The girl's mother shuddered, her expression complicated as she looked around.
I didn't know how to face them. Given the situation, I didn't know what to do, either.
Would this count as a shipwreck?
There was a radio transceiver on the speedboat. I looked at it, then at the mother and daughter.
The two of them spoke quietly, wiping the tears from each other's faces.
As the mother, she was naturally steadier and more mature. She'd spotted the radio, too.
I floated beside them, watching as the two of them tried to figure out how to use it.
The radio crackled with static. Before long, a voice came through. The person was speaking a foreign language, the same one the foreigner had used earlier. They exchanged a few words, then finally managed to communicate in accented international English.
I breathed a sigh of relief. The moment I relaxed, I suddenly felt myself falling.
I opened my eyes groggily and realized I was lying in bed.
Had the dream ended?
I sat there dazed for a while, then sprang up from the bed.
The sun was already setting outside the window.
I snatched the phone from my bedside table and called Chen Xiao Qiu.
As soon as she answered, I hurriedly told her about the dream I'd had last night.
Chen Xiao Qiu was silent on the other end.
"How is it? How are things now?" I desperately hoped for a good answer.
"Wait a moment," Chen Xiao Qiu said gravely. "Let me sort through my memories. I can feel that I have new memories, but they're a little jumbled right now... The past you changed was that Li Xingfang's family died. So now the two of them should be alive. Li Xingfang went missing..."
I froze. Something about the way