"It's the middle of the night. What are the military checking? Go to the security post and ask them if you have any questions." The man's voice on the intercom was filled with strong impatience, and he hung up after he finished speaking.
Lan Yu continued to press the doorbell, keeping her fingers pressed on it.
Beep—beep—
"You've alerted the enemy, and we don't have a search warrant, so we have no right to enter other people's houses." Lu Rankong said angrily in a low voice.
Lan Yu didn't answer, but just kept her fingers on the doorbell stubbornly.
The intercom lit up again, and the male voice roared in intolerance: "No matter who you are, if you don't leave I'm going to call the police."
"Dear citizen, Colonel K of the Second Mechanized Battalion of the Omar Empire Military Stationed on the Planet Kata informs you that you have about one minute to open the door. If you interfere with my military duties, you will be responsible for the consequences." Lan Yu interrupted the man's voice coldly and took out her ID card to point it at the camera.
"I will call the police immediately. I will call the police now. I will also report to your superiors—"
Lan Yu took back her ID, silently pulled out the gun from the holster, and pulled the trigger into the video intercom in front of Lu Rankong's astonished eyes.
There was a bang, and the plastic shell of the intercom exploded. After two hissing sounds, there was no movement.
He put the gun back at his waist, smoothed out the wrinkles on his combat uniform, frowned slightly and said to Lu Rankong: "Too noisy..."
There was a sound of footsteps coming down the stairs in the villa, and the lights on the ground floor came on. Then, the door opened, and a skinny man in his forties, wearing a thick dark brown robe, hurried out, tying the robe belt around his waist as he walked.
"What you are doing is illegal. Even the military cannot interfere with civilians and destroy private property at will." The man was so angry that his voice changed a little.
Lan Yu glanced at the second floor. A window had been pushed open and a woman was standing behind the windowsill looking down.
"Open the door..." he said calmly.
The man stared at him through the gap in the iron gate for a few seconds, and his anger disappeared rapidly. But upholding his responsibility as the head of the family, he still asked firmly: "Why do you want to open the door? You have to tell me, is this not too much?"
Lan Yu nodded at the corpse of the Insect King lying on the stone railing on the right.
The man looked over in confusion, and when he saw it clearly, he was shocked and asked repeatedly: "What is this? Is this an interstellar beast? Why did it die at my doorstep?"
"This is the Jie Bug King from Longte Star. It tried to hide in your house while being hunted. But you are very lucky. Just when it climbed up the stone railing, we -" Lu Rankong saw Lan Yu glanced at him slightly, paused and continued seriously: "It was killed by Colonel K, thus avoiding a devastating disaster."
The man looked at the huge corpse of the Insect King, and all his resistance disappeared. He asked in panic, "Sir, is my home safe now?"
"It's not safe..." Lu Rankong lowered his voice, "It has another Jie insect by its side. I didn't see it just now. It may have hidden in your house."
"Ah!" the man exclaimed.
The electronic lock made a slight sound, and the door opened to both sides, revealing the courtyard passage.
The man stood to the side and made a gesture of invitation, and said respectfully: "Please Colonel K and...what is the name of this officer?"
"Lu, use the left and right ears to strike, and that's the strike that kills the Insect King. Just call me Colonel Lu." Lu Rankong said.
"Colonel K and Colonel Ji, please come in," the man said, and hurriedly led the way back to the house.
"My name is Wang Wei. I usually run a small business and have dealings with the military. Before the army was stationed in Bell City on Katah Star, I also contracted the construction of one of the buildings." The man said with a smile.
"Oh? Which building are you building?" Lu Rankong looked around and asked casually.
"It seems, it seems... Oh, right, it's Dormitory Building No. 4."
As soon as the words fell, Lu Rankong and Lan Yu's faces darkened.
It turns out that Building No. 4, where you can hear the farts from the neighbors, was built by the person in front of me.
The three of them continued to walk inside. Lan Yu glanced at Wang Wei's back, then looked at the outer wall that Lu Rankong was about to climb, and then looked at Lu Rankong again with a meaningful look.
"I'm just not used to brutal behavior and deceiving the public." Lu Rankong looked straight ahead and spoke in a low voice that only the two of them could hear.
"I'm sorry, it's you who deceived the people, Colonel." "Lan Yu retracted his gaze and looked forward, lowering his voice and imitating Lu Rankong's tone vividly," It has another Jie insect by its side. I didn't see it just now. It may have hidden in your house. ”
"K, do you know that there is a Longte starman hiding there who is more terrifying than the Jie bug?" Lu Rankong pointed at Wang Wei in front of him with his chin, "It's possible that he is the one, so I can't tell the truth."
"And my rough behavior allows us to investigate openly without having to go up and peek like a pervert." Lan Yu did not give in.
"How do you conduct an open investigation? Citizen, please answer my question honestly. Are you from Lonte? Yes, sir, I am." Lu Rankong snorted sarcastically, "Colonel K, is this how you conduct an investigation?"
Lan Yu remained silent. He asked proudly, "Nothing else to do?"
Then, he opened the holster on his waist, carefully took out a tiny needle from the inner shell, and said, "Open your hands..."
"What?"
"Spread out..."
Lan Yu spread out her hands as she was told, but Lu Rankong stared at her palms without moving.
"What are you going to do?" Lan Yu frowned.
Lu Rankong asked curiously: "Why are your hands so tender and white?"
"none of your business……"
Lu Rankong put the injection in his palm and said, "Keep it. It contains HR5. By the way, with your brain, do you know what HR5 is?"
"none of your business……"
Lu Rankong didn't take it seriously and explained to himself: "After the Longte people were driven out of the Sasu star system, we created this potion called HR5, which can kill foreign spirits that do not belong to the body. If you suspect that someone's spiritual domain has been occupied by the Longte people, inject this into his body."
Lan Yu looked at the potion and asked, "Do you have any extra? Give one to each person inside."
"What are you thinking? If it's just an ordinary person, and there's no Lonte in the spiritual realm to absorb the potion, he'll die if injected. So you have to observe carefully, and don't use it if you're not 100% sure."
Lan Yu stopped and said, "How can I be sure? What if I make a mistake?"
"The method to determine it is not difficult. I am fortunate to know some inside information. Now I will pass this precious inside information to you."
"Don't tell me. Keep your precious inside information to yourself." Lan Yu sneered.
"The star field channel between the Longte and Sasu galaxies has been closed for many years, but the channel was secretly opened half a year ago. Although it has been closed again, it is unclear how many Longte people have come here. So to confirm whether they are Longte people, just ask them about what happened half a year ago."
Lu Rankong thought for a moment, then suddenly took the injection from Lan Yu's palm, "Forget it, I don't trust your IQ, just leave it to me. You just need to watch quietly until I catch that person. If he wants to escape, you go and block him."
Who cares?
Lan Yu withdrew her hand and walked forward with a puffed face.
The two stopped talking and just followed Wang Wei across the courtyard.
Lan Yu looked at the garden on the left. Large clusters of Strelitzia reginae were dotted with purple pansies with lush flowers and leaves. It was obvious that the hostess was very attentive. There is a swing next to it, so there must be a child in the family.
He turned his head inadvertently and his eyes swept across the dark rooms on the second floor when he suddenly saw a figure standing behind a window.
There was no light in the room, but in the moonlight, one could see that person was wearing a white nightgown. Her long hair was draped over her shoulders, covering her pale cheeks, and her dark eyes were fixed on this side without blinking.
Lan Yu was suddenly startled and reflexively reached out to grab Lu Rankong beside her. Only after seeing clearly that it was just a little girl of seven or eight years old did he resist the urge to reach out.
The girl stared at him with empty and indifferent eyes. After a few seconds, he suddenly took a step back and quickly closed the curtains.
Lu Rankong noticed Lan Yu's gaze and looked over, but saw nothing.
After entering the house, Wang Wei asked attentively, "Would you like to go upstairs or to the basement first? There are two floors below, one is the audio-visual room and the other is the wine cellar. I was upstairs at first and didn't hear anything unusual. I think if the interstellar beast entered the house, it would probably go downstairs."
Lu Rankong did not reply, but walked around the room with his hands behind his back. Lan Yu walked to the leather sofa in the living room, sat down, leaned back, and crossed her long legs.
On the coffee table in front of me was a vase filled with fresh flowers, a retro-styled ice-cracked white grapefruit.
Lan Yu also had a similar vase at home, which he placed in the bathroom. Now seeing a similar one, he couldn't help but take a few more glances.
"This is a fine item left over from ancient Earth. I bought it at a high price from an interstellar merchant. My wife loves to take care of flowers and plants, so it looks good here." Wang Wei saw Lan Yu looking at the vase and introduced it proudly.
Lan Yu was not interested in the vase, so she looked down and was attracted by another object and couldn't take her eyes off it.
——It was a round piece of light brown woolen fabric, inlaid with irregular silver-gray patterns and surrounded by a circle of lace.
It is a hand-woven vase mat.
Wang Wei started to introduce again, "My wife loves hand-knitting. When she has nothing to do, she would knit woolen covers for things at home. Look, these sofa cushions and coasters are all made by her when she has nothing to do. Covering the finest furniture with these things makes the house look weird. Fortunately, after I told her about it, she hasn't made new ones for a long time..."
Lan Yu didn't pay attention to what he said, but just silently memorized the weaving method of the vase pad in her heart. This color combination looks good. I will weave a coffee coaster like this when I get home.
Basically, as long as he takes a look at these things, he can tell from the patterns how the needle is moved, and he can also improve it to make it look better.
Lan Yu was memorizing the acupuncture techniques silently, with a frown on her face and a serious expression, as if she was thinking about something important. Wang Wei stopped talking and stopped disturbing her.
Lu Rankong walked around the room and said casually, "Wang Wei, go and call everyone in your family to the living room."
Wang Wei asked in confusion: "Aren't we looking for interstellar beasts? What do you want them to do?"
"I want to ask them something." Lu Rankong continued to walk around the living room.
"My family only has my wife, daughter, and a housekeeper. What could they know? Just ask me if you want to know anything."
"It's not enough to just ask you, you have to ask others."
Wang Wei became alert, took a step back, put his right hand on the ball on the wooden railing of the stairs, and said, "Sir, I didn't see the documents you showed at the beginning clearly. Please let me see them again now."
"You suspect us, don't you? All right, let me check it carefully." Lu Rankong took out his military officer's ID from his inner pocket and stretched out his hand in front of Lan Yu, "Give it to me..."
Lan Yu raised her eyelids and glanced at him, still leaning back in the chair with her arms folded across her chest.
Lu Rankong moved his fingers and said, "Let him see, so he doesn't think we are bad guys trying to sneak into the house and rob."
When Wang Wei heard this, he held the ball even tighter.
Lan Yu lowered her head, slowly reached into her inner pocket, held the officer's certificate between her two slender fingers, and threw it into Lu Rankong's hand.
Lu Rankong walked towards Wang Wei, but he stopped him and said, "Colonel Ji, don't come over. Leave the documents on the table. I'll take them myself."
Lu Rankong placed his officer ID on the coffee table in front of him as instructed and took a step back.
Wang Wei stepped forward, quickly took the two officer certificates, and returned to the stairs.
Lan Yu wanted to show her impatience, but when she thought that neither of them was looking at her, she was too lazy to adjust her expression and continued to lean back in the chair with a sluggish expression.
When his eyes swept over the top of the stairs, he suddenly stopped.
The little girl he had first seen in the garden was standing at the top of the stairs, her empty and lifeless black eyes staring straight at the living room downstairs.
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