After Bian Xingxue was ordered to trace the whereabouts of the pickup truck, he immediately led his Jiangbei District Criminal Police Brigade to Jiangyou Road. Jiangyou Road is actually the top road of the right side of the Zhongjiang River Embankment. People reinforced and repaired the Zhongjiang Embankment and built a road on the top of the embankment.
The winding road is named Jiangyou Road.
Not far after leaving Zhongjiang City on Jiangyou Road, you encounter Jiangshan lying in the arms of Zhongjiang. The height of Jiangshan is not too high, and the volume is not too large, so it is named after it is close to Zhongjiang.
After the Zhongjiang River flows from west to east to the Jiangshan Mountains, it makes a half-circle around the Jiangshan Mountains and turns to the southeast. Standing on the top of the Jiangshan Mountains and looking at the endlessly rushing Zhongjiang River, it feels like being surrounded by the Zhongjiang River.
Jiangyou Road, which meets the mountains and rivers, comes to an end here. The rugged mountains replace the embankment, making Jiangyou Road disappear among the mountains. At the end of the asphalt road of Jiangyou Road, there is a huge sign with red paint on it.
There are four big characters written on it: "This road is blocked." The signboard blocks the entire road tightly, leaving only about half a meter of space below. Behind the signboard is dozens of meters of gradually shrinking sand and gravel.
The road eventually turned into a winding trail and disappeared into the mountains.
Bian Xingxue stood in front of this signboard, looking at the turbulent river with his hands on his hips, and asked Tang Feng who was standing aside:
"Are you sure this is where the pickup truck disappeared?"
"Yes, the video shows that the pickup truck drove forward through the last intersection of Jiangyou Road at 1:23 a.m. on the 6th, and the distance from the intersection to here is only 370 meters. There is nothing in between for the vehicle to get off
On the road, there is only one step for pedestrians to lead to the bottom of the embankment."
"That's strange. Could it be that this pickup truck disappeared out of thin air?" Bian Xingxue said in confusion.
"Will it fall into the river?" Tang Feng said to himself.
"The railings on both sides of the road are intact. Where did it fall?" Bian Xingxue asked.
"Yeah, the pickup truck can't jump over the railing and jump into the river, right?"
While the two were discussing, Xiao Wang, who had already got behind the "No Access" sign, suddenly shouted to them:
"Brother Tang from the side team, there is something going on here, come and see."
Bian Xingxue and Tang Feng heard Xiao Wang's shout and quickly got through the gap under the sign and came to the path paved with sand and gravel.
"Look at the side team, there are ruts here." Xiao Wang pointed to the marks on the ground and said.
Bian Xingxue followed Xiao Wang's finger and saw a very obvious rutted mark extending from the sign to the river and to the cliff on the mountainside. Because the gravel road behind the sign was very soft and rutted
The imprint is very deep, making it easy to tell that it was left recently.
Several people carefully came to the cliff and looked down. A few dozen meters below where they stood, the turbulent river was rushing. The river water slapped on the rocks, making a huge echo.
"Did the pickup truck drive into the river? Where was the driver? It's impossible for the driver to jump into the river with the pickup truck, right? Besides, how did the pickup truck get in past the sign?"
These questions were lingering in Bian Xingxue's mind when Tang Feng suddenly shouted from the sign:
"Border team, come quickly and take a look."
Bian Xingxue returned to the sign, looked at the back of the sign, and immediately understood how the pickup truck came in.
It turns out that the lower part of the sign can be opened, just like a door that opens to both sides. There is a latch in the middle of the door. After the door is closed, the latch is inserted from the back. In this case, it cannot be seen from the front of the sign.
There is also a door here. If a vehicle needs to pass through, one has to get behind the sign and open the latch, and a door will appear.
"Isn't this sign too weird? Who would design such a sign?" Tang Feng pulled out the latch on the door and opened the door to both sides. Sure enough, a door about 3 meters high and 4 meters wide appeared. Like this
Not to mention a pickup truck, even a large truck can drive in through the door.
"Maybe the construction team made it like this intentionally, so that it can facilitate the entry and exit of their construction vehicles, and also prevent the entry of public vehicles." Bian Xingxue said.
"Well, if you put it this way, the design of this sign is quite creative."
"It seems that the pickup truck should have disappeared from here." Bian Xingxue said.
"Border team, look here again." Tang Feng pointed to the gravel road leading to the cliff by the river and said:
"It's about ten meters from here to the river, and it's all downhill. If someone opens this door and parks the car here, puts it in neutral and pushes hard, it should be easy to push the car off the cliff."
"Well, your analysis is right, it is possible."
Bian Xingxue and Tang Feng returned to the cliff and looked at the turbulent river for a long time, but could not find any trace of the pickup truck in the river.
"Do you think if the pickup truck is pushed down, will it be washed away by the river?" Bian Xingxue asked.
"I think it will be washed down for a certain distance. When the pickup truck sinks to the bottom of the river, it may be blocked by the rocks at the bottom of the river and stay in a certain position." Tang Feng replied.
"Okay, contact the Zhongjiang Shipping Police Branch immediately and ask them if there is any way to detect the vehicle that fell into the water." Bian Xingxue arranged.
With the strong assistance of the Zhongjiang City Shipping Police Branch, Bian Xingxue and Tang Feng boarded the search and rescue patrol boat of the Shipping Police Branch and carried a new underwater lidar imager and underwater metal detector to the suspected crash site.
After more than three hours of intense search, a pickup truck sunk to the bottom of the water was finally discovered 500 meters downstream from the crash site. The image returned from the laser imager showed that the pickup truck did not have a license plate.
Although the abandoned car was found, the salvage encountered difficulties. Because Zhongjiang City is an inland city along the river, the city does not have a dedicated salvage team. If you want to salvage a large object like a pickup truck, you must coordinate salvage from other provinces.
boat, or rent a private salvage vessel.
"Team Liang, what do you think we should do? Do we still need to salvage the pickup truck?" Bian Xingxue returned to the task force to report to Liang Shi.
"After a vehicle falls into the water, basically no evidence left inside or outside the vehicle will exist. However, the engine and frame number of the vehicle are still there. If it can be salvaged, further investigation can be conducted along the clues of the vehicle." Liang Shi
explain.
"Yes, I think so too. If salvaging the car is useless, then why did the criminals push the car underwater? Since they pushed the car into the river, they just don't want us to find it."
"Yeah, I think it's better to prepare for salvage. The bureau takes this matter very seriously, and I don't think they care about spending some salvage expenses. I will report it to my superiors immediately, and you will immediately contact a ship that can salvage the pickup truck.
"
"receive."
Bian Xingxue agreed and immediately started to salvage the ship through his colleagues in the Shipping Police Branch.