Time flies so fast, 3 days passed in a blink of an eye.
For a two-dimensional otaku like Aling, staying at home is not a difficult task, but something has been weighing on his mind recently, making him feel like an ant on a hot pot.
Every minute I stayed there seemed like torture.
In just one hour, he looked out the window dozens of times, and at this moment, Aling's mind had already drifted to an unknown place in the distance.
"No...no...I can't stand it anymore!"
Aling paced back and forth in the room and couldn't help but mutter to himself: "I'm going to see her... I'm going to see her... No one can stop me."
…
It was another all-nighter, and the next morning came. Wen Sibao, Xu Tiannan, and Murong Shui were eating hamburgers in the car while waiting for Meng Qinghan's group to arrive to change their shift.
About half an hour later, as a private car drove from a distance, several people finally waited for Meng Qinghan's group, who was changing shifts.
Wen Sibao picked up the walkie-talkie and was about to leave after a brief handover with the other party, but suddenly heard Xu Tiannan say: "Wait a minute, something seems wrong."
Wen Sibao: "Ah? Is there anything wrong there?"
Xu Tiannan thought for a while and asked: "Since the delivery from the burger restaurant last night, why haven't I seen the delivery person coming until now?"
Murong Shui had slept since last night. She rubbed her eyes and asked, "Will the delivery boy come over at some time? We didn't notice him, right?"
Wen Sibao didn't sleep during the surveillance period. He immediately felt something fishy and responded: "No, the clothes on the delivery boy are yellow. I don't seem to remember whether he has been here today."
, I’ll ask right away.”
After saying that, Wen Sibao immediately contacted the burger restaurant, and the other party said that since the meal was delivered last night, he has not received a call from Aling requesting food delivery.
Sure enough, an accident occurred. Several people got out of the car immediately, briefly explained the situation to Meng Qinghan's group, and immediately ran towards Aling's home.
"Aling! Hey! Open the door! Open the door!"
Wen Sibao banged the door hard, but for a long time he still didn't answer the door. It seemed that Aling had indeed sneaked out when no one was prepared.
As a last resort, Xu Tiannan had no choice but to take out his special small tool bag and quickly picked the door lock of this old multi-story building.
At this moment, everyone found that the lights in the room were bright and the floor was in a mess. There were piles of leftover disposable lunch boxes and garbage bags. There was also a pile of paper towels on the computer desk that had become hard after use.
Scattered everywhere in clumps.
The scene in front of them also made everyone frown, and no one wanted to get close to these indescribable paper balls.
"Damn it! This kid really sneaked out!"
Wen Sibao cursed secretly and immediately took out his cell phone to dial Aling's number. The next moment, the cell phone placed on the computer table rang.
"Oops! Oops! This kid Aling is really determined not to be found by us. He sneaked out without even taking his mobile phone with him!"
After Wen Sibao finished speaking, he immediately pulled Xu Tiannan to the computer desktop and said eagerly: "Tiannan, hurry up! It's time to play your role. Take a look and smell, and try to deduce whether you can deduce what A Ling is going to do.
where?"
"I'm not a dog!"
Xu Tiannan broke away from the opponent's hand dissatisfied, then suppressed the feeling of nausea, and moved closer to the computer desk filled with crumpled and used napkins. However, after carefully examining it, he shook his head and said: "This... I seem to have the same problem.
I can’t tell where he went.”
"No way!"
Wen Sibao said in disbelief: "The room is full of clues, and you can't figure out where this kid Aling is going?"
Xu Tiannan shook his head and looked at a circle of unnamed model figures around the room with a blank look on his face, as well as a pair of messy color comics on the bed with no Chinese characters on them. He explained: "These toys and comics are not at all
If you can't see any logical relationship with Aling, how can you possibly deduce where he went?"
However, just when no one could figure out the situation, Murong Shui suddenly whispered: "Platycodon."
Wen Sibao looked puzzled and said: "What...what's the plot?"
Murong Shui: "Platycodon!"
At this time, everyone was even more confused, and Xu Tiannan also thought about it and responded: "Platycodon... seems to be a purple herb, a flower that can be used in traditional Chinese medicine? So what does this have to do with Aling?"
"Oops! I'm not talking about plants or flowers!"
As Murong Shui spoke, he picked up a large red robe, a silver wig and two things like cat ears from the ground, and explained: "Look! y means dressing up real people as characters in anime.
And the cosplay clothes I’m holding in my hand belong to Inuyasha.”
Xu Tiannan and Wen Sibao looked at each other and said in unison, "Dogs still wear clothes?"
"I'm really impressed by you! I'm not talking about dogs! It's anime, it's a cartoon, do you understand?"
As Murong Shui explained, he quickly pieced together a set of clothes that looked like a girl's sailor uniform from the pile of colorful clothes on the ground, and explained: "The set just now belongs to Inuyasha, and this set
It belongs to Kagome, who is also a heroine in that cartoon. But there are three protagonists in that cartoon, namely Inuyasha, Kikyo and Kagome. Now the clothes of Inuyasha and Kagome are here, but only less
Did you understand what I’m saying?”
Xu Tiannan seemed to have remembered something. He took out his mobile phone and quickly entered the word "Platycodon" in the search bar. As expected, in addition to two photos of plants, a photo of a girl's anime character popped up on the screen.
Xu Tiannan saw at a glance the large white robe and red skirt that the girl was wearing in this photo, and suddenly realized: "That's right! I remembered it! There was a person dressed like this walking out of the unit door this morning.
go out!"
Murong Shui reminded: "That's that person! That's Ah Ling! He must have worn a wig and made up like Platycodon and sneaked out!"
"I go!"
Xu Tiannan said in disbelief: "That man was carrying a basket and wearing a mulberry-picking suit. If you hadn't told Shuigen, I would have thought he was a silkworm-raising aunt!"
"That's called a miko's uniform, not a mulberry-picking uniform!"
Murong Shui was too lazy to explain to a few people anymore, and then started rummaging in front of Aling's computer desk, muttering to himself: "There are not many places where people who play cosplay will go, and there must be Aling here."
The clues below..."
Soon, Murong Guoguo found an A4-sized leaflet from a pile of pieces of paper, and said to several people: "That's it! Ah Ling must have gone here!"
Everyone looked and found that this was a flyer for an event and entertainment exhibition called Chinajoy. The flyer showed that the venue for this large-scale event was the Shanghai International Expo Center. But this year, there are also branch venues for this event in various provinces.
This flyer is a flyer for the branch venue of Mobei Chinajoy, and the date of the event happens to be today.
"Great! It looks like we can find Aling just by going to this event!"
Wen Sibao picked up the flyer excitedly. After taking a look at the venue, he was confused. He couldn't help but wonder: "This... why is this event divided into four exhibition areas in Mobei City? One area each in the east, west, and south cities.
, then where exactly did Aling go?"
"Look at this!"
Murong Shui pointed to the addresses of several venues on the flyer and explained: "Although the four venues are far away this time, this event is divided into four major categories, entertainment technology, games, film and television, and independent themes.
, I found that Aling likes animation very much, so he is most likely in the animation exhibition area of Beicheng Stadium where film and television categories are held!"
"Very good!"
After hearing the other party's analysis, Xu Tiannan couldn't help but grab Murong Shui's shoulders and praise: "It has to be you! Shui Gen! Let's go to the Beicheng Gymnasium to get Aling back now!"
Although not many people could understand most of the professional terms that Murong Shui just analyzed, everyone quickly drove towards the Beicheng Stadium.
Along the way, Murong Shui was reminiscing about the scene just now. This was the first time that Xu Tiannan praised herself unstintingly in front of everyone. She couldn't help but ask: "Boss, did you just... deliberately do that in front of everyone?"
In front of many people, especially in front of Meng Qinghan... you want to praise me?"
Xu Tiannan didn't respond for a long time, but then he suddenly quietly held the other person's hand and whispered: "So what, I want everyone to know that you are indeed Shui Gen who cannot be replaced by anyone!"
The corners of Murong Shui's mouth twitched slightly, and finally she couldn't help but laugh.
Wen Sibao stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out. From time to time, he would look at the silly looks of the two people in the back seat through the rearview mirror, and couldn't help but mutter: "Hey! These two people are really disgusting!"
This chapter has been completed!