Chapter 72 [(*^▽^*)]
Lin Leyou narrowed his eyes. If he wasn't mistaken, the female teacher inside should be watching them through the peephole.
Liu Liu tugged at Lin Leyou's hand, "Brother, can I go home and wait?"
Lin Leyou looked at the child and said, "But we have a math teacher at home, is that okay? Your brother has to work and can't stay home with you to wait."
Liu Liu shook her head. "I'm not afraid. If my math teacher bullies me, I'll tell my mom when she gets back."
"My mom loves me very much, she would never make me feel wronged."
Lin Leyou felt that the child was a bit out of place. "But didn't Liu Liu just tell her brother that Mom didn't believe what you said? She even joined the teacher in scolding you and demanded that you apologize to the teacher?"
Liu Liu paused for a moment, as if she suddenly remembered what she had said earlier, "It seems that's indeed the case, then... what should we do?"
Lin Leyou hesitated. He definitely couldn't take the child out on patrol by himself, and he couldn't contact the homeowner either, since they had all gone to work and hadn't taken their phones...
etc!
Don't have your phone with you?
Lin Leyou suddenly realized what was wrong; no wonder he had felt a vague sense of unease since earlier.
Did the female teacher really go to work when she said the child's mother had gone?
Is it really okay for the child's mother to leave her phone at home while she goes to work? Most people would surely come back to get it, right?
After all, I have a lot of work to do, and I need to use my phone frequently during work hours.
Lin Leyou picked up Liu Liu and said, "Come on, let's go to the security room with your brother first."
Liu Liu leaned quietly against Lin Leyou's chest. Lin Leyou, who was looking straight ahead, did not notice that Liu Liu's eyes were fixed on their own door.
Lin Leyou walked towards the security room.
"Why did you bring a child with you?" the captain asked in the security room.
Lin Leyou settled the child in the security room, then took the captain's hand and walked outside. "Captain, I saw this child by the lake. When I brought him home, there was only a math tutor at home."
"What's wrong?"
Lin Leyou said, "When I asked to contact the child's parents and asked for their phone number, she said her phone was out of battery and turned off, and she didn't remember the number."
"There's nothing wrong with this..."
“She tried to snatch the child away from me and go back inside, but I took a few steps back with the child, and she just stood at the door, watching us, and wouldn’t come out no matter what. In the end, she just closed the door.”
"I just asked the property management for the homeowner's phone number, and when I dialed it, I found the ringtone was coming from inside the door, so I thought..."
The captain realized something was wrong. "What's wrong?"
Lin Leyou said, "Captain, let's check the surveillance footage and see if the child's mother went to work."
"Okay, no problem."
The surveillance footage showed that Liu Liu's mother hadn't left the house at all that day, meaning the female teacher was lying.
The captain stood up. "Let's go take a look."
Lin Leyou: "Then Liu Liu will stay here for now?"
"Okay, let the other team members take care of them for now. Let's go. Be careful later. If we encounter any danger, remember to use the stun gun immediately, understand?"
Lin Leyou: "Okay, no problem."
He still remembered the effects of the stun gun and knew he would definitely use it. Who knew that something unusual could happen in the Happiness Community in broad daylight?
As he walked with the team leader towards Liu Liu's house, he saw two other players coming this way. They wanted to greet Lin Leyou, but Lin Leyou shook his head slightly and gestured for them to hurry up.
Their gazes fell on the captain walking ahead of Lin Leyou, and they stopped looking at Lin Leyou. The two passed each other without exchanging a word.
Upon arriving at Liu Liu's home, the security captain knocked on the door first, "Ms. Zhou? Are you home? I'm from the security team."
The resident here is Liu Liu's mother, whose name is Zhou Keke. Liu Liu's real name is Zhou Liu. Everyone thinks Liu Liu sounds nice, so they call her that.
They waited for a response from inside, but this time, not only did no one open the door, there was not even a sound from inside. The two men exchanged a glance and then pulled out their stun guns and held them in their hands.
Captain, “This is a house on the first floor. Go outside and look through the window. I’ll keep watch here.”
Lin Leyou: "Okay."
He walked outside and wandered around, only to find that all the curtains in the windows were drawn, making it impossible to see inside. He approached and listened carefully, but the room was completely silent.
He went back to the door and told the captain what had happened.
The captain breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems we still need to go in and take a look."
Lin Leyou: "I don't know if that female teacher is inside."
Captain: "It doesn't matter if we're not inside, we can't escape the community anyway."
Lin Leyou: "But we haven't been able to contact the owner of the house. How can we get permission to enter the house?"
Captain: "That's easy. Liu Liu is one of the owners of the house. Just ask him."
Lin Leyou looked at the child, then recalled the strange behavior of the female teacher earlier. She felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
The captain immediately went to ask Liu Liu for permission, and Liu Liu, of course, did not refuse and obediently agreed.
Lin Leyou found it even stranger. Generally speaking, the owner of a house should be the name on the property certificate. How could Liu Liu, who is so young, have her name added to the property certificate?
He didn't intend to let things slide like this, so he quietly asked the team leader, who replied, "The names of all the people mentioned are registered with our property management company, not the ones you're talking about."
Lin Leyou's scalp tingled instantly. "If someone changes the registered name with the property management, wouldn't that mean they can just enter any of the houses at will?"
The team leader said, "It's not that simple. If we want to make changes, we will notify everyone in advance and obtain permission before making any changes. It's not that simple. Moreover, it must be done in person at the property management office during the daytime working hours. The person who was previously registered must bring the person whose name needs to be added to the office. The data in the backend cannot be changed arbitrarily."
Lin Leyou still felt it was unreliable. The dungeon boss had already gone out of control; could this property still function normally?
It seems so now, but things might not be so sure later.
However, the captain wasn't in the mood for much conversation. He contacted the property management and got a locksmith to come over. The lock was opened shortly afterward.
Seeing that the captain was busy, Lin Leyou couldn't ask any more questions and could only follow him.
He was somewhat surprised to see the person who unlocked the door leave quickly without saying a word; the person walked quite fast, as if there were some kind of ferocious beast here.
The captain pushed open the door, and the two of them stood at the doorway looking inside. Although it was daytime, all the curtains inside were drawn, and only a little light could see in through the gaps, so the situation inside was not very clear.
The captain reached out and switched on the light switch, and the room instantly became bright. At a glance, it was clean and tidy with nothing unusual about it.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Lin Leyou didn't sense any danger, but he didn't immediately step into the house. Instead, he carefully observed from the outside and slowly approached behind the captain.
The captain walked slowly forward and stepped into the house.
As Lin Leyou, who was walking behind, got closer and closer to the door, he felt more and more dangerous. He looked left and right, and finally, just in case, he picked up a small cabinet and placed it at the door to block it.
To prevent something from closing the door when they're not looking.
He didn't know what would happen if the door closed, but he just felt he couldn't let it close.
The captain ignored his actions and continued walking inside. First, he opened the curtains by the living room's French windows, so there was no need to turn on the lights.
Lin Leyou, who hadn't gone too far inside, reached out and turned off the light. The two then searched the house carefully.
Finally, the captain found the woman, wearing a bathrobe, lying in the bathtub in the master bathroom. Of course, she wasn't dead; there was no one in the bathtub, and the woman was just sleeping.
The captain crouched down to examine the body. "Still alive, no wounds, looks fine."
Lin Leyou examined her closely and confirmed that there were no wounds and she was indeed still alive. This woman was not the female teacher he had seen before, so this was... Zhou Keke?
Captain, "This is Ms. Zhou."
He shook Ms. Zhou and called her name twice before Zhou Keke slowly woke up. She was shocked to see the two security guards.
"Who...who are you? How did you get in?"
The team leader briefly explained what had happened, "Ms. Zhou, how did you end up in the bathtub? It's almost ten o'clock now..."
"Where's the math tutor you hired? I haven't seen her."
The team leader said that, but Zhou Keke seemed very surprised, "What female teacher? I have never hired a tutor for Liu Liu."
Lin Leyou paused for a moment, "But I ran into Liu Liu in the neighborhood today. He said that his mother hired a math tutor for him, and the tutor was very strict. His mother sided with the tutor and not with him, so he ran away."
"And when I brought Liu Liu back just now, it was the math teacher Liu Liu mentioned who opened the door, but Ms. Zhou, you were nowhere to be seen."
Zhou Keke looked incredulous. "That's impossible! I've been home the whole time, and I'm the only one here. Where would anyone else be?"
Lin Leyou: "I don't know about that. By the way, when did you lie down in the bathtub?"
Zhou Keke paused for a moment before saying, "I...I think I was lying in bed sleeping, not in the bathtub."
Although she said that, she couldn't explain why she was sleeping in the bathtub. She couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried, and she covered her head with a headache.
"Oh, let's not talk about that now. Where's Liu Liu? Where's the child?"
Captain, "The child is at the security room right now. We'll go get him. You can pack your things first."
Zhou Keke: "Okay, no problem, thank you for your help."
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