Chapter 31: A Strange Fire
Yang Qingnan was so shocked that he bounced up from the bed, and now he saw the scene before he fell asleep last night, but the quilt was kicked down, and the warm sun was gone. He looked at the clock, and it was half past seven in the morning.
After wiping his face and washing up in a cold sweat, as soon as he went out, he met Kazi, his face was full of urgency, and he said that something big happened in the town. Before Yang Qingnan could ask what was going on, Kazi forcibly dragged him to the functional area.
Arambu, Poromo, and the Usa elder Granny Xie and her eldest son, Runuo, were all here.
"This good evil has finally laid a hand on Ladd." Alain Bu said lightly.
Yang Qingnan didn't hear too clearly, and after thinking about it, it should have nothing to do with him. He simply ate a few nori dumplings, and the trio said they were going to say goodbye to their people.
"Thank you for your kind and free hospitality."
"It's nothing, it's supposed to be us." Granny Xie said.
"There's a question I'd like to ask, what if we catch that rebel?"
"Just do it the way you always do." Runo replied, "This is a map for you, and it shows the route in and out of the forest. ”
Alain Bu took the island drawings and rolled them up and stuffed them into a metal cylinder. The two Ussa kept sending them to the staircase of the cave, and they couldn't get out, so they parted here.
The triangular door closes automatically and reverts back to a normal rock wall.
Yang Qingnan scratched his head, and the long memory suddenly fell silent, since he met these three people, what he had experienced was like a dream, and only the nightmare that remained in his mind still reminded him that all this was true.
There was a slight rain in the sky, and the lovely grass was bent over by the dewdrops, and as soon as the breeze passed, the crystal dew drops were taken away again. The forest was so dense that it blocked most of the rain, and they walked with ease, and Alain Bu was the only one of the four who remembered the route, so he led the way.
Yang Qingnan only learned about the incident on the road, last night Ladd's house caught fire, and it can be seen from the image transmitted by the electronic mosquito that the fire was ignited from the second floor, but I don't know what happened to the people inside. After only one night, the whole town became panicked, and it was not known which enemy Ladd had provoked, and although it did not happen to him, some suspicious residents also withdrew from the town.
The rain stopped, but the sky was as heavy as lead, and when Alain Bu and his party arrived at Ladd's compound, Tuan Feng, the captain of the inspection team, had already cordoned off the scene and organized personnel to conduct an emergency investigation.
The first floor was barely burning, thanks to the barrier effect of the fire door, while the second floor was burned beyond recognition, with all the mattresses and carpets burned out, and all kinds of electrical equipment were badly damaged. The nanny and housekeeper were on the ground floor for a second round of questioning, and the homeowner, Ladd and his wife, stayed at the scene of the fire to save important property, regardless of the danger.
The three wanted to enter the scene to investigate, but were rejected by Tuan Feng with a wave of his hand.
"No unrelated persons are allowed to enter." When he saw that it was Alain Bu and them, his tone softened again, "Why are you?" What are you going to do this time? ”
"Say, can you be accommodating?"
"No, you can't. If you don't have the relevant experience and knowledge, it's useless to go in, so you should wait quietly for news. ”
"Cut, it's cold." Arambu said with a shrug.
In China, the police have the same attitude towards him, but sometimes they will be polite when they encounter difficulties. After all, the Demon Hunting Society is just a non-governmental organization, and it has not attracted much attention from the state until now.
Alan Bu had the opportunity to become a police officer, and he could be as bold and courageous as Kazi's brother, and his brilliant mind and vigorous force were appreciated by the armed police brigade. But in the final analysis, he still can't let go of a person, who has always regarded him as a relative, and the most important relative in his life.
"Let's go, we can't help." Kazi said.
"yes, we can't help, our main task is to find a ship."
Polomo widened his eyes and asked, "But isn't the ship in Ladd?" ”
"Shh Alain Bu quickly covered her mouth, "Just know it in your heart, don't say it." ”
Yang Qingnan, who has been ignored, chose to be a bystander, he was still thinking about why he still followed these people, maybe he was just curious, he also wanted to see the ins and outs of the whole thing.
"Okay, then let's go to the port first, Uncle Nan, are you coming?"
"No, I might be able to help."
Kazi and the others walked around the Baijing platform for a while, and then walked down the ladder and left. Yang Qingnan looked at the blackened window and slowly approached Tuan Feng, who was listening to the report.
"Are there any casualties?"
"What's wrong?" Tuan Feng asked him rhetorically.
"Ahem, I mean I've studied medicine, so I can help a little bit." It is said that doctors are benevolent, and although he is not yet a doctor, he said this out of compassion for the wounded and sick, not to show his professional skills.
"There were no other casualties, only one old housekeeper was accidentally burned by the fire while fighting the fire, but after treatment, he was fine." Tuan Feng aimed at him out of the corner of his eye, meaning that he didn't need you to play.
Yang Qingnan thought, if you don't let me in, I won't go in? You have to think of a reason to go in anyway. But now he's a complete outsider, and he really doesn't have any clues about the fire.
At this time, he saw Ladd hurrying down with the safe, and suddenly remembered something.
"By the way, did you deliver my gem?"
"What gem?" Suspicious, he thought for only a second, "Oh, it's delivered." ”
"I have some questions about it that I'd like to ask Rad himself."
Just as Tuan Feng had almost finished the on-site investigation and inquiry, and the next thing was to check the cause of the fire, he simply pointed behind him: "Go, go, go." ”
Yang Qingnan walked into the hall and saw Ladd spread out in the rocking chair like a wasted man, knowing that now was not a good time to ask questions. He turned to the nanny and the old butler, who were not much better than the Ladders, and since their rooms were on the first floor, there was basically no loss, and it was for this reason that they were the most suspicious.
"You're hurt, are you okay?" Yang Qingnan walked towards the two, the nanny's clothes were burned off a little, and the housekeeper's entire forearm was wrapped in bandages.
"It's okay now."
"What was it like?"
Maybe they hadn't seen it before, and both of them mistakenly thought that he was the one brought by Tuan Feng, so they relaxed their vigilance, and they both wanted to prove their innocence through their own testimony.
"It must have been around four o'clock in the middle of the night, when I was asleep, I suddenly heard the shouts of the owner upstairs, I immediately ran upstairs, and saw that the master's room was on fire, and the fire spread quickly. After that, I picked up a fire extinguisher and started to extinguish the fire, and then Xiaohu also came to help. ”
The nanny, surnamed Hu, took his words and said: "At first, the fire was not big, but the big house and the external corridor were burning, and just when we thought the fire was under control, another room also caught fire. So the housekeeper told me to call the Self-Defense Forces to come and put out the fire. ”
"So, you were all on the first floor at the time, so did your master accidentally catch fire when he touched something?" Yang Qingnan couldn't figure out his thoughts, but he could only bite the bullet.
"That shouldn't be possible, I checked, and after they fell asleep, all the electrical equipment was turned off."
"Is it possible that a third person did it? Someone hid in your house and deliberately set it on fire? ”
"You said someone would be hiding in our house? No kidding. Nanny Hu scoffed at this question, "This floor and the corridor on the second floor are installed with surveillance, and no one needs to check to know if there is." ”
Yang Qingnan only smiled lightly, he didn't ask any more, and before the Self-Defense Forces withdrew, he went to check the fire scene of this house. Although the staircase is made of wood, the bottom material is made of wet wood, which has the characteristics of fire protection, and a fire door is added.
He also noticed that the floor here is made of tight imitation wood polished tiles, and the windows are a structure of large windows and small windows.
The first fire started in the master room, Yang Qingnan tested it with a lighter, and unexpectedly the bed and desk and wardrobe could easily burn up, just because they had a flammable paint on their surface. There were broken glass on the ground, and a few dead goldfish, which showed that Rad had broken the fish tank to put out the fire, but it didn't work at all.
The whole bed was burned to black wood slag, mixed with some fine white substance, Yang Qingnan picked it up with his fingers to observe, and found that it was a common mineral fiber, probably asbestos. He stood up and looked at the windowsill, guessing that the two men must have removed the curtain to cover the bed. If they didn't do it, it could only be a third person, maybe a housekeeper or a nanny.
He went downstairs, the SDF had already left, Ladd and his wife were packing their belongings, and the other two were also picking up the pieces. Listening to the old housekeeper, no matter whether Tuan Feng found out the cause of the fire or not, they had to go back to the mainland, only he and Xiaohu were full of attachment to this town and couldn't bear to leave.
Yang Qingnan understood their thoughts, but he was a little sorry for the future fate of the town.