"Bao! That's right! She obviously went to school, why didn't we see Bao from the beginning to the end?!"
After being reminded by the director, Wu Ming finally realized this obvious problem that had been ignored for a long time. Lin Jiaojiao was clearly occupied by the school and teacher during the summer vacation. Since she was going to class, she would at least bring a bag with her. Pack a textbook and pen and paper, right? But when Wu Ming met Lin Jiaojiao, apart from seeing her shrinking in the circle of light, he didn't notice that she was carrying anything like a schoolbag.
"Replaying the video records at the time, the human individual Lin Jiaojiao was not found carrying backpacks, satchels, shoulder bags, waist bags and other similar portable items during the rescue."
Zhao Sida also confirmed that Wu Ming's memory was not wrong.
"You mean... the bag may still be in the shallow layer of the shadow world?"
Wu Ming frowned, feeling that things seemed a little complicated.
If Lin Jiaojiao went out with her schoolbag as the director said, why didn't Lin Jiaojiao carry anything when Wu Ming and his party found her?
Not only was he not carrying it, but Lin Jiaojiao's bag was not seen around - well, Wu Ming admitted that there were too many people with noodles at that time. Except for Lin Jiaojiao, who was shrinking in the circle of light, he could clearly see that there was no backpack. The place was full of black noodle people, and it was impossible to tell whether her backpack was there.
Could it be that someone took away her schoolbag while she was unconscious?
Wu Ming felt that this possibility was unlikely. Why would an extraordinary creature that could enter the shallow layer of the shadow world take away a backpack? Just explaining this motive is confusing, so it’s difficult to start. It can’t be that an extraordinary creature without a household registration felt that his knowledge level needed to be improved, and he couldn’t go to school without a household registration, so he snatched the schoolbag of a passing girl, right?
If this development really happened, the plot would be too magical.
"You need to confirm this." The director lightly handed over the work to Wu Ming, and then threw out a piece of bad news that made his head hurt: "Some time ago, the office's observation station also observed the shadow world. Numerical changes that exceed normal fluctuations frequently occur. Now combined with your report, shadow monsters should be regarded as semi-inert creatures. They live in the shadow world and will not become restless or violent as long as they are not attacked. But now they are actively attacking an ordinary person one after another. I wonder if there are some changes in the shadow world and this change has begun to affect the shadow monsters."
"If you have the opportunity to investigate more and get in touch with the Shadow Realm, what happens there also falls under your jurisdiction. You only need to explore at the shallow level now. By the way, remember to use the APP to navigate to another world, so as not to have to worry about it next time. Run back from the Shadow Realm by climbing over the wall."
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Wu Ming went back with a lot of doubts. There were too many things that were unclear. The Lin Jiaojiao incident had obviously been solved, but the remaining doubts in the incident had not been answered at all.
There are too many things waiting for Wu Ming to investigate.
By the time Wu Ming and Zhao Sida walked back to the old community where they lived, it was already around 10:30. This time they didn't stay too long at the director's place, and the other party made it clear that lunch would not be included in her place, so after finishing what they had to do, they came back without stopping.
After all, Elizabeth and Xiaomi are still waiting for him to go back to cook.
"Hey! Hello, may I ask?" But as soon as Wu Ming and Zhao Sida walked to the door of the building and were about to take out their access cards to open the door, they were greeted by a middle-aged man wearing thin-framed glasses who looked to be in his thirties or forties. The young woman was stopped: "Excuse me, is this Anthroposophic No. 21 here?"
Wu Ming felt a little confused when she asked him, and then pointed to the house number on the building: "This is it. Isn't there a house number on it?"
"Then...then do you know how many floors this building has?" The middle-aged woman looked a little embarrassed.
"Sixth floor." Although Wu Ming rarely takes the initiative to interact with his neighbors and spends most of his time at home without even bothering to leave the house, he still knows how many floors the building he lives in has.
"Are you...sure it's the sixth floor?"
The middle-aged woman's weird questions made Wu Ming feel a little strange: "Why are you asking so clearly?"
"Oh...that's it. I'm a teacher at No. 19 Middle School. One of my students lives on the sixth floor of No. 21 Anthroposophia." The middle-aged woman realized that she might have been misunderstood and took out her work Pai quickly clarified: "She hasn't come to school for two or three days, and I can't contact her or her parents on the phone. I'm worried that something will happen to her, so I took the time to come here for a home visit today, but I followed her address and found it, but when I got to the fifth floor, I reached the top of the stairs that didn't go up..."
No. 19 Middle School is a high school near Wu Ming's home. Wu Ming neither cares nor knows whether it is considered a key school or not. However, judging from the school spirit of this school where students still have to go to class after summer vacation, Wu Ming is very He had reason to suspect that Lin Jiaojiao, who was rescued by him this morning, was probably a student of this school.
"How could there be no stairs to go up? I have lived here for more than 20 years, I will take you up." Wu Ming opened the door downstairs, handed the key to Zhao Sida and asked her to go home first, and took The middle-aged female teacher went straight to the sixth floor.
Then Wu Ming, who had just vowed that there would be someone on the sixth floor on the 21st, was severely slapped in the face on the fifth floor.
The top floor is the fifth floor. Just like the middle-aged woman said, the stairs ending on the fifth floor. The layout of the fifth floor is exactly the same as the layout of the corridors on the top and sixth floors in his memory. Originally, in Wu Ming's memory, it should be The stairs on the sixth floor are now a wall. If it weren't for the big 5 painted on the floor sign in the corridor to remind Wu Ming that this is the fifth floor, he would have even thought that he had reached the top and sixth floor.
Wu Ming touched the wall that was supposed to be the staircase in his memory. He was stunned for a moment, then coughed and calmly tried to distract himself from the embarrassment he had just been in a daze: "Ah, have you ever asked anyone else about this? ?”
"I have knocked on the door before and asked the residents on the fifth floor. They said this has always been the fifth floor..." The expression on the middle-aged female teacher's face was also a little confused: "So when you said the sixth floor, I was a little surprised, right? You remembered wrong……"
"Ah haha... I see, then maybe I really remembered it wrong..." Wu Ming touched the back of his head with a sneer on his face: "I'm so sorry for wasting your time and making you run upstairs in vain. "
Looking at Wu Ming's look, the middle-aged teacher knew that her trip was probably in vain, so she thanked Wu Ming before leaving. After sending the middle-aged teacher away, Wu Ming's expression became a little serious, because he was the only one who knew that this building must have a sixth floor.
Not only is there a sixth floor, but the stairs to the sixth floor are right in front of you.
Wu Ming suspected that only he and the two superwomen at home knew about this fact.
