Xiefeng Bridge is an ancient bridge, which is said to have a history of more than 100 years, located on the Qingxi in the southern suburbs of Jinguan City, close to the Luochuan River, and only five kilometers away from Chengcheng's home.

It was an inaccessible trail, and I had never been here before, but following the features of the environment that had suddenly appeared in the hallucination, I had no trouble finding the old bridge.

In ancient times, Qingxi had a two-month flood season every year, so from the intersection of Qingxi into the Luochuan River, extending for seven kilometers to the main stream of Qingxi, there were dikes - I misunderstood the vision in the illusion at first, and the tidal sound I heard was actually the sound of rain, because there was a torrential rain on the night of May 3rd, and I thought of the breakwater from the sound of the tide, and then to the seaside, which is actually a fallacy.

Secondly, metasequoia is not a tree that is suitable for planting on the shoreline, but is more common on riverside trails.

That's why I told Lao Dao that "things are weird".

The woman who appeared in my hallucination, I thought it was Cheng Cheng's wife, was killed and her body removed, but at that time, I hadn't figured out why this murder that happened in Jinguan City was connected to the coast thousands of miles away.

It wasn't until I followed the hallucinatory scene and kept approaching the slanting wind bridge that everything began to become clear, and those messy clues began to connect with each other, gradually revealing a seamless picture of the truth.

Black asphalt roads, guarded metasequoia trees on both sides, and old embankments rising above the ground...... Everything is as seen in the hallucination.

Let Cheng Cheng park here, the three of us walked up the embankment, and what appeared in front of us was an ancient stone bridge that had been broken in two.

The oblique wind bridge made of huge stones has been eroded by the years, and the bridge deck paved with stones has been seriously worn out under the trampling of cars and pedestrians for hundreds of years.

I think of a big flood last year that broke the Xiefeng Bridge, and the city government has not yet issued a repair plan, and the traffic on both sides of the strait was interrupted because of the destruction of the Xiefeng Bridge, and it is even more rare to think of the people.

And to engage in the departure of the villa group to the Luochuan River, the road through the Xiefeng Bridge is a shortcut.

Thinking about it from another perspective, if I were the murderer, after I already had a plan to dump the corpse, and then saw such a remnant bridge on the road, I would also consider this place as a place to dump the corpse.

Although I didn't say anything, Lao Dao and Cheng Cheng both guessed something, especially Cheng Cheng, his hands began to tremble slightly when he walked up the embankment and looked at the river.

Both eyes were on me, but I stood at the end of the bridge, looking down at the water.

The sun shines on the surface of the river, and the waves reflect the light like silver foil, and the river is not muddy, but the visibility is just over a meter, and below, it is dark and invisible.

I condensed my gaze, as if something was appearing in the deep and dark water......

As if in the corner of my vision, I saw a trace of being crushed and dragged by a heavy object along the edge of the bridge, and although the moss there had been carefully restored, it was obviously growing and withering compared to the surrounding moss.

I didn't hesitate any longer, and after taking a sharp breath, I jumped directly from the bridge and plunged into the river in unison in the exclamation of Cheng Cheng and Lao Dao.

The sound of "poof" water sounded, and a series of ripples also rippled on the surface of the river.

Visibility at the bottom of the river was poor, and I could barely rely on my sense of touch to find the possible corpse, but I immediately felt that the ghost in the hallucination was right—

It's a little cold underwater.

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When I finally dragged the blistered white and swollen corpse to the shore, I couldn't bear to see Cheng Cheng's reaction.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but it's not time to be sad.

It's human nature, but it's unbearable to see a big man crying bitterly on his wife's cold corpse.

When I found Li Xue's body in the water, the body was floating in the water in a head-to-foot posture, just as I had seen in my hallucinations.

The corpse had a nylon rope wrapped around its neck and the other end tied to a burlap bag, and I touched the bag, which was supposed to be a weight full of stones.

The state of the corpse and the time of death also roughly coincide with the time of Cheng Cheng's wife's disappearance, not to mention that Cheng Cheng's performance now has explained everything.

After Cheng Cheng's mood calmed down a bit, I explained to him and Lao Dao about the hallucinations I had on the road and how to find Li Xue's body in the water.

The situation is already very clear, the disappearance case has become a murder and dumping of corpses, and now there are three questions: who is the murderer, what happened that day, and what happened to Cheng Cheng's daughter Cheng Xiaozi.

After listening to me, Lao Dao took out his mobile phone, and then glanced at Cheng Cheng, who nodded with red eyes, and Lao Dao dialed a number and held the mobile phone to his ear: "The king's game?" Yes, I'm Yang Fengqi. …… Don't worry, yes, yes, Team Cheng is with me...... We're not acting privately, I'm a private detective now-" Halfway through his words, Lao Dao raised the headset slightly away from his ear, and even Cheng Cheng and I could hear a man in the loudspeaker of Li Yan's mobile phone scolding loudly, like a beast roaring.

Lao Dao smiled bitterly: "This Director Wang, he is a lot older, and his temperament is still so hot." ”

After a while, the other party's roar stopped for a while, Cheng Cheng stood up and took the mobile phone from the old knife's hand: "Wang Ju, I'm Cheng Cheng, I'm ...... Axue's body was found. Yes, in Qingxi, the oblique wind bridge. I repeat it again. Qingxi, Diagonal Wind Bridge. ”

There was another fierce loud roar in the mobile phone loudspeaker, but this time it was not aimed at Cheng Cheng, but the other side of the communication, who was issuing an emergency order to his subordinates.

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Support from the Seongnam Police Bureau soon arrived, and the cause of Li Xue's death was preliminarily determined to be a blunt force blow to the head, and the body was put into a body bag and transported to the Forensic Science Bureau for further autopsy after a brief on-site examination.

The sack of the sunken corpse at the bottom of the river was also salvaged, filled with stones. The stones were all taken from the embankment, and most of them were the size of an adult's fist, and the largest was no larger than a child's head - but it was not without larger stones on the embankment, but it can be inferred from this that the murderer's physical strength may have been poor, and the most likely thing is that the murderer was a woman.

While his colleagues were busy, Cheng Cheng looked extremely confused, watching blankly as the forensic doctors loaded his wife's body into a body bag and carried it into the ambulance on a stretcher.

I saw Cheng Cheng's Adam's apple shaking, and his body was shaking, and the old knife hurriedly supported him, but he reached out and shook him off.

Then, Cheng Cheng walked down the river embankment with vague steps, the old knife and I looked at each other, and we all followed silently, but saw him walk to his car in despair, open the door, and then sit heavily in the passenger seat as if he was going to throw himself into the seat.

More than ten meters away from Cheng Cheng's car, I grabbed the old knife and handed him a cigarette: "Let Cheng team be quiet alone." ”