The process of sneaking into Liu'er's room went surprisingly smoothly.
There was a bald kid playing on the balcony.
Xia Chuhe took out cooked food and eggs and waved them in front of the child, who then opened the window a crack.
"Little friend, you've seen these foods before, right? We're here to bring you food."
The child happily reached out to take it.
Li Qiusheng blocked her hand: "Do you have security cameras in your house?"
"I don't know, this isn't my home. I'm hungry, I want to eat."
Not every child is as clever as Bao'er. Xia Chuhe coaxed the child into opening the window with just a few words.
Li Qiusheng braced his hands on the windowsill: "If we go inside, won't Liu'er find out?"
Xia Chuhe: "It's alright, she already found out."
Li Qiusheng: "???"
Xia Chuhe stretched her hand forward, and a furry tricolor mouse was clutched in her hand, its thick black eyes looking quite pitiful.
The small black snake coiled around Xia Chuhe's wrist, flicking its tongue and shaking its head, looking quite pleased with itself.
The little mouse bared its teeth, placing them in Xia Chuhe's tiger's mouth, wanting to bite but not daring to.
“It’s mechanical; it might be a mobile camera,” Xia Chuhe said.
"Maybe it's just an ordinary little mouse, albeit a mechanical one," Li Qiusheng muttered, still climbing into Liu'er's house while holding onto the windowsill.
Liu'er's home is a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment. There is a table in the living room, next to which is a power cord. In the bedroom, there is a mattress and a metal box with clothes lying around.
The house is very simple, containing nothing but the things mentioned above.
Li Qiusheng exclaimed in surprise, "She sets up a house and this is all she puts in it?"
"What? I've worked so hard for so many years, can't I even have a home?"
The mouse in Xia Chuhe's hand suddenly started talking.
Now that she's been exposed, Liu'er might as well just give up and do whatever she wants.
"Wow! When did you spot us?"
The thought of how my boss and I had been following them with bated breath, while the other side might have already known about it on the magnetic track...
Li Qiusheng felt a flush on his face.
Liu'er did not answer.
A swarm of drones silently flew in through the wide-open window, spinning wildly in the room. The drones' rotors struck Li Qiusheng's hand, which he couldn't dodge in time, leaving deep bloody marks.
Some of the drones carrying cargo hovered above Li Qiusheng's head, dropping heavy objects downwards.
Li Qiusheng cursed, covered his head, and jumped out of the window: "If you don't want to answer, you don't have to!"
Although Xia Chuhe escaped unharmed, she still jumped out of the window, not forgetting to tuck the child under her armpit.
After leaving Liu'er's house, the drone returned to normal, circled around aimlessly, and then dispersed.
The child, still stunned by the incident of jumping out of the window, clutched the cooked food tightly in her hand, glistening with drool.
Xia Chuhe squatted down and wiped the dirt off her face: "Little girl, how did you get out of the hospital? Your mother was very worried about you."
"I don't want to see my mother!" The child pushed away Xia Chuhe's hand and squatted down by the wall, slowly gnawing on meat.
As she ate, large tears welled up in her eyes and mingled with the food as she ate them.
“I am sick, and my mother always cries when she sees me. I don’t want my mother to cry.”
Xia Chuhe's heart softened.
"Oh my, poor little thing, much more lovable than Bao'er. Bao'er wouldn't say such sweet words, all she knows is to set fires."
Li Qiusheng's irritating words made Xia Chuhe's heart harden in an instant.
If you feel sorry for other kids, just say so. Why are you putting down our baby?!
Xia Chuhe glared at her. When Bao'er first lost her mother, she was also very pitiful, but she slowly recovered.
Xia Chuhe plopped down next to the child: "Mommy cried because she felt sorry for you. I'll remind her to cry less. Do you miss Mommy?"
"think."
The child was crying so hard that snot was coming out of his nose. She wasn't stupid; she knew to wipe her nose so she wouldn't eat it.
"If you want to go home, I'll call your mom and have her come pick you up."
The child shook his head: "Don't go home. I'm sick, I don't have money for treatment, and my dad... my dad isn't well either."
Xia Chuhe smiled wryly: "Don't worry, we'll have the money for treatment. Once we have the money, would you like to see your mother?"
Thinking about the robot that makes emergency calls, I guess the next step after finding the child is raising money for medical treatment...
The person seeking help will definitely continue to call, specifically asking for her.
After all that trouble, I realized I was the one who was wronged.
It's really unpleasant to feel like you're being led by the rules.
The child looked at Xia Chuhe through teary eyes, and thinking that she didn't seem like the kind of person who would lie to children, he said cautiously, "Yes, I want to say goodbye to the sister with the long right ear before I leave."
"good."
Xia Chuhe had promised to call the person seeking help first.
The call went unanswered.
Xia Chuhe's vision suddenly went dark as the sky above him was covered by a massive swarm of drones, their sheer numbers like a locust plague.
Xia Chuhe picked up the little mouse and said fiercely, "I was wrong, okay? I won't hit it anymore."
Upon hearing Xia Chuhe's admission of weakness, the drones immediately dispersed.
Xia Chuhe retorted, "The child wants to go home, why won't you let him go? Are you a human trafficker?!"
"You know nothing!" the rat cursed. "You have no idea what happened?"
Undeterred by the snake's threat, the mouse struggled fiercely in Xia Chuhe's grasp, scratching itself several times before finally escaping.
Following the trail of the rat, Liu'er emerged from behind the wall with a gloomy expression.
Xia Chuhe squinted as he admired the setting sun.
It has to be said that the sunsets that you have to pay to see do seem to be more beautiful than sunsets at other times.
The two, who had sneaked into someone else's house and were caught red-handed, showed no remorse whatsoever. Li Qiusheng even imitated Xia Chuhe, sitting casually with his legs spread apart against the wall.
Xia Chuhe: "Weren't you supposed to be working the night shift? Why are you back?"
“What’s the point of working? I’m quitting. It’s pointless,” Liu’er said. “I know the rules you’re talking about. Do me a favor and I’ll get the rules out for you.”
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