The villages here are basically all bungalows built according to the topography, and the scale is not large, dozens or even a dozen families together are considered a village, and they are very close to each other, usually another village is separated by about ten meters.

If it weren't for the fact that there is a special sign on the outside of each village, I would have suspected that this whole area actually belongs to the same big village.

Brother Chao and I divided our own labor, and every time we went to a village, one of us went to inquire about the idlers on the roadside in the village, and the other went around looking for the traces of the homeless man, and took turns to change shifts.

I've been busy all day, and I can't say that I haven't learned anything... Anyway, not much was gained.

In fact, the biggest takeaway is that we both understand a truth: finding someone is indeed not an easy job, even if the characteristics of the target are so different.

There are quite a few traces of homeless people, and even three real homeless people have been found one after another, of course, these homeless people are not the one we are looking for. And the three of us couldn't communicate with the three of them at all, and they seemed to be very taboo about dealing with normal people like me.

I didn't get much useful information from the villagers, mainly because communication was too difficult.

Although these elderly people have strong accents, they are all local accents, and I can still understand seven or eight points with Brother Chao. But there is a very serious problem that these old people can't understand Mandarin at all, and Brother Chao and I can't speak their dialect at all.

So we inquired for a day, and the answer we got was basically the same: if you want to climb the mountain, you can find the entrance to the mountain by going in that direction, go boy, the mountain is waiting to be conquered by the two of you in the distance.

So, in fact, this first day is equivalent to returning in vain.

Neither of us had eaten at noon, this side belongs to the 'wild mountain', there are no restaurants where we can eat, and there are not even roadside stalls or ordinary shops selling agricultural and sideline products.

And in a place like this, it's easy to take a taxi, but it's hard to leave, because as long as the taxi driver has no problem with his brain, he won't go to this kind of place with an empty car to pick up work.

When it was almost dark, Brother Chao and I staggered all the way to the nearest highway intersection, Brother Chao used a certain app to call a taxi for ten minutes, but no taxi was willing to take the job, and finally had to rub a passing short-distance bus back to the city.

After entering the city, we took a taxi back to the city, and when we parked under the super brother building, we rushed out and went straight to the nearest hotel.

After the two of us sat down, the taxi driver chased in, I quickly settled the fare and sent the driver away, and then called for food, whatever speed is on what, we are not picky eaters.

The first to come up is the kebab, and when you taste it, you know that this is a reheated barbecue, in other words, it may be the leftover table at noon, and the restaurant will sell it as a new one.

Alas, on this business literacy, I am embarrassed to advertise on the signboard what I am 'a ten-year-old brand under the original overpass, and there is no branch in Binhai City', if you are not hungry and don't choose to eat, the ghost will come to your house to eat, I really don't know how your store has survived in the past ten years.

But then again, it seems that most rotisserie restaurants nowadays are virtuous, but for those of us who have eaten in college cafeterias for several years, what is food hygiene? I don't know, I really don't know, it doesn't matter at all.

After the two of us ate frantically for a while, after relieving a little, Brother Chao began to complain that those police officers really know how to choose a place, just at this distance, not to mention that the homeless man's brain is no longer good, even if he is still conscious, it is impossible for him to walk back to the original ruins.

After eating and drinking for a while, the two of us began to think about the next step, and in this situation, there is no need to look for those villages anymore, and there must be no clues.

In fact, this may be a good thing, at least it shows that the homeless man did not die when he was abandoned, at least not directly in the vicinity, otherwise there is a chance that the nearby villagers will use this incident as an after-dinner conversation, right? But Brother Chao and I have never heard them mention it.

So where might he have gone?

I communicated with Brother Chao for a long time, and finally unanimously decided to return to those villages today tomorrow, and then start from that location, follow the river all the way downstream, and ask people when they meet.

This decision was inspired by our academic research on the behavioral psychology of primates and a variety of mammals. That is, for all large individual animals, the first element of their survival is air, the second element is water, the third element is food, and the fourth element is communication. With, the fifth...

Anyway, the focus is on the first three elements, and even if the homeless man has intelligence now, he must have a low level of intelligence, and he will only retain the instinct of animal survival at most.

With air, with water, it's time for him to look for food.

In the process of finding food, the air is everywhere for him, no matter what the haze content is, as long as he can breathe; But the water won't follow him, if he goes too far from the river, he will lose the water source, and if he stays still and there is no food, he can only go downstream along the river.

As for why not upstream? Brother Chao and I also have the same idea: How tired is it to go up?

After eating, Brother Chao asked me to settle the bill with an unyielding face, and I scolded him all the time, and I would rather die than settle the bill.

Unexpectedly, Brother Chao put on a mysterious look while picking his teeth, and said confidently to me: "Brother Qian, listen to my brother's advice, you settle this account today, it is good for you, and tomorrow at the latest, I promise that you will not regret it." ”

I saw that he was determined, thought about it and said, "Okay, come, make the most poisonous oath in your life, I will settle this account when I enjoy listening to it." ”

Brother Chao leaned on the chair indifferently, raised his other hand, pointed his fingers at the sky and swore with three fingers: "The widow swears..."

"Say your name! Who is a widow or a widow? I interrupted this cunning oath, and Brother Chao gave me a blank look and continued: "Okay, I, Zhang Mingchao, swear here, if I don't let Zhao Yiqian, the second goods, feel that it is worth inviting me to this meal before tomorrow, I will not be able to marry Xiaoxi." ”

I couldn't help but applaud twice and said, "Ruthless enough, you?" Brother Chao, as the old saying goes, there are three fortunate things in a man's life: being promoted to get rich and changing his wife, are you looking forward to me not thanking you, right? ”

Brother Chao still didn't care and said, "I swear that I have made it, and I will do what I say, young master!" Checkout! ”

Brother Chao said hello, the waiter walked over to him with the menu, Brother Chao pointed directly at me, I asked the waiter to pay the bill, pack and leave.

He walked downstairs with Brother Chao, and was just about to say goodbye, when Brother Chao suddenly stopped me and asked, "Hey, how do you go back?" I said, "Take the bus, I have paid for the taxi in the past two days, do you think I am still willing to take a taxi?" What's wrong? ”

Brother Chao thought for a while and smiled mysteriously and said, "It's nothing, then you can sit down, hehe, I guess, you have to call me before you get out of the car to invite me to dinner tomorrow." ”