Sun Xu caught a glimpse of the layout inside the room from beside Tang Tang and couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief. "Has someone lived here?"
Tang Tang wasn't as relaxed as Sun Xu. Looking at the scene inside the room, she couldn't help but frown slightly.
Someone had indeed lived here, but whether there were any ambushes was another matter.
She tightly gripped the wooden stick in her hand, looked around, and walked in softly. "Is anyone there? We don't mean to disturb."
She called out twice, but all she could hear was the echo in this empty cave. There was nothing else.
Tang Tang looked around. She didn't notice anything unusual. She glanced at the tables and chairs. There was a thick layer of dust on them, making it seem as if someone had been here a long time ago. Only then did she slowly relax.
Sun Xu looked longingly at the chair and then at Tang Tang. "Sister... Can I sit for a while?"
"Wait a minute." Tang Tang went over to check. Not finding anything wrong, she let Sun Xu sit down while she walked around the room.
There was simply a bed, a set of tables and chairs, and some abstract paintings on the wall. But everything inside was in pairs.
Moreover, judging from the situation inside the cave, the owner of this cave should have liked it very much. Although there was dust, there were no large cobwebs. The furnishings in the room were very simple.
Tang Tang walked around for a while. Sun Xu was already lying on the table. Looking at Tang Tang, he whispered, "Sister, you should take a rest too. We've been walking for a whole day."
Tang Tang gave a soft grunt. She glanced at a key on the table, picked it up, and weighed it in her hand.
Suddenly, she turned to look at Sun Xu. "You heard the broadcast on the mountain, right?"
At the word "broadcast", Sun Xu couldn't help but tremble and shrank back in his chair. "I... I heard it. Um..."
"Don't cry yet." Tang Tang tapped Sun Xu on the nose with her finger. "Is your mother a head nurse?"
There were still tears hanging on Sun Xu's eyelashes. He blinked twice and gave a soft grunt. "How do you know? Do you know my mother, sister? How should we get out now..."
Tang Tang looked at the tears on Sun Xu's eyelashes and gently sighed. "I don't know either..."
"Anyway, you were also dragged here, right?" Tang Tang looked at Sun Xu. "I was dragged here too to participate in that game. I still don't know what the meaning of this is. Did they leave you at the place where I met you?"
"Yes." Sun Xu nodded. "It was there. I didn't know where it was. I didn't dare to move. Brother told me that if I got lost, I shouldn't wander around and should wait in place for adults to pick me up."
Tang Tang glanced at Sun Xu. After all, he was just a child.
Tang Tang comforted him a few words and looked around. She and Sun Xu had been walking for a whole day. They were looking for a place to stay when they saw this cave.
In an ordinary forest, apart from the ranger's wooden hut, the caves were usually drafty.
She held the key in her hand and always felt that everything was too coincidental.
This cave seemed too coincidental. It was as if it had been set up just for her to see.
Tang Tang looked the key up and down. After thinking for a while, she walked towards the only small wooden box in the cave.
Sun Xu watched Tang Tang's actions. His little mouth opened, and after a while, he whispered, "Sister, it's already not good for us to come to someone else's place. Are we going to pry open their things now?"
"We might not even survive. How can we care about that? And this place looks so strange. Let's pry it open first."
Sun Xu wanted to say something but finally didn't. He leaned over beside Tang Tang to see what she would find.
The wooden box should have been untouched for a long time. It took Tang Tang a long time to open it.
They originally thought there would be at least some valuable items inside, like money. But after opening it, the two of them stared at the pile of miscellaneous things inside and were silent for a long time.
There was a small basket made of white paper,
a half - used ball of wool, and several small clothes.
The small clothes should have been prepared for a child, but judging from the style, they were from several years ago.
They were button - up clothes.
There were also small shoes and a little dog.
The two of them rummaged through the pile of things for a long time and finally saw a diary at the bottom.
Sun Xu had just started school, but he was very conscious as a student. He said seriously, "Sister, it's not good to read other people's diaries."
Tang Tang glanced at the bed over there, walked over, patted the dust off, and sat down. She said very coldly, "Then don't look. I will."
Sun Xu, "... "
The diary was as miscellaneous as the things in the wooden box, recording random things.
The first page had the date and weather written in a proper way. On the second page, there was only a date without the weather.
The content was also very simple, like a conversation.
December 1st, 2003.
She really likes snow.
December 25th.
We spent Christmas together. It's really cold in City H.
January 13th, 2004.
Perilla leaves really go well with dishes.
January 23rd.
She's pregnant. The doctor won't tell us if it's a boy or a girl. We don't care either. A boy or a girl is fine.
January 31st.
They say sour for a boy and spicy for a girl. She's been liking sour oranges lately. Is it a son?
I've decided. If it's a boy, his name will be Shen Cheng.
The diary was filled with such scattered conversations. Tang Tang flipped through the pages one by one. The later parts were all about the two of them together. Just when Tang Tang didn't want to continue reading, she closed the diary. Suddenly, a photo fell out.
It had a red background. The two of them were sitting together. The woman had short ear - length hair. Her expression was cold, but her eyes were very gentle.
The other man had his hand on the woman's hand, with a beaming smile on his face.
"Sister, this person looks so much like you..."
Sun Xu squeezed over from behind. He looked at the photo in Tang Tang's hand, frowned his little eyebrows, and looked carefully. "But... not exactly."
Tang Tang looked at the people in the photo. It took her a while to shift her gaze away from the two of them.
She knew who this person was at first sight. After all, someone had sent her a picture of this person a couple of days ago.
This woman should be Tang Tang.
Seeing that Tang Tang didn't say anything, Sun Xu unconsciously took a step back.
Tang Tang didn't need to think to know what was going on in Sun Xu's mind. With a calm expression, she reopened the notebook, glanced at Sun Xu, and said, "You'd better get those thoughts out of your head. If I were in cahoots with them, why would I go to all this trouble?"
She flipped the notebook to the later pages. Sure enough, the records were different from before. Although the later records were also fragmented, they had changed in a way.
"She's gone. I can't find her."
"I can't find her anywhere. They said she left on her own because she deserved it. But what are these in my hands then?"
"I miss you."
"Tang Tang, when will you come back?"
"I've found her."
Tang Tang looked at the time of the last sentence. It was June 23rd, 2004.