Gong Yingxian was busy investigating the case day and night, while Ren Yi was busy researching the evidence and materials of the Gong family arson case and squadron affairs. They hadn't seen each other for a week or two, and they had occasional contacts, all of which were related to various cases. Both of them tacitly did not mention personal matters. As long as they did not mention personal matters, their relationship seemed normal.
Recently, Ren Yi often looks at the photos of Gong Yingxian he secretly took, and secretly reminisces about that kiss. He regretted that when their relationship was the best, they didn't take a group photo. It's a bit girly for two big men to take a selfie with their mobile phone. Now that I think about it, I regret it very much, why should I care so much.
I don't know if I will have a chance to take a group photo in the future, the kind of group photo where both of them are facing the camera and smiling from the bottom of their hearts.
In the past few days, Ren Yi also took the time to visit his father. The old man was well taken care of in the hospital, and he gained a few pounds. He was full of praise for the environment and nursing here, which made Ren Yi very psychologically comforted.
This time Qu Yangbo went with him, because he was not allowed to act alone from the leader to the soldiers, including Gong Yingxian.
On the way back, while chatting, Qu Yangbo suddenly pointed at the bus stop and said in surprise, "Hey, that, is that the actor?"
Ren Yi turned his head and saw that on the huge billboard at the bus stop was a drink advertisement shot by a group of stars. They were wearing similar outfits, and they seemed to be from a variety show, and there was a familiar face among them—Qi Xiao. He was a little surprised: "It seems to be really Qi Xiao." After a quick glance, he was not too sure.
"I'll check." Qu Yangbo took out his phone, "It's him, he just appeared on this very popular variety show, and the gossip news said that he is the artist that Song's Media is focusing on this year, ouch, he just accepted a movie, It's for Zhou Xiang."
Ren Yi thought to himself, Song Juhan really meant what he said, he didn't expect Song Juhan to praise Qi Xiao so much: "It seems that he is finally going to be popular, that's great."
"you two… "
"No more contact." Ren Yi recalled the last time the two of them saw each other. What Qi Xiao said would soon come true. He was very happy for Qi Xiao.
"This dude looked handsome in person before, but he wasn't as handsome as Song Juhan. How should I put it, he looked luminous. Now that he packs it up, he looks really handsome."
"A person's temperament must be cultivated."
"Style is also very important." Qu Yangbo glanced at Ren Yi, hesitant to speak.
Ren Yi caught his furtive look: "You want to ask about me and Gong Yingxian again, don't you? I think you are really busy. Go find a girlfriend when you have time."
"Don't worry, I can't even coax you, and I can coax my girlfriend, how can I have time."
"He and I are still the same, only talking about work, not personal affairs."
"Actually, he really has nothing to say to you. He takes such good care of your father."
Ren Yi smiled sadly: "He is good in everything, but he doesn't like me."
Qu Yangbo sighed softly: "I'm not used to you saying such literary words."
Ren Yi laughed and scolded: "Get lost."
"What about the case? Any news?"
"They have found the place where the bomb was made. It is estimated that they are about to target a key member of the organization. Now that there are multiple lines of investigations in parallel, the entire branch office is overwhelmed. He probably has no time to eat or sleep."
"Do you feel distressed?"
"… What is the use."
"Actually, I think what he said that day was obviously angry. Don't take it too seriously. If he really hated you, he would have stayed away from you long ago. He obviously still values you very much."
"Maybe he just needs me to help him investigate the case."
"Don't think of people so coldly. After all, you are life-and-death friends, and more than once. This is not an ordinary friendship."
Ren Yi shrugged his shoulders pretending to be relaxed.
At this moment, Ren Yi's cell phone rang, and he took it out to see that it happened to be Gong Yingxian calling.
Qu Yangbo winked and said, "It must be him."
"Drive your car." Ren Yi answered the phone, "Hello."
"You just went to see your father?"
"Yes, I'm heading back. Lao Ren had a very happy time in the hospital, thank you."
"You're welcome." Gong Yingxian said, "I need your help with something."
"you say."
"We made a new discovery in that abandoned playground."
"What discovery?"
"Inside a well, there were dead bodies."
"Where is the playground?"
"It's not in your jurisdiction. We don't want to find the local fire brigade. There are too many people. Now we try to keep all investigations confidential."
"Okay, you send me the address, we will go there now."
After hanging up the phone, Qu Yangbo asked, "What's going on?"
Ren Yi said helplessly, "Go down the well and dig up the corpse, shall we go?"
Qu Yangbo wrinkled even his facial features, reluctantly said: "Go."
Ren Yi looked at the address sent by Gong Yingxian: "This should be the jurisdiction of the Western Suburb Squadron. Do you know their captain? I have to say hello to the captain, needless to say what's going on. In case our car is stolen by them You see, it’s easy to be misunderstood.”
"This is from another district. I don't know it. I'll ask the chief of staff to coordinate."
On the way, Ren Yi called Gao Ge to get him out of the car, and they went directly to save some time.
They arrived at the scene before dark.
The fire engines of their squadron had arrived, and Gao Ge and Gong Yingxian were talking next to the well.
Ren Yi glanced at the scene, and his heart sank. The well was not a sewage well, but a foundation well, and the difficulty of getting down was not of the same order as the sewage well.
"Team Ren, instructor." Gao Ge saw them from a distance and shouted, "This well is conservatively estimated to be 20 meters deep."
Qu Yangbo "tsk": "Foundation well?"
Ren Yi walked over, he and Gong Yingxian looked at each other, everything that happened at Gong Yingxian's house that day suddenly appeared in his mind, Gong Yingxian obviously thought of the same thing, the two avoided each other's eyes in unison .
Gong Yingxian coughed lightly: "Captain Gao said this well is difficult to drill?"
Ren Yi stood at the edge of the well and looked down. It was cramped and dark, and the depth was bottomless. Just looking at it made people feel hairy.
This is a typical foundation well, probably left by a building abandoned by the playground. Foundation wells are different from sewage wells. The sewage wells are designed with people going down for maintenance. Although the environment is harsh, they will be fine as long as they are equipped. The foundation wells are used for pouring cement, not for people to go down. It is narrow and deep, more than 20 meters is not considered deep, and many high-rise foundation wells are often hundreds of meters, and things fall like falling into the center of the earth, and they will never be seen in this life, which is an excellent choice for dumping corpses.
Gao Ge said: "This well is not particularly narrow, with a diameter of 70 centimeters. If you can go down, you can go down, but it's very difficult." He glanced at Ren Yi, "If there are living people down here, we have to go down anyway, but Dead people..."
Ren Yi didn't speak. He understood what Gao Ge meant. Although he could play, it was dangerous. It might not be worth it to take the risk just to exhume the corpse.
The dangers of foundation wells are multiple. In addition to being narrow and deep, the underground environment is extremely harsh, dark, hypoxic, humid, claustrophobic, and there is a risk of landslides. It is a double test for the physical and psychological quality of soldiers. The only good thing about this well is that it is winter and the soil is frozen, so it is unlikely to collapse.
Gong Yingxian said: "Ren Yi, it's fine if it's dangerous."
"How did you find out that there is a corpse in the well? You can't see it even in broad daylight."
"The evidence found in the amusement park, together with Wang Rui's insane testimony, is inferred. We put down the instrument during the day, and we are sure that there is a dead body."
Ren Yi stood up and sighed: "A few years ago, we also encountered a foundation well to save people. Gao Ge, you didn't come here at that time, but you should have learned it."
Gao Ge nodded: "At the construction site of Zhongnan Building, a worker couple's two-year-old child fell into it."
Ren Yi said: "This relatively wide foundation well can barely go down people, but that well is so narrow... We found the thinnest soldiers in Beijing, but none of them could go down, only children can go down."
"What happened later?" Gong Yingxian asked.
"Later, there was no way. Everyone knew that the child was 100% gone. There was groundwater underneath, but he was still rescued. We had to dig the ground. After eight days of digging, the child's body was dug out." Ren Yi looked again. He wanted to ask Gong Yingxian if he was in a hurry about the well.
But he also realized that this was nonsense, how could he not be in a hurry, now the entire Hongwu Sub-bureau is racing against time to investigate the case, for fear that if one step too late, Ziyan will do something even more terrible and hurt more people, the corpses in the well It may be able to provide them with important evidence.
Gong Yingxian nodded: "How long will it take to dig? I'll find someone as soon as possible."
"Forget it, it's the coldest time now, the soil is frozen solid, it's a waste of time." Ren Yi took a deep breath, "Come on, I'll go down first to explore the road."
Gong Yingxian has already regretted it. He didn't know how dangerous it is to go down the foundation well. Gao Ge told him a lot just now. When he thought of letting Ren Yi go down, his heart tightened. He immediately said: "Or Dig, as you say, there's no one alive down there, it's not worth the risk."
"At least there is no risk of landslides now. You should try it. If the corpses below can provide useful clues, it will be worth it."
Gong Yingxian hesitated to speak, and looked at Ren Yi worriedly.
"It's okay, I'll be careful."
Gao Ge said helplessly: "You play first, I'm second."
"Forget it, you are tall and fat, let Sun define the second."
Gao Ge prepared all the equipment and equipment. They set up a support above the well, and first sent the air bottle to the bottom of the well to "infuse oxygen" to the bottom of the well.
Seeing Gong Yingxian frowned and his face was gloomy, Ren Yi took the initiative and said, "Don't worry, it's not the first time I've gone down the well. In fact, the most dangerous thing about foundation wells is landslides, which usually don't happen in winter in the north." situation, if I'm out of oxygen or if I'm out of strength, they'll pull me up right away, and it won't be a big deal."
Gong Yingxian said in a muffled voice, "If I knew it was so dangerous, I wouldn't let you come."
Qu Yangbo was standing not far from the two of them. Hearing this conversation, he immediately raised his eyebrows.
Ren Yi smiled lightly: "My job is so dangerous, I'm still alive and kicking. Today I will be the captain of the Western Suburb Squadron. If he knows that going down this well can help you catch the arsonist as soon as possible, he will do it too. Don't worry." I'm worried."
Gong Yingxian stared at Ren Yi, bit her lip lightly.
"Team Ren, all right."
Ren Yi returned to the well. He took off his heavy cotton clothes and put on light rescue clothes. At this time, his warm clothes included thermal underwear, sweaters, rescue clothes and baby warmers. In the winter night of minus 12 degrees, it was just better than nothing.
He starts to warm up.
Gong Yingxian looked at Ren Yi's ears that were quickly turning red from the cold, feeling extremely distressed.
After warming up, he put on a mask, rescue rope, lighting, walkie-talkie and other tools, and was slowly lowered by the soldiers while hanging on the rope.
The walls of the foundation well were damp and cold, and the temperature also dropped with every meter down. With his body, he would hit the wall with the slightest movement. The lower he went, the more oppressed Ren Yi felt. Surrounded by the icy permafrost, the night sky above his head, and the dark abyss beneath his feet, he seemed to be wrapped in a bottomless pipe, or like Swallowed into the giant mouth of the monster, he hung up and down in the air, with nothing to lose, only the fear of the unknown, seeping into every pore of him.
Ren Yi struggled to adjust his breathing. He couldn't bring an empty breathing bottle, and relied on the mask to filter the air in the well, and the air in the well was thin, and being too nervous would only make him lack of oxygen.
He was already shaking from the cold, and his hands and feet were starting to feel stiff.
"Ren Yi, how are you doing?" Gong Yingxian shouted from above.
"Keep playing." Ren Yi said tremblingly.
Finally, Ren Yi's foot stepped on the ground, and he said in the middle of the intercom, "It's the end."
"24 meters." Gao Ge said.
Ren Yi raised his hand, trying to adjust the angle of the flashlight, but his fingers were too stiff and he couldn't hold it steady. The flashlight fell to the ground with a bang. When he looked down, his heart felt like he had been punched hard. He was stepping on ice, and there was a thin layer of soil on the ice. When the strong light of the flashlight pierced through the soil, a skull suddenly appeared under the ice. The deep-set black eye sockets were just below the flashlight, and its entire face was facing upwards. , as if he was looking up at the sky above his head until he died, watching the day and night alternation of the square-inch sky, and buried himself in a deep well, as if the dead had a spirit, how could he be willing to enter reincarnation.
Ren Yi gasped, he was mentally prepared for what would happen down the well, but he still felt creepy.
"How about it, have you seen it?"
"I saw it, but it's hard to handle, it's frozen." Ren Yi tried to squat down to pick up the flashlight, but found that he could barely squat halfway, and his hands couldn't reach the ice layer. Finally, he picked up the flashlight with both hands and feet. When he got up, in the oxygen-poor environment, this movement had already made him out of breath.
"The ice must be melted first." Qu Yangbo said.
Gong Yingxian frowned and said, "No matter what method you use to melt the ice, it will destroy the corpse. Only by preserving the current state of the corpse to the greatest extent can the forensic doctor give the closest appraisal to the truth."
Ren Yi felt that his breathing became more and more difficult. I am afraid that the air input from the bottom of the well has been almost consumed by himself. He said: "It can only be smashed, and the damage to the corpse can be less. This ice layer is not good. deep."
"If you smash it, you have to go down." Sun defined. "It's more likely to lack oxygen if you go down. You have to change people frequently. I'm afraid we don't have enough people."
Ren Yi started to feel dizzy, and was too cold to bear, he said: "Pull me up first."
Everyone quickly dragged Ren Yi up.
Back on the ground, Ren Yi took off his mask and took a big gulp of fresh air. His lips were already purple from the cold, and he was shaking all over. Just as Gong Yingxian was about to go forward to help him, Qu Yangbo had already covered him. He put on his coat, pulled him up, and stuffed a thermos cup into his hand: "Hurry up and drink some hot water."
Gong Yingxian's eyes immediately showed disappointment.
Ren Yi shivered and took a sip of water: "There is not enough oxygen in the well, so we need to call in an exhaust fan to completely replace the air. We are also short of manpower, so we still have to ask the Xijiao Squadron for help."
Qu Yangbo said: "You rest, I'll make arrangements."
After Qu Yangbo left, Gong Yingxian looked at Ren Yi worriedly, but didn't know what to say, the only thing he wanted to do now was to hold Ren Yi in his arms and warm him up.
But he couldn't do it, he didn't have that position.