Chapter 31. [Case 6] voice-controlled gallery lights

I'm a very lazy person, and I would never stand as long as I could sit, but laziness here is just behavior. I'm grateful to the inventors who are as lazy as I am, inventing a lot of things that seem rubbish to Sister Cai, but I find quite practical. For example, something called a lazy scaffold. I like to lie in bed and watch movies on my phone, just because I don't want to sit and watch on my computer. This stand can be fixed at the head of the bed at one end, and the phone can be clamped at the other end, and the connecting rod in the middle can also change the position and direction freely, so I can free my hands and not have to hold the phone all the time. An electric toothbrush, for example, requires only a cheap battery to make the toothpaste shake in your mouth until it becomes a bubble. There are many more such things, and one thing that we will all encounter that is very close to lazy products is voice-activated lights.

Voice-activated devices are now installed in the corridors of many residential areas, and you only need to stomp your feet lightly to illuminate the whole world. It saves unnecessary waste of electricity bills, and also avoids the fate of the switch being damaged by the bear child. But if I told you that when this ghost thing was discovered because of the voice-activated lights in the hallway, would you dare to stomp your feet in the dark in the future? Are you afraid that when the lights come on, you will see someone other than yourself?

In the week since the fight with Hu Zongren, no matter how Sister Cai persuaded me, I was never willing to call him again, and anyone who knew the two of us asked me about him, I always said that I was not familiar with him, and I didn't know about him, and if the person who called happened to be something I didn't like, I would also ridicule him, why are you asking him to call me or something. It's very offensive, I know, but I must admit that I was really not in a good mood that week, just because of Hu Zongren's stupid words that don't treat buddies as human beings.

A week later, I received a call without my name on the same phone I used to use. This phone is relatively private, so generally people with my number are acquaintances, and I also have a mobile phone for business. At first, I thought it was a scam call like asking me to go to the court to get a summons, but when I was about to pick it up and hang up, I heard a man's cold voice.

"Before 12 noon tomorrow, go to a certain building at No. 1, a certain street, Yubei District, to find Ms. Du, don't be late, I will send you the address information later."

The tone was like an order, which made me very unhappy, so I asked the other party, did you make the wrong call, I am an unemployed vagrant, who do you want me to report to? The other party heard a laugh that sounded very contemptuous, and then said, I know who you are, since you have been going to meddle in our affairs from the beginning, why don't you care about it? Your friend from the Yaoshan faction surnamed Hu, I have already called before, so you should be prepared to go tomorrow.

When I heard it, it turned out to be someone from the Xuanyuan Society. So I asked him, since you called Hu Zongren and told me why you wanted to go, how did you know that I would definitely go? The meaning of my sentence is actually to lie to the other party about how the two of us know that the two of us are a little incompatible, because he called me, it must be that Hu Zongren did not tell me about it, if he even knows this, either Hu Zongren leaked the news, or they sent someone to follow him secretly. The possibility of tracking is really unlikely, because Hu Zongren and I are not very easy to follow, so I concluded that Hu Zongren must have said that he was fighting with me, and he was known, and then I thought that Hu Zongren's friends and acquaintances in Chongqing were not many, and most of them I knew, who leaked the news?

When I thought of this, I suddenly became a little scared, and quickly counted the people we both knew, and I couldn't find anything suspicious, but what a terrible thing it would be if someone really leaked the secret. I didn't have time to think about it, so I told the other party, whether you like to send that address or not, anyway, I don't need money to answer the phone, let alone text messages...

A few minutes after I hung up the phone, a text message came, telling me the exact address, and even Ms. Du's phone number was left. Sister Cai came over and asked me who I was talking to so impatiently, I roughly told her, she was also very worried about whether Hu Zongren would be tricked or something, and asked me to call Hu Zongren to ask, I said I don't fight, you are not allowed to call, if he does not take the initiative to call to make amends, I will not forgive him.

The next day, I arrived at the address on the text message two hours ahead of schedule as agreed, but I didn't call Ms. Du, because I knew that no one knew that I would come except for the person who would call me at Xuanyuan at the moment, even Hu Zongren. It is located in one of the most populated areas of Yubei District, because the only airport in Chongqing is located nearby, because the construction of the airport has led to the development of the nearby economy, forming a large economic zone. Most of the houses are newly renovated, and the air quality is much better than where I live, but where I am at the moment is a relatively old residential area, which I call old, that is, there is no elevator. Many buildings in the airport area will not be built too high, so there are no elevators.

I squatted far away from the apartment building where Ms. Du was, I had entered the corridor before, there were four households on each floor, and after I mastered the distribution of rooms 1 to 4, it corresponded to Ms. Du's 4-4, which happened to be the position where I squatted and could directly see their balcony. And where I am, I can see everyone coming in and out of the apartment building, and if Ms. Du is anxiously waiting for someone, then she will definitely go to the balcony from time to time to look in the direction of the way she came, so that I can further judge whether she has waited for the person she wants to wait, such as Hu Zongren.

Based on my understanding of Hu Zongren, if someone had agreed with him to arrive before 12 o'clock, he would have arrived slowly at about 11:30. Sure enough, not long after I squatted downstairs, at about 10 o'clock, I saw a medium-sized woman constantly sticking her head out of the balcony to look. So I knew that there was no one else in her house, at least no one she had made an appointment with today, so I took out my phone and called Ms. Du according to the message that the person had sent me earlier. When she picked up the phone, her voice was very anxious. I didn't speak at first, and I needed to judge if she knew the news that I had arrived. After she fed her a few times in a row, I hummed and didn't say anything else. She was puzzled for a few seconds before she asked, are you Master Hu?

So I realized that she did not speak directly to Hu Zongren on the phone, and it was likely that the person from the Xuanyuan Society who contacted me also sent the phone number and address to his mobile phone in the same way. I quickly replied to her, yes, I am, someone introduced me to you, saying that something happened to your family. She said, where are you now? I've been waiting for you to call me since I got the call yesterday. I said I'm on my way to your house, and I'll be there soon. Your address is 4-4 in a certain community, right? I deliberately repeated her address to convince her that I was Hu Zongren. She said yes, how long do you have to get there? I said it's going to be fast, I'm leaving. She suddenly said, Master Hu, isn't that green squatting under the tree you?

I looked up and saw that she was looking at me from the balcony. So I laughed and said, yes, my feet hurt a little, I'll squat and come up. After hanging up the phone, I suddenly felt embarrassed, so I didn't bother to smoke my cigarette and went upstairs.

Ms. Du was very kind to open the door for me, and then welcomed me into the house and brought me a glass of water. After I sat down, I tentatively asked her, are you alone? She nodded and said yes. I said there would be other of my peers later? Ms. Du said suspiciously, is there anyone else? I don't know what to do. I said I'll just ask, the industry is very competitive. After coughing twice, I asked her to tell me the specifics.

Ms. Du said that in fact, this matter is nothing for herself, mainly worried about her daughter. I said, where's your daughter? Judging by her age, she is not a few years older than me, so the child should not be very big. Ms. Du said that her daughter was sent to kindergarten early in the morning and would not return until evening. She said she felt that their house was a little unclean, as if there was another person living there.

When she said this, her voice was very low, and I don't know if it was deliberately to make me feel weird. So I asked, have you seen the "person" you mentioned? She shook her head, saying that she hadn't seen it, but she had clearly felt it. She told me that the first time she noticed this was because she was cooking in the kitchen one night after she picked up her daughter and went to the kitchen. Ms. Du said that because of the proximity to the door, she let her daughter play with toys in the living room. But it wasn't long before she heard "Ah! A little girl screamed.

Ms. Du told me that the lights in their hallway are voice-controlled, and that her daughter likes to play with this voice-activated light the most, and sometimes she will stand in the hallway and wait until the lights go out before screaming to turn the lights on, which she thinks is fun. So when Ms. Du heard that, she thought it was the child running to the corridor to play with the voice-activated lights, because the sound was exactly the same. She didn't care, she didn't even look back, she just said loudly, Sisi come home quickly, stop playing, eat immediately. After a long pause, she heard another "Ah! So she said, let you go home and stop playing, why don't you be obedient. Then stir-fry.

But after a while, the cry reappeared, and Ms. Du began to get a little angry, thinking to herself, why was this child disobedient? So he put down the shovel and planned to go outside to call his daughter back, but when he walked out of the kitchen, he found that the door was closed properly. Turning her head, her daughter Sisi was obediently sitting on the small bench playing with toys, and when she saw Ms. Du coming out, Sisi said to her:

"Mom, I'm hungry."