It was almost nine o'clock.
The night sky hung low.
After hearing County Chief Jiang's words, the faces of the leaders and officials in the Yao Family Small Courtyard darkened as much as the night sky. They could hardly believe it!
"How could that be!"
"How could there still be someone inside?"
"Weren't they all rescued at noon?"
"Yeah, we verified it with all the family members at the time!"
"There shouldn't have been any omissions! The Fire Brigade wouldn't make such a basic mistake!"
"Because we were afraid something might have been overlooked, after everyone left, the Fire Brigade searched every household again! We don't have life detectors, but the people inside were all family members of our own Civil Servants. The population was simple, everyone knew one another, and all the neighbors were acquaintances. It was easy to check how many people there were." Dong Xuebin also objected in disbelief. He was the first one who refused to believe there were still people in the building. He had read the Future Newspaper clearly: everyone had been rescued, and no one had died. So how could there still be one person now?
Wait!
The newspaper? The Future Newspaper?
Dong Xuebin suddenly realized that the future newspaper was only that evening's county paper. It should have already been typeset and printed in the afternoon!
It was already nearly nine o'clock!
The news in that paper had long since passed!
A future newspaper? It was no longer the future—it was the past! A paper published around four or five in the afternoon obviously wouldn't report something that happened at nine o'clock!
Damn!
He had overlooked it!
Sure enough, Jiang Fangfang said, "Nothing is impossible. The Fire Brigade has already gone in to rescue her. The person still in the abandoned dormitory