Mysterious Underground Life (Part 1)

  Ning Yu curled up in the haystack, his whole body aching terribly. He couldn't help but let out a few moans. The man beside him was startled awake by his voice and glared at him discontentedly. However, Ning Yu's pain had already made him unable to care about others, and his instinctive wails didn't stop.

  At last, several people were awakened by his groaning. The one sleeping in the innermost said: "You guys, go and see what's going on."

  Several people near Ning Yu got up and walked in front of Ning Yu, squatting down to ask: "What are you yelling about?"

  Ning Yu said in agony: "I'm suffering, I'm going to die from suffering."

  The leader walked over, nudged Ning Yu's body with his foot and muttered: "Like a skull, can you not have problems with such a heavy hand? Forget it, brothers, let's carry him up. Get some 'medicine' back for him, we can't let him die here, that would be too inauspicious."

  A few people put on a camouflage jacket and pants for Ning Yu, and carried him to the ground. Although Ning Yu was dizzy and weak in his limbs, he still saw clearly the location of the underground room where he was. The underground room was actually very close to the ground, just climb up a staircase, turn around a corridor and you can reach the ground. It was probably midnight, and the rooms above were still brightly lit. The people who carried him up whispered a few words to the people upstairs, and then came a man who knew medicine, gave him several pills, all of which were anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving. Ning Yu also saw a bottle of glucose, they also knew that his body was already very weak, needed to supplement nutrients. They also let him drink a bowl of hot ginger soup. After replenishing a lot of heat, Ning Yu's spirit was much better than before. His eyes kept looking out, but the room was sealed very tightly, and it was impossible to see anything outside the room. He still couldn't determine if it was the same courtyard as before.

  A few people carried him back to the basement again. This time, a boy came over and gave him an old quilt, making him feel warmer. He looked at the boy with gratitude. The boy said: "You have to be like a man, don't cry out loud anymore, let everyone sleep well. Got it?"

  Ning Yu tried hard to nod, but his body wouldn't listen. In a daze, he fell asleep. In his dream, he returned to the world he was familiar with... Every morning, he would arrive at the newspaper office on time, waiting for hot news leads. Once he received a valuable news tip, he would immediately rush to the scene of the news event. That morning, as soon as he arrived at the newspaper office, he received a tip about a gas explosion in a residential building in Nancheng. He rushed out of the office, hailed a taxi, and hurried to the scene. He found the specific street and location where the news occurred but didn't see any signs of an explosion. After asking around, he learned that it was just a couple quarreling in the neighborhood, with one person threatening to blow up the gas tank, but not actually doing so. A well-meaning resident had called the newspaper, resulting in a big discrepancy between what happened and what was reported. He returned to the office dejectedly and told his director about the situation. The director said, "Forget it, there's no value to this story, don't bother writing it."

  Nothing.