There was no signal in the mountains, and Tan Wan never received a reply from Li Dongliao, so he just thought there was no signal.
Didn't take it seriously.
Tanwan opened the pre-downloaded video on her phone and watched again how Yin Dong climbed into the orphanage from the back mountain.
The Red Heart Orphanage is built on a slope connected to the back mountain. Tan Wan found the spot where Yin Dong climbed and took a look.
It is indeed a good place. If you stand on the slope and jump again, you should be able to easily catch the top of the fence of the orphanage.
Inside the fence is the backyard. After climbing over the railing, you can grab the thick branch of the banyan tree and climb down along the trunk.
Tanwan replayed the whole process in his mind.
Then she stuffed her cell phone into her pocket to free up her hands, raised her hands above her head, aimed at the top of the railing and jumped hard.
Then, using the pattern on the railing as a stepping stone, with a pull of the hand and a kick of the foot, the person sat on the railing.
The leaves of the banyan tree stretched out. Tan Wan grabbed a thick one and pressed it carefully at first.
After confirming that the weight of the branch could support her, she grabbed the branch with one hand and jumped with all her might!
Wang Mei was in the corridor, passing by the corridor on the top floor of the backyard, when she suddenly heard the leaves of the banyan tree swaying, as if there was something on it.
Wang Mei stopped and cast her eyes warily at the banyan tree.
She looked at it for a long time, as if she wanted to see through the dense layers of leaves to see through the animals inside.
However, the lights outside were too dim, and the night became the biggest protective color of the banyan tree, making it impossible to see what was inside.
Tan Wan also noticed Wang Mei at this moment.
Looking at Wang Mei from Tan Wan's perspective, Wang Mei was almost looking at herself.
The corridor where Wang Mei was standing had the lights on, but Tanwan was completely dark.
Tan Wan relied on experience and kept telling herself in her heart that Wang Mei couldn't see her clearly at this moment, so don't panic.
Thinking of this, I plucked up the courage to imitate a cat’s meow: “Meow~meow~~”
Tanwan did this for the first time, yelling at the top of his lungs, imitating the sharp cry of a wild cat.
Through the window, Wang Mei vaguely heard the cat meowing, so she turned around and left without staying any longer.
Seeing that the person was gone, Tan Wan took a deep breath.
Just in case, she decided to stay in the tree for five more minutes, lest anyone wandered away and came back.
To be cautious, Tanwan did not turn on his cell phone. The light from the cell phone screen was too dazzling in the night.
Instead, he stuffed the phone into the bottom of the bag, zipped the bag halfway up, took a quick look at the screen and then pressed it down immediately.
"Well, just sit there for five more minutes..." Tan Wan said to herself in her heart.
The banyan tree was already shocking when viewed from below, and when she sat on top of it, she felt even more luxuriant and leafy, and the tree was very big.
The wind slowly blew through the leaves, and a red thread came into view.
The red thread was hung on the top of a very high tree for an unknown length of time. As the tree continued to grow, the thread had grown into the wood.
Although it is a red line, the color has long faded and looks a bit gray.
There seemed to be small metal pieces hanging underneath the rope, flickering in the wind.
Because this rope is relatively short, not very conspicuous, and is covered by various branches and leaves, you can't see it at all when you look up from below.
Driven by curiosity, Tan Wan reached out to reach for the object.
The rope grew in the tree, but Tan Wan's place was far away from the thing, just beyond the farthest distance of the middle finger. If he took a step forward, he would lose his center of gravity and fall, but he would not be willing to take a step back.
It took a lot of effort to get the thing, and I was sweating all over.
The rope is still the same rope, but the iron piece is not an iron piece, but a small oval photo frame.
The front and back are transparent glass, with a sealed metal magnetic design in one circle, and a mini photo sandwiched in the middle.
The photo is slightly yellowed. It has been left in the open air for a long time. It is good to be able to preserve it like this.
Tan Wan held the photo in his hand and looked at it. There were four children on it, one girl and three boys.
The girl in the middle is the tallest, with her hair in a ponytail, and there are three little boys on her left and right.
Two of them were unknown to each other late in the conversation, but the other one... looked more and more familiar to her. Wasn't this Xiao Qi?
Tan Wan looked at the boy's appearance several times. Although his demeanor and clothes had changed, his appearance had not changed much, so he confirmed that it was Xiao Qi.
But who are the other two boys and the little girl in the middle...
Tan Wan subconsciously glanced at the back of the photo and saw writing written in pencil on the back.
The handwriting is faint and you have to pay close attention to read it clearly.
'On New Year's Eve, December 31, 2002, I hope we will be together forever. '
"year 2002......"
When Tan Wan saw this line of words, his brows were furrowed.
If this photo was taken in 2002, more than twenty years have passed. Why does Xiaoqi look like he has not changed at all?
After staring at Xiaoqi's face in the photo for a long time, before she could think clearly, she heard a loud bang from the kitchen.
Tan Wan was startled by the sound and quickly looked in the direction of the sound.
I saw thick smoke starting to come out from the kitchen, and between the thick black smoke, there was a faint light of fire.
The kitchen is located in the front yard, while Tanwan is in the backyard, blocked by buildings in the middle.
Even when she was sitting in the tree, she could barely see a little bit.
Tan Wan stuffed the photos randomly into his pocket and jumped down from the mountain.
Just as she jumped onto the grass and was about to run towards the fire, she suddenly tripped over something.
Because he was too anxious, he ran too fast. With the inertia, Tan Wan fell out and fell heavily to the ground.
"Hiss..." After such a fall, his whole body ached, and Tan Wan could no longer tell where exactly he had fallen.
She got up from the ground and subconsciously patted the dust and dirt off her shoulders.
"What is it?" She sat on the ground and turned around to see what had tripped her.
I saw a small section of a gray-white thing hanging out from the root of the banyan tree.
Along with the firelight, Tan Wan stared at that section of things, his expression getting worse and worse.
"Is... is it human bones..." Tan Wan was not sure, so she crawled to the side of the thing.
Then I looked around and found a sharp stone.
Tan Wan held the stone with both hands, using the sharp side as a shovel, and kept digging at the soil on the ground.
As more and more soil was dug, a white child's bone was clearly visible.
She took out the bones and put them aside. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw there were still bones under the soil, so she continued digging.
With the flames blazing beside him, Tan Wan was sweating profusely and quickly doing the same movements without daring to stop, until he saw the child's skull completely displayed in front of his eyes...
