Chapter 27: Awakening
Noah's grandmother turned around and handed Tom over to her husband, who was at the end of the walk, and the few of them divided the few supplies a little. After the distribution was completed, the two people in front turned around and watched the old man hold Tom in one hand and a torch in the other, walking towards the stone chamber in front of him.
Tom put his head on Noah's grandfather's shoulder and looked back, smiling and waving, "Uncle and grandma are going to come back to us early!" ”
Seeing Tom's ignorant behavior, Noah's grandmother had a sour nose, and hurriedly turned to the depths of the cave and pushed the son-in-law in front of her: "Let's go quickly." ”
"Ugh." Looking at the scene in front of her, which seemed to be life and death, Yi Annie couldn't help but sigh and continued to walk deeper into the cave with Noah's father and grandmother. Now, Tom and Noah's grandfather won't be anything for a while, and she does have some curiosity about the depths of the cave.
There is a small space in the cave, and any sound will be put into a loud way. Wading through the knee-high icy water, all they heard was the sound of "bang, bang, bang". After listening to this voice for a long time, there was a feeling of lingering for three days, which made Yi Annie's mind a little dizzy.
A bend along the current of water was made, and a louder roar of water was heard ahead.
"There could be a waterfall ahead, probably the end of the waterway, so be careful with your step." Noah's dad reminded.
Since the cave is made of gypsum rock, there are places on the rock wall with beautiful and fine gypsum crystals that shimmer with a yellow halo in the light of the torches. Beautiful gypsum crystals look cold and hard, but when you touch them, they feel slightly slippery and warm because they have a weak thermal conductivity and very low hardness.
The crystals of the gypsum are loose and easily shattered, and when the two of them walk forward, a small piece of gypsum crystals will be broken when they hold their hands on the rock wall, and the gypsum fragments stick to their hands and turn into a mushy mass after being stained with water.
At the same time, rising currents are washing away previously untouched gypsum crystals, which will dry up and regrow beautiful gypsum crystals somewhere in the cavern.
As the first torch was about to burn, Noah's father and grandmother entered the next stone chamber, and the water was obviously more turbulent, and the water had already touched their thighs. Relatively speaking, the lower half of the body of the Asian Yi Annie, who is small and short-legged, is already underwater.
The outlet of the water is at the height of the middle of this stone chamber, and the water falls down from here, forming a waterfall that hits the bottom of the stone chamber with a loud rumbling sound.
In the middle of this stone chamber is a huge stone block, which has fallen from the top of the stone chamber. By the light of the torches, Anne could see a large cavity in the top of the chamber, and there were still dangling rock formations beside it.
The huge stones that fell were piled up in the stone chamber, which separated the complicated road, and if you wanted to continue in the light of the light, you could get lost in the road ahead.
"We can't go any further," Noah's father judged, "and the terrain here is complicated, the rock formations are fragile, and it's too dangerous. ”
He turned his head to look at his mother-in-law, hoping that she would agree with his judgment.
Noah's grandmother didn't speak, she stared blankly at a shiny thing in the complex stone crevice in front of her.
"What's that?" She shuddered and pointed there, the shiny thing, with a completely different sheen from the plaster crystals of the water and the plaster crystals in the firelight.
Noah's father squinted his eyes and looked over, this squinting action was familiar to Anne, it was a habitual action when the myopic eye was not wearing glasses.
After a while, Noah's father finally focused on the bright spot, and he lit the second torch and gave it to Noah's grandmother, and after judging the torch that was about to burn, he carefully stepped over the waterfall and climbed the boulder in the middle of the stone chamber.
After breaking away from the current, he suddenly came into contact with the cold wind in the cave, and Noah's father was so agitated that he almost missed the rocks and slipped into the gaps between the rocks. Noah's grandmother shook her hand and almost let the torch fall into the water.
Fortunately, the bright spot wasn't very far away, and Noah's dad cautiously approached and pulled the thing out of between the stones.
At this moment, the fire on his side was also extinguished.
"Are you alright?" Grandma Noah asked hurriedly.
After a while, Noah's father replied, looking even more depressed: "My wife, she is really here." ”
Carefully climbing back from the rock, Noah and his father handed the things in his hand to his mother-in-law, and Yi Annie naturally probed over, only to see that it was a necklace, and it was the kind of clamshell style that appeared in various American dramas.
Noah's grandmother opens the oval lid of the necklace pendant, and inside is a group photo.
In the photo, the three of them are smiling brightly in the sun, and the person in the middle is Noah whom Anne knows, but the Noah she knows is much more gloomy than in the photo. The person on Noah's left is his father who is present, and the woman on the right should naturally be Noah's mother.
When I saw the female ghost last night, the female ghost was already in a hideous state, and when she saw her original appearance, Yi Annie felt a huge contrast. Why did the person who smiled so gently in the photo end up like that......
Noah's grandmother looked at the photo and finally couldn't help but sob.
Noah's father sighed, put his mother-in-law's shoulder, and choked up, "Let's go back first." ”
Yi Annie, who was dizzy from the sound of water before, looked at the group photo in the shaking firelight, Noah's mother's face seemed to move, her lips changed, and a word was imprinted in Yi Annie's mind: "HELP!" ”
"Wow! Hell I see it again! Anne Yi was frightened by this photo, and then found herself lying on the bed, the soft mattress under her made her feel extremely comfortable, "It turned out to be a dream......
"Yo! You're awake! Kidney cutting surgery is done! Several faces appeared above Yi Annie's line of sight from different directions, and it was Wang Yuxin who spoke.
Yi Annie stretched out her hand to drive away a few people and sat up from the bed: "What do you see me sleeping!" ”
Then, she realized that she was not in her room, she was wearing a hospital gown, with a hospital powder blue curtain next to the bed, and a few flowers in a vase on the bedside table.
After being stunned for a while, Yi Annie reacted and asked, "What's the situation with me?" ”
Wang Yuxin turned her head and asked Catherine: "She is awake, should we call a doctor to take a look?" ”
Catherine turned to look at Betty on the other side: "I haven't been in the hospital, do you have any experience in this area?" ”
Standing in the corner, Inferno looked impatient and stepped forward and pressed the pager at the head of Yi Annie's bed.
Anne looked at Noah and Polly standing in the other corner: "What's wrong with me, why are so many people here?" ”
When the doctor came over to check on Yi Annie and said that she was okay and could be discharged from the hospital, Wang Yuxin told her that she had found that Yi Annie had been asleep for a long time, so she called an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
Not knowing what to do, she told Iannie's immediate superior, Catherine, and Inferno, whom she speculated had something to do with it. Later, Catherine posted about Iannie's slumber in the editorial department's group chat, so Betty came over to see that she had brought the flowers. At the same time, Inferno said that it might have something to do with Noah's mother, so he called Noah over as well.
"So I wasn't dreaming before?" Listening to Inferno say that this was related to Noah's mother, Anne faced up to her "dream", and found that after she woke up, her memory of that dream was still very clear.
"Well, I probably know where those who are missing! I mean, all of them, including the bodies of Tom and Noah's mother! ”
Speaking of this, Iannie briefly told everyone what she had "dreamed of": "We estimate that we will have to do it as soon as possible, they are in the cave and the back-up water, and they don't know how long they will last." ”
Noah hurriedly made a phone call, roughly telling the other party that he needed to go to a cave to save his parents and grandparents. The voice became louder and louder, and after talking for a long time, Noah hung up the phone angrily: "They actually said that I was reporting a false police!" ”
"Hehe, what you say, how can anyone believe it." Inferno sneered at this, took an iPad out of his purse and handed it to Yi Annie, "You draw what it looks like near the entrance to the cave." ”
Yi Annie is a graduate of the University of the Arts, so she took the iPad and thought about it before she started drawing.
Among the people present, Betty could be said to be the only outsider, watching the behavior of several people present, she was stunned, but she quickly found the point: "Annie, you said you dreamed of the missing little boy Tom?" ”
Anne Yi nodded as she painted.
"Why do you have a mystical version, a divination version, which has something to do with this...... Could it be ......" Betty looked at Catherine in surprise, "Catherine, can you really do divination?" And then Anne can be psychic? You're working together to find Tom, the little boy, to promote these two pages? ”
It's in the wrong direction, but it's a really good idea.
Anne spread the sketch on her hospital bed: "Do you know what this place is? ”
Everyone looked at it, and although Yi Annie's sketches were only a few strokes, they could already give people a glimpse of the general appearance of this place. Three long stones stand in the middle of the sea, and the cave lies beneath a concave cliff.
"Is that the only clue? Even if you know that this is on the west coast of Noe Province, it is still a long coastline. Inferno frowned and pondered.
Among the several people, only Noah's home is on the West Bank, and looking at him with a helpless look, you know that even he can't recognize what this place is.
Instead, Betty uploaded the picture to her phone: "I'll take it and ask the reporters in the news section who specialize in local tourism." ”