(2) Fork in the road

The entrance to the cave is relatively small, but there is a cool breeze mixed with the pungent smell of garbage, Zouping is 168 cm, I am 182 cm, in the ditch, we form a strong contrast. He can barely lie on his back, while I can barely squat, sometimes with my hands propped up in the sewage, kneeling forward. Although I was wearing rescue gloves and a mask, I immediately regretted that I didn't listen to my comrades and put on the air breathing apparatus. But looking at this situation, it is more difficult for me to walk with a gas cylinder on my back.

Zou Ping squatted in front of him and moved slowly, holding a strong light in his hand, his figure obscured my vision for most of it, I was wearing a helmet with a strong light on it, but I could only see his two feet moving behind him, he walked quite hard, from time to time sewage flowed through, mixed with messy solid waste, this is the darkest and most hidden corner of a city. The underground palaces that can hold thousands of people in the past TV series and the various bizarre events that take place in them. In my opinion, it is simply incredible. Now I'm crouching in the sewage, feeling the smell that almost spits me, and the slippery feeling of the moss in the pipes, and I move slowly, and for a moment, I feel like I'm back in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" and feel the madness of Andy the banker in the moment of escape.

"Mom,. Zou Ping suddenly stopped and scolded.

As soon as he said this, my head suddenly lifted up, and with a "bang", it hit the wall of the pipe. The helmet made a crisp sound.

"Guide, be careful, there are two rats here," Zou Ping reminded me in Yunnan.

Sure enough, I saw two small black shadows squeaking from under his crotch, following the light of the flashlight, running deeper.

Zou Ping has been a soldier here from Yunnan for 6 years, and according to his words, there have been hundreds of police incidents large and small, and he is used to seeing all kinds of dead bodies and all kinds of tragedies. But this is the first time that one of my newly assigned cadres has actually followed him to the sewers to find the body.

I don't think it's strange, I can do whatever I do, this path is also my own choice, once in a lifetime, it's worth it.

Zou Ping laughed dryly twice in front of him and continued to move forward.

"008 call 001, please answer if you receive" There was a clear call from the correspondent Liu Cheng on my walkie-talkie.

"001 received, please speak. I struggled to lift my hand from the water and pressed the walkie-talkie down the epaulettes of my rescue suit.

"Instructor, every time you pass a manhole cover, you get up and lift the cover, and we and Officer Zhu are looking for the path where the body washed away," Liu Cheng said.

"Roger!"

The county seat is only so big, but the underground pipeline world is far more complicated than I imagined. Walking and walking, it made me feel extremely long, and soon, the stuffiness began to hit, I felt a slight dizziness in my head, after all, my face was still facing down, and suddenly, my hand seemed to have touched something in the sewage, soft, so I used the headlamp to see, it was actually a dead cat, white and yellow patterns, and I threw myself in the water. I was so frightened that I quickly lifted my foot so as not to press it twice. Sure enough, as some great gods on the Internet say, sewers have everything.

We climbed to the first manhole cover with difficulty, Zou Ping went up and pushed it open, and I instantly felt a breath of fresh air rush in, and the whole person was much better.

Officer Zhu told us that we had only climbed more than 100 meters, and I immediately felt that the world was spinning.

I could clearly hear Officer Zhu asking the suspect for the exact location on the road, but the directions he could provide were limited to the manhole cover on the road. So, we had to crawl in this stinking ditch.

Bidding farewell to the fresh air, Zou Ping and I continued to squat forward, and in the next 100-meter-long sewage ditch, we passed through two manhole covers, but still did not find the location of the body, and I began to feel anxious.

"Will this guy fool us?" I said with difficulty, struggling to straighten my back, and I had begun to develop a great disgust in my heart for the long, narrow, foul-smelling gutter.

"Guide, keep walking forward, if you commit such a big thing, you will lose your head. Zouping leaned sideways against the wall of the pipe and said to me. "There's a breeze blowing in front of here, and it's estimated that there will be an exit not far away."

The darkness, the dizziness, the sewers, the corpses, every noun made me feel far, far away from my previous life, thinking back to a year ago today, when I was still defending my graduation thesis on a bright and spacious university campus, a year later, I was lying in a stinking ditch, searching for a body that had been abandoned for 14 days. The speed of conversion is just a bit too fast. Life, you never know what it will bring you.

I'm sighing.

"Guidance!" Zou Ping, who had been marching, suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong" I suddenly became vigilant, but I was a little excited, thinking that Zou Ping would find out.

"The pipeline in front is forked, there are two roads, which way should we go?" Zou Ping did not turn sideways again, but kept looking ahead.

"Two ways?" I replied with a pretended composure. But I don't have the slightest confidence in doing such a multiple-choice question.

I really wanted to lift the manhole cover and climb up to ask, but the inside of the pipe was so tightly sealed that I didn't have room to move freely.

"Otherwise, let's use the walkie-talkie to ask for directions, I'm afraid that if we go on like this, we will go further and further," Zou Ping said.

"Who do you ask? Do you know where the body will be washed by the sewage? If it were a whole person, maybe it would have been stuck in the pipe, but he had already been cut into several pieces...... "I coughed, I couldn't go on, the pungent smell made me vomit.

"Then what do you say?" Zou Ping was helpless, obviously without an idea.

At this time, Liu Cheng's call suddenly came out of the walkie-talkie between the two of us.