Part 2: Five Years Later – A Shocking Discovery
For the next five years, Roger never returned.
He and Marites moved to Quezon City and worked long hours in a factory. Life was simple and modest, but it was stable.
Whenever someone mentioned pig farming, Roger would smile bitterly.
“I just threw my money into the mountains,” he would say.
Then, early this year, his phone rang unexpectedly.
It was Mang Tino.
His voice sounded strange, almost nervous.
“Roger… you need to come up here. Something serious happened to your old place.”
The next day, Roger made the long journey back to the mountain. The road he once traveled regularly was now covered with grass and thick vegetation.
It looked abandoned.
As he climbed higher, anxiety filled his chest.
Had everything been destroyed?
Or worse… forgotten?
But when he reached the final bend in the road, he froze.
The place he had abandoned was alive.
The old pigsty was almost hidden by vines and plants. Trees had grown everywhere, and nature had reclaimed the land.
Then he heard something unexpected.
“Ngrok… ngrok…”
Pig sounds.
Roger slowly approached the old fence.
Inside, he saw them.
Pigs.
Not just one or two—but many. Large, healthy pigs, along with several piglets running around.
The thirty piglets he had left behind five years earlier had turned into an entire herd.
“No… that’s impossible,” Roger whispered.
Mang Tino walked up beside him.
“They didn’t disappear,” the old man said quietly.
Roger stared in disbelief.
“How did they survive?”
Mang Tino pointed toward the forest behind the pens.
“When you left, some pigs broke through the fence and escaped. I thought they would die in the forest… but they learned to survive.”
Behind the old pigsty, a small stream flowed through the land. Wild banana trees, sweet potatoes, coconuts, and other plants had grown freely.
Nature had created its own farm.
Roger watched the animals carefully.
One large pig walked toward the fence. Its reddish skin and a scar on its ear caught his attention.
“That one…” he whispered.
“That was the first pig I raised.”
His chest tightened with emotion.
Everything he thought he had lost was still there.
Alive.
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