Chapter 1507 Forest Search and Rescue

This cabin in the forest is a brick-wood mixed structure. Except for the brick fireplace, most of the others are made of wood. The walls are fixed with mortise and tenon structures. It is quite strong and practical, and the most important thing is that it has good thermal insulation performance, warm in winter and cool in summer-even though the summer in the redwood forest is not hot.

The wooden house isolates the mist from the outside, and the fireplace dispels the cold air. Through the small windows, you can see the mist flowing slowly like white lava.

The firewood is crackling and burning, the kettle is whistling, and the low roar of the diesel generator outside the house can be clearly heard in the quiet forest.

Sometimes you can hear unknown noises coming from outside the door. Even though you know that some small animals are sneaking past, it is still difficult to restrain the wanton and crazy delusions in your mind.

There is no running water, we have to rely on our own power generation, and there is no WiFi. Living in this kind of place for a day or two may feel fresh. After a long time, loneliness can kill people.

It is conceivable that the person who lived here before must be a rough middle-aged single male in his 40s or 50s. He is white. He may have served in the army and participated in local wars. He may suffer from PTSD, so he lives in seclusion and does not want to talk to anyone. deal with.

And a middle-aged woman who is used to living in the city really needs to borrow some courage from Liang Jingru in order to find her daughter to live here alone for more than ten days. Maybe only maternal love can drive her to overcome the fear in her heart to do this.

Zhang Zian's conjecture was confirmed by Mrs. Miller. The person living here is indeed a down-and-out middle-aged man who always wears a camouflage uniform. His words and deeds look like those who have served in the army, but she doesn't know more about the specifics.

Mrs. Miller said that since Megan went to college, she has become very independent. Many things are decided by herself, and she only informs her family after she starts doing them, including this cycling and hiking through a series of redwood forests on the west coast. The same is true, when Mrs. Miller got the news, Megan had already set off.

At that time, although Mrs. Miller was a little worried, she didn't take the matter too seriously. She and her daughter had driven along the road on the west coast more than once before. It's not pure hiking, so I didn't persuade her after a few words of advice, because she knew her daughter's personality well, once she decided to do something, she would definitely do it, and persuasion was useless, but she asked her daughter to contact her every morning and evening, and report the itinerary , the daughter also agreed.

It went smoothly at first, and Megan tried to keep in touch every day. Even if the signal was interrupted for a day, she would explain the situation in time the next day, so Mrs. Miller gradually felt relieved, looking at her daughter's social accounts. She also sincerely shared her daughter's happiness with all kinds of interesting travel pictures posted by po.

However, on the day Megan arrived near Redwood Forest Park,

Megan sent a message in a hurry. In addition to reporting her location, she also mentioned that she found an interesting thing-this is not the first time she mentioned something interesting during the trip. Surprising animals, such as golden banana slugs that are longer than the palm of your hand, are about the same thickness as a banana. When seeing the picture sent by Meghan, Mrs. Miller almost spit out her half-eaten breakfast... So, Mrs. Miller She smiled and didn't take it to heart, but on the second day, Megan didn't send a message again, nor on the third day, and couldn't get through on the phone.

Mrs. Miller couldn't sit still and called the police, but the local police's attitude was more perfunctory and asked her to wait, saying that the signal in the forest was not good, and family members of campers often called the police, but after two days it was found that it was a false alarm. Field, this kind of thing is too common.

She hoped so too, but she was still flustered. Megan still didn't contact her early in the morning on the fourth day, so she drove here from a city in the middle of the United States immediately, and appeared at the local police station in person to demand that the police take action.

On the fifth day, Megan, who still had no news, finally brought the police's attention and started the search and rescue work.

The search and rescue work is not going well, mainly because the forest has been filled with fog recently, and sometimes it rains heavily, coupled with the limited manpower of the police, even if helicopters are used and tourists and local residents volunteer to help, hundreds of people enter The forest still returned without success, but several people suffered bruises, sprains, and falls to varying degrees during the search and rescue work, and even once almost mistook their teammates for beasts in the fog and accidentally shot them.

The search lasted intermittently for two weeks, and the enthusiasm of the volunteers was exhausted, as were the forest inspectors, but the harvest was pitiful. They only found some daily necessities that could not be determined to be left by Meghan, but nothing else.

The police announced the end of the search and rescue work because they believed that Megan had never been here. The last time Megan’s mobile phone was turned on was at the beach dozens of miles away.

Public opinion has turned, and Megan's image has changed from a healthy and cheerful outdoor sportsman to a runaway girl full of lies, and it is implied that the single-parent family environment caused all this.

Mrs. Miller couldn't explain why her daughter's mobile phone signal appeared by the sea, but she firmly believed that her daughter would not lie to her. Megan must have encountered some dangerous things in this forest.

Without the help of the police and volunteers, Mrs. Miller could only find her daughter by herself. She didn't want to leave here unless she found her daughter. Fortunately, a veteran who lived in seclusion in the forest believed her and lent her house to her. She lived, and went into the forest with a rifle on her shoulders to help her find her daughter.

Zhang Zian was the second person she met who was willing to lend a helping hand to her after the search and rescue work was over.

"Another glass?"

After Mrs. Miller finished talking about what happened before, the teacups in her and Zhang Zian's hands were also empty.

"Thank you! That veteran..." Zhang Zian handed her the teacup.

"His name is Mike, and he's a nice guy, though he's not talkative." She stood waiting for the water to boil again.

"How many days has Mike been in the forest?" he asked.

Mrs. Miller thought for a while, "Tomorrow will be the fourth day."

Zhang Zian said tactfully: "Did he say... come back in a few days?"

"He didn't say it, but he told me not to worry, saying that he is very familiar with this forest... To be honest, I am also a little worried for him now, but he doesn't even have a mobile phone..." Mrs. Miller sighed heavily, "He seems to have no family. In the eyes of the inspectors, he is a troublemaker who always likes to cause trouble. No one cares about him."

After a while of silence, both Zhang Zian and she knew that maybe it was time to consider the possibility that Mike also disappeared together.