"Captain Wu, how did you know there was an air-raid shelter here? Have you been here in a dream?" Gu Guangming also loved sports, and since he was young and in good physical condition, he chased Wu Yanxu to the outside of the air-raid shelter.
Wu Yanxu nodded, put his hands on his hips and looked around. Every blade of grass and every tree around him was almost exactly the same as over there, even the shape of the tree in the front left where Baimei often lived was exactly the same.
"Old Yu hasn't come up yet?" Wu Yanxu turned around and looked back. Yu Dahai was still ten meters away. He was the quartermaster, mainly responsible for the procurement of supplies for the army. He was fat and strong, so climbing the mountain was very strenuous for him.
"Lao Yu, let's go into the cave and take a look. You can climb slowly, there's no rush." Wu Yanxu said as he stepped into the air-raid shelter.
"I came to this air-raid shelter once when I was a kid. It's quite big." Gu Guangming took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight. Wu Yanxu's old flip-cover Nokia mobile phone also had a flashlight, so he took it out and turned it on as well.
"I feel such a sense of accomplishment. My great-grandmother was shot over there in the valley, so I wrote that narrative essay. I only included a few sentences about the air-raid shelter, but I never expected that the essay would appear in your dream. When you woke up, you could still remember the mountains and caves I wrote about. It seems I have the talent to be a literary master!"
"Thanks for your article. Maybe it's all thanks to you that I woke up." Wu Yanxu walked towards the depths of the cave with his mobile phone in hand. Although it was an air-raid shelter, it was about the same size as the natural stone cave over there. He took a rough look and then stopped at the place where he saw the light on the day he woke up.
He stood facing the wall in silence for a while, trying to empty his mind to see if he could sense anything. It would be best if Baicaojian could miraculously come back, otherwise he would really doubt whether his journey through time and space was just a complete dream.
Unfortunately, there was no response at all.
"Old Wu, you're still as good as ever. You're moving faster than a rabbit." Yu Dahai came in panting. He shone the flashlight on his cell phone on the walls. "You old man, didn't you dream of coming here with Xiao Jian? What did you two do in your dreams in the air-raid shelter?"
He chuckled.
"I see your brain is still full of yellow garbage. It's not what you think. Here in the dream, and here..." Wu Yanxu pointed to the place where the weapons were stored. "They are all guns and ammunition from the army. I dreamed that I was counting the ammunition here, and then I saw a beam of red light flickering in this place..."
Wu Yanxu briefly described what happened that day, "When I woke up, I was in the hospital."
"This is quite fantastical." Gu Guangming smiled. "It makes me want to create. Tell me about your dream in detail later, and I will try to write a time-travel novel. How about I assign a male protagonist to the team?"
"Haha, I think it's okay." Yu Dahai laughed. "The male protagonist should be the old Wudang. As for the female protagonist, since it's a fictional novel, I think it should be Xiao Jian, or Jian Ning. That girl is good and pretty. It would be great to let her come alive in the novel."
As he spoke, he winked at Wu Yanxu. He had noticed that Jian Ning liked Wu Yanxu and had even teased him about this before.
"Stop talking nonsense. It's hard to start with someone you know. If you want to write about it, find someone else who looks like my wife." Wu Yanxu patted Yu Dahai on the shoulder. "Let's go and take a look outside. I remember that in my dream, the last thing I saw was a row of rotating wind turbines on the opposite mountain. Do you know where they are?"
Wu Yanxu turned and looked at Gu Guangming.
"I've been here two or three times since I was young, but I don't remember it. Go out and look for it, and see if it matches what you saw in your dream."
The three of them circled around the air-raid shelter several times, and all they saw on the opposite side was mountains, layer upon layer, stretching for dozens of miles.
"Forget it, I won't look for it anymore. After all, it's just a dream, not necessarily true." Wu Yanxu mainly wanted to see if there were any natural stone caves in Jiguana Mountain. If there were, he wanted to see if he could sense anything at the place where the faint light appeared in the cave, and whether he could use the sense to connect to Baicaojian.
As for what he saw after being sucked out of the cave by the strong light, it might not be Jiguana Mountain, or perhaps what he thought was a journey through time was just a complete dream, but because he had been living in a dream for more than five years, it seemed particularly real.
In short, he was not quite sure whether he had really traveled through time.
"I want to go to the valley over there and take another look. It's where people were executed in the past," said Gu Guangming.
"Okay, let's go see, Lao Yu, are you still able to do it?"
"Who are you looking down on?" Yu Dahai punched Wu Yanxu's right shoulder. "If I were ten years younger, climbing this mountain would be nothing. Even now, at most I'll just be breathing heavily and slowing down a bit. Just consider it exercise. Let's go."
When we arrived at the valley, perhaps because it was once a place where criminals were executed, even in broad daylight with good sunlight in the valley, it gave people an eerie feeling.
"Actually, my great-grandmother wasn't a spy. She was a member of the Kuomintang and participated in the Red Cross. My great-grandfather was a famous Chinese medicine practitioner during the Republic of China. My great-grandmother also contributed to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It's just that she later came into contact with spies from Taiwan. My great-grandfather was also a member of the Kuomintang, an anti-Japanese hero, one of the first Flying Tigers, who died for his country in 1943."
Gu Guangming's eyes dimmed a little.
"Oh, that's amazing! Flying Tigers, amazing!" Yu Dahai gave a thumbs-up. Wu Yanxu also said, "Indeed, worthy of respect." He then asked him, "Then who reported your great-grandmother?"
"My grandfather." Gu Guangming, the sunny young man, sighed at this. "Actually, I can't blame my grandfather. I've studied that period of history. People at that time valued political awareness, and many people sacrificed their relatives for the sake of justice. My grandfather carried the ideological burden for decades, and he still lives with regret."
Wu Yanxu and Yu Dahai, one on each side, raised their hands and pressed his shoulders. Wu Yanxu suddenly remembered that he said his great-grandfather was a master of traditional Chinese medicine. Jian Ning learned traditional Chinese medicine from her master. Since they both had the surname Wu, he thought that maybe Jian Ning's master was related to Gu Guangming's great-grandmother. He asked out loud, "Do you have any relatives in the provincial capital? On your great-grandmother's side?"
"Even if there was one, we wouldn't know about it. My grandfather reported my great-grandmother to the police, and she was shot shortly after. My grandfather rarely spoke. My father was still young at the time, so I know there wasn't one."
"Why did you think of asking his great-grandmother's relatives what they had to say?" Yu Dahai looked at Wu Yanxu and asked.
"Jane Ning's master's surname is Wu, and she learned Chinese medicine from her master, so I just asked casually. By the way, the house she lives in seems to be left to her by her master. What happened to that house later?"
"Her parents sold her and divided the money."
"That relic of Jian Ning..."
"Her parents sold them as scrap and some of them were burned." Yu Dahai told him before he finished speaking.
Wu Yanxu asked again, "Have you returned her belongings in the military dormitory to her parents?"
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