Chapter 102 Chapter 102
"It seems that I have some unfinished business when I came back. Do you really not need me to stay any longer? I can leave after I finish my business. Anyway, there is no rush." Taiming looked at An Rand, then looked at Guiyuan and said.
He said the last sentence in a very low voice, but he still finished it.
Guiyuan's expression was a little surprised. He lowered his eyes and did not look him directly. When he heard that he wanted to stay, he raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he did not accept this result.
It seems that he and An Rand have already discussed it.
It's just that I don't know what they discussed.
Taiming didn't have to stay.
So when An Rand asked him to leave, he readily agreed and turned around to leave.
An Rand asked Guiyuan to close the door. When Guiyuan closed the door, he looked outside. Taiming had already walked a long way in the corridor. He seemed very happy to leave and had no intention of coming back suddenly. Guiyuan breathed a sigh of relief and gently closed the door.
He turned around and walked to the desk and continued what he had been interrupted before, about the mission, about the environment, and about the situation on the way back after the illusion ended.
He said everything he could.
An Rand nodded after listening, thinking: "Is that so."
Guiyuan raised his eyebrows, not knowing what this meant. Looking at An Rand, An Rand thought for a while, Seeing that he was still waiting for an answer, I smiled and said, "Don't you think this is strange?"
When Guiyuan heard me say that, I thought you would say it was very interesting. She smiled and said in a daze, "I don't know."
Anland sighed and said, not surprisingly, "It is well known that Furong and Li Qingshan have a relationship, but Taiming only met Li Qingshan after he came to our foundation. The relationship progressed by leaps and bounds after they met. I don't know what happened. It seems that they have already had intersections in private.
But look at Li Qingshan. Li Qingshan doesn't look like he has known Taiming before. Maybe there is something between them, but only Taiming remembers those things, and Li Qingshan has completely forgotten them. Just in case,
it is better to test them when there is a chance. It is better to leave hidden dangers in the relationship than to leave a way out for danger."
Guiyuan With his eyes wide open, he felt that he had become dazed, like a salted fish hung under the eaves to dry in the wind. His eyes were white and round, and he exuded a kind of calmness that came naturally from knowing nothing: "Okay."
Ayn Rand was amused by his reaction: "You'd better go out and rest early. Look at yourself. You are exhausted. You can look in the mirror on the way. Don't look like an idiot."
Guiyuan nodded and turned. As he was getting ready to leave, Ayn Rand opened the drawer and, as if he suddenly remembered something, took out a bottle, handed it to Guiyuan and said, "I don't know if you've finished the medicine I gave you before. Take these home and continue taking them. I see you really need some refreshment." Guiyuan
looked at the bottle, as if she had no other reaction, and said slowly, "Okay."
The next day, the phone in Ayn Rand's office suddenly rang.
In the early morning, Ayn Rand was sitting in his office chair with one arm resting on the desk. Half asleep, he heard the phone ringing. He was so disturbed that he couldn't fall asleep. He tried to open his eyes, raised his hand and answered the phone: "Hello, this is the foundation. What can I do for you? I'm Ayn Rand, at your service at any time."
After he finished speaking, he exhaled, as if he had swallowed a mouthful of sand while eating. The person
on the other end of the phone was very panicked and said to him: "Hello, is this the foundation? I have encountered some strange things here. Please come and take a look as soon as possible. It is really very strange!"
Ayn Rand patiently asked the person on the other end of the phone for some specific information. He got the address, the name and gender of the caller, and the approximate number of people near the phone. He said softly to the person on the other end: "Okay, I already know. Please don't worry. We will send someone to check the situation immediately. Please be patient and wait for us where you are."
"Okay, okay, you have to come quickly!" The person on the other end of the phone said hurriedly.
Then the phone was hung up.
Ayn Rand sent someone to check, but the person did not come back. Ayn Rand felt strange and sent a team to check, but the team soon lost contact.
Now he didn't think this was an ordinary incident.
He walked around the office with a frown, thinking about who to send.
Guiyuan came over and knocked on the office door: "Excuse me, may I come in?"
Ain Rand nodded. He didn't have time to care about him, so he walked in by himself. He was too embarrassed to sit down directly, so he took two steps forward, stood in the corner and asked Ain Rand: "Excuse me, what happened? I see that the surroundings are empty. Many people haven't come back. It will be off work in a while,
right? They shouldn't still be outside." Ain Rand sneered: "They really shouldn't be outside. They don't even have any information now. What should I do?"
He spread his hands and sat on the swivel chair: "I can't do whatever I want. If you have a solution, just tell me."
Ain Rand looked straight at Guiyuan.
Guiyuan blinked, speechless for a moment, hesitated for a long time, and said cautiously: "I'm not here to cause trouble."
An Rand nodded, without surprise: "I know, otherwise, I would kick you out."
Guiyuan thought for a while and said: "We can ask Li Qingshan for help if we can't do it. Even if Li Qingshan can't do it, the people around him are all very powerful and just right for this kind of thing!"
An Rand frowned: "Now we have no choice but to try it. Go and call him over."
Guiyuan nodded, turned around and went out, and quickly called Li Qingshan over. Li Qingshan was a little nervous, not knowing whether the illusion was discovered or his slacking off was discovered.
The office door was closed, Guiyuan did not leave, and An Rand did not let him leave. He just looked at Li Qingshan and said very seriously: "Now I have something to do for you!"
Li Qingshan did not understand, and looked at Guiyuan. Guiyuan stood beside him and nodded with an expression as if facing a powerful enemy, as if to indicate that this was it. Li Qingshan was taken aback.
Is it so serious?
He looked at An Rand again, took a deep breath, and was ready to accept any task: "You say."
An Rand praised his attitude: "There was a call this morning, but we sent people twice in a row, and there was no news from both calls. Now we need a new person to go. After thinking about it, you are the most suitable. Are you willing to go?"
Li Qingshan blinked his eyes, breathed a sigh of relief, and replied: "I am willing to go."
Ayn Rand told him the news and said, "Guiyuan will drive you to the place, but he can't go in because he has to wait outside and pass the message to the foundation. If you come out, you can get in Guiyuan's car and let Guiyuan take you back."
Li Qingshan nodded and said, "I understand."
Ayn Rand waved and urged, "I wish you complete the task, go now."
Li Qingshan and Guiyuan turned around and left.
Guiyuan drove Li Qingshan to the place.
On the surface, this is a residential building. Because it was built too early, the buildings are not close together and do not look like they are together. In fact, it is not a community.
However, if we say that one building here is two communities with another building, then the distance is not that far, and there is no door or wall to define the boundary.
"I'll take you here," Guiyuan said to Li Qingshan, "you have to come back early."
Li Qingshan nodded, got out of the car, closed the door, and walked towards the building.
Guiyuan sat in the car and watched. For a moment, he felt that the building seemed to come alive. The entrance was a bloody mouth with black smoke, swallowing all the people in.
Guiyuan rubbed his eyes quickly. When he looked again, the building had returned to normal, as if it was no different from an ordinary building. However, his intense heartbeat had not calmed down. He could only pray secretly that Li Qingshan would not get into trouble.
Li Qingshan entered the building.
On the second floor, everything was still normal. Some doors were closed, and some were open. There was no sound from the closed doors, and some sounds of TV and talking came from the open doors. Looking inside, he could see people playing mahjong inside, which was very lively. There were
still children running in the corridor, probably playing games. Elderly people passed by slowly, some carrying vegetables in their hands, some holding newspapers, and some smiling, chatting with each other, and did not block the way.
When he reached the third floor, everything changed. It was so quiet that it seemed as if there was no one there. Li Qingshan hesitated and tried to knock on the door.
The door was not open. There were no footsteps or voices inside. There were no children or old people in the corridor. Even the sky outside the corridor was lifeless, a gray-blue color that made people depressed.
Li Qingshan simply knocked on all four doors, but none of them opened, and there was no sound from any of the doors. He waited for a while and walked to the fourth floor.
Before he came up, he thought it would suddenly become dark or ghosts would appear, but after he came up, he found that it was just quieter than downstairs, as if it was another world, but the sky did not change significantly, and there were no ghosts.
Although there seemed to be no danger, it was undeniable that Li Qingshan's heartbeat was faster and slower than before.
When he went up to the fifth floor, it was so quiet that he seemed to be the only one there. When he walked around and came down again, he found that there was no one even on the first floor. When he walked out from the first floor entrance, he found that there was no one outside.
Guiyuan should have been waiting for him here, but now she was gone. Guiyuan could not have suddenly disappeared. It was he who suddenly disappeared.
Li Qingshan took a breath of cool air, turned around and went back to the building. He ran up and down again, but still did not find anyone else, nor did he find Guiyuan and his car outside.
Li Qingshan slowly climbed up from the first floor, preparing to think about the problem while moving, but suddenly found a person lying on the stairs. This person appeared suddenly, because he didn't see anyone when he went up and down here before.
Li Qingshan was startled when he saw this person, and hurriedly approached, because this person was wearing the foundation's outing uniform, and even if he was not a member of the foundation, he had a relationship with the foundation.
No one was seen here before, but now suddenly saw someone, something must have happened. Even if nothing happened, as long as this person can wake up, we will definitely get some information.
We must not leave this person alone.
Li Qingshan picked up this person from the ground, patted his cheek, and found that he didn't respond. He took out the water he carried with him and sprinkled it on his face. He shivered and opened his eyes all of a sudden.
There was nothing at first, but the moment he opened his eyes and saw Li Qingshan in front of him, his whole body twitched and he struggled like a fish that had just been caught out of the water.
Li Qingshan was startled by him and quickly let go of his hand and stepped back. With a bang, he lay back down again, and the back of his head hit the steps. It sounded painful, and Li Qingshan was stunned.
The man also stiffened for a moment, relaxed his body, and lay on the ground, as if this could relieve the pain.
The two of them confronted each other for a short time. No one spoke, and no one moved. It was so quiet that it seemed that there was nothing else except breathing. They temporarily confirmed that the other was safe.
Li Qingshan did not run away. The man on the ground slowly sat up and sat on the steps to look at Li Qingshan. It seemed that he had just seen that the clothes Li Qingshan was wearing were also from the foundation.
He took a breath and squinted his eyes. He was a little surprised, his cheeks slightly red, and he looked a little embarrassed, as if he realized that his reaction just now was too big and unnecessary.
Li Qingshan pulled the corner of his mouth and tried to greet him again: "Hello, I'm from the foundation."
The man nodded, sincere and shy, and said: "Hello, I'm also from the foundation."
Li Qingshan took the opportunity to ask: "My name is Li Qingshan, what's your name?"
The man was silent for a while, and the expression on his face gradually disappeared. Li Qingshan became alert and saw that he frowned and looked solemn. He slowly said: "You can call me Alan. I "I don't remember my own name, which is strange, because my injury is not that serious. But I really don't remember it, and there is no need for me to lie to you."
Li Qingshan was also silent for a while. His intuition told him that the other party was not lying, but he was confused by such a situation and asked hesitantly: "Then what else do you not remember?"
Alan smiled bitterly: "You should ask me what else I remember."
It seems that his amnesia is very serious.
Li Qingshan was a little embarrassed.
Although Alan's amnesia has nothing to do with him, who can guarantee that Alan's amnesia has nothing to do with the blow he just hit the other party?
Li Qingshan blinked and tried to change the subject: "Let's talk about something else. For example, how did you get here? Do you remember?"
Alan thought for a moment and said, "Someone asked me to come here, so I came."
Li Qingshan stared at him and asked, "What did you come here for?"
Alan was silent for a while and said, "To carry out a mission."
Li Qingshan asked again, "What mission?"
Alan sighed: "I don't remember the specific situation, but it seems that I have to save someone or solve something here."
Li Qingshan nodded, touched his head, and asked sincerely: "What do you know about this place? Tell me everything you know. Before you forget the rest."
Alan thought for a while: "I will lose my memory and have memory confusion here. I didn't have any memory problems before I came here. It must be a problem with this building. Maybe my mission here is to solve the amnesia problem of this building."
"Then besides these, what else do you remember?" Li Qingshan asked tentatively.
"I don't know how to leave," Alan looked at Li Qingshan and changed the subject, "but I know how to get deeper, because this is neither the first floor nor the last floor."
Li Qingshan was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Then take me to a deeper place now. Before I came, Ayn Rand told me that he sent someone else besides you. But no one went back. That's why I came."
Alan stood up and nodded, "I'll take you in now."
He turned around and walked up, his body swaying a bit, and Li Qingshan quickly supported him.
Alan took Li Qingshan to a deeper place. The sky here was darker than before, as if it was later, and it sounded like there were traces of other people's activities. Li Qingshan took Alan up, and halfway up, they were stopped by a group of people.
This group of people, half in the front and half in the back, blocked Alan and Li Qingshan in the middle. On a staircase, Li Qingshan looked around and saw that these people were all wearing the clothes of the foundation. They should be the people sent by Alan after Alan.
They were very vigilant, blocking the intersection, looking Li Qingshan and Alan up and down, and asked: "Where are you from? Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Li Qingshan explained to them: "I was sent by the foundation. You came here and didn't go back. It's almost time to get off work. Alan was worried that something happened to you, so he asked me to come to you. Our clothes are the same, which can prove it."
The person opposite frowned: " Then who is the person next to you?"
Li Qingshan said with his eyes wide open: "He was the first person sent here by the foundation. He sent you because he didn't go back. Have you all forgotten?"
Shen Xingchen looked angry: "Find out your own identities. I am asking you now, not you asking me."
Li Qingshan was silent for a moment. He felt that they not only had amnesia or memory confusion, but also had more serious problems, such as irritability.
Shen Xingchen looked at them carefully, checked their clothes, and was about to search them. Alan frowned and refused, saying, "This is not a security checkpoint. We are all from the foundation. You don't have an order from the foundation. Why do you search me? I don't agree! What's more, even if I really have something dangerous on me, what's the use of it here? There is no one else here."
Shen Xingchen sneered, "Are you showing your true colors? Although there is no one else here, there are people from the foundation. If you really have something dangerous, we will be targeting the foundation if we don't search it. Wouldn't that mean we are playing into your hands?"
He waved his hand and ordered his team members, "Search now!"
Li Qingshan also thought that The body search was inappropriate, but he just endured it reluctantly. Now seeing Alan raised his opinion, Shen Xingchen's opinion did not change, and his attitude even became worse. He frowned and felt dissatisfied: "You are going too far."
Shen Xingchen did not care, and said loudly to the team members: "If either of these two attacks, don't be polite to them! Search them first, who knows what they are hiding that they don't want to be?"
Li Qingshan's anger burned again: "Don't you have any respect for others? It seems that you have to fight before you can talk properly. Then fight, don't think that others will be afraid just because you are outnumbered."
As long as he was talking about skills, he was not afraid of anything. On the basis that everyone was human, he had nothing to worry about.
Those who wanted to attack him were all knocked down by him. Alan was not idle either. He defended him and attacked him whenever he could.
Soon, a circle of people were lying down around him.
Shen Xingchen was stunned and dumbfounded. He did not expect that the two of them had such strong fighting power. He muttered to himself, as if his worldview was reshaped: "How is it possible?"
Li Qingshan's eyes were filled with impatience. He walked up to him, pushed him against the edge of the corridor railing, stared at him and asked: "Are you going to search or not?"
Shen Xingchen took a breath and said: "I believe you are from the foundation. Ordinary people don't have this kind of fighting power. I won't search."
Li Qingshan let go of him doubtfully, still vigilantly said: "Don't play any tricks! I won't be polite to you."
Shen Xingchen was also Not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "What tricks can I play? With your abilities, I may not win even if I play tricks. It is better to save some energy and time and find a way to leave as soon as possible."
Li Qingshan snorted coldly: "I hope you will do what you say."
Shen Xingchen straightened his clothes and said: "Of course, I am a man of my words."
Li Qingshan looked him up and down, and said in disbelief: "Maybe."
Shen Xingchen smiled and showed him friendliness: "Let's talk about our respective situations, so that it will be convenient for us to leave as soon as possible."
Li Qingshan nodded slightly: "We should have done this a long time ago."
They exchanged some information.
Shen Xingchen frowned and said, "We came to the vicinity of the building and observed outside for a while. There was nothing unusual, so we walked in.
It was normal at first, but then the people here suddenly disappeared, and the surroundings were very quiet. Fortunately, we did not get separated, but our memories were confused. We still recognized each other, but now, we can't remember clearly."
Li Qingshan concluded, "The longer we stay here, the more serious our memory confusion will be. If we stay here for a long time, we may not remember anything, or we may remember everything wrong. We must leave as soon as possible."
Everyone else nodded.
Li Qingshan said: "We are here for the foundation's mission. We can't remember what the foundation wants us to solve. I'm afraid we can only remember it after we leave, so we have to wait until next time to solve the problem.
In order to prevent people from knowing nothing about this place like us next time, let's collect some information here and leave as soon as possible."