A Sinister Joke
David often corresponded via email and told his parents that he would use the three weeks to travel before returning home. He thought a brisk journey through southern China would suffice for some “hard-core traveling.”
He continued in the email and joked that they should look for his body in the western Yunnan Province of China or the Yellow Mountains of Anhui if they never heard from him again. They breathed a sigh of relief when he said he was joking and “really so excited.” But his joke would soon not be taken so lightly.