"Brother Jiang." Huai Yi lowered his voice and looked at Jiang Cheng. "You don't seem surprised. Do you have another plan?" Apart from their footsteps, the area around them was frighteningly quiet.
Jiang Cheng took out his phone and checked the time. "Let's wait a little longer. If there's still no news, we'll go downstairs."
"Okay."
On the third floor, Miao Qing and the others were in much the same situation as Jiang Cheng's group. The third floor was much smaller than the second, so they'd finished searching earlier, but they hadn't chosen to notify the others.
"It's not on our floor." Bai Xiaojie put down the book in her hand and returned it to its place on the shelf.
Miao Qing sneered, his gaze unconsciously drifting toward the floor beneath him, as if he could see through it and glimpse what lay below. "Of course it isn't here. All the information about this town is on the first floor."
"What do you mean?" A strange look flashed through Liu Hui's eyes, as if some suspicion of hers had just been confirmed.
"When we first came in, there was a piece of paper on the reception desk. I'd only caught a glimpse of it before that Jiang Cheng blocked it with his body." A trace of wariness crept into Miao Qing's voice.
Bai Xiaojie couldn't help asking in surprise, "What did the paper say?"
"It listed the kinds of books on each floor of the library, along with their approximate locations." Miao Qing took a deep breath and continued, "I saw that it said the local records were kept on the first floor."
Liu Hui nodded as if she understood. "He's smart. He realized that the place holding important information about the mission would probably be dangerous, so he hid