"He lied to you!"
"How could he be lying to me? Has any of us ever seen a stranger like this?"
"Even if he didn't lie to you, even if what he said was true, so what?"
"What do you mean by 'so what'? Isn't this enough? Why do we have to stay in this small place and breathe in the sand every day?"
“That’s how our ancestors got here.”
“Does this mean our ancestors are right? Did you see that guy? He’s older than my father, but he looks younger than me! Have you forgotten what he said? In the outside world, people can live to be fifty! In this place, I should be dead in ten years. I don’t want to die like this!”
"But you have children—"
"So what? No one can stop me! No one can stop me!"
"Waaaa (baby crying)—."
The mature young man shook off his wife's hand, ignored his son who was crying while being forced naked, pushed open the door and strode forward.
The businessman in the black cloak was looking askance at him.
"Oh, you've decided?"
"It's decided, take me away!" the young man said through gritted teeth, "Let's go now!"
"You are very courageous," the businessman said with a smile. "I hope you can keep up the courage when you are out there."
"certainly!"
"Then follow me."
The young man followed the merchant. The crying of his wife and children, the wailing of his parents, and the strange looks of the villagers were still tormenting him.
So he turned around suddenly and yelled at all this.
"Just wait! I'll be back soon, and I'll prove all of you wrong. Everyone!"
Then he walked into the yellow sand, and engraved the outline of the village in the sand firmly in his mind.
Looking at the outline in the yellow sand, Lyle's hands were shaking.
This also made Bai Wei certain that he had found the right place.
Bai Wei had never been to the contracted land, but based on the image of the village in Lyle's memory and the gaze of his left eye that penetrated the yellow sand, he found this place.
He did not rush Lyle, because back here, the ending was already determined.
Lyle stood in the yellow sand like a sculpture for a long time. Finally, when he was about to be buried by the sand, he raised his trembling legs and walked step by step towards the place called "hometown".
Five years ago, he didn't know what hometown meant because he had never left his hometown.
It was not until I left the no-man's land and entered the outside world that I understood the meaning of hometown.
Over the past five years, he had imagined the scene of returning home countless times, but he never expected it to be like this.
The fog was very thick, so when we could see the outline of the village in the fog, it meant we were very close to the village.
But even this extremely close distance took him a very long time to reach, so long that he himself could not remember clearly.
Is it a few minutes, a few hours, or - a few years?
When the village is no longer a silhouette in sight, when the yellow sand in the sky can no longer block the view,
Lyle's legs went limp and he fell to his knees.
Because he saw it.
The village was empty, like a silent tombstone.
But it already explains everything.
"Sure enough." This scene naturally fell into the eyes of Diana who had Carter following closely. "It is really like this."
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