Chapter 5 The Hardest Step

I raised my left front paw, and at this time I heard the sound of Ah Zhen's snoring in my ears, and when the snoring was the loudest, I rubbed the ground with my shell, and the paw moved quickly, slowly crawling out of my room, and step by step through the corridor of the living room. As I climbed, my mind was still the topographical map I had seen on the floor of the house an hour ago, and with my extraordinary memory, I continued to guide myself in the direction of my crawl, and at last I stopped at a door filled with damp steam, and the sound of snoring was now far behind me.

Looking at the appearance of sufficient moisture, it may be that the owner has just taken a bath. I made a moment's judgment, and then I looked up—indeed, it was a bathroom, and the door was open, and I roughly judged that the diameter of my shell could fit through this gap, so I cautiously turned sideways and went into the bathroom, where the floor was a little slippery, and I licked the water on the floor to quench my thirst, and then I settled down and tried to think about how I could find the drain valve in the room.

At this moment, a mosquito flew over and asked me, "Hello, buddy! What are you thinking, I'm kind of welcoming new friends. "This buzzing slurred language in your voice startled me. I know that I now have the magic of hearing, and I can understand all living and non-living languages.

I can't communicate with mosquitoes, I know I can't make sounds, this kind of "superpower", I will never get it. So I changed the way, I focused on the problem in my head, and then I fixed my eyes on the wall behind the flying mosquitoes, and gradually, a string of symbols actually began to appear on the wall. It's these four words: where is the floor drain?

The mosquito flew in front of the blue symbol, and then its cry seemed to increase in frequency, and after a few seconds it decreased in frequency, and finally it flew to my shell, lay down in my ear and said to me: "Now on, I say let you take a few steps, you can take a few steps!" The blue light went out, and suddenly it was pitch black, and my heart stirred even more in the dark night.

The mosquito landed on my back, a little itchy, but I insisted on crawling forward step by step in the direction and number of steps it said, one step, two steps, turning, one step, two steps, three steps...... In this way, under the "command" of the mosquito, I crawled through difficult meters and finally came to a gap in the ground. It was a checkerboard floor drain device with a square outside, and the mosquito saw me stop, jumped over my head, and flew away. So, at this moment, I know that it is not difficult to get here, and it is the most difficult thing to get to the pipeline through this.

However, I know my goal, and I go back and achieve and fulfill it little by little. The moon is shining on me at this moment, and I know that the general direction of my movement is the west, and the moon has followed me to the west at this time, it is big and round, and the splendor at this time also indicates that it is lingering, and the sun will soon replace it as the protagonist of the sky.

I thought that it had been so long since I followed the mosquito through the doorway. My back suddenly tickled, and just as I raised my right paw to scratch it, my left foot slipped and my back deviated from my center of gravity, lifting myself off the ground.

Yes, I accidentally fell into the floor drain again. The weight of the body itself made me fall and fall again as if I was in free fall, and in the process of falling, the acceleration suddenly made me understand that it was the "long" time that had just passed that made me shrink a little smaller. I thought about my special ability again, because I could see small things, so the actual distance I walked was longer than I could feel, and then I inexplicably reduced the size of my footprint.

That's why I was able to get into the sewer pipe as I wanted.