"I won't jump." She said, "I come here every week. Didn't you come here too?"
She looked at An Zhe again: "I want to see the sky, so I come here. Why did you come?"
An Zhe: "I can't find the way back."
"I know the way." She said, "I have a secret passage."
An Zhe thought for a moment: "I don't have any clothes to wear either."
"I also know where the laundry room is," she said.
An Zhe asked her, "Can you tell me?"
She didn't answer directly, but said, "Are you a student on the lower floor?"
An Zhe: "I'm a teacher."
"Promise me one thing," her eyes seemed to be brighter, and she said to An Zhe, "Promise me one thing, and I will find clothes for you and take you out through the secret passage."
An Zhe asked, "What is it?"
"Go to the 6th floor to find a boy named Si Nan and tell him that I have been injected with a tracking agent and can't go to play with him in the future." She said, "Come here again at this time next week and tell me what he said."
An Zhe was silent.
The girl looked at him and asked, "Can't you do it?"
"I..." An Zhe looked at her, and she blinked, and only then did she look like a normal child.
Finally, An Zhe said, "I can't do it."
She said, "If you can find him, he's on the sixth floor."
An Zhe didn't say anything.
But she seemed a little anxious, pushed open the door to the terrace, and said, "I'll get you some clothes."
Before An Zhe could call her back, her white skirt disappeared through the door.
If the Si Nan she was talking about was the Si Nan that An Zhe knew, then he was no longer in Eden, but in a lighthouse. But An Zhe didn't know what she would do if he really told her the news. He knew that such emotions would bring pain.
So he didn't think of a good way to say it until the girl came back and pulled him through the deep and empty corridor, and finally stopped at a half-open door in the pile of junk.
"If you can get in, you can go down to the first floor." She pointed at the door.
The door was half open. Strictly speaking, it was no longer tightly closed due to disrepair, but was loose. However, the chain-like rusty metal bolt was still hanging on the door and embedded in the wall, so that it could be opened a small amount, enough for a child to lean in.
An Zhe said, "I'll try."
He walked to the door and leaned slightly.
An adult could not pass through here, but he was still a mushroom after all. His body temporarily turned into a mycelium state under the cover of clothes. After losing the restriction of human bones, he easily entered the back of the door.
"Your body is so soft." The girl said.
"I have something to ask you, too," Anzhe said, "Can you not tell others that I've been here?"
The girl said, "If you come here again next week--"
Her voice stopped abruptly.
"Lily?" A female voice rang out.
"You're here again." The voice was slightly accusing.
Anzhe dodged to the side and heard Lily say, "I'm sorry, madam."
"This time I found you," the woman called "madam" said softly, "If it were them, you would be locked up again."
Lily said, "I won't do that again in the future."
Then there were footsteps. They seemed to be walking out. Anzhe looked over there through the gap and saw Lily being held by the hand of a woman in a snow-white long dress, and her figure gradually walked away in the dim corridor.
Lily didn't finish her words, but he knew what she wanted to say. He seemed to have reached an agreement with Lily that he would come here again next week to tell her Sinan's reply.
He looked around with a heavy heart. It was dark and damp all around. He could vaguely see the wall was peeling and covered with gray-green mold spots. The surface was covered with gray-white powdery debris. This was a narrow and steep staircase. And, obviously, it had not been used for many years.
An Zhe found the handrail of the stairs and walked down along it. There were no windows and it was darker than at night. This place was not much better than the pipe.
There were 20 stairs on each floor. Anzhe counted the stairs as he walked. When he reached the 6th floor, the small door of the stairwell had a gap that was about the size of 20 floors. He went in and reached the utility room on the 6th floor.
The bright light shone on him. The clothes Lily gave him were the uniforms of Eden staff, snow-white shirts - there was no difference from his previous dress. He walked in and looked at the time on the clock in the corridor. It was 12 o'clock. If he went to work at the training base from Eden Garden, he would be late.
So Anzhe went downstairs and quickened his pace to the door. The bright red slogan "Human interests are above all else" on the white wall of the lobby was particularly eye-catching. The white-uniformed staff walked on the bright surface, and the voices of children came from afar. Everything was different from the deep and tortuous pipes. He felt that he had lived again.
The glass door of the lobby opened and ran into a person head-on.
An Zhe: "..."
Lu Xun.
Behind Lu Xun was Seran.
He saw Lu Xun's eyes narrowed, and he felt some dangerous breath from this action.
Sure enough, Lu Xun said in a deep voice: "Why are you here?"
Facing this, An Zhe's mycelium was about to explode.
He now shouldn't go to the Garden of Eden, but to train with Ke Lin.
"I..." He looked up at Lu Xun.
And those cold green eyes stared at him, as if to say: You've started to make up stories.
An Zhe said: "...I went the wrong way." He
really went the wrong way, and was completely lost in the whole city. If he hadn't happened to come to the Garden of Eden, or if he hadn't found the terrace in time, he would have continued to be trapped there, and then lost his identity as a human being, and would never be able to come back.
And...
and Lu Xun, this bad guy, had nothing to do with him from now on.
He lowered his eyes slightly. He didn't know why, but he actually felt that the colonel at this time was not as evil as before.
Then Seran said, "It's time to go to the training base to work today. Haven't you realized that you have changed your place?"
An Zhe didn't say anything. The sun rose from behind the artificial magnetic pole in the distance, and the golden sunlight shone on the silver button of Lu Xun's uniform.
His voice was a little hoarse: "And you're going to be late."
Lu Xun didn't say anything, but he didn't make things difficult for him. An Zhe felt that Seran's reason was convincing enough based on Lu Xun's understanding of his IQ. An Zhe moved to the side and tried to bypass Lu Xun and leave here.
Suddenly, Lu Xun's voice came from the side: "I'll take you there."
Lu Xun's car drove very steadily and quickly, at least twice as fast as the shuttle bus. When it stopped at the gate of the training base, the time on the display in the car just reached 5:25 in the morning, and there were still five minutes before the required time to go to work, not late.
When getting off Lu Xun's car, An Zhe felt that those who also came to the training base to work looked at him.
It was not the first time that he was looked at in return. An Zhe came to the card swipe gate at the gate, and Lu Lu came over one after another, swiped the gate with his ID card, and entered.
An Zhe paused - he discovered something.
There were footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Lu Xun standing very close behind him. He raised his eyebrows and looked at him.
An Zhe: "...I forgot to bring my ID card."
Then he heard Lu Xun's soft "click". He
put his two slender fingers on the blue ID card and placed it on the sensor. With a "beep", the gate opened.
It was Lu Xun who used his ID card to help him swipe the gate.
At the same time, the colonel's voice with a hint of disgust rang in his ears.
"So stupid."