"Call the police immediately!"
Li Lechen's mother was certain that a stranger had broken into the house. Regardless of whether anything was stolen, the scene had to be preserved and the police called immediately.
Upon hearing this, Li Lechen quickly took out his phone.
Zhou Mi was even more embarrassed.
But what could she say? What could she possibly say? Was she supposed to reveal F001 at a time like this?
No!
Absolutely not!
There's no way I'd ever say it's number F001!
Zhou Mi suddenly became more determined. She decided to tell the first lie of her life for F001, and she was willing to tell a second and a third lie to cover it up.
There's no way around it; once love takes hold, it can be this ruthless.
However, Zhou Mi wouldn't just sit idly by and wait to be questioned. She tentatively asked Li Lechen, "Doesn't your community have surveillance cameras? Check the footage and you'll know if any strangers have entered this building."
“There are no security cameras at the entrance of the building,” Li Lechen’s mother explained. “The nearest camera is at the fork in the road near the small pavilion.”
Oh~~~~
Zhou Mi frowned, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If there were security cameras at the entrance of the building, I could only say that I had been wandering around in the hallway. But saying that I had been wandering around in the hallway for an hour is really stupid, isn't it?
Although Zhou Mi decided to lie, she didn't want to be seen as mentally challenged.
Fortunately, I learned that there were no security cameras at the entrance of the apartment building. If it were near the small pavilion, I would have had a wider range of movement.
“But Aunt Zhao on the first floor always likes to sit by the window and look outside. Maybe she can tell if any strangers are coming in or out,” Li Lechen’s mother suddenly added.
Zhou Mi: "......"
This feeling of extreme emotional ups and downs is really awful; Zhou Mi doesn't even know how to tell this lie now.
Soon, the police and the community security guards arrived.
The last time a thief broke into the neighborhood was at Wang Dazhuang's house; they ransacked it but nothing was stolen. So when they heard that Li Lechen's house had been burgled, many neighbors came to check.
Compared to Wang Dazhuang's house, it's really not interesting that Li Lechen's house was broken into.
Li Lechen's mother described the situation to the police in detail: "I definitely locked all the doors when I left, but when I came back, the doors weren't locked!"
"Was the door pried open?" the policeman asked.
"I wasn't knocked on, the door was just closed normally. But! I clearly put my slippers on the shoe rack when I left, but when I came back I found them on the floor."
Are these the slippers?
"Yes."
"So the thief might be a woman?"
"It's also possible that he's a man with small feet!"
"Is there anything else?"
"And another thing! This thief even drank our water, using that cup! He spilled the water, and we had to use a lot of tissues to wipe it up!"
Okay! This might be a thief with Parkinson's disease who can't even hold a cup properly.
"Did you lose anything?"
This sentence is the most crucial.
That's how it was at Wang Dazhuang's house back then. Although the house was in a mess, nothing was lost, and in the end, the matter was left unresolved.
However, Li Lechen's mother had a different opinion and came up with a wild idea: "Although nothing was stolen from the house, this kind of thing is terrifying! I suspect that the thief has superb lock-picking skills and can open the door without damaging the lock. Maybe he entered the room and realized that we weren't going away for long and it wasn't suitable for him to stay. Or maybe he sensed that we were coming back and hurriedly left, and then didn't have time to steal anything."
But after hearing that nothing was missing, the two police officers lost the motivation to continue questioning. At least at Wang Dazhuang's house last time, there was a messy scene and a broken lock. This house had nothing missing, and everything seemed perfectly normal. If they were to file a case like this, it would drive the officers crazy.
“Madam,” one of the police officers reassured her, “is it possible that someone else with a key came in? Like a relative or something?”
"impossible!"
"But there's really no indication of a burglary at the scene, and you said nothing was stolen..."
"You can check the security footage! There are definitely strangers coming and going! You can ask Aunt Zhao downstairs; she pays the most attention to people coming and going! This is a huge security risk!"
Li Lechen's mother was very emotional, so much so that Li Lechen felt she was overreacting.
But this is understandable. First, his son was in a coma for two months, and now he's been in quarantine. Plus, there are rumors about the terrible SW18 virus. Who wouldn't be in a good mood?
I've been holding it in for so long!
Oh, right!
"Maybe that thief is carrying the SW18 virus, and he's spreading it everywhere to take revenge on society!" Li Lechen's mother's imagination ran wild again. "So we have to investigate!"
The moment the SW18 virus is mentioned, everyone's expression changes.
These days, everyone is terrified of the SW18 virus; it's far more serious than smallpox back in the day. After all, smallpox wasn't contagious just by looking at it, but with the SW18 virus, you could easily get infected just by glancing at it.
As Li Lechen's mother is saying now, if someone were to enter a room infected with the SW18 virus, wear human slippers, use human teacups, and even wipe everything with tissues, the entire room would be filled with the SW18 virus.
This virus is said to be able to survive in the air for a very long time.
This virus is said to be almost certain to kill once you get infected, because a cure has not yet been developed.
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