Chapter 6: Death
The next journey was flustered, noisy, and tossing and turning, and he refused the kind accompaniment of Lin Suo and Mu Ruoyan, and followed the two men to the base. The three of us first took a plane, flew to the nearest city to the base, then changed into a bus, and walked for most of the day to the deserted Gobi Desert. There, I saw the army-green jeep car that came to pick us up, and then bumped and shook all the way, and finally arrived at the base where Xiao Wenhui worked.
It turned out that Xiao Wenhui's journey back and forth was so difficult every time, and he never complained. In the past, I always heard people say that the conditions of the base are simple, everyone's life is very difficult and monotonous, and the natural environment around the base is also extremely desolate. The only people who can continue to work in this environment are those who really have lofty dreams and beliefs, they should be people who should not be forgotten by the Republic, and I believe that Xiao Wenhui, who I love, is such a person.
By the time they had settled down at the base, it was already noon, and although their stomachs were rumbling with hunger, no one had come to tell them where to eat, or how to eat. I finally waited for someone to knock on the door, but found that the person who came was a big leader of Xiao Wenhui's unit, who was interviewing the families of the missing people one by one.
The big leader seems to be very approachable, and his speech is also very concise, and what he told himself is very simple, that is, the experiments done by Xiao Wenhui's group are very important to the country, and the country affirms their efforts and contributions, and will make every effort to find them, and he told himself on behalf of the country that they believe that Xiao Wenhui and other team members will not defect, so I must not think nonsense, let alone listen to any rumors.
Hearing the big leader say this, I feel a lot better, who wants to bear the humiliation of injustice when something happens to their family? Knowing Xiao Wenhui for so many years, he will definitely not do anything that harms the interests of the country and disgraces his family. However, the big leader's conversation did not tell him the specific location where Xiao Wenhui did the experiment, and where they disappeared?
The big leader didn't explain what kind of experiments they were doing, and I guess that the content of these jobs was confidential, and outsiders like myself couldn't ask or know about it, but I still wanted to know where Wen Hui disappeared. The big leader finally said that the base lasted for several days of carpet search, but no trace of them was found, and considering the location where they disappeared at that time, it is estimated that the entire group of people was in big trouble.
The big leader hesitated for a moment, and finally did not tell himself where they disappeared, but he saw that I was sad and was about to cry, so he comforted: Now that there is no news from the search and rescue, it is good news, at least there is no evidence that they were killed. The climate and topography of the entire Gobi Desert are volatile, maybe they are just lost, or maybe they are just experiencing sandstorms. In any case, until there is evidence of the death, the base will assume that they are still alive and will continue to search and rescue them vigorously.
After the big leader finished what he was going to say, he sent someone to take him to the cafeteria to eat, but my heart was very troubled and confused, and I didn't have any appetite to eat at all. forced himself to sit in the cafeteria, pulling a bunch of food with chopsticks, staring at the vast Gobi Desert blocked by the outer wall of the window, and silently shouted in his heart: Wen Hui, Wen Hui, where are you? Come back soon! I'm coming for you!
There was a tumbling rush in my heart, and I wanted to run out to find Wen Hui desperately. The thought that he might be suffering somewhere, or dying somewhere waiting for rescue, made me feel so sad that I longed to die with him, but in fact, I had done nothing and could not do anything. Helpless, just like the despair and helplessness after the death of my sister, like a poisonous snake wrapped around the neck, getting tighter and more deadly.
In this way, the walking corpse, worried, and tasteless waited at the base, and the days passed, Xiao Wenhui and they still had no news, and the family members became more and more anxious and worried. Until one night, the sky suddenly began to rain heavily, and I saw Wenhui in my half-asleep sleep. Dressed in a white shirt, a pair of brand new black jeans, and a pair of white sneakers that he used to wear at school, he walked in through the door and sat on the edge of my bed, smiling silly at himself.
Xiao Wenhui smiled very brightly, his smile was very warm, his eyes seemed to be glowing, his eyes were full of doting looking at himself, and he said distressedly: Loulou, go home quickly, let's go home together! I almost went crazy with joy, and tried to get up and hug him, but my body didn't move.
Xiao Wenhui still smiled, touched my hair with his hand, and said softly: Take good care of yourself in the future, don't get angry at every turn, he will always be with me and will never be separated again. I nodded obediently, tears flowed down my face, Wen Hui gently wiped his tears for himself, and he went on to say that he saw his sister, she and her brother-in-law are all fine now, so let me and my nephew rest assured. I grabbed Wen Hui's arm tightly, as if I was afraid that he would disappear.
Wen Hui looked at me, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, his eyes showed a kind of sadness, and his expression was even more reluctant to look at me. Wen Hui muttered that he loved me, and meeting me was the greatest happiness in his life, and he would never choose to leave me in the future. He will follow me back to Wudu, to our own home, and he will never let me live in fear like this again. Wen Hui had never said such sensual words before, but after these days of struggle, I was moved to hear it at this moment.
He struggled to sit up on the bed, trying to hold him tightly and never be separated, when suddenly, a huge thunder came from outside the window, and a lightning bolt streaked across the sky, illuminating the room as if it were day. I woke up suddenly, looked around and the room was pitch black again, there was no shadow of Xiao Wenhui at all, it turned out to be a sweet dream.
But at this moment, when I had such a dream, I suddenly had a very bad feeling in my heart. Sure enough, before seven o'clock the next morning, the base called the families of several missing people to a small auditorium. In the open space in front of the rostrum of the auditorium, there are some used items of people, which look in tatters. On the ground behind the object are several stretchers, on which lay several corpses covered with white sheets.
Seeing these relics and corpses that symbolize misfortune, the family members immediately let out heart-rending cries, and everyone rushed to the stretcher desperately, wanting to see the last appearance of their family with their own eyes. The follow-up events are too sad and can't be recalled, Xiao Wenhui's body was actually not found, I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, at least he will always be so perfect and handsome in his memory.