Tang Tang stared at the diary, speechless for a long time. The diary ended abruptly right there.
She could only get some snippets of information from Chief Li. The time of that major case back then was abbreviated as the "623 Major Case".
Tang Tang looked at the book in her hand, not knowing what to say for a moment. It turned out that at that time, Tang Tang (the other Tang Tang) was already together with Shen Tian, and they even had a child.
She gently placed her hand on the notebook and came to her senses after a long while.
A "click" sound interrupted Tang Tang's train of thought. She turned to look at the source of the sound and saw Sun Xu holding a match, about to light a kerosene lamp that he had somehow fished out.
"You... I didn't mean to. It just broke," Sun Xu said.
Tang Tang glanced at the lamp but didn't say a word. Instead, she turned back to the notebook in her hand. Her right hand unconsciously touched the watch on her left wrist.
She missed Brother Zuo Mu a little.
If Zuo Mu were here now, she probably wouldn't have lost her composure so quickly.
She looked around and finally saw a sticky note on a wall. Tang Tang walked over. The handwriting on it was delicate, but the writer had put some strength into it, giving the whole writing a sharp feeling.
It read, "I'm going out to buy something." It also stated the time of return.
Since it was so long ago, the paper had turned a bit yellow, and the handwriting was not very clear.
The date happened to be the day when the person in the note disappeared.
She put the things back and looked out from this place. Now she suspected that Shen Tian had done it on purpose.
He deliberately wanted to show her such a place.
But why? She calculated the time. Her and Tang Tang's (the other Tang Tang) delivery times didn't match at all.
Tang Tang frowned. After Sun Xu's persistent efforts, he finally managed to light the kerosene lamp that he had dug out from somewhere with the match.
"Sister, look!"
"What's up?" Tang Tang walked over. Sun Xu handed her a photo. "This..."
"Under different lights, it looks completely different," Sun Xu said.
Tang Tang walked over. Sure enough, the photo that had just shown two people now looked different under the kerosene lamp.
It was a photo of two people taken in a cave, a very happy scene.
Sun Xu chattered on the side, "What's the principle behind this? It's so advanced!"
He was just eight or nine years old, at the age of asking a million questions. He liked to get to the bottom of everything.
Tang Tang took a serious look at the photo and glanced at Sun Xu. "We can check it when we get back."
"Okay," Sun Xu nodded vigorously. "If I could, I'd like to take a photo with my brother. It would be great if my brother were here. He should know more than me and could tell us what the principle is."
As Sun Xu talked, he swayed the photo in his hand. The photo changed several angles in his hand. He probably really missed his brother. He looked at the photo, pursed his lips, and then pouted.
Tang Tang was studying the diary beside him. Actually, it wasn't really studying. She had already read the diary from beginning to end just now. Now she was just flipping through it out of boredom.
"How many years older is your brother than you?"
"Two years!" When Sun Xu mentioned his brother, he was very proud, puffing out his chest. "My brother is really amazing. He studies well, knows Taekwondo, and also knows about pharmacology. He loves reading so much. After he finished reading his extracurricular books, he would read my mom's pharmacology books. I just don't like reading."
As he talked, he swayed the photo. This kid really couldn't keep his hands still. He always liked to turn something around. Tang Tang looked up at him and was stunned when she saw the photo inside. "Stop."
Sun Xu's hand holding the photo froze. "Wh... What's wrong?"
"Don't move."
Tang Tang held Sun Xu's hand and looked at the photo in it. Behind Tang Tang (the other Tang Tang) and Shen Tian, the scenery had changed. Just now it was just a cave, but in a corner at the back, there were some dark instruments and various black boxes.
If Tang Tang wasn't mistaken, the bright red stuff on them should be human internal organs.
Tang Tang felt her scalp go numb. After seeing that bright red stuff, her right hand unconsciously touched the watch on her left wrist.
"Sister, what's wrong with you..." Sun Xu followed Tang Tang's gaze and looked at the photo. Instantly, he couldn't say a word.
"What... What is this thing? That red... Sis..." Sun Xu was just an eight or nine - year - old kid. His facial expression management wasn't very good. Just by looking at the red organs on it, he instantly jumped off the chair as if the place with the internal organs was this very bed.
Tang Tang was also creeped out inside. At this moment, she naturally couldn't say anything comforting. She just patted Sun Xu's shoulder perfunctorily. "It should be human organs. It's just in the photo. Don't be too scared for now."
Sun Xu, "... "
Sun Xu's face changed colors constantly. It was hard to tell if he was just scared or what.
Although Tang Tang was scared, her gaze still fell on the photo. Just when Sun Xu's face was turning faintly purple, she finally shifted her gaze from the photo. "It shouldn't be here."
Sun Xu's face looked a bit better. "How can you tell?"
"The structure of the cave is different."
Tang Tang looked up at the cave and got up to look towards the entrance where they had just come in.
They had been in a hurry when they came in just now and hadn't really looked around, so they naturally hadn't paid much attention to the surrounding environment.
Tang Tang picked up the kerosene lamp that Sun Xu had been playing with and walked outside with it.
Sun Xu was struggling with a very difficult decision: whether to follow Tang Tang to an unknown place or stay here by himself.
His gaze unconsciously fell on the photo on the table. He wondered if the photo was meant to show the dark instruments at the back. After they had discovered it, the photo had just stayed there motionless.
Sun Xu shivered involuntarily. Holding the small stick that Tang Tang had given him when they came in, he followed Tang Tang out.
Tang Tang walked into the cave tunnel. Sun Xu shivered a couple of times, looked around, and stammered, "There... There's nothing here... I can go..."
Before he could finish the word "in", he saw Tang Tang reach out and touch the earthen wall, then kick it. A layer of soil fell off immediately.
A hidden iron gate was revealed.
There was a big lock hanging on the iron gate, but the person who had hidden it didn't really mean to hide it well and hadn't locked it at all.
Tang Tang pulled the chain off, and the inside was immediately revealed.
Inside, it was clearly a laboratory!