Chapter 9: It's a dark and windy night, killing people, ugh, arresting people
The middle-aged man lowered his head to pick up his mobile phone and heard rustling in the bushes.
After a while, a stray dog came out.
“Bad luck!”
The middle-aged man picked up the bottle and smashed it over. The stray dog dodged the bottle and growled at the middle-aged man.
The stray dog was Xiaobai.
It roared with all its courage, and its legs were shaking uncontrollably.
However, it was dark, and this place was remote without street lights, so the middle-aged man could not see Xiaobai's cowardice.
When his attack missed, he rushed over to punch and kick Xiaobai.
Xiaobai was running around with the middle-aged man, and when he was about to lead him into the trap set by Xingyang, he turned around and found a middle-aged woman grabbing the middle-aged man's arm and taking him away.
noob:?
Why is there someone who cuts in the middle?
On the other side, Xing Yang released the hand that was covering Shen Yiming, stood up and ran out.
Shen Yiming saw her running and immediately followed her, feeling extremely tired.
"No, why are you running?"
For the first time, he understood Ms. Huo's feelings. It was really tiring to take care of a child.
Xing Yang didn't run too far. She stopped in front of a pile of dead leaves. Xiao Bai had already arrived, with his head hanging in frustration.
"I'm glad you're okay. It looks like plan A isn't working, so let's switch to plan B."
Xing Yang patted Xiao Bai's head soothingly, then turned to Shen Yiming and asked, "Did you bring your cell phone?"
Shen Yiming was out of breath due to excessive exercise, and the injury from falling down the stairs was still aching. When he heard Xing Yang's words, he touched his pocket first.
I touched it and it was empty.
Seeing him like this, Xing Yang realized that he could not be relied on.
Shen Yiming took a deep breath and thought about the middle-aged man he had just seen. He guessed that a stranger might have sneaked into the Shen family.
I don’t know what this stranger is doing here, so it’s safer to take Xingyang back to the house first.
"Come back with me first." Shen Yiming approached Xing Yang and stepped into the pile of dead leaves.
Xing Yang had no time to stop it. He saw a pile of dead leaves flying up into the air, and then Shen Yiming was hung upside down by a rope, swaying like a swing.
Shen Yiming's brain was filled with blood and he was about to collapse.
"What is this?"
There was a rope around Shen Yiming's right leg, and the rope was tied to a tree. It was obviously a mechanism. If a person stepped into the pile of dead leaves, he would be hung upside down.
There is no doubt that Shen Yiming became the first person to conduct this experiment.
Xing Yang put Shen Yiming down, put the rope back into the pile of dead leaves, piled the leaves into a naturally falling shape, and then brushed the dust off his hands.
Shen Yiming sat paralyzed on the ground, gnashing his teeth as he looked at Xing Yang, who was skilled in making machines, and asked, "Did you make this machine?"
Xing Yang nodded honestly, "I originally wanted Xiao Bai to lure the man over, but the man disappeared."
After seeing the strange footprints, Xing Yang came here to set up an organization and finalized a simple combat plan with Xiao Bai.
I originally thought that it was a dark and windy night, and I would kill someone, bah, and arrest someone.
Unfortunately, someone intercepted me halfway.
"No, where are you going?" Shen Yiming was devastated when he saw Xing Yang running away.
No way, no way, why does this new sister love to run so much!
When seeing a stranger breaking into the house, the first reaction is not to ask adults for help, but to join the organization!
“Crack!”
The lights in the entire Shen family went out one after another, like extinguished stars.
In the blink of an eye, everything went dark.
Shen Yiming huddled in the darkness, his face pale. He reached out his hands to feel around, his voice trembling, "Xing Yang, where are you?"
No one responded, and someone in the distance shouted, "The power is out, find a backup power source."
Then there was the sound of chaotic footsteps.
Shen Yiming couldn't see anything, but he shuddered at the slightest movement.
"Is there anyone here?"
His voice faded away.
Suddenly I remembered that on his sixth birthday, Shen Mengzhu had a high fever and celebrated his birthday alone. Then he felt so wronged that he ran around in the middle of the night and fell into the newly dug artificial lake.
Fortunately, there was no water in the artificial lake, and he sprained his ankle after falling down.
For him, who was just a child at the time, the artificial lake, which even adults had to climb up to reach, was like the distance between heaven and earth.
He was huddled in the mud, and it was dark and silent, just as it was now.
"Hello."
A warm hand grasped his arm, and the tone was somewhat helpless, "I told you not to run around, just stay in your room."
Shen Yiming puffed up his cheeks angrily and wiped his eyes fiercely with his sleeves, "This is my speech!"
Who is running around?
Xing Yang grabbed Shen Yiming's arm, walked into the kitchen without anyone noticing.
"Crack."
She turned on a flashlight and put it in Shen Yiming's hand, "Stay here and wait for the call."
Feeling that Xing Yang was about to leave again, Shen Yiming grabbed the corner of her clothes and asked cautiously, "Where are you going?"
Shen Yiming didn't know why the power went out suddenly, but there should be a backup power supply, and the Shen family's staff would take care of it.
They just need to wait a little longer.
Xing Yang had no plan to stay here. She was used to being independent. Bringing Shen Yiming along would be like dragging a burden along, but she was also worried that something might go wrong if she left him here.
In the end, Xing Yang still pulled Shen Yiming's arm and took him with him.
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When Huo Jingrou opened her eyes, she saw only darkness.
She was still feeling a little unwell and heard some rustling in the house, as if there was someone in her room.
The man was biting a flashlight in his mouth, but the light from the flashlight was not enough. In the dim vision, his greedy eyes burst out with an even stronger light. He was opening a jewelry box and stuffing all the expensive jewelry into a canvas bag.
His movements were like a hungry tiger pouncing on food, grabbing big bags and scooping them up.
"Aunt Xiao?"
Huo Jingrou shouted uncertainly, and the figure stopped and turned around.
A face full of scars, as if it had been slapped several times, with swollen eyes, broken skin at the corners of the mouth, and blood on the collar.
This person looks familiar, it is the nanny Aunt Xiao.
But she was fine during the day, so why did she get injured at night?
Huo Jingrou strained to open her eyes and saw her injured face. She asked, "What happened to you?"
Unexpectedly, these words seemed to turn on Aunt Xiao's switch.
She fell to her knees with a thud, and the pearl necklace in her hand was torn off. The pearls rolled off the string and scattered all over the floor.
"Madam, I have no choice. He keeps asking me for money. I am just an ordinary person. What can I do? I also want to live a good life!"
Aunt Xiao was a little incoherent, "You are the lady, you have money, just give me some, I will take some, and I can get rid of him!"
She took out the jewelry from the canvas bag with both hands and held it in front of Huo Jingrou.
While she was speaking, the flashlight in her mouth had already fallen to the ground, and the beam of light shone on the cracked window.
Huo Jingrou never expected that Aunt Xiao, who had worked diligently for many years, would actually steal her things.
But right now, Aunt Xiao’s condition is clearly not right, and we can’t provoke her any further.
Huo Jingrou tried to slow down her tone and said, "Okay, I'll help you. You can take these things."
Aunt Xiao's sly face froze for a moment, and then she slowly smiled.
It was this smile that made Huo Jingrou's heart skip a beat.