“Love and hate happen in an instant, when I raise my cup to the moon, my love is like the sky …”
A familiar song came out of the bumpy haffercar. He didn’t know if it was because of the jolting or the poor signal, but the song was choppy and intermittent.
However, Zhao Yu still felt a little curious. This was because the car was traveling on the vast plateau of tartein. He was already in a foreign country thousands of kilometers away.
However, the China elements that could be seen everywhere here made him feel as if he was still in China.
The car was the old Great Wall haverns, and the song playing on the radio was also the popular, original “new drunken noble consort”, without even a foreign translation.
Other than that, the pilot was smoking Hongtashan and wearing Bosten, none of which made him look like he was overseas.
In this place, only the villages on the Highlands that occasionally appeared on both sides of the road and some road signs made it look slightly like a foreign land …
The cold wind whistled outside the car window. Due to the huge difference in temperature, the car window was covered with a layer of water vapor.
Zhao Yu, who was sitting in the back seat, wiped off the water vapor and looked out the window.
He saw that the outside was an open wilderness that stretched as far as the eye could see. There were some green grass and Bulls in some places, but most of the places were barren and desolate.
“Hahaha, I’ve heard a lot about you,” a young man sitting in the front passenger seat said to Zhao Yu.”My hometown is in Jin ‘an, so I’ve been very familiar with the headless female corpses case since I was a child. It left a deep impression on me!”
“I didn’t expect that such a difficult case would be solved by you. You are indeed the master of unsolved cases. If there is a chance …” The young man said sincerely,”can you tell me about it?” Although I’ve read the case introduction, I think the actual case will be more shocking, right?”
The young man’s name was Bian Dong, and he was the assistant that secret services had specially sent for Zhao Yu.
This person was a logistics member of the Secret Service stationed in tartein, not an official agent. However, he had lived in tartein for many years and knew the situation here like the back of his hand.
“Hmm, there might be a chance!” Zhao Yu gave a perfunctory reply and went straight to the point.”Now, tell me, after the disappearance case appeared, what was the reaction of tartein?”
“Okay, okay …” The young man had already handed Zhao Yu a cigarette, but he knew that Zhao Yu did not smoke, so he lit one up and said,”the two countries have a close relationship. With such a big incident, the higher-ups of tartein naturally take it very seriously. They have already sent troops to search the mountains near the exploration team.
“But …” Bian Dong said, not very optimistic.”As you know, the Tautz Highlands take up almost one-third of tartein’s land area. There are large areas of no man’s land and mountains. The terrain is complex, and it is desolate.
“So, you can imagine the difficulty of the search! Did you know?” Bian Dong took a puff of his cigarette and said,”there are only 25 civilian helicopters in the whole of tartein. Ten of them have expired and can not take off!”
“Oh …”
Zhao Yu agreed, but he was thinking that if the disappearance of the exploration team was really related to the terrorists, then it would be difficult to find them.
“Although I don’t know how many military ones there are, but from what I heard,” Bian Dong said,”they should have sent all of them out to help!
“Regarding this matter, they were really frightened!” Bian Dong said,”out of the 12 people, two-thirds of them are Chinese. If something really happens, no one can bear the responsibility!
“Right now, it is a sensitive period of the election. The opposition parties and the conspirators are all ready to make trouble. Chances are that they will really be the fuse that will go out of control!”
Listening to Bian Dong’s introduction, Zhao Yu looked at his watch. At this moment, he had already come out of tartein’s Capital Airport and had been in a car for more than two hours.
Due to the long journey and poor road conditions, it would take them at least five hours to get there. Now that the sun was about to set, it would be late at night by the time they reached the exploration team’s base.
In fact, if it wasn’t for the time difference, it would already be 10 pm in China. If it had been a normal case, Zhao Yu would have stayed the night in the capital of tartein, then set off the next day.
However, the exploration team’s case was extremely urgent, so Zhao Yu decided to travel through the night.
At first, he had also applied for helicopter assistance, but the conditions in tartein were too limited, and could not meet Zhao Yu’s requirements at all, so he could only drive there.
“By the way, officer Zhao,” Bian Dong suddenly remembered something and told Zhao Yu mysteriously,”after the incident, I haven’t been to the scene, but I heard from my colleagues that the missing case of the exploration team … Seems to be a little strange!”
“Eh? Strange?” Zhao Yu was surprised, as this was the first time he had heard of such a thing.
“Yup!” Bian Dong whispered,”although the exploration team is small, there are armed guards, and almost everyone has a gun!
“Also, among the missing people, there were four people in charge of safety. Two of them are excellent soldiers from your peacekeeping force, and the other two are police officers from the tartein border defense Department.
“These four are carefully selected security personnel. They take turns on duty every day to ensure the safety of the exploration team!”
“Oh …” With Bian Dong’s explanation, Zhao Yu immediately understood why some people would think that the disappearance case was a little strange.
“You see,” Bian Dong continued,”the exploration team is made up of mobile simple rooms. The 12 people do not live together, and there are guards. It doesn’t seem easy to kidnap these 12 people at once, right?
“They have cell phones, mobile phones, and communication devices. If something happens, they should at least have time to call the police, right?” As Bian Dong spoke excitedly, even his smoking became more forceful.”But, what about the scene? Have you seen the on-site report?
“There are no signs of fighting, no blood stains, no police calls, no traces of distress signals, and no personal belongings. It gives my colleagues the feeling that …” Bian Dong’s eyes were wide open.”It’s as if the exploration team left the base on their own!”
As for what Bian Dong had said, Zhao Yu had already read the information. In the middle of the night, 12 people quietly disappeared from an exploration base in the wilderness. It was indeed hard to understand.
If they had really been kidnapped, there should have been at least some traces of struggle.
“The most incomprehensible thing is,” Bian Dong said,”the weather was particularly good that day. If a car entered the site of the exploration team, it was bound to leave tire marks.
“That’s 12 people. It’s either a big car or several small cars. But … Why can’t we find any traces of them even after searching around the base?
“Did these 12 people just disappear?”