"Condolences." One of them said these two words, and then looked up at me.
"You...you are not Zhang...Zhang..."
"I am Zhang Nanshu's brother! Where is she now?!" I recognized the person who answered me as the director of Nanshu's training class!
"She...she..." The man was speechless for a moment...
"Say it quickly!"
He was frightened by my actions, his lips moved for a long time, and he pointed to a pile of photos on the ruins...
"She... don't get excited... you'd better go and see it yourself..."
I loosened the man's collar and crawled in front of the photos placed on the ruins, looking for information about Nan Shu...
On an inconspicuous little stone, I saw a one-inch photo, which was the one I submitted to the training institution when I signed up for Nanshu... Beside this photo, there was a small The furry bear, I also know this thing, it has been hanging on Nan Shu’s schoolbag...
"What does this mean...what does this mean! Where is she!!!"
"Siyuan... Calm down..." Wen Na came over and tried to grab me, but I threw her away...
"I can't calm down!! Where is she! She was fine when I sent her here, why is this the only thing left now!" I raised the stuffed bear in front of the man and asked him.
"No one wants to see this happen, but it does happen."
"Why are you still standing here fine..."
My mind was buzzing, and a terrible emotion had taken over my mind... I strangled that person's neck tightly, and the hatred and pain made it impossible for me to listen to anything!
Only Chaoyang and Ada pulled me away. The man touched his throat and gasped, "Are you sick? Where were you when the nuclear explosion occurred? Where were you during the earthquake? You just ran away for your life. Well, now you are here to catch me, an innocent person, to vent your anger after taking a life of a dog? It has been almost three months since your sister died and you came to pick her up. Do you have the nerve to question me? Are you worthy?!"
"Ah~~~~~~~~~~!"
I punched the ground one after another, and my hands were already bloody, but I couldn't feel any pain... His accusations were heartfelt and true, and I couldn't say a word to refute...
"Okay, okay, please understand. He has been performing missions in the west. It's hard to accept it for a while. Isn't this normal! Don't go on endlessly..." The man was still cursing endlessly. Because of my rudeness, Ada showed off her tendons and blocked the man's mouth.
It's my incompetence...
"My sister is the last advice and companionship my mother left for me...but I..." My heart ached as if it was about to burst from my body...
"Wen Na... Wen Na... I'm useless..."
Wen Na gently stroked my head and cried with me...
"You have done a good job... Some things are beyond your control... What causes pain is not the thing itself, but your persistence... There is nothing eternal and foolproof in the world..."
"But...she must have been very scared at the time...it must have been very painful..."
I thought of her little body curled up and shivering under the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, and I imagined her helpless eyes in the smoke...
"What are you doing!" Xiwu picked up a small stone and knocked off the dagger I drew from my calf.
"You are such an adult, how can you still have such thoughts?!"
"I can't feel...I can't feel anything...I want to feel pain...let me feel pain..."
"Perhaps her death was not as painful as you imagined, and now, she is already living a good life in another world."
"You can use these words to trick others, but don't use them to fool me..."
"I can prove it to you." Wen Na's voice was very firm.
"In another dimension, she is still living a good life."
"How do you know?! How can you take me there?"
"Do you really want to go?"
"think!"
"But she has completely forgotten you and doesn't remember you as a brother, and..."
"It doesn't matter! As long as I can take a look at her again! Just one look... Let me make sure that she is fine now... I will feel relieved..."
"Alas...this is what fate is...let's go!"
I picked up Nan Shu's photo and her little stuffed bear toy from the ground and followed Wen Na hurriedly.
"You...can you really take him there?"
Ada asked Wen Na in a low voice, thinking that I couldn't hear her. Wen Na nodded. Wen Na has never lied to me, so I believe whatever she says.
"Then where are we going now?"
"It's not far from here."
The helicopter followed Wen Na's direction and stopped after driving for less than 40 minutes. This is also a settlement. I saw that the iron plate nailed crookedly at the entrance of the town beside the open space was already rusty, and there was a faint shadow on it. The approximation reads: Tuohai Town.
"Where is this?"
"Have you taken the dagger I gave you?" Wen Na suddenly asked me this question without thinking.
"Bring it." I flashed the dagger to her.
"You must keep it well, you know?"
"Um..."
A group of us curiously approached this small town. I was surprised that there was such a paradise in this place. Although there were no people visible, the structure of the houses here was very strange.
All the houses are uniform and built exactly the same. If I had to describe the feeling these houses give me, it would be - hard.
There was an eagle circling in the sky. It grabbed a prey on its feet, and then it dropped the prey heavily. The prey landed on the roof, but it made a loud sound like a gong.
I know that this is often the case when eagles hunt. Even if the blue sheep is much larger and heavier than the eagle, once it is caught, it will be thrown to death like this and become its meal.
What's really strange is not the prey, but the houses.
I observed these houses carefully and found that the exteriors of these houses had thick iron sheets. This was the reason why these houses looked dilapidated and hard.
Wen Na took us and kept walking forward until there was no more house left.
"Are you ready?" Wen Na asked me again.
I didn't know what she meant by preparation, but I nodded anyway.
We walked through the town and came to the foot of a mountain. The mountains here were different from the rocky mountains in the shelter. Even though many of the vegetation had been corroded by acid rain, they were still lush and green.
As I approached the mountain, I saw that the mountain was densely packed with many tombstones! Those tombstones are like trees growing on the mountain, layer upon layer, covering the entire mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, there was a very simple house that looked like a simple small house built with branches or something like that.
Wen Na walked straight towards the house and pushed open the creaking door. There was a narrow bed inside. At first glance, she knew that it was also a wooden bed made by herself. There was a brazier burning in the middle of the house, with a fire pit on it. There was a kettle on the stand, still steaming.
It looks like someone is living in this house, and they are still boiling water!
"Let's wait for a while." Wen Na said.
I know she means to let us wait for the person who boils this pot of water. I am so curious about this person. Who is he from Wen Na, what is his identity, and why does he live in such a place? Could he be the key to me seeing my sister again? Or is it possible that the person coming is Nan Shu? !
I got excited thinking about this...
"Wen Na? It seems to me that there are all tombstones on that mountain..."
Wen Na nodded.
"Why are these people's graves placed on the mountain? And they are placed so...well, it's a bit strange..."
I continued to ask, but at this moment the door was pushed open again.
It was an old man with gray hair.
He was carrying firewood on his back and holding a few potatoes and corn hanging with mud in his hands.
The old man ignored the other people in the house and just stared at Wen Na for a long time, tears filling his cloudy eyes.
This...this can't be Wen Na's father, right?
But my guess was soon proven wrong.
The old man burst into tears. His teeth were incomplete and tears were pouring freely on his furrowed face.
"You are finally here...twenty years...I have been waiting for twenty years..."
He actually lay in front of Wen Na's knees like a child and started to cry loudly. As for Wen Na, she could only weakly and sadly gently stroke the old man's gray hair.
what is happening? !
Wen Na was only in her twenties, why did he say that he had been waiting for Wen Na for twenty years? Maybe the mystery of Wen Na will be solved today...
After a while, the old man's mood stabilized a little. He wiped the snot and tears on his face with his hands and asked Wen Na: "Now, where are you going?"
Wen Na nodded.
"Although I can't bear to let you go..." the old man said, wiping away tears again, "but in today's world... I would be harming you by keeping you..."
What is the relationship between him and Wen Na? Why does an old man in his 60s use the honorific title to Wen Na?
"From now on, no one in your family will have to guard this mountain anymore..." Wen Na said...
