Chapter 146
It seems that all the people related to the orphanage have disappeared, but this person is still living here tenaciously. He must be somewhat different.
They were actually just making a simple visit this time, but since they didn't know what kind of person the other party was, they needed another person to ensure that everything was safe. This way, even if the other party wanted to run away due to a disagreement, every way he could run would be blocked.
Lu Jiamu smiled: "Why would I tell you something illegal? I just want you to keep an eye on the window over here, just in case."
The driver nodded. "That's fine. I'll help you take a look down there. But one thing I have to tell you is, if you do anything illegal, I won't be responsible."
After agreeing, Lu Jiamu and Yu Leng approached the old building.
The person they were looking for lived on the fifth floor. The two men first walked around the old building twice, trying to understand the situation of their target resident from the outside.
This old building is divided into individual units, with no elevator and two households per floor, which is clearly visible at a glance.
At this time, the lights in both houses are not on. I wonder if there is no one at home yet.
After looking around, Yu Leng found a secluded place near the main entrance of the unit and squatted down, while Lu Jiamu slowly went upstairs.
He wanted to knock on the door politely and ask directly if anyone was home. However, as soon as he reached the fifth floor, he stopped and looked down carefully.
There was a layer of fine white dust on the carpet and door handle in front of the door of 501 resident. At first glance, it looked like they had not been taken care of for a long time and were very dirty.
But the dust is too uniform.
Lu Jiamu stretched out his hand and gently stroked the edge of the carpet. His fingertips were instantly covered with a layer of fine white ash. When he smelled it closely, he could smell a faint fragrance, like something like prickly heat powder.
This seems to be some kind of intentional anti-theft behavior. After the owner leaves the house, if someone visits again, they will leave handprints or footprints, so that the owner of the house can find out the abnormality as soon as possible when he returns.
It seems that this person is a little neurotic for some reason.
And you don't need to knock on the door to know that the person is not at home.
There were not many places to hide in the old, simple and dilapidated building. Lu Jiamu could only walk up to the sixth floor, squat in the dark, and secretly observe the situation downstairs.
Three hours later, it was completely dark, the number of pedestrians gradually decreased, and the street lights were turned on.
A thin and shriveled old man with little sense of presence walked slowly into the old neighborhood with a hunched back.
As soon as he arrived downstairs of his house, he felt uncomfortable all over, as if he was being spied on, which gave him goose bumps on the back of his neck.
But he actually has this feeling every day when he goes home recently. In other words, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is considered to be a person with paranoia.
The old man forced himself to calm down and started walking around the neighborhood. After walking around for a while, he made sure that there were no other unfamiliar faces except for a taxi waiting for someone, and that his house was still dark as usual when he looked downstairs, so he started to go upstairs.
As he approached the fifth floor, he began to observe carefully again. Seeing that there were no obvious footprints in the corridor and the white ash on the carpet and door handles was still as evenly distributed as when he left, the old man was somewhat relieved. However, his obsessive-compulsive disorder made him want to confirm whether there was anyone on the top floor.
Lu Jiamu, who was sitting on a high place, observed him quietly. When he saw what he was observing when he was near the 5th floor, he already knew that this was the person they wanted to visit this time.
Seeing that he wanted to continue going upstairs for some reason, Lu Jiamu stood up quietly and walked downstairs on his own.
The two of them met across a flight of stairs. Lu Jiamu put on a friendly smile and naturally extended his hand to greet him: "Hello."
The old man recognized him as Zhang Sheng at once. He didn't say a word to him and hurriedly retreated to the door of Room 501 without saying a word. He lowered his head, opened the door, walked in, and slammed the door in one go. Before Lu Jiamu came down, he had already retreated into his own house.
He looked a bit nervous, and was a perfect example of a bad-tempered neighbor. He was probably the type who practiced non-violent non-cooperation.
Lu Jiamu walked slowly to the fifth floor. He did not rush to knock on the door to communicate. Instead, he stood quietly against the wall by the door and waited patiently.
Although the man had retreated back to his home, Lu Jiamu guessed that he must still be staring at the cat's eye nervously.
Lu Jiamu is now in the blind spot of the opponent's cat's eye.
Rather than breaking into the house violently and causing unnecessary trouble, it is easier to hook the person by doing something unusual that is beyond his expectations.
Through some of the behavioral habits exhibited by this person, Lu Jiamu has almost guessed the psychology of this neurotic person.
He clearly saw him appear in the corridor, but after watching for a long time he couldn't see him coming down the stairs. The less he could see him, the more anxious he became. The more anxious he became, the more he wanted to see where he was. The more he wanted to see, the less he could see him coming down the stairs.
I didn't see him coming downstairs, nor did I hear him knocking on the door violently. Nothing happened as the other party expected. Nothing happened yet. I was just hanging there.
The longer you are in suspense, the more anxious you become, and the more anxious you become, the more you want to take some action.
For example, open the door and check it up and down personally to see if there is anyone hiding outside and whether you are dazzled or not, so as to bring the external environment back under your control.
It's like chopping off a turtle's neck.
Lu Jiamu stood against the wall for a while, and the voice-controlled light in the stairs went out.
Then I could vaguely hear the sound of footsteps coming and going from room 501. There was a person walking back and forth near the door from time to time.
He didn't install a doorbell with night vision, nor did he install any surveillance. He probably felt uneasy enough just looking through the simplest peephole and seeing the pitch-black corridor.
Fifteen minutes after the stair light went out, there was a faint sound of unlocking the security door. The door was pushed open a crack from the inside, and the old man was secretly peeking outside through the crack.
Lu Jiamu knew that there was an anti-theft chain on his door, so he did not rush to take action and continued to wait patiently.
The old man opened and closed the door several times, but did not find any strangers. He was sure that he had just had a false alarm.
Maybe the stranger just walked into the wrong unit and wanted to ask for directions, or maybe he was a relative of the family upstairs.
Although he thought so, his nerves still made him feel nervous. If he didn't look around, he might not be able to sleep at night.
The old man carefully untied the security chain and pushed the door open a little more.
Lu Jiamu saw the right moment, grabbed the door handle and pulled it out, then appeared in front of the door and blocked it, smiling at him: "Hello."
ah!
A person suddenly floated out from the crack of the door without making any sound. The old man was so frightened that a scream got stuck in his throat.
He was caught off guard and almost fell out. He tried to close the door again, but he was not as strong as Lu Jiamu.
In order to prevent him from getting further frightened, Lu Jiamu did not invade his house directly. He just pulled the door so that he could not close it and forced him to communicate: "I have no ill intentions. It's just that before on the forum..."
Unexpectedly, when the old man heard the word "forum", his face turned visibly pale, as if he had seen a ghost, and he became even more excited: "I didn't say anything!"
Seeing that he couldn't close the door, he suddenly pushed it outwards with force. Taking advantage of the time Lu Jiamu had to react, he let go of the door and ran into the room.
Lu Jiamu leaned over and took a peek inside, just in time to see the old man running to the balcony, opening the window and about to jump down: "Uncle, that's not necessary."
But the old man had disappeared.
Lu Jiamu no longer considered respecting the other person's privacy, and followed him to the balcony and looked out of the window where he went down.
The old man didn't jump directly from the building, but jumped onto the anti-theft guardrail of his downstairs neighbor.
Lu Jiamu didn't dare to jump down with him, so he could only persuade him to come back quickly. But the old man didn't listen to anything, and when he saw Lu Jiamu looking at him from the window, he jumped onto another anti-theft guardrail.
The driver who was in a daze downstairs also heard the noise. When he looked up, he saw an old man walking back and forth on the outer layer of the building.
"Fuck." He hurriedly ran out of the taxi with a flashlight in his hand. After taking a look, he felt that he couldn't handle it, so he quickly called out to Yu Leng, "Hey, boy! Come on!"
Hearing the driver's shout, Yu Leng, who was hiding in the dark, looked at the main entrance of the unit, and seeing that no one seemed to be coming down from the corridor, he quickly ran to the back of the old building.
He didn't know what happened upstairs, but he saw a shriveled old man squatting on the outdoor unit of the air conditioner.
Thanks to its small size, the outdoor unit was able to bear his weight.
The old man also saw two people below. He immediately stood up and walked on the row of outdoor units as if it were flat ground. It was obvious that he was very familiar with this route.
It looks especially like an old monkey that has become a spirit.
Seeing that he still had this ability, Yu Leng also said "Fuck!" "Master, don't do this!"
Yu Leng was terrified, afraid that the old man would slip and fall. If he fell to his death, the clues they had worked so hard to find would be gone.
But he definitely didn't dare to reach out and prepare to catch the other person. If he got hurt too badly again, it would greatly affect his future activities. He could only watch in fear.
Although his window was occupied and there were two people downstairs looking up at him, the old man remained calm and not as timid as he was at home. He even became arrogant: "You want to arrest me? Dream on!"
After saying that, he slipped into a window and went to someone's house.
The driver was stunned and said: "This is really a rat that got into the washing machine..."
Yu Leng had never expected to run into such a talented person. He was overwhelmed and could only tell the driver: "Watch here first. If he comes out from this side, call me. I will block him head-on."
After that, he shouted to Lu Jiamu: "Come down, the man ran away."
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