Chapter 5

Friends who often go hiking in the mountains on rainy days know that the road is muddy and slippery. Not to mention, this was the 1970s, and there were no steps on the mountain roads. They were all dirt roads with a lot of gravel.

Su Ya was wearing a long skirt today. The hem of her skirt had long been soaked by the rain and stuck tightly to her legs. Every step she took seemed like she was playing a difficult tug-of-war with the earth.

She was struggling forward, taking one deep step and one shallow step. Suddenly, her foot slipped and she fell forward.

Su Ya immediately realized that she was about to fall. If the toolbox in her hand was knocked open when she fell, the newspaper inside, which was an important piece of evidence, would definitely be soaked by the rain.

So the moment her body tilted, she hugged the toolbox tightly and protected it with her body.

After that, he fell heavily to the ground.

The moment she hit the ground, Su Ya was a little dazed. After she calmed down for a while, she tried to get up.

“hiss–“

A sharp pain came from her ankle, and she couldn’t help but gasp.

Based on her experience, she was almost certain that she had sprained her ankle, and it was quite serious.

The big raindrops hit her face, arms, and calves that were exposed due to the fall without mercy.

The vision was so blurry that I couldn’t see anything around me. It was all because of the rain. Su Ya complained about the weather.

She tried to struggle to get up, but found that her right foot had no strength at all.

It hurts so much that I need to find a place to hide from the rain as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will lose consciousness soon due to the imbalance of body temperature in such weather.

Su Ya thought.

The plot in the original novel suddenly flashed through her mind – when Lu Xiao was performing a mission here, he once stayed in a cave where he could shelter from the rain.

She gritted her teeth and stood up again, enduring the pain in her body.

But in the panic, the shoe on his right foot fell off, and after rolling a few times, it came to a stop under a big tree not far away.

Su Ya looked at the shoe and hesitated for a moment.

The place where the shoe fell was a downhill slope. Now that I have sprained my ankle, if something unexpected happens when I go to pick up the shoe, then I really may not be able to go back.

Su Ya looked at the toolbox in her arms.

Now that we have found the important evidence, as long as we can return to the guesthouse safely, we will be able to bring the criminal to justice!

We must not let what happened in her past life happen again. The long-term solution is to cherish her own life and safety.

Finally, Suya decided to give up picking up the shoes.

At this moment, the wind and rain became even more violent. The strong wind desperately pulled at Su Ya’s wet skirt, as if to push Su Ya, who had finally stood up, down again.

Su Ya limped along, and with every step she took, she felt a sharp pain in her right foot.

She hugged the toolbox tightly in her arms again, clenched her teeth, and her eyes were determined.

Su Ya used her left foot to support her body as much as possible, and searched for the cave with difficulty according to the direction she remembered.

She felt her body growing heavier and heavier, and the cold rain was about to seep through her long skirt and into her skin, with the chill seeping into every pore.

Finally, after she had walked a lot of detours, she saw a dark cave entrance. Su Ya didn’t think too much and hurried into the cave, dragging her injured leg.

After entering the cave, Su Ya was surprised to find some dry firewood and leaves in the innermost corner of the cave.

Her eyes lit up instantly, as if she had grasped a glimmer of hope in the darkness.

Relying on the survival skills she learned in the police academy in her previous life, she quickly gathered some dry leaves and began to rub them patiently with the firewood.

After several attempts, finally, a faint flame emerged.

She put the flame into the pile of dry leaves, and the small flame immediately turned into a small bonfire. Then she added a few more dry wood on top.

Su Ya found a few branches in the cave, made a simple wooden rack, and placed it in front of the campfire.

Then she took off her wet skirt, wrung out the rain water, and hung it carefully on the wooden rack.

This way, you can not only dry your clothes, but also prevent the wind blowing in from the cave entrance from blowing out the campfire.

At this time, a gust of wind blew by.

Since she was only wearing underwear, she felt a little cold.

She immediately hid behind the clothes rack where her skirts were hung, curled up and warmed herself by the fire.

Outside the cave, the sound of rain was crackling, with no sign of stopping. The rain also formed a curtain of water at the entrance of the cave, blurring her vision.

Su Ya placed her chin on her curled up knees, closed her eyes, and listened to the sound of rain outside the cave, waiting for her skirt to dry and for the rain to subside.

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The other side.

Lu Xiao returned to the temporary base of the army, arranged the follow-up matters, and then returned to the crematorium. However, when he walked into the morgue, he happened to meet Liu Ming who came out of the room where the bodies were kept.

“Are you here to see Comrade Su? She’s not here.”

“Where did she go?”

Liu Ming frowned as he looked at Lu Xiao, vaguely feeling an unknown pressure.

“She said she wanted to go to the deceased’s residence to take a look. Based on the information she provided, Li Hai actually found a dilapidated house halfway up the mountain.

Director Gu sent me there to collect evidence. After I went to the crematorium, I wanted to see how Comrade Su’s work was going. Unexpectedly, after she learned that I had not found any key evidence, she borrowed my toolbox and wanted to go and see for herself. “

Looking at Liu Ming’s sneering expression and joking tone, Lu Xiao could feel that this forensic doctor from the municipal bureau looked down on Su Ya from the bottom of his heart.

Although he was not sure whether Su Ya could obtain evidence, he felt uncomfortable seeing others slandering him like this.

But he didn’t say much, because it was about to rain, and the most important thing now was to find Su Ya.

After he asked Liu Ming for Gu Changzheng’s room number, he immediately went to find Gu Changzheng. By the way, he called a few police officers who were working on the case together. Everyone brought an umbrella and went to the mountain to find Su Ya.

They confirmed the exact location of the dilapidated wooden house in detail with Liu Ming. Fortunately, it was not far from their guesthouse.

However, as soon as they reached the bottom of the mountain, it started raining.

Several people opened their umbrellas and started climbing the mountain.

Lu Xiao’s pace was getting faster and faster, causing the elderly Gu Changzheng to feel miserable. But he couldn’t ask him to slow down, after all, she was his wife.

After searching for a while, Lu Xiao saw a shoe under a big tree.

He walked closer to check, picked up the shoes and checked them. He was sure that was what Su Ya was wearing today.

He looked around again and found a mark that had not been washed away by the rain, as if it was left by someone falling.

He looked around anxiously but could not see any footprints. No doubt, the heavy rain had ruthlessly washed away any possible footprints.

Lu Xiao was filled with deep regret at this moment, and he kept blaming himself. Why did he really listen to Su Ya and leave the crematorium?

Or, even if he went back, he should return to the crematorium as quickly as possible after finishing his business. That way, he would definitely not miss the moment when she went into the mountains alone to collect evidence.

However, it was useless to regret at this moment. The most urgent thing was to find Su Ya as soon as possible.

Lu Xiao frowned, feeling worried. It would be dangerous for her to be alone in such heavy rain…