A/N; I'm not tired so this is probably a better update. I had a good day for my birthday so… tiredness is out of question! And about Mai contacting Eugene and talking to him, I can't tell you. You know, this stories written from Oliver's point of view so I can't tell you anything he doesn't know. It would spoil some of the plot. You just have to wait and see. J
It's thoroughly confusing. How can Mai give me an address that doesn't exist? Did she come up with that prank in kindergarten? Because it wasn't funny and I was truly annoyed. I sighed. "Explain." I demanded.
"How am I supposed to know? I merely got an address from someone!" Mai defended.
"Didn't that 'someone' say anything else rather than a house in a road that doesn't exist?" I complained. Well, for me it was complaining. To her it seemed like an actual question, because she answered it.
"He did say that you'll work it out." She answered while thinking. She really could have told me that earlier. So it was a cryptic message.
"Lin, find a map of the surrounding areas." I ordered, then walked back into the van to do some research myself. I searched Headington, but the results were nothing when I added the city. After a short while, Lin came and gave me the map I told him to bring. It's easy for him, since he keeps a laptop and printer in the car just in case.
What I immediately noticed was that there was no place called Headington. However, when I looked the areas names I realised that there were three areas forming a triangle. One was Hea, another Ding, and the other was Ton. The names were out of place and unusual but it did form a triangle and that was the first clue. Then I realised that there were very little amount of houses in the areas. A total of 36 in each one, with two isolated houses at the sides of two areas and one of them only had one.
"Lin, what are the isolated house's door numbers?" I heard Lin typing on his laptop.
"Thirty-six, fifteen, twenty-one, two hundred and twenty-five and four-hundred and forty-one." He informed.
Turns out the rest of the houses were from one to thirty-six. I figured it out, as always. The 666 is the solution to every problem one the map. All the thirty-six houses added together would be 666.
Headington is a triangle because 666 is a triangular number. And the isolated answers represented a part of an equation which ended up being equal to 666. That means the house is all of the areas combined together. And unfortunately, that just makes it more complicated.
"All of the three areas make up one house, and that is what we're looking for." I said.
"How is that possible?" Mai asked curiously. Of course for a brainless idiot like her, everything she can't work out seems impossible, and unfortunately, that is 99.9% of the time.
"Because everything here represents the door number. For example, the triangle formed here represents 666 as triangular number."
"What's a triangular number?" She questioned. She must be the most unknowledgeable person I've met in my whole entire life. She makes me wonder how strong of a microscope I need to see her microscopic brain.
"Your brain won't be able to handle such information, so I'm not going to waste my time being a kindergarten teacher." I remarked.
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?"
"Is that a question you use as an answer in you Shakespeare exam?" I continued sarcastically. I bet she can't even speak English. Analysing text would be as impossible as jumping into a black hole for her.
"We don't have Shakespeare exams!" She keeps defending herself. Just give up already. You're making a fool out of yourself even more than your stupidity!
"That is to be expected of a kindergarten student who can't analyse speech, yet alone text. Of course your teacher won't trust you with such exam. They may be afraid that your brain would explode in front of them. What a horrid death to watch." I certainly wouldn't want that to happen. I mean the world has to has some idiots in it right? We can't have them all dead. And besides, who am I going to verbally kill after that?
"I'm 16 years old!" She yelled.
"17, a pleasure." I answered coolly, as if I'm getting introduced to her. "However, we do need to move on. Lin, won't you think the surface of the earth around here would be the door as the number plate is usually placed on the door?" Lin nodded. Short but convincible. I decided we should go back, since it was getting dark. I slammed the laptop shot, which grabbed Mai's attention.
"Don't slam gadgets like that!" She complained childishly.
"It's insured." I responded simply, just like Lin. She turned her head. "We're going, it's getting dark."
We had a quiet ride, well quiet after Mai went to sleep. Before that she was talking about how atoms are the hardest part of her science. As much as I like science, I still got bored and stopped listening all together. Not that she noticed anyway. She stopped talking after a while and suddenly fell sleep mid-sentence. Or at least I thought it was mid-sentence, since I wasn't listening. Lin noticed as well. He looked at Mai for a millisecond before concentrating on the road again.
"Wake up!" I shook her a bit more violently. It was frustrating and a waste of time. But it's a good topic to research: Do stupid people sleep heavier than smarter people?
It took another few minutes for her to wake up. She looked shaken. It reminded me of Gene's friends. When we were children he used to invite them over and make them watch over 18 horror movies. For someone with a ghost hunter as family that wasn't very scary. It was funny almost. (The characters could never workout the culprit when it was actually very easy to do so, even from the characters position.) But for someone as normal as them, they would be pretty shaken.
It wasn't until another few minutes that I realised that she had a fever. So, I told her to go home. The plan was that she would come the next day in the morning. (It was the week-end). It took her a bit of complaining, but at the end she agreed.
Well, this is another chapter. Hope you like it!