It was still raining heavily in the morning.
But the search team still took the risk and split into four groups to search around the scenic area.
Ye Qing was also present when the forest fire department chief, Wang Chailong, had a meeting yesterday to discuss the search and rescue plan.
Ye Qing, who was a layman, didn't speak when it came to professional outdoor search and rescue knowledge.
But Ye Qing noticed a detail that Chief Wang had mentioned. He said that the objective of these students wasn't to go on an outdoor adventure. They carried their sketchboards and painting materials, and only brought a small amount of water and food. In their plan, the scope of this painting activity was limited to the scenic area.
In addition, these students had already climbed to the top of Yunwu Peak.
According to the description of the staff at the top of the mountain, he had seen this group of students hugging their sketchboards and sitting on a rock for four to five hours.
The scenery of Yunwu Peak was beautiful and ever-changing.
When the sky was clear, it was a scenery. When it was surrounded by clouds and mist, or when it was drizzling, it was another wonder. Even if the seasons changed, it was still a breathtaking beauty.
Every year, there were many art students and painters who climbed to the top of the mountain to paint. The staff didn't care. They only knew that they would return to the bottom of the mountain after they finished painting.
Then …
What made these students change their plans at the last minute?
After all, the boss of a supermarket outside the scenic area had heard these students say that they were going to Yunwu Peak to paint the crystal stalactites in the cave with Anya.
Ye Qing had a guess. Could these students have seen some very strange scenery in the distance when they were painting at the top of Yunwu Peak?
Then this scenery attracted them and made them change their plans to go to the cave?
This kind of guess was very unreliable under normal circumstances. It was impossible that those college students didn't know the saying, "Looking at a mountain is a dead horse."
But they had gone missing, so this kind of unreliable guess was very likely.
Ye Qing also brought up the Startelang CGEPro series astronomy mirror that was used to show off in the office of the private jet.
This telescope, which didn't even have the protective film torn off, was placed in the rain without any protection, allowing the rain to blow on it.
If an astronomy enthusiast saw this scene, they would definitely be so angry that they would want to kick Ye Qing off the cliff and use their own bodies to shield this telescope from the wind and rain. There were no astronomy enthusiasts at the top of Xi Mountain, not even a tourist.
Ye Qing adjusted the 6x scope and slowly scanned the scenery around the peak in a clockwise direction.
In his field of vision, there was a sea of green bamboos shrouded in a curtain of rain.
There was a jade-green lake with steam rising in spirals.
There were a few magnificent peaks whose scenery was not inferior to Cloud Mist Peak. Even further away, there was a continuous chain of mountains.
But!
What Ye Qing saw, these sceneries that could be crowned with the title of "Outstanding Beauty" had already been searched by the search team. Ye Qing's phone still had a map that he had taken yesterday. Most of the places that were circled in red could be found through the astronomical mirror.
"What the hell," Ye Qing muttered to himself, "could it be that I lack a pair of artistic eyes that can discover the beauty of nature?"
Ye Qing refused to believe it and continued to observe.
…
Half an hour later, Ye Qing rubbed his sore eyes.
After carefully looking at the scenery at the foot of the mountain, Ye Qing finally marked three spots that he thought might attract the students.
Then, Ye Qing took out his satellite phone and said, "Nighthawk, Nighthawk, report your current location."
"Boss, I'm currently searching over Ox-Horn Mountain." The pilot shouted against the strong wind outside the observation window, "Boss, these students are really f * cked up. Our entire search team hasn't even found a single item on them. "
Ye Qing referred to the map and reported the names of three peaks for the pilot to record. After the search of Ox-Horn Mountain ended, they headed to these three locations.
The pilot shouted, "Yes, Boss!"
Ye Qing fell into a state of uneasiness as he waited.
If he had only seen this news on the news, it would have been fine.
If that was the case, Ye Qing would at most stay out of it in his heart and sigh that these students were brainless. But this incident happened right in front of his eyes. In addition to witnessing the entire scenic area, the entire Anya County, and even the outdoor mountaineering enthusiasts from the surrounding cities spontaneously rushed over to join the search.
Ye Qing also witnessed the scene of the nine students' relatives crying in the rain.
No matter how hard-hearted a person was, they would involuntarily fall into sympathy and sadness when they saw this scene. Even if they didn't sympathize with the students, they would sympathize with the students' relatives.
What's more, Ye Qing wasn't hard-hearted at all.
Ye Qing allowed the astronomical mirror to be drenched in the rain while he sat in the pavilion at the top of the mountain and waited for the pilot's news.
A few hours later, the pilot reported through the satellite phone that there was no discovery around the first peak.
After a while, the pilot said that there was no discovery at the second peak and that he was heading to the next one.
Ye Qing's uneasy mood fell to the bottom with the last news.
If the students were really attracted by a certain scenic spot, then Ye Qing could only laugh at himself for not having artistic cells.
Or was it because their vision was blocked by the rain and they couldn't see further details?
Artistic cells...
Thinking of this, Ye Qing suddenly slapped his thigh.
If they were talking about artistic cells, all the search team members combined wouldn't be able to compete with Director Ding, who was filming at the foot of the mountain.
Taking advantage of the lunch break, Ye Qing asked the pilot who was filming with the crew to send Director Ding to the peak with an aircraft.
Ye Qing pointed at the astronomical mirror that had been lying in the rain all morning and then pointed at the locations on the map that had already been searched. He asked Director Ding to take a look and see if there were any scenic spots in the distance that ordinary people couldn't find.
Director Ding naturally didn't say anything.
Like Ye Qing, he was also very concerned about the situation of the missing students.
However, Director Ding, who had an artistic cell that reached the sky, stared at the astronomical mirror for half an hour and still couldn't find a unique scenic spot that was worthy of people traveling over mountains and rivers.
Ye Qing said helplessly, "Could it be that your standards are too high, Director Ding?"
"Those students are all young people who haven't been exposed to art for long. Their artistic cells might not be able to form an artistic resonance with your cells."
"Lower your standards a bit more?"
"No..." Director Ding smiled bitterly. "No matter how I looked, I couldn't find a unique scenic spot worthy of my attention."
"Mr. Ye, did you forget that when the sun was shining, I deliberately took a flight to look at the entire scenic spot and the surrounding scenic spots in order to find a filming location?"
"The few places that I thought were good have all been searched by the search team."
"I think the possibility of these students being in an accident is higher."
"I hope not." Ye Qing shook his head and prepared to go down the mountain with Director Ding.
...
In the evening, Wang Chailong led the search team back to the camp again.
This time, Wang Chailong didn't call the families of the missing students for a meeting.
During the meeting, Wang Chailong became a little quiet.
Today, the search team had expanded to ninety people, not just in the two neighboring counties. Even people from other provinces hundreds of kilometers away had brought mountaineering equipment and voluntarily drove over.
However, the addition of these people didn't have much of an effect.
In order to protect the safety of these volunteers, Wang Chailong could only split up the local search team and let them lead the search in a five-kilometer radius.
Many people would subconsciously think that as the search went on, the chances of them finding the missing students would increase.
However, Wang Chailong, who had participated in many search operations, understood that as time went on, the hope would only become slimmer.
The reason was simple.
Suppose that the area of the scenic spot was a circle, and the diameter of this circle was five kilometers.
Then, the staff in the scenic spot would spend half a day to search through this five-kilometer radius.
Wang Chailong led the team and searched the five-kilometer radius with the scenic spot as the center.
Then, the area they needed to search would increase by three times.
They would need to spend an entire day.
If they expanded the five-kilometer radius, the search would take three days, and this didn't include the time they would need to travel.
Or, with the addition of volunteers, this time would decrease. However, there were only so many volunteers with mountaineering experience. Wang Chailong, who was familiar with this line of work, saw the number of people and knew that there wouldn't be any volunteers joining in the future.
Wang Chailong and the others would need to spend close to five days to search the ten-kilometer radius with the scenic spot as the center.
For those students, if they were lost, they could cover this distance in one day.
It had been close to four days since they went missing.
At the end of today's meeting, Wang Chailong, who was both physically and mentally exhausted, concluded with the words "leave it to fate."
That night, many people sighed in despair.
On the morning of the fourth day, the search team, which was led by the Tan Zhou Sports School and the University of Fine Arts, had a small internal meeting before they set off.
They, who were already exhausted, decided to use their last bit of willpower and strength today.
If there was still no news by tomorrow, they would set off.
On the morning of the fourth day, Ye Qing made a decision.
If there was still no news from these students by tonight, Ye Qing would propose to terminate the search during the meeting.
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