Chapter 4 The First Victim
As you will recall, I mentioned in my previous story about the history of the Roquehouse: 'It is so remote that you have to drive through a narrow ring road, a rope bridge, and a grove of trees. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
In fact, after coming to the halfway point of L Mountain from the ring road, you can see the north and south mountains. To the south is the main peak, from which the road rises to the top, and to the north is relatively flat, with a narrow valley in between, with a stream running through it. At both ends of this valley there is a wide chain bridge, which we need to describe in detail:
Rope bridges are generally composed of bridge bridges, main cables, stiff beams, anchors, slings, saddles and bridge deck structures. Modern rope bridges are mostly ground anchor type, that is, the construction method of erecting the pylon, then anchoring the large cable, then the boom and stiffening beam, and finally laying the bridge deck.
Because the valley is narrow, the rope bridge is not very long, about 50 meters or so. On both sides of the bridge, there are four small pylons anchored by the sturdy iron cables that form the base and the guardrails. The deck of the bridge is paved with thick planks that are tightly connected, wide enough for two cars to cross side by side.
The north bank of the rope bridge is where the Roquehouse is located. It was a large open area, overgrown with small poplar trees, and after the car drove over the rope bridge, it was possible to pass through the path in the middle of the poplar forest, and you could go directly to the front of the house. The length of the rope bridge is less than 120 meters, so anyone with good eyesight can clearly see the rope bridge from the window of the house.
One by one, one by one
Coincidentally, Luo Yifan is such a person with good eyesight.
He probably thought the noise in the living room was a little annoying, so he went to the back room to have a look, and accidentally saw the strange state of the rope bridge, so he hurriedly came out to inform everyone, right?
After hearing Luo Yifan's reminder, the first person to react was Jiang Xinglong who was standing at the door, he opened the door without taking the umbrella and rushed into the rain and ran to the front of the house, his wife was stunned for a few seconds, and then quickly picked up the umbrella and ran out with her husband.
The first reaction of the other people in the living room was to immediately run to the door that Luo Yifan had opened, ready to take a closer look.
After entering, most of them subconsciously went to the innermost part of the room, only to find that it was a storage room, or Liang Yongxin stood at the door of the room and shouted, and everyone realized that they had to turn into this bedroom located on the southwest side to see.
There were only four people who made no mistake, the first discoverer, Luo Yifan, the owner of the house, Liang Yongxin, and Yuan Muhibiscus and Bian Benyi, who came in behind Liang Yongxin.
At this time, the first few people who rushed to the south window of the room had already seen the rope bridge, and sure enough, the smoke was billowing from it, as if it was on fire, but there were no flames in sight.
"Impossible," Bian Benyi subconsciously said out.
Indeed, it has been raining outside, and the bridge is made of iron, even if it is covered with wooden planks, but it is already soaked in this weather, how can it catch fire?
At the same time, they saw that Jiang Xinglong and his wife, who had rushed out, had come to the front of the house and were moving towards the rope bridge.
"Let's take a look at the bridge, too!" I don't know who shouted.
This sentence was immediately echoed by everyone, and then the remaining 10 people hurriedly turned back and ran in the direction of the gate, and when they left, of course, no one thought to close the window, because there was a strong security net outside the window of this Luoque house, and it didn't seem to matter if the window was closed or not......
One by one, one by one
"Husband, slow down, wait for me." The path was unusually muddy, and Jiang Xiaomei, who was wearing high heels, was left far behind by Jiang Xinglong, obviously walking with great difficulty. High heels, stockings, and skirts have been splashed with mud.
Jiang Xinglong ignored her and arrived at the bridge to check the condition of the rope bridge.
The mud on the bridge bank was washed away by the continuous rain, and Jiang Xinglong carefully crouched down by the bridge tower, as if to see where the smoke came from.
Two or three minutes later, the people in the house also came to the front of the house, and several men arranged for the women to stand under the eaves, and then ran towards the bridge with umbrellas.
At this time, Jiang Xiaomei had already run to her husband's side out of breath, and was about to cover the top of the man's head with the umbrella in her hand...
Suddenly, a terrifying scene happened, Jiang Xiaomei's right foot stepped forward and sank down sharply, and the person instantly lost his balance and fell forward. Jiang Xinglong, who heard the scream, stood up suddenly, rushed over and grabbed his wife's hand, and the whole person fell to the ground with the momentum, and his head rushed to the bottom of the valley, only two feet were still in people's sight.
The women screamed in fright and hugged each other.
The men were also stunned for a moment because of excessive fright, not knowing what to do, until one by one
"Save people!!" The heart-rending screams came into his ears, Liang Yongxin rushed to the bridge at some point, and was lying on the ground and grabbed Jiang Xinglong's two legs, his body slowly slid forward because of the slippery mud and the weight of the two people in front of him.
Only then did the men react and rushed to the bridge like crazy to rescue the people.
But unfortunately, only two men covered in mud were pulled up, and the women had already fallen into the stream at the bottom of the valley.
Jiang Xinglong, who was extremely sad, desperately called his wife's name, and wanted to go down to save people, but was tightly pulled by Liang Yongxin and the man who looked like a scholar left and right, unable to move.
Just as the other frightened people cautiously stepped on the few planks in front of the bridge, holding on to the iron rope and poking their heads out, ready to see if Jiang Xiaomei still had a chance of survival
"Boom, boom, click
"Everyone, back off! Back off!! Fast!! Fast!!! ”
Behind him, there was the sound of Yuan Mu Hibiscus shouting with exhaustion.
With her shout, several people reflexively retreated to safety, only to see that the large wooden plank in the center of the bridge was bursting and falling, and tongues of fire and billowing smoke were spewing from under the plank.
"It's... What's going on? ……”
Bian Benyi was already frightened, and he said in a trembling voice.
No one answered, everyone just clung to each other, stupid there.
The women who remained behind had already followed, snuggling up to their men at a loss.
In the corner of everyone's sight, a tall and indifferent man was standing behind Liang Yongxin, who was gasping for breath, hugging him tightly with both hands, despite the black muddy water staining his expensive suit. The stunned and frightened two had completely forgotten what they should be covering up and stood there.
But not everyone's brains were blank at the scene, there was a woman, she stood behind everyone, only she did not lose her mind, her eyes were firmly fixed on the two men hugging each other, and the corners of her mouth rose in a sinister arc......