Chapter 13
There are adults and children, big dogs and small dogs, and they either chase each other, play frisbee and throw balls, presenting a joyful atmosphere.
Occasionally, people join in or leave, but more often than not, passers-by pass by.
Fang Lei realized that the world may be clearly divided into two types of people: those who like dogs and those who don't.
In the process, Fang Lei took out his mobile phone and kept taking pictures of those walking the dog and their dogs.
Seeing their attitude towards dogs, he affirmed at least one thing, these dog lovers have been screened out of dog abusers.
At this moment, Fang Lei's eyes were attracted by a master wearing a blue maintenance suit not far away.
The maintenance man had been waiting in the opposite corner, looking like he was waiting for someone, but in fact his eyes had been wandering over the dogs and children.
But what made Fang Lei interested in him was the gray toolkit he carried on one shoulder.
If he was not mistaken, it was a gleaming claw hammer that poked its head out of the bag.
Fang Lei took a picture of the maintenance worker and walked over to him.
Just as Fang Lei was about to get close to him, the maintenance worker suddenly raised his head and glanced at him, then lowered his head and turned around to try to leave quickly.
"Hey, you!" Fang Lei suddenly shouted at him, wanting the other party to stand still.
But what he didn't expect was that after the maintenance worker in his fifties heard this, he walked faster, turning back as he walked to see if Fang Lei had caught up.
"Stop!"
Fang Lei pointed at him with his hand and chased after him.
This voice made the surroundings chaotic all of a sudden.
Not only did it make the maintenance man run more happy, but the people who walked the dog and the dog that was loosened and thrown wild were also attracted.
They didn't see the situation clearly, only saw an old man chasing a maintenance man, and thought something was wrong, so they chased after him.
What's even more ridiculous is that when those dogs saw that humans were making a fuss, they also came to the energy one after another, and they didn't miss this good opportunity to join in the fun, and ran along.
As a result, a spectacle appeared in the community: a group of people and a group of dogs were making noise and running around the neighborhood for no apparent reason.
And he screamed while running. Humans are called "Stop", dogs are called "Wangwang".
One after another, chaotic, attracting the sideways eyes of passers-by, chickens flying and dogs jumping.
The old people pulled aside for fear of being knocked down; Parents picked up their children and protected them.
All in all, it's a mess and a mess.
Fang Lei actually slowed down after not running a few steps.
He was indeed too old to chase after him.
It's a strange thing about physical fitness, maybe you're a sturdy lad when you're a year old, and you're a toddler a year later. Yesterday he was a tough guy, but today he is a soft old thing.
Of course, there were other reasons for him to slow down.
He saw a man.
It's a little girl. The little girl was on a leash with five puppies.
Although it was a bit strange to lead five puppies, the point was not here, the point was that he seemed to have seen this little girl.
Where had he seen it, why was it so familiar, he thought so, and his pace slowed down, and he even forgot to chase the strange repairman. And this forgetfulness made him miss a good opportunity to catch that person.
The dogs caught up.
The reason why dogs are not human is because they do have a low IQ by human standards.
They didn't know which was better or worse, and they didn't know that it was the man in blue who was running in front of them, not the old man who was behind. They barely hesitated, and when they caught up with Fang Lei, they rushed towards him with their brushes.
Big dogs, puppies, Labradors, Golden Retrievers, Corgis, Shiba Inu, Border Collies...... About seven or eight dogs swarmed Fang Lei to the ground, if it weren't for the quick reaction of the owners of these unlucky children, rushing up and dragging them all away, maybe something would have happened to exterminate people.
Fang Lei was so frightened that he lay on the ground, panting, and didn't dare to move, until two young men stepped forward to help him up and asked if he was okay, he shook his head and got up, confirming that he was not bitten and that there was nothing wrong with his heart.
The group of dogs who committed the crime were miserable.
Their masters, fearing that something would happen to the old man and that he would have to pay a large sum of money for his medical expenses, were so angry with the disobedient children that they took them aside and let them sit in a row, and then began to educate and reprimand them bitterly.
Fang Lei smiled when he saw this picture, thinking it was very funny. Those dogs were like children who had done something wrong, obediently sitting and being trained, lowering their eyebrows, wagging their tails and begging for mercy, and glancing at Fang Lei from time to time, expecting him to help them intercede.
He didn't care about them, but patted the dust on his body, trying to find the repairman again, but there was no trace of him.
But luckily, he took a picture - wait, the phone was pounced on by the dog, pressed under him, and when he took it out of his pocket, the screen shattered, and the phone screen was already black.
This also means that he has to take the phone for repair and restore the hard drive to see the contents.
It's bad luck.
But he still has a way. Subsequently, he went to the property again.
The property manager Wang happened to be at the front desk, and when he saw him coming in, it was too late to hide, so he stepped forward with a smile on his face.
"Officer Fang, are you here?"
"Hmm." Fang Lei just snorted, then asked the front desk attendant for a disposable paper cup, bent down and poured a glass of cold water, and drank it all.
"Oh, by the way, I went to check what you asked me to check last time, and I sent the photos of the deceased and the dogs to the community owner group, and everyone said they didn't know each other. That's why I didn't report it to you. ”
Fang Lei glanced at her.
"Take me to the monitoring room."
Surveillance footage captured the chaos on the lawn from earlier.
When playing a certain picture, Fang Lei motioned for the operator to freeze the picture, and then pointed to the blue-clad maintenance worker on the screen who fled in a hurry.
"Do you know this person?"
Manager Wang leaned his face closer, and immediately showed an expression of sudden realization.
"Isn't this Lao Chai? Yes, it is the maintenance worker of our property. ”
"How long has he been working here?"
"It's been more than a year, and I personally recruited it, and I'm very honest and there is no problem in all aspects. What happened to him? ”
"Call him and ask him to come along."
"Oh."
Manager Wang pouted and took out his mobile phone and walked out of the monitoring room. After a while, she came back again.
"The phone is off."
"Do you know where he lives?"
"Yes. He lives in a basement in the complex. Seeing Fang Lei's puzzled face, Manager Wang explained, "In addition to the underground garage on the negative floor of this community, there is also a part of the underground storage room, which was also sold to the owner at that time, but there is no property right, only the right to use." In order to make money, some owners rent those storage rooms of more than ten square meters to outsiders, because the rent is relatively cheap, so it is quite popular. Lao Chai rented one of them, and I helped him find it. ”
Fang Lei stood up.
"Let's go, take me to see it."
Coming out of the monitoring room, I took the elevator directly and went down to the negative first floor.
Walking in the cramped, dark, and damp passages, Fang Lei felt that he had entered a person's stomach, and he was the food being digested, and there was a slimy squeezing feeling.
That's why he didn't want to sell his house in the old town and move into such a new high-rise building.
He likes to have his feet on the ground and doesn't like the feeling of being in the air.
Especially when he knew that the bottom of these high-rise buildings was actually empty, he felt extremely unreliable.
The thought of the floor collapsing and his own being buried under the concrete rubble made him panic.
Manager Wang was about to call the owner to ask for the key to open the door, but Fang Lei had already inserted the end of a wooden stick that he had picked up from nowhere into the gap between the lock and the door.
Then, with a hard pick, the lock fell to the ground.
Under the stunned gaze of Manager Wang, he pushed the door open.