Nan Muran glanced at the watch on her hand: "It's less than an hour until dawn. Let's go to worship first."
"There is a cave nearby where we can stay." Qin Jing knew it. After the worship was over, time was too tight and they couldn't go back. They could only find a place nearby to hide for the night.
Hearing his words, Nan Muran and Si Ye nodded in tacit understanding, agreeing to let him arrange their stay during the day.
"Miss Nan, you just said..." Liu Yiyi wanted to ask more about Chen Wu.
Qin Jing on the side stopped her from saying anything at the right time: "Let's go and pay respect to Si Nan and Su Ying first. We won't have much time left."
Nan Muran was very satisfied with this sensible Mr. Qin. At least compared to the Qin Jing in the previous life who wanted to get rid of Si Ye as soon as possible, this Mr. Qin was barely acceptable.
As for if he gets the idea again one day, there will be no need to hesitate and just deal with it directly.
They walked out of the ancient buildings of the five major families and headed towards the back mountain until they finally saw a cemetery in a valley.
It was just dawn, the temperature had not risen yet, and the gray morning mist was like a veil covering the entire valley. At a glance, the mountain was almost full of cemeteries. From the tombstones, this cemetery spanned too long a history, and countless ancestors of the five obsidian families were buried there for hundreds of years.
The cemetery, which was once well-maintained, now looks like a dilapidated place with no end in sight. The tombstones, which have been soaked and subjected to extreme cold and heat, have begun to be torn and scattered, no longer neat and exquisite. In front of the cemetery gate, the bluestone slabs underfoot have cracked, and a few tufts of dry grass have grown out of the cracks.
Qin Jing took out the flashlight from his backpack and shone a beam of light in the morning light.
As the flashlight swept through the darkness, strange noises suddenly occurred around them, and then a group of bats were startled and flapped their wings and flew over the four people's heads.
Liu Yiyi was startled by the sudden sound. Nan Muran, who was closest to her, reached out and held her up at the right time: "It's just a bat, don't be afraid."
Qin Jing, who was standing at the side, held her hand and said gently, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
"It's getting late, we have to hurry." Nan Muran's voice sounded at the right time. Just now, she had used her mental power to scan the entire cemetery.
Apart from the fact that there are more tombstones here than in other places and that the styles vary from era to era, there is really nothing special about the place.
Led by Liu Yiyi and Qin Jing, the four people carefully walked through the densely packed tombstones. Most of the tombstones were crooked, and some were even cut in half by an unknown force.
They were walking on the soft soil between the tombstones, sinking deeply into the soil with every step.
Although the journey was difficult, no one complained.
Nan Muran looked at everything around her, and couldn't help but reveal a bit of sarcasm in her tone: "The Obsidian Organization claims to be the oldest heritage, but they treat the resting place of their ancestors like this. It's really impressive."
Originally, Qin Jing would have refuted such words without hesitation, but looking at the cemetery in front of him that was dilapidated and incomplete, with almost no complete tombstone to be found, Qin Jing could only remain silent.
After the four of them walked to the northernmost corner of the cemetery, they vaguely saw the word "Si" on each of the nearby tombstones.
"These are their tombstones." Liu Yiyi pointed to two bluestone tombstones without any words on them and said to Nan Muran and Si Ye.
"No words engraved on it?" Si Ye looked at the tombstone that was obviously well maintained and breathed a sigh of relief.
At least they were not completely forgotten here, at least someone was still paying attention to them.
Liu Yiyi smiled bitterly: "Ajing and I buried them here secretly, so we naturally didn't dare to erect a tombstone. We were worried that someone would..."
Needless to say, Nan Muran and Si Ye could guess what she said.
Nan Muran sighed, took out a bunch of beautifully wrapped flowers from the space, then took out some fresh offerings and arranged them, then slowly stood up.
Si Ye looked at the inscriptionless monument in front of him. He originally thought that he would be very calm, but his heart beat faster for unknown reasons, as if the person sleeping inside touched his heart.
"Hello, I am Nan Muran, Si Ye's wife." Nan Muran looked at the tombstone without any greeting, but stated calmly.
She didn't know whether the way they chose to protect Si Ye was the best under the circumstances, but she must have tried her best. So when facing them, Si Ye's blood relatives, she was willing to show the greatest kindness.
Si Ye couldn't help but smile when he heard Nan Muran's words, then he squatted down, opened the bottle, and poured them two glasses of wine: "I'm Si Ye. I grew up in an orphanage. I was lucky and met very good people..."
Si Ye talked about his growth experience since he could remember. He was treated well in the orphanage at first and met a kind director. Because he was smart and studious, he was cultivated by the director. Later, he was admitted to a good university, and finally joined the army and became a soldier.
He told all that he had experienced in the past twenty-seven years of his life as if he were telling someone else's story.
Liu Yiyi, who was standing beside him, had already shed tears, because in this calm narration, all she heard was loneliness, indifference, sadness and despair.
At the end, Si Ye slowly stood up and said, "If there is another opportunity in the future, I will come here often."
"Go back." Nan Muran held his hand, her tone soft.
At this time, it was less than half an hour away from dawn, and the surrounding temperature had reached 35 degrees.
The cave that Qin Jing mentioned was not close to the cemetery. In order to avoid being too late to reach the cave to escape the extreme heat, the four of them walked very quickly.
Here, the four of them were looking for a shelter for the whole day, while on the other side, the security base in Jing City was in chaos because the four of them disappeared at the same time.
There has never been a scene in the entire Beijing Security Base where so many forces have come out in full force, and all of this is for the purpose of finding the four of them.
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