With a click, the heavy security door was twisted open by the old lady. "What are you talking about? This is of course my house. I saved my own money to buy it."
Tuba cried louder and louder, and sweat broke out on his forehead. His performance was very realistic.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing, girl? Is this your baby? He's crying like this, why don't you comfort him?"
The old lady took Tuba without saying anything and began to hum an unknown lullaby while rocking it rhythmically.
Looking at Tuba's crying in her arms becoming weaker and weaker, her frown gradually relaxed.
When Tuba stopped crying, the old lady held him and walked slowly into the house. "He must be hungry, but he said he wasn't. Young people nowadays are really useless. They can't even take care of children. Did you bring milk powder? I have hot water at home,"
Anna followed her footsteps and walked into the house. The decoration inside was beyond her expectations.
This was different from the bright and tidy home that Charles remembered. The various old decorations and the rustic clothes drying on the balcony hangers all indicated that this was truly the old lady's home.
At this time Anna began to feel something was wrong. According to Tuba's hypothesis, Charles, who had not fallen into the Earthsea, should be living here.
But there is a huge discrepancy between reality and hypothesis, so one of the reality and Tuba’s hypothesis must be wrong.
"When was this community sold? Is it true that there has never been a child named Gao Zhiming living here? There are four people in his family." Anna asked hurriedly.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? I told you that I didn't have this house. I bought this house with my pension to live in, and no one else has ever lived there!"
She paused for a moment. "Hey, girl, did you find the wrong building? Why don't you go to another building and ask?"
Anna knew that she couldn't have made a mistake, as she had lived in the residential area that was replicated on the Crown of the World for a long time. She might have made mistakes in other places, but she definitely wouldn't make a mistake in the location.
Without explaining anything, she suddenly reached out to grab Tuba, turned around and ran out.
Anna did not go downstairs but went straight to the rooftop, grabbed one of Tuba's feet with one hand and hung him upside down in the air.
"What a bullshit hypothesis! What on earth is going on! Give me a perfect explanation!"
"You are making things difficult for me. What can I explain? I made this assumption based on your statement." Tuba was not afraid at all. He flapped his limbs in the air as if he was swimming.
"What are you hiding? What is your purpose in coming to me? Why are you doing this? Where is the real Charles now?"
"I really didn't hide anything. I used to know everything. But now I've just been born. How can I know what happened?"
"Besides, I have to make the assumption that it's correct. Does your man use a smartphone? Do people nowadays all use feature phones? I can lie to you, but can ironclad facts also lie to you?"
"What about him? Where is he now?"
At this moment, the window on the top floor next to her was suddenly pushed open. The woman with disheveled hair saw the baby being grabbed and thrown out of the building, and she screamed in fear.
Seeing that she had attracted other people's attention, Anna, with a frown on her face, pulled Tuba's leg back and turned to leave the rooftop.
After two hours, Anna returned to her residence with Tuba, and she had something in her hands. It was a very heavy laptop, which Anna bought at the computer mall.
"Baby, are you okay?" Li Lu quickly picked up Tuba, who Anna had casually thrown on the sofa, and picked him up carefully.
"Hey, don't mention it. It's unlucky." Tuba turned his head and went into his mother's arms.
After waiting for more than a minute for the boot animation, the Microsoft XP system interface appeared in front of Anna. She quickly opened the browser and began searching for the information she wanted.
The construction time of the community, the name of the city, and the specific time.
The community was correct, the city was correct, and even the address of the building he went to was correct.
Everything was right, but Charles and his family were missing.
"If I really can't find Gao Zhiming, how can I go back?"
Just as Anna was thinking about these questions, Tuba came over staggeringly.
"Actually, if you follow what I said, it's correct, right?"
"Since I'm not wrong, then you must be wrong. Think again and see if you really remembered it wrongly. After all, you are a human now, so it is inevitable that you will remember it wrongly."
Anna stopped thinking and looked at him unhappily, "This is a chain of memories. How could they all be wrong? In Charles's memory, he definitely lived in that community."
Hearing this, Tuba shrugged helplessly. "Then you can figure out what to do next. I have no other ideas."
Anna sat there, leaning back in her chair with her arms folded across her chest, thinking about how to resolve the impasse.
Before coming here, she thought she knew this world well enough.
But things always develop in ways she can't predict. If even Gao Zhiming is gone, does that mean that this space she is in is not his world at all
"Parallel world? I was actually teleported to the surface of another parallel world? Was this done intentionally by 005? If she really did this, what was her purpose?"
Anna sat there until the next morning, and came to a decision.
"Gao Zhiming can't just disappear like that. If he really is on this surface, then I must find him and then use him to return to Earthsea."
Tuba, who was holding the remote control and watching the big-butt TV, turned his head and looked at her.
"So what should you do next?"
Anna's eyes narrowed slightly, "I need help, someone who can help me find Charles across the country."
Li Lu, who was drowsy nearby, shuddered and stood up when she heard this.
"You want to persuade others to form a cult again?!? Absolutely not! The IMF is more informed than you think. If you really do this, they will investigate you in no time."
Anna glanced at her with disdain. "Humph, I'm not as stupid as you. I've already found someone for this kind of thing."
In the chairman's office of Wang Construction Group, a middle-aged man with a gloomy expression was talking on the phone.
"How is it possible that there are no clues!! A ship that big can't just disappear out of thin air! Double the reward!! Keep searching! I want to see my son alive or dead!"
He is a man with deep nasolabial folds, and from his similar appearance to Wang Sheng, it can be seen that he is Wang Sheng's father.
Wang Sheng suddenly lost contact, which made him feel very uneasy about his son's situation.
(End of this chapter)