It was the sound of glass being shattered.
There were several walls, and it sounded dull and far away, and could only barely discern a general direction. Beiquan guessed that it should come from the back door.
Everyone on the table stopped their knives and forks.
"what happened?"
Yamamoto Akihiko looked suspicious.
The butler and the two maids who were busy in the kitchen apparently also heard this movement.
The three came out of the kitchen one after another.
"Maybe the cat in the house touched the cup on the ground."
The housekeeper smiled and comforted the guests at home.
"Aranka."
At this moment, Daniel, who had been absent-minded during the meal, suddenly spoke up.
He directly called the African-American maid's name:
"You go see what happened."
The named maid looked at the housekeeper.
The housekeeper raised his chin and motioned her to do the same.
So Aranka put a teapot in his hand on the table, turned and left the restaurant.
"Everyone, please continue to eat."
The butler said with a smile.
When everyone heard the words, the expressions on their faces relaxed a lot.
There are only two exceptions.
Beiquan moved his gaze to the face of one of the two.
That is Daniel who just called the maid Aranka to see what happened.
Beiquan felt that Daniel's acting skills were obviously not good enough.
Although he tried his best to look nonchalant, the cold sweat on his forehead, his gaze constantly drifting towards the door, and his hand holding a fork but just poking around on the plate all showed the fact— This person must know what the crisp sound just now means.
Beiquan's hand reached under the table and gently tapped Wei Fuyuan's knee twice.
This is the secret code they agreed to.
Wei Fuyuan turned to look at him, their eyes met, and they silently exchanged a look that only each other could understand.
Immediately afterwards, they heard the loud cry of the maid Alanka:
"You—uh!"
The gunshots sounded, and the screams stopped abruptly.
Everyone jumped up.
The gunshot was silenced and not loud, but everyone could hear it clearly.
"Report - call the police!"
The lawyer immediately took out his mobile phone in his pocket, "I, I call 911!"
The butler took a few steps forward reflexively, as if he wanted to take a look at what was going on outside.
But as soon as he moved, he was immediately stopped by Beiquan.
When it is not clear how many intruders there are and what weapons these intruders are carrying, for ordinary people, going out right now is courting death.
Just then, the lawyer screamed:
"My phone has no signal! No signal!!"
"Damn!"
Daniel also looked at his mobile phone and shouted:
"Me too, the phone has no signal!"
Beiquan glanced at him and said in his heart that his acting skills were really bad.
In fact, Daniel has been paying attention to his mobile phone screen since he went to the table. If there is no signal, he would not have discovered it until now.
"It's a cell phone jammer!"
Yamamoto Akihiko's face was pale, and his two slightly delicate eyebrows were twisted into a knot, "As long as you know the channel, you can buy one online for thirty dollars!"
As soon as these words came out, the restaurant was in chaos.
"Yes, is it a robber?"
The beautiful young maid, Mary, seemed to be frightened by the gunshots, and cried shrilly, covering her face, but there was no one to comfort her now.
Wei Fuyuan looked at Beiquan: "What should we do now?"
It only took Beiquan a second of thinking time to make a decision: "Everyone go to the kitchen!"
There is no door between the dining room and the corridor. If they continue to stay here, they will only be served by the intruders.
Beiquan could guess the identity of the gangsters, so he felt even more that they couldn't stay here any longer.
This mansion has three large and small kitchens.
Beiquan remembered that there was a window in the room connected to the dining room. Although the window could not lead directly to the outside, it connected to a patio surrounded by walls.
There, they can find their way to other corridors.
"But, but... I, shouldn't we find a way to call the police now?"
Daniel tried to get them to stay, but there was no good reason in his haste.
So no one else is going to listen to him.
"You can wait here."
When it was over, Beiquan turned around, smiled slightly at Daniel who was still hesitant and refused to leave, and said mockingly.
Daniel's expression changed suddenly.
He didn't know what to think, but it seemed that Beiquan's eyes became fierce and murderous.
But he didn't say anything, just spat on the floor, and followed quickly.
Everyone ran into the kitchen, and under Beiquan's instructions, knocked down the utility rack and used it to hold the door.
As the most frequently used large kitchen in the mansion, it used to provide three meals for more than a dozen minors and more than a dozen domestic servants. Naturally, it is much larger than the kitchen used by ordinary families, and the counter alone can accommodate it. Four people work side by side without interfering with each other.
The crowd ran to the window.
Wei Fuyuan reached out to open the door.
Beiquan's eyes were quick, he held him down, and at the same time, he expanded his spiritual sense to check the situation around him.
Beiquan had to make sure that there was no gun-wielding killer in ambush outside the window, because he didn't want his baby assistant to make a mistake.
In the range covered by spiritual consciousness, all objects with energy, whether they are living or non-living, will be displayed in his perception in the form of various colored halos.
Just in order not to expose himself in front of the unidentified practitioner, Beiquan must be concealed enough.
So he just probed carefully and looked out the window, pretending that he was just a thoughtful and calm ordinary person.
"Okay, there should be no one outside."
Beiquan said.
Wei Fuyuan opened the window, flipped out the window neatly, and stretched out his hand toward Beiquan: "Come up!"
Beiquan handed his hand to Wei Fuyuan, and he used his strength to cross the edge of the window.
The others obviously didn't have the skill of the two, so they had to bring a chair and get out one by one.
The window of the kitchen was originally supposed to face the courtyard, but Chen Dafa asked people to renovate and expand it every year, and other rooms were built on three sides of it. Only to ensure the ventilation and safety of the kitchen, an open-air space like a patio was left. That's it.
"No, still no signal!"
The lawyer took his cell phone and anxiously walked around the patio a few times, trying to find even a single signal.
"Is there a landline at home?"
Beiquan clearly remembered that he had seen a desktop landline in the living room. He believed that such a large house could not have an extension.
"Ah, yes, yes!"
The butler nodded quickly and pointed to the left:
"The corridor over there leads to the small study room on the first floor, and there is a telephone in the study room!"
So everyone turned from the patio into the window of the corridor.
From the floor plan of the mansion, this corridor is located on the west side, in the shape of a "T", with stairs at both ends of the short side, and there are three rooms on the left and right sides of the long side in the middle, two large and one small, on the outside. It was the study they were looking for, which was actually not far from the patio where they got in.
As the person who is most familiar with the terrain of this house, the housekeeper naturally leads the way.
However, just as the housekeeper turned the corner of the "T" corridor, there was a gunshot.
The housekeeper screamed and fell to the ground, covering his shoulders.
Then, there were two more "bang, bang" sounds.
Someone shot him three times in a row.
The next two shots hit the butler firmly, and the poor middle-aged man fell silent.
The rest of the people were immediately confused.
In panic, everyone ran.
Beiquan grabbed Wei Fuyuan's arm to make sure they wouldn't run away.
More gunshots rang out behind them, but no one dared to look back. They could only blindly cuddle their heads and run away, praying that the gangster's bullets would not hit them.
The crowd happened to be attacked at the T-shaped corner.
After the gunshots, some people ran in the other direction, and some people turned around and turned back, and the group was inevitably divided into two groups.
Beiquan and Wei Fuyuan ran on the other side of the T-word.
In the panic, there was another person who chose the same direction as them - the lawyer who was nearly fifty years old.
The gunmen who attacked them also began to chase them.
The man held an MP5 in his hand, and while shouting "Don't move", he fired three shots in a row at the three people who were running.
It's just that he didn't know if he had a bad aim, or if he didn't take aim, all three shots hit the wall.
But three shots in the air were enough to make the lawyer's legs go weak.
He stumbled under his feet and fell to the ground. He was quickly stomped on by the gunmen with the barrel of the gun on the back of his head.
But the lawyer's fall helped Beiquan and Wei Fuyuan buy time.
The two ran to the stairs, took three steps one step at a time, and quickly went upstairs.
They ran forward all the way, relying on the complex terrain of the house to shake off the pursuers behind.
"Look for the phone and call the police!"
Before the bandits could catch up, Beiquan said to Wei Fuyuan:
"There are more than one gangsters, and all of them have weapons in their hands. I can't protect everyone here by myself!"
Wei Fuyuan nodded.
The two of them hadn't walked through this corridor before, and Guan Hu Suying didn't have time to explore the way. Beiquan could only expand his spiritual knowledge, looking for a fixed phone while on guard.
Wei Fuyuan asked, "Beiquan, you say, who are those gangsters?"
Beiquan glanced at him and asked without answering, "What do you think?"
"Those people are obviously prepared, and it is estimated that they have already figured out the basic situation of this house."
Wei Fuyuan caught a glimpse of the gangster just now.
It was a man with a ski hood on his head, his face covered so tightly that he could not tell his age, but his height was estimated to be similar to himself, at least 1.85 meters or more, and his body was still very strong, exposed outside. The muscles of the two arms are knotted, and it looks like they have been trained.
"If it's just a burglary, why not do it when there are the fewest people? . . . I mean, before we're here."
Wei Fuyuan thought about it:
"So, I guess, they probably came after us."
Beiquan glanced at Wei Fuyuan again, with a smile in his eyes.
"good."
He stretched out his hand and rubbed Wei Fuyuan's hair on his hair, "Our little Wei, we are making great progress!"