As Li Ke burst through the door, several more bullets whizzed by. She rolled inside, firing a few shots at the same time, sending one of the men inside away.

"There's an intrusion! Get up, all of you!"

"That person is in the leftmost room on the third floor. I hit him. Everyone, make sure to protect the perimeter. We must not leave any survivors!"

Someone outside instructed Li Ke to slam the door shut before the enemy arrived, and then quickly block it completely with sandbags.

Bullets kept flying towards Li Ke's room. She covered her wound and walked to the dead man, confirming that he was completely dead. She checked the room to make sure there was no trace of her blood or electronic devices. As she walked toward the wardrobe, she cleaned up the traces she had left behind. Then she took all the sandbags and slipped into the space.

She was shot in the side, but because she was wearing thick clothes and kept covering the wound, the bleeding didn't seem to be very heavy; at least no blood was flowing onto the ground.

Li Ke was furious. She wondered which unscrupulous merchant had sold her a fake bulletproof vest. Li Ke decided that from now on, she would fire a shot into every bulletproof vest she wore to test its effectiveness.

Benben, Xiaobai, and Liangliang rushed to greet Li Ke when she came in. Li Ke took off her glasses and hat and threw them aside, telling the three little ones to stop making a fuss. She then struggled to walk into her room.

Once inside the bedroom, Li Ke began to undress. The three dogs followed her closely, sniffing at her blood-stained clothes. Benben whimpered anxiously, while Xiaobai and Liangliang kept their eyes on Li Ke, unwilling to stray far, but also too afraid to get too close.

Li Ke comforted them for a few moments, then continued taking off her own clothes.

Li Ke stripped off his upper body, leaving only his undershirt, and picked up the bulletproof vest he had just taken off. Only then did he realize that he had also been hit in the back, but it seemed to have grazed past. A bullet was lodged diagonally in his shoulder blade, so it seemed that the bulletproof vest was not too bad.

Li Ke thought to himself how close he had come to disaster, and secretly warned himself that he could not be careless in the future.

Li Ke picked up the first-aid kit from the side, stood in front of the mirror, and disinfected her hands and wounds with a towel in her mouth before starting to feel for the location of the bullet.

The bulletproof vest probably played a part, as the bullet didn't penetrate very deep, and the wound was located on the softest part of the outer side of the waist, so it was a very lucky minor injury.

Li Ke tried to push the bullet out, but with little success, and she seemed to feel bullet fragments still inside the wound, which was a bit troublesome.

She endured the pain, inserted her fingers into the wound, and carefully straightened the bullet, pulling it partially out of the wound before removing it by hand.

After catching her breath in pain and resting for a moment, she gritted her teeth and continued to use her fingers to carefully remove the fragments one by one. There were tweezers in the first aid kit, but she tried them. They were painful, slow, and difficult to operate, not as precise as her fingers. Of course, the pain was no less intense.

Having not treated an injury like this in a long time, Li Ke felt that her pain tolerance had decreased.

After cleaning the wound, Li Ke soaked a cotton ball in Yunnan Baiyao and applied it to the wound. Then she wrapped the wound with gauze. After taking a painkiller, Li Ke finally lay back on the bed and breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone in the courtyard went on alert. After a burst of gunfire, there was no more movement in the room where the intruder was. The leader waved his hand, signaling the people on the third floor to search for the target at close range.

The man guarding the door received the order, kicked the door open, and then quickly turned back to hide against the wall, but there was no sound from inside the room.

The person outside the door remained still for half a minute, then reached out and fired two shots into the room, taking the opportunity to peek inside and observe the situation.

There was a person lying on the ground. The other person recognized him as one of their own. Apart from that, there was no one else in the room.

He boldly stepped into the room. There was some sand on the ground near the door. He wondered how it got there. Did the person who came in carry a sandbag?

He checked under the bed, on the bed, in the wardrobe, and above his head, and found no intruder. He retreated to the doorway and replied to the people downstairs with some confusion, "Zhong Qi is dead, but there is no one else in the room. The intruder escaped."

The two men who were with him on the third floor were equally puzzled. They had also looked inside and found no one else.

The leader downstairs frowned and retorted, "Impossible, I saw him go in and close the door."

After saying that, he was about to go upstairs to check the scene himself when someone suddenly ran up to him and said, "The No. 1 courtyard has been robbed. All our people and goods are gone, and all the supplies in the house are gone within two hours."

Zhong Yi couldn't believe it when he heard this, and turned to walk towards Courtyard No. 1: "Tell everyone to be on guard, check every place in the courtyard, don't let even a rat escape, I want to see what the hell is going on!?"

Thinking of the equally strange things happening on the third floor, Zhong Yi looked up and instructed, "Guard the scene. I'll come back later to take another look."

Li Meng returned to the shelter in the law enforcement team's car. The law enforcement team did not take her home immediately. Her disappearance and return were too strange. Xiao Yi had been waiting for her ever since he received the news.

The plane had already been flown back, and Xiao Yi didn't find anything unusual on board, not even a fingerprint or shoe print.

He looked at the pile of things Li Meng had brought back; this woman had made quite a haul during her disappearance.

Li Meng sat blankly in the law enforcement team's reception room. When Xiao Yi came in, her eyes were still staring straight at a corner, and she hadn't come to her senses.

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