silent garden

But in the end he didn't even wait for three days.

More than three hours after Fei Tianlan's flight took off, Xia Qi received Professor Ye and Tian Hua at the arrival gate.Their flight was delayed for a long time. As soon as they met, Tian Hua began to complain about the weather in Pinggang.The heavy rain over there kept delaying the takeoff.

Hearing the news at the time, Xia Qi just subconsciously thought that maybe Fei Tianlan's trip would also be affected.Didn't take things too seriously.As a result, until nine o'clock in the evening and close to ten o'clock, he had not received any information about his safety.So I couldn't help but take the initiative to call.

Fei Tianlan's phone was turned off.

Only then did the ominous feeling suddenly pop out.

He was about to ask Uncle Wang through Xia Weijun, when he suddenly received a call from a stranger.It was Zhou Huaiqiong who had never met before.

"Fei Tianlan's flight had an accident, and the search and rescue are still underway. Specifically... I don't know more than the news reports." Zhou Huaiqiong said.

His voice was cold and calm.It makes people feel like things are not serious.After hearing this, Xia Qi's first reaction was to hold the back of the chair at hand to support himself and calm down.

In an extremely short time, he found a question that sounded useful: "Where can I see the latest and most complete live progress?"

"The airline's official Weibo." Zhou Huaiqiong paused, "It's like this to the outside world. I will ask someone to get news of Fei Tianlan as soon as possible."

"Ah."

"You...don't be too anxious." Zhou Huaiqiong comforted without convincing.

However, rather than being anxious, Xia Qi is now more in the calmness given by the self-protection mechanism.He didn't hang up the phone, he pressed the speakerphone and opened Weibo.The first trending search with the "explosion" mark is this aviation accident.He quickly browsed through a few articles. Not long after the incident, there were only official statements and no pictures.

Zhou Huaiqiong didn't hear his answer, thinking he was frightened.It's not easy to hang up the phone, still dryly comforting.

"The emergency contact Fei Tianlan filled in on the company's personal information is you. He also told me after he went to N City this time that if he has anything to do, he will call you. I didn't expect..."

"Mr. Zhou!" Xia Qi gently interrupted the words in his ear, "I'm fine...you go and get busy. If you have any news, please let me know in time."

"Okay. If you need anything, you can always find me."

Xia Qi answered and hung up the phone, sat on the chair with some exhaustion, mechanically scrolling through the speeches under the hot topic.Netizens commented a lot, all of which were worthless exclamations or powerless prayers.He looked away and saw nothing.

The heart seems to be slowly regaining consciousness while browsing through items one by one.Panicked, worried and impatient, they came alive one after another, jumping around in his body.There are many fragmented ideas in my mind competing to appear on the stage, and each of them has not been formed and has been shattered.

He saw the ring on his right ring finger.It seemed to be scalded, and it made my fingers hurt all the time.He put it in front of his heart, feeling the beating rhythm of the heart through a layer of skin.

Lu Zhao said that he had a feeling that Gu Mingxi was still there.

Now, he also wanted to have that ability, to feel if Fei Tianlan was still there.

Almost a sleepless night.

Xia Qi read every comment on the airline's related Weibo, searched the official website, and kept looking for new news on the Internet. It was clear that it wasn't raining in N City, but he felt the sound of rain roaring outside.At the edge of dawn, he was so tired that he closed his eyes for a while, but was soon woken up.

It was the news from the airline's APP that the search and rescue list came out.

He hurriedly clicked into the page, clutching his heart that was pounding hard on his chest, and carefully looked at the list.He reads every name.But until the end, I couldn't find the word "Fei Tianlan".

He didn't believe it, so he looked again.I read it several times, and then every word looked like "fei", like "tian", and like "lan", but they just didn't fit together.

He even suspected that Fei Tianlan didn't take this flight at all, so he exited the page and called Fei Tianlan's mobile phone number.Still only a cold female voice came from the receiver.He threw the phone irresistibly at the first syllable.

Fei Tianlan.Fei Tianlan.Fei Tianlan.

He paced back and forth in the room, clasping and releasing his hands, releasing and clasping them again.It took several minutes before he calmed down and picked up the innocent cell phone.The screen page stayed on the address book, and the name with a different color because he had dialed made his eyes sore and painful, and tears fell out with a "click".

He called Zhou Huaiqiong, who answered quickly.

He wanted to control his emotions, but when he spoke, his voice was still trembling, "Mr. Zhou, have you seen the search and rescue list?"

Zhou Huaiqiong said: "I see, I was looking for you."

"Does your friend..."

"Not yet." Zhou Huaiqiong's tone was much warmer than last night, trying to comfort him, "But that's not the whole list, and the search and rescue has not stopped."

"If you are in H City, will you get the news sooner?"

City H is the closest city to the plane accident.According to the news, the plane hovered over a wetland near City H before making an emergency landing.Many of the passengers who escaped by parachute were found in the wetlands.The place where the plane made an emergency landing was the peninsula waters outside H city.

Xia Qi wanted to go to City H, but Zhou Huaiqiong couldn't stop him from wishing.Thinking in another way, he will definitely rush over.

After a pause, he replied: "Maybe. If you want to go, I'll help you book a high-speed rail ticket, so that you can contact me instantly on the way."

"No, I'll order it myself. You said it will be faster over there, that's fine." Xia Qi sounded extremely tired, and asked Zhou Huaiqiong for a word, as if to give himself some confidence.

He hung up the phone and immediately booked the latest high-speed train from city N to city H.

On the way, I sent a message to Professor Ye, saying that my family members were on the flight where the accident happened.

Thankfully, Professor Ye and Lu Zhao have always had academic and project contacts, and since he entered Beiliang, his work would not be delayed.As soon as Professor Ye heard that he was a family member, he immediately asked him to go.He was so exhausted that he couldn't even say "thank you", and he just wanted to cry when he put down the phone.

The high-speed train arrived in City H two and a half hours later. He found a car and directly reported the name of the wetland.

Part of the wetland has been built into a scenic spot, which is a rather high-end tourist location.The driver thought he was going on a trip and took him directly to the scenic spot.When I got there, I found out that he wasn't the only one who came here looking for someone.

A group of people gathered in front of a landmark hotel that was originally high-end and almost deserted.They even made banners that read "Help..." followed by a few names.The flight number is also written in the upper right corner of the banner.

As soon as he got off the car and saw the banner, Xia Qi couldn't suppress the emotion in his heart anymore.He tried his best not to let himself cry.Covering his face with his hands, he squatted down on the side of the road.

After a while, a hand patted him: "Huh? This gentleman?"

He looked up, a middle-aged woman with disheveled hair had a gray face and sad eyes, her eyes were |red|swollen, and she had cried many times.She looked at Xia Qi, her eyes were full of sympathy for fellow sufferers and sadness of hugging each other for warmth.

"Are you here to wait for someone too?" She asked softly.

Xia Qi nodded.

The woman said again: "I'll wait for my husband, how about you?"

Xia Qi moved her lips, and unconsciously bent her hands covering her face.The woman's eyes fell on his hands, and she suddenly sighed softly, her sympathy for the sickness intensified.

"Are you here to wait for your wife?"

Xia Qi touched the ring on his ring finger with his thumb, but did not answer.

Women invited him to join the group of relatives who pulled the banner.There were six families and ten people in total. One of their relatives with cross-country experience organized them and told them to wait another two hours. If there was no news, they would go to the depths of the wetland to search by themselves.

Everyone who came here desperately wanted to find their loved ones.Xia Qi couldn't think too much, so he joined them temporarily.So Fei Tianlan's name was added to the banner.

However, the Wetland Police did not keep them waiting for two hours and persuaded them to leave before they set off.There was a little conflict between emotional relatives and police officers, but fortunately it was not serious.The police advised them to go back and wait, but no one wanted to leave.

In the end, more than a dozen relatives were arranged to settle in that scenic hotel.Near noon, some reporters came to take pictures and interview.

"Who are you all waiting for yourself? Do you believe they are still safe?"

"I'm waiting for my husband. I'm sure he's all right."

"And you, sir?"

"..."

"gentlemen?"

Xia Qi came back to his senses, and looked at the reporter in a daze.After a pause, he said, "I'm waiting for my lover, and I... also believe that he's okay."

This interview soon filled the webpages, with pictures, texts and videos.Everywhere received many comments, but Xia Qi no longer read such comments.Like all those waiting, he was anxious, helpless, and fearful.Just want to focus on the most useful.

In the afternoon, there was finally a new search and rescue progress, and two names were crossed out on the banner.

In the evening, two more crossed out.

Before the sun goes down, cross out two more.

In the end, there was only one "Fei Tianlan" added later on the originally full banner.Those three words were originally not conspicuous because they were squeezed into the corner.Now that there is only one, it is shockingly clear.

The relatives left one by one, and the banner became Xia Qi's property alone.He never entered the room arranged by the police, but waited in the hotel lobby holding a banner.

Xia Qi had no memory of how he lost consciousness.He only remembered that the night should be very late, and the hotel staff came to persuade him to go to the room to rest.He tried to be polite, smiling and shaking his head.

Compared with last night and morning, the exhaustion has increased by several levels.He knew there were people coming and going around him, but he couldn't pay attention at all.He must concentrate all his energy and wait for the most critical news.

The mobile phone is always in my hand, and the news on the Internet is always refreshed.Zhou Huaiqiong sent two concerned text messages, but there was no useful information.In his last memory, he received a call from Zhou Huaiqiong.

Zhou Huaiqiong said: "Come back, the wetland has been detected and searched for life three times, and there is nothing left. Maybe..."

"Is there no news from your friend?"

"not yet."

"why?"

"...Xia Qi."

"Where is the peninsula waters where the forced landing? Have you finished searching? How many meters into the sea?"

"Xia Qi..."

"I'm going to the beach."

"Xia Qi, don't..."

"Mr. Zhou, you don't have to worry about me. I will definitely find him."

He remembers hanging up the phone and getting up to ask someone from the hotel to rent a car to go to the beach.

After that, he doesn't remember anything.

But he did go to a peninsula in his dream, which was Baishawan Peninsula not far from Pinggang City.

He dreamed of the abandoned park again, and the dream was exactly the same as the one he had dreamed two years ago.At that time, his relationship with Fei Tianlan was unclear. He knew that he was in love with him, but he couldn't get his sincerity.He is greedy and worried.

So, he desperately searched for Fei Tianlan in that adventure dream.

At that time, he found Fei Tianlan's name and then forgot.This time, he didn't forget that name again, and he didn't worry about losing that heart.He just can't find anyone.

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