The first forty-eight hours were almost up. Could a person even survive that long, or would we end up with a corpse?
Captain Song took his hat off and sighed deeply.
“Don’t lose hope, dad.” That was all one could muster to say like that. Despite saying those words, she still couldn’t help sighing when she saw the sun rising from the East.
They reached a crossroad soon after. The route to the West was broader and would be further split into different routes down the road. It would be more difficult to search that region.
Su Zhan offered, “I’ll take some men and take that route.”
Captain Song nodded before assigning extra men to Su Zhan. That didn’t discourage Su Zhan from walking down that route several times and exhausting himself. He later sat on a plank with his feet bare while water dripped down.
Zong Jinghao headed over when morning rolled by. He asked Su Zhan if the latter found any clues.
Su Zhan shook his head and braced himself for the worst. “Maybe…”
“No,” insisted Zong Jinghao, “We haven’t found his body yet, but that doesn’t mean that he drowned. Someone could have rescued him. When we pull the car out of the water, we saw that the window was intact, and the door was closed. As I’m sure you know, the pressure of the water would’ve kept the door closed. His corpse wasn’t in the car, so my guess is that he jumped out of the car before it fell into the water. I don’t think he ever sunk with the car in the first place.”
Zong Jinghao’s words made perfect sense, but there was still one question that was bugging Su Zhan. “If he had survived, why haven’t we found him despite the fact that we’ve expanded our search to this extent and covered so much ground?”
His question left Zong Jinghao speechless.
Su Zhan was right. If he had survived, why haven’t we found him?
Just then, the phone in Su Zhan’s pocket rang. He fished it out and saw that the call was from Qin Ya.
Su Zhan picked it up. “Hello, Ya.”
“Have you found him?” asked Qin Ya.
Su Zhan was in a hurry when he returned, so he never went to see how Qin Ya was. He simply called her to tell her about Shen Peichuan’s issue. She must be calling because she’s worried sick.
“Not yet,” replied Su Zhan.
“Maybe I should head over…”
I have any updates. Don’t worry. We’ll do everything we can,” said Su Zhan. She’d just end
Remember to call me as soon as you have any news,” said
later tilted his head down. “I probably
There’s no need to visit
murmured
the call, Qin Ya gripped her phone before adding, “I
ended the call
that, he got up and walked to Zong Jinghao before asking, “This is going nowhere.
saw
where Zong Jinghao was looking, Su
the boat ashore. Meanwhile, Su Zhan followed closely behind
wasn’t sure if his guess was
had Su Zhan get into the boat with
man was harvesting the vegetables on the farm
basket. When he stood up, he saw
a boat by the river. May I
asked
to inspect the river and make necessary arrangements
Li used to keep geese there. The authorities later banned him from doing so, and the boat had been
boat was for keeping geese?” blurted Su
middle of the river over there? They are fixed in place. Old Man Li had to toss the geese’s food there, so he got a boat to do just that. However, the head of the village
At that point, he had more or less guessed what Zong Jinghao had
Peichuan was nowhere to be found near the river. Could it be that he happened to get ahold of the boat and got on the land? Or maybe
in a while. Hell, it’s been idling for so long that it can’t even stay still anymore. No one in their right
Jinghao shifted his gaze. He saw a small village at some distance ahead. Despite its small
any strangers who dropped
everyone is a stranger. Quite a few villagers rent their place out to foreign
disappointed to hear that. It
Zong Jinghao didn’t know was that his judgment and guesses were right. It was only that he found the
it crashed into the waters. He didn’t get dragged underwater with the car, but the water was running too quickly. He wanted to
weeds before that happened. He was exhausted by then, and in his daze, he saw a boat. Although he didn’t know what the
Peichuan came around again, he saw that he was in an unfamiliar
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