Chapter Twenty-Three: A Rift in Time and Space
The path is not only bumpy, but the visibility is extremely poor, and even if the two xenon headlights emit nearly perfect sunlight, it still can't change the difficult journey. "I really didn't expect that before we reached the mouth of the river, the temperature around me dropped." A cold mist overflowed from this deserted path, and the light cast into it was difficult to see from a few meters away. Zhou Meng twisted the air conditioning unit of the central control, and an obvious warm air came out of the vent.
"Yes, it's cold outside." Mu Tianyu said indifferently, his eyes kept paying attention to the window. "Has no one ever walked this road?"
"It should be, it's been abandoned for many years, and rotten leaves have piled up on the ground, and if the path is more wet, I'm afraid the wheels will slip." Zhou Meng switched to first gear, and the speed of the car had dropped to very slow. "Actually, in the past, there were some things that happened here, but they were all media hype, without any substance, just entertainment reports." Zhou Meng suddenly remembered these forgotten trivial matters, the surroundings were quiet, and the environment was depressing, so it was better to chat about the topic to help the fun.
"Oh, really? I would like to hear about it. ”
"After the landslide, the families of the victims, with the help of the police, went to the scene of the disaster for a memorial service, but later the government abandoned the plan to rebuild the road because of the precarious location, and the media did not report on the incident in detail. About a year after the incident, I don't remember very clearly, late one night in winter, the police station received a report from a middle-aged woman that her daughter was missing. The key point is that the world was peaceful during that time, and there were no vicious cases to investigate, so I had some spare time to handle the disappearance case with the people of the investigation team. Later, it turned out that the background of the middle-aged woman was related to the Rhine incident a year earlier, and she was the mother of one of the victims. The lady seems to have the surname Yang, the specific name is forgotten, she has two daughters, a pair of twin sisters, and it was the elder sister who was killed in the Rhine incident. At this time, Zhou Meng stopped, and after a bump in the body, the entire carriage was obviously tilted to the right, and she turned her head and stared at Mu Tianyu blankly. Oops, it looks like the tires are stuck in a pit. Then, she tried to step on the accelerator again, and the sound of the wheels spinning rapidly and rubbing against the dirt or dust on the ground was heard outside the car, like the low roar of an emotionally unstable mentally ill person. Boom...... Boom...... Then, even the roar of the front-cover engine was heard, and the low roar outside the car added a wave of rage.
Mu Tianyu's gaze shifted from the rearview mirror to Zhou Meng. "It's okay, I'll drive it" Seeing Zhou Meng nodding and about to open the car door, he immediately said, "No!" You just sit down, I'll go over. Before the words fell, Mu Tianyu pushed open the car door, and suddenly, a cold cold current poured into the car, attacking him, and he also felt a chill in his thin clothes.
Zhou Meng shivered, even though the door was closed, she still felt cold, she thought it was a problem with the air conditioner, and when she moved to the co-pilot, she deliberately placed her hand on the vent under the central control, and the warm air continued to overflow outward. Mu Tianyu stood outside the car window and did not walk towards the side of the driver's door, but turned to observe the rear tire of the car. This pit is not big, how can it not be climbed? He pondered, crouched down again, and peered under the car, where there was nothing in the dim light. Then, he got up and looked at the path he had come, which had already melted into a thick mist, and this cold and biting cold current continued to seep into his shirt, as if a cold hand touched sensitive skin, making people's heartstrings tight. The sudden drop in temperature was very strange, and even the exhaled heat was instantly condensed, as if in an extremely cold ice and snow field, if it were not for the storage of a few sage plants on the side, informing that the scorching summer was coming, I am afraid that I would be confused by this illusion.
(Sage: A centuries-old plant that mostly occurs in the middle of nowhere, only in the hot season.) )
Knock Knock...... Knock Knock...... Zhou Meng knocked on the window glass several times before seeing the other party come back to her senses, she asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you?" Did something happen? As she spoke, she looked behind the car, but found nothing. Then I saw Mu Tianyu coming around from the front of the car and opening the driver's door. "What happened to you?" A panicked look stared at him.
"No, it's fine, just to see how deep the pit is." Mu Tianyu explained, closing the car door, he didn't plan to buckle up his seatbelt.
"Oh......" Zhou Meng sighed and said, "Scared me, I thought it was ......"
"Why?" Mu Tianyu started the vehicle, first backwards a little, the bump of the body, Zhou Meng grabbed the handrail on the top of the window, and the whole body fell backwards for a while, and with a roar, the vehicle drove forward.
"I thought ......" Zhou Meng smiled heartily: "I thought you saw something weird, I originally planned to finish the missing case so that the atmosphere would be lively, but I regretted it halfway through, I felt that if I continued, not only would it not have any effect, but it would make me nervous." ”
"Oh, is that a very strange thing?" Mu Tianyu asked with great interest.
"It's not just weird." Zhou Meng was silent for a moment, and thought of using such a sentence to elaborate: "Under the hype of the media, this incident has evolved into a supernatural event. ”
"Paranormal events? It's really interesting, can you talk about it? Mu Tianyu did not speed up, and the scene outside the front window from the co-pilot was the same as that of the driver, the vision was extremely bad, and the path became more and more unstable, and sometimes he had to turn to avoid some pits, which was in stark contrast to when he first entered the road.
Zhou Meng looked at him in amazement. "Aren't you afraid? Even though I'm a police officer, I'm also a little scared by this incomprehension, and of course, even if I know it's just media hype for the value of the news, I'm still affected a bit. ”
"Fear is there, but curiosity is more."
After Zhou Meng heard this, he nodded, and continued to return to the memories of the previous case. According to Ms. Yang's clue, her daughter Yang Na went out at 9:10 p.m. and never returned. According to her previous daily life, Yang Na has the habit of running at night, even in the cold winter, about three to five times a week, so when Yang Na had an accident, Ms. Yang just thought that her daughter went for a night run, and she also told her to pay attention to safety. We searched all the neighborhoods, including a wetland park, but we didn't find any clues, and from the surveillance video of the investigation, she only appeared in the 13th block outside the house, and five kilometers away on Rhine A. What is unbelievable is that the time difference on the video is only ten minutes, and the No. 13 block does not go directly to Rhine A Road, and has to pass through the first section of Jianhong Road, Beihuan West Road, and the No. 9 block of the main road. This is the only possible route, and the other routes are at least twice as farther. But even so, except for these two videos, she has not appeared in the surveillance of any other block. ”
"Maybe she's in a car?" Mu Tianyu analyzed.
Zhou Meng shook his head. "We also speculated that there would be such a possibility, but after checking the bus and subway lines, we found that we could only reach Rhine C Road, and we also investigated the driving passenger recorder kept by the operator, but still found no clues about her."
"What if she's in a private car?" Mu Tianyu continued to ask.
"Actually, there's no need to speculate." Zhou Meng sighed: "When investigating why Yang Na appeared in Rhine A Dao inexplicably, we found a very bizarre phenomenon. According to the surveillance video she appeared on Rhine A Road, it was half an hour before and after, and there was no driving record on this section of the road, because the weather was particularly bad that night, and the weather station also predicted a warning of heavy snow. It was an unbelievable sight, how could she be ten minutes later and be five kilometers away without any record of her trip! That's what I saw with my own eyes. Some people suggested that the equipment might have failed due to voltage problems, but there were no frame drops or flickering screens in the monitoring records, and there was no power outage in the entire Tiandu City that night. Zhou Meng couldn't believe what she saw, and that day, she was in the monitoring room, and the person who appeared in the two videos was Yang Na, and she was very sure of this.
"And what about later? She disappeared into the Rhine A Road? ”
Zhou Meng breathed deeply, a suppressed emotion surrounded her mind, she turned her head to look at the strange dark picture outside the window, and whispered, "No, she disappeared on this road." ”
"This way?"
"Yes, this road, two days later the police offered a reward to the outside world for information about the parties, including a foreign couple who provided clues. They were here for a holiday, and that night they happened to be driving on the Rhine A, and suddenly the navigator malfunctioned, and then they came across a fork in the road, which is the one we are driving into. According to the couple, they stopped the car and met Yang Na walking towards them. They recalled that the other party was expressionless, wearing headphones, and walking at an extremely fast pace, as if someone was leading her. They opened the window of the car and asked, the voice was loud enough, according to the man, he saw the other party wearing headphones, thought that he might be listening to music, so he raised his voice, but Yang Na did not look back, did not even glance, turned around and walked towards the fork in the road. The dark and remote path, her pace still did not slow down in the slightest, and in just a few seconds, she disappeared without a trace. Before the couple even shook their heads, the woman in their eyes was gone. Two days later, he found out that the police mentioned the reward on the news, so he came to provide clues. Zhou Meng looked out the window again, she pondered for a moment and said: "Subsequently, we came here to investigate, but we didn't find any relevant information, if possible, I think she just missed her sister, and there was an accident when she went here alone late at night." But the media made a big fuss about it, explaining that this path is an ominous place, an abyss leading to hell, where countless evil spirits lurk on both sides of the jungle, and that there is only one end for the intruder. Later, no one wanted to come here, and even the entire Rhine A road was rarely driven by vehicles, and eventually, in the midst of many strange opinions, this road was also called the Devil's Road. ”
Zhou Meng was nervous, and she sighed: "You know what? When we drove into here, I always thought that a female ...... would suddenly appear on one side of the road The (ghost) people, and even more people, were staring at me intently. Just like before Yang Huanqiang's accident, he received a strange photo from the mobile phone of another deceased. It's all really weird. She then found something, and exclaimed, "This, navigator, when will it ......?"
"I just closed it." Mu Tianyu interrupted her, in fact, when the car just drove into this path, he had already noticed that the navigator was malfunctioning. At this time, the car stopped, and Mu Tianyu took a blanket from the back seat and handed it to Zhou Meng. "Let's go, we're here."
Zhou Meng did feel very cold, she put on a blanket, looked at the fog in front of her suspiciously, and suddenly found that everything around her had disappeared, as if blocked by the fog, she trembled uneasily: "Arrived, arrived?" ”
"Yes, you want to know where Yang Na went?" As he spoke, Mu Tianyu opened the car door, and the cold aura became even more solemn, but at this time, there was a fire burning in his heart.
Zhou Meng's whole body trembled, she stood in front of the headlights sluggishly, looking around, there was only darkness, as if she had fallen into an abyss, and even the shadows of the dense forests on both sides of the road had disappeared, no, this was not a road, it was a chaotic world with no end. But at this moment, the headlights suddenly went out, the darkness was suddenly suppressed, Zhou Meng exclaimed, and Mu Tianyu next to him instantly hugged him, and in an instant, a warm current passed along the contact limbs into her gradually frozen heart, as well as her dull and drowsy brain. Mu Tianyu wrapped his right hand around her waist, raised his left hand, and a scorching light was released from his left palm. Zhou Meng's eyes were stung by this light, but then he saw clearly, it seemed to be just a coin in his left palm.
Under the illumination of this light, the surrounding fog of wanton violence was like a terrifying undead wandering and drifting, Zhou Meng clearly felt that the cold breath of his whole body retreated with the undead wandering around, and the endless night sky resounded with the ethereal ethereal sound, which was the eerie laughter, killing, and crying. "W-where is this?" Zhou Meng leaned close to Mu Tianyu's arms, his eyes slightly closed, not daring to take a closer look.
Mu Tianyu stared at the shadows shuttling beyond the light, and he said indifferently: "Time and space rift. ”