265. Night Detective
Now that they have a plan, of course, there is no need to delay it any longer, not to mention that tonight happens to be the rainy night they want.
At this time, Qi Jue had already taken Hao Dong into a broken courtyard.
The economy of Shencheng has developed rapidly in recent years, and the old city is also being developed rapidly. I don't know how many of the original old streets and alleys have been demolished and rebuilt, but this area has not been renovated.
It's all around it, but it's like a forgotten island. In addition, there are rumors of ghosts, and there is a high proportion of vacant houses here.
Of course, not every vacant house is really empty. But the place where they are now is really uninhabited, the yard is very dilapidated, and the doors and windows that were originally locked are also a lot broken, looking like a crumbling and dilapidated house.
The advantage of a dilapidated house is, of course, that you can enter quietly without knowing it.
Moreover, this room has a back door leading to the alley where Hao Dong's target building is located, and the threshold at the bottom of the wooden door is rotten, which is convenient for those rats to run out.
The two of them secretly settled down here in the afternoon when there were still people coming and going in the alley, and then kept guard, until the moonlight was completely gone in the second half of the night, and the sky began to rain, and there was even a slight thunder, and then they finally began to act.
Based on Qi Jue's experience of entering and exiting the small building several times, they could deduce at least two things:
First, although the old man guarding the gate himself has the ability, it should not be to the point of being very powerful; Second, in order not to attract attention, although the Ru family has arrangements here, they don't really put a lot of powerful people over.
And these two things can also make Hao Dong and them go backwards, and the secret behind them is only afraid that the Ru family itself is not particularly clear. Otherwise, they should have figured out a way to move this place away and keep it firmly under their watch.
The information left by Ru Shunhua also revealed a situation, that is, the Ru family of the earlier generation and the current Ru family, although the general direction of what they may do is still the same, but the details are handled in completely different ways.
This kind of radical difference will obviously lead things in a completely different direction, and it is also Hao Dong's chance tonight.
Hao Dong climbed into the next building of this dilapidated house during the day, and from the window here, he could go out onto a cement platform of less than two square meters on the second floor.
The platform has not been taken care of for many years, and it has long been dilapidated. The wooden planks piled on top were a little rotten and fell directly on the platform, covering the entire platform very tightly.
As long as the hands and feet are light enough, under the cover of these rotten wooden planks, people can sneak to the ground from the cracks in the side walls of the platform.
And from here to that shop, there is only less than fifteen meters away.
Qi Jue had already quietly arrived near the small building opposite from the roof, and saw that Hao Dong had successfully reached the ground, so he turned over and entered the building through the window that had just been pried open.
After another two or three minutes, Hao Dong heard a voice coming from the building.
It was the sound of something tipping over, and the old man who was dozing in the doorway suddenly became alert. But instead of leaving his position, he looked through the door and shouted, "What's wrong?" β
Hao Dong knew that the bald man who watched the shop during the day slept in the room next to the corridor behind the door, and the first thing Qi Jue did after entering was to make the man not so easy to wake up for the time being.
Sure enough, the old man shouted twice, but there was no echo at all. Instead, the sound of the thing tipping over sounded again, as if a thief had entered the house.
The old man hesitated, it was his duty to know what was going on inside, but at the same time he couldn't leave the door.
The voice sounded again, and the old man finally cursed, and stood up and went in to check. However, he was cautious, and when he entered, he closed the door casually.
Hao Dong knew that he didn't have much time, so he immediately ran out of the hole where he was hiding before, first opened the door of the rat cage facing the gap from the gap in the tattered threshold, and then threw the small dough mixed with sesame oil on the ground all the way.
Even rats can't resist this fragrance, and sure enough, the big black thing with sharp teeth quickly caught up with Hao Dong's pace.
Hao Dong had already run to the door at that time, and sprinkled the last handful of sesame oil dough in his pocket under the counter, so he hurried up and began to pick the lock.
Fortunately, this door is as old as the store, and the lock is not a new thing, and he was stabbed open by Hao Dong a few times, and he didn't have time to think about anything, so he entered the door in a flash.
Inside, as Qi Jue had imagined, the corridor was empty. However, Hao Dong didn't dare to delay, and immediately closed the door, and he dodged into the utility room on the side, huddled together with a pile of mops and buckets in the dark.
Qi Jue's incense to the bald man before was not heavy, and the old man woke up as soon as he smashed the bald door, and then both of them heard the sound of something toppling over from the deeper part of the back room.
Qi Jue's incense is unique to the Qi family, colorless and tasteless, and the bald man doesn't realize that he has been plotted once.
He was also very worried about the slow movement behind him, because the old man's kung fu was better than him, and when he looked at the locked door, he simply dragged the old man back to check.
Not long after Hao Dong hid in the utility room, he heard a miserable cat meow outside.
This is Qi Jue's success.
Wild cats entering the house to mate and fight are still very common in places where such old houses are gathered. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the bald head to scold and scold, and the voice came from far and near: "Paralyzed, what kind of thing, it's so bad luck to catch it so hard!" β
The old man's voice was relatively low, but he was counting him down: "Look at what you look like, the desperate San Lang who was famous on the road back then, now he can't even deal with a wild cat." β
The bald man cursed a few more words, probably to his own house, and then there was a loud slamming of the door, which fully expressed his anger.
Hao Dong didn't even dare to breathe, the old man's footsteps were so soft that if he hadn't tried his best to listen, he would hardly have heard clearly.
Fortunately, the sound of opening the door was still relatively obvious, and then he heard the sound of the old man jumping his feet. Obviously, the sewer rats outside are still very shocking.
Hao Dong didn't dare to delay, and immediately flashed out of the storage room, and Saya hurriedly ran along the corridor inside.
The rain outside was heavier than just now, and the thunder was clearer, and there was a curse from the old man in front of the shop, Hao Dong ran to the bottom of the corridor in one breath, until he turned the corner and hid in the darkness, and then finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Qi Jue quietly stuck to his side: "The room facing the bald head should be our destination." β
They didn't come to this building to visit, but to enter the Rujia Cemetery.
The cemetery of the Ru family is not a cemetery like ordinary people, but a tower-like building that develops in depth under this small building.
Since it is an underground building, there must be a passage that can be entered. And as a passage, then that place must be the focus of the caretaker here.
Qi Jue was hiding in the dark just now, and after noticing the convergence of the old man and the bald head, he checked the room first, and then looked back to find the source of the sound, so he speculated that that room was probably the place they were looking for.
"It's too close to the door, and the bald man is still awake."
Hao Dong tried to keep his voice down, and when he ran past the bald door just now, he heard that the boxes and cabinets were still being turned over, probably treating wounds. Fortunately, he didn't attract the attention of the people inside when he ran over.
Qi Jue pulled him along the wall and sat on the ground: "Don't worry, wait patiently." β
At the same time, they also sat on the ground and waited, as well as Ergou and his party.
These people have abundant resources in their hands, and it is much more convenient to find people in a place like the Demon Capital than in a remote grassland.
Although Qi Jue and Hao Dong have dressed up in disguise, both Ergou and the queen know them very well, and they are more focused when looking for them.
Especially Qi Jue recently got such a big cage of rats, and people who don't pay attention to it are just that, if someone really pays attention to something unusual, then they will definitely be able to find clues.
Along the way, they finally found the vicinity of the alley where the Ru family's small building was located today.
It's just that there is one last question.
They only knew that they had appeared in Hao Dong nearby, but they didn't know what the purpose was. The reason why he appeared here at this point in time is also because he received a message during the day that he saw someone approaching the area, and he never saw anyone leave.
Outside, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, the thunder was rumbling, the rain was foggy, and a small country had formed on the ground.
Ergou and Pan Xiang huddled under the canvas eaves of a row of small restaurants across the road, crowded like quails, and there was also a Zhao Zheng next to them.
The queen was in the car not far away, ready to helpβthough they didn't know what to support at the moment.
Because the rain was too heavy, the telescope in Ergou's hand couldn't play much role, so he simply took it back and stared at the alley opposite in the rain curtain in a daze.
To say that the position they chose is actually not very good.
This alley is east-west, they are at the entrance of the alley to the east, and the small building of the Ru family is close to the end of the alley to the west. Qi Jue took Hao Dong to move, and they all walked from the west, and it was difficult to see the situation inside from the east.
Ergou hesitated for a moment, then stood up with a face: "I'll go in and take a walk." β
According to the time, Hao Dong and they have been here for a week, and there are people who are suspected of being them in the vicinity, and the two dogs intuitively feel that it is impossible for them to do nothing and leave quietly.
At the moment, I can't wait for a reason, so it's better to take the initiative and take action.
Seeing that Ergou was about to move, Pan Xiang also stood up, but was pulled by Zhao Zheng: "There are many people, but the eyes are piercing." β
Ergou also nodded: "I'll be back in a while." β
Although he planned to find out what was going on in the alley, he didn't intend to blatantly wander in. There are a lot of old houses here, and there are still a lot of places that can be borrowed, and he can move more simply without anyone interfering with him.
Pan Xiang was still unconvinced, and struggled to follow up: "I'll go find my young master!" β
But when he saw Ergou go directly to the wall and climb onto the roof of the house, suddenly he was blessed and figured out Ergou's intentions.
Now he didn't shout anymore, but just stared angrily at Ergou's figure and disappeared into the night rain curtain, as if he was a puppy preempted by his companion.
And over there, the two dogs have risen and fallen a few times, and they have approached the shop. But the first thing he noticed at that time was the many big rats on the street.