Fear of the dark. [YiZhan FF - Mystery Thriller]✔️

8 - Truths

8 - Truths

I think it's about time for a change of leadership. Because, my brother still doesn't seem to have understood the seriousness of this situation.

More than three hours ago, Han and the three Polish men left to look for the Polish woman. After only a few minutes, maybe two or three, their footsteps could no longer be heard, and since then we have been waiting.

Already an hour ago, the Romanian group packed up everything and went on their way alone. I also advised my brother that we should leave. And best of all as long as his bend lights were still shining.

On the packaging of the bend lights it says that these have a maximum luminous period of 12 hours. These twelve hours are long gone, at least for the first bend lights. However, my brother insists that the bend lights still shine longer and can be found even when they have long gone out.

Well, he may be right. But, he should consider that our current only sources of light are our headlamps and flashlights, for which we do not have an endless supply of batteries. So, without these light sources, how is he going to find the outgoing bend lights in complete darkness?

Meng Yao has been trying to persuade my brother into leaving for what must have been half an hour. I even suggested tearing a page out of my journal and leaving a note for Han in case he came back here. But my brother is stubborn and insists that we shouldn't take the unnecessary risk of trying to find our way out of here alone. And he also said that we should at least give Han another hour or two.

The rest of us, of course, disagree and want to leave immediately to look for the exit. I will now go back to Meng Yao and my brother and continue to try to persuade him to leave.

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Leni has hurt herself! After my brother stubbornly kept telling us to wait, she stormed off in a huff and fell when her flashlight went out. She probably sprained her ankle, or worse. Now we're doomed to wait, because we can't hardly carry her out of here.

To make matters worse, Rin and May just came out with the truth about their story. They said that only half of what they told was true. I try to reproduce one to one what May told.

"Four years ago, my then 15-year-old daughter had gone hiking with my sister and her husband. The last time I heard from her was when she called me and told me she and her uncle had gone back to town to restock their supplies. They found a cave in a forest during their hike that they wanted to explore. She was already all excited and looking forward to it. I asked my brother-in-law not to go down there without someone who knew their way around. My brother-in-law said they were only going to go a few feet into the cave and not really explore it. My daughter promised to call me the next day. But no call came, not even the day after that, or the one after that. Finally after four days, I called the police there and asked them to look for my daughter. But they didn't find her. Only her backpack they found. And that was in the big cave room with the lake. The emergency services continued to search for her for several days. In the cave and also in the forest. But neither my daughter, nor my sister, nor her husband were found. There was no other account activity, they did not show up at stations or airports. The search was stopped after two weeks! My ex husband and I begged, we looked for a private investigator but nothing helped. They were and are missing. My ex husband and I were already living in divorce by then and I was already with my current husband. We kept trying to find a guide to take us through the woods and into the cave. But everyone refused. So we came up with a way to get into the cave after all. We realize that my daughter is long gone, but I at least want to find her remains to bury her. We didn't had a flat tire. We deliberately drove to the parking lot by the woods. My husband then stabbed the tire with a knife. Unfortunately, the storm surprised us and we had to stay in the car until morning. I then really saw this little girl and just kept following her. Until the time when Han and the other two came. Suddenly I couldn't see the girl anymore."