gu Yifeng intently, gritted his teeth and asked word by word: "...You, are you Gu Yifeng?"
Gu Yifeng paused as he took back the ID card, raised his eyes to look at Wen Chi, and frowned even deeper.
What's wrong with this guy? His tone doesn't sound like recognition, but more like revenge.
Are you going to attack the police?
Could it be that he is a wanted criminal of the Bureau, which is why he reacted so violently?
Gu Yifeng subconsciously pressed the gun on his waist and signaled Ni Qianfan with his eyes to be careful and alert.
"She is... my sister." Wen Chi gritted his teeth and spoke. His voice was low and hoarse but could not hide his anger and loss of control. Even his eyes were terribly red.
"Calm down!" Ni Qianfan frowned and stepped forward. "Please show me your ID first."
Wen Chi took a step back abruptly, veins throbbing on his forehead, his eyes fierce: "I'm calm!"
Gu Yifeng and Ni Qianfan exchanged a glance. There really was something fishy about this guy! That woman just now was probably in real danger.
"You are not in a state fit to come into contact with anyone, including your family."
Gu Yifeng said in a deep voice, "Brother Fan, contact the Yunhu police and bring him back to the police station."
"clear!"
"Don't touch me!" Wen Chi was about to shake off the two people's suppression, but suddenly he calmed down, his breathing gradually became steady, and his eyes gradually became clear.
After a moment, he lowered his eyes and whispered, "Sorry... I can cooperate."
Gu Yifeng looked at him in surprise, his doubts deepening, but he had no time to delve into it.
He had just received a report of abnormal gravitational fluctuations and had chased the suspect from Yunchuan to Yunhu. He couldn't lose the suspect this time.
They stood on the side of the road waiting for the police to arrive, no one spoke.
At this moment, Wen Chi's gaze fixed on the No. 44 bus slowly passing in front of him - a familiar figure flashed by in the window.
Gu Yifeng suddenly looked back and his heart beat inexplicably faster.
The figure in the car, although only for a moment, made him hesitate. Could it be her?
But before he could react, Ni Qianfan interrupted him: "Old Gu, the abnormal coordinates of the gravitational fluctuation are moving eastward. We can't delay any longer."
Gu Yifeng took one last look at the No. 44 bus that was moving further and further away, and said in a deep voice, "Continue to track the moving coordinates!"
The black SUV headed east along Qinghe Highway. When it was approaching its target, the bridgehead ahead was blocked and traffic came to a complete standstill.
Gu Yifeng lowered the car window and showed his ID to the patrol officer on duty: "Investigation Bureau on duty, what happened up ahead?"
"Director Gu, the last bus on route 44 just overturned," the patrol officer said gravely. "The bus flipped into the river. The driver and passengers have been sent to the hospital and are still receiving emergency treatment. We're currently salvaging the wreckage."
Gu Yifeng looked the patrolman in the eye, seemingly not having heard his report clearly, and asked softly, "Route 44...?"
"Yes, sir!"
He clearly heard his heartbeat pause for a beat, then suddenly speed up.
A fear I had never felt before surged into my heart.
Is this the last bus No. 44 that the woman just took?
Flipped? How is that possible?
For the first time, he realized that he was also afraid of unknown outcomes.
When Gu Yifeng came to his senses, he was already standing at the salvage site.
As the patrol officer had said, the driver and passenger had been taken to the hospital. The only items at the scene, found only a handful of belongings retrieved from the ditch, lay scattered along the roadside. Handbags, high heels, torn clothing... besides being soaked, all appeared to be twisted to varying degrees, not the result of a typical car accident, but rather the result of an attack by some unknown force.
The police lights flashed silently in the night, and the red light flickered on those objects, which was weird and terrifying.
"Old Gu?" Ni Qianfan asked him, looking at the salvage site, "Is this bus case related to the case we're tracking?"
Gu Yifeng did not answer.
He frowned and called the patrolman over: "Tell me the details of the scene again."
"Yes!" the patrol officer immediately reported. "According to preliminary investigation, the bus was operating normally at the time of the accident, with no abnormalities. While crossing the bridge, it suddenly lost control, crashed through the guardrail, and overturned into the river."
"What about the casualties?"
"We've confirmed there were 13 people, including the driver and passengers, on board the bus. None of them suffered obvious life-threatening injuries. However, they all lost consciousness before falling into the water and were unable to save themselves in time, resulting in varying degrees of drowning and suffocation. We'll have to wait for information from the hospital on the exact number of casualties."
After hearing this, Gu Yifeng fell silent.
13 people collectively lost consciousness in an instant.
What exactly happened to them in the moment before the car overturned?
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The night wind blew in her face, and Wen Yi ran two intersections in one breath until the last bit of air in her lungs was squeezed out, and she finally shook off the two burning gazes behind her.
The bus came slowly and the door opened with a "click".
She practically crawled into the carriage, sat down, and took half a minute to catch her breath. The few steps she had just taken with all her might had really taken half her life.
After getting on the bus, she couldn't help but look back -
Not far away, on a street corner, Gu Yifeng and Wen Chi stood facing each other on the roadside, their figures stretched long by the streetlights. Sure enough, magic still has to defeat magic!
She leaned back in her seat, her heartbeat finally calming down.
Outside the window, the city lights glow softly, and the streets are quiet and peaceful. There are not many passengers in the car. After a tiring day, some are napping against the windows, while others are looking down at their phones.
The young couple in the row in front of Wen Yi were looking at each other tenderly, whispering something. Wen Yi relaxed, her eyelids drooping a little, and a wave of drowsiness slowly came over her.
The bus drove onto a bridge and gradually slowed down. At that moment, a silver truck slowly passed in front of her.
Through the two panes of glass, she seemed to see something, yet seemed to see nothing.
A bone-chilling chill ran up my spine and instantly spread throughout my body.
She opened her eyes suddenly and her heart almost stopped.
A scene that made her tremble with fear emerged in her mind - just in that brief moment just now, she saw the ice cream truck!
The ice cream truck that...kidnapped her!
Time seemed to be stretched at this moment.
She finally understood why Gu Yifeng appeared in Yunhu City tonight, the night she was kidnapped and put on the ice cream truck.
And just now, the ice cream truck carrying her passed by her.
She unexpectedly met herself in this time and space through two glass windows!
She almost screamed, covering her mouth tightly, her heart pounding in her chest, but her mind was blank.
The bus sped up again and slowly caught up with the ice cream truck.
As luck would have it, the two cars started driving side by side.
Wen Yi was trembling all over, as if walking on the edge of hell.
She hadn't forgotten what Cao Mo had said: "If you encounter your past self, it could have serious consequences, even leading to self-annihilation."
She is now very close to "herself", does this count as an encounter?
Will she disappear?
The fear that she would be reduced to ashes at any moment made her feel cold all over and could hardly think.
Calm down, calm down!
She shouted in her heart, but after shouting for a long time, she still couldn't calm down.
My mind is still in a mess.
If she really meets "herself"... as a "non-original existence", it will naturally be herself who dies, not that her.
Wen Yi sighed and said that if she had known that the result would be self-destruction, she would have hugged Gu Yifeng just now.
So what if it affects the timeline? When she dies, maybe there will be a moment when Gu Yifeng will remember her.
Remember that hug that transcends time and space.
It's already this late, and you're still thinking about these messy things.
Wen Yi sniffed and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
A familiar energy began to surge in the body, slowly spreading outwards.
The bus's ceiling lights flickered, spiderweb-like cracks crawled up the windows, and the entire space inside the car was distorted.
Wen Yi couldn't help but open her eyes wide. She knew that every time she faced a life-threatening situation, the power in her body would instinctively protect herself.
Has self-destruction begun?
No, she doesn't want to die yet! She must get away from that "herself" immediately!
Wen Yi stood up suddenly, glanced around, grabbed the red window-breaking hammer hanging in the carriage, clenched his hands, and smashed it hard at the nearest window!
"Bang!"
With a dull sound, the surface of the glass was instantly covered with spider-web-like cracks, but it did not completely shatter.
She gritted her teeth and smashed it again!
This time, the glass shattered into countless tiny particles like ice, scattering all over the ground with a crackling sound. The night wind outside the window, mixed with the smell of river water, rushed in.
Wen Yi raised her head and looked around.
Despite such a loud commotion, the other passengers on the bus seemed oblivious to it, still leaning back in their seats with empty eyes, as if they had already lost consciousness.
What is going on?
But she had no time to think about it now. She stepped onto the window sill and looked at the bridge.
There were few vehicles on the bridge at this moment, and the ice cream truck was driving in front of the right side of the bus.
Now is the time!
She gritted her teeth and leaped down. With a dull pain, she landed heavily on the road, tumbling several times before she managed to steady herself.
Immediately, there was a sharp whistle and the sound of sudden brakes behind me.
She quickly got up and ran to the side of the road.
Just as she left the bus, she heard a sharp sound of tires rubbing against each other behind her. She turned her head sharply and saw that the bus, which had been moving normally, began to sway from side to side, as if the strange power inside the car had suddenly lost its balance.
The next second, the bus suddenly tilted, the front of the car broke through the guardrail, and the whole car fell into the dark river, causing a huge splash.
Wen Yi was already exhausted. Her legs went soft and she knelt on the shore, trembling all over, staring at the water in disbelief.
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