Liu Zhaoyun looked over and said, "It is quite bright, but unfortunately the power supply of the base is still insufficient. The street lights can only be turned on for a few hours at night. It would be great if the lights outside the base could be on all day long. If everything is lit up, the crime rate will drop as well."
Hearing their conversation, the captain smiled and said, "That's for sure! Just wait and see. We have to trust the top management of the base. Maybe when we wake up tomorrow, we'll find that the whole base is lit up."
"I make this wish every day before going to bed. You can learn from me. I think as long as we make wishes together, God will hear our voices." said another teammate.
The captain restrained his smile. He was a little sensitive and felt that this was not a good topic. "Ahem, Dachen, don't say this. Don't let others hear it and misunderstand you. Then they will report you for believing in a cult. It will be troublesome."
Dachen's face changed drastically: "I, I am innocent, I am not——"
"I know, I know. I just reminded you." The captain comforted him and explained to the others, "This happened a few days ago. I have a source who said that someone in the Procuratorate was worshipping at home and was fired after being reported. You tell me, the treatment in the Procuratorate is so good. In the past, they were judges and prosecutors. It's such a pity to be fired. You should all be careful. Let's work honestly and complete the targets given by the superiors. Do you understand?"
"Got it, Captain!"
Building 20, Ping'an Community, a little after six in the morning.
The street lights had just been turned off, and it was dark everywhere. The air was filled with tiredness and sleepiness. At this time, most people were still sleeping. Two people sneakily opened the door and came out, carefully going upstairs.
"How do you fix the iron door?"
"Pry it open. Move aside and watch what's going on. I'll pry it open."
A fire lit up in the darkness. It was the light of a candle. The two began to pick the lock by candlelight. After more than ten minutes, they successfully opened the lock. The two carefully pushed open the door.
A thin wire was tied under the iron gate. They did not see the wire trembling, but it connected to the gap under the gate of 701.
In the room, Qiao Songzhi opened her eyes and heard the small bell on the door ringing.
She immediately got up, fumbled for the flashlight, turned it on, and went out to check the surveillance. There was a surveillance camera at home, which was installed by Sheng An before he went out to work. The location was very hidden and covered, so outsiders could not notice it. She squinted her eyes and saw two people stepping into the iron gate in the surveillance video and groping for her home's security door.
"These two people look so familiar, they seem to be from the building--" Qiao Songzhi felt a chill in his heart, these were thieves in the community.
Shao's mother and Shao Shengfei were also sleeping in the room. When Qiao Qingqing and the others were not at home, the three of them moved to the seventh floor and vacated a room for this purpose. The sweet potatoes, potatoes and other vegetable pots in the room were moved to the rooftop by Shao Shengfei.
Living here is not a pleasant experience, but it is safer. For safety, the smell of chicken feces is not worth mentioning. Shao's mother also said: "I feel safe when I smell this smell. I am afraid that I can't take good care of these chickens when I sleep downstairs. I will be heartbroken if I lose one!"
Before going to bed, Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother set some traps. One of them was the thin wire connecting the iron gate and the bell. There was also a trap behind the entrance door.
"Axia, Feifei, get up, someone is messing with our iron gate." Qiao Songzhi went back to the room to wake up Shao's mother and Shao Shengfei. The three of them walked out of the bedroom with weapons, and Qiao Songzhi assigned tasks: "Feifei, keep an eye on the windows of the house, don't let others sneak in from here." She thought a lot, and was worried that the bad guys would split up into two groups to make a feint to the east and attack in the west.
Shao Shengfei nodded seriously and tiptoed to inspect the window.
Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother hid behind the door together, each guarding one side.
Qiao Songzhi's eyes were determined. She heard someone outside fiddling with the lock of the front door, so she took a deep breath.
They couldn't be allowed to pry the door open like this, so she gestured to Shao's mother, and the two of them left the door and retreated to the kitchen to discuss in a low voice.
"Sister Zhi, what should we do?" Shao's mother was not very scared. In fact, this was the third time someone had sneaked up to the seventh floor. They raised chickens at home, so no matter how careful they were about hygiene, there would always be smells and noises. It was just that the first two times those people couldn't open the iron door at all and returned empty-handed. This was the first time someone had opened the iron door.
"We beat the gongs and drums to scare them. If they knew we were awake, they might retreat. And the security team might come when they hear the noise. They would be even more scared and might even retreat." Qiao Songzhi knew very well that the reason why thieves are thieves is because they are "sneaky". If they were exposed, how could they have the courage to stay for long?
Shao's mother thought it made sense.
The two thieves outside were still trying to pry open the door, but the locks of the two entrance doors on the sixth and seventh floors had been improved by Shao Shengan and his father, so they were not that easy to pry open. After working for a while without any progress, the one on the lookout became a little anxious.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise next to my ears, like a gong being struck. Whatever the sound was, it was too loud!
"Bang!"
The two men were startled. The one who was picking the lock was squatting close to the door. The sound seemed to be right next to his ear, making his ears buzz. His brain went blank for a moment, and his hands trembled so much that he couldn't hold the tools in his hand, and they fell to the ground with a clang.
To make matters worse, there was another shout in my ear: "There's a thief picking the door lock! There's a thief in Building 20, come and catch him!"
"Brother?! What should we do?" The one who was on the lookout was so frightened that his heart and liver were broken, and his eyes were panicked.
They are residents of this building. If they are caught picking the lock, they will be in trouble. Others will definitely report the case to the security team and send them to labor camps. He doesn't want to be sent to labor camps at a construction site!
The lock picker didn't even pick up his tools, and stood up with the help of the door, but he felt weak and almost fell down. He quickly grabbed his brother and said, "Let's go!"
"Oh? Oh! Let's go! Let's go!"
Behind the door, Shao Shengfei was hitting a stainless steel basin with a rolling pin, making a sharp bang. At the same time, he was shouting loudly, and his voice spread throughout the building in the quiet morning.
"Okay Feifei, stop knocking, they're gone." The surveillance screen was pitch black, and the figures of the two people disappeared. They should have gone downstairs.
Shao Shengfei put down the washbasin and leaned over to the monitor to watch: "They are really gone, Mother Qiao, I think I know them."
Shao's mother also said: "They look familiar, as if they are from the building. They really are from the building! I remember that they are a pair of brothers from the third floor!"
"Yes, I recognized it, too."
"So we should report it to the security team, mom?"
"Let's talk about it later." Qiao Songzhi opened the door, "I'll go lock the iron door."
When locking the iron door again, Ji Yuxiu opened it.
"Is the thief gone?" she asked.
The noise just now was so loud that she was awakened from her sleep and her heart is still beating wildly.
"Well, he was scared away." Qiao Songzhi said with a smile.
"That's good. Next time my brother comes over, I will tell him that he has acquaintances in the security team. I can ask the security team to patrol our area more often in the next few days to act as a deterrent."
Qiao Songzhi nodded happily.
"Here is the new key, take it." The iron gate was locked, and Qiao Songzhi handed the new key to Chi Yuxiu, "I locked two locks this time."
Taking the key, Chi Yuxiu nodded solemnly: "I will keep it well."
Someone downstairs also shouted loudly: "Sister Qiao! Is there a thief in your house?"
Qiao Songzhi replied: "Yes! But he has been scared away!"
"That's good, that's good! It's so scary! There's a corridor door on the first floor, how could the thief get up here?"
Qiao Songzhi knew very well that it was a thief in the building, but pretended not to know: "Yes, let's check again during the day. I'm afraid the lock might have been pried open by a thief."
Another neighbor's voice came from the darkness: "Sister Qiao, I'll come to you to exchange eggs during the day, remember to leave two for me."
"Hey, the hens have laid few eggs these days, so I can only change one for you."
"That's fine too!"
It became quiet downstairs. Chi Yuxiu said goodbye to Qiao Songzhi, closed the door and went into the house.
After Chi Yuxiu went in, Shao's mother reconnected the broken wire, tied the bell in the room, and then pulled the remaining end to Qiao Songzhi, who took it and tied the wire.
"Okay, come in, you can still sleep for a while." Shao's mother yawned.
The three of them lay down again, but Shao's mother suddenly perked up. There was one thing she couldn't figure out.
"Sister Zhi, why don't we show the surveillance? If the bad guys knew we had surveillance, they wouldn't dare to come. Look, if the two brothers in the building knew we had surveillance, I don't believe they would dare to come."
Qiao Songzhi fanned herself. She was not sleepy either, so she started chatting with Shao's mother: "You have this question, why didn't you ask when Sheng An was at home?"
Shao's mother felt a little embarrassed: "Well, I see they have made the decision, so I shouldn't ask. It would make me look stupid." She didn't ask, but she listened to whatever her son said. But now she thought of the confusion again and couldn't help but ask Qiao Songzhi about it.
"You, that's your son, what's wrong with asking." Qiao Songzhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and then explained to Shao's mother, "I asked Sheng An and Qing Qing at the time, and they said it was safer this way. What you said was actually not wrong, but what if someone still took the risk? If they can't break in, at most they will give up and escape, but if they know we have surveillance, we may see their faces, they will not give up easily, when there is no way out, they may fight us to the death, there is no need. Surveillance lets us know how many enemies are outside, and it is enough to have an idea in mind. Sheng An said that if we can beat them, we can beat them, and if we can't, we can still break the windows and escape through them. For example, just now I saw that the two people outside were from the building, so I came up with the idea of knocking on the pot to scare them away. If it was strangers from outside the community, they might not be afraid. The two brothers must have run away because they were afraid of being recognized by the neighbors in the building."
Mother Shao listened attentively and suddenly understood.
"Then, shall we not report the brothers?"
"Well, they should be scared and won't attack again in the short term. If they dare to come again, we will catch them and hand them over to the security team. There are three of us and two of them. We can definitely defeat them."
"I can beat him!"
Shao Shengfei spoke, which scared Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother.
"You haven't slept yet?"
There were three blankets in the room, Shao Shengan slept on the innermost one, and Shao's mother slept in the middle. She sat up and asked, "Did you hear what I just said to your mother Qiao?"
"Yes! I heard everything! Don't worry, mom, I won't tell anyone else that we have surveillance cameras at home. My brother told me that it is a very big secret and must not be told to anyone else."
Mother Shao breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, listen to your brother."
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