Chapter 18: Non-existent floors
"Bag! That's right! She obviously went to school, why didn't we see the bag from start to finish?! ”
was reminded by the director, Wu Ming finally realized this obvious problem that had been ignored for a long time, Lin Jiaojiao was obviously occupied by the school and teachers during the summer vacation to go to class, since she was going to class, she would at least bring a bag containing textbooks and pen and paper, right? But when Wu Ming met Lin Jiaojiao, except for seeing her shrinking in the aperture, he didn't notice that she was still carrying something similar to a schoolbag.
"Replaying the video records at the time, it was not found that the human individual Lin Jiaojiao was carrying backpacks, shoulder bags, shoulder bags, waist bags and other similar items during the rescue."
Zhao Jida also confirmed that Wu Ming's memory was not wrong.
"What do you mean...... The bag may still be left in the shallow part of the film world? ”
Wu Ming frowned, feeling that things seemed to be a little uneasy.
If it was really as the director said, Lin Jiaojiao went out with her schoolbag, then why didn't Wu Ming and his party carry anything when they found Lin Jiaojiao?
Not only did he not carry it, but he didn't even see Lin Jiaojiao's bag around-well, Wu Ming admitted that there were too many noodle people at that time, except for Lin Jiaojiao, who was shrunk in the aperture, he could clearly see that there was no backpack, and the rest of the place was full of black noodle people, and it was not clear whether there was her backpack there.
Could it be that someone took the bag while she was unconscious?
Wu Ming felt that this possibility should not be very large, why did a transcendent creature that could enter the shallow layer of the shadow world take away a backpack? Just explaining this motive is unclear so it's hard to start, it can't be a transcendent creature without a hukou who feels that his knowledge level needs to be improved, and he can't go to school without a hukou, so he grabbed the schoolbag of a little girl passing by, right?
If this is really the development, the plot is too magical.
"You'll need to confirm this." The director lightly threw the work to Wu Ming, and then threw out a bad news that made his brain hurt: "Some time ago, the observatory of the office also observed that the shadow world frequently changed values that exceeded normal fluctuations, and now combined with your report, the shadow monster should be regarded as a semi-inert creature, as long as they live in the shadow world, they will not appear restless and berserk, but now they take the initiative to attack an ordinary person. I wonder if there's something going on in the Shadow Universe and it's starting to affect Shadow Monsters. ”
"Have a chance to investigate and contact the film world, what happens there is also under your jurisdiction. You only need to explore in the shallow level now, and by the way, remember the next app for otherworld navigation, lest you have to run back from the film world by circumventing the wall next time. ”
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Wu Ming went back with a stomach full of doubts, there were too many things that he hadn't figured out, obviously Lin Jiaojiao's incident had been resolved, but the remaining doubts in the incident had not been answered at all.
There are too many things in it waiting for Wu Ming to investigate.
By the time Wu Ming and Zhao Jida walked back to the old community where they lived, it was already around half past ten. This time, I didn't delay too long at the director's place, and the other party also made it clear that she didn't have lunch there, so after finishing what she had to do, the two of them came back non-stop.
After all, Elizabeth and Millet are still waiting for him to go back to cooking.
"Hey! Hello, hello, excuse me. It's just that Wu Ming and Zhao Jida just walked to the door of the building and were about to take out the door control card to open the door, when they were stopped by a middle-aged woman wearing thin-framed glasses who looked to be about thirty or forty years old: "May I ask, is this person Zhi No. 21 here?" ”
Wu Ming felt a little inexplicable when she asked, and then pointed to the door number on the building: "It's here, isn't there a house number on it?" ”
"That'...... Do you know how many floors this building has? The middle-aged woman's expression was a little embarrassed.
"Six floors." Although Wu Ming usually doesn't take the initiative to deal with his neighbors, and most of the time he closes himself at home and doesn't even bother to open the door, he still knows how many floors the building he lives in.
"You...... Are you sure it's six floors? ”
The strange question of the middle-aged woman made Wu Ming feel a little strange: "Why are you asking so clearly?" ”
"Oh...... Yes, I am a teacher at No. 19 Middle School, and one of my students lives on the sixth floor of No. 21 Renzhi. The middle-aged woman realized that she might have been misunderstood, and took out her work card and quickly clarified: "She hasn't come to school for two or three days, and I can't contact her and her parents by phone......
The nineteenth middle school is a high school near Wu Ming's house, whether it is a key school or not, Wu Ming neither cares nor knows, but judging from the school spirit that students have to insist on going to class after the summer vacation, Wu Ming has reason to suspect that most of Lin Jiaojiao, who was rescued by him this morning, is also a student of this school.
"How could there be no stairs going up, I've lived here for more than twenty years, I'll take you up." Wu Ming opened the door downstairs, handed over the key to Zhao Xida and asked her to go home by herself first, and then took the middle-aged female teacher straight to the sixth floor.
Then Wu Ming, who had just sworn that there must be a sixth floor on the 21st, was slapped in the face on the fifth floor.
The top floor is the fifth floor, just like the middle-aged woman said, the stairs up the stairs will end on the fifth floor, the layout of the fifth floor is exactly the same as the layout of the corridor on the sixth floor of the top floor in his memory, it should have been the sixth floor staircase in Wu Ming's memory, but now it is a wall, if it weren't for the floor sign between the corridors with a big 5 to remind Wu Ming that this is the fifth floor, he even thought that he had come to the sixth floor of the top floor.
Wu Ming touched the wall that should have been a staircase in his memory, stunned for a moment, and then coughed and quietly transferred the embarrassment he was a little stunned just now: "Ah, have you asked anyone else about this?" ”
"I also knocked on the door before and asked the residents on the fifth floor, and they said that this has always been the fifth floor......" The expression on the face of the middle-aged female teacher was also a little confused: "So when you said the sixth floor, I was also a little curious if you remembered the ...... wrong"
"Ahaha...... In this way, it may really be that I remember it wrongly......" Wu Ming touched the back of his head and smiled with a smile on his face: "I'm really sorry to delay your time and let you run upstairs for nothing." ”
Looking at Wu Ming's appearance, the middle-aged teacher knew that she probably did run away in vain, and she still thanked Wu Ming when she left. After sending the middle-aged teacher away, Wu Ming's expression became a little solemn, because only he 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 suspects that this fact may be only him in the entire building, as well as the two superheroines in the family.