Chapter 247 The Secret of the Apartment Across the Street
"The heavy rain in the Southwest Water Conservancy Project will come earlier..." Lu Zhao's voice echoed in the room. He pointed his finger at the red circle on the map. "We must find Xiao Ling first. In the last life, she was the first person to sense the abnormality. Her ability is crucial to us."
Lin Che agreed and looked at Su Wanqing.
"Let's go back to my apartment," Su Wanqing made the decision immediately, "The view there is better, and it will be more convenient for our next move."
Half an hour later, the three of them had returned to Su Wanqing's apartment, which had been transformed into a temporary command center. A huge electronic map of the city was spread out on the table in the living room, connected to the portable computer that Lu Zhao had brought.
Lu Zhao called up Su Wanqing's system interface and zoomed in to the city map. The light of a small bell was flashing nearby.
"According to the system's positioning, Xiaoling is in Building 6 in the neighborhood next door. You should be able to see that building from your window."
Su Wanqing walked to the window and picked up a high-power telescope. She adjusted the focus, looking across the green belt between the two buildings and clearly aiming at the gray apartment building opposite.
She started from the first floor and moved slowly upwards, then stopped when she focused her camera on a window on the sixth floor.
A little girl's face appeared at the window without warning.
The girl was looking straight in her direction, as if she knew someone was observing her through a telescope.
The next second, something happened that made Su Wanqing feel a chill down her spine.
Xiaoling slowly raised one hand and waved gently in the direction of the telescope.
There was a smile on her face, a mysterious smile that was completely unbecoming of her age and that seemed to show all-knowingness.
"She saw me." Su Wanqing put down the telescope and turned around with a serious expression on her face. "And she knew I was looking for her."
Lu Zhao immediately pulled up the resident information of that building on his computer.
“According to records, Xiaoling and her adoptive father just moved here a week ago.
This is no coincidence.”
“Time itself is correcting its course, pulling us back together,” Lin Che whispered.
The three of them looked at each other and immediately decided on a plan. Su Wanqing would approach the house as a new neighbor who had just moved in the day before to test the situation.
Lin Che and Lu Zhao stayed in the apartment, providing support through communication equipment and surveillance.
Su Wanqing exchanged a box of exquisitely packaged cookies from the system backpack and then walked out the door.
She knocked on the door of the apartment across the street.
The door opened and a middle-aged man with a tired face and an apron on his body stuck his head out.
"Hello, who are you looking for?"
"Hello, I just moved to the building opposite yesterday," Su Wanqing handed over the cookies in her hand, "I made some snacks and wanted to say hello to my neighbors."
The man gave a slightly sheepish smile and took the cookie.
"Oh, you're too polite. Please come in. My last name is Wang, and I'm Xiaoling's adoptive father."
Su Wanqing walked into the living room. The room was tidy, but in the corner, Xiaoling was sitting quietly on the carpet, playing with a set of strange building blocks.
The shapes of those building blocks were very irregular, and the way they were put together reminded Su Wanqing of the Weaver's core device that she had seen in her previous life.
At this moment, Xiao Ling said in a calm tone without raising her head: "You are finally here, sister. I have been waiting for you for a long time. You came too late last time, so we all died."
Uncle Wang's smile froze on his face. He waved his hands awkwardly and explained, "Don't mind. This child... is a little special. He's not in good health and always says strange things. Don't take it seriously."
"It doesn't matter," Su Wanqing's expression did not change, "Children have rich imaginations."
"Please sit down first. I'll go get you a cup of tea." Uncle Wang said as he walked towards the kitchen.
Taking advantage of this gap, Su Wanqing quietly walked to Xiaoling and squatted down.
The little girl raised her head. Her eyes were clearer than those in Su Wanqing's memory in her previous life, but the deep feeling that was not like that of a child was exactly the same.
"The third eye has started to grow," Xiao Ling said softly, her voice only heard by the two of them, "but it's still hidden under the skin."
She stretched out her little finger and touched the center of her smooth forehead.
Su Wanqing thought about it and asked tentatively: "What do you remember?"
"I remember a lot, but I also forgot a lot." Xiao Ling showed that mysterious smile again, "But I know that the rainstorm will come early, and there will be bad things in the water."
This sentence made Su Wanqing confirm that the memory fragments retained by Xiaoling just happened to confirm Lu Zhao's scientific speculation.
Xiaoling suddenly reached out and grabbed Su Wanqing's wrist tightly.
"Don't tell my adoptive father, he will be scared. I will come to your place after school tomorrow. They arranged for me to live here so that it would be easier for me to find you."
"Who are they?" Su Wanqing asked in a low voice.
Xiao Ling just smiled mysteriously and said three words: "Masters of time."
At this moment, Uncle Wang came out of the kitchen with tea. Su Wanqing didn't ask any more questions. She exchanged a few more words with Uncle Wang and then stood up to say goodbye.
When she closed the door of the apartment opposite and turned to walk towards her home, the system interface on her wrist suddenly flashed a dazzling red, and a line of text appeared:
[Warning: The Time Observer has preliminarily marked your coordinates. Please do not interact at a high level before locking them. ]
Below the red warning, another message popped up, unfolding a set of complex fortress construction drawings and material lists.
[Tip: The first wave of time storm will arrive in 24 hours. It is recommended to start building the first line of defense immediately. Preferred location: underground space, which can avoid the initial time field fluctuations. ]
Su Wanqing quickly returned to her apartment and closed the door.
"The situation has changed," she said directly to Lin Che and Lu Zhao, "The observer has noticed me, and the first wave of the storm will arrive tomorrow."
Lu Zhao immediately looked at the system prompt with a frown.
Su Wanqing slid quickly on the electronic map, her eyes fixed on the structural diagram of the apartment building.
"The system suggests an underground space... Here, next to our apartment's underground parking lot, there is an abandoned storage area. The map shows that it has not been used for a long time, so it just meets the requirements."
Lu Zhao enlarged the area and the system immediately gave the calculation result.
[Plan confirmed: Consume 5,000 rebate points to build a 'Basic Defense Fortress' in this area, which can effectively resist the first round of time storms.
It is recommended to execute immediately, as the actual arrival time of the storm will be earlier than expected. 】
Looking at the countdown and warnings on the interface, the three of them understood that they had to speed up all their actions. Time was more urgent than they had ever imagined.
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