Chapter Seventy-Three: Changes in the Mountains
Li Muyu didn't expect that he and Qin Yao would see Zhou Long when they went to the local county police station!
How did Zhou Long end up here? Could it be that he really came to Chain Mountain? Will he have anything to do with the disappearance of Li Xuefei or Sun Lifeng and others?
After entering the county seat, Li Muyu found that it was said to be a county seat, but it was a market town at all. And it is located on the edge of the deep mountains, the traffic is not developed, and it is also sparsely populated.
When they found the local police station, Li Muyu and Qin Yao were also quite disappointed. It was a dilapidated two-story building, I don't know what age it was, but it always looked crumbling from a distance.
As for the police station, there are only five officers in total. The director's surname is Cheng Ming, and he is a local. After Li Muyu and Qin Yao expressed their intentions, Director Cheng was very enthusiastic. Director Cheng also knows about the disappearance case, but when it comes to Li Xuefei, Director Cheng has no impression.
Director Cheng knew that Li Muyu and Qin Yao were going to enter the mountain, but he didn't approve of it, it seemed that Cheng Ming had always had a trace of fear for the chain mountain area.
But no matter what, Li Muyu and Qin Yao always have to go into the mountain, but the local police station only has five police officers, and they can't help Li Muyu, so Director Cheng has no choice but to confess and only point out the location of the mountain patrol team.
Just as Li Muyu and Qin Yao were leaving the police station, Li Muyu's eyes were sharp, and he vaguely saw Zhou Long's figure in the crowd in the town. But in a flash, Zhou Long disappeared into the crowd.
"It's Zhou Long!" Behind Li Muyu, Qin Yao obviously saw Zhou Long as well.
"He actually came here, but I didn't see him on the bus, so he hired a car. What made him more anxious than we were? Qin Yao saw Zhou Long and couldn't help but tell Li Muyu about the speculation in his heart.
Li Muyu shook his head. Li Muyu didn't know this. However, he was a little suspicious of Zhou Long on the train before, and it seems that this person does have some problems.
Li Muyu and Qin Yao didn't chase Zhou Long, first, Zhou Long's figure disappeared into the crowd and there was no way to find it, and secondly, Zhou Long didn't have any illegal behavior, so if he found the set of rhetoric he made up on the train before, he would be able to see through it. But even so, Zhou Long's appearance still made Li Muyu and Qin Yao worry in their hearts.
The patrol team that Director Cheng told was not in the county, but in a forest farm on the periphery of the Lianzi Mountain area. They live with rangers, but their roles are naturally very different.
It takes a two-hour car ride from the county seat to the forest farm in the Lianzishan Mountains and then a hike around a hill. Li Muyu and Qin Yao had a meal in the county seat, and after buying some things to go into the mountains, they set off for the mountains.
There are no buses to go to the mountains, it is deserted, who would want to go to that kind of place. There was no way, in the county seat, Li Muyu and Qin Yao hired a privately operated van to drive to the mountains.
"I said what's going on these days." In the old van, the driver of the car glanced at Li Muyu and Qin Yao and said.
Li Muyu showed a puzzled expression and looked at the driver.
"There are not many people in that mountainous area, and occasionally there are mountain people inside. But to be honest, the mountain people there are not friendly, and the rumors say that the mountain people have some strange customs, and few people come into contact with them. If it weren't for the fact that so many people have entered the mountains in the past few days, to be honest, I wouldn't have been willing to take this line, but I don't know what's wrong, people have been entering the mountains one after another in the past two days, and you are the third batch I sent. The driver's tone was a little questioning.
"But to put it mildly, I still suggest you don't go in, the scenery in the mountains is good, but it is rumored that the mountains are not clean, not to mention anything else, just say that those mountain people in the mountains, tsk, none of them seem to be good people. And so far, I know of very few outsiders who have come into the mountains. The driver pursed his lips and continued to Li Muyu and Qin Yao, who were sitting in the back.
I don't know if it's the driver's fabrication or what, in short, Li Muyu learned from the driver's mouth that the mountainous area seems to be as strange as the rumors. However, what Li Muyu doubted in his heart was what the driver said, about the people who had recently entered the mountain.
"A lot of people have been in the mountains lately?" Li Muyu asked the driver.
"Hmm...... It's not a lot, but it's a lot more than it used to be, and there aren't many people there on weekdays. Occasionally, a few explorers just turned around and returned, but this time, they asked for my phone number, and they haven't contacted me until now, and they want to come back. The driver said and began to complain involuntarily. But then I remembered this sentence, and it seemed that even the two customers behind me were scolded, and hurriedly apologized with a smile.
However, Li Muyu and Qin Yao naturally didn't care about this.
Li Muyu asked again: "When was the last time you picked people up and went into the mountain?" Have you ever seen a girl who is not very old, with a slender body and a ponytail that looks like an innocent girl? ”
When the driver heard Li Muyu's inquiry, he frowned and thought for a moment and replied: "Wasn't it yesterday the last time I picked people up the mountain?!" It looks like you're not together yet. But the girl you're talking about, I really haven't seen it. The last time I went into the mountain, there were three young men. How can the little girl come here to play? After the driver finished speaking, he regretted it again, because he saw Qin Yao, who was sitting in the back seat, smiling evilly at him.
Someone went into the mountains just yesterday?! Coupled with the Zhou Long that Li Muyu and Qin Yao met before, there is a lot to say here. Qin Yao naturally saw Li Muyu's doubts, but Qin Yao didn't have any thoughts about this issue, she just looked at Li Muyu's worried appearance and smiled sweetly.
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The mountain road is difficult to navigate, and after about 200 kilometers of walking, there is no regular road ahead, only a dirt road with potholes leading directly into the mountain. The driver also put Li Muyu and Qin Yao down here. Because the car could no longer move forward, and judging from the driver's expression, he was not willing to go any further into the deep ravine.
Li Muyu and Qin Yao left the driver's phone number and prepared to enter the mountain. Here, you can already see the mountain features of the front mountain of the Chain Mountain Mountains.
The mountains here are not dangerous, but the peaks are low and low next to each other, so that people can't see how wide the mountain range is, because the mountains are close to each other, which also makes many places in the mountains unable to see the sun, and it seems that there is some secrecy in them, which gives people a gloomy feeling.
The vegetation on the mountain is luxuriant, but there is no no-man's land in the front mountain, Li Muyu remembers that Officer Cheng said that there is still a forest farm in this front mountain, and the mountain patrol team he is looking for is also there.