Chapter 471 Li Yanan
In Yunxia Mountain, Lu Xiaoshuang walked in the middle of the team. Looking at the surrounding dense forests, gloomy clouds and fog, she felt a chill down her spine.
This is actually Yunxia Mountain? It's completely different from where they climbed yesterday.
Fortunately, everyone had a flashlight in their hands to illuminate the road ahead, and Jiang Biao's burly figure behind them was like an iron tower, giving people a sense of security.
The trees along the way were hung with something like fluorescent material. When the flashlight shone through it, it would reflect light, making it easy to identify the direction.
Following the marks, they walked forward for a long time. The ground was very muddy and slippery. It was so cold in the mountains in the second half of the night that it made people shiver. Although she had put on the coat prepared for rescue, Lu Xiaoshuang still felt the cold penetrate into her bones. She couldn't imagine how Zhou Yi could survive in such an environment.
So she just wanted to find Zhou Yi as soon as possible, and everyone else thought the same.
The police officer who was in charge of leading the way felt as if he was being chased forward, as the group of people behind him were walking very fast.
As we walked, we saw more and more lights ahead.
The police officer leading the way pointed and said, "The search and rescue area is ahead. Everyone is concentrating in this area now."
Everyone nodded immediately and their pace quickened.
After walking over, Lu Xiaoshuang saw that from here onwards, it extended to a place beyond sight. On the edge of the cliff, there were lights hanging on trees about every five or six hundred meters. There were people guarding under the trees. Ropes were tied to the thick trunks of the trees. The ropes were stretched straight and extended all the way down the cliff.
Apparently, at regular intervals, someone would climb down the rope to look for someone.
The leading police officer said, "We can't determine exactly where Officer Zhou and the student fell off the cliff, so we can only conduct a multi-point, blanket search of possible areas."
"How deep are these cliffs?" Jiang Biao asked.
"It's hard to say. The terrain of Yunxia Mountain is complex, and it was so dark that we couldn't effectively observe the depth. We could only confirm it by throwing down fluorescent sticks. If it's really deep, we can't go down. We can only wait until daybreak." The police officer took a deep breath and said solemnly, "But at the moment, the low ground is at least ten meters."
These words made everyone feel depressed. Falling from a height of more than ten meters would be very dangerous.
"So someone has gone down here to look for it, right?"
The police officer nodded and said, "We will search as many places as possible after we go down there."
Having said that, there has been no news so far, which means that this carpet-style search has not found Zhou Yi.
Jiang Biao said anxiously, "Let's go ahead and find a place that hasn't been searched yet, and then we'll go down and look for it."
The police officer looked at Jiang Biao, hesitated, and said, "Comrade, given your physique, I suggest you don't go down. I'm afraid the rope won't be able to bear it."
This is not a joke, but a serious suggestion.
Jiang Biao was stunned for a moment, then said unwillingly: "Then my words won't work. I've already told Captain Wu."
Chen Yan said, "Brother Biao, it's okay. Sister Qiao and I will go down later. If we find Zhou Yi, we have to tie him up with a rope and pull him up. We don't have the strength to do this, so you have to do it."
Jiang Biao nodded helplessly.
Qiao Jiali glanced at Lu Xiaoshuang and said, "Xiaoshuang, I won't allow you to go down there no matter what. You just wait up there. Do you hear me?"
Lu Xiaoshuang nodded.
The crowd followed the policeman who led the way and walked forward for a long time until they came to a deserted place. After confirming the surrounding environment, the policeman took out a fluorescent stick, lit it up and threw it down.
I saw the white fluorescent stick falling rapidly, then rolling a few times and then stopping.
"I estimate the height to be within thirty meters. The rope is long enough to get down."
Chen Yan took the lead and climbed down the rope.
Several people above were clinging to the edge of the cliff and using flashlights to illuminate him.
Chen Yan climbed down carefully bit by bit. He knew that he had to be steady at this time and not be impatient.
Soon after it became increasingly dark and the flashlight could no longer find him, he crawled down and stepped on hard stone.
He immediately took out his flashlight and shone it around him. After finding no danger, he shouted upwards, "Sister Qiao, you can come down now!"
Then Qiao Jiali also climbed down the rope and soon reached the bottom.
Jiang Biao, who was above, saw two flashlights spreading out to the left and right, and he shouted a few words to tell them to be careful.
Then he got up from the ground and said, "Lu Xiaoshuang, don't worry, Zhou Yi is very lucky. God said he can't die."
But there was no feedback from Lu Xiaoshuang.
Jiang Biao turned his head in confusion, but Lu Xiaoshuang was no longer around.
His mind suddenly buzzed.
“Oh no!”
…
At three o'clock in the morning, in the old and simple interrogation room of the Yunshan County Public Security Bureau.
Li Yanan lowered his head uncomfortably, rubbing the corners of his clothes with his hands.
Wang Tao sat next to Wu Yongcheng. He didn't know what the leader from Hongcheng wanted to ask, and why he didn't realize that this delicate and pretty girl was lying.
"Name." Wu Yongcheng's voice was extremely cold.
"Li...Li Yanan."
"age."
"twenty."
"Lift your head."
Wu Yongcheng's voice was unquestionable. Li Yanan raised her head tremblingly, but her eyes flickered and she didn't dare to look at him.
"Do you know why I brought you here?" Wu Yongcheng squinted his eyes and looked at the other person.
Li Yanan shook his head.
"Don't you know what you did?"
"I...I really don't know what you're talking about."
Wu Yongcheng tapped the table with his right index finger and nodded: "You don't admit it, right? Okay, okay..."
Wang Tao, who was standing by, was recording while wondering what was going on.
Wu Yongcheng didn't ask any more questions, but instead changed the subject and asked, "Who initiated this trip?"
"It's... Liang Bin." Li Yanan added, "He's the head of our Wilderness Club."
"The Wilderness Society?"
"Well, it's our school's wilderness adventure club," Li Yanan explained.
"How many people are there in your club? Was it founded by Liang Bin?"
"It wasn't founded by Liang Bin, it existed before. Liang Bin joined this club when we were freshmen. At that time, there were also sophomores in the club, and Liang Bin participated in several activities with them."
"Sophomore? Aren't there any juniors and seniors?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
Li Yanan replied slightly embarrassedly: "We are a vocational college, and the course is only three years."
Wu Yongcheng suddenly realized that Ni Jianrong was a college student, so he instinctively made a preconceived notion.
"Then why aren't there any juniors?"
"We study technical majors in school, and our junior year is full of practical courses, so we don't have time." Li Yanan was obviously much more relaxed when answering these questions.
Wu Yongcheng nodded. "Oh, you're going to do an internship. I understand. You just said that Liang Bin participated in several activities with the sophomores in the club during his freshman year. So he has some experience in outdoor adventures, right?"
Li Yanan nodded and said yes.
"Apart from him, none of you seven have similar experiences?"
"Um."
"So when did you join the Wilderness Club? I see you're a sophomore, just like Liang Bin. There seems to be another one named... Yao."
Wang Tao added quietly, "Yao Li."
"Yes, Yao Li. Apart from you three, the others are all freshmen."
"Well, the original seniors all dropped out after they became juniors. Then, two classmates from our class also dropped out because they didn't get along well with Liang Bin. So, Liang Bin was the only one left in the Wilderness Club at that time."
"The school seems to have a rule that says a club must have at least five members, otherwise it will be disbanded."
Wu Yongcheng nodded: "Oh, I see, so Liang Bin pulled you and Yao Li in."
"Yes, we did. With the arrival of a few freshmen, the club was able to continue," Li Yanan said. "This time, it's because the three of us will be going on internships as juniors after the summer break, and we won't be able to continue participating in club activities. That's why Liang Bin suggested organizing an exciting wilderness adventure."
"Exciting? What do you mean? Haven't you organized any activities this past year?"
Li Yanan quickly explained, "No, no, it's just that I don't have time. So the previous activities were all small-scale activities near the school organized on weekends. I've never traveled this far."
Wu Yongcheng nodded and understood. This group of people were just like amateur opera singers. Normally, they would just sing in the park and have people flatter them. Then suddenly one day, they became arrogant and thought they were good enough to perform on stage in a theater.
"How is your relationship with Liang Bin? When did you confirm your relationship?"
Upon hearing this question, Li Yanan's fingers immediately tugged at the corner of his clothes.
"Liang Bin and I were together during the first semester of our freshman year. He was the one who pursued me. We had a pretty good relationship."
Wang Tao couldn't help but look up at Li Yanan. Even he could tell that there was something wrong with the tone.
"Are you sure?" Wu Yongcheng said coldly, "Li Yanan, let me warn you first. This is the Public Security Bureau. You will pay the price for lying. We can find out whether you have a good relationship with Liang Bin by asking a few other people to verify it, so you'd better think it over before answering."
During the interrogation of just a few minutes, Li Yanan's emotions fluctuated greatly. The string was sometimes taut and sometimes loose, and was pulled at will by Wu Yongcheng.
After hearing this warning, she could no longer hold back her emotions and suddenly covered her face and burst into tears.
At this time, Wang Tao seemed to have grasped something. He turned his head to look at Wu Yongcheng and found that his eyes were as cold as ice.
In Wu Yongcheng's eyes, this little girl was not qualified enough to last a few moves against him.
"So what did Liang Bin do to you?"
Li Yanan cried and said, "He beat me. He has a serious tendency towards violence. He would beat me whenever he was unhappy."
Li Yanan said this and lifted up his sleeves.
The slender white arms were covered with bruises, both new and old.
In addition to the arm injury, she also tore open her collar, revealing many scars.
Li Yanan cried and said, "He is very smart and never hits me in the face. He is also very controlling. If I say a few more words to other boys, he will get angry. I am really scared. He always hits me, sob."
Wu Yongcheng had a serious expression and remained calm.
Wang Tao couldn't help but ask, "If you're so afraid of him, why don't you break up with him?"
"In the second half of my freshman year, I asked for a breakup because I couldn't stand it anymore... But when he heard the word breakup, he instantly flew into a rage, pushed me to the ground, choked me and said..." When Li Yanan said this, her whole body was shaking, and she couldn't help but burst into tears again.
While crying, she said, "He said if I broke up with him, he would kill me, my parents, and my brother."
Wang Tao was furious when he heard this, but he didn't dare to curse because Wu Yongcheng was there.
But his eyes already gave the impression that Liang Bin deserved to die.
Wu Yongcheng showed no mercy and asked in a cold tone, "So you should be happy that he's dead, right?"
Li Yanan, who was originally crying, was stunned for a moment. She looked up at Wu Yongcheng in panic, as if she didn't expect him to ask this.
"I..." She didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"Li Yanan," Wu Yongcheng asked in a gentle tone, "How did Liang Bin fall?"
At this point, Wang Tao already knew Wu Yongcheng's intention.
Does he suspect that it was Li Yanan who pushed Liang Bin off the cliff?
How could such a delicate and beautiful girl be a murderer?
Just when Wang Tao was skeptical, Li Yanan seemed to be struck by lightning. His face turned pale in an instant and his lips trembled for a long time.
In the end, Li Yanan covered her face and cried again, but this time her crying was even more heartbreaking than the last time.
Li Yanan's sobs were interspersed with intermittent replies: "Wuwuwuwu... I... I didn't mean to... I was too scared at the time... Wuwuwuwu... I was afraid that he would come up and beat me again..."
Wang Tao was horrified. This girl was actually the murderer?
He couldn't help but glance at Wu Yongcheng beside him, his heart filled with admiration. Are all his colleagues in Hongcheng so capable? How did he know there was something wrong?
Wu Yongcheng frowned when he heard the answer.
"Hit me after you come up..."
He pondered Li Yanan's words, which seemed a little different from what he expected.
As for why he felt that there was something wrong with Li Yanan, it was actually because of his experience and intuition as a veteran criminal policeman who had seen countless people.
At that time in the emergency room, when he looked at these five people, he found something strange at a glance.
When the five people faced his gaze, they all showed varying degrees of eye avoidance and erraticness.
This is normal and a reaction of guilt. After all, they were the ones who caused such a big thing.
But there are differences.
Although Du Xiang and Li Jiajia also felt guilty, their reactions were relatively mild.
Because Liang Bin and Zhou Yi's fall from the cliff had little to do with them.
It's like having two children at home. The child who scored 59 points will naturally feel less guilty than the child who scored 30 points. After all, there are people who deserve to be scolded more than him.
So Wu Yongcheng felt that there was nothing wrong with these two people.
Then the remaining three people were all involved in the fall off the cliff, especially Li Yanan.
So he asked these three people questions to see their reactions.
They are all freshmen and sophomores, it is impossible for them to be very cunning.
So the abnormality was discovered soon.
Although all three of them showed signs of guilt, there were subtle differences in the reactions of Li Yanan and the other two.
When she answered her own question, she was very tense, which was a typical nervous reaction.
Normally, guilty conscience can also lead to tension, but in order to relieve this tension, people will instinctively do some small movements to relieve it.
Tang Mengjie was like this, the fingers of both hands kept digging into the quilt.
Ding Fei was relatively calm, which might be the difference between men and women when faced with problems.
Li Yanan was very tense, even her facial expression was stiff, indicating that she was in an extremely nervous state.
Wu Yongcheng couldn't be sure, but it was likely that Li Yanan's body was stiff at that time.
Why was she so nervous? There was only one possibility: she was lying.
As for what exactly he lied about and to what extent, we have to bring him back for interrogation to find out.
So what Li Yanan said seemed to be a little different from what he expected.
"Li Yanan, explain yourself clearly. What do you mean by coming up and then hitting you?" Wu Yongcheng asked with a frown. "Didn't you push Liang Bin down?"
Li Yanan lowered her hands from covering her face. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying. She shook her head repeatedly in fear: "No... No, I swear, I really didn't push him down."
"So what did you do?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
…
Li Yanan's memories seemed to take him back to the deep mountains and forests a few hours ago.
In the darkness, she lay on the edge of the cliff and stretched her hand down. Liang Bin, who was on the edge of the cliff, grabbed the vines as thick as a bowl tightly and stretched out his hand towards her, trying to touch her hand.
The flashlight had fallen down, and it was pitch black all around, and nothing could be seen clearly. Li Yanan couldn't even see Liang Bin's face, she could only see the hand reaching out to her.
But there was still a gap between the two hands, and Liang Bin was so anxious that he shouted, "Move the fuck forward a little more."
"I've already... moved very forward..." Li Yanan said with difficulty, her other hand tightly grasping the protruding stone on the ground because she was afraid that she would fall down too.
"Nannan, please move forward a little, I can't... hold on any longer..."
"I really tried my best." Li Yanan said in a crying voice.
"Where's Ding Fei? Where's that bastard Ding Fei?"
"I don't know. It's too dark. I don't know where they are. How about...how about you hold on a little longer and I'll go get Ding Fei to help?"
When Liang Bin, who was hanging on the cliff, heard this, he immediately shouted anxiously: "No, Nannan, don't go, save me."
"But I can't reach it..."
"Clothes! Take off your clothes and throw them down, and use the clothes to pull me up!" Liang Bin shouted quickly.
Upon hearing this, Li Yanan immediately replied, "Okay, hold on a little longer."
As she said that, she immediately retracted her hand, got up from the ground and began to take off her clothes.
Although she was shivering with cold, she started to take off her clothes without hesitation.
But just when he was halfway through taking off his clothes, he suddenly heard Liang Bin cursing from the bottom of the cliff: "Wait till I get up there, I'm going to kill that bastard Ding Fei first!"
Her movements froze instantly, and her mind recalled the day when she was beaten all over by Liang Bin.
She slowly put back on the wet clothes that she had half taken off.
Then she stood up calmly and slowly backed away, farther and farther away from the cliff.
"Nannan, are you okay? My hands are weak and I can't hold on any longer."
"Nannan, why aren't you talking? Where are you? Don't scare me!"
"Li Yanan, what the hell do you want to do? You eat my food and use my things, are you fucking rebelling?"
"Li Yanan, fuck your mother! Wait till I get here and kill you first!"
"Wow, wow, I really have no strength left. I was wrong, Nannan, I was wrong. I love you. Please save me, please save me."
“Ah—bang—”
Li Yanan, who was standing under a big tree, was so nervous that she didn't dare to breathe. She could only hear her heart pounding like it was being hit by a drum hammer.
Until Liang Bin's voice could no longer be heard.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief, her whole body soaked in sweat.
Then she took a deep breath, used all her strength and screamed!
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