Soon, Teacher Wang ran out of a room on the first floor, followed by two other people.
One is a thin man, the other is a fat woman.
"Xiao Li, what's going on?"
Teacher Wang led the two of them to the security guard and asked coldly.
"Teacher Wang, this is none of my business!"
Xiao Li said in panic: "I just thought that lunch time was coming, so I went to the second floor to call the children. When I walked to the dormitory, I found that there was no one inside. All the children ran away without knowing where they were!"
Teacher Wang frowned: "Could it be that he ran out while you weren't paying attention?"
"impossible."
Xiao Li quickly shook his head and said: "I have been guarding the security room. It is basically impossible for so many children to sneak out."
"Just now an outsider walked in in a big way, didn't you notice it too?"
Teacher Wang asked rhetorically.
"Just now...it was an accident just now. I really didn't pay attention."
Xiao Li hurriedly explained: "There are so many children trying to walk past me in groups. It's impossible for me not to notice."
"Don't say so many useless things. The most important thing is to find all the children quickly!"
Teacher Wang waved his hand and immediately began to arrange tasks.
"Xiao Li, come with me to look outside. Even if they run outside, they must not have gone far yet."
Then, Teacher Wang turned back to the man and woman and said, "Teacher Song, Sister Sun, you two just look for them in the courtyard!"
After finishing speaking, Teacher Wang glanced at me again: "Mr. Cheng, please help find the children too."
"Don't worry, Teacher Wang. I will try my best to search. I think the children should be nearby."
I nodded quickly and said.
Teacher Wang didn't say anything more, and then took Xiao Li and hurried out of the door.
After Teacher Wang left, the man and woman immediately relaxed, and they walked towards the small building unhurriedly, without any signs of anxiety.
The thin man even took out a small bottle from his pocket, put it in his mouth and took a big sip. Suddenly, a strong smell of alcohol emanated from him.
The woman looked at him with some disgust and said, "Teacher Song, you are a teacher after all. Drinking like this all day long is a bit outrageous, isn't it?"
"Hey, the end result for everyone is the same anyway. We are drunk today. I think we don't even need to find those children. I don't know why Teacher Wang is so conscientious..."
"Shh..."
Sister Sun quickly reached out her hand and gave me a wary look, telling Teacher Song not to talk nonsense: "Don't talk nonsense. If Teacher Wang hears it, she won't be able to spare you!"
"Okay, let's go find the children quickly, don't let Teacher Wang find out that we are lazy!"
As Sister Sun said that, she and Teacher Song walked into a classroom on the first floor and started looking for the missing child.
I hugged Xiao Hei and went straight to the second floor.
Because the security guard Xiao Li just said that the orphans' dormitory is on the second floor, there might be some clues here.
Stepping onto the second floor, I found that there were three rooms. On the left was a spacious room with five wooden beds made into bunk beds. I thought this was the dormitory for the orphans.
I walked into the dormitory and found that the beds inside were all neatly folded. Some of the beds had toys such as clay figures and plastic dinosaurs placed on the headboard. It looked like a boy's bed.
There are also toys such as Barbie dolls and small combs placed on the bedside. These should be girls' beds.
After searching around and finding nothing else, I walked out of the dormitory and came to the doors of the other two rooms.
Both rooms had copper locks on the outside. Nothing could be seen through the windows. It was so dark inside that I could only give up the plan of breaking in for the time being.
After all, it should be impossible for those children to hide in the room without unlocking the door.
Then, I walked directly to the third floor and found that here was the bathroom, water room and toilet. I searched carefully and found no trace of the children, so I couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.
Did those children really run outside?
At this moment, I was standing on the stair landing on the third floor, thinking about the whereabouts of the children. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that on the wall leading from the platform to the roof, there was a row of protruding steel bars, arranged in an orderly manner, at the end. , there is an exit, covered with a board.
Could these children have climbed to the roof and hidden?
Although these ladders made of steel bars are very steep, it is not impossible for children aged seven or eight to climb up.
Thinking of this, I asked Xiao Hei to squat on my shoulders, grab the steel bar with both hands, bend his knees and climb up. After a while, we were close to the exit. I used both hands to push open the board, and then jumped. Then we came to the top of the building.
The roof of this building looks like no one has been here for many years. It is covered with a thick layer of dust and even has many weeds growing there. On the left is a water storage tank several meters high, and on the right is a pile of garbage. Found the orphans.
I first came to the water tank, walked around, and found nothing. Then I asked Xiao Hei to climb to the top of the water tank and search inside. Xiao Hei poked his head around, looked inside, and then climbed down holding his nose.
"Are those orphans hiding in the water tank?"
Seeing Xiao Hei's expression, I couldn't help but ask.
Xiao Hei shook his head and pouted.
"You mean, there's something wrong with the water in here?"
Looking at Xiao Hei's painful expression, I couldn't help but guess.
Xiao Hei nodded instantly, indicating that I was right.
This orphanage is full of weirdness. It’s not surprising that there are some problems with the water quality. For me now, the most important thing is to find those orphans, so I didn’t check the water tank. I just turned around and walked towards the garbage on the other side. heap.
As soon as I opened a few boards, I saw a few pairs of eyes staring at me, trembling.
It turned out that this pile of garbage had been emptied out, and those children were hiding inside!
Under my gaze, the orphans finally walked out in twos and threes.
There are ten of these orphans in total, three girls and seven boys. They all look to be five or six to seven or eight years old.
The leader, a boy who was a little older, seemed to be eleven or twelve years old. He protected the children tightly behind him, holding a little girl with his left hand, looking at me warily, playing the role of a big brother.
"Who are you? Did Teacher Wang send you to find us?"
The boy stared at me and asked coldly.
"Kid, don't get me wrong, I'm new here, sending a child to join the orphanage."
With that said, I patted Xiao Hei on the head: "Xiao Hei, these will be your classmates from now on. Say hello to everyone."
