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"Little Li, have Lao Liu send a message back."
As soon as Tiger finished speaking, Little Li chuckled, "Tiger, our Sixth Brother is busy. He'll call you back when he's done."
He was about to hang up the phone.
Tiger quickly stopped him, "Wait a minute, this is what Third Brother ordered. Second Master Huo and the others are waiting! Let Sixth Brother think it over. If he delays Second Master's business, let's see if he can handle it."
When Huo Er Ye was mentioned, this man dared not act so nonchalantly anymore.
Second Master Huo is the head of the Huo family conglomerate in China and the cousin of the previous head of the family.
His methods are ruthless and vicious; if you delay his business, you'll suffer greatly, no matter how mild the consequences.
Xiao Li didn't dare delay and immediately ran upstairs to knock on the door, "Sixth Brother, Sixth Brother..."
There was no response from inside the door. Xiao Li pricked up his ears, pressed his ear against the door, and faintly heard a heavy breathing coming from inside.
"Hehe," Xiao Li chuckled lewdly, "Sixth Brother is so lucky."
Knowing that Lao Liu usually gets his good time interrupted, Xiao Li didn't dare to urge him too much, so he just stood outside the door and knocked on the door intermittently.
An hour later, Xiao Li had almost used up all his battery playing games, but Lao Liu still hadn't appeared.
Xiao Li glanced at the door, then continued playing his game with his head down.
PARKING LOT...
After Tiger and the others left, Jian Yu drove Huo Tingzhen into the villa area.
Upon opening the garage door, they found the landlord was still asleep.
The villa had been cleaned up, and the two put their things back before waking the landlord.
The landlord rubbed his nose, slowly opened his eyes, and immediately jumped up after seeing his location.
"Who are you? Did you put a towel over my nose?"
It was already so dark, yet the two people in front of me were each wearing a fisherman's hat and a mask.
It looks strange no matter how you look at it.
Huo Tingzhen deliberately exclaimed "Ah!" "What did you say? Someone broke in and knocked you unconscious with a towel?"
She turned her head and looked around. "Isn't this place supposed to be safe and suitable for women to rent? How could someone break into a house and commit violence? No, no, we shouldn't rent here anymore. Let's leave before we pay the rent."
After saying that, just like a real person, she went back to her room to pack her luggage.
The landlord, "......" how come he's the tenant?
"Luckily we went out to buy things and weren't home, otherwise we would have been drugged like him."
"No, no, was I just dreaming?" The landlord immediately stopped the person. "There are no bad guys here. Look, I have surveillance cameras all over here. Even if there were bad guys, they wouldn't be able to escape."
We'll review the surveillance footage later, find the perpetrator, and then secretly call the police with the video.
Jian Yu nodded. "Exactly. With so many surveillance cameras, how could they possibly commit a crime against the rules? Landlord, you smell strongly of alcohol. Have you been drinking too much?"
The landlord didn't drink alcohol, but he did attend a party at noon, and the smell of alcohol on his clothes came from that time.
"Yes! Let's go sign the contract!"
After the landlord entered the house, his eyes began to scan the surroundings, but nothing seemed to have changed.
I wonder if there are any upstairs?
"Landlord, is there anything else you need to take? Just take it with you later. Don't come over again unless it's absolutely necessary," Jian Yu said.
The landlord took the opportunity to go upstairs and check around, and found that nothing was missing.
Pretending to look for something, I started watching the phone's security camera footage and discovered that the footage from five minutes ago was completely black.
"......"
Feeling guilty, the landlord put away his phone and decided to check the property management's security camera footage before leaving.
After signing the contract, Jian Yu transferred 80,000 yuan in rent to his account.
The landlord received a text message notification, glanced at it, and after confirming it was correct, got up with a smile.
Jian Yu saw him to the door, held up his phone, and said, "Call us if you need anything, don't call unless necessary. You must notify us in advance before you come."
"Don't worry! I won't be around recently, so you won't be able to find me if you need anything. Hehe..."
The landlord left the villa and went straight to the property management's monitoring room.
Surveillance footage showed him driving into the villa area and parking his car next to a flower bed.
When I got off the bus, I was holding a roll of A4 paper.
He walked towards his own villa.
Meanwhile, on other sections of the road, surveillance cameras went black every half minute, while others lit up.
As the landlord approached the gate, the surveillance footage on the street near his house went black.
The surveillance camera lit up after half a minute, and it was during that half minute that he was knocked unconscious.
After that, all the property management's surveillance cameras were working again.
However, half an hour later, several more sections of the road were shut down intermittently.
"..." the landlord asked, "What about backup power?"
"..." The property management staff quickly avoided eye contact.
No wonder the property management wouldn't let him see the security footage earlier; it turns out their service is terrible.
"How can you charge such a high property management fee every year with this kind of service?"
“We sent a lot of security guards to patrol the area, but we didn’t find any suspicious people.”
"So you're just going to ignore it if you don't find out?" The landlord was furious.
The property management could only try to reason with him cautiously. In the end, the manager had to step in and promise the landlord that they would patrol around his house 24 hours a day to appease him.
Hearing this, Huo Tingzhen was a little worried, "Won't it be inconvenient for us to go out if we patrol 24 hours a day?"
"It's okay, we'll just act like normal tenants. We're just listening to the conversation between the landlord and the property management to see if they've found anything that could be detrimental to us during their patrols. So far, they haven't."
That's good, it makes me feel more at ease living here.
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Aren't you going to knock?
A voice suddenly spoke beside him, startling Xiao Li: "What are you doing here?"
Tiger crossed his arms and looked annoyed. "I couldn't get through to you on the phone, so I had to drive over at high speed."
"Hehe, I was too engrossed in the game to see it." Xiao Li put away his phone, became serious again, and continued knocking on the door, "Sixth Brother, Sixth Brother, Master Huo has something to say."
The door remained still, and Tiger, unable to wait any longer, decided to break it down.
Xiao Li pushed him away, saying, "Sixth Brother will be out soon. Don't rush. If you hinder Sixth Brother's work, he'll cause you trouble later."
Tiger didn't take it seriously. "I'm Third Brother's man. If Sixth Brother wants to cause me trouble, he'll have to see if Third Brother will allow it."
Third Brother was the youngest son of Master Huo, while Sixth Brother was merely the grandson of Master Huo's cousin, or more accurately, one of the many illegitimate children of Master Huo's cousin's son.
If it weren't for his outstanding abilities and the favor of his own father, he would probably still be stuck in some obscure corner of society.
Tiger brought up Third Brother, and Little Li became a little intimidated. After all, Third Brother's surname was Huo, and his fearsome reputation was more formidable than Sixth Brother's.
Xiao Li had no choice but to knock on the door even louder, while trying to stop Tiger from making a move.
After a few minutes of struggle, the door finally opened.
The sixth brother walked out with a hostile expression. "Little Li, are you looking for death? You'd better have something urgent to tell me, or I'll kick you to death."
Little Li smiled obsequiously, "Hehe, Sixth Brother, Tiger is here. He said Second Master Huo has something to discuss with you."
Old Six had already seen Tiger, but showed no reaction on his face. He calmly took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
Xiao Li immediately lit the lighter and handed it to Lao Liu.
The sixth man lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then asked, "What is it?"
Master Huo was so busy with his affairs that he had no idea who this nobody was.
Without even asking, it was clear that it was Huo Nan who was looking for him.
Tiger handed him a photo, pointing to the profiles of Huo Tingzhen and Jian Yu, and said, "Second Master Huo urgently needs to find the two people in the photo. Everyone says you have many connections, so we hope you can complete the mission as soon as possible."
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