Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 364

Fortunately, there weren't many cars on the road these days, and it was just after the new year, and it was still after nine o'clock in the evening. With all the factors combined, it took them more than ten minutes to arrive at the nursing home.

As soon as he entered the door, the doctor on duty greeted him with two or three nurses.Xiao Ran asked straight to the point: "Where is my dad? Haven't found him yet? When did he disappear? Where was the last time I saw him?"

He had just finished drinking, his face was reddish and his mouth smelled of alcohol, and he was very anxious in his heart. The original nervousness was full of hostility in the eyes of the other party, and the doctor and nurse backed away in fright.

Hu Bayi and Fatty thought that Xiao Ran was really angry and wanted to fight with him, so they hurried up to stop him, while Yingzi quickly walked up to the doctor, smiled and said to several doctors and nurses: "That...comrade doctor, he is just in a hurry, and he is on fire." Don’t take it to heart like that. How did the old man disappear? How did you find out?”

The doctors and nurses were also relieved to see Yingzi's kind attitude, and briefly introduced the situation, saying that Xiao Changfeng was still there at dinner.When it was time for bedtime, the nurse made a routine rounds and found Xiao Changfeng's room was empty with the windows open, so he hurriedly reported to the doctor on duty without daring to say anything.

The disappearance of the patient can be big or small, especially for an old man like Xiao Changfeng who is already a little mentally unsound, and it is such a cold night.The doctor didn't dare to delay, and while organizing people to search, he immediately called the neighborhood committee of the street where Xiao Ran was.Fortunately, there were also people on duty in the neighborhood committee, so Xiao Ran could smoothly find out about his father's loss.

After listening to the conversation between the two sides, Xiao Ran also realized that he was too anxious and had a bad attitude just now, so he asked as calmly as possible: "Did you tell my second uncle?"

It happened that the little nurse who was usually in charge of the second uncle was also there, she hesitated and said, "No...because it was too late, I was afraid of Uncle Xiao...Uncle Xiao Changkong was in a hurry, so I didn't tell him..."

Seeing that the little nurse was a little timid, Xiao Ran thought for a while and nodded and said, "Thank you, you are very thoughtful. In this way, you can recall the places my father usually likes to go to, and what underground facilities are there in the nursing home, which are relatively secluded , even if it’s deserted, let’s find it separately.”

The doctor recalled and said: "The places he likes to go are places where he can see the sky. Your father likes to take a walk in the yard and the roof to bask in the sun. I will arrange for someone to look for it. But the other places you mentioned ...I heard that there was an abandoned air-raid shelter here before, but we don't know where the entrance is. So, I will call the dean immediately, he may know!"

After they finished speaking, they split up to look for it. Hu Bayi and Fatty praised Xiao Ran's idea, wondering whether Xiao Changfeng's memory was confused again, and he felt that the ground was not safe, so he ran carelessly into the air-raid shelter.

Since the doctors and nurses said they didn't know where the entrance was, the air-raid shelter must not be in a basement in the inner building of the nursing home.The four of them planned to divide into two groups, Hu Bayi and Fatty on one side, Xiao Ran and Yingzi on the other, to search in the open place.

The fat man asked Hu Bayao: "Old Hu, don't you know how to read yin and yang houses? Is there any feng shui to follow in this air-raid shelter?"

Hu Bayi looked at the fat man like a fool and said: "The most important thing in the air-raid shelter is safety and concealment. Who is okay to stick in the air-raid shelter and wait for promotion and get rich? Besides, our air-raid shelters are for the great leader who used to defend against the revisionist enemies in the north. , It was just decided to build, the old man doesn’t rub those feudal and conservative scum in the eyes. Don’t be silly, look for it quickly, just a little, the more hidden the place, the more likely it is. If you find something, the old rules, blow the whistle.”

According to Hu Bayi's suggestion, the two teams, along with the nurses, nurses, and guards who helped find people, tried their best to search for those corners in the nursing home that no one usually goes to.

Yingzi sighed: "If only my mastiffs were here, they would be caught by him..."

After Yingzi finished speaking, she suddenly felt that her words were inappropriate, her tone seemed to regard Xiao Changfeng as a wild rabbit, she stuck out her tongue and looked at Xiao Ran.Xiao Ran knew that she was outspoken and without malice, so he didn't say anything, pretending that he didn't hear or see anything.

The two searched around in a small forest with a promenade, and followed the road to the small garden in the center of the nursing home.At this time, the moonlight shines on the rockery in the center of the garden, making the rockery look like a bride in a wedding dress.

Yingzi looked at the rockery and couldn't help but let out a low sigh of "wow".Xiao Ran also looked at the rockery, and at Yingzi beside him who was full of eyes, thinking that if it wasn't for looking for a father now, it would definitely be a gathering of beautiful and beautiful people on a good day, what a pity...

Yingzi took photos up and down with the flashlight, and then resolutely walked towards the rockery.Just as Xiao Ran wanted to call her to stop, Yingzi suddenly turned around and said, "Brother Xiao Ran, it might be here!"

As soon as Xiao Ran heard this, he quickly caught up with her, only to see Yingzi suddenly squatted down and began to study the withered grass on the ground.Xiao Ran asked curiously, "Yingzi, what have you discovered?"

Yingzi carefully pointed at the withered grass and said: "These grasses have a piece that is crooked forward at intervals, and some are broken, and the direction is the same. Look at these broken places, this mark is new. .If no one came here just now, it must be your father!"

Although this "your father" sounds like a curse, it is still good news. Xiao Ran was excited, and quickly pulled Yingzi up and said, "Damn, hurry up, you mean the rockery, right?"

Yingzi muttered: "That's right, but this looks a bit weird..."

"That rockery is in the pool. Now that there is no water in winter, it must be able to hide someone. It's not unusual!"

Without waiting for Yingzi to finish speaking, Xiao Ran walked towards the edge of the rockery on his own, and Yingzi had no choice but to follow quickly.

When the two walked to the edge of the pool where the rockery was located, they realized that they had really underestimated the depth of the pool.From the edge to the bottom, the pool is five or six meters deep, and the bottom is full of black and dry mud. Even with a flashlight, it is difficult to see why.

It was hard for Xiao Ran to imagine that Xiao Changfeng would come all the way here and hide under this pool, but he still had the mentality of giving it a try and called his dad a few times.

Yingzi had sharp eyes, swiped the flashlight at the bottom of the pool a few times, and quickly found something suspicious, pointed to a place under the pool and shouted: "Brother Xiao Ran, look, is there a footprint on the bottom? There seems to be another Butt marks..."

Xiao Ran looked along the place Yingzi pointed, and there were indeed one or two marks on the bottom of the pool with different colors, which were the shape Yingzi said, but it was really hard for him to see it.

But this three-meter-deep pit, with Xiao Changfeng's body now, it is impossible to jump directly into it, right?

He turned his head to look at Yingzi, and saw that Yingzi's flashlight stopped on those artificial marks, drew a rough straight line, and then shone in the direction of the heel of the footprints. Sure enough, he saw a row of metal on the wall of the pool. The hanging ladder is made of wood, but it is covered with rust, so it is not easy to find.

Xiao Ran was overwhelmed by Yingzi's cleverness, he didn't want to hug or shake hands, so he had no choice but to pat Yingzi on the shoulder to express his approval.

He felt that his excitement had something else in it, if Hu Bayi or Fatty found out about it, he would only think that as long as he was more careful, he could do it himself.

Yingzi didn't have so many thoughts, and walked to the place where the hanging ladder was, took a photo and said, "Brother Xiao Ran! Hurry up, there are fingerprints on it, it must be left here!"

Only then did Xiao Ran follow him belatedly, first he blew his whistle a few times, and when he saw a flashlight flashing in the distance, he also raised the flashlight and shook it a few times before climbing down the ladder.

At this time, Yingzi had already followed the hard-to-see footprints to a pool wall behind the rockery, and looked at the pool wall.Seeing Xiao Ran approaching, Yingzi hurriedly said: "Brother Xiao Ran, look at this piece! There is a handle here, it looks like a door!"

This time, even without Yingzi's keen senses, there is a handle on the wall of the pool that is also covered with dried mud and moss, and there is an obvious square mark around it.

Xiao Ran grasped the handle and pulled it, and the door opened amidst a series of creaking sounds.The surface of this door is also covered with mosaics, and it is indeed integrated with the surrounding pool walls when it is closed.

Behind the door is a series of upward steps, and the upper, lower, left, and right sides are all concrete structures.After going up the steps and walking through a platform several meters long, there is another series of downward steps.Such a design must be for waterproofing, even if the pool is full of water, it will not flood the air-raid shelter.

There are still many footprints on the steps, and there are large tracts of rubbing and rolling traces. It is hard to imagine how Xiao Changfeng crawled and crawled in this air-raid shelter.

Perhaps in his mind, he regarded this air-raid shelter as the underground tunnels of the Zangshen Bureau.

Xiao Ran sighed for a while, but at this moment Yingzi suddenly yelled, shrank behind Xiao Ran and said, "Ahead... what is that..."

Xiao Ran raised his flashlight to take a picture, and saw a person squatting against the wall by the iron gate at the end of the air-raid shelter, his whole body was covered with black, black, yellow and yellow dust, lying on the ground muttering words.

Xiao Ran was very familiar with this figure, and hurried over after calling out "Dad".

Xiao Changfeng squatted on the ground, playing with two stones, muttering: "White...good guys, black...bad guys...good guys beat bad guys, bang!"

As he spoke, he bumped it with stones, his eyes shining like a child.

Xiao Ran quickly helped him up, and wiped off the dirt on his body.In the cold winter, Xiao Changfeng was barefoot, and the cold was red and gray.

When Xiao Changfeng saw Yingzi, his eyes were full of bewilderment.Xiao Ran introduced: "Dad, this is Yingzi, she is... Hey, you can't remember even if I tell you."

Yingzi also blinked and looked at the "crazy old man" in front of him, but Xiao Changfeng suddenly grinned and said, "Hello Yingzi, hello Yingzi!"

At this time, a flashlight and noise came from a distance, and the two turned their heads to look, and saw Hu Bayi, Fatty and two medical staff rushing over.

Xiao Ran was about to say hello to a few people, but Hu Bayi looked around nervously, and checked Xiao Changfeng's body with the medical staff, and he was relieved after making sure that there was no trauma.

Xiao Ran wondered: "Brother Hu, what are you..."

The fat man was the first to say: "Have you seen the footprints outside? You're talking nonsense. The footprints are from two people, and the other one is obviously entangled with something on the sole of the shoe. You can't tell if you don't look carefully. The old man didn't get lost by himself, someone dragged him here ..."

Yingzi also hurriedly said: "I also found out just now that the grass outside must not have been stepped on like that by one person. I wanted to say it..."

It was Xiao Changfeng who suddenly interjected: "Black! Black people are bad people!"

(End of this chapter)