About six months ago, Jenqyih coincidentally met a friend. Even though they hadn't seen each other for a long time, the friend quickly recognized Jenqyih when he was sitting in the train carriage. The friend turned out to have lived in this city for almost five years. At that time, the friend gave his address and invited Jenqyih to visit him. So far, Jenqyih had not complied with this person's request. Now, Jenqyih felt there was no harm in stopping by his friend's place.
It took fifteen minutes to get to the station where Jenqyih had to get off. Jenqyih had never walked around this area, so he was a little nervous. Especially now that it was dark. According to his friend's instructions, the distance from where he lived to the station was not that far. Only about five hundred meters. Jenqyih took about twenty minutes to circle the area before finding the apartment building where his friend lived.
The apartment building was an ordinary apartment building. Not the luxury apartments that were usually strictly guarded. In the lobby, there was no guard at all. Jenqyih easily got in and went straight up to the sixth floor. The elevator was so slow that Jenqyih felt a little irritated. The sixth floor of the apartment building was quiet. There are about twenty apartment units on that floor. Jenqyih directly headed to the apartment unit numbered 606.
There was a bell on the wall near the apartment door. Jenqyih pressed the bell, but there was no response. After pressing many times, still no response.
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After that, Jenqyih rested for a while. He squatted in front of the apartment unit door. After two minutes of squatting, he was already bored. Jenqyih got up again, stood facing the apartment door, and pressed the bell again.
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Despite thinking like that, Jenqyih still pressed the bell.
"You haven't changed at all. Still messing with other people's doorbells!" Suddenly, a deep voice came from behind Jenqyih's back.
Hearing the voice, Jenqyih turned and smiled. "I thought you passed out inside!"
That person, who turned out to be the resident of that apartment unit, immediately opened the door and invited Jenqyih to come in.
Although the apartment building was an ordinary apartment, it turned out that the inside was quite spacious. According to Jenqyih's estimation, the area was over one hundred square meters.
"Ten meters by twelve meters. So the total is one hundred and twenty square meters," the person said as if he could read what Jenqyih was thinking.
"Not bad," said Jenqyih.
Then they sat down on chairs in the living room.
"So it took six months for you to finally decide to visit me," the man said.
Before Jenqyih had time to answer, the person had spoken again. "Don't tell me you're busy. Because I have a hunch that you haven't really been busy lately!"
An unmistakable guess. Jenqyih just smirked at hearing that person's words.
"What do you want to drink?" the man asked.
"Anything is fine."
The man got up and walked towards the kitchen. He was back with two cans of drinks in his hand a moment later. He straight away sat down on the sofa and put the two cans of drink on the table. Then he turned on the television and set the volume loudly. Jenqyih glanced at the two drink cans the person had placed on the table. He placed the two drink cans upside down.
Then, sitting down, the person said in a loud voice. "The bathroom is over there. But if you want to clean the stains on your clothes, you have to go to the laundry room, which is next to the kitchen!"
After that, the person got up and walked straight to the kitchen. At that time, Jenqyih followed him.
Inside the laundry room next to the kitchen, there was a washing machine. Above the washing machine was a cupboard mounted against the wall. The man opened the cupboard and took out a device similar to a transistor radio that was the size of a palm. Then he pressed a button on the device and then pointed it at the clothes Jenqyih was wearing. He carefully scanned all parts of Jenqyih's clothes.
After several attempts and unsuccessfully finding the sound-tapping device, the person finally shook his head. "I don't think there's anything on your shirt."
Jenqyih observed as his friend returned the appliance to the cupboard above the washing machine. He seemed to be very careful. The person asked Jenqyih to immediately return to the living room. Arriving there, the friend immediately turned off the television. He then sat down in the exact spot he had been before they went into the kitchen.
"You know the guy who wear the reversible jacket?" suddenly the person asked Jenqyih.
Jenqyih laughed. "I think you've been watching me from the station earlier."
"Farther than that," replied the man. Then he reached for the can of drink that was on the table. Opened a can and gave it to Jenqyih. After that, he opened another can and drank it.
"I saw you when you got off the bus earlier. Believe it or not, I happened to be there after visiting one of my friends. I wanted to say hello to you, but I saw something suspicious."
"The guy in the reversible jacket?"
"Right. So I didn't say hello. I decided to see what would happen."
"What happened then?"
"After you enter the restaurant, that person is waiting at the street stall across from the restaurant."
"Oh," Jenqyih mumbled short.
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"Do you know who he's talking to there?"
"Anyone else watching me?"
"He was talking to the person you asked about when you got off the bus."
"You mean that guy in his thirties who looks like an office worker?"
"Yeah, you right. I don't think it's a coincidence."
"What did they talk about?" Jenqyih was so curious.
"I don't know. I'm not close enough to them."
"You weren't disguised as a tree in a pot that time, were you?" Jenqyih asked, laughing.
That person also laughed at Jenqyih's words. It reminded them of things that happened decades ago.
Jenqyih's friend said seriously. "I think you've lost your touch so you don't notice such a trivial thing."
"I've always been unskilled in that area. That's your area of expertise." Jenqyih sighed.
The person then got up and walked again towards the kitchen. He came back again with more cans in his hand.
"What exactly are you in trouble for?" asked the man, placing the cans on the table.
"I don't know," said Jenqyih.
"You do not know?"
"Not only I do not know what the problem is. I also don't know who they are. I don't even know who their actual target is either!"
"How about you just tell me now the things you know?"
Without the slightest doubt, Jenqyih told the things that had happened during the last two days. His friend listened to Jenqyih's story seriously. Every now and then, he asked, and Jenqyih answered clearly.
"So, what do you think?" Jenqyih asked after ending his story.