The road is long, take it and cherish it

It was rainy on Wednesday, March 3nd, and at 22:08 in the morning, Hou Yue’s cell phone on the bedside rang on time.

Hou Yue got up tiredly and turned off the alarm clock. After another ten minutes of resting on the bed, she got up and slowly put on her clothes.

When the alarm clock rang at 8.50:[-], he picked up his phone and looked at the time.

He suddenly woke up and said to himself, "No, I'm late!"

Two minutes later, he hurried downstairs without washing his face.

I rode a battery car and rushed to the company in the drizzle. As soon as I arrived at the store door, I saw the leader standing at the door of the store, looking at me with evil eyes.

With a look of despair on his face, he bravely walked into the store. Standing at the door was a tall man with slicked-down hair named Wang Dongbing.

This person is the leader of his store manager. As the saying goes, the first level of officialdom kills people, let alone the second level.

Hou Yue lowered her head slightly and did not look at him. When she passed by him, she was stopped by Mr. Wang.

Mr. Wang said: "Why can't you go to work on time now? It's a good habit to develop a habit. Do 100 push-ups at the door now. It will make you remember."

After hearing this, he could only accept it helplessly and started doing push-ups at the door. The first few dozen were easy, but when he got to the back, Hou Yue's body was a little weak and it became more and more difficult.

Finally, after reluctantly finishing, he stood up, clapped his hands, and walked into the store without saying anything else.

Hou Yue happened to bump into store manager Wu who was passing by. Store manager Wu glanced at Hou Yue and said helplessly: "Set the alarm clock earlier next time. Don't be late."

Hou Yue nodded, indicating that he understood.

I sat in front of the computer, opened the company system, clicked on my private client list, and fell into deep thought as I looked at the client list that had been wiped out yesterday.

He raised his head and glanced at the data on the wall next to it. Several colleagues had posted it all over, representing the harvest of colorful beans, but his own column was empty.

He sighed inwardly.

"It seems that I have to work harder recently, otherwise I will be in trouble again."

As he thought about it, Hou Yue's thoughts drifted elsewhere. He remembered the liar who said he had suffered a bloody disaster last night.

"Tch, wasn't I fine? By the way, what did I do after I went back last night? I can't seem to remember clearly. I guess I was too tired, so I just went to bed."

He didn't care about this. Ever since he was a child, he had always forgotten some things in recent years. He always thought it was because of his poor memory, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Soon, his thoughts were brought back by the sound of phone calls from several other colleagues.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about these messy things. Making money was more important.

He clicked on the company's public customer list, which contained tens of thousands of customer phone calls. Hou Yue started his day's work.

The first call, no one answered.

The second phone is turned off.

The third phone number is out of service.

On the fourth call, the call finally got through. Hou Yuegang said: "Hello, I..."

Before he could finish his words, a sharp woman's voice came from the other end of the phone, shouting: "Are you finished? You must be crazy. You keep beating me. I told you I don't want to buy a house. Why don't you call me again?" Give it a try!”

After speaking, he hung up the phone.

Hou Yue sorted out her mood, wrote the follow-up content on the company system, and continued to make phone calls.

Later, Hou Yue made 25 and [-] phone calls in a row. He either turned off his phone or refused to buy a house. There were still many customers. After answering the phone, he started talking to him, opening his mouth and speaking beautiful Chinese.

He held his aching head in pain.

"The quality of the business list is as stable as ever, but why are there so many scoldings today? Normally, even if you don't buy a house, you just get hung up on. What's happening today? The average anger value per person is increased by [-]?"

Soon, the whole morning passed, and the time came to 11.55 minutes.

Nothing was gained. I made nearly 50 phone calls all morning, but no one was interested in buying a house.

This kind of luck is gone. I glanced at the time and saw that it was time for lunch and rest in 5 minutes. Okay, let’s play the last one. It doesn’t matter. Let’s go to eat after playing.

He pressed the phone number listlessly... After the phone rang twice, it was connected.

Just as he was about to introduce himself and recommend a house, he heard a soft female voice coming from the other end of the phone.

"No matter who you are, save us, we are locked up in an elevator room in Putuo District, room 15 on the 1504th floor of the elevator room!!! Please, save us!"

Hou Yue was stunned for a moment. He asked in a panic: "What is the name of the community and what is the building number?"

The female voice on the other end of the phone said anxiously: "I don't know. I can only see a few high-rise elevator buildings outside through the window of the room. I don't know what kind of community they are, but their facades are dark red. No matter how far away they are, they are dark red." There is a Wanda Plaza at one point, and..."

Before the woman finished speaking, Hou Yue vaguely heard a man's voice.

"You bitches, you actually have a cell phone hidden."

Then the call was hung up.

Hou Yue looked at the phone in her hand and didn't know what to do for a moment.

He thought for a while, and even though he was not sure whether it was true or not, he might as well call the police. He dialed 110 and gave the police the situation and phone number he had just heard on the phone. The police said they would call the police immediately. Open an investigation.

After Hou Yue called the police, he felt slightly relieved. He breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the store, ready to have a meal. Within two steps of walking out, Hou Yue came back.

No, I still feel uneasy. I feel like it will be difficult for the police to find the person based on the clues I gave him, and they might even transfer him.

He took out his mobile phone and opened the map. The district he was currently in was Putuo District. There were three Wanda Plazas here, two of them were relatively close to him, and one was particularly far away.

He took out another piece of white paper and drew the approximate directions of three Wanda Plazas on the paper, according to what the woman on the phone said.

The closest ones to her were the other two elevator rooms, and then Wanda Plaza.

He found the buildings in the four directions of Wanda Plaza, southeast and northwest, and drew them on paper.

It took about 20 minutes. Hou Yuebi drew three floor plans around Wanda on the map and looked at the paper in his hand.

He was lost in thought, but he didn't expect that his major in college would be useful in a place like this.

Judging from the situation, the second Wanda Plaza has basically been excluded, and it is closer to the old city.

There are no elevators in the surrounding high-rise buildings, they are all three-story old houses.

The first and the third are both possible.

However, the dark red facade mentioned on the phone was not consistent with it. Hou Yue thought about it. Since there was no accurate judgment, let's just rely on luck.

Resigning himself to fate, he rode towards the first Wanda Plaza.

Eighteen minutes later, Hou Yue arrived at the first Wanda Plaza. He stood in front of the gate of Wanda Plaza, exactly as on the map.

There are three high-rise elevator complexes in the surrounding area that match the description. Two of them are closer to Wanda Plaza and have khaki facades. There is also one further away and the facade is gray.

Hou Yue came to the farthest community, the elevator room of this community. He knew that the community was called Langao Chenglu. The high-rise elevator in 2003 had a total height of 24 floors. There were a total of 7 buildings in the community, and the unit price was about 8 per square meter.

Oh no, this time, price no longer matters, damn occupational disease.

Hou Yue came to the community and stopped the car. With the mentality of giving it a try, he took the elevator one by one to the door of Room 1504.

In 1504, two buildings in front, Hou Yue knocked on the door, and the residents inside all opened the door. One was an elderly person living there, and the other was a tenant at home who happened to be cooking. Obviously, neither of them were the same.

Hou Yue came to the third one and knocked on the door. He knocked for a long time but no one responded. There was no movement in the room through the window in the corridor.

Hou Yue had no choice but to knock for a while. Suddenly, the door next door opened, and an old aunt came out and looked at Hou Yue and said.

"Stop knocking, there's no one inside, it's so noisy, it's midday."

"I'm sorry, Auntie, is this house unoccupied?"

The old aunt said impatiently: "Yes, yes, it's been vacant for several years. Come on, you're knocking and I'm calling security." After saying that, she closed the door with a bang.

It didn't seem to be the case. Hou Yue sighed inwardly and went to the next building. In the four buildings behind, he knocked on two houses.

There are two other households. I learned through neighbors that in one household, a young couple went out to work.

An elderly family member fell ill a few days ago and was taken away by ambulance.

neither!

Hou Yue sat on the battery car a little disappointed, looking at the white paper in his hand.

This place has basically been ruled out. According to what was said on the phone, there is more than one person trapped, and there must be more than one murderer. One of them is a man, and there are at least four or five people there in total.

It's also a residential building, so it shouldn't be possible to change places during the day. The risk of changing places during the day is too great.

Hou Yue took another look at the time on her phone. Unknowingly, it was already 01:30. The lunch break was over and it was time to go back to work.

I hesitated for 2 minutes. It’s important to save people!

He rode to the nearest subway station. The third place was too far and the ride was too slow.

45 minutes later, he got off the subway, took a taxi, and arrived at his destination. On the way, he received a call from store manager Wu.

Manager Wu asked him why he hadn't come back since it was time to go to work.

Hou Yue simply said: "I have something that needs to be dealt with temporarily, and I may need to deal with it," and then put it off.

Hou Yue arrived and looked at the elevator room not far away from the square entrance. The exterior facade was not the dark red as mentioned on the phone. Hou Yue's uneasiness became more and more obvious.

He was afraid, what if this was not the case?

It was obviously something that had nothing to do with him, but he felt a real sense of fear creeping into his heart, which was simply inexplicable.

Hou Yue suppressed his fear, took stock of the current situation, and quickly targeted the elevator room.

He was not familiar with this community. He glanced at the big words on the gate of the community, Yiliu Apartment, with an elevator room with a total height of 18 floors. The community was not big, with a total of 6 elevator rooms.

Hou Yue quickly took the elevator to the first building, a 2-family house with 4 elevators. Room 04 happened to be on the west side.

Hou Yuexin briefly judged the basic layout of the house. He had sold the house for more than two years. This type of house with multiple elevator rooms actually had similar layouts. In addition, he briefly looked at it before getting on the elevator. After looking at the facade pattern of the community, I can basically tell the general layout of the rooms. There are two bedrooms and one living room on the west side, and the living room has a balcony facing west.

In the first set, Hou Yue knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered. There was no window facing the corridor in this house.

Hou Yue, the neighbor from the three households next door, also knocked on each door one by one. To Hou Yue's surprise, there was no one there.

Hou Yue walked around, found the meter box, took two photos, and took the elevator down.

In the next half hour, Hou Yue ran through the remaining five buildings, but gained nothing.

Three of the households knocked on the door and it was obviously not the case. Although there was no one in the other two households, but they knew it through neighbors, it was obviously not the case. Could it be that this community is not the same?

Hou Yue was upset at this time. Could it be that the mall was wrong and it wasn't actually Wanda Plaza at all?

After all, it was so far away. Why could she clearly see that the shopping mall in the distance was Wanda and not another shopping mall? Otherwise, why would the facade of the community not match it?

If the mall is wrong, there must be no less than twenty shopping malls of various sizes in Putuo District. How can I find one?

Hou Yue thought for a long time, and his eyes suddenly fell on the first building again. He pondered in his heart, and his intuition told me that this building was very suspicious.

Logically speaking, why wouldn't anyone on the first level be at home?

He took the elevator to the door of Room 1504 again.

This time he took the elevator to the 13th floor and came out. He quietly climbed the stairs to the 15th floor.

He didn't knock on the door directly, but went to the electric meter in the corridor, opened the photo he had taken before, and compared it with the meter number above. It moved! The number of meters has increased! But the numbers on the four electricity meters on this floor have changed, and people in the four rooms are using electricity!

Hou Yue covered his mouth in excitement, he felt as if the truth was right in front of him!

But, what to do next?

Hou Yue hesitated for two seconds, then slapped his head and called the police! I can't just rush in and yell, don't move, raise your hands, I'll be beaten to death.

Just do it, Hou Yue climbed the stairs and went downstairs while calling 110.

He said softly: "Hey, 110? Yes, I reported the crime a few hours ago. Yes, yes, I may have found the kidnapper's hiding place. Yes, yes, yes, don't worry about so much now, and send people to Yi as soon as possible. Liu Apartment, Room 3, No. 1504, hurry!"

After saying that, Hou Yue hung up the phone. At this time, he had already reached the 11th floor. He looked at the time and saw that it was already three-twenty. He thought about it and took the elevator down to the first floor.

Hou Yue, as if nothing had happened, wandered around outside the building. He came to the front of Building 3 and looked up.

Okay, it's too high. I can't see clearly what's going on in the room above. I can only hope that the police will arrive soon.

After Hou Yue waited anxiously for more than 20 minutes, Hou Yue observed that two police cars drove directly in from the gate of the community.

Hou Yue suddenly thought something bad in her heart, this...

But there is no way, things have already happened, I can only hope that no accident will happen.

Hou Yue hid behind the wall on the other side of the community and observed secretly. She saw six policemen, five men and one woman, getting out of two police cars. They were followed by an old security guard from the community.

They quickly walked into Building 3. After a while, Hou Yue estimated that they had already taken the elevator up, hoping nothing would happen.

After another ten minutes, suddenly, the sound of breaking glass was heard above Building 3, accompanied by a sharp shout.

Right in front of Hou Yue, within two seconds, the sharp shouts suddenly stopped, and the ground downstairs in the community turned bright red.

A woman fell from the 15th floor. Her limbs were twisted on the ground, her body was like a broken sack, and her head was like a watermelon falling from the sky...

Hou Yue was stunned.

"This...this...this, how could this happen..."

He stammered, then his feet softened and he sat down on the ground.

At this time, another woman's scream came from the top of Building 3, and Hou Yue raised her head and looked over with red eyes.

I saw a man holding a woman in his hand, standing by the balcony. Most of the woman's body was already hanging on the balcony.

The man was probably shouting something to the police, and the woman was probably asking for help.

But at this time, Hou Yue's head was buzzing. He stood up unsteadily, closed his eyes, covered his head with his hands, and shook his head in pain.

At this time, the woman on the balcony was still pushed down, just like the previous woman.

Hou Yue opened his eyes suddenly. His eyes were no longer red and his spirit had stabilized. He stretched out a hand and shook it hard in one direction of the sky.

His hand seemed to have grasped something, and as he grasped it, everything around him stopped.

Time seems to have been pressed on the pause button.

Hou Yue secretly exerted force on his hand, and a transparent clock hand appeared vaguely on his hand. The hour hand opened a wound on Hou Yue's palm that was deep enough to show the bone.

It seemed that if Hou Yue didn't let go, the hour hand would cut off his hand.

A lot of bright red blood flowed from his palm, but the blood did not drip to the ground, but was directly absorbed by the hour hand.

After a few seconds of stalemate, the hour hand became more real after absorbing some of Hou Yue's blood.

When he exerted force, the hour hand was moved counterclockwise, but this process was very slow.

But as the clock hand slowly turned, everything in the world was going backwards, and that woman was already in mid-air.

After slowly retreating to the balcony, the body of the dead woman on the ground was also returning to its original shape, slowly floating up, and flying backwards back to the 15th floor.

Then the police walked out of Building 3 of the community backwards, returned to the police car, and drove out of the community in reverse.

The time returned to 02:30, when Hou Yue first arrived at the community.

Hou Yue wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and the injury on his hand healed within a few seconds.

Hou Yue arrived first. There was an Internet cafe next door to the community, which had a six-hour machine and a VIP private room with a private bathroom. He also ordered a takeaway from a distant place. It was expected that the takeout would take an hour to be delivered.

After doing this, he locked the door of the private room and went out from the Internet cafe and the bathroom.

Hou Yue calmly jumped down from the Internet cafe on the fourth floor.

He grabbed a window edge on the second floor, then kicked off the wall, and when he was about to hit the ground, he rolled and landed safely on the ground.

He stood up, patted his clothes, and ran towards the community, avoiding the few cameras along the way.

I passed by the canteen and bought masks, gloves and a cap, and soon arrived at the downstairs of Building 3.

He still didn't choose to take the elevator because he found that there was a camera in the elevator, and there was something wrong with this camera.

He climbed all the way to the 15th floor. He stood in the corridor of the 15th floor, panting.

After resting for 5 minutes and barely regaining some strength, he took off a hairpin from his head and straightened it.

Hou Yue tried his best not to make a sound, and slowly arrived at the door of Room 1504. He held the door handle with one hand, put a hairpin in the other hand into the keyhole, and put his ear against the door.

He fiddled with it twice, and with a snap, the door opened.

He immediately opened the door and rushed in.

As soon as the door opened, he saw that no wonder no one on this floor had opened the door at that time, but the electricity meters were all running.

It turns out that four houses have been connected together, which is really a big move.

Hou Yue didn't have time to think about this, he quickly looked at the current situation.

Soon a door in front opened, and a middle-aged man with a beard came out. He had obviously heard the sound of the door opening.

He stepped forward quickly, and before the man could react, he punched him on the neck that he had just stretched out.

With just one blow, the man fainted. Hou Yue supported his body and gently leaned him against the door.

He heard footsteps coming from the front room again, more than one person. He quickly stepped over the man on the ground and hid at the bathroom door.

Soon three men with daggers in their hands walked out slowly. They saw the bearded man sitting at the door, and one of them shouted: "Old Wang, what's going on? Why are you sitting on the ground?"

Seeing no response, they were just about to step forward when Hou Yue, who was hiding in the bathroom, rushed out.

A punch hit the back of the nearest person's head, and a dark force was transmitted to that person's head. The person only felt a spin, groaned, and lay on the ground unconscious.

Seeing this, the other two people quickly turned around and faced Hou Yue with knives in their hands.

One of them said fiercely: "Who are you? I advise you not to mind your own business!" After shouting, he slashed with a knife.

Hou Yue was speechless, there was so much nonsense, I really don’t know what the meaning of his words was.

He turned sideways to avoid the knife, and punched the man's lower back with such force that the man's kidney literally burst open.

The man clutched his lower back in pain, held on to the wall behind him, and sat on the ground. He was sweating on his forehead and wailing in pain.

Hou Yue didn't care about this. Evil people will eventually be punished, and there is still one person standing right now.

From the looks of it, there are only three people inside. It seems to be much simpler than imagined.

Hou Yue shook her slightly red hand and approached the last person with a relaxed smile on her face.

Another man with a knife wound on his face looked ferocious. He suddenly pulled out a small black pistol from his waist and pointed it at Hou Yue.

Hou Yue frowned and continued walking towards the man.

The man shouted with a pistol: "Don't move! You're coming, I'm going to shoot!"

Hou Yue ignored this. Apart from the surprise at first seeing that he actually had a gun, he was just surprised. So what if he had a gun?

Bang, a gunshot rang out, the bullets scratched several hairs of Hou Yue's head turned sideways, and there was a burning smell in the air.

After Hou Yue dodged the bullet, he quickly stepped forward, punched the man in the jaw, and made his mouth full of blood. Then he kicked him in the back of the knee, which hit him hard. Kneeling on the ground, his movements didn't pause at all.

He raised his leg and kicked him again in the temple. Only then did the man faint completely.

Hou Yue glanced indifferently, and the three people who lost the ability to resist took out a mobile phone from the pocket of one of them.

After unlocking the phone with his fingerprint, he dialed 110. He lowered his voice and said to himself: "I want to report a crime to Yiliu Apartment, Room 3, Building 1504. There is someone kidnapped with a gun here. Come here quickly."

After saying that, Hou Yue ignored the chattering questions on the other end of the phone and hung up the phone.

He lowered the brim of his hat, opened the door, and walked inside.

However, there are too many rooms. Which room is the kidnapped person in?

Hou Yue closed her eyes gently and listened quietly for a while. After a few seconds, Hou Yue had a general direction.

Soon, after passing through a living room, he came to the closed door of a room in the north.

After thinking for a while, he raised his foot and kicked it, and there was a bang, accompanied by Hou Yue's muffled groan.

"Tear... so strong? It must be solid wood."

Hou Yue rubbed her feet, but she still overestimated her sub-healthy body and went to find the key.

He quickly returned to the place where the three people were at the door. At this moment, all three people had fainted.

Hou Yue touched them and found three bunches of keys. She didn't know which one it was, so she simply took them all away.

He returned to the locked door, picked up a key, inserted it and turned it, and the door opened.

Opening the door, there were three women sitting in the corner of the room.

The one in red clothes looks to be 26 to 7 years old at the oldest.

There was also a man wearing black short-sleeved shirts who looked like a 21- to 2-year-old college student.

Hou Yue looked at the last one and wished he could go back and kick those scumbags more.

The last one is a little girl who looks no more than 7 to 8 years old and is wearing a stuffed bear jacket.

But at this time, the little girl was in a coma.

The other two women were tied with chains on both sides of the room, and their hands, feet, and mouths were sealed with tape.

He first went to the side where the little girl was. Hou Yue first checked the little girl's breathing and found that she was still alive.

He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, picked one of the keys in his hand, turned it, and opened it.

Hou Yue felt very distressed when he saw that the little girl's originally white and tender wrists were red and swollen due to the iron cuffs.

He couldn't help but touched the little girl's head and looked at the older girl.

"I'm here to rescue you. The police are already on their way. The three kidnappers outside have been knocked unconscious by me. You are safe now."

After saying that, Hou Yue untied the tape on the three people's hands, feet and mouths, and threw three sets of keys to the girl in red.

"I don't need your thanks, but please just pretend that you have never seen me. When the police ask, you can answer truthfully. Just say that a stranger saved you. Don't describe too much."

After saying that, Hou Yue didn't care about the girl's reaction, turned around and left.

At this time, the younger girl asked: "Wait a minute... what is your name? Thank you for saving us. How can I thank you later?"

In response, he just waved his hand and said no, and left.

When passing by the door, I saw three scumbags on the ground. I couldn't help but kicked them again, and then left with satisfaction.

Of course, I still climbed the stairs, which made my family members cry. The 15th floor is so high...

When he left the gate of the community, not far away, three police cars drove towards the community.

Hou Yue looked at it, quickened his pace, and rushed to the Internet cafe.

After arriving at the back of the Internet cafe, he climbed up lightly along the water pipes and the window sills on each floor.

I returned to the private room, opened the locked door, and sat on the soft gaming chair. Two minutes later, the delivery boy came over with the takeaway.

After taking the takeaway, he said thank you.

After that, I ate on the computer desk. I hadn’t eaten all day, but I was starving to death.

He murmured while eating.

"Can't you be kinder to yourself? I have nothing to do and waste my time all day long worrying about these irrelevant things. I don't want to die young, really."

After eating, Hou Yue turned off her phone, sat on a chair, closed her eyes, and slowly fell asleep.

When he woke up, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and he looked around blankly.

Ok? ? ?

Hou Yue was extremely confused.

who I am?I am there?What am I doing?

A few minutes later, Hou Yue looked at the time on the computer. It was already eight o'clock.

I remember wasn't I looking for help in the community where the girl was imprisoned?

Why did I fall asleep in the Internet cafe...

This is too outrageous.

Hou Yue turned on the phone with a speechless face. As soon as the phone was turned on, there were twelve missed calls, which made Hou Yue have a headache. Ten of them were from the boss and two were from the police.

He called his boss, feeling uneasy. If he missed work for a day like this, he wouldn't be fired.

Soon the call was connected.

"Wudian, listen to my explanation..."

"Huh? Tell me, where did you go this afternoon? You didn't even answer the phone." Wu Dian asked on the other end of the phone.

Um...Hou Yue was at a loss for words for a moment. I couldn't help but sleep in the Internet cafe all afternoon.

"I finished my meal at noon and suddenly felt sick to my stomach. After I got back, I went to the bathroom. I wanted to lie down on the bed and take a rest, but I accidentally fell asleep. I'm really sorry."

I really don't know how to explain the truth, so I can only lie. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Hou Yue thought to herself.

"Okay, okay, then you have a good rest and don't be late tomorrow," Manager Wu hung up the phone after saying that.

Hou Yue breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his job was saved. Then Hou Yue looked at the missed call from the police. Did they call me to rescue the trapped girl?

Hou Yue hesitated for a moment and called back. A few seconds later, the call was connected, and a crisp female voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello, welcome to call the Shanghai Putuo District Police System. What help do you need?"

"Hello, hello, I reported the crime at noon. I would like to ask, has the kidnapped girl been rescued?"

"Oh~ it's you! We called you this afternoon, but you didn't answer. Don't worry, we have rescued the three trapped girls, and all the kidnappers have been arrested. Thank you for the clues you provided. "The woman on the other end of the phone said seriously.

Hou Yue felt relieved when she heard what the police said: "That's fine, that's fine. This is what I should do."

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Hou Yue walked out of the Internet cafe in a happy mood.

Although I don’t know what happened, I fell asleep for no reason, but since I am fine, everything is fine, I am in a happy mood, and I want to be luxurious today.

Finally he bought a cup of coffee, took a taxi and went home.