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It has been more than 40 hours since the prison car fell off a cliff. The vast net of chasing the fugitives covered the entire 20-kilometer radius around Cangshan.

In the past two days, the mountain streams, forests, streams, and caves here have been searched by armed police soldiers one by one, and even the few wolf cubs hiding in the wolf den on the top of the mountain have been discovered, but there is still no trace of Liu Xinghao and Yu Yaohai, the two fugitives.

In the temporary headquarters located at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, the atmosphere was surprisingly low, the conference table was slammed by Mr. Peng, and everyone attending the meeting lowered their heads, and none of them dared to take the initiative to squeak.

The newly appointed provincial leaders attached great importance to this prison escape incident, and put all the pressure on Peng Yikang Peng, the political commissar who commanded the operation. I only heard him slap the table and ask loudly:

"These two fugitives can't put on their wings and fly into the sky, right? There must be something you missed, didn't you say last time that you found two sets of footprints by the river? Did you follow this clue and follow it down?"

"Report to Political Commissar Peng, the river where the footprints were found, from the upstream to the end of the downstream, both banks along the way have been searched by our second action group as a whole, and there are indeed only two footprints of fugitives going down the river, but no trace of them going ashore has been found......" The leader of the second action group responsible for searching the riverside block bowed his head in shame, his work had been done very carefully, and he couldn't wait to use a magnifying glass to check every inch of land on the shore. But that's the case, and I really didn't find any traces of anyone going ashore!

"You said you found the end of the river? Nothing was found on both sides of the way?" Hearing this, Peng Yikang's face darkened even more, this set of footprints is the most important clue left by the fugitive, and as soon as this clue is broken, it is equivalent to announcing that this pursuit operation has completely become clueless.

"Yes, there is a waterfall at the end of this river, I have personally explored it, the height difference is tens of meters, if a person jumps from it, even if he does not fall to his death on the spot, he will be pressed underwater by the powerful water of the waterfall and drowned!" The leader of the second action group is named Wang Guoqiang, a dark-faced man, with a big boxy face full of seriousness.

"Could it be that these two fugitives drowned directly in the water, so there is no trace of going ashore?" a staff officer attending the meeting suddenly thought of this possibility. After all, man is not a fish, how can he stay in the water all the time and not go ashore? unless he dies in the water!

"Even if those two fugitives were drowned, the corpses would always float, wouldn't they? I could see it on the top of the waterfall at the time, and there was a pool of clear water below, not even a fish, let alone any corpses!" Wang Guoqiang swore to refute the staff's speculation.

But Lu Songning, who was sitting on the side, heard something inappropriate, and interjected and asked: "You just said that you were looking down from the top of the waterfall, and you didn't go down to the bottom of the waterfall, right?"

His horizontal interjection suddenly made everyone at the conference table focus their eyes on Wang Guoqiang.

Who knew that Wang Guoqiang's face turned red as soon as he "soared", and he said: "At that time, our action group did not have the tools to prepare for the rapport...... He was in a hurry to search for a place that had not been explored upstream, so he ...... "Speaking of this, Wang Guoqiang realized what a mistake he had made! His face was so hot that he could fry an egg directly.

"Political Commissar Peng, without further ado, I'll set off now, and I'll rush to the bottom of the waterfall to continue the search!" Lu Songning has made a lot of efforts in the past few days, but no matter how strong he is, it is impossible for him to search such a big Cangshan Mountain independently. Now that he had a clue, it was naturally impossible for him to sit here and wait for news with his fiery personality, so he rushed out of this temporary headquarters tent like a word after dropping a word.

"Wang Guoqiang, Wang Guoqiang! How do you tell me to say hello! Such an important clue, why didn't you report it earlier!" Political Commissar Peng slapped the table and stood up, pointed to the nose of the leader of the first action group, and ordered: "Cao Hongjun! Immediately take your people and follow Lao Lu to the waterfall to carry out a search! I want to see people alive, and I want to see corpses when I die! By the way, you have enough equipment! If you find any clues or have any needs, you can report them to me directly, do you understand?"

"Understood!" As soon as Cao Hongjun received the order, he immediately stood up and saluted, and rushed out of the tent like the wind. Before leaving, he didn't forget to squint and glance at Wang Guoqiang, who was flushed.

That Wang Guoqiang was very angry in his heart, this was originally an opportunity for his own meritorious service, but now it is good, and he has given it to others! But who can blame this? If you want to blame yourself, you can only blame yourself for being careless!

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In the secluded forest, a sturdy wild boar scavenges for food, its long fangs easily digging through the thick soil for plant roots that have been deposited beneath the soil.

There are few crops left in this barren land that can be left to its woe, and the owners of those crops are eager to eat its flesh and drink its blood. So the boars had to trek farther into the forest in search of delicious mushrooms or something to fill their stomachs.

As the saying goes, one pig, two wolves and three tigers. It's not that wild boars in the mountains and forests can beat wolves or tigers, but because wolves and tigers have the habit of dividing their territories. As long as you don't provoke it in its territory, it will generally not take the initiative to attack humans.

This is not the case with wild boars, which are the stinking hooligans of the animal kingdom! They eat everywhere they go, they do harm wherever they go. Wild boars are extremely adaptable to the environment and can be found everywhere in mountains, hills, deserts, forests, meadows and even human villages.

They eat a lot of food, as long as they can eat basically will not let go, including all kinds of food grown by humans, all kinds of grass roots, fruits, nuts, insects, bird eggs, mice, carrion, and even eat hares and deer cubs, etc., if you are really hungry, it is not impossible to bite and eat people!

Adult boars also spend a lot of time rubbing the sides of their bodies on tree stumps, rocks or hard river banks, so that the skin is ground into a hard protective layer that ordinary sharp weapons cannot pierce it.

The fierce wild boar suddenly stopped and sniffled, and its sensitive sense of smell told it that there was the aroma of wild mountain mushrooms dozens of meters away.

The enchanting aroma of the food tempted the wild boar to speed up his pace, not realizing that he had stepped into a trap set by a hunter!