534: Chapter 534: Uninvited Guest Cos Without Invitation!
534: Chapter 534: Uninvited Guest Cos Without Invitation!
The front door was ajar.
Tang Xiao stepped steadily, slowly entering the house.
Wu Jie followed closely behind, on high alert.
The lights inside the house weren’t on, making it difficult to see.
The living room was silent, without a single sound.
Wu Jie followed Tang Xiao’s side, and recalling from mory, he took the fruit knife from the living room’s coffee table fruit plate.
With a knife in hand, stable as an old dog!
A thought suddenly popped into Wu Jie’s head.
F*ck!
Why would I think of PUBG at a ti like this?
If I picked up a frying pan, wouldn’t that be even cooler?
He looked around.
Wu Jie frowned slightly.
It felt like, it seed, perhaps…
there’s no one here!
Did I offend anyone recently?
Even if it was the Yincheng Muto Conglorate, they’ve already turned against Yuan Shikui.
The ninjas and martial artists they sent must have been recalled by now, right?
How could soone infiltrate my house in the middle of the night with malicious intent?
However…
Tang Xiao remained very cautious.
She searched every room, one by one.
Look at her professional steps, perfect positioning.
She was practically a walking standard teaching template for Close Quarters Battle (CQB).
However…
After searching the study, Wu Jie saw that all the wedding gifts were there.
The suitcase full of money was still sealed and leaning crookedly against the corner of the wall.
Wu Jie rembered very clearly that on the night before last, he had pushed it in forcefully from the doorway.
The suitcase slid to the corner of the wall and rested there crookedly.
It hadn’t fallen over and was still in its original position.
Now, Wu Jie was completely relieved.
But Tang Xiao was still seriously searching, and Wu Jie didn’t bother to speak up and remind her.
Only after Tang Xiao finished searching did Wu Jie suddenly turn on the corridor’s hallway lights.
The light burst into brightness!
Tang Xiao instantly turned around, aiming the gun at Wu Jie’s face.
“Damn!
Put your gun down!”
Wu Jie said annoyedly, “Don’t blow my head off with a shot, or you’d really be a husband killer!”
“I…”
Tang Xiao flipped on the safety and tossed the gun to Wu Jie.
“Weird!
Why wasn’t the house door locked tight?”
“Do you clearly rember locking the door when you left?” Wu Jie asked irritably.
“Eh…
like, it seems, probably…”
Tang Xiao scratched her head, looking embarrassed.
Wu Jie sighed, shook his head, closed the living room door, and turned on the surveillance system.
The front door had a built-in cara, and there were also concealed caras installed in the outside corridor.
The synchronized display of two angles, two screens, allowed for a clear view of everything outside the door.
Apologetic, Tang Xiao ca over and said, “About ten minutes after you left, I left the house too!”
Wu Jie nodded slightly and activated the surveillance system’s impressive human recognition feature.
Humans, with their heads, torsos, and limbs, are easy to recognize compared to other items.
With this, the surveillance system could perform an image search.
It could bring up when soone appeared and who it was.
He set the search to start from 8 PM, and the system began to search automatically.
Soon, it only found two human figures.
One was Wu Jie.
After leaving and locking the door, Wu Jie even turned back to check it with his hand.
Can’t help it!
It’s a habit developed because when I shared housing with others, I lost things frequently, so I had to be careful.
And the other was Tang Xiao, who was looking down at her phone,
Tang Xiao just casually pulled the door when she left, then went straight to the elevator.
In the footage, it was clear that the door didn’t close completely.
The closing speed slowed down, and in the end, it was just a little bit short.
It wasn’t like so fancy car with an electric suction door that closes automatically.
Seeing this, Tang Xiao beca even more embarrassed.
“Amazing, my wife!”
“With so many red envelopes and checks, plus your Pure Love diamond ring worth several million, you just left without securely closing the door!”
“It looks like we need to install an automatic door for our ho!”
Wu Jie muttered, shaking his head as he reset the surveillance system.
Tang Xiao slapped her forehead and pouted,
“I feel like ever since I’ve been with you, I’ve beco more and more casual!”
Wu Jie laughed, “People say that pregnancy makes one silly for three years; you’re not even pregnant yet.
What will it be like when you actually get pregnant and have a child?”
“Hmph!
That’s easy; I just won’t get pregnant then!”
Tang Xiao pursed her lips and huffed as she walked away.
“Haha, won!”
Wu Jie shook his head and sighed.
Won are like that; they don’t always make sense.
Arguing with a woman is like getting your head caught in a door.
However…
During the day, when the two were at ho being affectionate, could soone have visited?
Wu Jie, curious, set the ti on the surveillance system from 6 AM to 8 PM.
The surveillance system quickly backtracked and searched, and soon, it displayed four human figures.
One was a janitor from the residential property managent, who at around 6 AM, carried a bucket and mop, and cleaned the hallway outside the door.
The other two were security guards who patrolled at 9 AM, 2 PM, and 7 PM.
These three tis corresponded with going to work, taking a lunch break, and coming ho in the evening.
It was peak season for break-ins and forgotten locked doors.
However, at around 7:30, there was still soone who appeared at the door.
This person was dressed very oddly.
In the sweltering heat, they were wearing a windbreaker, sports trousers, and running shoes, topped with a golf cap.
They ca from the direction of the fire escape, walking with their head down, so the surveillance couldn’t capture their face, making it impossible to determine their gender.
Not only did they pause at the door but also held a device similar to an ultrasonic detector or so kind of portable through-wall radar, scanning the walls as they walked.
What a pity.
The double screens from different angles didn’t catch his face either.
This person was incredibly cunning, even wearing gloves on their hands.
It was presud that their device detected that both Wu Jie and Tang Xiao were inside, thus they didn’t attempt to pry open the door.
Or perhaps after studying the lock for a while, they decided to give up.
After making a round trip, they left again via the fire escape.
Wu Jie saved this particular segnt of video and shared it to his phone via cloud sharing.
After double-locking the door, Wu Jie followed the noise to the study.
Tang Xiao was there, organizing all the property, and glanced up at Wu Jie as he entered.
“I’ve checked everything, we haven’t lost anything!”
“Take a look, what was this person here for?”
Wu Jie tossed his phone to Tang Xiao.
“This is…”
Tang Xiao frowned deeply, watching the video from start to finish.
“Looking at this equipnt and the way it scans the walls, it’s a portable imaging through-wall radar!”
“Without even entering the house, you can roughly see inside, the most advanced even integrate thermal imaging!”
“Such equipnt, really isn’t cheap at all!”
Looking up, Tang Xiao asked in surprise, “Is our ho being targeted by a thief?”
“How should I know, but if this guy knew you went out at night and left the door unlocked, he would definitely be livid!”
Tang Xiao glared fiercely and tossed the phone back to Wu Jie.
“What if he’s not after money, but planning an assassination instead?”
“Do you think he’s a Yincheng martial artist?” Wu Jie laughed, “Impossible!
If they were watching , how co I wasn’t followed when I went out tonight?
And getting barbecue by the roadside with so many people around, if they wanted to make a move, it would’ve been too easy!”
Tang Xiao’s brow furrowed tightly and she began repacking red packets back into the box, falling silent for a while before speaking,
“Sotis, very complex situations can have an extrely simple reason!
Maybe…”
As they talked, both their gazes fell onto the ring box on the table.
Wu Jie stepped forward swiftly, opening the ring box.
The dazzling Pure Love diamond ring was still there, glittering brightly, a kaleidoscope of colors.
“The ring is still here, we’re both alive, so what was this person after?”
Tang Xiao was also puzzled.
“Strange!
If it’s about money, then when you and I went out separately and no one was ho, they should have attempted burglary, right?”
“Could it be that after checking at past seven, finding us ho, they decided not to steal today and co back tomorrow?”
Wu Jie analyzed, “Another possibility is that they were acting alone, with only one person, unable to keep a constant watch.”
“After all, my outing was sudden, and you visited soone on a whim, they’re not clairvoyant, how could they know we would be out?
Your door wasn’t locked, nothing was stolen from the house, that alone explains a lot!”
Tang Xiao asked with furrowed brows, “Do you think, might they not be after money?
Could there be another motive?”
Wu Jie took out his phone and imdiately called Zheng.
In that mysterious courtyard, cell phones couldn’t be used, but there was still a landline.
The call connected quickly.
“Zheng, did you send soone to my house around 7:30 tonight?”
Zheng was startled.
“What are you talking about?
Didn’t I have Liao call you to co over?
Why would I send soone else?
What would be the point?”
Wu Jie glanced at Tang Xiao and said, “Uh…
maybe it was just soone passing by!
It’s nothing, goodbye!”
After hanging up, Wu Jie called Yu Hui and put the phone on speaker, asking:
“Yu Hui, any movent from the martial artists of the Muto Conglorate in Yincheng today?”
Yu Hui imdiately replied:
“Yes!
The three martial artists taking turns guarding Yuan Shikui at the hospital took a flight back!”
“I sent soone to follow them to the airport and found they t up with four n, who had arrived one after another last night!”
“I think those four are also martial artists.
Since Yuan Shikui and their conglorate have fallen out, they didn’t bother to assassinate you; they just withdrew!”
Tang Xiao interjected to ask, “Has there been any force targeting us recently?
Soone mysterious ca to our place tonight at 7:30!”
Yu Hui paused for a mont.
“No, not really!
Apart from Yuan Shikui going after Mr.
Wu, there are no other potential threats.
President Tang, are you sure it wasn’t a thief?”
“In a super high-end residential area like Tianyuan Haoting, where the rich and influential reside, it’s an easy target for high-class thieves!”
“If I were a master thief, I’d definitely hit this place.
Just stealing a famous painting or so porcelain could net tens of millions!”
Yu Hui’s words involuntarily drew both Wu Jie and Tang Xiao’s gaze to the Pure Love diamond.
Worth over fifty million, it really could easily catch a thief’s eye.
“Alright then, I’ll look into it myself.
You should get so rest!”
After ending the call, Wu Jie imdiately received a punch.
“It’s all your fault!
Why did you have to buy such an expensive ring?
I said from the start not to buy it, but you insisted on being romantic!”
“Are you satisfied now?
I don’t like wearing it, and keeping it at ho just tempts thieves.
Let’s just return it tomorrow, even if we have to pay!”
Tang Xiao grumbled with deep resentnt.
Wu Jie sighed silently and put away the ring.
“I’ll try returning it tomorrow!” he said.
Tang Xiao uttered a sound of agreent, picked up her backpack, and prepared to sort out the red envelopes.
Suddenly!
The lights went out, and there was a power outage!
Wu Jie looked out the window at the other buildings.
Every single one had lights on; the complex couldn’t have had a power outage.
It couldn’t be that the electricity bill was used up just by doing so renovations on the house since he had paid quite a bit for the electricity during the handover.
“Dammit!
I was worried he wouldn’t co!” cursed Tang Xiao.
She stood up abruptly, turning to Wu Jie and asked, “Where’s the gun?”
“What do you need a gun for?
Just wait here; watch split him in two with a single slice!” Wu Jie declared, reaching for a fruit knife and storming out with murderous intent.
He hadn’t taken two steps before seeing a shadow drop from above.
Swinging in as precisely as if on a swing, the figure landed flawlessly through the balcony of the living room.
Without hesitation, Wu Jie whizzed the fruit knife through the air…
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