The village was shrouded in darkness, with deathly silence. Not a sound of insects or birds chirping, as if there were no other living creatures within a hundred miles except them.
Xiao Tangqiu searched the house again, but only found some scattered daily necessities. He didn't find any important plot items or clues, and of course he didn't find any stored food - it seemed that the middle-aged man just now really didn't lie to them. There was no food on this island that could sustain people's long-term survival.
"There shouldn't be a shortage of water on this island," Xiao Tangqiu turned and looked at the enamel cup, which still contained water. "Maybe there's a river or groundwater."
"But we didn't see any river when we arrived. If there was one, it's probably deep inside the island," Xiao Tangqiu paused before continuing. "...But it's so strange. Since the water here has no buoyancy, how did those outsiders get here? At first, I thought they were shipwrecked and drifted to this island."
Tang Mianmian thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it was a plane crash? Did the plane crash and land on this island?"
"Unless the plane crashes right onto this island, it will sink in the nearby sea," Xiao Tangqiu shook his head. "This island isn't very big. If it crashes from high altitude, the island will be gone."
"Damn it, we should have continued questioning that guy! He actually got away!" Duan Hongzhen was a little unwilling, "We should have left someone to watch that guy." They hadn't suffered losses in such a matter for a long time.
"Forget it, there's no point in saying it after the fact," Xue Junli frowned. "They can't really disappear out of thin air. Let's keep looking."
"That guy clearly said we couldn't go out after dark, so why has he disappeared again?" Duan Hongzhen curled his lips, "And the entire village has disappeared together!"
At this moment, Xiao Tangqiu suddenly found a photo on the middle-aged man's bed - of course, it was called a bed, but it was actually just a simple wooden bed made of a few bamboos, and even the quilt was just a tattered and old thick cotton coat.
He had just picked up the big cotton coat when a photo fell down.
He picked it up and found that it was an old yellowed photo. The photo was a photo of a young couple. The young man and woman were smiling happily at the camera, and the wife's belly was slightly bulging, obviously she was pregnant.
"What photo?" Tang Mianmian leaned over to take a look and suddenly discovered something. "Who is this man? Why does he look so much like the middle-aged man from before? Is this a photo of him when he was younger?"
"No, this photo isn't very old. It should have been taken only a few years ago. Even if the middle-aged man was this young before, it must have been at least twenty years ago." Xiao Tangqiu shook his head. "A photo from twenty years ago can't be this new."
"That's his son? His son and his daughter-in-law?" Tang Mianmian touched her chin. "That's not right. No matter how much the father and son look alike, they can't be exactly alike. Even the mole under their mouths is in the same place."
The young man in the photo looked exactly like the middle-aged man, except that he was twenty years younger. Even the mole was the same.
Xiao Tangqiu narrowed his eyes and said, "...I think it should be the same person."
"But the ages don't match! The man in the photo is only in his twenties, and the middle-aged man is at least in his forties," Tang Mianmian said, stroking her chin. "No matter how well the photo is preserved, it can't be that new, right?"
Xue Junli suddenly said, "It shouldn't be twenty years. Even though the electric kettle is broken, if it really has been used for twenty years, the degree of wear and tear is definitely not that high."
The newcomers nearby were completely bewildered. One of them couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean? What on earth were you guys discussing?"
Xiao Tangqiu glanced at the newcomer and said calmly, "Assuming that these outsiders really were stranded on this island due to a shipwreck or a plane crash, we are speculating how long they have been here. Based on the photo and the things he brought, he should have only lived on this island for a few years... but his current age doesn't match the age in the photo." The man in the photo should be in his twenties or early thirties even in a few years, but he is actually in his forties and almost fifty.
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