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Chapter 533 You wouldn't believe it, this is a draft.
Therefore, Cang Yue could only ask some normal questions: "Which direction did those survivors go after they crawled out?"

Suddenly, one of the puppet's arms rose up and pointed in a direction.

Gu Mian looked in the direction of its arm, which was exactly the direction Coco and Zhao Shuang had left.

Cang Yue withdrew her gaze, and just as she was about to ask the next question, she suddenly saw the doll's second arm also rise up, pointing in another direction.

"What... what's going on?" Xia Jianren stared in astonishment at the direction the two arms were pointing. "Those few people, and they split up and went in two different directions?"

“Actually, I’ve been wondering about this from the very beginning,” Cang Yue said, frowning as she looked at the doll in front of her. “Theoretically speaking, the people who survived at that time must have been seriously injured. A normal person should have stayed where they were and waited for rescue.”

The doll said that the accident happened at night, and even at night, people would occasionally pass by. So, staying put and asking for help was the most normal choice.

But the group of people dragged their injured bodies away from the spot, and even split up and left in two different directions.

As Cang Yue pondered this, she continued to ask, "Why did they leave?"

"It was too dark for me to see clearly. I only saw them hurrying away in two directions."

Are their injuries serious?

"It was too dark for me to see clearly. I could only see some people walking unsteadily, while others were running."

Seeing that the countdown on the doll's stomach had reached 10 seconds, Cang Yue quickly asked, "Did they say anything when they left?"

"Run."

After uttering those two words, the doll's neck tilted to the side, and its eyes lost their light.

It stopped moving.

Xia Jianren and Cang Yue looked at each other, not quite understanding the meaning of those two words.

"Run quickly?"

Judging from this, it sounds as if they were the ones who caused the bus rollover, and that they fled in a panic after the accident.

"That's really strange," Xia Jianren frowned. "I initially thought the accident was caused by Zhao Shuang, but I didn't expect that some of the survivors might have something to hide?"

Just as Xia Jianren was puzzled, footsteps came from one of the directions the puppet was pointing.

Coco and Zhao Shuang are coming back.

Cang Yue quickly retrieved the doll and then looked up in the direction from which the footsteps came.

Zhao Shuang was somewhat surprised to see Gu Mian and the other two still there: "Have you been here the whole time? Weren't you supposed to be looking for clues around here?"

Cang Yue smiled at her: "We've already searched, but we didn't find anything special. But what about you? Did you find anything?"

Coco shook her head; it seemed they hadn't found anything either.

The doll had pointed out the direction Coco and Zhao Shuang had just explored. If the testimony was correct, they should have found something there. The fact that they found nothing was probably because they hadn't gone far enough.

As Cang Yue thought about it, she stood up and said, "Let's search more carefully and see if we can find anything."

As she spoke, she walked towards the direction Coco and Zhao Shuang had come from. Time was of the essence; the police could arrive at any moment and discover the bus was missing. If their investigation led to them, things would not go well.

Coco looked at Cang Yue, then at Gu Mian, as if she wanted to know what they had just discussed.

Cang Yue saw through Ke Ke's thoughts, so she pulled Zhao Shuang ahead to make sure she couldn't hear what the people behind her were saying.

She held Zhao Shuang's hand and said, "You've been here before, so you're familiar with the area. Please remind me not to fall into any traps."

Xia Jianren followed, and Coco, watching their backs, whispered to Gu Mian, "What were you saying just now?"

Gu Mian looked down at her: "Just now, Cang Yue took out a special item called something like 'Unreliable Eyewitness,' which can provide unreliable testimony about the bus overturning."

He quietly described to Coco the unreliable testimony the doll had given, and Coco frowned as she listened.

She repeated the last two words the doll had uttered: "Run?"

It looked like they had done something wrong and were in a hurry to run away.

She frowned: "Besides resembling someone fleeing after committing a crime, it also resembles..."

But before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a voice from above.

"What are you doing!"

Gu Mian looked up and saw that the uncle who had been handing out flyers earlier had somehow gotten up there and was peering at the two of them.

Cang Yue and the others, who had already walked some distance, were also attracted by the sound. They looked up, but could not see clearly above because of the lush trees all around.

The uncle upstairs also failed to see Cang Yue and her companion, who had already entered the dense forest. He poked his head out and shouted down, "What are you two doing up here? Don't cause any trouble. Don't let the missing people disappear before you do." Gu Mian thought the uncle probably mistook them for spectators.

Cang Yue looked up and explained, "We just came down to take a look, we didn't intend to do anything else."

"Then be careful. It's already this late, the police will be here in a few minutes. If they see you down there, they'll definitely arrest you."

At this moment, Cang Yue and the other two were turning around to look at Gu Mian and Ke Ke behind them.

Upon hearing what the old man with the flyers said, Coco gave Cangyue a look, signaling them to go ahead.

Otherwise, the police will arrive in a few minutes and arrest them all.

Having received the signal, Cang Yue turned around and quietly led Zhao Shuang away.

"Huh?" The old man handing out flyers noticed something was wrong. "I was so busy talking to you guys that I remember that car was here last night, but it's gone today."

I drove it away.

Of course, Gu Mian didn't say it out loud. He started climbing up so that he wouldn't be arrested as a criminal suspect when the police came.

Coco was quite good at lying: "It was probably dragged away as evidence. It's not suitable for research and evidence collection in the middle of nowhere."

The two quickly climbed up.

The old man handing out flyers looked at the two people climbing up and asked, "Didn't you come with five people? Where are the other three?"

As he spoke, he looked around but did not see the other three people.

Coco quickly said, "The three of them went up to the top of the mountain first, and we stayed here to take a look around."

"Oh." The old man nodded, fanning himself with the flyer in his hand.

Gu Mian pulled Coco up and said to the old man, "Then let's go after those three first."

After saying that, he politely said goodbye.

He was afraid that when the police arrived and saw that the bus was gone, they would arrest all the suspects present first.

Coco followed Gu Mian for several hundred meters, and only when they could no longer see the people behind them did she ask breathlessly, "Sister Cangyue and the others have gone down, what do we do?"

"Don't rush." ​​Gu Mian stood by the roadside, looking down at the slope. He had climbed up earlier because he was afraid that the man would tell the police that someone had gone into the woods, and it wouldn't be good if the police searched them all.

He looked down at the dense forest below and said, "I remember one of the directions the doll pointed in was this way. If we go down from here and head back, we might find something along the way."

If you're lucky, you might run into Cang Yue and the others.

Coco took out her phone: "Shall I call them first and tell them?"

Gu Mian nodded as she looked around for a good place to step, "Whatever you want."

Just as Coco was about to call Cang Yue, she found that the other party had already called, and she immediately pressed the answer button.

"Hey?"

"Hey, Coco, where are you?" Cang Yue was standing in front of a shallow ditch when she spoke to Coco.

The trees around the ditch were sparse, but there were still a lot of weeds, and stepping on them made my whole leg itch.

Coco's voice came through the phone: "We've reached the concrete road up there and are about to go down from somewhere else. Where are you now?"

Cang Yue looked at the ditch in front of her: "I can't say exactly where it is, but it's in the direction you and Zhao Shuang were walking. Keep going straight, and there's a big ditch here. We're right in front of this ditch."

"Gu Mian and I plan to go down in the other direction the puppet pointed to and walk back. Maybe we'll run into you there."

Cang Yue nodded, holding her phone: "Okay, then be careful, we'll walk slowly and wait for you."

After explaining everything, the two ended the call, and Gu Mian found a suitable path to go down.

On the other end of the phone, Cang Yue was staring at the ditch in front of her.

The ditch stretched out in front of them, seemingly endless to either side. The water inside had long since dried up, and the bottom was overgrown with weeds. Thorns and other prickly plants also grew around the ditch.

She squatted down and looked at the ditch, which was about two meters deep.

If the direction given by the doll is correct, then the survivors should have also encountered this ditch. Did they cross the ditch, or did they go to the side along the ditch?

Just as Cang Yue was puzzled, Zhao Shuang suddenly stood up and looked in the direction of the ditch: "Can we go that way?"

Is this what it means to be a procrastinator?! I'm a procrastinator with a backlog of drafts now!

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