Chapter 497: Thieves break into the hotel
When Maodan saw Xia Xiaoman wake up, he turned around, tiptoed out of bed, and quietly walked to the door.
Xia Xiaoman frowned and stared at Maodan's actions. If someone was trying to pry the door open, Maodan would probably be grimacing and angry, instead of sneaking around like a thief like he was doing now.
After thinking for a while, she tiptoed to the door, put her ear to the door, and listened carefully to the movement outside. After a while, she heard a subtle sound coming from next door.
Qiao Wan and Luo Menglin lived next door. If they dared to break into the official hotel, it would be impossible to rob them of their money or their women. The only thing that could attract the bad guys was probably the space jade that they had just received.
Xia Xiaoman made a gesture to Maodan, then suddenly opened the door. Maodan immediately rushed out with Nini. Within a few seconds, screams were heard in the corridor and all the sensor lights in the corridor lit up.
Xia Xiaoman also ran out immediately after them. Seeing that two of them were trying to escape, she pulled out two throwing knives and threw them at them.
Two more screams rang out, and all the guests living on this floor woke up and opened the door to look outside. Li Yu'e and others saw Xia Xiaoman standing in the corridor and immediately ran over, "Xiaoman, is there something wrong?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't say anything. She glanced at the tightly closed door next to her, raised her foot and kicked it hard. The door of Qiao Wan and the others' room was kicked away in an instant.
Xia Xiaoman ran in and saw Qiao Wan and Luo Menglin both lying on the bed with their eyes closed. It seemed that they had been drugged.
"Catch those people and ask them what drugs they gave Qiao Wan."
Upon hearing this, Li Yu'e pulled Xiao Zheyu along and dragged the four people outside in. Two of the four people were stabbed in the knee by Xia Xiaoman's flying knife, and the other two had their legs bitten off by Maodan and Nini, so they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.
After being dragged in, Xia Xiaoman saw clearly that one of them was the security guard who stopped her from bringing Maodan and Nini in in the afternoon.
Xia Xiaoman didn't waste any time talking to them. He opened the thermos of boiling water next to him and poured it directly on the security guard's thighs. The next second, the room was filled with the security guard's heart-wrenching screams.
All the men at the scene silently clamped their legs together. The thermos was filled with 100-degree boiling water, which was poured all over. Even if the bird was fully cooked, it was probably at least 70% done.
After emptying the water in the thermos, Xia Xiaoman looked at the other three people, "What kind of drugs did you give my friends? Why haven't they woken up yet?"
The other three had already seen Xia Xiaoman's methods, so they dared not hide anything and told everything out.
These four people were from a small gang in the capital, and they heard from somewhere that Fucheng had applied for a space jade and would come to claim it soon, so they set their sights on stealing the space jade.
They didn't know Xia Xiaoman and the others before they came to the capital, but every time a large group of outsiders appeared, they would send people to follow them.
When Xia Xiaoman and his friends entered the water city, the group had already been eyeing them. Seeing Qiao Wan and her friends walking towards the official headquarters, they guessed that they might be going to collect the space jade. So when they saw Xia Xiaoman and her friends were going to book a room at the official hotel, the security guards came out to stop Xia Xiaoman.
The official hotel has many surveillance cameras, and security guards patrol the hotel from time to time. The group was worried that it would be difficult to start in the official hotel, so they asked the security guards to find a way to drive Xia Xiaoman and the others to a private hotel.
But unfortunately, the group's plan did not succeed, so they could only take the risk of drugging Qiao Wan and the others and find a way to get in and steal the space jade.
One of them confessed: "When Dong Youcai delivered the thermos to the customer, he put sleeping pills in the thermos in their room. They must have drunk the water in the thermos, so they haven't woken up yet." Dong Youcai is the security guard who intercepted Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "How long does this drug last?"
"That depends on how much they drank. If they only drank one glass, they will wake up in about eight or nine hours."
Li Yu'e heard this and said, "I'll go get some ice water and sprinkle it on their faces to see if they can wake up."
As soon as he finished speaking, there were messy footsteps outside. It was the hotel manager and the security guards who arrived. When the manager learned what happened, he was so angry that his face turned green. Such a big mistake happened under his management. If the higher-ups knew about it, he would definitely be in big trouble.
The manager promised to hand these people over to the Ministry of Justice for serious handling. He also agreed to waive Xia Xiaoman and others' room and meal expenses, and sent two doctors to examine Qiao Wan and others.
Seeing that the manager had a good attitude and Qiao Wan and Luo Menglin woke up after the doctor's treatment, Xia Xiaoman didn't dwell on the matter.
After the hotel manager led his people away, Xia Xiaoman looked at Qiao Wan, "The space jade is not lost, right?"
Qiao Wan shook her head. "No, I hid it very well. No one can find it except me."
Li Yu'e beside him breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that the things are not lost. You too, why do you want to drink the hotel's water? These thermos bottles have been used by countless people. Even if they are not drugged, they are not clean at all. You can't drink them at all."
Luo Menglin explained: "We didn't drink the water in the thermos, we just used it to scald a towel to wash our faces." Maybe he inhaled the moisture in the towel while washing his face. After washing his face, he felt dizzy and lay down on the bed to rest.
Xia Xiaoman said, "Everyone is careless sometimes. Just be more careful next time. Go back and have a rest! We have to travel tomorrow."
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After spending the second half of the night safely, Xia Xiaoman and the others finished their breakfast the next morning and went to the front desk to check out. The front desk lady must have received a notice from the manager to return the room fee, hot water fee and meal fee paid yesterday to Li Yu'e, which meant that they stayed in the hotel for free.
After leaving the hotel, Xia Xiaoman and his friends went to collect the metal materials they had requested.
Xia Xiaoman originally thought that with so many cities dividing the Zhou family's supplies, one Jade Buddha space should be enough, but she didn't expect that it would take three spaces to pack all the metal supplies. This shows how much supplies the Zhou family embezzled.
After collecting the supplies, Xia Xiaoman and the others drove directly back to the floating city. Not long after leaving the capital, Xia Xiaoman saw from the rearview mirror that there were several cars following from a distance, and he didn't know whether they were enemies or friends.
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