Three hours later, nearly seven months later, Zhang Yan stood in front of the abandoned mine again.

"What you mean by guessing is this?" Zhe Zhe looked at him in confusion.

Behind them, teams of armed police officers and soldiers formed neat units, entered them along the abandoned road of the mine, and began to search the mine.

"Yeah, that's right, it's here."

Zhang Yan stared at this mine that had been abandoned for many years. On the day of the incident nine months ago, the tragedy began. Unfortunately, due to the heavy rainstorm at that time, many clues had been washed away, not to mention a sudden mudslide that completely covered up the possible traces.

However, somehow, although no useful clue was found here, Zhang Yan's intuition told him that here is the beginning of everything, and there must be clues in a certain corner.

Unfortunately, if he really had to handle the case according to his ideas, he would probably have to go through the entire mine. Not to mention how much time it would take, just how much money would be spent? How could he get permission from the above people? His idea would have ended in regret.

"Is there anything here worthy of your attention?" Zhe Zhe didn't have the opportunity to participate in that case because he went out to study at the Party School nine months ago, so he naturally couldn't understand what Zhang Yan meant.

"Although this mine has been abandoned for a long time... but as far as I know, there are at least seven mines dug here, three of which collapsed due to their age and natural reasons, but four still exist."

"You mean..."

Zhe Zhe suddenly realized: "Do you think that thing... might be hiding here?" When he said the latter, his expression suddenly became solemn. If the monster that left them an unforgettable impression for the rest of his life really hid here, he must be prepared immediately.

"Maybe, I can't be sure."

Zhang Yan seemed to be thinking about something, and paused for a moment before continuing: "But the environment here is very hidden. If you want to say where the monster will hide, I think this is definitely a good place."

Zhe Zhe nodded, raised his watch and looked at the time. It has been eleven hours since the incident last night. The longer the time passes, he is less hopeful about the survival rate of the missing Cats members. He has to say that he has not given up until now, but as the captain, he has shouldered that heavy responsibility that cannot drive him to give up.

The weather has been dry this month, and it was two weeks ago since the last rainfall. The mine is very dry at present. There is no need to worry about the impact of mud and slipperyness in the search. Standing on the high ground and looking down, you can see teams of armed police divided into several areas. After clearly dividing their respective jurisdictions, they searched carefully.

"Well, okay, then please ask Captain Liu to arrange it and immediately divide a few teams into the mine... Wait, before entering the mine, you must check whether it is safe or not."

Holding the walkie-talkie, Zhe Zhe contacted Captain Liu, who was commanding the armed police force on the spot, and asked him to arrange some personnel to enter the mine for search.

As soon as he put down the walkie-talkie, Zhe quickly grabbed Zhang Yan: "Okay, Lao Zhang, you can stay here for me now, there is no need for you to go there in person. You are in your current physical condition, so don't go in and cause trouble."

What he said is that, indeed, Zhang Yan repeatedly said that he was not tired, but his red eyes were red and blood-filled, and it was hard to believe that this man was not tired. Zhe Zhe didn't want this friend to go down in person. If he fell down due to lack of oxygen or other reasons in the mine, it would be troublesome.

"No, let them stop first."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yan broke away Zhe and grabbed his hand, frowned and stared at Captain Liu who was gathering the people below.

"Lao Zhang, you..."

“They didn’t get the attention.”

Zhang Yan's tired expression was highly vigilant: "You know what happened last night. If you go in with their attitude, if that thing really hides inside..."

Hearing Zhang Yan say this, Zhe Zhe looked at the appearance of the gathering staff below carefully. To talk about attitude, every armed police officer and soldier is very serious. However, the attitude problem mentioned by Zhang Yan is that they fight against wanted criminals and do not realize what terrible things they and others are dealing with. Obviously, as long as they have not experienced the incident last night, it is difficult to pay attention to them in people's hearts. In addition, the important reasons for the incident last night have not been explained in detail to everyone, but they are just arranged for their respective search tasks.

This seemed very dissatisfied in Zhang Yan's opinion. Since letting so many people participate in the search without explanation, it was obviously irresponsible to life. However, Zhang Yan considered that it was a search operation of the large army after all, and it was impossible for that thing to catch them off guard as if it were the factors that occupied the night and the environment like last night. As long as that thing appeared, it would be impossible to escape from the pursuit of the large army. In the end, the helicopters in the sky were not decorations.

But the mines here are different.

Although these mines reach a diameter of almost tunnel height, they are in dark underground environments, no more than the sunlight on the ground. If you encounter that thing there, it would be too dangerous.

"Then don't go, just stand here, I'll come back if I go."

Still disagree with Zhang Yan to go on. First of all, Zhe felt that Zhang Yan was in a very wrong mood at this time. He was not as calm as he was, but was in a state of depression. If he went on, he might annoy others because of his tone.

Frowning, Zhang Yan finally nodded and did not object to Zhe's request. He just watched Zhe walk down the high ground and enter the mine. After saying nothing to Captain Liu, Captain Liu nodded with a serious expression, as if Zhe had convinced him. Then he took the intercom and asked his superiors for instructions. After the formation was allowed by his superiors, at least all the armed police officers and soldiers who were preparing to enter the mine were all in a safe and open state with live ammunition.

Of course, in places like mines, it is undoubtedly a bit dangerous to open the gun insurance. Once the fire goes out, it may cause personal injury due to rebound. However, compared to the terrible threat brought by that thing, this damage is obviously within the allowable scope of the leader.

There were four abandoned mines, each mine was entered in a unit of twenty people. Since the radio could not contact him after entering the mine, he had to temporarily interrupt the contact. However, after Zhe's instructions, Captain Liu issued a special order and retreated whenever something was wrong.

“…There are dark clouds again?”

Zhang Yan looked up at the sky. The sun that was still there was gradually blocking the dark clouds at this moment, and the sky in the distance was even more cloudy, as if symbolizing an upcoming heavy rain.

Yes, the hot weather for more than half a month should be a heavy rain and dropping temperature, but it is really not the time to come.

When the heavy rain comes, there are many dangers in staying in the mine tunnel. In order to prevent such natural disasters, the search mission must be completed before the heavy rain comes.

Fortunately, the dense dark clouds are still far away and should not have arrived so soon.

After rubbing his temples tiredly, Zhang Yan felt very tired. Judging from the degree of working for three days and three nights in a row, he shouldn't have stayed up all night and was so tired. But as soon as he closed his eyes, the face of his colleague would appear in front of him, and he would condemn his own heart from time to time, making him feel very painful. Perhaps because of this, Zhang Yan's face seemed to have been aged for just one night.

Squatting on the ground, Zhang Yan's mind was filled with the faces of those people nine months ago. What is the connection between that incident and this case?

If there is an association between this, why did I search so many times but I couldn’t find a clue, but it happened again nine months later?

If it doesn’t matter, he absolutely doesn’t believe it. There is no such coincidence in this world. It just happens in small mountains, but they are all hikers who come to play.

There is only a big suspicion. The scars on the corpses last time were obviously different from this time. Although they were all the same, they were terrible, but one was sharp objects pierced the head, and the other was even bitten to pieces. You can see the difference from this.
Chapter completed!