11:50 pm.

Shi Yu pushed open the duty room at the north gate of Lanwan Community, and there was already someone sitting inside.

Lao Zhang heard the noise and turned around: "You came so early?"

It wasn't that early, there were still ten minutes until the shift change. If you didn't show up at your post on time, your attendance would be deducted.

Shi Yu did not explain this long string of questions, but just nodded and pulled out the chair.

Lao Zhang didn't care about his attitude. He responded with a smile and flipped through the new magazines that had arrived this month.

Zhang Gaoli is a loyal fan of this series of periodicals. He subscribed to a year's worth of them at the beginning. Every half month, two issues of the magazines are mailed to the gate guard of Lanwan Community. He then puts them on the storage rack in the gate guard room as a public reading material for the guards to pass the time at work, under the pretext of benefiting the masses.

There are not many residents coming in and out at night. Occasionally there are one or two, and they are the kind of people who often work overtime and have their days and nights reversed. They usually drive motor vehicles with bright headlights on, so there is no need to worry about not being noticed.

There were customers sitting in a late-night snack shop not far from the community. I don't know if there was one or several tables of barbecue grills open, glasses of wine clinking, and the noise was only vague at first, but as time went on, the sound began to grow louder.

"Here! Drink it!"

"Awesome! Keep eating! Whose turn is it this time?"

"Don't play tricks on me, you idiot! I saw you change your hand shape!"

“…”

The people in the guard room were living in peace and not disturbing each other until the landline phone on the table suddenly rang. The shrill ringtone was so frightening in the night that it made people tremble.

Lao Zhang picked up the receiver.

"The drunks downstairs have been making noise for nearly two hours! Can't we sleep at this late hour? Can you guys put some control on this?"

The landline has slight sound leakage, and the sound is particularly clear at night.

Lao Zhang said, "Sir, our duties do not include interfering with people outside the community."

The boy on the other end of the line was furious: "Isn't that row of stores outside the gate of the community within the scope of Lanwan on the map? Isn't it your security guard's duty to maintain the harmony of the community? Is it true that the group of people outside gathered to drink and make noise in the middle of the night? Is it true that they disturbed the people inside?!"

Lao Zhang: “But…”

The boy had endured the noise for two hours and was almost suffering from a nervous breakdown. He didn't want to sleep anymore. He was so energetic that he became more and more angry as he talked. He could swell up to the sky with just one breath: "Do you know what day tomorrow is? June 6th! I have the college entrance examination tomorrow! Uncle! Can you please fulfill your responsibilities?!"

Lao Zhang finally calmed down the senior student, stood up and said, "I'm going to go out for a while."

Shi Yu was drawing. Hearing what he said, he looked up at him and nodded to indicate that he heard it.

The street lights were on outside the community, so Lao Zhang didn't take a flashlight, and he did not forget to close the door of the duty room when he passed by.

Shi Yu lowered his eyelashes and continued to paint despite the noisy background noise, without his brush moving in the slightest.

He composed the picture, outlined the boundary between light and dark, painted the shadows, and then added color. He used only one pen to achieve the effect of seven or eight sketch pencils working together.

There were more than a dozen gears of different sizes stacked together on the draft book. The dark side had just been covered with the first layer of color when the landline phone on the table rang again.

Shi Yu stopped writing and took it.

The voice on the other end sounded like a mother: "Security, what's the noise downstairs? Can you tell them to keep it down? My child has to go to school tomorrow."

Shi Yu looked at the deserted entrance to the community.

Old Zhang, who went out to persuade them, has not returned yet, and the noise continues.

Shi Yu said, "We just let someone pass by."

"Have you sent someone?" The woman's tone relaxed. She probably believed that the surrounding environment would calm down as long as she waited for a while. "Okay, thank you for your help."

The call was hung up for the second time.

Shi Yu returned his gaze to the draft paper. This time he only had time to draw for half a minute before he heard the debt-collecting ringing sound again.

The phone rang for the third time.

This time, the person on the other end of the phone was an old lady. Even when she was questioning, her tone was extremely gentle, with a touch of intimacy that was not overly intimate: "My dear, excuse me for disturbing you."

Shi Yu listened quietly to the old lady's request and put down the phone. Just then, a flashlight shone straight in from the window.

The security guard had a nameplate on his chest. His surname was Shu. He had been patrolling here since midnight. The light of his flashlight shone on the window of the guard's duty room. He took two steps at a time and walked forward to greet him through the glass: "Xiao Yu?"

Shi Yu nodded.

The security guard smiled and said, "Why, are you alone? Where did Lao Zhang go to be lazy?"

Shi Yu said: "Someone called to say there was a quarrel, so he went to lobby for the people outside."

They had done this before, so the security guard didn't take it seriously. He went into the duty room and pulled out the thermos cup hanging around his waist: "Let me have some water."

The bubbling sound from the water dispenser mingled with the noise outside the gate, ringing in the air and in people's ears.

The security guard gulped down half a bottle of water and muttered, "I just went to tell them to stop making noise, why haven't you come back yet?"

Shi Yu looked at the draft paper and didn't respond.

After drinking the water and vomiting, the security guard didn't stay here for long. He picked up the flashlight again, said hello, and went out to continue patrolling.

Shi Yu turned and looked at the computer on the table.

The computer was a desktop computer, displaying the images captured by the surveillance cameras in this area of the community.

He watched for a moment, until the fourth call from a resident due to the noise rang, and then he seemed to finally realize that the noise made by the table of guests outside was far beyond the normal range, and it was indeed unreasonable that the person who went to persuade them had not returned for so long.

Thinking of this, he pressed the intercom on the table: "Uncle Zhang."

The voice was sent out, but no one responded for a long time.

In just a short while, the landline phone on the table rang for the fifth time.

Shi Yu changed the channel of the intercom and connected with the security guard who had just left.

"Xiaoyu? What's the matter?"

"Uncle Zhang hasn't come back yet. I want to go out for a while. Can you help me watch for ten minutes?"

The security guard agreed quickly: "Okay."

The duty room could not be left unattended, so the security guard came back kindly to help watch the surveillance. Shi Yu took time off and walked out of the community gate.

The duty room of the late-night snack shop where the noise was coming from was indeed not far away, only a few dozen meters at most, but there were too many green plants and roadblocks on the road, so it took some time to get out.

It was already three o'clock in the morning. The heat from the day when the sun was high in the sky had completely subsided, and the night breeze was very cool. The owner of the late-night snack shop set up a few tables in the open space outside the shop. The two baskets of beer placed next to them were already mostly empty, and empty cans were piled on the tables and the ground.

The plates on the table were pushed aside, and a man was lying on his back on the wooden table, his face flushed, and he looked a little overexcited and nervous. People around him were drinking and laughing, their voices were deafening.

When Shi Yu came over, the noise here showed no sign of stopping.

A guy with dyed blond hair suddenly slapped the guy with tattoos on his neck twice, stared into the distance and shouted without blinking: "Second brother, hurry up, look over there!"

Tattoo was drunk and said with a thick tongue: "What are you yelling for? Leave me alone!"

The blond guy's tone was excited: "Look at the best!"

The tattoo was so annoyed that he looked up and blurted out, "Fuck."

The noise here attracted other people around, and they all scolded the two of them for being ignorant of the world. Then they turned around and looked, their eyes wide open.

The man lying on the table sat up at some point, yawning, and caught a glimpse of a figure approaching from a distance. He swallowed the remaining half of the yawn, and looked obscene and dirty: "Brothers, do you want to play another game?"

"Okay, Third Brother, how do you think we can play?"

"You've touched so many women over the years, but I'm afraid you haven't touched a man yet, right?"

"Fuck, is it so exciting to play?"

"Anyway, the place will be the same, so why are you just staring at the bottom? Isn't it enough to have that face for you to look at?"

"That's right!"

“…”

The fat-faced boss of the store heard their loud voices, frowned, and looked at the newcomers with a little concern.

To be fair, he didn't like this group of people, but there was no reason to push customers away when running a business. He wouldn't care how noisy and meaty they were at the table.

But now we are dragging innocent people into this...

This group of people are obviously gangsters. If he intervenes, what if they retaliate and smash his store afterwards?

He still relies on this store to make a living.

The boss's fat face is almost tangled into a chrysanthemum.

Shi Yu didn't make it to the front of the table, but was stopped by the other party.

A group of seven or eight people surrounded him, their eyes flickering. The third brother in the lead whistled, "Beauty, why are you still awake so late?"

Shi Yu stopped and said, "I'm on duty."

"A janitor?" The third brother just noticed the black short-sleeved shirt he was wearing, and a hint of contempt appeared in his eyes. "How much can you make in a month? Do you want me to introduce you to a way to make money faster?"

Shi Yu said nothing.

Of course, without waiting for his answer, the third brother took over, his eyes full of lewdness: "Play with me for a night, the price is up to you, how about it?"

The gang of hooligans around laughed out loud upon hearing this: "That's right, we've already met, let's get to know each other and make friends."

Shi Yu still didn't say anything, but just lowered his eyes and unbuttoned his coat at his waist.

There was a big temperature difference between day and night. He was on night shift and his work clothes were all short sleeves, so he took his coat with him before coming out.

He put on his coat and zipped it up to cover his work clothes, then he reached into his pocket, pulled out his cell phone, and directly pressed the emergency dial.

"It's just for fun. It would be too much to call the police." The third brother's eyes turned sinister. He reached out to grab the screen of his phone and pulled it back.

...No twitching.

The younger brothers around him were unaware and were even smiling: "Don't be afraid, brother. We won't do anything to you."

Only the third brother couldn't laugh.

He tried hard, but the phone was still firmly held by the other party, not moving at all.

Seeing the other party snatching the phone back, his heart sank and he strode forward to grab the other party's collar.

His hand didn't touch it, but he was caught by the other party first.

Shi Yu restrained the opponent's hand, turned his wrist, and twisted it in the opposite direction of the opponent's elbow.

“Aaaaaa——!!”

The sound of bones tearing was particularly clear at night.

The brothers' laughter stopped abruptly.

The third brother finally waited for the other party to let go of his hand, and his anger suddenly surged up, instantly overshadowing his previous retreat, and his other fist hit him: "You bitch, you have no shame..."

Shi Yu turned his head and kicked the opponent in the lower abdomen.

The 1.87-meter-tall burly man was kicked so hard that he flew backwards, hit the table and chairs behind him and rolled five or six meters away. Three of the four legs of the table were broken, and cans and glass cups were scattered all over the floor.

The ground was in a mess.

The third brother hugged his twisted arm and screamed in a hoarse voice.

The younger brothers froze in their places for a moment, looking at Shi Yu in the middle of the open space with horror.

He looks so thin, where does he get so much strength?

Shi Yu glanced at them and asked, "Do you still want to play?"

The younger brothers all retreated in unison, fear in their eyes.

This amazing strength, the unpretentious movements, and the nonchalant attitude all reminded these uneducated thugs that they had hit a wall tonight.

In addition to knowing how to judge the situation, the biggest advantage of a gangster is that he will be cowardly when necessary and will never force himself.

Shi Yu pressed the alarm button and turned to face them: "It is 3:12 in the morning. The decibels of your voices have already constituted a nuisance and noise pollution. Can you please keep quiet from now on?"

The younger brothers nodded in unison again.

Shi Yu moved the phone closer: "As for □□..."

He hooked a beer bottle that was rolling towards him with his toes and exerted a little force with his ankle.

"Bang--"

The beer bottle drew a parabola in the air and fell to the ground, brushing the side of the face of one of the thugs who had just taken a half step back. The pull ring burst and rolled off, and the beer with white foam splashed on his trouser legs.

"My advice is don't even think about running away until the police come."

The wine seeped through the fabric and the coolness climbed up.

The gangster who tried to escape felt his legs stiffen, his back went cold, and he dared not move an inch.

After settling the little gangster, Shi Yu turned and walked to the front desk of the late-night snack shop and scanned the payment QR code posted on the wall.

The fat boss, who was hiding behind the counter and dared not say a word, only heard a clear female voice. He was stunned for a moment, looked up subconsciously, and then met the eyes of the person in front of the counter.

His pupils were pure black, and he stood abruptly in the night, like a lustful ghost tempting people to commit crimes.

He couldn't see clearly before because they were too far away, but now he finally saw it. The fat boss thought to himself that it was not surprising at all that those hooligans were tempted by her beauty.

The ghost said, "I'll compensate you for the table. See if it's enough."

The fat boss looked down at the number on the payment information: "!"

He nodded repeatedly: "Enough is enough."

This is still a generous and sexy ghost.

The police arrived quickly and quickly packed up the person and prepared to take him back to investigate.

Shi Yu did not forget that he had another thing to do on this trip. Just as he was about to speak, a whistle sounded suddenly at the intersection.

The sound of the sirens was getting closer and closer. A white ambulance broke through the night and stopped in an open space not far away. Medical staff lifted the stretcher and ran towards Lanwan Community.

At the same time, the policeman standing at the door of the late-night snack shop had his cell phone called.

He picked up: "Hello?"

The person on the other end said, "Xiao Wang, are you in Yunyin District?"

Policeman Xiao Wang responded.

"That's perfect. We just received a call saying that a security guard named Zhang was found unconscious in the bushes outside Lanwan Apartment. He was suspected to have been attacked by an unknown person. Send a few people to investigate the situation."