The others were sitting on the sofa downstairs. Director Wang was talking about the principles of life in a serious tone. Two staff members were listening with a serious attitude of agreement, while Xiao Liu was playing with the terminal with his head down.
When they heard footsteps coming up the stairs, everyone looked up.
Lan Yu walked in front, his handsome face showing an indifferent expression, and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry. Lu Rankong followed behind him with his hands in his trouser pockets.
Both of them are tall and graceful, but they also bring great pressure to people.
Director Wang stood up a little nervously and asked, "Did you find anything?"
Lan Yu looked at Xiao Liu: "Maybe a little..."
Xiao Liu shivered and hurried to turn off the terminal, but he pressed the wrong key and a burst of game hacking sounds came out.
Lu Rankong walked directly in front of him and said, "Xiao Liu, I want to ask you a question."
"Okay, okay." He closed it hurriedly and stood up from the sofa.
"Do you remember taking Kabul to the bar to drink? Which bar?" Lu Rankong asked.
After recalling for a few seconds, Xiao Liu nodded and said, "I remember that day I went to the Black Crow Bar after get off work. I saw Kabul passing by the door just as I arrived. I thought it would be boring to drink alone, so I invited him in, but he only had one drink and left."
"Do you often drink at the Black Crow Bar?" Lan Yu asked.
He saw Xiao Liu quickly glanced at Director Wang and replied, "Not often, I just stopped by for a drink that day."
Lan Yu looked at him without saying anything. Although there was no expression on her face, her dark eyes made Xiao Liu's legs start to go weak.
He pushed his glasses and said with difficulty: "I go there once in a while."
“How often is occasionally?”
"I go there four or five times a week, probably." Xiao Liu stammered.
"I've told you before that you shouldn't drink outside even after get off work on weekdays, so as not to leak the institute's secrets. Look, look at this." Director Wang shouted from the side.
Lan Yu frowned and turned to look at him. Director Wang refrained from saying anything.
"Have you told the people in the bar that you are from the research institute?" Lan Yu asked.
"I should have said it, but I don't remember. Sometimes when I'm chatting with others, I might say it unconsciously." Xiao Liu replied.
"Who are those people? Customers? Bar staff?"
"They are all customers. I have never chatted with anyone in the bar." Xiao Liu replied.
"You have no impression of the guests you chatted with?"
Xiao Liu recalled for a moment and shook his head slowly, "We just chatted a few words and I don't even remember what they looked like."
Lu Rankong had been leaning against the window and asked, "Who did you talk to the day you dragged Kabul into the bar? Can you remember?"
Xiao Liu frowned and thought hard, but said nothing.
"You'd better figure it out for me, otherwise..." Director Wang was interrupted by Lan Yu's cold look before he finished speaking.
Sweat beads oozed from Xiao Liu's forehead. After a while, he said, "I really can't remember it, because I drank a little too much that day. I vaguely remember that I was talking all the time, but I don't remember who I was talking to."
After a moment of silence, Lan Yu looked at Lu Rankong, and Lu Rankong shook his head slightly at him.
"Let's go here first, and come back when needed." Lu Rankong stood up and walked out, and Lan Yu followed beside him.
Director Wang and Xiao Liu also chased after him.
After getting in the car, Xiao Liu sat dejectedly in the passenger seat. Director Wang asked from the back seat: "Colonels, are you ready to go to the hotel now? I have booked the best hotel near the institute."
"No, we have another place." Lu Rankong opened the terminal in his hand, searched for a while, and reported an address to the driver, "Send us to this place."
"yes……"
When Director Wang saw the address, he couldn't help but say, "This is the best location in the main city. You can't buy a house there even if you have money. Does Colonel Lu have any relatives or friends living there?"
Lu Rankong smiled slightly and said nothing. Director Wang asked out of curiosity, but when he saw that Lu Rankong was unwilling to say anything, he tactfully kept silent.
The business car sped along, and Lan Yu was thinking about the Black Crow Bar in her mind. When the car stopped, she found that she had arrived at the entrance of an upscale residential area.
The two men got out of the car and took the suitcase that the driver took out from the trunk. Director Wang asked through the car window: "Colonels, what time will I pick you up tomorrow?"
Lu Rankong said: "No need to pick us up, we can go by ourselves."
After the business car left, Lu Rankong dragged two suitcases and said to Lan Yu: "Let's go and see our home on Sasu Star."
He used the word "home", which moved Lan Yu's heart.
After Lu Rankong passed the information recognition in front of the gate, he said a few words to the person in the security room next to him, and the security guard then entered Lan Yu's information into the recognition system.
"What did you tell the security guard?" Lan Yu saw the strict monitoring equipment outside the community and was a little surprised that the security guard agreed so easily.
Lu Rankong said: "I said you are my newlywed alpha, the kind registered with the city hall."
Lan Yu found this a little funny. When he passed through the gate, he found that the security guard was secretly looking at him.
This community is very large and the environment is very beautiful. There is a lake in the distance and some villas are scattered among the trees.
"Where is our home?" Lan Yu asked.
Lu Rankong was obviously pleased by this "our family" as well. He grinned and said happily, "Right...right..."
Then he stood and began to look around.
Lan Yu slowly stopped and asked, "You can't even remember where your home is?"
"I rarely come here. I'm basically always in the military camp. I only come here to stay for a night or two when I return to the main planet. Most of the time I stay with my father." Lu Rankong said.
He walked up a small road on the left and said, "I used to drive a car, but I'm still a little unfamiliar with this small road."
Lan Yu walked in the quiet villa area, and could only hear the rustling of leaves in the wind and the chirping of birds on the branches. It doesn't feel like the main urban area of Sasu where every inch of land is valuable, but rather like a resort.
After walking for about ten minutes, Lu Rankong stopped at a crossroads, opened the terminal in his hand, and murmured: "I remember I should turn left here...ah, it turns out to be a right turn...three hundred meters ahead..."
"I found the way. I know where our home is." Lu Rankong turned off the terminal and saw Lan Yu looking at him. He explained, "Driving has navigation, which is definitely different from walking."
The two took the road on the right, passed through a large forest, and saw a beautiful villa in front of them.
"Finally found it..." Lu Rankong breathed a sigh of relief, dragging the suitcase in his hand and said to Lan Yu: "See that rose sticking out from the top of the wall? I planted it one day when I had nothing to do. Look, it's growing so well."
Lan Yu looked in the direction he was looking and saw roses climbing all over the black carved fence. The flowers were trembling in the wind, so she smiled and said, "You're pretty amazing."
"Of course. Although I don't have any flowers planted on my dormitory balcony, I am actually a flower lover."
When he arrived at the gate, Lu Rankong put his palm on the information identification lock.
drop……
The information identification lock emits a rough and short error tone.
"This broken lock..." he muttered and put his palm on it again.
drop……
Continue to report errors.
He changed his hand and tried again, but it still didn't work.
Lu Rankong turned around and looked at Lan Yu, and said, "This lock often has problems. I'll ask Uncle Chen to take a look."
Lan Yu remained silent as he started to dial the terminal: "Uncle Chen, this is Xiaofan... I'm here to do some work. I'll come to see you when I'm done... By the way, Uncle Chen, what's wrong with my door lock? It can't recognize me, and it keeps reporting errors... It's the villa in Feihongxie Community... I'll try again, please don't come over."
Lu Rankong hung up the terminal and said to Lan Yu, "Uncle Chen doesn't know about this lock. He hasn't been here for a few weeks and only sent workers to clean it. I guess something went wrong."
Lan Yu comforted him, "Don't worry, it may be fine after a while."
Lu Rankong tried his left and right hands again, switching hands to recognize the face, but it didn't work.
He held the closed metal door with his left hand and sighed, then turned to Lan Yu and asked, "How about I go to the gate and ask the property management?"
Lan Yu said: "Okay, I'll wait here for a while."
The sun was a little strong. Lu Rankong saw Lan Yu took off her coat and hung it on her arm. Sweat beads were already oozing out of her forehead and her lips were a little chapped and cracked. Seeing that there was only lawn around and no place to get shade, he said, "Forget it, I'll climb over the wall and get in."
Lan Yu hesitated for a moment, "Is it okay?"
"It's okay. You can climb over your own wall however you want."
Lan Yu was also tired and didn't want to wait outside any longer, so she didn't try to stop him.
The wall was a row of iron fences. Lu Rankong pushed himself up with his hands and easily jumped over. He stepped on the horizontal bar between the iron fences and said to Lan Yu, "Give me the suitcase and put it in first."
Lan Yu went to drag the two suitcases. Lu Rankong looked at the villa and sighed, "I haven't lived here for a few days. Uncle Chen has made a big difference in the place. Not only did he plant a lot of new flowers and plants, he also built a small swing."
"Mini swing?" Lan Yu asked.
Lu Rankong replied: "Yes, it's light blue, and the swing seat is a little penguin, it's pretty, you can sit on it and bask in the sun in the future."
Lan Yu stopped walking, holding the suitcase. Why did he feel that Lu Rankong's description sounded like a children's swing?
"Come on, give me the suitcase, and then you can climb in." Lu Rankong half-knelt down and stretched out his hand to him, "If you want to open this lock from the inside, you have to identify the information. I can't open the door for you."
Lan Yu hesitated and raised a suitcase. Just as Lu Rankong caught it in mid-air, a loud shout came from behind him.
"What are you two doing?"
The two men stopped and looked towards the source of the sound, only to see a middle-aged man standing not far away. His face was full of astonishment and anger. He was holding a little boy in his left hand, two fishing rods in his right hand, and a bucket beside him.
Seeing the two looking at him, he cautiously hid the child behind him, pointed the fishing rod in his hand forward, and said sternly: "I'm telling you, the security in this community is very tight. All your actions have been filmed. Whether you want to steal or for some other purpose, stop now."
Lan Yu and Lu Rankong, who was squatting on the top of the fence, looked at each other, put down the suitcase, and asked the man, "What do you mean?"
"What do I mean? You're almost climbing into the yard, and you're still asking me what I mean?"
Lu Rankong explained: "We are not bad people. Look at the military uniforms we are wearing. This is our home, but there is a problem with the door lock, so we can't get in for the time being."
After saying this, the middle-aged man not only did not feel relieved, but his expression became even more nervous. He backed away with the little boy and quickly opened the terminal in his hand: "Security! Security! I am the owner of Villa 023. Two thieves are climbing over my wall and are pretending to be officers."
"Your home?"
"You said this is your home?"
Lan Yu and Lu Rankong asked at the same time.
“Do you still want to pretend to be the owner?” The middle-aged man continued to point the fishing rod at them, and shouted fiercely: “Don’t even think about messing around. I tell you, there are cameras everywhere in this community. Your faces have already been photographed——”
"Wait a minute..." Lan Yu interrupted loudly: "I think there is a misunderstanding."
"There was no misunderstanding. I just took my son fishing for an hour nearby."
Lu Rankong jumped down from the fence and took a few steps forward. The middle-aged man immediately shouted sharply: "Don't move, don't come over, the security guards are coming soon."
"I won't move. Don't be nervous. I'm also a resident of this villa area. I just haven't been home for a long time." Lu Rankong stopped, opened the terminal in his hand, and said, "I have the property certificate. Look."
Lu Rankong enlarged the floating display screen, which showed a house ownership certificate.
The middle-aged man took two steps forward cautiously to look at the display screen. The little boy behind him leaned his head out to look at Lan Yu with a pair of dark eyes.
Lan Yu smiled at him. The little boy made a gun shape with his hand, beeped at him twice, and said, "Bad guy..."
"Since you are also a resident, why did you climb over my wall?" The middle-aged man asked in confusion and anger after seeing the certificate clearly and confirming that it was not forged.
Before Lu Rankong had the time to explain, an electric car drove up on the road with five or six security guards sitting on it, holding electric batons in their hands.
"Mr. Wu, where is the thief?" The security guards jumped out and asked while running before the car arrived.
When he got closer, he greeted Lu Rankong again, "Mr. Lu..."
Ten minutes later, under the guidance of the security guard, Lu Rankong found his house.
"Mr. Lu, if you can't remember the route next time, just ask me, and don't climb over other people's walls again." The security captain reminded on the electric car.
Lu Rankong promised again and again, "I definitely..."
After the electric bike left, he let out a long sigh, turned around, and faced Lan Yu, who had an expressionless face.
"The route map says that it's more than 300 meters if we go straight. Look, our house is not far from it, it's also more than 300 meters away. It's inevitable that we made a mistake." He said embarrassedly.
This time the door unlocked and the two men walked in dragging their suitcases.
This is a three-story villa with a large area. There is a lawn in front that is neatly trimmed. There is a swimming pool on the right just as Lu Rankong said, but there is no water in it.
Lan Yu looked around and asked, "Where are the roses you planted? Didn't you say that you planted roses and they climbed up the wall?"
Lu Rankong pointed to the left side of the fence and said, "That's where I planted it, so I mistook it for someone else's."
Lan Yu thought for a moment, "What did the rose look like when you left?"
"Just a small seedling." Lu Rankong said.
"Little seedling? What kind of little seedling?"
Lu Rankong used his index finger and thumb to indicate a short distance, "Just this little bit..."
"Then how do you plant it? Just stick it in the soil and leave it there?" Lan Yu asked.
Lu Rankong looked at him without saying anything.
"It's obvious that the roses were carefully tended. Do you think you can just stick them in the ground and expect them to grow? And they even climbed up the wall?"
Lu Rankong opened his mouth and closed it again.
"Forget it, let's go inside." Lan Yu said.
When she entered the house, Lan Yu was almost dazzled by the light.
Dark gold wallpaper, intricate layered chandeliers, large dark gold leather sofas, and a whole set of mahogany furniture inlaid with gold edges.
It is all golden and magnificent, just like the residence of an interstellar beryllium crystal tycoon.
Lan Yu looked around the room and said with a half-smile, "I didn't expect you like this style of decoration?"
Lu Rankong also looked around and said, "I never took care of the decoration. Uncle Chen did it. He likes it to be grand, so he made it like this for me."
Lan Yu walked around the spacious first floor and found the kitchen. The kitchen was incredibly large, and it was equipped with all the necessary kitchen utensils, except that they were all brand new, with even the trademarks still on them.
"Let's go take a shower and rest first. Don't cook at home today. I'll ask the restaurant to deliver food." Lu Rankong said when he saw him touching the kitchen utensils.
Lan Yu opened the refrigerator and saw that it was full of bottled water and no ingredients. She agreed and followed Lu Rankong to the second floor.
The second floor maintained the same decoration style as the first floor and was still very grand, with intricately shaped mahogany furniture and dark gold wallpaper with money flowers printed on it. Lan Yu even saw a large yellow and blue carved double-handled vase at the stairs.
Seeing him looking at the big vase, Lu Rankong smiled and said, "That's the emergency shelter that Uncle Chen prepared for me."
"Emergency shelter?" Lan Yu didn't understand what that had to do with the vase.
Lu Rankong stretched out his hand to hold the left ear of the vase and bent it inward. The wall next to Lan Yu moved away instantly, revealing a space silently.
Lu Rankong demonstrated to him, twisting the ears of the vase in turn, and said, "Remember not to twist both sides at the same time, otherwise the person inside won't be able to get out."
"Why is there this setting?" Lan Yu felt very strange. Shouldn't the person inside operate the switch so that no one outside can open it?
Lu Rankong sighed: "Uncle Chen doesn't really understand these things. He just acts on a whim. Let him do whatever he wants."
This villa has great privacy and environment, but the decoration is a bit shabby.
"Uncle Chen said that I have always been unlucky, so the house should be as luxurious as possible so that I can cope with it." Lu Rankong said, "If you don't like it, just redecorate it according to your preferences."
"We don't even know where we're going to live in the future, so why bother renovating?" Lan Yu said, "I think you're just treating this place as a hotel."
Lu Rankong took Lan Yu to the master bedroom and said, "You take a shower here. I'll go to the bathroom in the guest bedroom next door. I'll see you downstairs after you're done."
After Lan Yu waited for him to go out, she took out clean clothes from the box, went into the bathroom, filled the ridiculously large bathtub with hot water, and lay down in it comfortably.
The hot water flowed over her chest, soft and comfortable. Lan Yu didn't want to get up from the bath until Lu Rankong started dialing his terminal, then she lazily got up.
After getting dressed, he went downstairs and saw Lu Rankong on the stairs wearing a dark red velvet nightgown, with his hands in his pockets, leaning against the French window and waving at him gently.
It was already evening and the sun was setting. The orange-red light shone through the glass, dyeing Lu Rankong's hair light brown and making his eyes appear deeper.
The dark red velvet nightgown he was wearing reflected light slightly, revealing the gold coin patterns on it, and exuding an increasingly strong aura of a middle-aged alpha.
"Where did this nightgown come from? It's so luxurious..." Lan Yu said with a smile.
Lu Rankong looked down at his body and said, "This was also prepared by Uncle Chen."
Lan Yu gave him a thumbs up: "You look rich at first glance, which makes me feel safe."
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