WWY Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Home Invasion – The Caller is a Young Couple…

Tuxi Ling drove towards the Dongjiao Villa, following the navigation system without uttering a word. He would occasionally steal glances at his new employer in the rearview mirror.

It was strange. This young Master Lan seemed delicate and weak, but whenever their eyes met, Ling Tuxi’s heart would skip a beat.

Jiu Ya was an expert in this area. In his understanding, this was a natural deterrent, a kind of “aura” that he had only seen on his gang’s boss.

Awe.

Thus, he bent even lower when opening the car door for Lan He: “Young Master Lan, please be careful. It’s under repair.”

Lan He saw a small crane lifting bluestone bricks onto the window sill above the porch: “What’s going on?”

Auntie Long happened to come out to greet him, smiling very kindly: “Oh dear, the rain was too heavy that day, and the wall became loose. Chairman He asked us to replace these bricks!”

Seeing someone passing by, the workers stopped what they were doing and waited for them to pass.

It should have been foolproof, but as they passed under the crane, a gust of evil wind suddenly blew, thesling swayed, and the knot tying the large stone loosened. The thirty-centimeter square bluestone brick fell straight down on them.

In the nick of time, Jiu Ya reacted quickly and raised his hand to block it. The bluestone changed direction above Lan He’s head and smashed onto the marble steps at the gate with a “boom” sound.

Apart from Jiu Ya himself, it seemed that no one had realized what had happened. Auntie Long screamed belatedly.

Lan He was also startled by the loud noise, and his heart felt a little uncomfortable again.

He glanced at the big bluestone, waved away the dust, and turned to look at Jiu Ya.

“Are you okay?”

“Young Master Lan, Jiu Ya is fine, just a scratch.”

The shirt was scratched by the rough bluestone, revealing a bruise on his exposed arm. The surface of the skin was broken in a few small places, but the bones should be fine.

Such a large stone, at least three or four hundred pounds, even if it only changed direction, was still a solid hit. Was this guy so durable?

Lan He marveled inwardly and patted his shoulder.

Awe.

The construction supervisor’s legs were weak, and he stumbled over to check the situation. Si’nian He heard the noise and quickly came out of the house. He was so scared when he saw the scene that his hair almost stood on end.

He scolded the supervisor severely, saying he would deduct 30% of the construction fee. The supervisor was at fault and agreed meekly.

“Are you just looking for an excuse to deduct some construction fee from them?”

“Brother, don’t be so saintly. One thing is one thing. Their safety measures weren’t in place, so they must be given a lesson.”

Lan He pretended to be angry: “Who are you calling saintly?”

Si’nian He smiled awkwardly twice.

Qin Man’s room had been searched by the police twice, and everything that should be taken away had been taken. The cordon tape had been removed.

Si’nian He told Jiu Ya: “You can go inside and find some medical supplies to disinfect the wound, bandage it up first and observe. If the situation is not good, you have to go to the hospital.”

Jiu Ya smiled gratefully: “It’s nothing, sir. I’ve been trained in extreme conditions. That stone is just a small matter to me.”

Lan He looked at his confident appearance, and a thought suddenly popped into his head: If Jiu Ya fought that bastard, who would win?

Auntie Long brewed a pot of Pu’er tea and brought it to the two people in the study.

Si’nian He had just been sorting out his father’s belongings in the study. Now he had almost finished, and the study looked much emptier than before.

He put a jadebrave troops with a green body and golden eyes into a box and sighed: “Dad liked this jadebrave troops the most when he was alive. He once said unintentionally that if he really didn’t make it through one day, he would definitely use it as a burial object. What do you think about putting this in the tomb?”

Lan He leisurely flipped through a book on health preservation, looked up and said: “Since it’s Dad’s intention, then you can decide.”

“Brother, you are Dad’s biological son!” Si’nian He paused, “I shouldn’t say this, but, brother, can you pay a little more attention to Dad? I know you didn’t want to come back to the He family back then, but Dad didn’t force you to do anything after you came back. Dad is gone now, to say nothing else, he gave birth to you and raised me. We are all his most important children, so at least give him a good send-off, right?”

Lan He closed the book: “Huh? I didn’t say I wouldn’t send him off. When is the funeral scheduled for?”

He could always make Si’nian He feel like he was punching cotton. He said unhappily: “The day after tomorrow, everything is arranged!”

Lan He nodded in satisfaction: “The procedures at the funeral home should be done normally, but you will have to work hard on the external social events.”

“Okay!” Si’nian He sealed the cardboard box with tape, “Then you should also put in a little effort and help me sort it out?”

Lan He covered his chest tightly: “But I’m a patient, right?”

Si’nian He was choked, and after a long while, he waved his hand: “Then you go and rest, Young Master Lan!”

Lan He left without blushing or skipping a beat.

Looking at his relaxed back, Si’nian He put away his unhappy expression, and an uncontrollable smile appeared on his lips.

–

When Lan He was almost flattened by the stone, Ling Tuxi happened to arrive at a crime scene.

It was originally just a case of illegal home invasion that the police station received. The people from the second team had all been sent out to search for Qin Man’s whereabouts after he left the city. There was a serious shortage of manpower, so Ling Tuxi sent technician Xiao Xu on an outside mission. As a result, when he arrived at the scene, he found that the case had many strange points, so he had to call the brothers from the first team for help, and quickly contacted Ling Tuxi.

After listening to Xiao Xu’s preliminary report, plus the fact that this community was not far from their Municipal Bureau, Ling Tuxi decided to go himself.

Purple Jade Sea View, the name alone implied a high-end luxury community. He noticed on the way that the surveillance facilities here were very good, so the case should not be difficult to solve.

The callers were a young couple who had just returned from a trip abroad and were dumbfounded when they entered the door.

Someone had obviously entered their home.

The house was in a one-unit-one-household layout, a full two hundred square meters. The strange thing was that it hadn’t been rummaged through much. The intruders were clearly not after money.

The TV remote control was casually thrown on the sofa, the chair was moved to the window, the dark curtains were tightly drawn, the trash can was filled with food packaging bags, and even the other party had started cooking in the kitchen. A large bag of ribs had only been half cooked. The remaining half was not put back in the refrigerator, and a pool of blood had melted on the Marble countertop. It had already dried up, which was quite creepy.

The fingerprint lock on the entrance door was intact, the surveillance lines at home were damaged, but the surveillance image on the homeowner’s mobile phone was always frozen in an unmanned state, which should have been tampered with.

Apart from a few shoe prints, the evidence inspection colleagues did not extract any fingerprints.

Seeing Ling Tuxi coming in, Shengbo Xia jumped up and down: “Ling, the investigation over there hasn’t been completed yet. Do we still need to come over for this little thing?”

“Stop talking nonsense!” Ling Tuxi frowned and stared at the remote control in the evidence bag, “The other party obviously stayed here for a long time and has been wearing gloves. He has a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance.”

“He has a sense of anti-reconnaissance, so what?” Shengbo Xia asked suspiciously, “Hey? How do you judge that it’s a long time?”

Wu Li pointed to the trash can: “Only two kinds of footprints were extracted from the ground. Look at the few garbage bags piled up over there. It’s enough for two people to eat for a week!”

Several garbage bags were piled up at the entrance, each tied up neatly and stacked against the wall, but no matter what, they had been placed there for several days and emitted an unpleasant smell.

Shengbo Xia was surprised: “Oh, did they really come to live in someone else’s house?”

Wu Li said: “That’s not true, they never entered the bedroom at all.”

“They’re picky people! So they treated themselves as guests!” Shengbo Xia was even more surprised. He put on gloves and took out a colorful packaging bag from the trash can, “What’s this, Bobo candy?”

Ling Tuxi looked over: “Are there children?”

Shengbo Xia said: “That’s not necessarily true, I also like to eat Bobo candy!”

Wu Li rolled her eyes: “Childish!”

These two people could argue about anything when they got together. Ling Tuxi shook his head: “Stop talking nonsense, Shengbo Xia, you go and check the community surveillance.”

Shengbo Xia stood at attention and ran away with Wu Li.

After a while, his phone called back.

“I checked the surveillance in the lobby on the first floor of Unit 1 of Building 10, where the crime scene is located. After the security guard identified them, eleven people who entered and exited in the past few days were not owners of the community. This building has elevator access. In addition to the surveillance in the elevator, in order to protect the privacy of the owners, the surveillance on each floor is installed by the owners themselves. I printed out the photos of these people and asked the people in the same unit to identify them. It should be found out soon.”

“Just check the elevator surveillance and see who got off the elevator on the fourteenth floor, isn’t that clear?”

“I said that too, but five days ago, the community had a power outage for a few hours. The elevator automatically switched to the backup generator for power supply. The surveillance in the elevator was burned due to unstable voltage, and the surveillance lines in the lobby were connected to the lighting, so the screen was blacked out for several hours.”

“Check those people first, I’m coming down now.”

The property company actively contacted the twenty-odd residents in Unit 1. After some elimination, there were a few people who were unclaimed, which was not surprising. There were takeaway delivery men, courier men, and people who went to the wrong door. This was all normal.

A burly man who was nearly 190 cm tall first caught Ling Tuxi’s attention.

He was wearing a red baseball cap, a beige short jacket, and the most ordinary medical mask, with his hands in his pockets, walking out of the lobby unhurriedly.

Xiao Xu used the computer in the surveillance room to continuously zoom in, zoom out, smear, and denoise the frozen image of that person. Finally, he saw clearly that on the right cheek covered by the person’s mask, there was a scar extending towards the ear.

This person appeared frequently in the surveillance, and he also carried huge shopping bags twice. Even if they walked face-to-face with the security guard, they would only think that they were relatives and friends coming to visit and would not stop them, but the elevator surveillance did not capture it. It seemed that he always walked through the fire escape.

Ling Tuxi stared at the gloomy eyes under the person’s hat for a while, and suddenly noticed a mosaic-like gray-black block at the position of his ear.

He pointed to the screen: “What is this?”

Shengbo Xia leaned to the screen and carefully identified it for a long time: “Bluetooth headset, right?”

Xiao Xu pushed his glasses: “Um… it doesn’t look like it. As far as I know, there are no such miniature Bluetooth headsets on the market. It looks more like the wireless communication headset we use.”

Shengbo Xia gave him a big blow to the back of the head: “Are you arguing? What’s the difference?”

Xiao Xu didn’t dare to argue with him and withered.

Ling Tuxi excitedly took out his mobile phone and found Cheng Ye’s WeChat.

[Ling Tuxi: Lao Cheng, the headset found in Qin Man’s car, take a photo for me immediately!]

[Pengcheng Wanli:?]

[Pengcheng Wanli: Image message]

Ling Tuxi opened the picture and repeatedly compared it with the surveillance image, and suddenly gave Shengbo Xia a hard shoulder: “Qin Man really has an accomplice, it’s probably this person!”

Shengbo Xia rubbed his shoulder and became an internet celebrity emoji: “Ah?”

Ling Tuxi continued: “Also, don’t forget, the trace inspection extracted two kinds of footprints, maybe the other one is Qin Man!”

Shengbo Xia was even more confused: “No, couldn’t he have changed his shoes halfway?”

Ling Tuxi was stunned, it didn’t seem impossible.

After the excitement passed, he suddenly began to reflect on whether he was too arbitrary.

Is this person really Qin Man’s accomplice? Could the headset just be a coincidence? Why would he stay in this community for several days?

Could it be…they have been monitoring the police here? Is this why they can accurately grasp Lan He’s movements?