The crackling sound of the fire burning wood made the people in the house toss and turn. The temperature of the space increased rapidly. Alex was sweating and woke up from a severe cough. The house was full of thick smoke, even a meter away. He immediately pushed his wife, picked up the kettle at the head of the bed, poured the water on his clothes, covered his mouth and nose with wet clothes, pulled his unwary wife and rushed to the balcony.


    The windows on the first floor and the gaps connected with the outside world are crazy spitting black smoke, and a trace of flame is looming in these thick smoke. It''s on fire!


    "Jump!" Alex yelled again. His wife woke up in fear. She looked back at the bedroom in a panic. Alex knew what she was thinking, but it was too late now.


    Over the years, the jewelry Alex gave her was put in the dressing room by her. There were a lot of expensive clothes and jewelry, worth at least more than 100000. There is a safe in the study next to the dressing room, which contains more valuable things.


    No matter how valuable these things are, they are not as valuable as one thousandth of life. His wife immediately looked outside the guardrail and slowly pulled down the guardrail of the balcony until her hands grabbed the ground of the balcony. Her legs had fallen to a place only more than one meter away from the ground, and then released her hands.


    The fire also alerted the neighbors around. Someone had reported a fire just now. The siren of the fire engine in the distance was particularly harsh in the middle of the night. Alex doesn''t know what happened to ed. now he can only take care of himself.


    Less than a few seconds after he jumped down from the second floor, several people rushed out of the front door of the first floor under a wet thin quilt. Ed gasped in embarrassment. The water stains and the dust in the burning air painted a surreal painting on his face.


    "How could there be a fire? Did you forget to put out the fire in the kitchen at night?", ed took off his coat, wiped his face, and finally wrapped it around his left hand. His hand was scalded by the metal doorknob when he opened the bedroom door. It''s not very serious.


    Alex shook his head. "We didn''t cook at night. We ordered fast food from outside." his daughters were kidnapped. Who still wants to cook a delicious dinner in the kitchen slowly? Alex ordered some food directly from the nearby restaurant, so there could be no accident in the kitchen. And this is the upper urban area of Orlando. This community is also developed by a very powerful developer.


    There is a fire alarm bell in the kitchen. Once the glass tube in the alarm bell bursts due to high temperature, the alarm bell will ring immediately. The alarm did not ring, which means that either the alarm itself has a problem, or the fire may have been man-made.


    Adults tend to have more mature ideas, not because they will understand everything when they get old, but because they have experienced more, heard more and accumulated enough experience.


    The two brothers looked at each other and immediately realized that the fire was most likely related to the kidnapper who kidnapped Alex''s daughter.


    Their goal may not be Alex''s daughter, but Alex.


    Ed pulled Alex aside and whispered, "have you offended anyone lately?"


    Because of the nature of Alex''s work, he will come into contact with some large land developers. These businessmen often invest millions of dollars. If their declaration documents are "stuck" by Alex, they may really be able to do such a thing. In this society, those big capitalists with a fortune of tens of thousands, either of noble origin, are already very rich. Or they came from a crooked way and quickly completed the preliminary accumulation through bloody means.


    It''s not that there are no normal legal businessmen, but such people are a minority after all. Just like a famous big capitalist in the Empire, he is charitable and has been interviewed many times. He always repeats his resume, giving the general public a very positive feeling. He is called the beneficiary of the first generation of imperial dream.


    He was originally a farmer who grew pumpkins for a living. He often talked about this at tea parties or when he was invited to talk to students about his entrepreneurial experience - I''m a pumpkin seller.


    He ignored how he became a famous capitalist of the empire from a pumpkin farmer, because it was not easy to say that history.


    Perhaps people in his time can still remember that there was a gang called pumpkin paradise.


    Alex frowned and recalled his work during this period. He finally shook his head. "The power of final approval of all documents is in the hands of the governor, and I haven''t stabbed others in the back, not because of these things."


    At the same time, Alex also put forward his own view, "could it be the ghost of the lawyer named Kevin? We only had a conflict with him these days! There was a man named dufo around Vivian who used to mix gangs with tenell, but later he got rich somehow. Did he help Kevin?"


    "It''s possible..." ed suddenly closed his mouth and a fireman came towards them.


    "Gentlemen, I''m very sorry. Are there any of you left inside?" the firefighters need to make sure that everyone escaped. If so, they will start to put out the fire. If not, they will arrange for people to search and rescue the victims trapped in the fire - a large amount of water vapor will affect their sight.


    Alex reached out and shook hands with the fireman. "You came in time. There''s no one in there."


    The firemen were not very good at words. They smiled and left. Water columns had poured in from the broken windows. Instead, the fire was more intense. Bursts of black smoke rolled out, and many residents came around.


    The two brothers looked at each other. Alex walked to his wife, while ed called his people and took the car to find Vivian. No matter whether it was done by the Buddha or not, he will not let this man go.


    A bastard from the countryside... Just!


    Du Lin stood in front of the window on the third floor and looked at the ruined villa across the street of the community. The all wooden house had been irreversibly damaged in the sudden alternation of cold and heat. The fire in the house had been extinguished, but the house also tilted a little, and one side had collapsed with an ugly sound of distortion. The onlookers retreated some distance, and he also observed several people leaving in the three cars.


    Dufo stood behind Dooling. A dark red bright spot in the weak light suddenly became red and quickly dimmed, "your method works very well. Now it''s my turn to play?"


    Durin kidnapped Alex''s daughter, transferred ed from the military area, and then a fire separated them. Now is the best time to start. Doolin doesn''t know where ED is going. He thinks ED is likely to go to the hospital to find Kevin. At this time, if he doesn''t doubt Kevin, the two brothers are a mentally retarded duo. So Kevin has been transferred, and ED will only throw himself into the air.


    He nodded and ordered, "do it neatly. You can try to give him a decent way to die. After all, he is Vivian''s brother."


    The Buddha didn''t answer, hum, smiled twice and turned away.


    At this time, Alex looked at the fire site where the fire had been extinguished and asked these firefighters to get out of his vault. There were many important documents and some valuables in it. He didn''t care if other things burned. The key was the things in the safe. Some of them couldn''t go wrong.


    Over the years, Alex has received some benefits from sitting in the imperial land resources management office. In order to avoid forgetting who gave him gifts and who was disrespectful to him in the future, he specially recorded all this in a small book.


    Sometimes newspapers will expose some corrupt officials and detonate their "account books". Many people don''t know how to face the "account books" left by these corrupt officials. In fact, they just don''t have actual experience and experience. Some people give money but don''t ask you to do anything. If you forget in the future, it may be a trouble. Or three or five people come to give gifts in a day, and the things they give are different. When giving gifts, it is certainly impossible to open all the things and show them to the corrupt officials one by one.


    In case you remember wrong who sent what, there will be problems.


    So at this time, they need a small notebook to record when they received someone''s things and what the other party needs. This is a required course for corrupt people!


    With the help of firefighters, his safe was finally found from the ruins and dragged out. After thanking the firefighters again and again, he asked his wife to keep an eye on the safe, and then he was going to call someone to send a truck to transport the safe to another house.


    As the child of the governor and the descendant of the great nobility, he has great power. Of course, he can''t have only one house. At this time, a firefighter came towards him.


    All politicians can do one thing, that is, fake smile. He said thank you again, and then quietly looked at the firefighter with fire helmet and fire suit.


    "I don''t know what to say. I found something behind your house!" the fireman gestured, which made Alex more confused.


    "What is it?"


    "I don''t know. Just come and have a look."


    Alex glanced at the late police car, nodded and followed the fireman to the back of the ruins. The fireman pointed to the neatly trimmed low bush and said, "you see? Here''s a box."


    "Box?", Alex was puzzled. The light was very dark at night. He only saw the black bushes. There was no box. When he stretched his neck to get closer, a cold light flashed from under his eyelids, and then he heard a strange dialogue.


    "Mr. durin asked me to say hello to you and wish you a pleasant trip!"