Chapter 385 The Woman in the Mine
After hearing Jiang Biao's words, Zhou Yi rushed towards Santana before anyone could react.
Wu Yongcheng knew he couldn't wait any longer, so he said, "Biaozi, give my phone number to the police station over there and have them call me directly."
After saying that, he hung up the phone and asked Chen Yan and Qiao Jiali to get in the car.
Wu Yongcheng sat in the passenger seat and said to Zhou Yi, "Let Chen Yan drive. You're not in the right mood to drive right now."
Zhou Yi, who was gripping the steering wheel tightly, felt his hands trembling slightly. He knew that Wu Yongcheng was right, so he immediately got out of the car and sat in the back seat.
Chen Yan started the car and Wu Yongcheng reminded him to drive steadily.
"Don't worry, Zhou Yi." Qiao Jiali comforted him, "I think it must be Xiaoshuang."
Zhou Yi felt his mind was in a mess. He had no impression of the New Taipei Town that Jiang Biao mentioned on the phone.
But he knew it was in Anding County in the north. How could a person appear in that place for no apparent reason?
Was it Lu Xiaoshuang? Or Xu Liu? Or someone completely unrelated?
It is now clear that Lu Xiaoshuang is missing. Based on Zhou Yi's understanding of her, it is impossible for her to do something so willful as to hide somewhere and make everyone worry.
As for Xu Liu, she had clearly requested leave from school, indicating she had plans to return home or travel. However, due to interpersonal issues, no one knew her whereabouts, so there was also the possibility that she was missing.
But Zhou Yi was still thinking about another problem in his confused mind.
In this life, the time of the crime, the method of dismemberment, and some of the circumstances of the disposal of the bodies have changed.
Is there a possibility that the deceased has also changed?
Judging from the current situation, the changes in cases in this life are most likely caused by my appearance.
If the deceased has really been replaced, does that mean that my appearance was also the cause?
Does that mean I'm indirectly killing someone?
This is a very serious moral issue, especially for Zhou Yi, who has a sense of justice and strives to save more victims after his rebirth.
I did not kill Bo Ren, yet Bo Ren died because of me.
Deep down in his heart, out of human selfishness, if one person was destined to die, he certainly didn't want that person to be Lu Xiaoshuang.
If it was Lu Xiaoshuang who died, he would probably live in regret for the rest of his life.
But what if it was someone else who died? What would he do? Would he be burdened with this heavy psychological burden?
I'm afraid it's all unknown.
The grand case was the number one unsolved case that had remained unsolved for 27 years in the previous life, and became the nightmare of countless public security officers.
In this life, no matter what the outcome of this case is, it seems to be doomed.
It will become Zhou Yi's nightmare.
“Beep-bell-bell—”
A shrill ringing of the phone tore through the depressing atmosphere in the car.
Wu Yongcheng picked up the phone, listened, and then pressed the speaker button.
"I'm Wu Yongcheng, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Municipal Bureau. Please tell me the details."
A voice on the other end of the line said, "Hello, leader. I'm Zhang Jun, a police officer from the Xinbei Town Police Station."
Back to half an hour ago, in Xinbei Town, Anding County, a little boy ran home. As soon as he entered the door, his mother scolded him: "Running around for no reason, and not doing your homework properly after school."
But the little boy was panting and looked terrified, which made his mother feel something was wrong. She asked, "What's going on?"
The little boy pointed in the direction of the mining area and said, "There are... there are ghosts..."
The little boy's house is a two-story building. The small buildings here in Xinbei Town are all connected together, one next to the other.
Next door to his house is Zhang Jun, a police officer from the police station.
Zhang Jun was on night shift tonight. He came back, had a meal and was about to leave. As soon as he went out, he heard the little boy talking about ghosts.
The little boy's mother immediately scolded him: "Don't talk nonsense, little kid. There is no such thing as a ghost."
"Really? I'm not lying to you. It's in a mine over there. I heard a female ghost shouting for help inside." The little boy said stubbornly.
The mother's face changed. "You went into the mine? You little brat, why are you so disobedient? You could easily get killed if you go in there, you know."
He pretended to hit the little boy, but the boy denied it and ran out of the house.
Zhang Jun smiled and said, "Xiaosheng, your mother is right. You can't go into that cave. There's poisonous gas in it. The adults say it's haunted to scare you kids. It's actually because of the gas inside. If you inhale it, you'll feel dizzy, vomit, and become weak. If you inhale too much, you'll pass out and suffocate, understand?"
"Uncle Zhang, I'm not lying. I really heard a female ghost inside shouting for help."
Zhang Jun shook his head helplessly, said "this kid" with a smile, and then rode away on his motorcycle.
After arriving at the police station, he drank tea and read the newspaper as usual on duty.
Today's New Taipei Town has fallen into decline, with only locals left. There is not much to do there, and being on duty is just a formality.
But a call for assistance broke the silence. The call was from the county bureau because the county bureau had received a request for assistance from the city bureau's command center. Naturally, it was a request issued by the city bureau to find Lu Xiaoshuang after the meeting.
Zhang Jun was still smiling on the phone and said, "There are no outsiders coming here now."
But after hanging up the phone, he suddenly remembered what the little boy had just said.
A female ghost in the mine shouting for help?
Something is wrong!
He immediately rode his motorcycle home and asked the little boy where he heard it. The little boy took him to the mine because the plastic bag he had thrown away was still on the ground.
Zhang Jun shouted a few times inside, "Is anyone there?"
But there was no response.
I shone a flashlight inside, but the flashlight's range was very limited and I couldn't see clearly at all.
Zhang Jun looked at the little boy helplessly, meaning to say, your mother is right, there is no such thing as a female ghost.
But the next second, in the silent night, a faint voice came from the cave.
"Help……"
Zhang Jun's face changed and he asked the little boy, "Xiaosheng, did you hear that?"
The little boy nodded heavily: "Uncle Zhang, I heard it."
"Hurry, go back and call for help, the more the better!"
Soon, more than a dozen young and middle-aged men from the town arrived. According to Zhang Jun's instructions, they also brought flashlights, mining lamps and ropes. Some even brought dust masks that had not been used at home for a long time, although they didn't know whether they were still useful.
Zhang Jun told Wu Yongcheng and others on the phone that because of the coal mining, the mines there were not very standardized, they were dug in all directions, and the structure was very simple, with the possibility of collapse at any time, so the entrances of the mines were initially blocked with wooden boards and stones.
But later on, some people even stole the wooden boards, so we couldn’t do anything about it and just let it go.
But the locals are conservative and won't go in.
In the past, there have been cases of junior high school students who came from nowhere and went down to play and then couldn't get out, so there is a precedent.
Finally, a few experienced people who had been to mines in their youth were sent down. They wore dust masks and mining lamps and went down with ropes tied around their waists.
Finally, someone in the cave shouted, "There's someone here, a woman, and she seems to be still breathing."
Zhang Jun had already informed the director, drove the police car over, and called the town hospital to ask for a doctor, but the town hospital was now in a very dilapidated state.
The last group of people rescued a woman with disheveled hair from the mine. Her face was so black that her appearance could not be seen clearly.
The doctor who had been guarding the cave entrance examined the man and said he was in a coma, probably due to inhaling too much gas. He had to be sent to the county hospital immediately, otherwise he would probably die.
Zhang Jun and his colleagues drove a police car and rushed the patient to the county hospital accompanied by a doctor.
As he watched the person being sent to the emergency room, he remembered that he had to report this matter. Could the person who was rescued be the one the higher-ups were looking for?
So, after going around in circles, the call finally reached Jiang Biao, who was in charge of the overall search.
Zhang Junzheng borrowed the phone at the nurse's desk to report the situation to Wu Yongcheng. To him, Wu Yongcheng was a very high-level leader.
At this time, the colleague who came with him came over with something and handed it to him.
He looked at me and asked what this was.
My colleague said, "The nurse brought it over and said it fell out of the patient."
Zhang Jun took it and looked at it, his eyes suddenly changed.
"Leader...Leader, we found a student ID card from Hongcheng University."
This one sentence made the four people on the other end of the phone nervous.
"Call...call Xu Liu..."
The four people in the car were completely dumbfounded. This person was not Lu Xiaoshuang, but Xu Liu?
"Are you sure?" Wu Yongcheng asked loudly.
Zhang Jun was startled. He held the student ID card in front of him and looked at it carefully. "Yes, it says Xu Liu on it."
The people in the car fell silent for a moment.
At this point, no one spoke to comfort Zhou Yi anymore.
If the person found in the mine was Xu Liu, then the dismembered corpse could only be Lu Xiaoshuang.
The temperature in the car suddenly dropped to freezing point.
Chen Yan silently stepped on the accelerator, and the Santana sped along the highway.
As soon as the car arrived at the county hospital, before it drove in, the three people in the car got out because they had to register at the hospital gate and they couldn't wait.
I ran all the way and found the emergency room that Zhang Jun mentioned on the phone earlier.
The door of the emergency room was closed and there were two uniformed police officers at the door.
One of them looked at them twice and asked tentatively, "Is it... the leader of the Municipal Bureau?"
Zhou Yi couldn't wait to ask: "How is the person?"
"The rescue is still going on, no one has come out yet." Zhang Jun said as he handed over Xu Liu's student ID.
Qiao Jiali was quick to take it and put it in the evidence bag.
Wu Yongcheng came over to take a look and saw that it was indeed Xu Liu's student ID.
At this time, the door of the emergency room opened and a hospital bed was pushed out.
Zhou Yi rushed over immediately, startling the two nurses pushing the bed. Wu Yongcheng and Qiao Jiali also surrounded him.
When Zhou Yi saw the person lying on the hospital bed, tears welled up in his eyes.
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