There are two fire escapes, one with a perennial open door, right next to the elevator, I walked through it before, unimpeded; There is also a very hidden, closed door all the year round, and I have never entered it.

However, when I tried to open the door out of curiosity before, I found that the reason why the wooden door had not been opened for a long time was that it took a lot of effort to open, and the noise was huge, it was the kind of door lotus leaf serious lack of oil and the wooden door was a little deformed.

In short, it can be simply said that the other fire escape has no practical purpose, and if you really want to catch fire or something, if you want to go downstairs from there, you are looking for death.

So I naturally chose another road other than the elevator with Brother Chao, that is, the unobstructed fire escape, and when I passed the elevator, I saw that the elevator I had just gone up was still on the 13th floor.

This means that the person really went to the floor where I was, and the other elevator showed that it was still on the first floor, so I didn't care.

Brother Chao quietly went up the fire escape to the 13th floor, Brother Chao counted "321" with his mouth, and then the two of us turned through the fire escape door and ran out...

No one.

Further inside, to the hallway of our residents, there was still no one. Not only was there no one, but the doors of the four families were also closed tightly.

According to the design of this building, we were downstairs just now, and we might not be able to hear it when we opened the door with the key, but if someone pried the door or closed the door normally, we would definitely be able to hear it, but no, neither I nor Brother Chao heard it.

Suddenly I remembered an encounter with Uncle Bai before, so I quietly motioned Brother Chao to return to the elevator room, and sure enough, the elevator was still on the 13th floor, and that person wouldn't be the same as Uncle Bai last time, still in the elevator, right?

I gestured to the elevator with my eyes, Brother Chao gave me an inquiring look, I nodded, Brother Chao also nodded, and then he put on a defensive posture, I held a knife in one hand, and pressed the elevator door button with the other hand, and I also raised the knife and was ready to do it at any time after pressing.

However, there was another false alarm, and the elevator was empty.

Brother Chao pointed in the direction of my house, I understood, took out the key and walked towards my house with him.

Carefully open the door, enter the door with full attention, check the corners and corners, no one.

Brother Chao and I returned to the front door of my house, listening carefully to the sounds around us, trying to search for clues about the man.

"There is also a possibility that the man got out of the elevator and went up the fire escape, and he was not on this floor at all." Brother Chao whispered.

When I heard it, I thought it was completely possible, and the floor and specific house number that the person just chose really might just be said randomly, and there was no targeting.

So I nodded, opened my door and walked towards the fire escape with Brother Chao.

But we didn't go up, just guarded at the door of the fire escape, because if we went up, there were nearly ten floors, in case Brother Chao's guess was right, then the place where the person could hide was too big, if we went up to him stupidly, in case we happened to run into him when I was exhausted from climbing the building, it would be embarrassing, and I would be stuck here to prevent him from having a chance to go down.

Suddenly, the elevator door opened, and Brother Chao and I looked nervously together, and it was Chen Haobei, the second cargo, who came out, and he also looked cautious and cautious at this time, and quietly walked to the two of us and whispered: "What... How? What's the catch? ”

I also lowered my voice and replied to him, "I didn't see anyone, why did you come up?" Chen Hao, the Great Righteous Ling Ran, whispered: "I'm the leader of Binhai City!" Brother, can I not come up if there is something? When we come out to mix, we pay attention to the word 'righteousness'..."

I raised my index finger and made a 'silence' gesture, looking at the bruised and purple marks on his arm and not bothering to expose him.

Alas, it's better to be Mei Tian'er, Chen Haobei is a donkey, and he can't be talented if he doesn't fight.

After a while, the elevator door opened again, and this time it was two people in police uniforms who came out, but they were not outsiders, they were all community police officers who had dealt with before.

When the two police officers saw our appearance, they looked at each other and walked towards us without saying a word. "I roughly explained the ins and outs of the matter, and at the same time said Brother Chao's guess.

After the two police officers listened, one of them confirmed to me: "You said that person is black? Also have darker skin? I nodded and said, "Well, he came up on the elevator with us, and I remember very well that if it weren't for the lights, his shape would have been invisible at night." ”

After I finished speaking, the expressions of the two police officers immediately became solemn, and one of them said to the other, "Talk to Gu Ye." ”

The other nodded and took out his mobile phone, and quickly connected the phone, and as he spoke, he walked in the opposite direction of the corridor from us, and I only vaguely heard him say, "Master Gu, it may sound really..."

Two minutes later, the police officer turned back from the phone and said to us generously, "Okay, it's okay, we'll take care of the rest." ”

He didn't deliberately lower his voice, which surprised me a little, just say that you are an official person and you can't be so fearless, right? Even if the thief is afraid that you won't dare to fight you, it's a matter if he runs away.

Unexpectedly, another police officer also said in a normal volume: "Yes, you guys are busy with yours, that person... Probably the one we know... A habitual thief, who has dealt with it, doesn't care, small role. ”

When I heard him say this, I immediately understood a little, it turned out to be the 'little mouse' they knew, no wonder it was so inappropriate.

In this case, I suddenly relaxed a lot, and Brother Chao also put away his guard posture, and the police officer looked at me and the guy in Brother Chao's hand and asked, "Where are you all here?" The baseball bat is okay, and your knife must be strictly a controlled knife... Why don't you take it home and wait for it to be confiscated? ”

When the police said the first half of the sentence, I thought he was going to confiscate the guy in my hand, I was just thinking about how to compensate Mei Tian'er, but I didn't expect him to come to such a sentence at the end, which was too much to enhance the favorability.

At this point, I didn't say anything more, 'hehe' smiled and called Brother Shangchao and Chen Haobei and went down the stairs and went straight to Mei's house.

The Mei family locked the door, presumably the four girls were also scared, right? After I knocked on the door, Mei Tianer shouted, "Who?" There was a tremor in her voice, and I hurriedly said, "It's me, a thousand, open the door if it's okay." ”

Mei Tian'er asked, "Is it really Zhao Qianqian?" Then say something that only we know. I rolled my eyes and said, "Marina Yiba is a two-pole." ”

Mei Tianer opened the door without saying a word, and Chen Haobei asked to himself: "Who is Binhai Dad?" Binhai is a mother and her husband? Engaged in housekeeping? Sister bosom? ”

After entering the door, I opened the beer keg directly with Chen Haobei, and then poured a few glasses of cold beer with Brother Chao to suppress the shock, and then explained the story in detail after the fact.

While I was talking to Brother Chao, Chen Haobei had already opened all the packaged dishes, and took a bunch of disposable paper cups and poured beer on their heads.

After all this was ready, and Brother Chao and I had finished talking about everything, Mei Tianer kicked Chen Haobei on the ass and scolded: "Who made you so positive?" Didn't you hear that the police were catching thieves in our building? Why do you still drink strings, why is your heart so big? ”

Chen Haobei said with a stunned face: "Huh? So what to do? Mei Tianer said, "What should I do?" Put them all away and go out to help the police, you stupid fork! ”

Under Mei Tian'er's Yinwei, Chen Haobei wiped his tears while putting away all the dishes that had just been arranged, and then drank most of the wine that had been poured by himself, and in the end there were only three glasses left.

After drinking, Chen Haobei looked at Mei Tian'er pitifully and asked, "After cleaning up, what should I do again?" Mei Tian'er said, "Hurry up and go out to help!" Run away for the thief in a while?! Haven't you heard the saying 'If you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of thieves'? If he can't catch it once, if he turns around and thinks about 'where he falls, he will get up', and he will go up to our building to walk around if he has nothing to do. ”

Chen Haobei completely understood this time, and I also admired Mei Tian'er for thinking long-term, but I really didn't expect this.

Chen Haobei immediately said to Mei Di'er tragically: "Di'er, wait for my blood to stain the battlefield!" Return from the expedition! Mei Tian'er covered her forehead and said: "The blood-stained battlefield is a special talk about the dead, you are illiterate, shut up, okay?" Shall I prepare an aunt's towel for you? Get out of here! ”

At Mei Tian'er's urging, all of us were kicked out of the house. But because of what the film police just said, this time we all came out empty-handed and didn't take any weapons.

When we went out, we went straight upstairs, but the two policemen were no longer there, and the 13th floor was empty.

After thinking about it, I leaned down to the window of the fire escape and looked at the ground of the community, and for a moment I felt that the two policemen were lying, that person was not an ordinary thief at all, because there were too many people below...

There were at least forty or fifty people, but because it was at night, the details were completely unclear, so I motioned for Brother Chao and Chen Haobei to come over and take a look, and the two of them took a look and immediately decided: go downstairs.

We took the elevator to the first floor, a little surprised when we went out, so there seemed to be a lot of people in kung fu, I took a closer look, basically all men, there are old and young, but there is only one old, that is, the old, the others are some young adults.

When we came down, they seemed to be discussing something, Ah San clapped his hands and said loudly, "Do you understand?" Get it and get moving! ”

No one responded to him, but everyone did move after Ah San finished speaking, some of them went away, and more than a dozen men directly crossed us into my unit building, and everyone ignored us, at most they just glanced at us and finished the matter.

Soon, the people who had just gathered disappeared without a trace like a low tide.

For a while, there were only us and Lao Gu left in the courtyard with Ah San Ah Si, and there was also a piece of police.

Lao Gu greeted us, "One thousand, Xiao Hao, and... Xiao Chao, right? The calf said it was the man you found? ”

I nodded "um", and the police officer on the side said again: "Didn't you say that you should go back to rest, why did you come out again?" Brother Chao and I didn't speak, Chen Haobei hurriedly replied: "There is something in our community, who do I not cover?" ”

Ah San and Ah Si laughed "fluttering", and the little cow also had an expression of crying and laughing, Chen Haobei said shamelessly: "Don't be like this, don't be like this, it's a good neighbor, can you give some face?" ”

Lao Gu shook his head and said a little helplessly: "Okay, listen to our brother Hao, hehe, what, since you have come, you don't have to go back in a hurry, just wait a while, maybe you can really help something." ”

We didn't say anything, and suddenly a loud and rhythmic whistle sounded in the night sky, the sound seemed to come from a certain position on the roof, and then the same whistle came from another position, and soon there were two more whistles, each from four different directions, as if it were the four corners of the roof of the community.

Then there are the intermittent birdcalls and... The roar of a beast came from all directions, from all corners, sometimes in the air, sometimes in mid-air, sometimes close to the ground, and sometimes even from underground.

The frequency of these sounds was so high that for a moment I even had the illusion that I was in the jungle, what was going on? I've never heard such a lively animal screaming before...

These cries continued intermittently for five or six minutes before they gradually quieted down, but as the cries stopped, the expressions on the faces of the old Gu and several people became very unsightly.

Ah San, Ah Si and Xiao Niu both looked like they had made a mistake, half-bowed their heads, and did not dare to speak in fear. Lao Gu was obviously suppressing his anger, and after a while, Lao Gu said in a gloomy tone: "Since this is the case, then Ah San, Ah Si, you two should also move." ”