Chapter 1: The Bloody Way Home

Those who fight monsters should be careful not to become monsters.

When you stare into the abyss from afar, the abyss also stares at you.

- Nietzsche

On December 10, 2010, with several days of continuous snowfall, many parts of China's northernmost part ushered in the largest snowstorm in 60 years. With this blizzard, our story begins here......

In a small village on the border of China's northeastern black province, the municipal criminal police detachment dispatched cadres and policemen to cooperate with a special case team set up by the Beiqi County Public Security Bureau and led more than 100 public security officers to investigate and crack a major case.

The task force has been searching for three days and three nights within a radius of two kilometers around the Qingcun Village, and their purpose is to find Jian Gao, a reporter from the "Minsheng Daily" in the snowy city who has been missing for nearly four days.

However, after three days and three nights of searching, although the special case group has also grasped some information and clues, it has still made little progress in the entire case. The search was also slow, and there was still no trace of Jane Gao.

Moreover, within the task force, as the case progressed, some police officers were still a little apprehensive and even frightened.

Why did those police officers have such a change in their minds?

The reason is that this is not just an ordinary case of missing persons, but also an even more chilling serial incident behind this case, and the whole thing has to start with Jian Gao, the reporter who returned to his hometown a week ago......

Our protagonist is called Jane Gao, simple Jane, noble and noble, elegant or noble. This name was changed by Jane High School when she was in high school, why did she change the name? The reason is very simple, that is, the name given to Jian Gao by his parents when he was a child is too rustic, and he is called Jian ......, so I won't talk about it for now.

After graduating from the third year of high school, Jian Gao entered the Department of Journalism of Syracuse Normal University, and after graduating from four years of professional study, Jian Gao entered the "Minsheng Daily" newspaper in Syracuse City as a trainee reporter.

After half a year of work, Jian Gao was unexpectedly left in the newspaper office without going through any connections and channels, and became a full-fledged news reporter.

In fact, newspaper reporters are not as enviable as some people think, the basic salary of reporters is not high, and they can only have news interviews, that is, when they have performance, they can add some performance salary. After more than two years of hard work, it is no longer a problem for Jane Gao to support herself.

Two days ago, his mother called Jian Gao and asked Jian Gao to have time to go home, saying that there was something important to discuss with him, and that she couldn't understand it on the phone.

In fact, her mother didn't say that Jian Gao also guessed what was going on nine times out of ten, but Jian Gao didn't agree to her mother immediately. He pondered for a while when he put down the phone, now it is less than two months before the Chinese New Year, and he hasn't been home for nearly a year, so it's good to go home and have a look.

On the morning of the third day, after taking a leave of absence, Jane Gao stepped on the bus home. Normally, this bus will travel for seven or eight hours to reach Beiqi County, where Jian Gao's hometown is located, and then take a small bus back to the village, and you can get home in half an hour.

But today, the car has just walked half on the highway, the heavy snow has fallen, and the disaster is not a single line, there was a series of traffic accidents in front of the highway, and the passenger car drove carefully for a period of time, the driver found that the front was already blocked.

Jian Gao leaned in front of the window, looking at the goose-feather snow outside the window, his heart was as anxious as his passengers. He still thought to himself, why did it not go so well when he went home this time? Looking at the current blocking method in front, it is already good to be able to get home in the middle of the night.

But Jian Gao knew that this high-speed traffic jam was just the beginning of his next series of unbelievable experiences......

The bus kept moving slowly like a snail, and it was getting dark outside. Jian Gao was afraid that his parents would be worried, so he called his father, saying that there was an accident on the highway, and asked his father to tell his mother not to worry, saying that he might be late and asking his father to wait for his phone to pick him up.

It wasn't until about eight o'clock in the evening that the blocked road was finally cleared. The bus that Jian Gao was riding in also began to move forward slowly.

Some people said that when he got off the bus just now, he heard the person in the car in front of him say that the accident involved seventy or eighty cars colliding, more than a dozen people died, countless injuries were made, and the worst section of the road was full of scattered bloody arms and legs, and the heads of people who had fallen off rolled to the side of the road.

While speaking, the passenger car was about to pass through the accident area, and the rescue vehicles, traffic control vehicles and ambulances on both sides of the road were still with their headlights on, and the rescuers were still nervously busy.

Some of the timid passengers on the bus lowered their heads, some buried their heads in the arms of their relatives, and some mothers hurriedly covered their children's eyes with their hands.

But there were a few brave people who got up and stretched their heads out of the window to look, and some even took out their mobile phones to take pictures. There was a more daring person who actually got up and leaned over to the driver's side and looked ahead, and the most daring person was Jian Gao.

"Dude, you're quite bold, my hand holding the steering wheel is a little trembling, do you dare to come over and watch the fun?" The driver jokingly said to Jian Gao.

Jian Gao smiled and replied: "I'm a reporter, I've seen a lot of these things, I'm here to see if it's as evil as they say, don't have any false reports spreading at that time." ”

When Jian Gao saw the miserable scene outside the car, he was also shocked.

There were no arms and legs on the road ahead, because the seriously injured had been transported away by ambulance, but the scene in front of them was still shocking. There are still many car parts left on the highway, and in the ditches on both sides of the highway, some scrapped cars are "lying" inside, and the blood stains on the road have stained the snow red, these pictures are intertwined to outline the tragic picture of this serious traffic accident.

The car was about to drive out of the accident area, and at this time, Jian Gao's eyes inadvertently glanced into the ditch on the side of the road......

"Someone in the car?" Jian Gao immediately shouted, and at the same time, his hand quickly pointed to a scrapped black off-road vehicle in the ditch on the side of the road.

The driver was really startled by Jian Gao's sudden shout, he subconsciously stepped on the brakes, and the car stopped suddenly, almost knocking Jian Gao down.

The people in the car were also staggered, and some of them hit their heads on the backs of the seats in front of them, but everyone did not blame the driver and the young man beside him, because everyone was frightened by this man's unusual behavior.

"Hurry up and open the door, I'm going to get out of the car and notify the rescue!" Hurry up! Jane Gao shouted loudly to the driver......

The driver also relieved himself with an "oh" and pressed the door button. As soon as the car door opened, Jian Gao got off the bus without thinking too much, and after getting out of the car, Jian Gao just turned around and said to the driver, "Wait for me!" ”

There are many rescue teams composed of units outside the car that are busy, and the outside of the car is also illuminated. Jian Gao ran out of the car and went straight to the mutilated high-speed guardrail, the black off-road vehicle was less than ten meters away from Jian Gao at this time, Jian Gao looked at the car carefully, the front of the car had been seriously deformed, the rear of the car had been sunken in, and it was rolling over on the side of the road at this time.

Jian Gao's face suddenly turned pale, his two eyes stared at the broken window of the car, he was stunned, although it was now a cold day, and Jian Gao was only wearing a sweatshirt under the car, but the scene he saw at this time made Jian Gao feel that the roots of his hair were bubbling outward.

After more than ten seconds, I only heard Jian Gao shouting: "Come and save people, there are still people here, come and ......"

Jian Gao shouted as he got up and climbed over the guardrail and ran towards the scrapped car in the ditch, and at the same time, the nearby ambulance personnel heard Jian Gao's shouting and ran quickly in the direction of Jian Gao.

After the ambulance personnel came to Jian Gao's side, they found that the person who shouted was not from the ambulance team, but at this time, everyone didn't think much about it, and they began to get busy, and someone quickly found tools and began to saw the rear door.

At this time, an ambulance officer beside Jian Gao said: "No, I checked this car just now, there are a couple of men and women in the car, it is confirmed that they died on the spot and have been pulled away by an ambulance, how can there be anyone?" ”

Jian Gao was a little anxious when he heard this, and he said loudly: "First saw open the back door!" ”

Hearing that Jian Gao was a little anxious, the man didn't say anything, and everyone continued to rescue.

More than ten minutes later, the back door was sawed open, everyone looked into the car, but they didn't see anything, at this time everyone turned their eyes to the yelling Jian Gao at the same time. At this time, Jian Gao was also stupid, he stood there for a while, how could there be no one? I saw it just now......

The atmosphere at the scene condensed like this, and after more than ten seconds, the ambulance staff who was muttering just now wanted to attack Jian Gao, after all, they had been busy in this disaster accident, and they had been fighting here for five or six hours from the time they received the alarm to the scene, and now they were all tired, and they couldn't help but feel a little angry in their hearts. For a passenger who "lied about the military", his anger at this time is understandable?

Just when the ambulance team was about to attack Jian Gao, suddenly a crisp crying sound of a baby suddenly came from inside the car! "Gah... Ga... Quack ,,,,,,"

All the people present were blinded, this was the voice from there, Jian Gao and the ambulance staff just now looked for the voice. The ambulance worker hurriedly took a flashlight to look for the sound, it turned out that the front and rear seats of the car had been squeezed together, just in the gap between the two seats, a small bed wrapped in a small baby was sandwiched there, and the crisp cry was made by this baby.

The baby was saved, and Jane went back to the bus.

Just now, the ambulance team member was standing beside Jian Gao and was holding his hand tightly, and said movingly: "Thank you so much, this car was checked by me just now, but I didn't find that there was a baby, once this baby was frozen to death like this, I will not forgive myself in this life." His eyes moistened a little as he spoke.

Jian Gao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother, you also tried your best, how many more people died without your rescue, you are still starving here, it is too hard for you." ”

At this time, another ambulance team member also came over, the man looked to be in his forties, he should be a leader, he also came to Jian Gao's side and said: "Comrade, thank you so much today, can you leave a phone call, we are looking for a reporter to report on you, today is thanks to you!" ”

Before Jian Gao could answer, the driver in the car rushed to say: "Comrade, don't look for a reporter, this little brother is a reporter!" ”

"Oh! You're a journalist, that's great, you're going to leave me a call? The leader said excitedly.

Jian Gao saw that it would be difficult to get out if he didn't leave contact information, so he took out a business card in his trouser pocket and handed it to the leader. The leader took the business card and immediately laughed, he said: "It turns out that you are from Minsheng Daily, and your editor-in-chief Huang is my old classmate, so I have to talk to Lao Huang well, haha!" ”

Jian Gao also smiled when he saw it, this Huang editor-in-chief was Jian Gao's top boss, and Jian Gao thought that this might not be a good thing.

After a few more pleasantries, the leader asked him to get in the car quickly when he saw that Jian Gao was wearing less, and said that he would invite him to drink when Jian Gao returned to Syracuse.

The door closed, and thunderous applause rang out in the carriage, which of course was for Jian Gao. The car also started slowly, and soon the bus passed through the accident area, and the bus gradually accelerated, but the driver did not drive very fast, because the goose feather snow outside was still falling.

Quiet was back inside the bus, everyone was a little tired, and many people were asleep. At this rate, it will take about three hours for the bus to reach its destination.

Jian Gao sat in his seat with his eyes closed, but he didn't fall asleep, he was still thinking about what happened just now, the more he thought about Jian Gao, the more he felt a chill in his back, but at this time, Jian Gao's heart was really a little afraid.

Because Jian Gao, who was standing next to the driver just now, inadvertently aimed at the off-road vehicle in the ditch, he saw a person waving to him in the window of the car, as if he was calling for help, Jian Gao would never forget the appearance of that person, and it was not a baby in swaddling clothes who called him for help, but a woman with long hair, a face covered with blood, and deformed facial features.