Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1260 Family Letter
Before opening the drawer, Bohemia looked back at the study.

The light fish wandered back and forth above the head, and the light and shadow in the room followed suit.Sometimes the glass door on the bookcase is reflected dazzlingly, and sometimes the texture of the wooden table is completely exposed; when the light fish swims away, the corners containing the furniture will instantly darken, like a picture when you turn your eyes away. The face with the corner of the mouth dropped suddenly.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual in the room, she bent down behind the desk again.The desk was made of old-fashioned mahogany, heavy and strong, and it hardly moved when locked; Bohemia didn’t dare to use much force when she didn’t know what was inside—she yanked it several times, and the drawer was broken. "Bang Dang" sounded for a while, but it still couldn't be pulled away.

Or don't make too much noise...?
Since the back of the desk was mostly blocked by thick wooden boards, she stretched her neck from behind the edge of the desk, poked out a pair of eyes, and scanned the door of the study.Business as usual, no change, carry on.

With more effort, the wooden drawer finally couldn't withstand the strength of the evolutionary - just heard a "crack", and the handle shattered and fell off.

fuck you.Bohemia raised her hand and threw the handle towards the door; from under the plank, she could see the handle roll onto the carpet and stop right next to the door.

The drawer was now so tightly embedded in the table that there was no place to pick it, so she had to resort to strong tactics; she put a ring on her index finger, breathed on it, and slammed it on the drawer board.

"Scare me!" Yuan Xiangxi's voice shouted from the other side of the house: "Where are you hitting the wall?"

Bohemia didn't answer, and picked out the broken wooden boards from the drawer one by one; then she lay down on the ground and looked, only to see that the drawer was dark and gloomy, and there was indeed a stack of documents.She was about to reach in to dig it out, when suddenly she felt a darkness in her head - just at this moment, the light fish swam to the other side of the room again, and the whole desk fell into the darkness.

I bought the fish for this kind of wave-like light effect at the beginning, but it turned out to be really inconvenient sometimes.

While thinking, Bohemia withdrew her hands and sat up; just as she was about to call You Yu over, her eyes subconsciously swept across the table, and her body suddenly froze.

In the darkness, there was a pair of dark leather shoes outside the table.

She moved her eyes back under the gap in the fender.Move it to the desktop.Moved under the bezel again.

Above the table, there was no face facing her, let alone a dark head; only the pair of slender legs went up, most of which were blocked by the table.

Bohemia jumped up and nearly bumped into the chair next to her; but even when she stood upright, when she looked out, she found that there was still nothing but an empty space where there was no upper body of anyone.

Could it be that the person outside the table bent down...?
Not even a scream could gather in her throat, she quickly threw herself under the table again and found that the legs were still standing straight out of the sideboard.Under her gaze, one of the feet suddenly lifted off the ground; then, the other also lifted off the ground and disappeared upwards--then, there was a soft sound on the table as the knee fell up. "Boom".

The hairs all over Bohemia's body exploded, and before she could even stand upright, she fell back hastily, and when she looked up at the desk, she had already tightly grasped a bracelet in her hand; at this time, Guangyu just swung As the tail was approaching, a ray of light fell down, illuminating the empty desktop.

The floor was empty, and the table was empty.

"What's the matter?" Yuan Xiangxi asked outside, "Why is there such a big commotion?"

"You... come here," Bohemia pressed her back against the wall, her eyes still scanning the table and under the table, "I, I found a locked drawer."

Yuan Xiangxi was clearly no longer alive, but when his feet quietly appeared at the door, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.She didn't dare to leave her back from the wall for a while, she just sat on the ground, looked at him and shouted: "I'm here, come here."

"What did you find?" Yuan Xiangxi opened his eyes wide, "Why this face?"

"Here again, I... I saw the shadow of a pair of feet under the table, and climbed up the table... When the light fish swam over, everything disappeared."

"Is it a child's?"

"……Seems to be."

"That should be right."

Yuan Xiangxi shrugged his shoulders, as if he couldn't understand her mood at the moment, and still had a relaxed and relaxed look: "Now it's the middle of 1976 at the earliest, and there are at least three members in this family. You, me, and a treasure are still missing." Er... what you saw was probably Baoer."

Even if she wasn't familiar with children, she knew that a one-and-a-half-year-old child couldn't have calves of that length, or climb up an adult's desk by itself.

Bohemia stared at him for a few seconds, then asked in a hoarse voice, "Then... Bao'er is at least five years old. Is it... is it 1980?"

If she was right, there was another boy and a baby in the house.Her three children are all together now.

"no,"

Yuan Xiangxi glanced at the desk, and his tone was suddenly very certain: "It is now 1981."

"How, how do you know?"

He reached out and grabbed an object on the table, and Liang showed it to Bohemia. "Didn't you find it? Look, this is the calendar book for 1981."

... Bao'er is six years old?This is the year she disappeared from the family album?
Speaking of which... since which year did this family suddenly disappear?

Seeing her silent, Yuan Xiangxi looked at her and sighed, then knelt down. "Okay, I'll help you get your stuff out—are you afraid to stick your hands in the dark?"

Bohemia stared at him as he thrust his pale arm into the darkness and produced a stack of large paper envelopes. "Eh?" Yuan Xiangxi frowned suddenly, "There's a bag inside."

"What bag?"

Bohemia leaned over her head, and the light fish swam over, illuminating the dusty plastic bag.The original color has faded to gray, as if wanting to speak hoarsely through time; the word "starch" on the bag looks at the two in silence.

...Why hide a bag of starch in the desk?And specially locked it?Bohemia pinched the bag, opened it, and found that a little half of the starch had been used.

"Wait, there is more," Yuan Xiangxi said while pulling out a small ziplock bag.It was well-sealed, with a handful of round, pill-like white tablets inside that still looked fresh. "It was put together with the starch."

Bohemia opened two bags and sniffed them vigorously.She couldn't tell what it smelled like, unless she brought her nose close enough to inhale the white powder, she could hardly smell anything - but she was clear about one thing: the contents of the two bags smelled exactly the same.

"What are you doing with this on the desk?" Bohemia held up two bags, "What is the white tablet? Is it made of starch?"

Yuan Xiangxi looked at her, opened and closed his mouth a few times: "Huh?"

Bohemia suddenly got a little annoyed: "I'll see for myself, you go back to the living room!"

After sending her husband away, she called two more light fish into the room, this time making sure that every corner was brightly illuminated at all times, and then opened the stack of folders.Inside the folder were bulging envelopes, each with the same address and recipient, and none of them were postmarked or sealed.

She opened one of the envelopes, and as soon as she opened the letter, two photos fell out.In one of them, she is hugging Yuan Xiangxi's shoulders, and the two are smiling happily at the camera; in the other, she is lowering her head to kiss Bao'er's face - Bao'er turns her head from the lower part of her lips , there was no expression on the round face, and the black eyes were staring at the camera from the corners of their eyes.

mom:
Hi!I haven't written a letter for a while, because Bao'er had chickenpox a while ago, and the field had to harvest another batch of wheat, so I was too busy to turn my hands off.How are you?How are you doing at home?We'll be home to see you next month.Signed, October 1981, 10.

...is it already October?
Bohemia quickly raised her head and flipped through the calendar for a while—in the first five or six months of 1981, there were scattered handwriting on almost every day of the calendar; the handwriting disappeared in July, And the calendars for October and November are still blank everywhere, and there is no day that is circled and written "going home".

In the second envelope, there were a few more photos.She was in each of them, and in one, Bohemia sat at a table, feeding the youngest child a bowl of mush.

Mother-in-law:

Are you still angry with Xiaoya?She insisted on asking me to write the letter.We couldn't go back this month, I'm sorry, we were caught off guard all of a sudden.Enclosed are some photos, I hope you can calm down.Signed, November 1981, 11.

The next letter was also sent to the Bohemian mother. In addition to wishing her a happy new year and telling her that Baoer liked the gift she sent, there were also a few photos: Baoer blew out the seven flowers on the cake. With a single candle, the family of five decorates the house together to welcome the New Year.

Signed, December 1981, 12.

Bohemia's hands trembled unknowingly, almost unable to hold the letter amidst the rustling of the paper.She hurried through all the envelopes, faster and faster, because what followed was almost the same: all letters that had been written in advance about what would happen in the future and would be sent out when the time came.In addition to the ones for Bohemia's mother, there are occasionally a few other relatives and friends; every photo in it, Bohemia has seen in the photo album in the living room, obviously more than one photo.

Among them is the photo of her hugged by Yuan Xiangxi, smiling and looking up to bite an apple, which was packaged with the letter signed in June 1982, with the words "Our orchard has harvested!".

Bohemia stuffed all the envelopes, documents, and starch back into the drawer, got up and rushed out the door, about to run upstairs.She said that she would write a diary when she gave birth to a child; there must be at least two diaries in this house, which can remind her of what happened from 1976 to the present——

With a "squeak", the door from somewhere slowly opened; the sound pierced the dead silence, and made her skin jump in shock.

... Isn't Yuan Xiangxi also looking for clues?How can it be so quiet?
Even if he walked and moved without making any noise, it was impossible for him to open drawers, cabinet doors, and search for things without making any noise.But after careful recollection, it seemed that whenever he disappeared from his vision and did not speak out, the house was as silent as if she was the only one.what is he doingStanding still?
She stood on the stairs and looked back slowly.

The living room was dark.

　The last point is a bit stuck...

　
(End of this chapter)