"Ding~ dong~" The doorbell rang.
"I'm coming. It's so late... Who is it?" Liu Huisheng rubbed his hazy eyes and walked towards the door in confusion.
The door opened, and Lei Ting stood at the door with a bag from the convenience store in his hand, looking embarrassed: "Sorry, I forgot to bring my keys."
As soon as Liu Huisheng saw it was Lei Ting, he immediately perked up and scolded:
"Did you sneak out again while we were sleeping? I told you that if you want to go out, just tell us. You always sneak out... This time you even forgot your keys. I should have locked you outside the door. I don't know who you learned this from..."
After saying that, Liu Huisheng turned around and went back to the room.
Lei Ting forced a laugh, but as soon as Liu Huisheng turned his back, the expression on his face disappeared instantly, becoming extremely indifferent, as if the person who had just opened the door for him was just a stranger.
After looking around, Lei Ting closed the door and walked towards his room.
He closed the bedroom door and locked it. He threw the convenience store bag in his hand onto the bed.
The moment it touched the quilt, the plastic bag suddenly disappeared and turned into another Lei Ting.
And the original Lei Ting, with a change of style, hunched down and turned into the JK girl who had been "live streaming" on the rooftop of the apartment building before.
"What a hassle." The JK girl silently complained. She was about to leave, but then she thought again, walked back to the bed, reached out and took off Lei Ting's clothes that had been soaked by the rain, leaving only a pair of underpants. Then she casually picked up a piece of clothing from the nearby gaming chair and used it as a towel to wipe Lei Ting's body.
After busying herself for two or three minutes, the girl casually threw the piece of clothing aside before turning around and leaving.
However, just ten minutes later, she came back here again. But this time, she didn't just knock on the door to come in; she opened the door openly with a key.
As for where the key came from, of course, she had taken it from Lei Ting's pants pocket when she had the chance, and she had even taken something that he had placed next to the computer along the way.
But this time when she visited for the second time, the girl only placed a piece of paper on the bedside table, pressed one corner of it with a water cup, and quietly put something in the corner of the room before leaving again.
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Outside the community where Lei Ting's family lived.
"Is it done?" The big man who had been "watching the live broadcast" before held an umbrella and handed another umbrella in his hand to her as he asked.
"Yeah." The girl nodded wordlessly, silently took the umbrella and opened it, then asked:
"Does that note... really work?"
"Liu Wang said it does, and we don't have a better solution, so we can only trust him." The big man shrugged helplessly.
"Isn't he worried that Lei Ting will just give up keeping the secret, tell everything to his parents directly, and then call the police?" The girl asked further.
"Calling the police won't be of any use either..." The big man muttered softly first, and then offered a solution:
"There is indeed such a possibility. Although it's small, it's not zero. So, Liu Wang also said that in order to prevent accidents, when he's about to wake up, you have to go over and keep an eye on him."
"What a hassle... That guy Liu Wang is reluctant to go on a mission himself, but he's very familiar with giving orders to his colleagues..." The girl was quite resentful about the suddenly added extra work.
"When will Lei Ting probably wake up?" The big man asked instead.
"According to my examination, it's expected to be six to seven hours later, but there could also be accidents, so we must keep an eye on him in real time tonight. This should be your job and that guy Liu Wang's! Brother Xu, please absolutely not let that guy be absent from work! And don't let him close his eyes for more than three seconds!" The girl answered first, and then pleaded.
The big man nodded. He could clearly feel that the girl was somewhat resentful when she said the last two sentences.
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The next day, the sunlight shone into the room through the drawn curtains, and Lei Ting, who had been unconscious all night, slowly woke up.
He touched his still dizzy and swollen head and opened his eyes with difficulty.
What came into view was the familiar white ceiling. This ordinary and familiar scene made Lei Ting, who was in the present moment, freeze in a daze.
After a while, he sat up in horror. Ignoring the tingling pain constantly coming from his brain, he got out of bed and pulled open the bedroom door.
In the kitchen, Liu Huisheng, who was preparing breakfast, heard the commotion behind him and turned around: "Oh, I've told you so many times! You have to dress properly at home! The same goes for just waking up! Look at you! Just wearing a pair of underpants, what's that like!"
Hearing his mother's reassuring scolding, the fear in Lei Ting's eyes dissipated a lot, but it didn't disappear completely.
He ignored his mother's nagging, got back into the room, sat on the bed, and while recalling the memories in his mind, he whispered to himself, lost in wild thoughts:
"I was clearly on the rooftop last night 'enduring the lightning tribulation'. I clearly remember that I fainted after being struck by the lightning for the third time. How could I wake up at home? Did my parents bring me back? Impossible. If that were the case, when my mom saw me wake up just now, she wouldn't just be complaining about me not wearing clothes. Could it be that everything last night was just a dream? But..."
As he was thinking, Lei Ting suddenly reached out his hand towards the computer desk, aimed his palm at the table, and started to exert force.
On the table, a pair of scissors seemed to be affected by some mysterious force. It actually shook slightly, and then began to move slowly towards Lei Ting. It even floated in the air after leaving the table and drifted towards Lei Ting until it fell into his palm.
"My ability has indeed been enhanced, and I can feel that it has been enhanced by more than just a little bit. I even have a new ability to attract metal objects. This alone is enough to prove that I did go to the rooftop last night and endured the 'lightning tribulation'."
Lei Ting muttered to himself while thinking about all kinds of possibilities. At this moment, his usually extremely slow-witted brain suddenly became very smooth. He didn't know if it was a secondary benefit after his ability was enhanced or if his brain had been "slacking off" all the time before.
After thinking for a long time and ruling out many impossibilities, Lei Ting was left with only one possibility.
That is, after he fainted, he was brought back home by a mysterious person, and it was done without his parents noticing. The person was even kind enough to take off his wet clothes and dry his body to prevent him from catching a cold.
This was a great victory for Lei Ting's thinking ability!
Just as he was worrying that he might have been targeted by some mysterious organization, his parched mouth, which had been protesting for a long time, finally got a response.
Lei Ting could no longer bear the torment of being short of water. He turned his head to look at the bedside table and saw that there was still a small cup of water in the cup that had been there for god knows how many nights. So, while maintaining a semi-reclining position, he stretched his right hand as straight as possible and barely managed to get the glass of water.
He drank the overnight water in the cup in one gulp and put the cup back down. Only then did he notice that there was a piece of paper lying quietly on the bedside table that hadn't been there before.
"He finally noticed..." The JK girl, who had been standing in the corner of the room for god knows how long, sighed in her heart.
Lei Ting picked up the piece of paper on the cabinet and quickly scanned the words written on it:
No. 42, Fumin Street, Shanglu Urban Area, at 6:30 p.m. on the 21st. I believe you won't fail to come. (Note 1)
After reading the words on the paper, Lei Ting didn't show any surprise, as if all this was already within his expectations.
He snorted coldly and whispered in a tone he thought was very cool:
"As expected, it was done by some mysterious organization. It's really an old trick. This threatening letter is the same. They still want to threaten me with the safety of my family. When we meet, they will probably invite me to join them and participate in their evil plan. Humph! I will never bow down to evil!"
"The safety of his family? Is that what we planned?" The girl asked herself a little doubtfully, and then added to herself:
"But he's not wrong about one thing. This is indeed a threatening letter, but what we're using to threaten is..."
At the same time, Lei Ting was about to tear up the piece of paper and "eat" it according to the tradition (of course, he wouldn't really eat it), and then he found that there were also words written on the back of the paper.
After turning it over and reading the words written on the back, Lei Ting's pupils suddenly dilated, and even his breathing became rapid. His hand holding the paper trembled slightly, as if he had seen something terrifying.
Holding onto a glimmer of hope, he slowly moved his gaze to the computer desk, swept it back and forth several times, and finally even jumped out of bed and rummaged through the computer desk and the entire room.
After a wild search, Lei Ting slumped down on the floor in despair and gritted his teeth and spat out four words:
"You guys are ruthless!"
On the side, the girl watched the whole process in surprise and thought to herself: "That threat from Liu Wang actually really worked..."
In Lei Ting's hand, the piece of paper was now facing up with the words on the back showing:
"I'll take your house key first. Oh, and that figurine next to your computer. The craftsmanship is quite good. It should be quite expensive, and it's even a transformable one. Tsk tsk tsk..."
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Note 1: The location is fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.