Chen Miao finished dinner at five and reached the Unfinished Building at six.
He parked nearby, then continued on foot toward the King Building in the Unfinished Building complex.
On the way, Chen Miao checked the book. Its contents were still the same as before. Nothing had changed.
He headed up to the seventh floor.
The discovery of the jars containing gu worms had allowed Chen Miao to determine where his counterpart in the book had gone upstairs.
That made Suo Kun's approximate location on the seventh floor easy to guess.
The Unfinished Building had two units. If Chen Miao had gone upstairs through Unit One in the book, then Suo Kun was in Unit Two.
But because construction had never been completed, the two units weren't separated. They connected to each other, which was why Chen Miao could climb the stairs on one side, walk across, and descend the stairs on the other.
Judging by the layout, each unit was supposed to have two elevators serving four apartments, making four elevators and eight apartments on the entire floor.
The developer must have been ambitious. From Chen Miao's cursory inspection, every apartment had a large floor plan.
One floor, two units, eight apartments.
Together, they probably covered two thousand square meters. Even excluding shared areas, each apartment averaged more than a hundred and fifty square meters.
That also meant each floor had plenty of rooms, with passages leading everywhere and a somewhat complicated layout.
The four apartments in Unit Two alone, where Chen Miao was, contained nearly thirty unfinished rooms.
Finding the room where Suo Kun might hide through sheer luck would be difficult.
But Chen Miao didn't need to worry about that.
Once eight o'clock arrived, he would be able to see the book's contents.
Then he would keep