The headlights of the car cut through the darkness and could see the traces of water flooding on the bridge piers, which were three to four meters high. Yan Zheng rolled down the car window and smelled a pungent stench.

The smell is like the smell of soaked sludge mixed with the smell of fermented charcoal from stinky water. When mixed together, there is an indescribable pungency.

Now that the rainy season has passed in late autumn, there has been almost no decent rain in Jishui City recently. Why is there such a smell under the bridge?

Could this be the bridge hole that smells bad when it rains mentioned in the mission?

The problem is that it hasn't rained yet, so why is it so smelly under the bridge?

Liu Jinding stopped the car under the bridge and turned around and asked: "Boss?"

Yan Zheng nodded understandingly: "Let's go first, it stinks. Go to the community to check the situation. I don't see the task trigger here, maybe it's not here."

Liu Jinding drove the car as instructed, passed through the bridge tunnel, and found the mining community in front of him.

The mining community was originally the unit dormitory of the mine. Later, after the steel plant was established, it was renovated and built into a collective dormitory area for the steel plant and the mine.

The scale is very large, and it will not be a problem to accommodate 30,000 to 50,000 people.

But now it seems that their situation is not good. The lights in the community are sparse, and few lights in the whole building are on, making it look like a ghost. It is only about nine o'clock, and such a scene appears.

This illustrates a problem. Most people have moved away from this forgotten corner of the city.

Although the road leading to the community is cracked due to disrepair, fortunately there are no heavy trucks running over it. The road condition is still good.

The street lampshades with a strong sense of the times are stained black with a layer of toner, making the originally dim lights even dimmer.

Just walking in the sunset in the haze makes everything look unclear.

Under the depressing light, the thick weeping willows were untrimmed, and their thick branches were dragged directly to the ground, standing like disheveled female ghosts on both sides of the road.

On the quiet and deserted road, the sound of the car running over the stones was particularly clear, and Yan Zheng's heart was particularly sensitive.

The wide open doorway of the community in front is as chilling as the entrance to the abyss of hell.

I couldn't help cursing secretly: "It's okay to have a lot of people in a ghost place like this. What's the difference between a ghost place and a ghost place without people?"

Liu Jinding echoed from the side: "That's right, boss. I even feel eerie."

Yan Zheng's eyes widened in surprise: "Are you afraid of ghosts? I thought you would feel like you were home."

Liu Jinding replied dissatisfied: "What's wrong with ghosts? Ghosts can't be afraid anymore. We ghosts like places with strong yin energy, not gloomy places. It's depressing for ghosts to stay in such places. We ghosts also pay attention to the quality of life."

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Yan Zheng was amused by Liu Jinding's words. Ghosts also pay attention to the quality of life! Judging from this, people's lives are worse than ghosts.

The two of them made fun of each other and drove to the gate of the community. Looking at the dark community, Liu Jinding asked: "Are we going in?"

Yan Zheng replied uneasily: "The mission said that this community has been shrouded in dreams recently, so it would be inappropriate to enter hastily.

We will stop outside tonight to observe the situation and see if it gets better."

After a moment of silence, Yan Zheng continued: "Stop the car next to the community and turn off the ignition. I will sleep for a while and see if I can fall asleep. Just keep an eye on me and wake me up in time if anything seems strange."

After instructing Liu Jin, Dingyan lowered his seat, put on his clothes and went to sleep. After turning off the lights, the car blended into the darkness, with only the ghostly light of the lantern flashing from time to time.

It didn't dare to disturb Yan Zheng while he was sleeping and couldn't play with Liu Jinding. The bored Lantern Ghost rolled around in the back seat.

After tossing for a while, Lantern Ghost curled his tongue and fell asleep soundly. Yan Zheng, who lay down earlier than Lantern Ghost, couldn't fall asleep.

As soon as he closed his eyes, information about the mission couldn't help but pour out, and Yan Zheng couldn't help but begin to analyze and speculate.

I don't know how long Yan Zheng had been speculating. He felt a little dizzy. He pinched the tired muscles between the bridge of his nose and woke up: "What time is it, Old Liu?"

Liu Jinding immediately replied: "It's one o'clock in the morning, boss. You've slept for about three hours. How have you gained anything?"

Yan Zheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "No! I didn't fall asleep at all. When I closed my eyes, my mind was filled with the content of the mission. The more I thought about it, the more headache I got. It seems that the other party didn't pull me into the dream. Maybe my dream didn't suit its taste.

Bar!"

Liu Jinding shrugged and said he didn't know.

"Then boss, should we wait any longer?"

Yan Zheng: "No wait. Let's go back."

Liu Jinding restarted the car and seemed to remember something: "Boss, I suddenly remembered that I sent someone to the mining community once, and when he brought me here, he took the road in front. The road in front was newly built, although it was a bit far away.

But the road condition is much better. How about we walk back from the front?"

Since the mission was fruitless, it didn't matter to Yan Zheng where he went back from. He nodded and decided to let Liu Jinding decide.

Liu Jinding drove the car to the south end of the community and turned a corner. A cement road that could barely accommodate two cars appeared in front of him. Judging from the condition of this road, it should have been renovated recently.

It seems that this road is the main road used by mine residents for daily travel. The road I took before was probably the road used by the steel factory to transport steel. After the steel factory was abandoned, that road also lost its value. No wonder it is so difficult to get to the city hall.

No repairs are made.

After walking along the cement road for three or four miles, I saw a bridge hole again in Diyanzheng. The bridge was a viaduct about five meters high. The cement road under the bridge was flat and there was no possibility of water accumulation due to rain.

Yan Zheng was so annoyed by the mission that he almost became an expert on bridge caverns. When he saw the bridge, he couldn't help but speculate whether it would rain or accumulate water.

When I walked under the bridge, there was a pool of water that caught Yan Zheng's attention. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be water in this terrain.

The car ran over a puddle, and the water depth just reached the wheel platform. The doubts in Yan Zheng's heart also disappeared with the shallow water.

He secretly cursed himself for being suspicious and thinking of the mission when he saw the water and the bridge. This little water was not even enough for bathing, let alone drowning people.

That’s right! How did the mission target die?

I have only considered the company's intentions and have not speculated on the death of the mission target.

Introduced in mission

A bridge hole that accumulates water all year round

The stench that permeates the bridge when it rains

Black handprints on pedestrians' feet

I took it for granted that the other person drowned when it rained and water accumulated under the bridge. The black fingerprints on the pedestrian's feet were stained by the mud on his hands.

What if I have fallen into a misunderstanding? The other party did not drown in the water under the bridge, but was murdered and his body was hidden under the bridge.

But where could the corpse be hidden under the bridge in full view? It was sealed in the concrete pier when the bridge was being repaired. How can we explain the black fingerprints?

No matter how hard he tried, Yan Zheng couldn't figure out how the other party died to be connected with the bridge!

I have walked around the mining community tonight, and I have visited the three bridges around it, but the task has not been triggered yet.

It means that my triggering method is wrong, or that I simply didn't find the right triggering location.

There were no road signs along the way. Where is Mining South Road? I drove along the road from the mine in the north. Geographically speaking, it can be called Mining South Road from the moment you pass the first culvert when you go down the mountain. The two bridges are also

All have the conditions for water accumulation.

One of them was full of stench, which was very consistent with the mission information, but the mission was not triggered.

Could it be that the mission must be triggered when it rains and there is water under the overpass?

Thinking of this, Yan Zheng seemed to have found the key to the mission and immediately shouted: "Old Liu, turn around and go back to the bridge from the steel plant to the mining community. I will verify it."

Liu Jinding turned around and asked curiously: "Boss, what did you think of again?"

Yan Zheng informed Lao Liu of his new speculation and asked at the same time: "Old Liu, the company prohibits you from intervening in the mission. Is it okay if it rains a little? If it doesn't work, my mission will be useless. It will be winter in two months."

, it’s going to snow heavily. Where can I go to find heavy rain? I’ll have to wait until next summer!”

Liu Jinding replied: "Boss, let me try somewhere. I don't know. There is a force in the contract that prevents me from helping you during your mission. Even if I want to, I can't mobilize the energy. It won't interfere if it rains.

I think your mission should be fine!"

Soon the car returned to the railway culvert. Liu Jinding tried to mobilize his illusion, and found that his illusion was indeed sealed by an invisible force, but the heavy rain before the illusion opened was not affected.

Yan Zheng was overjoyed: "Old Liu, just keep it like this! Just keep raining."

The rain mobilized by Liu Jinding was not as violent as when the hallucination was activated before, and the rainstorm was like a torrential downpour.

The rain now is moderate at best, and it's intermittent.

Yan Zheng couldn't help but urged anxiously: "I asked you, Old Liu, could you please give me some strength? Don't act like you have prostate inflammation. It's raining intermittently. How long will it take until the entire bridge hole is covered?"

Liu Jinding, with a constipated expression on his face, came back with difficulty: "Boss, there's nothing I can do. My illusion is sealed, and it's very difficult to maintain the current state. A little rain will be good, so don't be picky.

Oh, what about the prostate and not the prostate? Are you disgusting or not?"

Yan Zheng stopped talking and laughed at Liu Jinding's constipated expression.

Liu Jinding gave Yan Zheng a hard look and did not dare to reply. As soon as he opened his mouth, the air leaked, and the rain stopped.
Chapter completed!