In the dead of night, Lin Xu hadn't slept yet. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Aunt rested in the bedroom early, due to the advanced tumor, aunt Lin Feng was suffering from illness almost all day long, it is rare that she can sleep so calmly and peacefully today, although she occasionally moans in her sleep because of pain, but compared to Lin Feng's sleepless night, it still makes Lin Xu feel a lot more relaxed for her aunt's condition.

Lin Xu has not been in the United States for a long time, just arrived in the United States to meet his aunt for the first time, the two are still in a hospital, at that time, Lin Feng has just finished chemotherapy, she is paralyzed in a wheelchair and pushed by the nurse, although Lin Feng's eyes are trying to pretend to be happy when he sees Lin Xu, although Lin Feng is open, the whole person is tightly wrapped in the hospital hospital gown, but seeing his aunt's thin hands exposed outside the hospital gown, and her pale and haggard face, Lin Xu does not need to ask the doctor to verify his aunt's condition, he can already be sure that his aunt is hovering on the edge of life and death in a heartache, and he can't remember how Lin Xu was holding back his sadness at that time, so that he barely shed tears in front of Lin Feng.

From that day on, Lin Xu almost day and night, as long as he was free, he would go to the hospital to accompany his aunt to take care of him. Although he can't cook delicious meals, but the meals he personally cooks and painstakingly make always have some hometown flavors, and every time the meal is ready, Lin Xu will personally send it to the hospital to patiently feed his aunt to eat, maybe it is Lin Xu's food that evokes the lingering nostalgia in Lin Feng's heart, or because she is moved by family care, her face is ruddy day by day, her weight has gained a lot, and her spirit is getting better day by day, after the examination the day before yesterday, Lin Feng saw that even the doctor was surprised that her physical condition had improved so amazingly, so she asked the doctor to be discharged, and the doctor immediately agreed to Lin Feng's request to be discharged from the hospital and go home to recuperate。

Picking up his aunt from the hospital and going home, because during the day, Lin Xu was going to study in college, so he specially hired a nanny to take care of his aunt, and the nanny couldn't leave until Lin Xu came home from school. Speaking of which, after Lin Xu arrived in the United States, he was busy almost every day.

Until today, because his aunt went to bed early, Lin Xu easily had his own time, he did not review his homework, but sat in front of his uncle's computer in the study.

On the computer desk is an acrylic photo frame, in the frame is a cowboy hat, a pair of wide glasses on the face, a long beard, a bold expression but a little scholarly brown hair and blue eyes of a sturdy foreign man, he is hugging a beautiful face, petite and delicate Chinese woman, the two are bathed in the sun in an endless golden wheat field, the face is full of happy smile, the photo jumped into Lin Xu's eyes, he was intoxicated and his heart was sour.

Lin Xu knows that the man in the photo is his uncle Edson, a few years ago, his uncle passed away in an accident, and her aunt, since then, often cried when she was alone because of the memory of the affectionate past with her uncle, which caused her health to deteriorate every day, maybe today's aunt is terminally ill and her miss for her uncle.

In front of the picture frame, there is a golden ashtray, and in the ashtray is a golden pipe that seems to be made of the same material as the ashtray, and the two things are refracted by the light, emitting a moist luster, which should be something that my uncle used before his death, and it can be seen that my aunt must have cleaned them often, and the ashtray and pipe are not even stained except for the dust, and there are no traces of burning.

Looking at the photos on the table, it is not difficult for Lin Xu to imagine how loving his uncle and aunt used to be, however, fate is ruthless, the two of them are like each other today, when Lin Xu sighed in his heart, he couldn't help but think of Liu Xinru, remembering that a few days before going abroad, Liu Xinru left school silently, although Lin Xu has been praying for the appearance of a miracle for his love for Liu Xinru, but in the end he didn't even wait for Liu Xinru to say a word, or knew from the school teacher that Liu Xinru went through the withdrawal procedures. Lin Xu understands that Liu Xinru may have really found the answers to the questions he asked, and she may have really found the happiness she recognizes, so Liu Xinru will not return to school, Lin Xu is not sentimental It is fake, he at least hopes that Liu Xinru can say goodbye to him, but even this seems to have become a luxury.

"Xinru and hers, is he hugging and smiling like the uncle and aunt in the photo?" Thinking of this, Lin Xu's heart tingled.

He turned on the computer, and the computer could access the Internet, but Lin Xu was not in the mood, he just clicked on the cumbersome files in the computer blankly.

My uncle is a well-known volcanic geologist, and Lin Xu knows it, so my uncle's computer is inevitably filled with all kinds of pictures and materials about geology, landforms and their geographical distribution, as well as a large number of papers written by my uncle during his lifetime, and of course, photos taken by my uncle when he roamed around the world.

The photos of his uncle made Lin Xu intoxicated by the strange and dangerous scenery of the mountains and rivers in his heart, and he was also amazed that the magic of nature has shaped the landforms of the world so differently, and people couldn't help but have the desire to visit just by seeing the photos.

There is a photo in which Lin Xu can't help but appreciate every time he turns on the computer because he is impressed by the courage shown by his uncle in it, in the photo, his uncle has no protective measures, and is standing on a rock that only allows one person to fall on the inner wall of a volcanic crater, waving and laughing, not far from his feet is the churning and rolling red magma, the photo is taken in detail, from the red magma beating flames in the photo, Lin Xu is sure that if he is not careful, his uncle will be swept down from the foothold by the heat wave caused by the hot magma。

My aunt doesn't know much about computers, and she doesn't have any interest in computers, Lin Xu doesn't know, so my uncle's computer can access the Internet, or my aunt is afraid that Lin Xu will feel lonely after coming to the United States, so she specially asked people to install it at home before being admitted to the hospital.

After Lin Feng was discharged from the hospital, as long as Lin Xu was at home in the past two days, she would always ask Lin Xu to open the computer for her, and while browsing the photos on her uncle's computer with Lin Xu, Lin Feng had a happy look on her face and told Lin Xu some warm memories between her and her uncle.

The two of them were browsing, Lin Xu found that there were a lot of music stored in a folder, and after he clicked to play it casually, his aunt was surprised and moved to tears and introduced to Lin Xu that those were his uncle's favorite music, and she hadn't heard these familiar songs for a long time.

Seeing that her aunt must have remembered the past between her and her uncle when she heard the music, she was sad and wept, worried that her aunt's emotions would affect her condition, so although as soon as she heard it, Lin Xu's mood was obviously as excited and joyful as when she saw an old friend she hadn't seen for many years, and for no reason she was conquered by those relaxed and happy, and without the need for mortals to sing in a harmonious voice, it already made people feel like they were in the sky, and the music was like a heavenly sound, but he still forced himself to pretend that he was not moved or interested at all, and inadvertently stopped the music playing.

But Lin Xu really couldn't hold back his love for those music, so while his aunt was asleep today, Lin Xu wanted to download those songs from the computer to his player.

He connected the player to the computer, and while waiting for the files to be copied, Lin Xu continued to browse the pictures on the computer.

The content of those pictures is nothing more than a rare sight of the magnificent geology, landforms, and uncle's photos in front of various scenes, only one photo is taken in a large part of the red rock, the exposed rock surface part is just like a grain of red date size of coal, no matter how auspicious Lin Xu is, he can't see that the coal has the slightest peculiarity worthy of his uncle's photo.

"Maybe my uncle is a truthful record of the geological composition of various places out of scientific rigor. Lin Xu thought in his heart, he didn't know anything about geology, and he was not interested in it.

Just as Lin Xu was aimlessly browsing the pictures, suddenly, a window popped up on the computer screen, prompting that his player's hard drive had no space.

"Something went wrong, and I obviously had enough space. Lin Xu browsed the player, and the computer screen showed that the player still had enough space to accommodate the folder containing the music, and he inexplicably opened the folder full of music and browsed, and soon, Lin Xu found the cause of the problem.

In that folder, it turned out that there was also a zip file that had been passwordd.

"I don't know what is in this file?" The files that my uncle had to encrypt in his private computer at home must be very important to him, Lin Xu was curious in his heart, although the files were encrypted, but this did not bother him at all, because Lin Xu was a master of programming.

It only took him about ten minutes to decipher the password of the document, it turned out to be a long thirty-two digits, Lin Xu was a little surprised that his uncle had such a good memory to remember that string of numbers, how did he know that his uncle Edson could remember that long string of numbers, because those numbers were just composed of Edson and Lin Xu's aunt Lin Feng's respective dates of birth, first acquaintance and marriage dates, because of his love for Lin Feng, this string of numbers was engraved in Edson's heart back then, and he never forgot it until he died, so using these dates as a password was perfect for Edson。

After entering the password and opening the file, Lin Xu was stunned, it seemed to be his uncle's diary.

"Should I read it?" Thinking that his uncle's diary might mention the privacy between him and his aunt, Lin Xu asked himself hesitantly, but he couldn't hold back his curiosity that his uncle was so solemn that he wanted to encrypt and hide the files, and Lin Xu read it.

"Now that I've been able to determine that this is definitely a significant discovery, I've written down the whole story.

It all started on my trip to Sicily, which was to provide information for a company to produce a popular science program about volcanoes, and I chose Sicily for my scientific trip, all for selfish reasons, because the ghost weather at the end of July was unbearable. Sicily has the Mount Etri, which gives me ample reason to convince the company to pay for the expenses incurred in choosing Sicily as the destination for my expedition. In fact, the most important thing for me is that there is a beach that I like, and I can enjoy the fun of surfing and soak in the water from morning to night, as long as I want. I was overjoyed to think that I could easily spend a few days of summer in the name of work.

On my first day in Sicily, after checking in eagerly at the seaside hotel, I went to the beach and threw myself into the water, without thinking about anything, and stayed there until it was dark.

Early the next morning, I began my research on Mount Etri under the guidance of a local guide named Masiri who had been pre-booked by the company.

Looking up from the foot of Mount Etri, the mountain is full of vibrant, lush trees, if this kind of scene can make people associate it with those horrific scenes that once attacked, the sky and the earth will change color, lava bursts, and magma rush to swallow all life, pure nonsense, I have been to Etri Volcano more than once, this time I did not plan to return with any new gains, my past research materials have already included my previous visits to Etri Volcano, I had gathered all the things that I thought were of great value in the composition of the local geological formations, so I had already planned to return and give them to that company when I returned some of the information I had on the subject of Mount Etri, and as for me, I had only come to Sicily for a comfortable three days of vacation.

Masiri was a nice young man, and as I walked slowly along the mountain trail with Masiri, he patiently explained the famous sights of Mount Etri along the way, and I could understand his job, but it was so annoying that I could not waste the whole afternoon on the way up and down the mountain, so that I could not go to the beach and enjoy the surfing.

So, after lunch, with a mouthful of thanks, I politely pulled out a stack of cash from my wallet and handed it to Marcy.

When he saw the money, Masili looked stunned, and he looked at me in amazement.

Seeing the expression on his face, I thought that he was too little paid, and I couldn't help but complain about his greed in my heart, and at the same time opened my wallet and began to take out money.

'Sir, what are you doing here?' Am I not good enough to make you feel like you don't need my services anymore?' Masili stopped me with a gesture.

No, it's that I really don't like to be behind so many people's butts and it doesn't feel a little new to me, so thank you for your hospitality, it's what you deserve." I casually gave Masiri a perfunctory remark and insisted on handing him the money.

'Sir, I don't have much to pay,' said Marsilee, stubbornly refusing to accept my money, but looking at me with earnestness, 'and how can I accept my husband's reward before my work is finished.' ’

I know, but there's nothing here that interests me. I'm starting to get a little impatient.

Masiri was silent for a moment, but instead of accepting the money from my hand, he asked me cautiously, 'Then may I ask you, sir, are you interested in expeditions?'

'Adventure?' Hearing Massily's words, my eyes couldn't help but widen, but when I saw Massili's expectant gaze and the persistent look on his face, what other choice could I have but to nod?

'Sir, then let's go down the mountain first, there is a café at the foot of the mountain, you wait for me there when you arrive, I will prepare the tools for the expedition and will come back to you there soon. ’

'I'm kind of soaked in the sea today. As I sat in the café waiting for Masiri, I was filled with frustration when I looked out the open window of the café at the crowd happily playing and surfing in the sea on the beach in the distance.

Masiri soon returned, sweating profusely and carrying a huge bag in front of me, and the thought of carrying such a heavy thing made me feel dizzy like heat stroke just thinking about it.

Sweating after Masiri, he led me to the secluded and dangerous part of Mount Etri, where he eventually led me to a cliff near the sea.

'Could it be that the expedition Masiri is talking about is to take me here to climb the rocks?' I couldn't laugh or cry in my heart, for I couldn't see anything strange about this cliff with its many ferns.

'Masiri, I declare in advance that I don't and don't like climbing. I lied before Masiri could speak, for a man like me, who works with volcanoes all day, would have been able to humiliate many professionals if he wanted to, but I didn't want to, so I said that on purpose.

'It doesn't matter, you just need to be careful and follow me, and I will protect you. Masiri tied the rope first, and then helped me tie the rope, then nodded to me with encouraging eyes, and then he grabbed the rope with both hands and began to slide slowly down the cliff, I sighed helplessly, grasped the rope in one hand, held the pickaxe in the other, kicked my feet the edge of the cliff, and after swinging my body, I also slid down the cliff along the rope.

I didn't pay attention to how high the cliff was, but when I felt like I was holding on to the rope and sliding down the cliff for dozens of meters, I suddenly realized that Masiri, who had been talking about protecting me not far from my feet, was gone, and his rope was left on the cliff empty, swaying in the wind.

This boy insisted that I climb the rock, and now that he has fallen, he won't even scream. Shocked to find that Masiri was missing, I thought that it must be bad luck to fall from the cliff where Masiri was, and I immediately cried out in my heart, and anxiously and desperately called out his name.

Just as I was screaming desperately, a hand reached out from the cliff and grabbed my foot.

'Here I am' In a nest of weeds on the cliff, Masili struggled to poke his face upward.

There is a hole in the cliff that can only be climbed into by a person who can climb sideways.

Climbing into the hole, standing inside the cave and looking out, I know why this hole is difficult for people to detect from the outside, it is because there is a cracked rock at the mouth of the cave that has just covered the hole from the outside, and the square inch between the rock and the hole is overgrown with weeds.

But what interest can a cave arouse me? I have been to so many caves that I can't even remember the name, Masiri has been here, and there must be no pirate treasure left in the cave waiting to be discovered, and I deliberately pretend to be interested, but I don't want to upset Masiri, because he is so enthusiastic.

I thought so at the time, but at the time of writing this article, I believe that he must be a fallen mortal spirit, otherwise how could he have given me such miraculous guidance. ”