Chapter 28: Two Forks in the Road
Nan Hanfei is also in the team.
Gu Yanan walked forward and asked Nan Hanfei, "The corpse is not in the way of staying there, right?" ”
"I have notified the police station, and I have taken photos of the surroundings, and sent back the coordinates of the specific location of the body, and they will send someone to deal with it, and I will continue to find the whereabouts of the other three missing people with you."
"Well, you look for the whereabouts of the missing person, and we look for the causative poison, just on the same road."
The group continued to walk deeper into the Misty Valley, stopping and stopping, sampling and checking for clues.
After walking about two kilometers, a large waterfall appeared in the Misty Valley, and a circular pool of water flowed out of the waterhole and into the small river in the valley.
The scenery around this area is very close to the situation described by the first employees of the Binhai Tourism Development Company who entered the Qingcheng Mountain to survey.
Could this be the place they say has a yellow miasma?
"Stop!"
Gu Yanan suddenly spoke, and everyone stopped.
Master Wang, the guide, turned around and asked, "What's wrong?" What's the problem? Is it going to be sampled here? ”
"In addition to sampling, we also need to carefully search the neighborhood, and this is probably the place where the surveyors first came in and saw the yellow miasma, and smelled of stinky garlic and mustard."
Gu Yanan had stopped at the riverbank and began to open the sampling box to collect river water.
Zhou Jie took the sampling box and two disease control personnel from the county to the woods near the riverbank to collect some leaves.
Wang Xiaoxiao collected a portion of the soil.
Lu Li set up the air sampler and said to himself at the same time: "I already smell the breath close to the truth. ”
Every time I stopped to take a sample, the guide, Master Wang, was very leisurely.
Sampling here for disease control, Master Wang can't help.
Master Wang leaned over to Nan Hanfei again and asked, "Officer Nan, do you have any discoveries here?" If there's anything you need me to help with, just say. ”
"I really need your help with something here." Nan Hanfei then asked, "I see Master Wang, you are very familiar with the place in the Misty Valley, have you been here before?" ”
"I've been here once, but I broke in unintentionally, that time I went into Qingcheng Mountain with Li Dazhu to dig bamboo shoots, and it happened to be raining heavily, we wanted to find a place to hide from the rain, and we broke into the Misty Valley in a hurry.
It's raining, there is no fog in the Misty Valley, and when the rain stops, we see that there are more bamboo shoots here, so we dig a little more, and then the fog gradually rises again, and then we know that we have broken into the Misty Valley by mistake, because we feel scared in our hearts, so we left in a hurry, so Li Dazhu and I have a little understanding of the Misty Valley. ”
Nan Hanfei thought to himself, no wonder Li Dazhu had the courage to dig bamboo shoots near the Misty Valley, and happened to encounter the corpse that was washed out of the Misty Valley by the current, and reported the case, so there was the next thing.
Nan Hanfei then asked, "Is there a place to hide from the rain nearby?" ”
"Yes." Master Wang, the guide, pointed to the hillside on the side of the river, "After this waterfall and a short distance ahead, there is a cave on the hillside that can be used to shelter from the rain. ”
"Let's go, take me to see it."
The guide, Master Wang, took Nan Hanfei through the waterfall and walked forward for more than 100 meters, and the two soon found a hidden cave on the hillside.
At the entrance of the cave there was a dense bush, and two tall trees, which were covered with vines, and the vines hung down from the branches, like a green curtain blocking the entrance to the cave.
The guide, Master Wang, pushed aside the green vines, and the entrance of the cave was completely presented in front of the two of them.
The entrance of the cave is more than two people high and three feet wide.
Nan Hanfei stood at the entrance of the cave and felt a clammy wind blowing out of the cave.
The flow of air in this cave indicates that it is connected to the outside world.
Nan Hanfei asked, "Do you know where the other exits from this cave are?" ”
The guide, Master Wang, was very surprised, Nan Hanfei actually knew that there were other exits in this cave, "There are indeed other exits, there are twists and turns in this cave, I know that there is one, it is at the other end of the hillside, this cave is very tortuous and long, I have only walked through Li Dazhu once, and groped for another exit, but it may have other exits." ”
Nan Hanfei took out a small waterproof flashlight from his pocket and prepared to go into the cave to check.
"You're going into a cave?" The guide, Master Wang, stopped worriedly.
"Well, what's the problem?"
"There are a lot of forks in this cave, Li Dazhu and I were also looking in it for a long time, we were going to come out of the original way, but we couldn't find the entrance to the cave, and then we finally found an exit out, we almost got lost in it, if you must go in, it is better to bring a few more people to be safe."
Nan Hanfei is bold and careful, and when you encounter something, you are generally very thoughtful, and after thinking about Master Wang's words, it makes sense.
Nan Hanfei greeted the disease control personnel who were still sampling samples by the river and in the woods on the hillside.
Soon, Gu Yanan, Wang Xiaoxiao and other disease control personnel gathered at the entrance of the cave.
Lu Li was curious about the cave that suddenly appeared.
Wang Xiaoxiao felt that this cave was gloomy and didn't want to enter.
Zhou Jie waited for Gu Yanan to speak, how to allocate personnel.
Gu Yanan began to assign tasks to everyone, "Wang Xiaoxiao, Xiao Li, and Xiao Zhang are at the entrance of the cave, if we go in for two hours and don't come out, you call the personnel to go in and rescue, I, Officer Nan, and the guides Master Wang, Zhou Jie, and Lu Li will go into the cave to check together." ”
Wang Xiaoxiao and the two county disease control staff were left outside the cave, and the rest entered the cave together.
The cave was dark and damp, and the guides, Master Wang and Nan Hanfei, walked in the front, each holding a waterproof flashlight in their hands.
As the guide Master Wang walked through the cave, he thought to himself, "This is the same as when I came in before, it is just as gloomy." ”
Nan Hanfei looked carefully and found that there were a large number of traces of artificial excavation in the cave here, and the cave ground was very flat, even accommodating small vehicles to drive on it.
Gu Yanan also found these traces and asked Master Wang, "Has anyone lived in this cave before?" Or has someone done something with it? ”
"Misty Valley is rarely visited, so who would use this cave for business?"
The group walked no more than 100 meters in the cave, and two forks in the road appeared in front of the cave.
The guide, Master Wang, stood in the center of the fork in the road, looking left and right, and couldn't decide which one to take.
Everyone looked at the guide Master Wang standing at the fork in the road, and Nan Hanfei asked, "Which one did you take last time?" ”
"Uh...... It's been too long to forget. ”
Everyone looked at each other, and since the guide didn't know which way to go, it seemed that it was either a random choice or two ways.
According to Gu Yanan's meaning, if he wanted to save time, the troops were divided into two ways, but Nan Hanfei was worried that the group of five people acting separately would weaken the strength, and in case of danger, it was always good to have one more person to take care of it.
So Nan Hanfei put forward his opinion, "Let's take one of the forks in the road together, finish one, and then come back to take the other again." ”
"Which one? Officer Minami, it's up to you to decide. ”