A Five-Year-Old Girl Who Can Hear Relics' Thoughts Turns Them Over to the State

Five-year-old Gu Naonao runs into the police station, rises onto her tiptoes, and raises her hand. “Uncle, I'm here to turn myself in. Please hand me over to the state!” The roomful of officers bursts into laughter. But in the next moment, she points toward the hill behind the station and says there's a hero up there who's been waiting for seventy years, with a photo of her mother still in his pocket.

After waking from her nap, Naonao suddenly gains the ability to hear “echoes left behind.” A pocket watch misses its owner, an old military cap complains that it's cold, and a rusty button urges her to run.

No one believes a child until sealed case files match the exact times and places she describes. Operation Peregrine Hawk is livestreamed from start to finish. A professor voices doubts, and netizens mock her, but Naonao leads the team up the hill with a little shovel, giving orders in her childish voice: “Dig gently. Don't hurt Uncle.”

When the remains come to light, all laughter instantly falls silent. But the thing the hero was clutching so tightly points to another name that was erased...