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

17. - Our selfish behavior/+/first contact

17. - Our selfish behavior/+/first contact

After dinner at Station 2, in the territory of the three who apparently think this is their home, we went downstairs to our station one by one. We all decided to avoid the stairwell and took the elevator.

First Zhan and I, together with Leni and Han went downstairs, half an hour later Yanli and Missy followed, together with Meng Yao and another half an hour later, the rest of our group arrived.

I wanted to write this first because I am so happy. I finally know what time it is and what date it is. After Zhan and I returned to our station, I took a closer look at the charger for my brother's camera, and, I was able to charge my cell phone battery with it!

Of course, we don't have network signal down here, and I didn't expect it anyway. But just knowing that today is already Saturday, 08/03/2019 means so much to me. It means I actually have to go back to work on Monday. And that also means we're three days overdue. That means, theoretically, the police should already be looking for us.

Zhan just said to me earlier that if they went into the cave, they would have to find the remains of the bend lights there and would only have to follow this trail and would at least get as far as the locked first door. I hadn't even thought of that anymore. These stupid bend lights have already completely slipped my mind. Maybe there is hope after all.

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The canned food doesn't really seem to be good for all of us. Many of our group complain about stomach ache or nausea. I just went to the bathroom for the second time in thirty minutes.

Zhan and André made a wheelchair for Han. They found a wooden chair and added the wheels from a desk chair to the legs. André also took the backrests off the desk chair and added them to the wooden chair. From now on, we can push Han around and not have to carry him.

Leni found a stand for infusions. She kicked the wheels off of it with her healthy foot and now uses the stand to get around better. Every step she takes with it, the thing rattles. I guess we will never have to look for her this way, because she can be heard everywhere with it.

My brother, Cheng and Yanli try to figure out from the files and documents that Meng Yao and Missy have gathered. But judging from their facial expressions, they are not very successful at it.

Meng Yao and Missy sit together and try to figure out if we can use some of the cages from below as a kind of trap. They are thinking way too far ahead on this. Maybe later or tomorrow morning I'll give them a tip on how it might work to make a live trap out of a cage.

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Because of my stomach ache, I went to bed earlier and just woke up. The light is off. My watch says it's just after midnight. Zhan is not in the room with me. The door is open a crack, though. I'll go see where he is.

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I had found Zhan. He was sitting with André in the hallway around the corner, the two of them were talking. When they noticed me, Zhan told me to sit with him, which I did. Zhan then asked André to tell us a little about himself and his friends. I feel more ashamed now than ever that we relied on him all this time, but didn't even ask him who his friends were.

"I'll spare myself from telling you the name of the place where I grew up. It was so small that it wouldn't tell you anything anyway. I grew up with my parents, my two older brothers and my three little sisters. Anna, the woman who was with my group, was my fiancée. She was not well because she was pregnant. We only found out about it a week before this trip and she was three months pregnant then. We were going to get married on December 6 in Poland. She was looking forward to the fact that on our wedding pictures her belly would have been visible then. After we found out about her pregnancy, I wanted to cancel the trip, but Anna insisted and said that we would not be able to travel again so soon and everything was already paid for. The guy who was as tall as me, his name was Boris and he was my big brother." André stopped and rubbed his eyes.