Chapter 039 Three Floors
"Time is going backwards. What does that mean?" Li Yang asked us.
Li Daming laughed: "The watch is broken."
"Tongsuo's family owns a mine. This kid is idle but has plenty of money. He is a typical second-generation rich man." Li Yang said, "He is wearing a famous brand watch, which he bought just one month ago. Do you think it is possible that the watch is broken?"
"What's going on?" Li Daming asked, "Is time really going backwards?"
"Listen to me." Li Yang kept everyone in suspense: "Tongsuo also thought his watch was broken or he was dazzled at first. He was a wealthy man with plenty of time, so he stood on the side of the road, staring at his watch. But then again, it was him. If it were someone else in this situation, they would have left long ago, and any doubts would have only lasted for a moment. So, this is called chance."
According to Li Yang, the man named Tongsuo was staring at the watch with great interest, and saw the hands on the dial moving counterclockwise. It didn't look like it was broken. Although I don't know what a broken watch should look like, at least it can't be like this. The movement of the hands has a regular pattern.
He stood on the side of the road for about twenty minutes and saw that the watch hands had gone back twenty minutes.
According to the time on the dial, he has now gone back twenty minutes.
Tongsuo discovered that the flow of time around him was not disordered, but was still moving forward. The pedestrians around him were not walking backwards or anything, so if there was any interference here, the only object of the interference was his watch.
Hearing this, I said, "In fact, he should ask other passers-by to see if their watches are also running backwards."
"Oh." Li Yang looked at me and said, "What this gentleman said does make sense. I said the same thing at the time. But we are not him after all. Tongsuo's brain is slow to begin with. When he reacted and wanted to refer to the watch of the passerby, the needle of the watch suddenly changed direction and started moving clockwise again."
Li Daming and I looked at each other.
"According to Tongsuo's description, the hands returned to normal time at an extremely fast speed, smoothing out the 20-minute time difference." Li Yang said, "If it weren't for him, no one else would have noticed the change in the watch."
Li Daming laughed: "It was just a trivial matter, and then you moved here?"
Li Yang said: "I am a textual researcher and will not act impulsively because of a phenomenon. The reason I moved here is because I did this time experiment myself."
After Tongsuo returned, he told his good friend Li Yang about this strange thing. Li Yang was very interested, so he wore a watch and took an alarm clock to the Garden Community. They did the experiment here. But after staying there for three or four days, the hands of all the clocks were normal, and there was no reversal at all.
Li Yang knew that Tongsuo would not be so bored as to make up such a story. He believed that this strange phenomenon must have happened here.
There are several possibilities as to why they have not discovered it yet: one is that the time reversal phenomenon is extremely accidental, perhaps only once every few hundred years, and Tongsuo encountered it; another possibility is that it needs to be measured at a special location and in a specific orientation, and this location is not fixed, and it changes with certain rules. They have not yet found the correct observation location.
I nodded secretly after hearing this. Li Daming is already very capable, and his cousin's thinking model is even more rigorous and leak-proof.
Li Yang and Tongsuo actually stayed in this place for a week, working more than twelve hours a day, and even stayed up all night on two of the days.
I was shocked when I heard this. I didn't know whether I should admire them or ridicule them. How idle were these two people to do such a thing? !
It’s true, hard work pays off, they found it.
Li Yang lit a cigarette: "Our guess is correct. The observation location is indeed changing, and the time is also uncertain. I won't go into detail about the process in between. In short, we have discovered a pattern. The locations where the time reversal phenomenon occurs can eventually be connected to form an irregular circle. The center point of this circle is this residential building. There must be something fishy here. So Tongsuo and I discussed and decided to rent a house here so that we can observe closely."
Li Daming clicked his tongue a few times: "Even if you find the source, what can you do?"
"Time goes back, my brother." Li Yang said, "What else do you want? Let's talk about it after we find it. Anyway, we have plenty of time."
I have a vague feeling that this matter may be related to Ma Danlong.
Li Yang asked us how we got here.
Li Daming looked at me, meaning can I say it?
I thought about it and felt that there was nothing shameful about this matter, it was just a little bit bizarre. As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. Li Yang has such a powerful mind, maybe he can help us break down the situation and provide new ideas.
I nodded to indicate that I could speak.
Li Daming started the story from Wang Yue's mysterious bedroom and told Li Yang everything that happened in between. Li Yang listened with his mouth wide open and forgot to smoke . Finally, a long cigarette ash fell on his pants, burning him so much that he almost jumped up, and he quickly brushed it off.
"So you came here to look for Ma Danlong in order to find the first volume of Yinwen?" Li Yang said.
"Yes, that's the purpose." I said, "But we don't know where Ma Danlong is. We only know that he is here to handle the property rights of the Garden Community."
Li Yang was thoughtful: "The change in the flow of time must be caused by some kind of energy interference. As far as we know, the person who can create such energy should be Ma Danlong. He is a Yin messenger."
Li Daming said: "He is a ghost messenger, not a superman. At most, he can perform a magic trick. How can he turn back time?"
Li Yang waved his hand: "Don't jump to conclusions. There must be something mysterious here that we don't know about. Could it be that Ma Danlong has set up a magic circle here, which is equivalent to a time machine?"
"Are you watching a science fiction movie?" Li Daming laughed, "It's about a time machine. Ma Danlong is a wizard, not a quantum scientist."
Li Yang invited us to the window. From the 21st floor, we could see the whole view of the Garden Community. Below was a small garden, and opposite this building, in the garden was another building.
"That's one, and we have two. Can you see what's going on?" Li Yang said.
Li Daming and I looked over and saw that the building opposite was nothing special, just an ordinary high-rise residential building.
As I was looking at it, I suddenly said, "Hey, it seems there are twenty-four floors across the street?"
Li Yang patted my shoulder heavily and said, "Brother, it's great. Did you notice that Building 1 and Building 2 are actually the same height, but Building 2 only has 21 floors, while Building A has 24 floors! What does this mean?"
"Does this mean there are three floors hidden in the second building?" said Li Daming.
"Yes, that's what I meant." Li Yang said, "I asked around. According to the old residents here, there was a fire when the second building was just built. The fire burned the ninth, tenth and eleventh floors. Fortunately, there were not many people living there at that time, so there were no casualties. Later, for some reason, these three floors were abandoned and never reopened."
"Do you suspect there's something wrong with these three layers?" I asked.
"Yes." Li Yang said, "The problem now is that we can't get to these three floors. I tried to take the stairwell, but the ninth to eleventh floors were all blocked with cement, so I couldn't get in. The elevator also erased these three floors. The ninth floor you saw in the elevator is actually the twelfth floor. If you pay more attention, you will find that the elevator takes a particularly long time to run from the eighth to the ninth floor because it spans three floors."
Li Daming nodded: "If there is something fishy, it is very likely there."
"Yes, the question is how to get in." Li Yang licked his lips and suddenly laughed.
"You have a solution, right?" Li Daming was very familiar with Li Yang. When his cousin's mouth curled up, he immediately knew what was going on.
Li Yang laughed: "Don't worry, don't worry, let's eat first, I'll call a mysterious guest later."
As he spoke, he picked up his phone and sent a message to someone. We chatted for a while, and time passed quickly. It was about six o'clock in the afternoon, and there was a knock on the door.
"Oh, here you are." Li Yang came to the door, opened it and invited the person outside in.
A fat guy came in from outside. He was wearing a blue work suit. Because it was hot, he was wearing a pair of big shorts and old-fashioned sandals. He looked like a workshop worker who had just got off work.
The fat guy was very outgoing and greeted us like an acquaintance when he came in. Li Daming laughed and said, "It's been a while since we last met." The two of them began to hug each other warmly.
Li Daming said: "Lin Cong, let me introduce you. This is a good friend and a fellow member of the Lantern Alliance..."
The little fat guy interrupted and corrected: "It should be called accomplice."
"Haha, yes, this accomplice is called Tongsuo." Li Daming introduced: "Tongsuo, this is my friend Lin Cong."
"Why did you call me up? Just to meet friends?" Tongsuo said casually.
I keenly grasped the word he said, "Call up." "'Call up', you came up from below?" I asked puzzledly.
"Haha." Tongsuo laughed, "This Brother Lin is really extraordinary. I can tell from this. Li Yang rented a house on the 21st floor. I'm luckier than him. I rented a house on the 9th floor. I live downstairs."
"The ninth floor?" I suddenly remembered: "The ninth floor is actually the twelfth floor?"
"Yes." Tongsuo looked at Li Yang: "It seems that they all know. That's good, otherwise I would have to waste my breath. You know I live on the ninth... Let's call it the twelfth floor. Do you know why I live there?"
An idea suddenly occurred to me: "Could it be that Brother Tong has found a way to enter the three-story abandoned building?"
