Chapter 43 Check the water meter and send warmth
“The friend I told you about is fine.” Li Xinzhu said with a smile.
“I found him, just as we agreed before.” The man hiding in the shadows said.
“No problem, if this matter comes to pass, you will never be involved, and you will not be short of money.” Li Xinzhu nodded.
“The row of houses in front, the second floor, the room at the west end.” The man pointed to a two-story building not far away.
“He might come out at night.”
“I know, thanks.”
After conveying the news, Li Xinzhu’s friend stood up his collar, looked around, and then left quickly.
Li Xinzhu waved to Wang An who was standing aside, and Wang An walked up to him.
“The person is in that building.”
After listening to Li Xinzhu's words, Wang An looked at the building not far away.
"My plan is this. How about we stun him with smoke first, and then enter the house and bring him to justice?" Li Xinzhu began to describe his plan.
“What if your friend’s information is wrong, and he is not a wanted criminal, but just an ordinary person? Then we can just break into a private house!”
"If we make a mistake, we can exit quietly and close the doors and windows for him without anyone noticing. He is already unconscious anyway."
“Beautiful, can you unlock the door, or what if the other party locks the door from the inside? I think the windows all have anti-theft windows, how about we break them open by force?”
“I also brought this!” Li Xinzhu took out a small crowbar from his backpack.
"You are so well prepared. I thought you were a professional burglar. You are making quite a lot of noise with this thing. Isn't he the only one living upstairs?"
“Why are you thinking about all the difficulties and setbacks, but you can’t think of something good? How about we pretend to be property owners and send warmth?”
“Do you think there will be properties in this shabby place?”
“What do you think we should do?” Li Xinzhu put the crowbar into his bag again.
“Check the water meter?” Wang An said after being silent for a moment.
“Isn’t that still property?”
“The person pretending to be a security bureau, if the person inside is really Hu Cunshan, he will probably find a way to escape. If the person inside is not him and asks us to show our ID, then we should be the ones leaving.”
“I’ll go, you’re still brave, but there’s nothing wrong with this logic of thinking!”
The two of them first walked around the two-story building. Behind the westernmost rear window on the second floor was a dark alley, and there were some waste paper boxes directly below.
"After we go up later, if it is Hu Cunyi we are looking for inside, he may jump down from here when he hears that we are from the Security Bureau."
"Is it possible that he suddenly opened the door, stabbed us twice, and then ran away?"
Wang An raised his head and stared at Li Xinzhu. He had to say that this person's thinking was indeed very strange.
“Put yourself in my shoes, what would you do if it were you?”
“Jump out of the window.” Li Xinzhu thought for a while and said, “But these people are all desperadoes and cannot be treated with common sense.”
“That’s right, so we should divide our forces into two groups. One of us should go up to deceive him, while the other should stay below and wait for him, or should we go up together?”
“Let’s go together, it’s safer.”
After discussing it, the two of them went upstairs together. At this point, most of the people on the second floor were gone, and they were the only two in the long corridor.
Creak, crunch,
While passing by a house, there was the sound of a bed shaking, and there was also an imaginative duet, and there was a lot of movement.
Li Xinzhu leaned on the window and looked in. The curtains were so thick that he couldn't see through them.
Wang An really wanted to give him a kick when he saw this, so he slapped him. Li Xinzhu looked quite excited and raised his finger to point to the room.
Wang An suddenly grabbed Li Xinzhu, and then slowly squatted down.
Li Xinzhu squatted down when he saw this.
“What’s wrong?”
Wang An raised his finger and pointed in front of him.
A very thin fishing line was stretched in front of them, one end was tied to an iron rod, and the other end was tied to several wine bottles, as long as they took two steps forward.
Once the fishing line touches the fishing line, the sound of the iron rod and the wine bottle falling down will definitely alarm the people in the house.
“This guy is so alert that he can see such a thin line?” Li Xinzhu was stunned for a moment.
The two people crossed the fishing line and came to the door of the westernmost house.
Wang An stood outside the door, closed his eyes, and listened carefully.
There were sounds in the room, breathing, sometimes deep, sometimes rapid.
Li Xinzhu moved his fingers and was about to knock on the door. Wang An raised his hand and slapped it on the old iron door.
The people in the room suddenly opened their eyes and jumped up from the bed. At the same time, they picked up the short knife under the pillow, held it in their hands, and stared in the direction of the door.
“Guardian, open the door.”
The person in the room was startled for a moment, then picked up the backpack beside the bed and put it on his back. He turned around and went to the back window, opened the window, dropped a rope, and climbed out along the rope.
“He’s going to run out of the back window!” Wang An heard the sound of the window opening.
“Chase!” Li Xinzhu turned around and ran away.
There were clanging bells, iron bars and wine bottles falling to the ground, making the sound extraordinarily loud.
Several houses nearby turned on their lights.
Wang An stood in the corridor and glanced down.
He stood up and jumped out of the building. He raised his hand and grabbed the upper edge of the corridor. After a moment's pause, he let go and fell from the second floor, which was nearly four meters high.
Land to the ground for a moment, like a bird landing on the ground.
Then he turned around and ran towards the back of the building.
As soon as he arrived behind the building, a man rushed towards him with a bright knife in his hand.
“Hu Cunyi?” Wang An shouted in a deep voice.
The man looked up and through the dim light a few meters away, he could vaguely see his unshaven face.
It’s him, that’s right!
Wang An sank down, kicked off, and rushed out. In the blink of an eye, he was in front of him.
The short knife in the man's hand cut across, and the blade made a thin sound in the cold wind.
Wang An moved around, as if drawing an arc, dodging the blade, and instantly reached the man's side, placing a palm on his ribs.
Tai Chi Spiral Strength,
So fast!
The man was shocked, and then he felt a huge impact coming from his stomach, and his body lifted off the ground uncontrollably, as if he had been hit by a cow.
He flew out with a whoosh and hit the wall with a thud. The severe pain from his back almost made him faint.
He stood up as soon as he slipped from the wall and glared at Wang An, holding the knife in one hand and covering his stomach with the other. The sharp pain from his abdomen made him extremely painful, as if something was stirring inside.
“Aren’t you from the Security Bureau?” Hu Cunyi stared at Wang An and said this.
"Are you doing it for the money or the reward? I have the money. There are five hundred thousand in it. If you let me go, I'll give it all to you!" Hu Cunyi pointed to the backpack behind him.
“I felt uneasy taking the money.”
(End of this chapter)