127: Chapter 127 Sleepless Night Tonight

Everyone: "..."

Everyone fell silent.

In the silence, some people quietly rolled up their sleeves, while others clenched their fists.

However, the Old Woman lived up to the "Old" in her name. Despite the tense atmosphere, she didn't care at all. Seeing that no one was speaking, she assumed she had the moral high ground and raised her voice to continue shouting: "What's wrong? Are you all mute? You dare to do it but not admit it, right? Let me tell you, no way! None of you who bullied my Good Grandson will get away with it."

"Since none of you are talking, I'll assume you all bullied him. You must pay compensation. If you don't pay, I'll just lie down right at your doorsteps."

"And don't think about running away. Let me tell you, this Old Woman has already memorized all of your faces."

"WTF!"

"I really want to beat her up."

"I want to do it too."

"Don't! It might feel good for one punch, but afterward, if..."

Unfortunately, this rational person... no, this Ninja Turtle hadn't even finished speaking when chaos erupted at the scene.

Don't know who started it, but everyone swarmed around the Old Woman. Then, out of fear, the Old Woman "fell" into the flower bed. Everyone kindly tried to help her up, but it was too chaotic, and some people accidentally stepped on or kicked the Old Woman. One could only hear the Old Woman's cries of "Ouch" ringing out from the crowd from time to time.

A moment later, everyone distanced themselves from the Old Woman.

Gathering in twos and threes, someone looked up at the sky and sighed: "The moon is so round tonight."

The person beside them looked at the starless sky and agreed: "You're right, it really is quite round."

Another person pointed at the flower bed: "Come to think of it, although this tree is crooked and twisted, at first glance, it has a unique charm."

The person next to them agreed: "Indeed, there's a bit of Zen in it."

At this moment, someone pretended to yawn: "Ah... it's getting late. I won't keep everyone company admiring the moon and flowers. I'm going back to sleep."

"It really is getting late. I'm going back too."

"I have to work tomorrow, so I'm leaving too."

"Let's go, together."

"Together!"

While talking, everyone walked into the apartment building together.

"Don't go, don't any of you go, you bunch of damn curs..." Seeing everyone disperse, the Old Woman panicked, instantly fully revived, and started jumping up and down, cursing at the unit door.

The cursing was incredibly foul.

However, paired with the Naughty Child's heart-wrenching wails nearby, everyone felt it was like a beautiful piece of music, so soothing.

While waiting for the elevator, someone asked: "Are we still going to the 17th floor?"

"Of course!" someone replied.

"With that attitude of theirs, you're still rushing to help?"

"I don't have a masochistic tendency." The person rolled their eyes at the questioner. "I live on the 17th floor. If I'm not going back to the 17th floor, what am I doing?"

"WTF!" The questioner gave this person the middle finger.

At this time, someone else said: "Let's get our stories straight. When the Comrade Police Officer comes later, if they ask, we'll all say nothing happened, and only mention that we went downstairs to look for those two."

"No problem."

"Understood."

"Got it!"

Soon the elevator went down to the first floor. Chen Sheng mingled with the crowd, entering the elevator in batches to return to the 16th floor.

Opening the door, he saw An Xiaonuan had returned home a step earlier and asked curiously: "Did the Comrade Police Officer come?"

"No. You wouldn't believe it, the woman upstairs is just speechless. Just after you left, the people who stayed went to her place to take a look—they just walked around the house—but that woman insisted that her things had been rummaged through and that someone was stealing. It just left everyone speechless, so they didn't want to help anymore and turned around and left."

"Awesome~" Chen Sheng gave an objective evaluation, then recounted what happened downstairs to An Xiaonuan.

An Xiaonuan listened in astonishment, completely stunned. When Chen Sheng finished, she was silent for a long while before giving her own objective evaluation: "They really are two peas in a pod."

"Now we can be completely at ease. With that attitude, let alone using a bone conduction speaker, even if we really dressed up as ghosts, everyone would applaud and welcome it."

"Yeah, now I'm completely at ease." An Xiaonuan patted her chest dramatically, then suggested with shining eyes: "Shall we continue tomorrow?"

"That's a must." Although the family upstairs had a miserable night, Chen Sheng didn't intend to let them off the hook just like that. After all, he had endured three days of noise, so he would return three days of it.

The two chatted for a while longer. Just as they were about to go to the bedroom to sleep, the door was knocked. They looked at each other, and Chen Sheng silently mouthed two words: "Comrade Police Officer."

An Xiaonuan understood and quickly walked into the bedroom.

After the bedroom door was closed, Chen Sheng walked to the door, looked through the peephole, saw the person in uniform, and confirmed his guess. Chen Sheng opened the door.

Quickly scanning the area, he saw not only the Comrade Police Officer but also property management at the door. Chen Sheng asked the Comrade Police Officer: "Hello, Comrade Police Officer. It's late at night, may I ask what this is about?"

"Hello, something happened upstairs just now, and we're here to ask you about the situation." The Comrade Police Officer stated their purpose. Then, the two went back and forth, with Chen Sheng telling the Comrade Police Officer everything except for the bone conduction speaker and what happened downstairs.

Of course, in the process, Chen Sheng emphasized the unreasonableness of the people upstairs.

At the same time, he carefully observed the Comrade Police Officer's reaction while answering questions. The facts were just as he had guessed; although the questioning was at the door, during the process, he noticed the Comrade Police Officer's gaze scanning into the room several times, as if looking for something.

"We have a general understanding of the matter. Thank you for your cooperation. However, I'll remind you: don't be so impulsive next time. There are many people around, and if something goes wrong, a good deed might turn into a bad one."

Chen Sheng pretended not to understand and asked: "Comrade Police Officer, are you saying we shouldn't have helped?"

The Comrade Police Officer gave Chen Sheng an annoyed look. "Alright! We need to go to the next household to understand the situation. Sorry to bother you."

"No problem! Cooperation between the police and the public is only right."

Seeing the Comrade Police Officer knock on the neighbor's door, Chen Sheng wisely closed his own door.

Returning to the bedroom, An Xiaonuan asked nervously: "How did it go?"

Chen Sheng spread his hands, "Nothing at all."

"Yay~" An Xiaonuan pumped her fist, "Awesome!"

"You have no idea, the group chat is incredibly lively right now." An Xiaonuan pointed the phone screen at Chen Sheng. Chen Sheng lifted the phone he had just grabbed, took off his clothes, got into bed, and opened the group. Boy, it was really lively.

Someone living in the building near the main gate asked what happened in the complex and shared the situation at the entrance: an ambulance and a police car were parked side by side.

Those in this building were frantically complaining in the group chat about the bizarre behavior of the tenant in 1703 just now.

People in other buildings were frantically asking for updates.

Various voice messages, text, and emojis were flooding the screen, so crazy that as soon as you exited the group, there would be 99+ unread messages in just a moment.

Tsk tsk~

Clearly, for many, tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

This included An Xiaonuan.

At this moment, her fingers were tapping the screen nonstop, and she showed no signs of sleepiness at all.

Of course! She wasn't just chatting in the group; she was mostly sharing the night's crazy events with her group of girlfriends.

It's like buying a bag, a nice piece of clothing, having a big meal, or going out to play—if you don't post it on Moments and share it, in their eyes, it's as if the bag or clothes weren't bought, the meal wasn't eaten, and the fun was wasted.

Time quietly slipped to 2:00 AM. Chen Sheng couldn't help but yawn, put his phone on the nightstand, turned to the energetic An Xiaonuan, and said: "It's about time to sleep. You have to work tomorrow."

"If you're sleepy, go to sleep first. I'm in the middle of a fun chat. Fang'er and the others were just praising you earlier."

"Fine! As long as you're happy. But don't blame me if you're late tomorrow."

"Alright, alright, don't bother me." An Xiaonuan waved her hand dismissively. "I definitely won't blame you."

Facts proved that women's words should be taken in reverse. Sure enough, when day broke, An Xiaonuan woke up, fumbled for her phone in a daze, checked the time, and then with a gentle, precise pinch, she grabbed the weak spot of Chen Sheng, who was still playing chess with the God of Dreams. "It's all your fault, it's already nine o'clock! Why didn't you wake me up?"

"I..." Chen Sheng, awakened by the pain, had his brain immediately enter a state of system crash.

After a long while, he finally reacted, and his CPU was forced to maximum capacity. "It's the weekend tomorrow anyway, why don't you take a day off today, and we go camping at that place you mentioned before?"