The weather was hot, and there was no electric fan. Lin Mai was so hot that he could not sleep.
I finally fell asleep and was woken up by the crying and cursing of a woman outside.
Lin Maisi had experienced this situation once before, so she was indifferent and just increased her vigilance.
Still the same routine, the door was knocked, and a woman begged anxiously outside: "Open the door and let me in, otherwise I will be beaten to death by my man!"
Lin Mai turned over disdainfully.
If I let you in, my end would be miserable!
Trying to take advantage of her compassion? That’s hard!
A man's cursing voice sounded.
Then came the sound of a woman running away, a man chasing him, and then the sound of a scuffle. After a while, it became quiet.
Just when Lin Mai was about to fall asleep again, he suddenly heard someone outside shouting: "There's a fire! Run!"
She opened her eyes suddenly, sat up from the bed, smelled hard, and sure enough she smelled a faint smell of fireworks.
She hurriedly turned on the light, only to see curls of green smoke coming in through the crack in the door.
Lin Mai quickly jumped out of bed and carried the bag containing his personal belongings on his back.
I went to the bathroom and put a wet towel on my mouth and nose, but didn't rush out of the door and ran away.
Because she wasn't sure if there was a trap outside.
If it is a trap and you run out rashly, you will be a fish caught in the trap.
But if it is not a trap, if you hesitate, you will miss the best opportunity to escape.
At this time, there were the sounds of footsteps, the cries of children and women, and the shouts of hotel attendants asking the guests to escape quickly.
If there was a trap outside, too many extras would have been used.
Lin Mai then opened the door suddenly, and a thick smoke rushed in his face.
Fortunately, she covered her mouth and nose with a wet towel, so the thick smoke did not cause much trouble to her.
The lights were on in the corridor and there was chaos everywhere.
Lin Mai grabbed the road and ran towards the stairs.
When I ran down the stairs and out of the hotel in one breath, I saw many tenants gathered at the door of the hotel, staring at the fire with lingering fear.
Because they were escaping in the middle of the night, some men were disheveled, even shirtless, and some didn't even bother to put on shoes, so they stood on the ground barefoot.
Not many people are as neatly dressed as Lin Mai.
When she was single, she always slept with her clothes on because she was afraid of danger so she could escape.
Before the fire truck arrived, several waiters in the hotel put out the fire themselves with fire extinguishers, and then told everyone to go back to their rooms.
A tenant puzzled and said: "There is such a thick smoke, why is there no fire? It's not normal~"
Another tenant said rudely: "Is it normal for a fire to burn us all to death inside?"
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.
Lin Mai frowned, is this just a fake fire?
What was the gangster's purpose in setting this fake fire?
Could it be that the gangster planned to sneak into the room and steal while everyone was just running for their lives and almost no one would close the door?
But the problem is, people will definitely take their money with them when they escape.
Then, the possibility of setting off cigarettes and stealing is less likely, but the possibility of sneaking into the room is more likely.
It would be dangerous if that were the case. When you return to the room later and the door is closed, who knows what bad things the gangster will do!
When Lin Mai thought of this possibility, he slammed his door from the outside.
Then he loudly said to the other tenants: "Don't go in yet, follow my example and close the door from the outside.
This fire is so strange, we have to call the police and let the police investigate whether anyone set this fire maliciously."
Many tenants are very tired and just want to rest early: "It's okay to call the police, but why don't they let us in? The police are investigating whether anyone maliciously set the fire, and there is no conflict with us sleeping."
Lin Mai said: "Although there is no conflict between these two things, I am afraid that someone maliciously set the fire just to sneak into the room and plot evil.
If you are not afraid of an accident, then go in. Anyway, I want to wait until the police investigation is clear."
No one had any objection at this time, and followed Lin Mai's example to close the door from the outside, and asked the hotel attendant to immediately call the police to search the room.
Two police officers soon arrived and searched room after room.
Although there was no anti-theft net in this era, iron bars were installed on the windows of every room.
If a gangster enters the room, the only entrance and exit is the door, so it is not difficult to find the gangster.
I searched seven or eight rooms in a row and found nothing.
The worried tenants all said that Lin Mai was too cautious.
Some tenants even asked the police to go back apologetically.
Lin Mai hurriedly said: "It's their fault if they don't want to check. Please ask the police comrades to check my room. I'm a girl alone and I'm afraid something will happen."
The two police officers were very responsible and went in to search her room.
Although many tenants stood outside Lin Mai's room to watch the excitement, no one thought that the gangsters would be found in her room.
But he never thought that as soon as the two policemen opened the door, a black shadow rushed out.
The two police officers had quick eyesight and quick hands, and they took control of the black figure with lightning speed.
The tenants watching the excitement exclaimed: "There really are gangsters!"
A police officer asked the gangster sternly: "Tell me the truth, what did you want to do when you sneaked into someone else's room?"
Through the lights in the corridor, everyone could clearly see that the gangster was a young man in his mid-twenties, wearing a floral shirt and jeans, exuding the aura of a mentally retarded gangster.
Although the gangster was a little panicked, he still answered fluently: "I didn't plan to do anything, I just wanted to take advantage of the chaos to go in and steal something, but I didn't steal anything."
A police officer asked Lin Mai: "Are there any valuables in the room?"
Lin Mai thought quickly for a few seconds.
If there are valuables in the room, no valuables can be found on the criminal's body.
It seems that she is deliberately lying to frame the gangster, which is likely to be self-defeating.
So he shook his head and patted the small bag on his back: "I don't have anything valuable on me. All valuable things are in my bag."
The gangster was greatly relieved when he heard this.
But Lin Mai's next words almost made him lose his mind.
Lin Mai pointed at him and said, "I have seen this person before."
"Oh?" a police officer asked, "Where have you seen him?"
Lin Mai told the truth: "When my boyfriend took me to dinner, I saw him following me.
My boyfriend sent me here to stay, and I saw him following me again.
But I didn’t take it to heart at the time, thinking it was all a coincidence, after all, he might also need food and accommodation.”
The gangster shouted: "You're talking nonsense! I'm not following you!"
Lin Mai didn't feel guilty at all when he wronged him. He looked at him with contempt and didn't bother to argue with him. He said to the two policemen: "But now that he is found in my room, it wasn't a coincidence before."
A policeman nodded and said: "Of course not. He may have been following you before to check on the spot."
Lin Mai's face became extremely solemn, and he asked with a puzzled look: "Stepping on my point? Why is he stepping on my point? I only have a few dozen dollars~"
If it's not for money, then it's for sex.
Lin Mai tried his best to push the gangster towards the sex side.
In this era, petty theft is not necessarily a capital crime, but if you commit hooliganism, it is easy to eat peanuts.