investigative chronicle

Chapter 116 Dry Well
Although they were lying on the bed, their brains were working extremely excitedly, and they tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep at all, which made the waiting time extraordinarily long.

After finally surviving until dawn, several people quickly jumped up from the bed and went straight to the location of the dry well.

"What if that place is also demolished? After all, it's been so many years." Luo Li rubbed her hands, and white mist spewed out of her mouth as she spoke.

"We can't always be unlucky, luck should be on our side this time."

Yuan Mu reached out and hugged Luo Li. She wanted to warm Luo Li, but she didn't want this casual hug to fill Luo Li's heart with warmth.

"The navigation shows that the dry well is at the corner of the mountain on the west side of the road and bridge. There is a high probability that it is still there." Ji Si'an's hands were red from the cold, and he tapped the phone screen several times before the navigation showed it.

When they arrived at the dry well, the sun had fully risen, but it was blocked by the mountain peaks not far away. The warm bright yellow in the distance and the cold and dark blue in the near formed a strange and distinct scene.

"If it's not a bit cold...the scenery here is not bad." Yuan Mu lifted the zipper of his jacket up again while speaking.

"Forget about the scenery, I only felt the wind, but didn't see the scenery." Luo Li complained and stomped her feet.

"We'll be there soon. From the light to the darkness, we can be regarded as true warriors." Although Ji Si'an was cold, he was still in the mood to tease.

Ji Si'an saw many wells when he was in the countryside. At that time, almost every household would draw water from the well in the center of the village.She took it for granted that the well here was the same as the well in her hometown.

So, when Luo Li pointed to the round pit with a diameter of 5 or 6 meters in front of her and told her that it was a dry well, she couldn't help opening her mouth.

"How... so big?" The coldness and surprise made her speak intermittently.

"This is a mobile well for irrigation. Of course it's deep and big." Luo Li was very familiar with this giant that often appeared in stories when she was a child.

"The seal of this well is a bit rough." Yuan Mu said, pointing to the cement slab that will only cover half of it.

"It may be that the half of the cement slab was broken due to long-term weathering."

Speaking of which, Luo Li leaned out and glanced down the well, then quickly retracted.

"That's it. This kind of dizziness that can't be seen to the bottom often appeared in my nightmares when I was a child..."

"I often dream that I fall into a well and keep falling, surrounded by darkness, which is very scary."

Luo Li shivered, thinking of those nightmares, she still has lingering fears.

"Isn't that a dream caused by your growing body?" Although Yuan Mu said this, he didn't dare to look down directly.

She knelt and sat by the well first, and then carefully leaned out, shining a bright flashlight down the well.

"You're still laughing at me, you look more timid than me..." Luo Li rolled her eyes before she could retract them.

Yuan Mu screamed, and the bright flashlight almost fell into the well.

"what happened?"

When Luo Li asked the question, her body reflexively took a big step back.

"Rat..." Yuan Mu's teeth chattered a little, but he couldn't tell whether it was caused by fear or the cold.

"Don't be afraid of the mouse. Maybe your scream just now has scared it away." Ji Si'an has never lacked mice in her life, and she has long been immune to this small animal over time.

"Mummy... a mouse suddenly crawled out of the mummy's mouth." Yuan Mu took a while to recover his normal voice.

"Ah!" Luo Li couldn't help jumping back another step.

"Really...there is a dead body...." Ji Si'an backed away with a pale face, staggered and almost fell to the ground.

If they really met the real ones, Yuan Mu, who was a policeman, was the most courageous among them.Yuan Mu took a look at it anyway. After hearing the word mummy, the two of them wished they could back away eight feet away.

Yuan Mu looked at the two people huddling together in the distance, and reluctantly took out his mobile phone to call the criminal police team. In the current situation, those two people can't be counted on.

"Well... the police will come soon..., it's... too cold here. If we don't need us..., let's wait under the sun." Luo Li overcame the shaking of her teeth and tried her best to finish her sentence.

"Cowards, go ahead. Just babysitting the scene, there's no difference between here and there."

The long-abandoned land is overgrown with weeds, and it looks like no one has been here for a long time.

Hearing that there was a dead body, the criminal police team quickly sent someone over.After the on-site inspectors entered the dry well, the master came to Yuan Mu slowly. "You girl, what can I say? Get your physique."

"Master, she's about to catch up with Conan, what's wrong with her?" Li Muzi said emphatically from the side.

"I'm doing an investigation, okay? We found this corpse." Yuan Mu waved his fist at Li Muzi.

"Oh? Did you check with those two little girls?" the master asked.

"What little girl? We are all grown-ups now. Didn't I tell you before that we were looking for the missing Yang Siqi? We suspected that it was in the well." Yuan Mu explained dissatisfied.

"Yang Siqi? Yang Xiu? That reporter?" The master immediately became serious.

"Okay, maybe this is a breakthrough."

"Muzi, come with me. After the inspection is over, let's go down and have a look." Said the master and walked towards the dry well.

"Where should I go? Master...wait for me." Li Muzi chased forward.

Looking at their backs, Yuan Mu clenched his fists tightly, hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind to catch up.

"Master...wait for me. I want to go down too."

Yuan Mu's words made Luo Li's eyes widen. "Xiao An, I heard you right. She's going down..."

"Well, you heard it right." Although Ji Si'an replied calmly, he was already filled with emotion.

If Mu Mu wants to gain a foothold in that male-dominated profession, she must have gone through unimaginable hardships...

The dry well had been abandoned for too long. They were worried about the lack of oxygen below. After removing the cement slab at the wellhead, they waited for nearly half an hour before arranging on-site inspection personnel to go down the well.

Yuan Mu and other policemen stepped on the inner wall of the dry well and slowly descended with the help of the safety rope. Not long after they climbed down, they were dizzy from the stench rising from the well.A distracted, her foot slipped on the slippery well wall and almost fell.

"Be careful." Fortunately, Li Muzi, who had been observing her situation, grabbed her in time to help her stabilize her body.

"I'm fine." Yuan Mu's lips were tight.

Muzi Li has nothing to do with the stubborn Yuan Mu, knowing that she will not give up, so he has to stay by her side.

"I didn't expect the moisture at the bottom of the well to be so strong. This Yang Xiu has been missing for at least ten years. There is no reason to be a mummy." The master muttered to himself.

Yuan Mu blushed after hearing the master's words: "Maybe I didn't see clearly."

"The shape of the corpse is very miserable, the mouth is wide open, it feels very hideous, and a mouse came out of his mouth... I was also terrified."

When she said these words, although Yuan Mu tried her best to control her voice, they could still hear her fear from her trembling voice.

"Follow me in a while. The site inspectors focus on the details, but we pay more attention to the whole. We need to have an in-depth judgment on the entire site."

Overcoming instinctive fear is the first step in becoming a criminal policeman. If Yuan Mu wants to be a criminal policeman, he must practice facing these things calmly.

(End of this chapter)