Chapter 31
When Lu Xiaoguo was organizing the children to line up for breakfast, Li Yang noticed the teachers' wrists and saw that everyone had one, so he wore them without thinking much.
After breakfast, the children gathered together.
Ruan Yiming took the microphone and talked about the content of today's competition.
He patted the black box beside him and said, "The competition range is from the fifth to the twenty-seventh floor of the hotel. In certain corners, there are black boxes like this, a total of eighteen, with the nameplates of your kindergarten inside. What the children need to do is to rely on their own and their friends' abilities to infer where the black box of their kindergarten is, and to find a black box and confirm whether it is the box of their kindergarten. If you open the box and there is no nameplate of your kindergarten inside, it will be considered a failure. Children, in addition to being careful, you must also know how to work together!"
Hundreds of kids shouted “OK~” from their grandma.
"The first kindergarten to find the nameplate will get 25 points, the second place will get 20 points, the third place will get 10 points, and the fourth place and subsequent places will get 5 points..."
"You can take the elevator or the stairs. Our teacher has asked the hotel to open the door of the emergency passage. I hope the children will not close it."
"Let the teacher see which kindergarten's children are the best. Okay, then, let's begin!" After Ruan Yiming finished explaining the rules, he took out a golden gong and drum from somewhere and hit it hard.
"clang!"
At the sound of gongs and drums, the children rushed out in groups to press the elevator button. They went up in several batches, but some children went directly to the stairs.
Ruan Yiming came over and invited, "Teachers, please move to the conference room to watch the children's competition."
Teachers from 18 kindergartens went to the conference hall. The lights were off and a large screen was showing surveillance footage.
The teachers sat on their chairs and soon discovered that this game-like competition sounded simple, but it was not easy to find.
First of all, there are 22 floors in total, which means some floors are empty and there are no boxes. However, Gangcheng Kindergarten is like "if you want to play, play big" and hides the boxes tightly.
In the surveillance footage, the children found that it was not feasible to rely on luck to find the box first and then go to fortune-telling to ask if it was their kindergarten. Because if they did not tell fortunes, they would not even know where the box was hidden.
So each child showed off his or her talents.
Some were shaking coins, some were counting on their fingers, and some were taking out small compasses.
Soon, a kindergarten kid found the black box.
The child counted on his fingers and opened the box happily.
Ruan Yiming pressed the microphone switch, and his voice echoed throughout the hotel: "Mingxi City Red Star Little Genius Kindergarten, failed."
"All children from Mingxi City Kindergarten, please return to the conference room on the fourth floor."
The headmaster of Mingxi City beat his chest and stamped his feet: "Why are you in such a hurry? Can't you ask other children to make a decision together?"
The surveillance footage showed all the children in Mingxi Kindergarten taking the elevator down in frustration and returning to the conference room. The child who opened the box felt guilty and said, "I'm sorry, teacher..."
The head of Mingxi City Park had changed his expression at this moment, and smiled kindly, "It's okay, it's just a small game, just have fun, don't be depressed, at least you found the box, it's great, right!"
The other teachers nodded, “Yes, yes, yes!”
The children sat down happily.
In the surveillance video, other children heard the announcement and knew that they could not do it alone. Some children would be impulsive and open the box directly, which would lead to the elimination of the whole kindergarten. So they did not dare to act on their own and began to gather their friends in the kindergarten to search floor by floor. Some even discussed the division of labor, such as who would go to the east side of which floor and who would go to the west side.
Later, two more boxes were found, one from the bottom of the trash can in the corridor, with some waste paper on top as a cover, and the other from a cleaning cart in the utility room, among a pile of clean bed sheets and quilt covers.
Teachers: ...You guys in Gangcheng, do you have to be so serious?
The box for the trash can was found by Zhixuan from their Zhengdao Kindergarten in the Yang World.
I saw her counting on her fingers, and then shaking her head in a very cute way.
Other teachers: "Ahhh!!! So cute!!! So adorable!!!"
Then Zhixuan looked left and right, stood on tiptoe to take down the cover of the trash can, picked up the black plastic bag, put the box into the trash can, put the trash bag back in, and put the cover on.
Even a god might not be able to find it.
Teachers: “…………”
The teachers at the Yangjian Zhengdao Kindergarten smiled sheepishly at their colleagues.
The children in the utility room on the other side were also figured out not to be from their own kindergarten, so they were put back in their original places quietly.
At the same time, in the kindergarten that had assembled in an orderly manner, their class monitor found a black box on the ninth floor.
A dozen children gathered there and chattered. Some said it was from their kindergarten, while others said it wasn't. Finally, the monitor believed in his own judgment: "Open it. I think it is, because I asked about the location of our kindergarten's nameplate, and it pointed to this place. I found the box, and just now I used Qimen to ask, and it said it was."
So he opened the box, and on it was a small silver sign that read “Red Star Little Genius Kindergarten.”
Everyone lowered their heads with bitter faces.
The children from the Red Star Little Genius Kindergarten in the conference hall were excited: "It's our nameplate!"
"Shenzhen Oriental Star Kindergarten has failed. Children, please put the boxes back to their original places and return to the conference room on the fourth floor." The broadcast sounded, and Director Ruan Yiming emphasized the four words "put them back to their original places."
The teachers at the Shenzhen kindergarten did not react much. They just asked the children to sit down and watch the performance of other kindergartens.
Looking at the surveillance footage, it was Yangjian Zhengdao Kindergarten that found the most boxes, with Zhixuan finding four of them. Fortunately, she listened to Director Ruan's key point of "putting them back in place", and she didn't "increase" the difficulty of finding them later.
She only found four, none of whom were from her kindergarten, and she was very angry.
She walked into the stairwell and wanted to go upstairs when she heard a strange laughing voice behind the door.
Zhixuan tilted his head in confusion, walked over and opened the door.
A two-meter-tall, thin, dark shadow grinned at her.
…
Four more broadcasts of kindergarten failures. Back in the conference room, there were fewer kids on the surveillance screen, and it didn't look too crowded.
The teachers drank drinks and watched with the kids who had returned.
But the more the teachers looked at it, the more they felt that there were fewer children. Obviously, no kindergarten was eliminated.
At first, I didn’t notice that one or two were missing and thought it was an illusion, until I saw in the surveillance footage that half were missing, it became very obvious.
“I only got back six kindergartens, but why does it feel like half of them are missing?”
They started to panic.
Ruan Yiming quickly turned to the previous surveillance footage, and a teacher pointed out the impressive Zhixuan: "Zhixuan is gone too! I remember the last shot was of her entering the stairs..."
So Ruan Yiming started searching and found that these children disappeared after entering the stairs.
Missing.
These three words weigh like a heavy burden on the hearts of all teachers.
At this time, the children in Yuanan City raised their hands and said, "Teacher, Fang Xu hasn't come back either!"
Teacher Yuan Anshi was stunned, and hurriedly shouted Fang Xu's name. No one responded, so he asked: "Why didn't you say so earlier!"
"I just discovered that..." Fang Xu and this kid were good friends. Before, he naively thought that Fang Xu was in the back seat, but when he looked back, he didn't find Fang Xu. He also thought that Fang Xu refused to return to the team and was still playing in the hotel, until the teachers panickedly discovered that a small number of children were missing.
When other kindergartens learned that some children from Yuan'an Kindergarten had not returned, they quickly counted the number of children and found that only the first two kindergartens that were eliminated had all the children. Starting from the third kindergarten that was eliminated, there were a few fewer children.
The other children in the conference room also hurried to find their good friends.
"Teacher Duoduo! Li Tiantian is missing!"
“Yu Lin isn’t here either!”
“…”
Yuan Anshi, the head of the kindergarten, reported with a heavy face: "There are three fewer children in our kindergarten."
The other two gardens said, "Two."
“Also three.”
The place was in chaos, Ruan Yiming quickly turned on the radio: "Children who are still on the floor, please stand where you are, don't move, don't go to the stairwell, and wait quietly for the teacher to pick you up." Then he comforted the teachers and organized the staff: "Teachers, please don't panic. The most urgent thing is to send teachers to pick up the children. Two teachers will go to the first floor. No matter whether they are from your kindergarten or not, they will line up and bring them down together. In addition, each kindergarten will send two teachers to the stairwell to look for the children. They may be hiding in the stairwell to play. I will ask the security guard at the gate if there are any children who ran away. If not, it means that the children are still in the hotel and will not be lost."
Zheng Yuan also climbed onto the stage and said loudly: "Don't worry, everyone. The security guards we hired won't let you out easily!"
At Yang Jian Zheng Dao Kindergarten, Zhou Du asked the two assistant teachers of the Lotus Class to pick up the people. As for those who had to enter the stairs, he arranged for "Lu Xiaoguo and Liang Tang to go."
"Okay." Lu Xiaoguo and Liang Tang rushed out.
Each kindergarten sent teachers, but five minutes later, Ruan Yiming came back and said, "I asked the security guard, but no children went to the first floor. The manager also said there was no other exit. They must still be inside the hotel."
But the expressions of dozens of adults did not improve.
Because during these five minutes, even the teacher didn't come back.
Not good.
A kindergarten teacher directly asked the headmaster of Gangcheng: "Zheng Yuan, excuse me, are you sure the hotel is safe? I mean, are you sure the hotel is in a protective formation?"
The little ones in the eighteen kindergartens are a huge attraction to evil spirits, so a magic circle must be set up in the hotel where they live to ensure that the children can move around normally.
"Song Laosi is talking nonsense, of course, their children were very embarrassed last night, right?"
"I mean, is it possible that the center of the formation is broken?"
Ruan Yiming wanted to explain, but was interrupted by the director: "Impossible! The one who set up the formation is Director Ruan, who is the best at Feng Shui formation in Hong Kong. The center of the formation is in his room. How could he not know if the center of the formation is broken? And there is nothing wrong with this hotel itself. We have investigated it..."
The headmaster of Gangcheng spoke in Mandarin with a somewhat fierce tone. A teacher also spoke louder and louder, as if to blame: "What should we do now? Can you give an explanation, Mr. Zheng? Why did the child's teacher disappear after entering the stairs? I can't get through on the phone. I know you want to protect your kindergarten and are afraid of taking responsibility, but..."
Zheng Yuan also interrupted, and it sounded like a quarrel. Some children were frightened by the adults' words and were holding back their tears.
Seeing that the situation was about to get ugly, Ruan Yiming was stopped by the director as soon as he opened his mouth. It was Zhou Du who stepped in in time to stop the conversation between the two.
"Everyone calm down."
The man's figure just happened to stand under a beam of light, and under the sparkling blue light, dust was flying like snowflakes.
"Deans, each take two teachers back to their rooms to collect the food, then go to the fifth floor and enter the stairwell together. No matter what it is, bring the children back."
"Okay!" The principals responded one after another.
"Please keep it for me. Wu Qian and Song Chan, come with me." Zhou Du came back, took off the watch, handed it to Li Yang, and took Wu Qian and the monk teacher of the Lotus Class out.
Li Yang clutched the watch in his hand without saying a word.
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