Chapter III: Disappearance

Wang Dayou rarely goes down the mountain usually, and most of the time he lives in the shed on the mountain with Lao Wan and these small bag foremen, if it weren't for today's events that made Zhang Minxiang and Deng Cheng a little unhappy, he wouldn't have made a special trip down the mountain to accompany them to have a drink and liven up the atmosphere.

I had been thinking about the afternoon, especially the sudden hallucinations at the end, which filled me with a sense of fear.

But if you look at the others, they don't think it's a big deal at all, and I can't take it out again.

Wang Dayou specially asked the canteen to make a few snacks, accompanied Zhang Minxiang and them to brag, I saw him secretly stuff a red envelope for each of the three of them, probably to tell them not to talk about today's affairs.

Zhang Minxiang and Deng Cheng were both drunk and red, bragging incoherently, and patting their chests loudly: "As long as your people don't talk about this, we will definitely have nothing here." ”

Wang Dayou smiled and toasted with them again: "Zhang Gong and Deng Gong, the words are all in the wine, let's do it!" ”

I sat next to me in a state of distraught, I couldn't drink the wine, I always felt terrified, but I didn't know what the problem was.

It was almost twelve o'clock when Wang Dayou staggered to his feet, saying that he was going back to the mountain.

I hurriedly stood up and said, "Brother Wang, don't go up so late." ”

Wang Dayou said with a red face: "Ming...... There's something to do tomorrow morning, so I'll sleep underneath...... It's too late. His tongue was drunk, but he was still sane.

There used to be times when Wang Dayou drank very well and was used to walking at night, but tonight I always felt that I couldn't let him go up the mountain, so I tried my best to persuade him.

Unexpectedly, he made fun of my afternoon's affairs and asked me with a smile: "Are you ...... You're not afraid of ghosts, are you? Not...... I didn't see it, Sun Yang, you have a big ...... College students are so superstitious! ”

My face heated up all of a sudden, and Gao Yao and the others began to laugh at me, so I drained my wine in a fit of rage and went straight back to the dormitory.

They chatted for a while outside the venue, and before about one o'clock, Wang Dayou's wine was almost sober, and he greeted Gao Yao and them loudly and left.

After a while, everyone else fell asleep as well.

The wind outside became very strong, and it seemed that it was going to rain, and I pulled up one corner of the curtain, and there were mountains on both sides and I couldn't see anything, only the sky at the top was bright, red, and a little abnormal.

A bright light was dangling on the hillside to the south, it should be Wang Dayou who was climbing the mountain, I looked at him for a while, but he was probably tired, walking very slowly, and for a while he stopped in one place and did not move, probably relieving his hands. I watched it for a while, and the uneasiness in my heart became heavier and heavier, but he had already walked to the platform of the channel, and nothing happened. So I sat back on the bed and slept against the quilt.

Outside, some bird kept chirping, and the sound was miserable, and I opened the curtains again, but I couldn't see where it was.

The light of the flashlight was no longer visible on the mountain, and Wang Dayou had probably gone around behind the mountain beam.

My dormitory is the reference room, separated from the front office by many tin cabinets.

I don't usually feel anything, but after what happened this afternoon, looking at those tin cabinets like coffins standing up one by one, I even fantasize that they will suddenly open and crawl out of them.

The bird outside kept chirping, so noisy that I couldn't sleep until dawn.

I don't know how long I slept when the phone rang and woke me up.

I asked in a daze, "Who?" ”

"Sun Gong, I'm Zhang Jingui of the fourth team, did Lao Wan go to your place last night?"

Lao Wan? I chuckled and sat up on the bed.

I asked out loud. "No? What happened to him? ”

"Last night we drank together until about twelve o'clock, and he went back on his own as usual. But this morning his wife came to look for him, saying that he hadn't been back all night, and I asked him if he was where you were. ”

"He never came down." I'm sure of that. "Will you go to another team?"

Zhang Jingui said worriedly. "We've looked for it team by team, but we're not here. Manager Wang's phone was not answered, did the two of them go together? ”

My heart suddenly cooled, and I almost shouted out with the greatest strength: "Brother Wang is not on the mountain? ”

Zhang Jingui asked in surprise: "Didn't he go down the mountain yesterday?" ”

I said loudly into the phone, "He went up the mountain before one o'clock last night!" Don't get busy working today! Let each team send someone to find them! ”

I didn't care about washing my face anymore, so I frantically ran to knock on Gao Yao's door, and all three of them had thick dark circles under their eyes, and it seemed that they had slept badly last night.

I shouted to them, "Brother Wang and Lao Wan didn't go back at night!" ”

"What?" Deng Cheng didn't understand yet, Gao Yao and Zhang Minxiang's faces changed, the most feared thing on the construction site is an accident, a few days ago there were two workers at another construction site in this county who fell from the mountain to the bottom of the cliff and died, the whole project was suspended for rectification, and the owner's project department and supervision were implicated.

Gao Yao asked as he went out, "Did you sleep in which team did you sleep in and didn't go back?" What about the phone? ”

I said to them anxiously: "No one answered the phone, Zhang Jingui said that he had looked for all the teams on the mountain!" ”

Zhang Minxiang said as if grasping a life-saving straw: "What about Hewei Village? Will you go to Hewei Village? ”

This is also a possibility, Hewei Village is less than four kilometers down from our construction site, there are not many people, only about 60 households, and most of them are scattered on the hills. A few days ago, the villagers of Hewei Village came to the construction site to steal steel bars and were beaten by Lao Wan and others, and it is really unlikely that the two of them will go to Hewei Village without sleeping in the middle of the night.

Gao Yao said: "Call everyone up first, and then look around." ”

The construction site has not yet reached its peak, there are six excavation teams, each team has about 30 or 40 people, plus the workers in charge of materials at the bottom of the mountain and us managers, the whole construction site has about 220 people, which sounds like a lot, but there are really few people scattered in the mountains.

Wang Dayou was not there, I called the small bag foreman one by one and asked them to stop work to find someone on the mountain, Gao Yao and Zhang Minxiang took a car to Hewei Village to see if they were there, and Deng Cheng took the people from the project department to lead the dog along the river to find it.

By noon, I had searched all the places I needed to find, and I even had the audacity to go to the grave that had been dug up yesterday. The rotting bones were probably eaten by the animals of the mountains or crows, and they were more messy than they were when we left yesterday. Most of the corpses were gone, and only a few had died on the exposed rocks.

I made a phone call to my boss and was scolded by him on the phone, telling me to find both of them anyway.

I was scolded hard, but how much does that have to do with me? "Do you want to call the police?" I asked.

The boss scolded again. "You're sick, aren't you? Think it's not big enough? Just find me someone! Don't call the police just yet! Don't report to the owner, you show me the design representative and the supervisor, don't let them talk nonsense! I'm going to get down right now! ”

But I'm just a small construction worker, what ability can I have to mobilize the people below, and what ability can I make Gao Yao and them not report such a big thing? At least I knew that Zhang Minxiang had already called the director, and I was about to cry when I heard him talk on the phone.

The sudden and mysterious disappearance of a project manager is a big deal on any jobsite.

I saw Lao Wan's wife and son crying in the shed, but there was nothing I could do to appease them.

When Lao Wan disappeared, the piece of jade was gone, and they suspected that he had harmed someone, but I always vaguely felt that something was wrong.

The boss's phone then called the contractor of each construction team, asking them to listen to my unified arrangement in the afternoon and stop work to find someone first, which gave me the first opportunity to take charge of myself, but the anxiety and fear in my heart became deeper and deeper.