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…”
everything we can,”
Remember to call me as soon as you have
his head down. “I probably won’t be able to visit you
visit me. Just focus on
murmured
phone before
that, she ended the call
and walked to Zong Jinghao
Jinghao scanned the surroundings and saw a boat by
a look at where Zong Jinghao was looking, Su Zhan shook his head and replied, “I
the boat ashore. Meanwhile, Su Zhan followed closely behind and asked, “What’s on your
wasn’t sure if
with him before getting the other men to
elderly man was harvesting
stood up, he saw the two men
I know why
are you asking?” asked the
here to inspect the river and
man answered, “Old Man Li used to keep geese there. The authorities
boat was for keeping geese?” blurted Su
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 later said that it’d pollute the river
since?” asked Su Zhan again. At that
river. Could it be that he happened to get ahold of the boat and got
certain when he answered, “Nope. Didn’t you see the moss growing amuck on the boat? No one used it in a while. Hell, it’s been idling for so
He saw a small village at some distance ahead.
there any strangers who dropped by your
is a stranger. Quite a few villagers rent their place out to
was disappointed to hear that. It seemed that Shen
judgment and guesses were
crashed into the waters. He didn’t get dragged underwater with the car, but the water was running too quickly. He wanted to save Aunt Wang after he fell into the water, but the water pressure made it impossible for
He was exhausted by then, and in his daze, he saw a boat. Although he didn’t know what the boat was for, he swam earnestly towards it as if his life depended on it. The man on the boat never noticed Shen Peichuan. Hence, when the man
Peichuan came around again, he saw
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