C36 (1/2)
”Lili, since you said it like that, we should go over and take a look. Also, that Small Snake Island, the reason we are here, isn't it precisely to expose the feudal superstition, to look for the reason behind all these strange happenings.” Chen Ya said.
”I understand, I understand, but I think that since the Flower Snake Village is so large, there are still many places that we have yet to investigate. We don't need to go to dangerous places first, right? Besides, we don't have a boat. ”
”Lili is right.” Zhou Yang said, ”Stepping by step, is the main theme of the exploration. We should indeed search through the Flower Snake Village for clues, but as for that island, we definitely need to go there. It's late today. Tomorrow morning, we'll go back to town and ask the locals if they have a way to get a boat here. How about it? ”
”Sure, it's settled then.” Fann Wenqiang said.
In the end, after Lili's persuasion, they still did not cross the stone bridge.
In fact, Zhou Yang understood that girls like Lili, who had grown up in the countryside, were very sensitive to local superstitions, so his actions now had the intention of taking care of Lili's emotions.
The six of them walked along the river bank for a while as the sky gradually darkened.
When humans look at all things in the world, the feelings they feel day and night are completely different. The dark night was equivalent to a pressure. At this moment, the six people who were persevering within the Flower Snake Village were currently enveloped by this pressure.
Following the arrival of the night, the wind blowing from the Flower Snake Village became stronger. Trees and branches lightly swayed, and occasionally, a few black tiles were blown down from the roof.
The six of them walked all the way to the edge of the Flower Snake Village area. Seeing how sparse the houses were, when they went over a small hill, Sun Miao suddenly realized that there was something wrong with the picture in front of them.
”Hey, look, that bus!”
Indeed, not far from them was the bus that had overturned the mountain road and lost more than twenty people.
Now that the incident had been reported repeatedly on the news and had been investigated, there was still no clue to the disappearance of the passengers and the driver.
Zhou Yang received Yang Jie's call long ago to know about this matter, and then he used his phone to search for the relevant news.
The six of them slowly approached the bus. Zhou Yang raised his head and looked up. He could vaguely see a mountain road and a large amount of trees that extended from the mountain road to the foot of the mountain. Zhou Yang thought that it was probably because of this that the bus did not suffer as much damage.
In addition, Zhou Yang noticed that the bus was standing right there. It did not flip or flip, but because the left front wheel had fallen off, the bus was tilting towards the left front. He guessed it was the rescue team.
”Have you guys seen the news? The people on this dead bus are all missing.” Chen Ya said as she crossed her arms in front of her chest, chilled by the wind.
”Look, there's a total of twenty-something people including the driver. If you say there's nothing, then there's nothing.” Faang Zexi was also carefully sizing him up.
”In this respect, it's quite strange.” Sun Miao said.
”Aiya, this village is too strange. People often go missing.” Faang Zexi said again.
Zhou Yang did not say anything, but instead, he circled the bus, and suddenly, his heart skipped a beat.
”Something's not right!” Zhou Yang returned to his original position and frowned.
”What's wrong?” Chen Ya asked anxiously.
”I don't know. When I first saw the car, I felt something was wrong. Something must be wrong!” While talking, Zhou Yang thought hard.
”There's nothing wrong …” Faang Zexi imitated Zhou Yang's actions and said slowly.
”No, no, there's definitely something wrong with it. My intuition can't be wrong!” Zhou Yang said firmly.
Suddenly, an image appeared in his mind. It was the scene of the accident that Yang Jie had previously sent him.
He quickly took out his phone from the side pocket of the big backpack that Faang Zexi was carrying, and looked for the photo. For ease of movement, therefore, everyone's cell phone is kept in the outside pocket of the large backpack.
When he saw the photo again, Zhou Yang's expression was extremely strange, as if he had been possessed. He switched on the wireless network on his cell phone and looked at the pictures on the news.
”This doesn't make sense …” Zhou Yang muttered to himself.
”What is it? Tell me quickly!” Chen Ya urged.
The others looked at Zhou Yang cautiously.
Zhou Yang directly handed the phone to Chen Ya, and said: ”Take a look at the live picture of the news, see how different it is from here.”
After that, Zhou Yang went back to circling around the bus, while the others gathered behind Chen Ya.
After looking for a bit, Sun Miao noticed that something was amiss and asked loudly: ”Eh? The scene of the accident in the photo, why is it different from here? ”
”What do you mean?” Faang Zexi was slow to react, he did not understand yet.
”Look at the series of pictures of the scene of the accident on the news. The bus is right next to the foot of the mountain and there's a lot of trees nearby. But now, the bus we saw was on a flat, empty piece of land. There was nothing around us, and it was quite a distance away from the foot of the mountain. ”
”In other words, this car has been moved somewhere?”
”Yes!”
”No wonder. I was wondering how a car that was flipped over from the mountain could land in such a place.” Fann Wenqiang also said.
”Is it possible that the rescue team pushed the car over here before they left?” Chen Ya asked.
”Impossible!” Zhou Yang turned around and directly denied it.
”Why?” Chen Ya looked at Zhou Yang.
”Squat down and take a look, one of the front wheels of this bus is missing. I think it was hit and the tire and wheel hub flew out together. In this situation where there were only so many wheels, it was impossible to push a bus by relying on manpower! Besides, there were no traces of it being carried out on the ground. The only way was with the help of a large trailer, but the news said that because of the narrow mountain road, the trailer would not come in. If they did send a trailer, they could just directly drag the car away. ”What's the point of dragging it here?”
The others were silent for a moment, thinking that Zhou Yang's words were reasonable. Zhou Yang looked at the foot of the mountain and noticed that a large part of the ground had caved in, he pointed and said: It should be the original location of the bus.
”Yeah, I saw it too. They are only dozens of meters apart, is there a need to move the car here?” I even thought it would be better to park at the foot of the mountain. ” Sun Miao also said.
”According to your analysis …” Chen Ya placed her hand on her waist, looking very tired, ”The rescue team wouldn't move the carriage here, who moved it?”
”That's right …” Who would have the idea to move a bus? ” Sun Miao was also at a loss.
Zhou Yang thought for a moment, then said: ”The crucial question is, how did you do it?”
”If it were me, I would definitely be unable to find a solution no matter how hard I try.” Fann Wenqiang said as he kicked the bus.
”This kind of bus must weigh at least seven tons, and if we add on the missing front wheel, it would definitely be unrealistic to rely on manpower to push the bus over, unless we use tools.” Sun Miao said.