Chapter 27: Disappearance

  （1）

  Liao Xinxin almost had her eyeballs pop out when she heard this news.

  "Are you kidding me?! But there's a video, right? It's impossible that there's no body!" Liao Xinxin pointed at the river and jumped up and down. "And Shen Yue said the video has been analyzed, there's no sign of fabrication."

  Yuan Fei shrugged his shoulders, "That's true, but really no corpses were found, nor any signs of suicide around. Completely can't be found."

  "Didn't it get washed away?"

  "Do you think there's no wind in the plain area, and how fast is the water flowing?" Yuan Fei sneered, "But to be on the safe side, I've already sent people downstream and nearby to investigate, but so far, there's been no news coming back, probably nothing was found."

  Liao Xinxin let out a sigh, carefully peeked at Shen Yu not far away, and then quickly withdrew her head. She figured that Officer Shen was probably eager to lose his temper now, so it's better for her to keep a distance, lest she provoke this hothead.

  Yuan Fei followed Liao Xinxin's gaze and immediately pulled a long face, "We're done for. Our Director Shen will definitely not swallow this insult. The provincial government office was actually played with. Looks like we'll be working overtime again."

  "You're fine, but I'm his little follower, every day I have to follow him and be a laborer, originally he's always icy-faced and doesn't say much, these days will definitely be even harder." Liao Xinxin collapsed into a limp mess, looking very dispirited.

  It's really one wave after another, she thought the situation was already bad enough. The previous murder case had someone impersonating the Public Security Bureau to prevent autopsy, and then there was a recording of the crime scene sent directly to the person in charge's email. There must be some trickery going on here. This is already enough to make one think deeply. Okay, now it's even better, being fooled by fake recordings, isn't this openly provoking the Public Security Bureau? Liao Xinxin thought, and took a step back, her aunt Shen Yu, don't get too angry...

  She was praying with her hands clasped together for Shen Yu to not come and find trouble with her, but Shen Yu walked over from where he had been standing and talking with the police officer, walking straight towards her.

  Liao Xinxin shivered again and again.

  "What's wrong with you?" Yuan Fei looked at Liao Xinxin, who was squatting on the ground and stealing glances at Shen Yu, who was walking towards them. "It can't be that serious, can it? The ladies in our department are all looking forward to getting close to our great General Shen, what's with the trembling?"

  "I'm afraid he'll make me work even harder..."

  Shen Yu thought about the scene in the video and the report from the police officer just now, walking towards the bridgehead.

  "Yuan Fei, go back and write a report, detailing your work situation today."

  Yuan Fei was still mocking Liao Xin's cowardice and didn't react immediately, it wasn't until half a day later that he wailed, "Inspector sir, haven't you already asked the seniors about the situation? Why do I need to write a report too?"

  "Oh." Shen Yu didn't react much, "Your superior said your writing is quite good."

  Yuan Fei wailed.

  Liao Xinxin listened for a while on one side, and didn't shake anymore. Her mood suddenly became cheerful, and she didn't forget to kindly lean over and remind him, "Just 10,000 words is fine, handwritten."

  Yuan Fei's eyes were filled with resentment as he glared at Liao Xinxin.

  Shen Yu gazed at the two of them with a cold eye, and said indifferently, "Liao Xinxin, get your files ready, we're starting work."

  Liao Xin's triumphant and arrogant laughter came to an abrupt halt.

  （2）

  "Show me the video footage." Shen Yu said to Liao Xinxin.

  They had already crossed the bridge and were walking along the riverbank in the downstream direction. There were basically no buildings along the way, with the river on the south side and a high blue iron sheet enclosure by the construction team on the north side, presumably to develop this piece of land along the river.

  "Hmm." Liao Xinxin took out an iPad from her bag and handed it to Shen Yu, who opened his email and played the video again.

  "The scene in the video seems to be near Sihuan Bridge." Shen Yu repeatedly watched it several times, "But the environment around here is similar, maybe we are just being misled. With You Chen's case before us, we naturally think of the riverbank near Sihuan Bridge as the crime scene."

  Liao Xinxin squinted her somewhat nearsighted big eyes and looked around, and indeed they were all about the same. This side was going to be a riverside park, but for now only a small path had been built and some willows had been planted.

  "The distance between the trees, tall and short, are almost the same, and the video is not very clear, so it's really hard to tell them apart." Liao Xinxin took a look at the scene in the video, Ge Tianyu's figure was half blocked by a willow tree branch, the video quality was really poor, kept shaking, and there were also snowflakes appearing on the screen, couldn't be clearly distinguished.

  "Let's take some pictures of the surrounding area first, we can't see much now, and compare them carefully when we get back." Shen Yu handed the tablet back to Liao Xinxin, "Let's head back first, and leave this place to them for now."

  Liao Xinxin responded with a "yes", and then glanced around again. It was already late November, the leaves on the branches of the willow trees had basically all fallen off, leaving the branches bare and unattractive. She curled her lip in distaste.

  Shen Yu stopped not far away and waited for her. Liao Xinxin shrank his head and quickly ran over.

  "Where are we going?"

  "First go back to the hall, the original video still needs to be sent over for appraisal."

  This time Liao Xin didn't sit in the passenger seat, not for any other reason, but because she was really tired. She had been sleeping too little these past few days, causing her body to be a bit unable to hold up.

  The back seat of Shen Yu's car had a lot of space, enough for Liao Xin to curl up her legs and lie down relatively comfortably. This time Shen Yu didn't drive very fast, so she figured it was enough for herself to rest for half an hour.

  Lying for a while, Liao Xinxin angrily opened her eyes. From her current angle, she could see Shen Yu's half-profile face, so she glared at him fiercely. It was all because of him that everything had to be done with her, and now she had finally managed to catch up on some sleep. As soon as she closed her eyes, the video of Ge Tianyu's suicide kept replaying automatically in her mind, just a short segment: Ge Tianyu walking two steps on the riverbank, turning back to look at her, then jumping down with a splash, and continuing to walk two steps on the riverbank, turning back to look at her, and jumping down again...

  She let out a resigned sigh and pulled out her iPad from her bag again.

  Username. Password.

  The video starts playing. Ge Tianyu walked two steps on the riverbank, turned his head to look at her, and then jumped down with a thud.

  Liao Xinxin made an effort to wave away the uncomfortable feeling in her heart and moved forward a segment.

  Ge Tianyu walked two steps on the riverbank, turned his head and looked at her, then bang...

  Wait a minute, what's that? Liao Xinxin rewound the video a bit and paused it at the exact moment when Ge Tianyu turned his head. The person recording adjusted the focus of the camera at this point, slightly enlarging Ge Tianyu's face, and in this part, the snowflakes in the video didn't interfere, so the picture was a bit clearer.

  She narrowed her eyes and looked carefully at the branches of the tree beside Ge Tianyu, what was that green thing?

  It's already late November, are there still leaves on the trees?