The crackling sound of the fire burning the wood made the people in the house start tossing and turning. The temperature of the space increased rapidly. Alex woke up from a violent coughing sweat, and the whole room was filled with thick smoke. , even the place one meter away has become blurry. He immediately pushed his wife beside him, picked up the kettle on the bedside and poured the water on his clothes. He covered his mouth and nose with the wet clothes and pulled his wife, who was not yet alert, to the balcony.
Thick black smoke was spewing crazily from the windows on the first floor and the gaps that connected it with the outside world, and traces of flames were faintly visible in the thick smoke. It was a fire!
"Jump down!" Alex yelled again, and his wife woke up in fear. She looked back at the bedroom in a panic. Alex knew what she was thinking, but it was too late now.
The jewelry Alex gave her over the years was placed in her dressing room. There was a lot of expensive clothes and jewelry in it, worth at least hundreds of thousands. There is a safe in the study next to the dressing room, which contains more valuable items.
No matter how precious these things are, they are not as valuable as one ten thousandth of life. His wife immediately read outside the guardrail, and slowly moved down the balcony guardrail until her hands were on the ground of the balcony, and her legs were already hanging off the ground. It was only a meter away, and then he let go.
The fire also alerted the surrounding neighbors. Someone had already called the fire alarm just now, and the siren of the fire truck in the distance was particularly harsh in the middle of the night. Alex doesn't know what's going on with Ed, and now he can only take care of himself.
In less than a few seconds after he jumped from the second floor, several people rushed out from the main entrance of the first floor carrying a wet quilt. Ed was panting in embarrassment. Water stains and burning were in the air. The dust painted a surreal painting on his face.
"How could there be a fire? Did you forget to put out the fire in the kitchen at night?" Ed took off his coat, wiped his face clean, and finally wrapped the coat around his left hand. When he opened the bedroom door, his hand was burned by the metal doorknob. It was not serious.
Alex shook his head, "We didn't cook anything at night, we just ordered fast food from outside." With his daughter kidnapped, who still has the energy to slowly cook a delicious dinner in the kitchen? Alex ordered some food directly from a nearby restaurant, so there was no chance of a surprise in the kitchen. Moreover, this is the uptown area of Orodo, and this community was developed by a very powerful developer.
There is a fire alarm bell in the kitchen. Once the glass tube in the alarm bursts due to high temperature, the alarm bell will sound immediately. The alarm bell did not ring, indicating that either there was something wrong with the alarm bell itself, or that the fire might have been man-made.
Adults tend to have more mature thoughts, not because they understand everything when they are old, but because they have experienced more, heard more, and accumulated enough experience.
The two brothers looked at each other and immediately realized that the fire was most likely related to the kidnapper who kidnapped Alex's daughter.
Their target may not be Alex's daughter, but Alex.
Ed pulled Alex aside and asked in a low voice, "Have you offended anyone recently?"
Because of the nature of Alex's work, he will come into contact with some large land developers. These businessmen often invest millions and tens of millions. If their application documents are "stuck" by Alex, maybe You can really do such a thing. In this society, the big capitalists with a net worth of tens of millions are either from aristocratic backgrounds and are already very wealthy. Or they were born in a crooked way and quickly completed their initial accumulation through bloody means.
It's not that there are no normal legal businessmen, but such people are in the minority after all, just like a very famous big capitalist in the empire who is charitable and has been interviewed many times. He always repeats his experience and gives the general public a very special and positive feeling. He is called the first generation beneficiary of the imperial dream.
He was originally a farmer who made a living by growing pumpkins. He would often talk about this at tea parties or when he was invited to talk to students about his entrepreneurial experience - I am a pumpkin seller.
He ignored how he went from a pumpkin farmer to a famous big capitalist in the empire, because it was not convenient to tell that history.
Perhaps people in his time can still remember that there was a gang called Pumpkin Paradise...
Alex frowned and recalled the work during this period, and finally shook his head, "The final approval of all documents lies with the governor, and I have never stabbed anyone in the back, not because of these things. "
At the same time, Alex also put forward his own opinion, "Could it be the lawyer named Kevin? We have only had conflicts with him during this time! There is a man named Du Fu beside Vivian. He used to be a gangster in Turnell, but he got rich somehow. Did he do it for Kevin? "
"It's possible..." Ed suddenly closed his mouth, and a firefighter walked towards them.
"Gentlemen, I'm very sorry, is there anyone left inside?" The firefighters need to confirm that everyone has escaped. If so, they start to put out the fire. If not, they have to arrange for people to go in and rescue the victims trapped in the fire - the large amount of water vapor will affect their vision.
Alex stretched out his hand and shook the firefighter's hand, "You guys arrived just in time, there's no one inside anymore."
The firefighter was not very good at words, so he smiled and left. Water jets poured in from the cracked windows. The fire became more intense, and black smoke billowed out. Many people came around to watch the fun. residents.
The two brothers looked at each other, Alex walked towards his wife, while Ed called his people and took the car to find Vivian. No matter whether it was done by the man named Du Fo or not, he would not let this person go.
A bastard from the countryside...just!
Du Lin stood in front of the third-floor window and looked at the ruined villa across the street from the community. The all-wooden house had suffered irreversible damage in the sudden alternation of hot and cold. The fire in the house had been extinguished, but The house also tilted slightly, and with an unpleasant twisting sound, one side collapsed. The onlookers retreated a distance, and he also observed several people driving away in these three cars.
Du Fu stood behind Du Lin. A dark red bright spot in the weak light suddenly turned red and dimmed quickly. "Your method works quite well. Now it's my turn to appear?"
Dulin transferred Ed from the military area by kidnapping Alex's daughter, and then separated them again with a fire. Now is the best time to take action. Dulin didn't know where Ed was going. He felt that Ed would most likely go to the hospital to find Kevin. If he still didn't doubt Kevin at this time, then the two brothers would be a mentally retarded duo. So Kevin has been transferred, and if Ed goes there, he will only miss.
He nodded and ordered, "Do it cleanly. You can try to give him a dignified death. After all, he is Vivian's brother."
Du Fu didn't answer, he chuckled twice and then turned around and left.
At this time, Alex looked at the fire scene where the fire had been extinguished. He asked the firefighters to get his safe out. There were many important documents and some valuables in it. It didn't matter to him if the other things were burned. The key was the safe. There are some things inside that cannot go wrong.
Sitting in the Imperial Land Resources Management Office over the years, Alex has received some benefits. In order to prevent himself from forgetting who gave him gifts or who was disrespectful to him in the future, he specially wrote it down in a small book God recorded it all.
Sometimes newspapers will expose some corrupt officials and detonate their "account books". Many people don't know how to emotionally face the "account books" left by these corrupt officials. In fact, they just have no actual experience. . Some people give money but don't ask you to do anything. If you forget in the future, it will most likely cause trouble. Or maybe three or five people come to give gifts in one day, and the things they give are all different. When giving gifts, it is certainly impossible to open them all and show them one by one to the corrupt officials who receive them.
Problems may also arise if you misremember who sent what later.
So at this time, they need a small notebook to record when and whose things they collected and what the other party's needs are. This is a required course for corrupt people!
With the help of firefighters, his safe was finally recovered from the rubble and dragged out. He thanked the firefighters repeatedly and asked his wife to keep an eye on the safe, and then prepared to call someone to send a truck to transport the safe to another house.
As the child of His Excellency the Governor and a descendant of a great nobleman, he has great power. Of course, he cannot have only one house. At this moment, a firefighter walked towards him.
All politicians can do one thing, and that is to put on a false smile. He said thanks again, and then quietly looked at the firefighter wearing a fire helmet and fire uniform.
"I don't know what to say, I found something behind your house!", the firefighter gestured, which only made Alex more confused.
"What is it?"
"I can't tell. You'll understand after you come over and take a look."
Alex glanced at the belatedly arriving police car, nodded, and followed the firefighter to the back of the ruins. The firefighter pointed at the neatly trimmed shrubs and said, "Did you see it? There is a box here."
"Box?" Alex was a little confused. The light at night was very dark. He only saw dark bushes and no box. When he stretched his neck to get closer, he felt a chill. A bright light flashed from under his eyelids, and then he heard a strange dialogue.
"Mr. Dulin asked me to say hello to you and wish you a pleasant journey!"
(End of chapter)