Love That Extends Life

The people on duty tonight are Wei Xiaodong and Sun Jian. Both of them are in the monitoring duty room. After discussing it, the two decided that Sun Jian would be responsible for the first half of the night and Wei Xiaodong would be responsible for the second half.

Wei Xiaodong was drinking tea and reading an e-book on his mobile phone, while Sun Jian was already snoring.

Suddenly, a message appeared on Wei Xiaodong's mobile phone, indicating that the monitoring system had a power outage. That meant that Grandma Tian's house had no electricity, but Grandma Tian's family still had a lot of electricity bills to pay, which made him feel strange. The power supply in the countryside is unstable, and power outages occur occasionally, which is also a normal phenomenon.

At this time, Wei Xiaodong wanted to go out to see if other families had power outages, but after looking at the time, he decided not to go out because it was two o'clock in the morning and every family was sleeping with their doors and windows closed.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if there is a power outage. Grandma Tian’s monitoring system has a backup UPS power supply. If there is a power outage in the external power grid, the backup UPS power supply can be put into power supply instantly, so the entire monitoring system will not be affected in any way.

But because of the power outage, Wei Xiaodong pondered for a while, and his mind became active.

Suddenly, the phone vibrated again. Wei Xiaodong took a look and realized it was an alarm from the monitoring system.

At this time, he exited the e-book page on his mobile phone, then turned on the monitoring system and began to watch the alarm surveillance footage.

When Wei Xiaodong saw two figures appear on the electric pole on the east side of the door, he immediately stood up and looked out the window.

At this time, there was only one street lamp on the west side of the courtyard, and the whole courtyard was dark. However, Wei Xiaodong became alert at this time. He felt that there was something wrong with the power outage, and there was something even more wrong with those two people. It was already late at night, and they still appeared outside the courtyard, so he just watched the surveillance footage on his phone.

There were two cars parked in the parking garage on the west side of the entrance, while Chu Yunhao's car was parked in the yard. Wei Xiaodong thought that the two were thieves who broke the car windows and stole things from the car. There were many thieves in the city who targeted the cars parked outside. They would come to the street in the dead of night and start stealing valuables from the cars.

But the two people outside the yard did not go to the garage. Instead, they sneaked to the big wall on the east side of the door, and saw one of them took a ladder from his back, and then put the ladder on the wall, and then he climbed up the wall using the ladder.

"These two people are quite well prepared. It seems that they came here prepared. I wonder what they want to do?" Wei Xiaodong thought to himself, and then pondered over his next plan.

Wei Xiaodong did not dare to delay. He immediately came to Sun Jian and gently patted Sun Jian who was dozing off.

Sun Jian suddenly woke up. He saw Wei Xiaodong standing beside him and sat up in surprise.

"Xiaodong, you..."

Wei Xiaodong immediately made a gesture to keep quiet, and then whispered a few words into Sun Jian's ear.

"Ah, I didn't expect that the thieves in the countryside are so bold that they dare to break into private houses at night." Sun Jian said in a low voice in surprise.

"Sun Jian, go tell the old butler that I am monitoring their whereabouts. Wait for the old butler to come and hear what arrangements he makes." Wei Xiaodong ordered.

Wei Xiaodong felt that since the old butler Xu Bin was here, it would be better to let the old butler Xu Bin handle the matter. After all, the old butler Xu Bin was their leader.

Sun Jian hurried to find the old housekeeper Xu Bin, while Wei Xiaodong closely watched the two thieves' every move.

Soon, the old butler Xu Bin arrived, and behind him followed Nie Lei.

After the old butler Xu Bin learned about the situation, a stern look flashed in his eyes.

"Uncle Xu, what do you think we should do? Do we need to call the police?" Wei Xiaodong asked.

"Don't alert the enemy first. Let's see what they are going to do and then catch them." The old butler Xu Bin arranged.

"Uncle Xu, the two of them are running towards the house and look like they are going to go in." Wei Xiaodong said as he looked at the surveillance footage on his phone.

"Xiaodong, you go lie on the sofa in the hall. Sun Jian, Nie Lei and I will hide in the hall. Then we will wait for the opportunity and act accordingly!" The old butler made arrangements again, and he seemed very decisive and calm.

The four people acted quickly. They all found their own shelter and then waited for the good show of luring someone into a trap and catching the turtle in the trap to begin.

The eldest and second Jia quietly came to the door of the building. The second Jia pushed the door gently. He found that the door was not locked, so he pushed it open little by little.

Jia Laoer had been to Grandma Tian's house several times. Once, he went into the house on the pretext of drinking water, but he did not go upstairs. He just walked around the first floor and then went out.

There was no light in the room, as if it was swallowed by endless darkness. In sharp contrast to the faint light from the street lamp outside the door, when Jia Laoer stepped into the room, he felt that it was pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't see his hand in front of him. He groped carefully and took out a small and exquisite flashlight from his pocket.

Jia Laoer gently pressed the switch, and the small flashlight in his hand emitted a weak beam of light, but he quickly blocked most of the light with his fingers, allowing only a small amount of light to shine through the gap between his fingertips. In this way, he could illuminate the road ahead without attracting other people's attention.

With the help of this weak light, Jia Laoer carefully observed the situation in the hallway. He found that the young man was lying quietly on the sofa bed, his eyes closed, breathing steadily and deeply, and he had obviously fallen into a sweet dream.

Jia Er waved to Jia Lao Da behind him knowingly, and at the same time pointed a finger in the direction of the sofa bed. The two of them walked towards the sofa bed together in tacit understanding, their footsteps were light and silent, for fear of waking up the sleeping man.

At this time, Jia Laoer took out a bunch of socks he had prepared in advance from his pocket. He held the socks tightly, intending to stuff them into the man's mouth when he was controlling him, so that he would not scream at the critical moment.

The eldest and second eldest Jia tiptoed to the sofa bed.

Jia Lao Er nodded to Jia Lao Da, which was the signal to take action.

Just when the two were about to control Wei Xiaodong, they felt a flash before their eyes and they both fainted at the same time.

It turned out that just when the eldest and second Jia were about to take action, Sun Jian and Nie Lei quickly rushed out from their hiding place and knocked the eldest and second Jia unconscious.

The four men dragged Jia Lao Da and Jia Lao Er into the basement and tied them up.

When the candles were lit in the basement, Wei Xiaodong pulled off the hoods of the two men and felt that they were very familiar. He immediately remembered that the two men in front of him were the two brothers who came to collect waste.

Wei Xiaodong immediately walked to the old butler Xu Bin and said to him, "Uncle Xu, I recognize them both. They both collect scraps. That man came here three times before, and I sold all the scraps here to him. It seems that the last time, the two of them came together, so I remembered them."