C2 No Trace of This Man

"Holy shit, ghost!"

The sudden voice gave Liu Xu a huge fright. His neither big nor small eyes kept scanning the room.

Time seemed to have stopped. In just five minutes, the house was quiet. The old furniture was dark and did not emit any light.

As usual, some of them looked familiar, but Liu Xu felt that something was missing.

He continued to search, not letting go of any clues. Suddenly, he turned around and saw an envelope on the dining table that he often ate at home.

On the surface of the envelope there were four little figures, the largest and most imposing man, and on the other side there was a slightly smaller figure, that of a gentle woman.

And between them, holding hands, the four of them, two little people, one with ponytails, one with a crew cut, were holding hands.

Liu Xu gently opened the letter, afraid that he would break it. The beautiful and familiar words inside were reflected in his eyes.

However, before Liu Xu could finish reading it, something strange happened.

"Brother, you have to work hard. At the peak of the world, our family will eventually..."

Pow!

The letter suddenly turned into powder and disappeared into the dust. Liu Xu had only finished reading one sentence.

There was a problem, a big problem!

What happened? How could the letter suddenly disappear? It was unbelievable!

Liu Xu, who had found a job and thought that he had broken free from his shackles and obtained all kinds of freedom, suddenly fell from the peak of excitement to the cold point of sadness.

This time, it was completely over. They had all left him.

They looked sad, but in fact, they didn't understand. After all, it was fine in the morning. There was no bad sign at all!

The image of the four little people holding hands was firmly engraved in Liu Xu's mind. Recalling the joy of being with his family in the past, Liu Xu almost cried.

However, this was nothing. It was just a letter. What was there to be afraid of? Perhaps his elder sister and his parents were colluding and playing a prank!

"Yes, yes, now that I think of it, my mother told me to come back a little later, and now here we are, ganging up on me. I'm going to call the police, and I don't believe you won't come out."

Liu Xu took out the low-quality smartphone that he had secretly bought and decisively dialed the police number.

He was really scared. When he called, his hands couldn't help but tremble. He didn't know why, but he felt that all of this was real.

"Hello, police sister. My name is Liu Xu. My parents and sister are missing. Come and help me find them. The address is..."

Half an hour later, the police car stopped in front of their house. Five minutes later, two men and a woman knocked on their door.

However, the atmosphere was strange because the three of them were holding many gifts in their hands. They looked like they were here to comfort a retarded child.

The policemen who came were all very young. Liu Xu was also sixteen years old this year, so it was naturally inappropriate for him to call them uncle and aunt.

"Brother, sister, what do you mean by this? My parents and sister left me behind. Help me find them!"

Hearing this, the three men's eyes dimmed. They looked at each other and made up their minds.

"Stop messing around, Xu. You came from an orphanage, so how could you have parents and sisters? You're already sixteen years old, so you have to face the future. Although it's cruel, you have to face it."

Hearing this, Liu Xu's eyes widened.

"What did you say? I'm an orphan? Did they adopt me when I was young, then run away after giving up the house?"

"It's illegal for you to call the police and occupy public resources. We were worried about you, and we came to see you today, but you can't call us again. You're going to be detained, and if you feel lonely, call your sister. I'll give you my private number."

Hearing that shocking fact, Liu Xu's body shook violently and he almost fell.

Liu Xu almost believed those words, but how could those beautiful memories in his mind, as well as the scene of the four little people holding hands, be fake?

However, what the three people in front of him said was the cold truth, so he had to believe it.

Hurriedly supporting Liu Xu, the three of them felt sad. Although they did not have the experience of the child in front of them, they understood the feeling of loneliness. They had been helpless since they were young, watching other people's children have parents to accompany them, but he had never even seen what they looked like, so much so that he had hallucinations.

For the next two hours, the two older brothers and one older sister spent all their time trying to find the right words to say to the poor little boy. In the end, they even gave him their private phone number and specifically told Liu Xu not to call the police again.

Liu Xu's face was expressionless the entire time as he nodded mechanically. The last three people looked at the little boy with slight heartache and left his home.

The room calmed down again. The peaceful life from before became lively again.

"Mom, Dad, Sister Ying stole my toy and bullied me, sob, sob, sob..."

"Don't bully your little brother, the two of you can play together, brother and sister should stick together and help each other..."

"Daddy hid his private money under the sofa, hahaha, I found it..."

"Wow, you old thing, you actually hid 5 dollars behind my back, oh my god, 5 dollars..."

"Ah, my wife, I was wrong. Please spare me. I don't dare to do it anymore. You bastard, watch how I deal with you later..."

"Why didn't you do well again? Haha, you are so stupid. When your father was young, he was still the second from the bottom. You are the last, you are so bad..."

"Hmph, I will work hard and study, at least the third from the bottom..."

"Well done, if you work hard, I will buy you a roast chicken to eat..."

... ""

Memories of the past surfaced in his mind. Those memories were originally ordinary, but in Liu Xu's heart at this moment, they were like life-saving straws, an existence that could not be erased.

Tears filled his eyes and fell to the ground bit by bit. The letter suddenly appeared in Liu Xu's mind.

"Little brother, you have to work hard. At the peak of the world, our family will eventually..."

"Will we finally be reunited? That's great, I can't fall down, even if no one remembers me, I still remember. Sister, mom and dad, wait for me!"