Chapter 504: Searching in the Snow
Yu Linna only woke up in the latter half of the night. She opened her eyes in the ice and snow and found that her whole body was starting to freeze, and her hands had also turned purple. She touched her head, and a wave of pain came. She found that the blood on her head had also dried. She looked up and saw that it was a small cliff. She had fallen from above.
Why had she fallen?
Her memory was a little blurry. It seemed that someone had pushed her, but it also seemed that she had fallen herself. What on earth had happened…
“Hiss… so cold…”
Yu Linna rubbed her own arms. It was snowing at this time, and her body was all wet. She had to find a place to hide. Her phone was already gone, and that small cliff was too slippery for her to climb up. She could only find another place to hide, but her feet were already frostbitten, and it hurt to walk. But she still persisted in walking, walking towards a place where she could hide.
If she wanted to go back, she would have to wait until the snow stopped, otherwise she couldn’t even think about it. In the middle of the night, she just walked on like this, with no lights, no moon, only a blizzard. Her footprints were quickly covered in the wind and snow.
…
Yu Linna had not returned all night.
Originally, Xiao Yanhan had thought that she would come back on her own, so she had gone to bed first. When she woke up the next morning, she had wanted to call her, but had found that her bed was empty. At this, Xiao Yanhan had finally realized that something was wrong.
She had reported this matter to Tang Yumeng. Tang Yumeng had immediately contacted the hotel staff, and had also found the other crew members to understand the situation. In the end, it was confirmed that Yu Linna had not returned last night. She had immediately dialed Yu Linna’s mobile phone, but Yu Linna’s mobile phone was in a powered-off state and could not be reached. At this, Tang Yumeng had started to get anxious.
“Let’s call the police.”
Tang Yumeng said.
When Lan Qianyu and the others from the program team had heard the news of Yu Linna not returning all night, they had also felt that the matter was bad and had immediately stopped work and organized everyone to go and look for her. What a joke. Yu Linna was a big celebrity. If anything happened to her, they would definitely not have a good end.
On the contrary, Ye Zhiyun, after hearing the news of Yu Linna’s disappearance, was completely stunned. Then her whole person began to panic. She had not hesitated to join the team, the anxiety in her heart had never been so strong as it was now.
They had searched nearby, and had searched at the foot of Mount Everest, but had found nothing. Because of the blizzard, the search and rescue team could not find the person very well. The police had been dispatched, and the whole city was searched. The last person to have seen Yu Linna was a shop owner. He had said that Yu Linna had bought a late-night snack at his place last night and had then left, but he didn’t know where she had gone. The clue had been broken here.
“Shion-sensei! Where are you!”
“Linna!”
“Linna!”
This group of people had been looking for Yu Linna all along. The current clue was that Yu Linna had gone out of the city before she had returned, and then she had disappeared. The snow was falling heavily, and the road was slippery. The search was not that easy.
And Yu Linna herself had been walking non-stop in the latter half of the night. As she was walking, she was a little sleepy, but she still maintained her consciousness. She gritted her teeth and moved forward. The forest in the middle of the night was a little scary. From time to time, the cold wind would whistle. She walked and walked, and had finally found a cave. She had drilled into it. It was pitch black inside, and there was no fire. Yu Linna had thought of starting a fire, but she had nothing in her hands. She just leaned against the wall, hugged her own body, and let the cold wind from outside roll in.
In the morning, it was when she had been officially registered as missing.
A whole morning had passed, and the search had made no progress. Nothing had been found. Ye Zhiyun had been following the search team the whole time, but it had been of no use at all. Plus, the wind and snow were getting bigger and bigger, and the search team had said that the subsequent task was heavy, and the others could no longer follow.
“Why? We also want to help!”
“Miss Xiao, this is not the time to be mischievous. The wind and snow are too great. You can’t continue to move forward. Next, leave it to us, the official staff. You go back to the hotel and rest first, and wait for our news.”
“No! I also want to find her! She is a very important person to me! I can’t be without her!”
“I understand your feelings, Miss Xiao, but the weather is getting worse and worse now. We can’t let you accompany us. This is our job. Please cooperate with us.”
Everyone was forced to stay in the hotel. No one could go out. The snow was falling heavily, more and more intense. The people from the program team were all dejected. It must have been very sudden for such a thing to have happened. The program could not be recorded anymore. The problem now was, where was Shion-sensei? Where on earth had she gone? This was a problem that everyone had to solve.
Ye Zhiyun couldn’t sit still for a moment. She had wanted to go out several times, but had been stopped. Her mood was really anxious. She really wanted to go out, but she couldn’t. Xiao Yanhan, watching from the side, also felt a fire in her heart.
“What do you mean, Ye Zhiyun? Is it useful for you to go out now?”
“…What do you want to say?”
“Can you have some shame? Do you think you’re still in that kind of relationship with her? Just with you. I’m telling you, you’re not worthy.”
“Enough, Yanhan.”
In the end, Zhao Yuyan had pulled Xiao Yanhan, not letting her continue to speak.
Ye Zhiyun was not angry, nor did she care. She just looked at the wind and snow outside. Her breakup with Yu Linna was, in the final analysis, her own problem. She could not change anything, but now what she cared about was not that. What she had to solve was Yu Linna’s problem.
It was already past twelve o’clock. It would be night soon. If they didn’t find her soon, Yu Linna’s situation would be very dangerous. The wind and snow outside were also great.
“Han Ying, can you do me a favor?”
“What do you want to do?”
“I want to go out.”
“Are you crazy? The snow outside is so great. To go out is to look for death.”
“I’m begging you. I feel that if I don’t go and find her, I will surely regret it to death. Just once, let me go out once. I promise to be back within three hours.”
“Zhiyun, you and her are no longer in that kind of relationship. You know that.”
Ye Zhiyun of course knew. She was clearer than anyone else.
“I don’t care. I’m going out now. I don’t care what the situation is outside. I don’t know how dangerous it is, but I can’t not go.”
Ye Zhiyun was determined this time.
The wind and snow this time were great, and also very dangerous. To be honest, to stay outside was really not safe. But Han Ying had hesitated for a few minutes, and in the end, she had still decided to help her. As for why, it was probably out of trust for her.
Han Ying had taken the initiative to go and talk to the doorman and the security guard, letting Ye Zhiyun take the opportunity to take a rope from the balcony upstairs and go downstairs, and had secretly slipped out. For her to do so was indeed quite risky, but she had insisted on doing so.
The wind and snow were too great.
It was not certain that she would be found.
Ye Zhiyun had slipped out, wearing very thick clothes, holding an umbrella, and had walked with difficulty on the snow. She had searched and searched. She didn’t even know where to go. She could only continue to search like this.
“Nana!”
She shouted her name.
“Nana!”
She called her name.
“Nana!”
She tried hard to find her figure.
But she couldn’t find her.
The wind and snow were too great. In an instant, her umbrella was swept away. Ye Zhiyun looked at her own empty hands, just like the happiness she had personally let go of back then. She gritted her teeth and continued to search on the snow. Just as Han Ying had said, she and Yu Linna were long since not in that kind of relationship, but to find a person did not need a reason. She just wanted to find Yu Linna, wanted to find her back.
For some reason, she was reminded of Yu Linna’s past.
(“This time, I’ll make a fruit salad. Do you think it’s okay?”)
She thought of the time when they were together, when Yu Linna would often cook for her, would often appear in her home.
(“No matter how busy you are, don’t forget me.”)
She thought of the past, of the time when she had been like a bastard.
(“I don’t owe you this sentence anymore.”)
When they had broken up, she must have been very sad. At that time, Ye Zhiyun had acted on impulse. Yu Linna must have been very disappointed.
“Nana!!”
“Where are you!”
Ye Zhiyun was searching aimlessly. She was running in the great snow, desperately digging in the snow. In the end, her hands were all red, but there was nothing. She knelt on the ground, and tears fell drop by drop, slowly turning into ice beads.
“Nana…”
“I’m sorry…”
She covered her face and couldn’t help but cry.
It was only when Yu Linna was really gone, when she was really in trouble, that Ye Zhiyun would think of her past good.
Thinking about it carefully, hadn’t Yu Linna been very good to her in the past? When her business had failed, and her company was on the verge of bankruptcy, she had given all her bad temper to her. At that time, had Yu Linna ever complained? In the most difficult days, hadn’t Yu Linna still cooked for her, and hadn’t she been the first to bow her head and admit her mistake, and had obediently endured her bad temper?
She also remembered that Yu Linna had said, “I can help you. I’ll help you write the script.” At that time, Ye Zhiyun had been so concerned about her face and had said no. But thinking about it now, actually, she didn’t have to do so.
Why did she have to cling to that self-esteem? Why was she so stubborn?
If Yu Linna could come back, she could give anything, she could throw away anything, but she could not throw away her.
“Nana…”
“I was wrong. This time, I was really wrong…”
“I’s sorry, I’s sorry…”
“Can you come back…”
She was crying, and had been searching all along, but she couldn’t find her. She stumbled, and her body was also getting colder and colder. Her clothes were starting to get wet. She had fallen.
If she had been able to control her temper back then, if she had been willing to understand, perhaps neither of them would have reached this point.
Ye Zhiyun, now, she finally understood how much of a bastard she was.
She regretted it.
But there was no medicine for regret in this world.
She walked to the edge of a small cliff, thinking that if it really didn’t work out, then forget it. Suddenly, her sharp eyes had discovered a small black dot on the snow. She quickly walked over, threw away her gloves, and dug it out from the snow.
“A phone?”
She looked at the thing in her hand. Without a doubt, that was Yu Linna’s phone. Because she had been with her before, Ye Zhiyun was still very clear. She looked at the small cliff again and suddenly thought of a possibility.
“Nana!!”
She held the phone, didn’t care about that much, and directly jumped down from the small cliff. This cliff was a full five meters high. To fall down was not a simple matter. Ye Zhiyun didn’t care about the pain on her body at all. She held the phone, her steps faltering, and searched in the direction where Yu Linna might have gone.
She didn’t know if the other party was there or not. Perhaps Yu Linna had just accidentally gone to another place. But Ye Zhiyun didn’t have time to consider so much. Every minute was precious. She didn’t want to lose Yu Linna. Even if that Yu Linna was no longer her most precious lover.
She had created her own sin. She was not a good person. But Yu Linna was innocent. She could not be in trouble. Yu Linna absolutely could not be in trouble.
Even if she was not willing to forgive her, Ye Zhiyun also hoped that Yu Linna would be fine.
“Nana…”
“I know I was terribly wrong. My self-righteousness has brought you a lot of harm. I also refused that one and only chance that might have been a reconciliation. I know you won’t forgive me. I’m a bastard…”
“But you are not. You are the best girl in the world. You can’t be in trouble. I can do anything. I can be beaten to death by a random stick, but you can’t.”
“I’m begging you. You’d better come out. No matter how you scold me or hit me, I won’t say anything to you anymore…”
“I just want you to come back. I’ll do anything. I’ll even give you this life of mine.”
She searched and searched, not knowing where to find her.
She wanted to give up, but she still persevered.
Gritting her teeth, in the wind and snow, the cold wind swept through. Around her, there was only the sound of nature. Suddenly, she saw a cave. At the entrance of that cave, there were a few golden hairs.
“Nana!!”
She didn’t care about that much anymore. She knew that that must be Yu Linna.
She entered the cave, and as expected, she found Yu Linna, who was curled up in a corner, already frozen and unconscious. At this moment, she had finally found Yu Linna.
