"We may not be able to, but isn't there someone right next to us?"

Wang Zhong said.

The three of them simultaneously looked at Hu Yan.

Hu Yan pointed at herself. "Me? But I don't know any computer experts at all!!!"

Yang Kang said, "Go online and search, find a few computer repair guys, bring them over to take a look. It's a case of treating a dead horse as if it were still alive."

Hu Yan sighed. "Alright then!"

So Hu Yan went online, used some apps, and booked some repair masters for computers and surveillance systems to come to the door.

Because they were afraid these on-site repair masters would be killed by other residents living here after they arrived, Yang Kang and the others went directly to the main entrance to pick them up.

Despite their utmost sincerity, these masters still couldn't solve the surveillance problem here.

They left one by one, crestfallen.

"Finding these ordinary ones won't work. We need to find the exceptionally skilled ones."

"I think Jiang Ran must have also looked for these ordinary computer and surveillance repair masters, but it was beyond their power to save the situation."

Wang Zhong found a chair in the surveillance room and sat down, saying.

Kong Haoxia said anxiously, "Then what should we do?"

"How do we find the person who threw that red fire extinguisher? Do we knock on every door and ask the people living here? Ask them if they saw anything?"

Wang Zhong closed his eyes, then opened them again.

"I am the director of a hospital. Although I haven't been on the front lines personally, I often see some patients our hospital receives who could be called utterly hopeless."

"But these patients never gave up. That's the instinct of not wanting to die."

"Our current situation is exactly like that. No matter what, even if there seems to be no possible solution, we must try."

Kong Haoxia shuddered all over. "So... we really are going to knock on doors one by one and ask?"

He really didn't dare to knock. Any random household could be a murderous pervert.

Knocking on their door is no different from a fat sheep delivering itself to the door, right?

Wang Zhong touched his Fruit Phone. "What era is this? Just ask directly in the group chat."

So, in the Alice Apartment residents' group chat, he typed and asked if anyone had seen who in Building No. 2 had thrown something from a height that hit Jiang Ran's head, using a red fire extinguisher.

Cash reward for providing a lead.

...

After expelling Yang Kang and the other three,

Jia Tao called over the only two companions he had left.

Soon, those two companions of his arrived as well.

Looking at the two companions before him,

Jia Tao felt a bit nostalgic for the past, when the other two were still around.

Back in the day, the five of them were so high-spirited and vigorous.

But what about now?

Chain Man, working for Sakawa to earn money, ended up killed by Jiang Ran.

Zhao Hongwei, who specialized in counterfeit Hermès, was beaten to a pulp by Zhao Jue, the mentally ill guy who hadn't been in the apartment long, and sent to the hospital looking like a child.

Although his life was saved after being sent to the hospital, he still hasn't woken up to this day.

Now, only the three of them remain.

"Boss, was she good? That chick?"

The young man who was with Zhao Hongwei before, the one impersonating a package delivery guy, everyone called him Ah Wei.

Jia Tao looked at Ah Wei and said, "Pretty face, good figure, definitely good."

"Really? Where is she now?"

Ah Wei didn't see the woman Hu Yan in the living room, so he went into the bedroom, but didn't see her there either.

He then said, "She wasn't already killed by you, was she? Disposed of? That fast?"

Jia Tao shook his head. "No, she was rescued."

"Rescued? By who?!"

Ah Wei exclaimed in surprise.

Then, Jia Tao explained the whole incident from beginning to end to Ah Wei and the remaining middle-aged man in his fifties.

After hearing it, Ah Wei was very surprised. "You actually let Kong Haoxia go? I thought he was definitely dead!"

Jia Tao rubbed his neck with his right hand. Thinking of that guy made him furious. "He's just a cuckold slave. Killing him would dirty my hands, even disgust me!"

Ah Wei said, "Hmm... Anyway, in short, hearing the end, I understand now. You and Kong Haoxia's group were all threatened with death by Jiang Ran."

"So, what are you planning to do now?"

Jia Tao said, "I want to hear your thoughts first." 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Ah Wei said, "Didn't we join that group with The Artist? Find them to solve it."

Jia Tao said, "I was thinking the same. Since we've already joined, they definitely have to help me handle this kind of thing."

The two of them seemed to have overlooked the middle-aged man in his fifties, and this man indeed had no particular reaction.

So, the three of them first sent a message to The Artist, then headed to Room 504 in Building No. 1, The Artist's residence.

When the three entered The Artist's home,

only he was at home. He seemed to be practicing calligraphy with a brush at home.

Jia Tao stepped forward to take a look and found the writing quite good.

Vigorous and flowing.

Of course, he didn't have a more professional eye and couldn't analyze it from a professional perspective.

"What do you need me for?"

After opening the door for the three, The Artist returned to the table in the living room and continued writing with the brush.

He was writing "Thousand Character Classic in Regular Script."

It was the early regular script work of that famous Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji.

That is, the Slender Gold style.

"The thing is like this..."

Jia Tao blabbered on for a long time.

Finished in one breath.

After he finished, The Artist asked, "How do you want me to help you?"

Jia Tao said, "Either help me find the person who threw the red fire extinguisher, or help me kill Jiang Ran."

The Artist smiled. "Jiang Ran wants to find the person who threw the fire extinguisher that hit him back when Building No. 2 was on fire, and the person who threw the fire extinguisher that hit him yesterday."

"I know who both of those people are, and actually, those two people are the same person. It was done by one person."

"Uh... that person wouldn't be you, would it?"

Jia Tao cast a suspicious glance.

The Artist smiled. "It's not me, but I told him to do it."

"So, I can't possibly know Jiang Ran is looking for him and still push him out to die, can I?"

Jia Tao said, "Then the only option is to kill Jiang Ran?"

The Artist said, "This person Jiang Ran, you also know his situation. Wanting to kill him can't be expressed with just the word 'difficult'."

Jia Tao's face instantly darkened. "Then you're not planning to abandon me, are you? Let me face it alone?"

The Artist put down the brush in his hand.

This brush, reportedly made from wolf hair, cost over two hundred yuan.

He turned his head and smiled at Jia Tao. "Don't be impatient. I haven't finished speaking."

"Although killing Jiang Ran isn't a simple matter, I never said I wouldn't do it."

He took out his phone. "Before 12 midnight? Then we need to start preparing early."

The Artist then immediately used his phone to summon all their people here.

As resident after resident entered, the usable space in the entire Room 504 was continuously compressed.

Jia Tao and Ah Wei, watching person after person enter, immediately gaped, their mouths wide open.

The number of people in this gang was much larger than what they saw last time.

So, there had been hidden members all along?

The Artist waited for over ten minutes.

Seeing that everyone had arrived,

he explained Jia Tao's situation and his decision.