This time I was much better prepared for going down the well. Firstly, it was daytime, so visibility was much better. Secondly, the police had prepared some professional climbing equipment for us, including straps, steel cables, ascenders, safety harnesses, and portable high-power waterproof headlamps, which made me feel much more confident. What's more, they even provided tight-fitting diving suits, indicating that Zhang Yihan might want me to dive. However, just as I was gearing up and getting ready to descend, Zhang Yihan suddenly stopped me. She said she wasn't asking me to go down immediately, just to prepare and go down later. I muttered to myself, why didn't anyone tell me this yesterday when I went down? Although I didn't say it out loud, Zhang Yihan seemed to sense my dissatisfaction. She smiled and said, "I don't trust outsiders going down there, afraid they might disturb the scene." Although her smile was beautiful, I still felt a bit annoyed. Was she trying to make me back down? I wasn't going to give in so easily. I gritted my teeth and turned to take off the equipment. Although I was angry, I still did as she asked. Afterwards, I helped Ge Laoshi tidy up some of the scattered body fragments at the wellhead. Four forensic police officers wearing white coats were also helping out, with two of them using nets to scoop up the remaining body fragments in the well. It occurred to me then that they were all forensic experts. I couldn't help but admire their professionalism. In such a foul-smelling environment, they were able to remain calm, which was commendable. During the process of sorting out the body fragments, Ge Laoshi asked me to measure the temperature of the well water after I went down, in order to verify the time of death of the body. I asked him why we needed to check the temperature of the well water, and he explained a lot of professional knowledge to me: "According to the forensic examination report, the capillaries in the body fragments of the deceased were in a state of severe contraction. This situation usually only occurs in people who have died from freezing. We want to check the temperature of the well water to confirm whether the body died in the well." After hearing this, everything suddenly made sense to me. After I was ready, I descended to the surface of the well water using the descent device. But soon, I realized that something was wrong. I carefully checked again and found that all the scratch marks I saw yesterday were gone. I immediately reported the situation to the team above via the intercom. "How is that possible?" Zhang Yihan sounded surprised. Then Ge Laoshi said, "Check the top of the well wall again, it's possible that the well water has risen." I followed his instructions and checked again, but still couldn't find any scratch marks. I reported the situation to the team above, and everyone was puzzled. It was illogical for the well water to rise during the day. Just as I was puzzled, Zhang Yihan gave the order, "Xiao Lin, go down and measure the depth of the well, and look for clues at the bottom of the well." "Not willing, huh?" Zhang Yihan clearly sensed my reluctance. "You still want to reimburse your phone, right? You want to recover the 'corpse' of your phone, don't you?" Hearing Zhang Yihan's words, I finally gave in. Although Ge Laoshi was the most senior member of our action team, the specific leader was Zhang Yihan. If I wanted to go back and reimburse my newly purchased iPhone 5, I had to follow her instructions. Next, I returned to the wellhead and handed all the excess equipment to Xiao Li, who was waiting there. Then, I asked him to bring me a diving watch and diving goggles. After putting on these pieces of equipment, I slid down along the static rope into the water again. The body fragments in the well had already been cleaned up, and a lot of disinfectant had been sprayed before I went down. Although there was still a faint smell of corpses lingering in the well, compared to the pungent smell of disinfectant, that smell could be completely ignored. The only equipment I had on me besides the diving suit was a portable waterproof headlamp, diving goggles, and a diving watch. After adjusting the diving goggles a bit, I took a deep breath, checked the time on the diving watch, and then relaxed my whole body, sinking directly towards the bottom of the well. As I descended, I kept counting in my mind according to the frequency of the stopwatch. Originally, I planned to hold my breath all the way to the bottom. However, when I counted to twenty seconds and still hadn't reached the bottom, I realized that the well might be quite deep. Nevertheless, diving in a stationary position didn't require much effort, just holding your breath, so I didn't give up and continued to dive. It's said that the current Guinness World Record holder for breath-holding, Italian Davide Carrera, once held his breath for 20 minutes and 55 seconds in Baofeng Lake, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province. Although I couldn't match his feat, my breath-holding record without breathing pure oxygen reached over five minutes. Therefore, twenty seconds was nothing for me. However, as I descended further, the water temperature dropped, and the water pressure increased. I hadn't expected the well to be so deep, so when I had been diving for thirty or forty seconds, I finally couldn't help but give up. When I resurfaced, Zhang Yihan asked if I had reached the bottom, and I said no. Then she told me to continue going down. I never had the chance to argue with her words, so I obediently dived down again. But the second time I went down, I was mentally prepared. I dived headfirst, determined not to believe that the well could be so deep. However, after diving for thirty or forty seconds for the second time and still not reaching the bottom, I began to feel a little anxious. This area belonged to the plains, and the groundwater level shouldn't be too low. Generally, water wells should be between ten to twenty meters deep, and there was no need to dig such deep wells. But according to my calculation, with a downward speed of about one meter per second, this well had greatly exceeded the normal depth of water wells. As the water pressure continued to increase, my diving speed slowed down. Finally, when I counted to seventy-eight seconds, I finally reached the bottom of the well. Considering the distance, I estimated that the depth of this well should be at least fifty to sixty meters. However, as soon as my feet touched the bottom, I felt a sudden tremor in my heart. Because what I felt under my feet was not the expected mud, but something soft, like a balloon. When I looked down, the first thing I saw was a reflective object, which was my iPhone 5. I felt happy in my heart, thinking that my trip wasn't in vain. But just as I reached out to grab my phone, the well water suddenly rippled, and a black object swayed with the water ripples. Then, I saw a pair of eyes the size of copper balls behind that black object. They were human eyes, and the eyeballs protruded from the eye sockets... "Ah..." I was so scared that I opened my mouth wide, and a long string of bubbles burst out. Without hesitation, I quickly used all four limbs and swam upwards desperately...

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