Chapter 41 Lou Yuncheng

The waiting time was long. There were three other households between 1005 and 1009, where Zheng Feifei lived. She had no idea how Cheng Yu would notify his teammates and how to get the other residents in without alerting them.

Zheng Feifei was also very nervous. She stood behind the door with Shu Fu, holding her hand tightly and leaning there to listen to the noise outside.

I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly a panicked woman’s voice came from the direction of 1009: “It’s really just me and my husband!… Wait, what are you doing now!… Ah—No, that won’t work! Don’t open it! Don’t—”

The panicked female voice suddenly became sharp and frightened, accompanied by the sound of objects colliding and another panicked male voice.

Then, there were footsteps.

Someone was shouting, "Watch out for the knife!"

Someone else shouted, "Stop him!"

Then there were the sounds of fighting.

Soon, there was a sound of gunfire and Shu Fu heard the man's screams.

Caught so quickly?

When Shu Fu was hesitating whether to go out, there was a knock on the door in front of her: "Open the door, it's me."

Cheng Yu was standing outside the door, his gun already put back into its holster. Probably because of the fight, the smell of gunpowder on his body was stronger, and his breath was also a little heavier.

"They are not wanted people." He looked at her with a very bad expression: "You just said that you know two people living in 1009. They originally lived in the same community as you in Suicheng?"

"right."

"Then, do you know the other two people who originally lived with them?" Cheng Yu paused and continued, "Two... a man and a woman about the same age as them."

The first people she thought of were Fang Xiwen and her husband, but according to Zheng's mother, they should have left after quarreling with Zhong Li and others more than ten days ago.

Cheng Yu turned his head and asked Zheng Feifei's mother: "Did you see those two people leave with your own eyes?"

"No." Mother Zheng shook her head, not quite understanding. "I remember... it was very late when the quarrel happened that day. It wasn't the first time they quarreled, and no one wanted to care... We only heard about it from Zhong Li and the others the next day..."

Cheng Yu nodded: "That's right."

Shu Fu looked at his expression, as if she suddenly understood something, and her hands and feet felt a little cold.

"They never left at all." Cheng Yu turned sideways and made room for the door: "Shu Fu, you have to be mentally prepared..."

**

Downstairs of Building 4, the teammates who stayed outside to support the team quickly opened the back door of the van, took out the medical kit and a simple stretcher, and quickly rushed into the corridor.

On the 10th floor of Building 4, a man and a woman were struggling with their hair and clothes in disarray. They were handcuffed and thrown at the gate of 1009. The man was shot in the shoulder and was crawling on the ground, screaming in pain. The woman was struggling to death, saying that it was not them who did it, but the mob that entered the community that night, and they were innocent.

On the side, a team member helped another team member to urgently treat his injured arm, then turned around and kicked the man: "If it wasn't you who did it, why are you using a kitchen knife to hack people? Shut up!"

Among the team members who arrived, there was a female who already knew the situation, so she rushed into the room first and carried out the woman who was crawling in the suitcase, her thin clothes soaked with feces, and she was almost dying.

She carefully and quickly used a knife to help her remove the dirty clothes, then opened the closet, found a large clean blanket, covered herself completely, and then called her companions in.

The group carefully lifted the woman and placed her on an open stretcher.

The female team member checked the blanket again to make sure she was wrapped tightly, then took out some clean clothes from the closet and placed them on the stretcher, then signaled her companions to continue.

The other residents in the corridor had no idea what was going on. They were stopped at the door by other team members who had arrived. They stuck their heads out to look, but only saw a few team members hurriedly passing by carrying a stretcher.

Then, several team members came out of the room carrying several large black garbage bags.

All of them looked unhappy. The big black bags were still cold from being frozen. They looked heavy and no one knew what was inside.

Shu Fu had actually guessed it, Cheng Yu's expression just now said it all.

Cheng Yu's voice was still coming slowly to my ear: "... gagged, tied hands and feet, and hid in a suitcase... They were so good at hiding. If we hadn't had other suspicions first, we wouldn't have been able to search so thoroughly... After all, a normal man's body can't hide in a suitcase, and ordinary residents won't hide strangers. Extra non-residents will be carefully checked, but not missing people. As long as they avoid this inspection and Building 4 is unsealed, they can escape tonight... Ordinary people won't escape. If they really wanted to escape, they would have escaped long ago..."

She stood there, watching several team members carrying a stretcher away quickly. When she felt her bracelet vibrate, she realized that her whole body was cold.

Cheng Yu looked at Shu Fu's pale face and felt a little sorry for her. He reached out and patted her on the shoulder, comforting her: "Thanks to you, we finally saved one person. If it was a few days later, no one would have been saved..."

When he saw that she didn't say anything, he asked again, "Do you want to come with me?"

Shu Fu met Cheng Yu's gaze, "Now?"

Cheng Yu nodded: "There are other team members who will temporarily take over my job. I can take you with me to follow the car."

"Okay." Shu Fu turned around, went to the room to get her backpack, briefly instructed Zheng Feifei and the other two, then followed Cheng Yu into the elevator.

**

The mission is over.

But obviously, Zhong Li is not a person related to this mission.

While sitting in the military jeep, some scenes kept flashing through her mind: when Ping'an Community suffered the first power outage, the young couple next door came to knock on her door for the first time with anxiety and worry on their faces; that night when she received the mission and woke up, she heard the noise downstairs and the conversation next door, but she did not go out; Fang Xiwen's expression when she introduced herself for the first time; the gentle "sorry" outside her door when she left Ping'an Community.

Also, on a rainy evening with dim light, Zhong Li hid behind Fang Xiwen and took a sneak shot of her...

She had lived in Suicheng Ping'an Community for so long, and that was the only time she saw Zhong Li's face clearly up close.

At that time, she didn't know that this glance would become so important later.

It was because of that glance that she remembered and mentioned the name Zhong Li yesterday, and then she got some information from Zheng's mother and Zheng Feifei, and finally because of this information, she became suspicious of 1009.

All the details are fragmentary, seemingly messy and meaningless, but when they are pieced together, they become inextricably linked.

Zhong Li is not a person related to this mission, Fang Xiwen is.

She followed the car to a hospital in the east of the city. The medical facilities in this hospital were relatively good, but outside the gate and the emergency room, there were scorch marks like those from a fire. The gate and the walls had obviously just been repaired, and the color did not match the previous ones. However, in this climate, as long as it could shelter from the wind and rain, no one would care about the color and style.

Shu Fu instinctively felt that this should be one of the buildings used by the refugee mob to divert attention that night.

Fang Xiwen slowly woke up after being given half a bottle of water. She had no serious injuries and was hidden in the suitcase this morning. But she had been trapped in the room for more than ten days, had not eaten three meals a day, had her urine and feces all over her body, and was stabbed in the back by the little sister she had taken care of all the way. She suffered a great blow and was a little dazed.

After she woke up in the emergency room, she kept asking about her husband Wang Qian's condition. She only remembered that night, she had another quarrel with Zhong Li and Huang Jun. Wang Qian, who had been patient for a long time, exploded and wanted to drive Zhong Li and Huang Jun away. After all, he was paying for the house and the current food and living expenses, so he had the right to drive them away.

In desperation, Zhong Li revealed that she had slept with Wang Qian. She pretended to be drunk to seduce Wang Qian, but afterwards she pretended nothing happened. She also told Wang Qian that it was just an accident and asked him not to tell Fang Xiwen and Huang Jun as it would hurt them.

But in fact, everything was designed by her. Wang Qian had a good job before and saved a lot of money before the natural disaster, but her man was a useless person, so she had to take out insurance for herself.

Wang Qian regretted doing something wrong to Fang Xiwen, but everyone was still in the process of evacuation at that time, and he didn't want to and couldn't lose Fang Xiwen, so he listened to Zhong Li and pretended nothing had happened.

Zhong Li exposed the matter at this moment, and even produced evidence, a photo she secretly took of herself and Wang Qian. This shocked not only Fang Xiwen, but also Huang Jun.

Fang Xiwen packed her things and tried to leave, but Wang Qian chased after her to stop her. Huang Jun grabbed Wang Qian and started fighting with him. In the chaos, Huang Jun smashed Wang Qian's head...

This is all Fang Xiwen's memory of that night. Later, she was knocked unconscious by Zhong Li behind her. When she woke up, she was trapped in the room with her hands and feet tied and her mouth blocked.

So, she didn't know that Wang Qian was dead.

Not only was he dead, but he was also cut into pieces by Huang Jun and Zhong Li, put into black garbage bags, and hidden in the large freezer at home...

After receiving the news of Wang Qian's death, Fang Xiwen lay motionless on the bed in the emergency room, as if all the energy had been drained out of her.

On the other hand, the team members handling the scene called Cheng Yu and said that the two people from 1009 were indeed connected to the group of thugs. They knew one of them and knew many days in advance that the other party had a big plan. Huang Jun wanted to join but did not have the courage, so he ended up being an insider.

They provided the other party with a lot of information about the Jixing community, including which households were well-off and well-equipped, which households had no adult men, and which households had weaknesses that were easy to break into...

This is also the reason why Zhong Li and Huang Jun have been hiding in Tibet for more than ten days and have not left. They know that they have committed a crime this time and they will definitely not be able to stay in Louyun City for a long time, but they are not desperate criminals and still want to live a normal life, so they thought about being an insider in this matter, asking for some benefits, and then escaping to live in other cities.

However, they did not expect that the group of people were turned away everywhere in Jixing Community, and the thug they knew even began to suspect that they had tipped off the people in the community. In the end, they did not get any benefits, but were beaten up and extorted money and supplies before they were let go.

The two were beaten and had not recovered yet. When they wanted to escape, the rescue team arrived. The community was temporarily sealed off and they could not get out. They had been very anxious for the past few days and just wanted to wait until the inspection was over and then escape from Louyun City...

Just when they were about to make it to the last moment and the final push, the rescue team suspected that they were hiding thugs, and then the truth was revealed.

Shu Fu did not go into the emergency room. She stood outside the door for a long time and finally left.

Before leaving, she transferred some money to Cheng Yu via WeChat, and then told him calmly in the other's astonished gaze that she had borrowed the money from Fang Xiwen a few months ago, but she didn't have her contact information and had never had the chance to pay it back, and now was the perfect time.

"Thank you, Captain Cheng. You can transfer the money directly to her or give her cash. I'll have to trouble you to pay for some hospital expenses. Don't mention my name. After all, it's not a good thing to borrow so much money from her and never pay it back..."

Cheng Yu looked at the six-digit number on his phone and said helplessly: "With so much money, do you trust me so much?"

"Yeah." Shu Fu looked at him and nodded decisively.

Cheng Yu's heart softened, and he looked at her messy hair that had not dried after being wet by the rain. After a while, he held back some words. He could see that she was trying to help others on purpose, but she transferred so much money to others, and he was worried about her future life: "What about you?"

"Me?" Shu Fu smiled. "Captain Cheng, do you know the profession of online writer?"

"..." He didn't understand why her thoughts jumped so much.

"Actually, I have a profession that no one else knows about. I sell electronic texts, and I'm a big shot at it. As long as the city where the website server is located is not flooded, and as long as everyone's mobile phones have internet, I will not be unemployed. On the contrary, because it is inconvenient to go out and entertainment activities have decreased, I will earn more than before." Shu Fu knew many online writers in her own world, and she said these words off the cuff. Whether Cheng Yu believed it or not, she just said it.

Shu Fu did not stay in the hospital any longer. Now that her mission had been completed, there was no use for her here.

Cheng Yu did have to stay in the hospital for something, and originally wanted a team member to take her back, but Shu Fu politely declined.

"I can protect myself." She believed that Liu Shuang not only told her that she lived alone in Jixing Community, but also that she used a nail gun as a weapon to save people.

Sure enough, Cheng Yu did not force her, but only asked her to send him a message after returning home.

Shu Fu did not take the bus, but instead called a taxi at a high price through a reliable taxi app.

When I walked out of the hospital, the heavy rain had stopped, and the sun's rays were faintly visible behind the dark clouds.

Everyone on the street was very happy. They took off their raincoats and looked up to enjoy the rare sky without rain.

On the way back, all kinds of thoughts kept running through her mind.

She had written about such events in her scripts before, and she had also read many scripts written by others...

Since the natural disaster began, this kind of man-made tragedy has been happening all the time. Not to mention now, even in peacetime, such news is happening every day: a teenage girl was bullied by a male relative for several years, a seemingly honest and loyal man killed his wife and dismembered her body and hid it at home for several days, a father married a stepmother and kicked his five-year-old daughter to death, an obedient and sensible junior high school boy was bullied and beaten to death by a classmate, and a woman was betrayed by her husband and threw her three-year-old son from the 23rd floor...

There are demons everywhere in this world.

That night, refugees rioted and many people died in the east of the city. Even in the luckiest community of Jixing, innocent people suffered from the disaster and lost their loved ones and their lives...

What’s more, Fang Xiwen’s incident happened more than ten days ago, and she probably hadn’t arrived in Louyun City at that time…

She tried to calm herself down and accept it as quickly as possible, but at this moment, she still felt suffocated in her heart.

There was an emotion that had nowhere to be vented, and her heart seemed to be pressed down and blocked by an invisible giant, almost making it difficult for her to breathe.

But at the same moment, there seemed to be another voice telling her not to mess around!

She couldn't be upset because the mission would not end there, and it was far from over.

Once she gets confused and biased, the subsequent missions may be affected and fail, and something worse may happen...

So, calm down and don’t be confused.

**

It was noon when we returned to the rental house, just after midnight, and the rest of the day was within the usage period of the Drifting Island House.

Including tomorrow's, she has a total of twenty-four hours.

She locked the door, checked the doors and windows, closed the curtains in the living room, released the raft, and returned to her safe house.

This is an isolated paradise. No matter how strong, windy, rainy, damp or cold it is outside, it is warm as spring inside.

Shu Fu took a quick shower, changed into clean pajamas, went to the water bar to get a large glass of water and drank it in one gulp, then closed the front and back doors of the cabin, pulled the bed by the floor-to-ceiling window, turned her cell phone to silent mode, threw herself on her bed, and fell asleep.

She hadn't had breakfast or lunch, but she wasn't hungry at all, just tired and wanted to sleep.

As her consciousness drifted away, she remembered that she seemed to have forgotten something, but soon fatigue came over her and she fell asleep.

This was the first time that she completely let herself go in the house on the drifting island. She didn't turn on the alarm clock or set her phone to vibrate mode. She didn't want to pay attention to anything and just wanted to have a good sleep.

During this time, she got up to go to the bathroom with her eyes closed the whole time, and then quickly fell back into bed.

She didn't know how long she slept. When she woke up, she just felt very hungry. The wooden house was quiet and warm. The curtains of the two floor-to-ceiling windows were drawn, and she had no way of telling whether it was day or night outside.

But she knew that she had not slept for more than 24 hours, otherwise she would not be in the cabin at this moment, but would have fallen in the living room of the rental house.

The whole world was quiet and was not immediately destroyed by her wanton and indulgent rest.

This time, Shu Fu was completely awake from both her body and her mind. She stretched out on the soft bed, stretched her body, rolled over, and then took the cell phone that was lying upside down on the low cabinet beside her.

Sure enough, there were several missed calls and many unread messages on the phone.

The time on her cell phone was less than six o'clock. It was not six o'clock in the afternoon, but six o'clock in the morning. She had slept for nearly eighteen hours. No wonder she was so hungry. She had not eaten for a whole day and night.

It turns out that no matter how heavy the burden on a person's heart is, as long as it exceeds a certain period of time, the body will naturally express hunger and want to eat. This is a person's instinct for survival.

The messages came from Zheng Feifei and Liu Shuang. When she saw Cheng Yu's message, she remembered what she had forgotten before going to bed.

There were also messages from Yao Ruoyun, and even messages from Chen Fa, Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian sent in the group.

It felt like she had just had a good night's sleep and the whole world was looking for her.

Yao Ruoyun created a group and invited those who had played poker in the library and worked as volunteers and were still in contact with her. There were not many people in the group. In addition to her and Lu Zheng, there were Lu Ce, Li Tong and Xun Huiming.

Zheng Feifei sent her a lot of follow-up information about 1009, and there was also good news, saying that the small leader of the thugs whose photo they saw yesterday had been caught.

Shu Fu then learned from Cheng Yu that the whereabouts of the small leader was found based on the clues provided by Huang Jun. He was beaten by the other party and was blackmailed for supplies and money in return. Now he is dead and cannot get out anyway, so naturally he has to bite that person as well.

The small leader is currently being interrogated, and it is estimated that we can continue to find a few more people who have escaped the net from him.

Cheng Yu said that the breakthrough point of the whole thing was the early warning given by Shu Fu and the Zheng family of 1005. The Louyun City officials took this incident very seriously, and the punishment was severe and the rewards were generous. Therefore, Shu Fu and the Zheng family will receive commendations and rewards in the future.

The word "reward" gave Shu Fu a boost. This was the third time Zheng Feifei had made a contribution recently. The thing she had been hoping for might come true.

But it was not even six o'clock yet, and Shu Fu had no habit of disturbing others' sleep. She hadn't eaten for a day and a night, and was now a little anxious from hunger. She turned on the small light beside her, tied up her messy hair, went into the bathroom to wash with cold water, and then chose a bowl of braised beef noodle soup from the shelf in the wristband space.

She was really hungry. She sat at the small dining table and ate the large bowl of beef noodles cleanly, leaving no soup at all.

I bought the beef noodle soup in Suicheng. The noodle shop was not big, but very famous. The noodles were chewy, the red soup was delicious, the beef had a little bit of tendon, and each piece was cooked soft and tender, melting in your mouth.

After finishing her beef noodles, she packed up her takeaway box and prepared to take it off the raft and throw it away.

She placed a large trash can against the wall in the living room of the rental house, which was just offset from the position of the raft. Now that the raft was not on the water, there was no purified water and it was inconvenient to discharge the wastewater, so she tried to save energy as much as possible and all the garbage was thrown outside the raft.

The trash can and the raft were very close, so she didn't even need to leave the roof and could throw away the trash with just a wave of her hand.

It seemed to be raining outside again, and it was a heavy rain with thunder. Shu Fu took a thick fleece coat that was longer than her knees from the hanger, wrapped it directly over her thin home clothes, walked down the raft, took two steps to the balcony, and opened the curtains.

The sky outside was gloomy and heavy rain was pouring down, hitting the glass from time to time. The little glimmer of sunlight that appeared yesterday at noon disappeared completely again.

The heavy rain reduced visibility outside. The dam in the distance was looming in the rain, and the waves outside the dam seemed to have merged with the gloomy and depressing sky.

One?

Shu Fu, who had originally planned to return to the Drifting Island House to check the mission rewards, turned back again. Some recent experiences were giving her a warning. She found a high-power telescope, adjusted it for a while, and finally saw the situation outside the dam clearly.

It turned out that it was not her illusion, it was - water waves!

It was the biggest wave ever seen, tens of meters high.

This time, the storm once again brought huge waves to Louyun City!

Soon, the familiar sound of tsunami sirens came from the direction of the dam in the distance.

A moment later, as if in response, the alarm in Louyun City also resounded through the sky.