Lei Lanting grabbed the iron fence with his hands in frustration and shouted outside the fence: "Officer, when will lunch be given? If not, we will all starve to death."
Not far outside the fence, a uniformed policewoman sitting at the table looked up at him, then looked down at the form in her hand, and pointed at the clock on the wall: "We will provide it on time at 12 o'clock. Lunch. You don’t have to shout.”
Lei Lanting immediately saluted the policewoman: "Thank you, policewoman." Then he grinned and asked tentatively: "Can we leave after eating?"
The policewoman neither looked at him nor spoke, and wrote something seriously on her watch.
Lei Lanting sat on the iron fence bored, staring at the clock on the wall, as motionless as a statue.
At 12:03, the policeman stuffed a khaki paper bag through the food delivery port on the iron fence: "Lunch is here. Hurry and eat."
Lei Lanting grabbed the paper bag, rummaged through it a few times, took out a hamburger and raised it in front of Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele, and asked in surprise: "They only let us eat this?"
Looking at his face that was slightly flushed due to surprise, Dong Qiangqiang calmly took the burger from his hand, lowered his head and took a big bite, then took out a bag of ketchup and a paper towel from the paper bag, and then shook it He walked leisurely back to the seat in the corner of the detention room.
Tong Lele, like Dong Qiangqiang, quietly sat next to Dong Qiangqiang and started eating in small bites.
Seeing that neither of them spoke, Lei Lanting took a bite of the burger in dissatisfaction and said depressedly: "Just one hamburger is too little, I can't be full at all."
The other two people seemed not to hear his complaints and remained silent.
Lei Lanting looked at the policewoman outside the iron fence of the detention room and murmured to himself: "If I had known better, it would be better not to call the police and run away earlier. Alas..."
Around three o'clock in the morning on Sunday.
At some point, Lei Lanting and Tong Lele also stood behind Dong Qiangqiang. Looking at the ruins around them, Tong Lele folded his arms and asked tremblingly: "What should we do now?"
"What else can we do? Don't be stunned, hurry up and leave." Lei Lanting said as he walked out of the "house", looking at the villa in front of him.
The ivy that used to be lush and coiled around the walls of the villa has long since disappeared. There are still fires burning in many places on the building. Small pieces of wood fall from time to time. Most of the windows on the first to third floors have been broken, and the flames are everywhere. It jumped out fiercely from the window frame, and through the window, you could see that the room was already a sea of fire.
The three of them carefully walked around the villa. Bricks and tiles fell from high places from time to time. They hit the ground with a "bang" and raised large sparks. In less than a second, these sparks disappeared without a trace. There was a strong burning smell in the air that made it impossible to get any closer.
Lei Lanting only glanced at the villa, then staggered towards the woods.
Dong Qiangqiang looked at the villa and said with infinite regret: "What a pity for those old records and red wine..."
Tong Lele glanced at Dong Qiangqiang, nudged him from behind, and whispered: "It's better to leave quickly."
The two of them followed Lei Lanting and walked slowly among the weeds. Dong Qiangqiang glanced at his mobile phone and suddenly asked Tong Lele in front of him: "Lele, do you have a signal on your mobile phone?"
Tong Lele took out her cell phone, took a glance at it, and suddenly said in surprise: "One frame!"
"Call the police quickly." Dong Qiangqiang said immediately.
Lei Lanting, who was walking at the front, heard their conversation and immediately stopped, turned around and said, "You can't fight!"
"Why?" The other two people asked at the same time.
"As soon as you call the police, the police will have our mobile phone numbers. The three of us will become criminal suspects!" Lei Lanting looked anxious, "We definitely can't report it."
"You didn't set a fire, so what are you afraid of?" Dong Qiangqiang said with a bitter smile, "Besides, can you escape suspicion if you don't call the police? The agency hired you to clean the house, but the building burned down before you could check the results. If you didn't Call the police, maybe the police will think you set the fire. What will you do then?"
Lei Lanting thought for a while and said: "That's easy to handle. I'll just say that I locked the door after cleaning and left. As for why the building burned, I don't know. Besides, since it's already burned, the agency can't verify it. It passed without anyone noticing. Why do we need to do anything more?"
Dong Qiangqiang shook his head: "Do you think you can escape without saying anything? Don't forget that Mueller who ran away still has a contract signed by the three of us. If...I mean if he If there is something wrong, we can't get rid of it even if we jump into the Yellow River. You believe me, it is in our best interest to call the police now."
Lei Lanting wanted to argue again, but Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help but snatched the phone from Tong Lele's hand and quickly dialed the fire and criminal police numbers.
Seeing Dong Qiangqiang being so determined, Lei Lanting couldn't say anything else. He stared at the trees in the distance and whispered, "What about the money?"
"What do you mean?" Dong Qiangqiang was stunned by his question.
"We carry so much money with us. What if we encounter the police on the way back? What if the police search us?" Lei Lanting asked worriedly.
"Then, what do you mean, let's hide the money?" Tong Lele whispered.
"Where are you two going to hide the money in this wilderness?" Dong Qiangqiang felt that his head was getting big. "Can you find it after you hide it now? Don't worry about useless things, let's hurry up now Walking towards the station, the police and firetrucks can’t come that fast, so you won’t be able to meet the police.”
The three of them walked towards the station in the dark, getting further and further away from the villa. They felt that the surrounding temperature was dropping rapidly. The woods were dense and opaque, with dancing shadows and shadows. The wind blew through the woods from time to time, making a whining sound. Coupled with the sudden screams of wild beasts, Tong Lele felt that cold sweat and hot sweat were pouring out of her body, as if she was starting to cry. It's like taking a hot bath with the air conditioner on.
I have to say that Lei Lanting has a good sense of direction. In such a dark environment, it only took him 40 minutes to walk to the station.
It was not yet four o'clock in the morning. Dong Qiangqiang was just about to sit down on the wooden chair in the bus shelter and take a nap. Suddenly he felt that there seemed to be a flash of blue light at the end of the road. He was startled and quickly stood on the chair and looked into the distance.
Lei Lanting was sleeping against another tree. Dong Qiangqiang made a little noise. He turned around impatiently and was about to go back to sleep. Suddenly I heard Dong Qiangqiang whisper: "There is a car!"
Before the other two people could react, they saw a car with red and blue lights flashing alternately appearing at the end of the road, followed by two fire trucks with red lights on top.
Dong Qiangqiang's heart skipped a beat: Police car! I’m really afraid of what will happen!
Although they were still some distance away, the high beams of the police car suddenly flashed twice in succession. Dong Qiangqiang quickly covered his face with his hands. He immediately realized that the other party had seen them.
Lei Lanting and Tong Lele also came to him at this time. Lei Lanting whispered: "Why did the police come so fast?"
The police car slowly stopped on the side of the road. The people in the fire truck stuck their heads out and said something to the people in the police car, and then the fire truck continued to move forward.
The police car door opened on the left and right, and two policemen in blue uniforms came out of the car. One of them waved his flashlight and shined it on the helpless Dong Qiangqiang and the other three. The other shouted: "We are the police. Please show your Certificate."
The three handed their passports to the young policeman holding a flashlight. The young policeman turned around and entered the police car again.
Another policeman looked to be about forty years old, broad and fat. He looked at the two men and one woman in disheveled clothes and gray stains in front of him, and asked suspiciously: "What are you doing here?"
Tong Lele said nothing and glanced at Dong Qiangqiang. Dong Qiangqiang said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: "We are college students working nearby. We encountered someone setting a fire. We managed to escape here."
"Arson?" The fat middle-aged policeman circled around them cautiously. "How do you know someone is setting a fire? Have you seen the person who set the fire?"
"I saw it," Dong Qiangqiang pointed at Tong Lele and Lei Lanting, "All three of us saw it, and one of them seemed to be holding a gun."
"Gun?" The fat middle-aged policeman was surprised and asked quickly, "What else did you see?"
At this time, the young policeman who verified the identity poked his head out of the car, nodded to the fat policeman outside, and then handed him three passports.
Dong Qiangqiang didn't know how to explain the fact that they met Mueller and helped him find his inheritance.
At this moment, there was a sudden noise from the communicator in the police car, and the young male police officer immediately shouted: "They have arrived."
Seeing that none of the three people answered his question, the fat policeman thought they didn't understand, so he repeated it again, but all three people were silent and no one answered his question.
The fat policeman returned the passports to the three people while paying attention to their expressions and movements. When he handed the passport to Tong Lele, he noticed that Tong Lele's hands seemed to be shaking a little, and the clothes she was wearing seemed to be men's clothes, which seemed very ill-fitting. He secretly pinched the corner of the passport with his fingers. Not knowing the fraud, Tong Lele reached out to take the passport but did not take it. When she tried to take it the second time, the fat policeman suddenly let go of his hand. Tong Lele did not expect this and became unsteady. , her body swayed back, and a pile of bills suddenly fell from her clothes to the ground.
Everyone was stunned.
The fat policeman immediately pulled out his pistol: "Don't move! Put your hands up!"
