Including the time he spent in the previous quest, Zhang Heng realized that he had been away from home for a long time.
It had been so long that he could barely remember the little things that happened when he lived with his grandfather in high school.
At this time, his grandfather undoubtedly looked younger. In terms of living habits, although the world had been developing rapidly over the years, and science and technology were changing with each passing day, it did not affect his grandfather much. He still maintained many of his old habits.
To put it in a more popular term, grandpa had always been an old man.
The people in school had not changed much by the passage of time.
When he heard the door open, he did not look up. "You came back earlier than usual today."
After a pause, he said, "The rice is in the pot. We're having curry chicken tonight. Scoop as much as you want."
"Okay," Zhang Heng responded. He did not put down his backpack. Instead, he changed his shoes and walked into the kitchen to get himself a bowl of rice, poured some curry juice on it, and walked to his bedroom with the plate.
Grandpa did not say anything when he saw this. He just reminded him again, "Don't drop the rice on the ground."
Zhang Heng closed the door, dismantled the Gundam under the bed, and put it together into a kitten. He then inserted the Infinite Building Block into it, and the Lego kitten immediately came to life. After it landed on the ground, it licked its paws and tried to crawl into the paper box where Zhang Heng kept the test papers.
Zhang Heng ignored it. Instead, he spread a paper towel on the ground, scooped a potato from the curry juice, and placed it on the paper towel with rice.
After doing all this, he picked up the kitten.
He let it eat the potato and rice.
The kitten did not seem to be very interested in the curry. It sneezed as it ate, but it still managed to finish the small spoonful of potato and rice. After that, Zhang Heng let it go and watched it run around the house. After waiting for a while, he did not see any adverse reactions.
Zhang Heng felt that he was a little too sensitive.
If Grandpa was also replaced in this dungeon, with the boldness of those things, they would probably choose to rush in directly when he was asleep. It would be as simple and crude as dealing with the university students. There was no need to resort to poisoning and complicate the problem.
After Zhang Heng finished the remaining curry chicken rice, he took the plate to the kitchen and washed it. "Qin Zhen is looking for me. I will go out later."
"Don't play too late."
"Well, you don't have to wait for me. Just go to bed when it's time. I have the key with me."
He went back to his bedroom and waited for the kitten in the cardboard box to turn back into a building block. Then, he stuffed it into his schoolbag.
During this time, Zhang Heng did not waste any time. He prepared the things he would bring with him when he went out. In addition to the usual game items, he also brought a USB flash drive.
For his next investigation, he planned to look at the surveillance footage first.
Last night, the college student's family had disappeared from the face of the earth. It was impossible for them to leave their residence without leaving any traces behind. There were surveillance cameras in the residential area's corridors. In addition, judging from the degree of struggle the college student had at the time, it was obvious that he was unwilling to be taken away just like that. It was not an easy task to bring an uncooperative living person out of the residential area.
The most likely scenario was that the college student was stuffed into the trunk, and his fake parents drove away from the neighborhood. There were also cameras installed at the entrances and exits of the residential area. If that was the case, there should be a recording.
Zhang Heng then knocked on the door of the surveillance room.
"Coming!" The person inside answered, put down his bowl and chopsticks, and walked over in his slippers. After a while, he opened the door and poked his head out to look at Zhang Heng. "What's the matter?"
"I lost my phone, and I want to go in and check the surveillance footage."
The person in charge of the surveillance room was a young man not much older than Zhang Heng. He had only been working at the property management company for less than half a year. He frowned when he heard Zhang Heng's request. "That won't do. If you want to check the footage, you have to get the police. Our residential area has a rule that no one can access the surveillance footage."
"The police won't care even if I lost my phone. At most, they will take a statement. Let me see the surveillance footage. If it wasn't in the neighborhood, I wouldn't have reported it," Zhang Heng said.
The young man in charge of the surveillance room shook his head. "No, no, there are rules. If I let you in, I will be fired tomorrow." As he spoke, he was about to close the door again.
However, the next moment, a hand blocked the door that was about to close.
"Let's make a deal," Zhang Heng said.
"It's not a matter of money," the young man straightened his chest and said righteously, "The leader asked me to be in charge of the surveillance because he saw that I'm a very principled person."
"I'm not going to give you money," Zhang Heng said. "The deal I'm talking about is that you let me check the footage, and I won't tell anyone that you secretly recorded videos."
The incident should have broken out two months later. When the young man was on duty in the surveillance room, he took advantage of his position and secretly recorded some surveillance footage. He didn't use a USB flash drive to copy the footage. Instead, he used his phone to record the footage, mainly of some good-looking female residents in the neighborhood. Since it was summer, some of the women were dressed quite skimpily, and some of the camera angles were very tricky. Hence, he managed to record a lot of interesting videos.
It wasn't until he drank too much and showed off a few of the videos that the incident was exposed. After that, he was fired by the property management company. At that time, it caused an uproar in the neighborhood, and Zhang Heng remembered it a little.
In fact, the property management company was also responsible for this incident. It stood to reason that there should be at least two people on duty in the surveillance room. However, the company arranged for a relative of the leader to share the shift with the young man. The latter only received his salary and did not come to work, giving the young man the opportunity to make mistakes.
However, at this moment, the young man was still recording the footage. He did not expect that his little hobby would be exposed. His expression suddenly changed, "You, what did you say?"
"Do you really think no one knows about the bad things you have done?" Zhang Heng saw the young man reaching into his pocket as if he wanted to destroy the evidence. Zhang Heng grabbed the young man's arm.
"What are you doing! I'm warning you, don't touch me! " The young man tried to act tough. Seeing that Zhang Heng was still a student, he wanted to break free, but he did not expect Zhang Heng to be much stronger than he thought. The hand that grabbed him was like an iron clamp, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not get away.
"You can continue to shout. Shout louder. Let's see who can't clean up the mess in the end," Zhang Heng said calmly.
A look of struggle flashed across the young man's face, but he quickly calmed down, like a deflated balloon. He looked around, and seeing that no one was paying attention to the situation here, he said, "Come in first."
Zhang Heng knew that the matter was basically settled, and he followed the young man into the surveillance room.
"Let me make this clear first. You can watch it, but you only have 20, no, 15 minutes. And you can't copy it. "Although the young man had given in, he still wanted to resist a little to save face.
"Let's watch it first." Zhang Heng, however, did not comment. He now had the young man's weakness in his hand, and he did not care about the other party's bluff.
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