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

11. - An exit?

11. - An exit?

Waking up to find that the dream you had wasn't real and you're still stuck in this shitty cave, not knowing what day it is or at least what time it is, just sucks.

I feel really fucked up. My clothes are dirty and stinky, just like my body. I'm sick of seeing these rocky walls. I miss the daylight. I miss my apartment, my bathroom, my bed. Just everything! I feel miserable and would like to just cry. I want to get out of here!

Oh yes, I miss my parents. I miss the discussions with my dad about taking my car to the mechanic shop more often to get it checked because it's old. I miss my mom taking me in her arms, stroking through my hair, and saying again and again that I was special to her. It's like the problems she and I had back then never happened. I miss them both so much.

How long have we been here? How much longer will we be here? When will I finally see daylight again? Will I ever even see it again?

And the worst thing is, I'm sitting here feeling sorry for myself, while Han is doing really badly at the moment. His wound is badly infected and festering. He has a high fever and pain. Leni can't even get into her shoe anymore because now her whole foot is swollen.

All of this is bad enough. But now, on top of that, we're running out of water. What we have are just puddles in the bottles. And Han in particular needs to drink a lot. We still have some food, but, more important would be water.

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Zhan and I were talking about May's missing backpack, thinking back and forth about when was the last time we saw it at it? Eventually, Zhan said we should ask Hai Kuan since he recorded everything. Only, we didn't know if he would give us his video camera for that. After all, he has his last battery in there now and it's only half full too.

In the end, we did ask my brother and after we explained to him why we wanted to look at the videos, he was immediately on fire and looked for himself. He also knows how important it would be to find the backpack. Unfortunately, nothing could be seen of it on the videos because my brother was holding his camera on Cheng most of the time.

But, luckily we have André, he accompanied Zhan and me back to the room with the door. It will probably stay closed forever until it eventually gives in to the rust and crumbles. So we were back at the door and André pointed his flashlight at something he had noticed when we were first there.

In this cave room, there is a hole above, on the ceiling! André suspects that we might find an exit there, because from there, the warm air just flows in. He also noticed something else. The whispering we heard is not a whisper, but rather a kind of hissing and rustling. "That means there's water or trees around here somewhere!" He said.

Zhan and I were almost cheering until André made it clear that we couldn't possibly go up there with Han and Leni without knowing if we'd really found an exit. Or whether we might just find more passages.

We realized that the only way to find out was by going up there and looking. Zhan and I were immediately in favor of that. But again, André reminded us not to just rush off and talk to the others first. I think because Zhan and I just want to get out of here, we probably would have climbed right up there and gone looking. Good thing André seems to be someone who is very level-headed and thinking along for us.

So we went back to the others and told them what we discovered, or rather, what André discovered. A discussion immediately arose about who should go up there and who shouldn't. André would have liked to go, but he has to stay with the two injured people. Cheng and my brother would have liked to go, but this time I said it was Zhan's and my turn. And my brother also has to give Zhan and me assistance to get up there. After all, my brother is the strongest of all of us here.