The next day, Lily took her little notebook and asked Aiden some questions, such as whether John had borrowed a dictionary from him, and whether he thought John was acting strangely.
Got a yes and a yes answer.
The former was confirmed by Lily in her diary, so Lily hurriedly asked the latter where Aiden thought John was acting strangely.
Aiden replied that John often ran upstairs and downstairs, and often lay down in one place not knowing what to look at.
Lily immediately thought of John's description in his diary of seeing strange golden square characters rising from the ground and finally flying high into the sky.
Finally, after confirming that there was no more information, Lily also borrowed the dictionary from Aiden, got up and went to the gym in the corner of the third floor to find Camille.
She had to confirm with Camille whether there was anything wrong with the "screening patrol".
Before arriving at the gym, Lily saw Camille's figure as expected. She seemed to be doing strength training with two dumbbells.
Camille has short blond hair and wears an orphanage-style sports suit. However, the strength training with dumbbells made her bulge in the sports suit, and some of her exposed arms also have clear muscle lines.
Seeing this, Lily couldn't help but touch her forearm...well, slender but elastic, um...
Shaking her head and putting aside her distracting thoughts, Lily immediately knocked on the half-open door of the gym and successfully got Camille's attention.
"Sister Lily, good morning, why did you come to the gym?" Camille asked, a little happy and a little confused.
She was happy because she was usually the only one in this gym, and confused because she was usually the only one in this gym.
"That's it." Lily glanced at Camille's "chest muscles" and explained her purpose of coming. She also showed Camille the list of the "screening patrol" team she copied on August 29.
"So, why did you take Bana's place on that 'screening tour' that day?" Lily asked directly.
"Bana...oh, I remembered. Bana had a high fever that day and was unable to participate in the 'screening patrol', but John said that that day's 'screening patrol' had to go to a sports center in the south to move some things back. , needed someone with strong strength, so he finally called me on.”
Camille only thought about it for a second or two before remembering the reason.
"Then...did you encounter anything strange that day? Also, maybe it's a bit strange for me to ask this, did you feel anything strange about John that day?"
Lily thought about her words and asked Camille.
"Something strange..." Camille thought about Lily's question for a few seconds and then said word by word:
"I don't know if this is a strange thing. Well, that day's 'screening' did not go to the sports center in the south. Instead, John took us all the way to the London Eye." Camille turned to go to a fitness equipment Chu took down his water glass, returned to Lily, took a sip of water and continued:
"You know, I rarely think about these issues. Although I thought it was strange that John suddenly changed his destination, I didn't think about it too much, and no one else in the team said anything, so I just thought it was a regular occurrence. Something."
After saying that, Camille filled a cup with the lid and handed it to Lily.
Lily subconsciously took it, took a sip, and then coughed twice. It turned out that Camille's water was salty, and it seemed that salt had been added.
Handing the lid back to Camille, Lily coughed again, and then continued to ask:
"Then did you feel that John was a little abnormal that day?"
"Abnormal...?" Camille was a little confused.
"For example, suddenly leaving the team to act alone, or trying to cover up something?" Lily asked her question based on John's diary.
"I'm sorry, Lily, there is nothing in my memory that makes me think John is a little abnormal." Camille just shook her head.
Lily was a little disappointed when she got such an answer, but she still got some useful information——
John would change the target area, and everyone in the "Screening Patrol" team was used to it.
Lily thought for a while and motioned for Camille to sit first. She also found a place to sit down and asked about some details about the time she and John went to the London Eye together. In the end, they only got the London Eye because everyone left. The fog is still rotating on its own, and it has lasted for several months. The structure of the support point seems to be loosening, and it may collapse in another 8 or 9 years.
After thanking Camille, Lily went to the attic on the fifth floor of the orphanage alone. She liked it very much. It was the quietest place in the orphanage during the day.
Slowly sitting down, Lily reached out and hugged her knees, placing her chin on the gap between her legs and knees, silently looking at everything outside the orphanage through the attic window.
The mist flowing like water surges slowly but full of vitality. Although it is silent, no one knows what is hidden inside and why it is connected with the Arabic numerals 2 and 4 of the earth.
"[Two Points Four Mist]... Well." Lily repeated the name of the fog outside with a somewhat awkward pronunciation.
Since February 4th ten years ago, human beings have completely lost the right to fly in the sky. The fog is like a cage, trapping all human beings in this cage and unable to leave.
Humanity's scientific and technological means have also been greatly restricted. All communication-related equipment has lost its function and turned into a pile of junk. All equipment that can observe the microscopic world at the atomic level and above have also lost their observation accuracy. Spend.
I heard that a writer named Liu in Xia State used this to write a masterpiece of science fiction, which seems to be called "The Four-Body Problem". It cleverly describes the theory of "technological lock", which makes this book Even if there is no way to spread the Internet, it is still translated into multiple versions in many countries and is selling well.
Now, John has suddenly disappeared, and Lily herself is about to face the unknown horror of the coming-of-age ceremony.
She actually wanted to find someone to hold her and cry with, but she couldn't think of anyone who could let her act like a baby like this. It would be great if Chatang's mother was still in the orphanage...
"It would be nice if Teatang's mother was still here...right?"
Suddenly, a male voice came from the spiral staircase leading to the attic.
Lily was a little startled, but then she reacted, a little embarrassed and a little annoyed:
"Ender, if you didn't go to the kitchen to help at this time, why did you come to the attic?"
The person who came was none other than Ander, who was the closest child to Lily in the orphanage, except for John Edden. She almost regarded Ander as her own brother.
Ender didn't answer in a hurry, he just bowed slightly and came to sit in front of Lily with his hands behind his back.
"Fuck you!!" Ander suddenly took his hand out from behind and handed it to Lily.
I saw a small turtle-like object made of various parts lying in Ander's hand. Then I saw Ander slightly twist the small key on the side of the "turtle" a few times. The "turtle" "He moved his body in Ender's hands.
"Happy birthday, sister." Ander smiled and put the small thing in Lily's hand.
