Ch71 - My phone has no signal!

Translator-Rhapsodite

Editor-Ghostie 

It was the sound of glass shattering.

The sound was dull and distant since it was separated by multiple walls. One was barely able to discern the approximate direction. According to Bei Quan, it should have come in through the back door.

Everyone on the table stopped eating their food.

“What’s going on?” 

Akihiko Yamamoto looked around suspiciously.

The housekeeper and the two maids who were busy in the kitchen also seemed to have heard the noise.

Soon the three came out of the kitchen one after another.

“Perhaps the cat at home knocked a  cup to the ground.”

The housekeeper smiled and comforted the startled guests.

“Alanka.”

At this time, Daniel, who had been absent-minded during dinner, suddenly opened his mouth.

He called the African maid’s name directly, “Go and see what happened.” 

The named maid looked at the housekeeper.

The housekeeper raised his chin and motioned her to  comply with Daniel’s demand.

So Alanka placed the teapot on the table, turned around, and walked out of the dining room.

“Everyone, please continue to eat”, the housekeeper said with a smile. 

When everyone heard the words, the expressions on their faces relaxed a lot.

There were only two exceptions.

Bei Quan looked at the face of one of the two.

That was Daniel, who just asked the maid Alanka to see what happened. 

Bei Quan felt that Daniel’s acting was obviously not up to the standard.

Despite his best efforts to appear nonchalant, the obvious cold perspiration on his brow, his frequent glances at the door, and the hand holding the fork barely poking  the dinner plate, all indicated that this man couldn’t calm down until he knew what the sound just now signified.

Bei Quan put his hand under the table and gently knocked on Wei Fuyuan’s knee twice.

This was the code they agreed upon beforehand. 

Wei Fuyuan turned his gaze towards Bei Quan. Their eyes met and the two silently exchanged looks that only each other could understand.

Then they heard the loud cry of the maid Alanka, “You– ah!”

Suddenly a gunshot rang out, and the scream stopped abruptly.

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When it was not clear how many intruders were there and what weapons these intruders possessed, for ordinary people, going out now was looking for death.

Just then the lawyer shrieked, “My cell phone has no signal!!”

“Damn it!”

Daniel also looked at his cell phone and cried out, “Me too, my cell phone has no signal!” 

Bei Quan looked at him and thought that his acting skills really sucked.

In fact, Daniel has been paying attention to his mobile phone screen ever since he came to the table. If there was no signal, he would’ve noticed it long ago.

“It’s a cell phone signal jammer!”

Akihiko Yamamoto’s face was pale, and his two slightly delicate eyebrows twisted into a knot. “As long as you know where to find it, you can buy one for $30 online!” 

As soon as this sentence came out, the dining room was in a mess.

“Is it a robber?”

Mary, the beautiful young maid, seemed frightened by the gunshot. She covered her face and screamed, but it was such a pity there was no one to comfort her.

Wei Fuyuan looked at Bei Quan and said, “What should we do now?” 

Bei Quan took only a second to think and made a decision, “Everyone let’s go to the kitchen!”

There was no door between the dining room and the corridor. If they continued to stay here, they would soon be found by the invaders.

Bei Quan could roughly guess the identity of the bandits, so he felt that they couldn’t stay here any longer.

The mansion had three kitchens. 

Bei Quan recalled that the kitchen, which was connected to the dining room, had a window. The window did not open directly to the outdoors, but it was connected to a courtyard surrounded by four walls.

From there, they could find their way to the other corridors inside the mansion.

“But, but… shouldn’t we try to call the police now?”

Daniel tried to make them stay, but he didn’t think of any good reason in a haste. 

So no one else intended to listen to him.

“You can wait here.”

Bei Quan looked back and smiled at Daniel, who was still hesitant to leave the dining room, with a sarcastic voice.

Daniel’s face immediately changed. 

He didn’t know what he thought of, it seemed that Bei Quan’s eyes became fierce and full of murderous intent.

But he didn’t say anything. He just spat on the floor and quickly followed.

Everyone ran into the kitchen and, under the directions from Bei Quan, pushed down the sundry rack and positioned it against the door.

As the mansion’s most often used kitchen, it was used to serve three meals every day by a large culinary staff team. It was, of course, far larger than the average family kitchen. The flow management workstation alone can accommodate four people working side by side without any interference. 

The crowd ran towards the window.

Wei Fuyuan stretched out his hand to open the door.

But Bei Quan’s eyes were quick and his hands moved swiftly to stop his little assistant. He expanded his spiritual consciousness to check the situation around them.

Bei Quan had to ensure that no armed killer was lurking outside the window because he didn’t want his baby assistant to face any possible danger. 

Within the purview of his spiritual consciousness, all objects containing energy, whether living or non living, would appear in his vision as various colored halos.

Bei Quan had to act in an unsuspicious manner in order to not expose himself to the unidentified magician.

So he merely scanned out the window attentively just like an ordinary guy with a cautious mind who can remain calm in the face of danger.

“Alright, there should be no one outside.” Bei Quan said. 

Wei Fuyuan opened the window, flipped through the opening neatly, and stretched out his hand towards Bei Quan “Come up!”

Bei Quan grasped Wei Fuyuan’s hand and crossed the window edge.

Obviously, the others didn’t have such agile skills, so they had to move a chair and jumped out one by one.

The kitchen window should have faced the courtyard, but Chen Dafa insisted on renovating and expanding the whole mansion every year, thus additional rooms were erected on all three sides. He just left an open space akin to a patio to ensure the ventilation and safety of the kitchen. 

“No, there’s still no signal!”

The lawyer took his cell phone and anxiously paced around the patio, trying to find even one signal.

“Is there a fixed telephone at home?”

Bei Quan clearly remembered that he had seen a desktop landline in the living room. He believed that such a large house couldn’t not have an extension. 

“Ah, yes, yes!”

The housekeeper quickly nodded and pointed to the left, “The corridor over there leads to the small study on the first floor. There is a telephone in the study!”

As a result, they exited the patio through another window and entered a corridor.

According to the mansion’s floor plan, this corridor was positioned in the west, in the shape of a “T”. At both ends of the short side, there were staircases. On either side of the long line in the centre, there were three rooms, two large ones and a small one. The study they were looking for was on the other side of the building. In truth, it wasn’t far from the patio through which they entered. 

As the person who was most familiar with the terrain of the house, the housekeeper naturally led the way in the front.

However, just as the housekeeper turned around the corner of the “T” corridor, there was a gunshot.

The housekeeper screamed, covered his shoulder, and fell to the ground.

Then there was a series of “bang, bang” sounds again. 

Someone had fired three shots at him.

The next two shots hit the housekeeper firmly, and the poor middle-aged man suddenly lost his voice.

The rest of the people were once again in a mess.

In a panic, everyone started running. 

Bei Quan grabbed Wei Fuyuan’s arm to ensure that they wouldn’t get separated.

More shots rang out behind them, but no one dared to turn back. They all ran blindly and prayed that the gunmen’s bullets would not hit them.

As they happened to be attacked at the T-shaped corner.

After the gunshot, some people ran in the other direction, others turned back, and the party inevitably divided into two groups. 

Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan ran on the other side of the T.

In the chaos, another man chose the same direction as them – it was the lawyer who was nearly 50 years old.

And the gunman who fired at them began to chase them.

The man held an MP5 in his hand, shouted “don’t move” and fired three shots at the three running people. 

Nobody knew if he was inaccurate or if he didn’t aim. All three shots hit the wall.

But three empty shots were enough to make the lawyer’s legs go soft.

He stumbled under his feet and fell to the ground. He was soon chased up by the gunman with the barrel of the gun against the back of his head.

But the lawyer’s fall somehow helped Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan gain time. 

They ran to the stairs, crossed three steps at a time, and quickly went upstairs.

They ran all the way forward, relying on the complex terrain of the house to get rid of the pursuers behind them.

“Find the phone and call the police!”

Before the gunmen could catch up, Bei Quan said to Wei Fuyuan, “There’s more than one gunman. They all have weapons in their hands. I can’t protect everyone here on my own!” 

Wei Fuyuan nodded.

The two of them had not walked through this corridor before, and Guan Hu Suying had no time to explore the way. Bei Quan could only expand his spiritual consciousness and look for a fixed phone while guarding against the gunmen.

Wei Fuyuan asked, “Bei Quan, who are those gunmen?”

Bei Quan looked at him and asked, “What do you think?” 

“Those people are obviously prepared. It is estimated that they are well informed about the basic situation of this house.”

Wei Fuyuan caught a glimpse of a gunman.

It was a man with ski headgear on his head. His face was covered tightly. He couldn’t estimate his age, but he seemed to be about the same height as Wei Fuyuan himself. He had to be at least 1.85 metres or more, and his stature was very strong and exposed. The muscles of his two arms were knotted.

“If it’s just a house robbery, why not do it when there are few people?… I mean before we came.” 

Wei Fuyuan thought, “So, I guess they probably came for us.”

Bei Quan looked at Wei Fuyuan again with a gentle smile in his eyes.

“Good.”

He reached out and rubbed Wei Fuyuan’s hair. “Xiao Wei, you are making great progress!”