I opened my eyes in a daze, and found myself in what looked like a cave, full of rock formations, presumably a place that had been excavated. I dragged my tired body and tried to sit up, but my whole body was like being pulled by a boulder weighing a thousand pounds, and I couldn't sit up.

Why do I always faint after coming to this strange place, and my body is getting worse and worse, I can't help but start worrying about my body.

I turned my head to observe the environment around me, the cave I was in was not big, and if I calculated it, it was about ten square meters. Although the environment is small, there are all kinds of things, including beds, tables, chairs, cabinets, and some electrical appliances. The most conspicuous thing is the hexagonal hearth carved into the ground, and the flames on the hearth keep jumping, illuminating the whole cavern in red flames.

After waking up, I have never been able to forget the voice of the woman in my dream, so familiar, so clear, as if she was standing right in front of me, caressing my face, melting the frost around me with the temperature of her hand. And the one she said...... Where the hell is it, and how do I find him?

While I was in a daze, a man came over and came to my bedside. I rolled my eyes and looked at him, and he had a young and handsome face, which ...... I seem to have seen it somewhere, maybe because I passed out again, and my head seems to be clogged, and I can't remember where I saw it. He came over, sat down gently on the edge of my bed, and helped me up. I'm a little scared, who is this stranger?

"You...... Who are you? here...... What is it?" I asked nervously.

"Hehe, who am I, are you hungry?" he said, holding the corners of his mouth, as if he was very unhappy.

"This voice! you...... You won't be ......" I stared at the face in front of me, dumbfounded.

"Don't you, you don't, you may feel a little uncomfortable when you wake up, I'll help you down for a walk. He tried to pull me out of bed, but I stared at him motionless, as if I had been frozen.

"You...... Are you an uncle?"

"Yes, yes, don't talk so much nonsense, I thought you must be hungry, that's why I came to you and took you to dinner! ”

Yes, I recognize this voice even if I am a ghost. And this face looks exactly like the picture on the old grandmother's pocket watch in my dream. How could it be? Could it be that I had recognized the wrong person? Who is this person of the same age as me, who obviously has the same voice as my uncle's, but his age! Could this be my uncle's son? My mind was full of all kinds of doubts at this moment, and I really wanted to blow my head open.

He brought me clothes and shoes, which I had to prepare with great difficulty. He helped me around the house and let go when I was getting used to it. Then he led me out, and it was only after I went out that I was sure that the place had been excavated, for we had all tested the rock formations as we went.

"Where is this? is this still Lazy Town?" I asked weakly.

"It was out of town, one of our bases. He replied.

I staggered after him, I don't know how many turns I made around the base, until I finally came to a more spacious place, and he told me that this was their cafeteria. The cafeteria is a larger cave, but fortunately it is well lit. The walls are neatly lined with holes, in which all kinds of utensils are placed, bowls, plates, chopsticks, forks...... Three rows of long tables crisscrossed the cafeteria, the tables were lit with candles, and the six long tables and chairs seated only two or three people. When these men saw us come in, their hands stopped, and their eyes did not look at the food on the table, but at the two men in front of the door, to be exact, they looked at me motionless.

"Miss Joan, go and sit down there, and I'll get you something to eat." ”

He pointed to some empty places with his fingers at random, and motioned for me to find a place to sit down first, but I was not familiar with life, so it was better to follow him.

"I ...... I'll follow you. ”

"That's fine. He tilted his head and said with a smile.

"I know! You're uncle! No one knows my name is Joan except you. I lowered my voice and told him.

"Ouch, okay, okay, the little girl is quite smart. He rolled his eyes at me and continued, "But now you can't call me uncle, I'm much younger!"

"Thank you. ”

I couldn't believe that this young man in his twenties in front of me was the same uncle who had saved me and wanted to kill me before, why could the uncle suddenly become so young, could there be some magic here?

What's even more strange is that there is no one in the entire canteen to serve us food. We stood at the place where we picked up the food, and after a while, a mechanical hand would reach out from it and hand us a meal. I took my meal and sat down with him.

"What the hell is going on? There are young people everywhere, and uncle, how did you suddenly become so young!"

After sitting down, I couldn't wait to ask the question in my head, and the person next to me looked at my uncle and immediately laughed.

"Don't worry what's going on, you, eat a good meal first! When you're done, I'll explain it to you slowly." Also, you remember me! Don't call me uncle anymore, when I saved you, I thought you were dying, and I didn't care about you, remember! Stop screaming. As he spoke, he stuck his chopsticks in his meal and looked at me impatiently.

"Then don't you call you uncle? What am I going to call you? I can't blame me for killing me before I even had time to ask you what you call you. ”

“...... As for the previous thing, I was a little too impulsive, it was my fault. My surname is Xu. ”

"Oh~ By the way, that 'policeman' called you Lao Xu. ”

"That's right! My surname is Xu, and my single name is a mountain, and everyone here calls me Lao Xu. ”

"Xu Shan...... Then I'll call you Lao Xu Bei!"

"Hey, how do you talk to the elders!" he looked at me with a frown, pretending to be angry.

"Elder, look at your current appearance, you're not just like me!"

"Oh, eat your meal! Add an egg to you, lest you keep nagging!"

I looked at the food in front of me for a long time, my stomach was already bulging and I welcomed the hot food to come in quickly, and I thought about it, I haven't eaten anything since I came here, and I don't know how many days and nights I have fallen asleep, and this is the first time I have seen food in such a long time. Hunger burst out of my body with a primitive beastly nature from the depths of my heart - I really want to eat this plate too!

"Eat slowly! It's not like you don't have anything to eat!" he looked at me in disbelief.

"Oh, this kid is hungry!hahaha!" The people next to me saw me, probably never seen anyone in such a hurry to eat, laughed one after another, some showed an expression of disbelief, some clapped their hands, and some were fascinated as if they were watching a play.

However, the more I ate it, the more I felt that something was wrong, why did these foods have no taste? There was really no taste at all! I looked at Lao Xu chewing slowly, and I really couldn't believe that he could eat such an unpalatable thing with such relish.

"Ahem, ahem, is your food here so bland, doesn't taste at all?"

"What did you say, louder?"

"Huh~ I said—...... Your food here is a little bit of a taste! all of it!!!"

Lao Xu listened to my roar, looked at me blankly, and then quickly ate a few bites and chewed a few times, savored it for a while, and then showed an incredible look on his face. We looked at each other for a few seconds, his gaze changing from determined to confused, and then he quickly took a few more bites and chewed a few more times. Then he told me hesitantly.

"No, it's very tasty, it's a little salty today. ”

"Salty? It doesn't taste at all! I'll taste yours. "I took a piece of food from Lao Xu's plate and put it in my mouth, savored it, but there was still no taste at all.

"There's no taste either!Could it be that I don't have a sense of taste!?Huh~ Hello, can you let me taste yours?" I was embarrassed to ask the person at the next table for a bite of food, and I also tasted it carefully, but it still didn't taste.

"It's over, it looks like I'm out of taste! It's over!"

I looked at the steaming rice in front of me, how fragrant and delicious it looked! But I no longer had this blessing to bear, but I had no choice but to be hungry, so I had to swallow tears into my stomach while eating. I can't imagine what I would do without my sense of taste, is it possible that all the food in this life has left me? I want to eat sweet, spicy, and numb, but without taste, all the deliciousness can only exist in my memory?

"Little girl, do you think today's food doesn't taste good at all?"

Hearing that someone finally understood me, I nodded sharply and wondered who had heard me—it must not have been my tongue, something had gone wrong. I saw a young man standing behind Lao Xu with a meal, he was wearing a turtleneck sweater and a white coat, and a pair of gloves on his clothes. He smiled at me and continued.

"Little girl, don't be afraid, I'm the doctor here. The reason why you don't eat now is because when you were asleep, we couldn't figure out what was wrong with you, so we could only give you a dose of special medicine. This medicine can cause certain functions in the body to be weakened, such as a temporary decrease in your sense of taste, sight or hearing. However, don't worry, your lack of taste right now must be temporary, and it will be fine later. ”

"Ah, that's right! It turns out that it's not my problem, it's the medicine. Then I'm relieved. Thank you. Hearing him say this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and finally relieved myself.

"Didn't Lao Xu tell you? Hah? Didn't I tell you that when the little girl woke up, you must tell the little girl?" he poked Lao Xu in the back with his hand.

I looked at Lao Xu and saw that he was bowing his head, and he was about to bury his face in the meal. Suddenly he looked up, and I realized that he was already smiling so that his facial features were about to huddle together, and both hands were trembling with joy. In the end, I couldn't help it and laughed out loud. I'm so angry that he should have told me about this, but he just hid it from me, it's a joke on me!

"You! You didn't mention it to me at all!"

"Poof! ha!"

"Oh~ No wonder as soon as I wake up, you want to bring me to dinner, you just want to see me panic!

"Poof!hahahaha!I can't help it, I can't help it!hahahaha!" Lao Xu kept laughing, so much so that the people at the next table also laughed together.

"Lao Xu, you are too improper, a little girl, don't bully others like this. The doctor shook his head, looked at me, and sympathized with me.

"Yes, Dead Old Xu, don't blame me for not respecting my elders!"

"Hey, hey, hey, I've saved you twice!"

"It's useless to save me ten times eight times!

"Hey, hey, hey!"

When he was still an uncle, I thought he was a steady and reliable person, and even at the moment when he wanted to kill me, I still felt that he would not kill me, and that he was not a bad person. But now when he looks young, I never expected that his heart and eyes are so "bad", and I began to wonder if he was a good person after all.