Chapter 1466: The Most Exasperating Clue in History

Just as Zhao Yu was worried about before, regarding the disappearance of the exploration team, it seemed that he had really fallen into a deadlock and had no clue.

He checked the expedition log several times and found nothing suspicious.

There are no torn pages, and no traces of smearing and modification. The work of the exploration team has always been normal, and no accidents have occurred.

In order to make sure that there was no problem, Zhao Yu even personally checked the latest exploration well drilled by the exploration team, but there was nothing in the exploration well, which was also consistent with the exploration log.

According to Zhao Yu's understanding, including the two security personnel from Tarstan, the 12 exploration team members are all innocent, have good backgrounds, have no bad habits, and have not had any contact with criminals...

Looking at the survey site, in the past seven days, Zhao Yu has visited almost every corner near the base, and tried various props such as footprint identifiers and invisible trackers, but still found nothing.

As for the suspicious vehicle, Zhao Yu, Bian Dong and the others watched all the surveillance videos they could find nearby that day, and found no suspicious signs.

It's so strange!

At this moment, Zhao Yu was sitting on a pickup truck near the base, looking depressedly at the sunset in the distant wasteland, feeling a sense of loss in his heart.

He is considering whether he should apply to his superiors and transfer his team to help?

However, he was not optimistic about this proposal. Because in the past seven days, he had to make video calls with Miao Ying, Zeng Ke and others almost every day to discuss the case with them.

Although the team members are not by my side, they are no different from working on site. Everyone helped Zhao Yu put forward many constructive opinions, but they were all rejected in the end...

tsk tsk...

The afterglow of the setting sun was reflected on Zhao Yu's face, but Zhao Yu couldn't feel any warmth. In ten minutes or so, darkness would soon cover the entire wasteland, indicating that another day had passed.

For such a long time, he was really worried about the safety of the exploration team members.

Through the investigation, Zhao Yu was able to understand the family situation of each prospecting team member. Their relatives, wives and children, and the whole family were waiting for their safe return.

But after searching for so long, I couldn't find any clues. I'm really ashamed, ashamed!

Before coming here, I had swornly promised Director Jiao, but now it seems, alas...

While lamenting, Zhao Yu suddenly felt heavy in his stomach and wanted to put some "water".

So, he jumped out of the pickup truck, turned to the outside of the pickup truck, unfastened his belt, and prepared to solve it on the spot.

This place is located in the wilderness, so of course the exploration team doesn't need to build any toilets, all personal problems can be solved in random places.

huh huh...

Probably out of habit, Zhao Yu faced the pickup truck and put all the water on the pickup truck's wheels...

However, while he was standing there, he suddenly saw a small hole in the ground next to the tire.

The small hole looks very inconspicuous, especially when the sun is about to set, if you don't observe deliberately, you won't notice it at all.

Men have a natural mischievousness, and Zhao Yu is no exception. When he saw this small hole, he subconsciously turned the "gun's muzzle" and poured everything into the small hole...

However……

After Zhao Yu finished releasing the "water", his brows furrowed unconsciously.

Why?

No, I have a lot of water, this small hole...why isn't it full?

this……

In an instant, Zhao Yu had a thought, and suddenly realized a problem:

What is this little hole for! ?

The ground here is made of solid earth, stone and gravel. It is not easy to punch a small hole in the ground, at least you need to use tools such as hammers and awls!

Moreover, I have a lot of water, but I haven't filled this small hole, which means that the small hole is very deep!

Such a deep small hole seems to be even more difficult to dig, right?

This is……

Zhao Yu hurriedly raised his eyes and looked around, the first thought that popped into his mind was,

Someone should have pitched a tent here, and this is where the tents stayed.

But... next to it is the base of the exploration team, who would pitch a tent here? is this necessary?

and……

Zhao Yu took two steps to the distance, and soon had new doubts. If it is a tent, it is impossible to make only one small hole, so within a few meters nearby, there must be another small hole.

However, he checked the nearby ground carefully, but did not see any other potholes.

Why?

This is strange, this small hole... what is it used for?

Hitch?

No... To tie a horse and an animal, you should at least find a place to leeward, right?

This is a relatively open and open place for the exploration team base. Do you tie the animals here and drink the northwest wind?

And... what else is there?

While Zhao Yu was thinking about it, the sun finally set, the earth was plunged into darkness in an instant, and the small hole under the car was quickly plunged into shadow.

However, at this time Zhao Yu was already interested. Although he didn't think that the small hole was necessarily related to the case, he still wanted to find out out of curiosity what the small hole was for.

Thinking of this, he called Bian Dong on the walkie-talkie and asked him to bring local technicians over to check it out. While turning on his invisible flashlight, he crawled on the ground and took a closer look...

...

Ten minutes later, with the efforts of Bian Dong and several local police officers, they pushed the pickup truck aside.

Under the bright light, everyone could see the small hole more clearly.

"Officer Zhao," Bian Dong said, pointing at the local policeman, "They said they didn't know what the hole was for? Shall we dig him up and have a look?"

"No..." Zhao Yu waved his hand and asked with a frown, "Is it because of the sandstorm, the wooden stakes built for the camp?"

"No way..." Bian Dong mused, "There are no sandstorms on the Tawuz Plateau, so there may be some strong winds, but..." He pointed to the camp in the distance and said, "The camp is so far away, even if the cork wood Pile, it shouldn't be here!

"Besides, the campsites are all board houses, and the pegs must be very thick. This hole is obviously smaller!"

"Yes!" Zhao Yu nodded, and said again, "It is often windy on the plateau. If such a small hole was not dug recently, it should have been covered by dust or gravel, right?"

"That's right," Bian Dong nodded, "That is to say, this small hole is newly drilled! Is it... the exploration team members played golf, or did they drill this hole with some kind of equipment?"

"Well, there is a possibility..." Zhao Yu ordered, "How about this, you guys search separately to see if there are similar small holes!

"If there is any equipment to be erected, it is impossible to have only one!"

"Yes!" Bian Dong nodded, and hastily mobilized all the police officers to start searching with flashlights one after another...

As a result, after only ten minutes of searching, someone immediately raised his hand to signal that the person found another exactly the same small hole more than ten meters away from the small hole...