Chapter 29 You're on Duty Tonight

"Sister Zhang, do you have a large iron basin at home suitable for cooking hot pot? I'm going to use alcohol cubes to cook hot pot..."

"Yes!" Zhang Yajing nodded.

Watching the large basin of beef Zhou Yan was holding, her mouth was watering uncontrollably...

Although her heart was filled with curiosity and surprise, not knowing where he had gotten the meat from...

…she still sensibly refrained from asking.

Su Yanqiu and Yan Yue went back to their room to change clothes, leaving only Zhang Yajing and Zhou Yan in the kitchen to wash and chop vegetables.

Zhang Yajing didn't do anything to Zhou Yan; mainly, she knew her place.

In this house, she was actually more like a concubine, and a damn unmarried one at that...

When Zhou Yan arrived with that large basin of beef, and Su Yanqiu, Yan Yue, and Zhang Yajing appeared before the people next door carrying several basins of washed vegetables, it drew a chorus of surprised cheers from everyone.

"Oh wow! Big Brother is awesome!"

"Wow!"

"Holy crap! Fresh vegetables? Did Big Brother build a vegetable greenhouse at home?" No one answered Wu Yang's question.

The cheers on this floor traveled very, very far, and other residents who heard the shouting thought that, damn it, rescue had arrived...

They leaned out of their windows, looking around with surprised expressions, only to shrink back in disappointment.

"Damn it, if rescue didn't come, why are you yelling so loudly!"

In the room, Wang Zeyu, along with his partner, Wu Yang, Li Meng, and two other young girls, were all looking at Su Yanyue and Su Yanqiu with confused expressions.

They were just too alike...

"You can call them Big Sister-in-law this time!" Zhang Yajing pointed at the two girls and reminded them.

"Which one is it?" Wu Yang scratched his head.

"Whack!" Wang Zeyu slapped him hard on the back of the head.

Who the hell cares which one! Do you think Big Brother can even tell them apart most of the time?

"Greetings, two Big Sisters-in-law! My name is Wang Zeyu, I'm Big Brother's newly recruited underling!" Wang Zeyu went up and gave a deep bow.

Zhou Yan wasn't carrying a backpack this time; he looked left and right.

He reached directly into the basin of vegetables Zhang Yajing had washed; it was a basin of lettuce...

"Here! A welcoming gift from your Big Sister-in-law!"

To everyone's surprise, Zhou Yan pulled a carton of "Hua Zi" cigarettes out of the basin of vegetables.

Everyone: "..."

We're all so familiar with each other now, are you still putting on an act?

But everyone still found it novel and didn't appear too shocked or curious.

Zhang Dongxue had been "tipped off" by Wang Zeyu in advance.

The other two girls had also been instructed by Li Meng.

Only Wu Yang's words were automatically filtered out by everyone present.

"Greetings, Sister-in-law! My name is Li Meng!" Li Meng called out "Sister-in-law" but bowed twice.

"A welcoming gift!" Zhou Yan bent down, took the Bull Knife off his calf along with the sheath tied to his leg, and handed it to Li Meng.

Li Meng really liked the knife and played with it over and over again.

If they performed well, and after a long enough time had passed to establish a certain foundation of trust, giving them guns would just be a matter of time, but at least not until after Zhou Yan unlocked some bulletproof vests...

"Hehe! Greetings, Sisters-in-law! My name is Wu Yang! I am the tool man!"

After finishing, he looked at Zhou Yan with an expectant expression.

Zhou Yan didn't stand on ceremony either; he reached directly into the basin of lettuce and pulled out two walkie-talkies.

He clipped one onto his own belt and handed the other to Wu Yang.

"This is...?" Wu Yang took the walkie-talkie, looking a bit bewildered.

"This is a walkie-talkie. You're on duty tonight!" Zhou Yan said to him with a serious face.

Aren't you a tool man? Wouldn't it be a waste of your title if you didn't work the night shift?

"..." Wu Yang.

Seeing Wu Yang's depressed expression, Zhou Yan couldn't help but laugh.

"I'm just teasing you! I have a long staff; the front end can be unscrewed to reveal a dagger inside, which is perfect for you! But I don't have it on me; I'll give it to you after we eat!"

Wu Yang nodded foolishly, and after putting away the walkie-talkie, he rubbed his hands together with some anticipation.

Afterward, everyone fell silent, because boiling water in this large basin was really too slow...

They couldn't just sit there doing nothing, so Zhou Yan drew the pistol from Yan Yue's waist and walked over to the sofa; he needed to interrogate this girl.

The girl looked with envy at the overflowing vegetables and beef on the kitchen island, and then looked nervously at the man holding the gun in front of her.

"What's your name?"

"Bai Qi."

"What is your profession?"

"I'm still in college..."

"What happened at your Building 17? Why did you lay down a pontoon bridge to come over here?"

Bai Qi shook her head, bit her lip, and answered quite helplessly:

"To tell you the truth, I really don't know... It was the Big Sister in our building who told us to do it..."

"Big Sister? What floor does she live on?" Zhou Yan quickly asked.

"11th Floor..."

Damn!

Was it really that telescope owner?

Zhou Yan frowned and scrutinized the Bai Qi in front of him.

About twenty years old, wearing a teddy bear pajama set, she looked exceptionally cute and dorky.

Zhou Yan was even considering whether to torture her...

Since she's so cute, surely her screaming would sound particularly tragic, right?

"You're lying!" Zhou Yan spat out the three words viciously, then pressed the pistol directly against Bai Qi's head.

Bai Qi was frightened out of her wits on the spot.

Her eyes turned red, and tears welled up.

"I really don't know! I really don't know anything! Don't kill me! Please, don't kill me!"

Zhou Yan sheepishly lowered the pistol; looking at her, it seemed she really didn't know anything...

"Fine, since you really don't know anything, I won't make things difficult for you. You can swim back..."

Hearing Zhou Yan say something like this, the few people in the room were stunned for a moment.

This is called not making things difficult for her?

It's about to get dark!

Bai Qi's eyes were red, and her gaze was filled with disbelief.

Zhou Yan raised the pistol and pressed it against her forehead.

"Either swim back, or I'll blow your brains out; you choose! I'll give you one minute to consider!"

Bai Qi stared desperately at the people on the side, tears streaming down her pale face incessantly.

"Crying? Crying counts as time, you know!"

"48"

"47"

"46"

Zhou Yan's voice sounded like a countdown to the end of Bai Qi's life.

Bai Qi blinked, and a few seconds later.

"I will only tell you alone! No one else can be present!"

"..." Everyone.

Did you come here to sow discord?

"No way! I must be with my girlfriend; there's nothing she can't hear!"

"Fine!" Bai Qi agreed readily.

Zhou Yan took her and returned home.

He didn't call Zhang Yajing, and she didn't dare to move.

Yanqiu and Yan Yue didn't call her either.

She felt a bit dejected...

In the living room, Xiaobai let out a warning whimper at Bai Qi.

Bai Qi sat up straight on the sofa.

Bai Qi looked at the three people in front of her, her expression inexplicably strange.

The first sentence immediately stunned the three people in front of her.

"I have Mind Reading..."

"Big idiot, big idiot, big idiot, big idiot, big idiot..." Zhou Yan muttered incessantly in his heart.

"Um... I really can do Mind Reading, please stop scolding me..."

"..." Zhou Yan.

Holy crap, you can actually do it?!

Zhou Yan pointed at Yan Yue and asked:

"What was she thinking just now?"

"Three people..."

"What?"

"Three people..."

Bai Qi was also a bit embarrassed, her pretty face flushed red, but she still answered truthfully.

"Three people? What does that mean? Which three people?"

"It's not which three people, it's that there are three people in total..."

"You damn..." Zhou Yan was a bit annoyed and ashamed, always feeling that she was insulting his intelligence.

Yan Yue quickly reached out her small hand and covered Zhou Yan's mouth; she naturally knew what she was thinking in her heart.

Seeing that she could really do Mind Reading, she was instantly flushed with shame...

After taking a while to recover, she reached out, pointed at Zhou Yan's face, and looked at Bai Qi: "Then what was he thinking in his heart earlier?"

"The same as you..." Bai Qi answered in a weak voice.