"Third Uncle, how did you get here?" Mercury, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was right next to his uncle. He quickly rolled down the window and leaned out. "We were just about to say goodbye to you."
"No need to say goodbye, I'll go with you." Uncle waved his hand, shoved his pipe into his cloth bag, and walked over to the back door in a few steps, opening it...
"Uncle, you..." Wan'er's expression showed a hint of emotion. She turned to look at her uncle, a touch of reluctance in her eyes, and reminded him, "Auntie is waiting for you at home."
Hearing Wan'er's words, he stopped opening the car door after work. Standing by the door, he turned back with a dazed look in his direction, "Old woman, I'm sorry, I've already called our son to pick you up..."
“Actually, you really don’t need to. We can do it,” Wan’er’s nostrils felt a little heavy. She sniffed and turned to comfort her uncle, “I don’t want you to regret it.”
“Let’s go. If I don’t come with you this time, I might really regret it. As for our fate, it will eventually come to an end…” The uncle lowered his eyes, rubbed the tip of his nose, moved to the parking space, and plopped down in the back seat next to the little prince…
Perhaps this is what humans mean by sacrificing oneself for others! The little prince sighed silently, then tilted his head to look at his great-uncle, seemingly understanding his thoughts.
"Well then, I'll be going." Since her uncle had already made up his mind, Wan'er didn't say anything more, just sighed and drove off...
After a bumpy ride, passing several ferries along the way and being delayed for several hours, the car finally arrived at the foot of a mountain behind a remote town around dusk, guided by the directional signs.
"You have arrived near your destination. This navigation session is over." This is the phone's last voice message.
Wan'er and her group stood in an empty mine hollow, which was more than 100 square meters in size.
In the hazy twilight, before me lay a barren wasteland nestled against a mountain, at least a kilometer from the town. The wasteland was uneven, bare except for a few weeds growing on the surface, while the rest was mostly covered with coarse sand.
Judging from the newly constructed mountain road beside it, sand used for road construction must have been laid out here. Looking further to the left and towards the end, there's only a dilapidated mud wall standing there. One end of the wall is slightly lower, while the other end is about a foot higher. Judging from this, it seems that people used to live here.
Strangely, a tree root, at least three meters long and as thick as a washbasin, had fallen diagonally onto the mud wall from the other side.
One end of the tree, connected to its roots, stretched out from the mud, a large patch of crisscrossing roots floating along the wall.
The other end of the tree was bare, without any branches or leaves, as if it had been sawed bare. Looking around, the view was fairly open, and there were no other houses nearby.
"What's going on? Is there a mistake?" Mercury spun around, her eyes filled with confusion.
Wan'er strolled to the mud wall, reached out and touched it, then patted it down. Looking up at the wall, which was at least a meter higher than her, she quickly fell into deep thought...
This place seems a bit strange.
I also feel something's strange here! The Little Prince was on her arm, his eyes flashing blue light as he looked down at the ground. His gaze fell upon the roots of a large tree, but something about those roots was off; they looked wobbly…
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