Mo Xiao looked at his brother's nervous expression in some confusion, thinking that how could two grown men like them be afraid of the couple downstairs? The landlord was less than 1.6 meters tall and weighed less than 100 pounds. He looked skinny and small, and as someone who often lifted weights, he even suspected that he could smash the landlord's head with one round.
Mo Bei approached the door cautiously, apparently wanting to observe the situation outside through the cat's eye.
However, before Mo Bei could get close to the peephole, the door handle suddenly started turning by itself, and the frequency of the turning became faster and faster, as if someone outside suddenly became angry and twisted the door handle frantically in an attempt to break in.
Mo Xiao's anger, which had been calmed down, suddenly flared up. He gritted his teeth and yelled through the door, "Are you fucking sick? What are you thinking in the middle of the night? I just heard you guys yelling downstairs when I was taking a shower. If you continue to harass us, I'll chop you to death!"
Mo Xiao had been working all night editing copy for several days in a row, and when he encountered such a situation again, he couldn't suppress his anger all of a sudden. In addition, he knew that the couple below were ordinary people like them, so there was nothing to be afraid of if they really got into a fight.
Mo Bei was afraid that his brother would open the door and go out to argue with others in excitement, so he quickly pulled his brother back. He then mustered up his courage again and took a small step forward, and finally carefully put his eyes on the cat's eye.
After looking for a long time, there was no one outside, but the cat's eye could only see a limited range, so Mo Bei was not sure whether the people outside had left.
"What's wrong? What did you see? Is it that idiot landlord? I told you long ago that we can't stay in this house anymore. Never mind. We'll move out when the lease expires in two months anyway."
Mo Xiao behind him had his hands on his hips, a look of displeasure written all over his face, but soon his eyes were attracted by the orange firelight reflected outside the window.
It was 10:30 in the evening. The rent of the neighborhood where he lived was not expensive because it was less than five kilometers away from the outer circle and the public facilities nearby were not very good. Some people also disliked the geographical location because there was a large undeveloped wasteland behind it. During the acid rain half a year ago, several buildings under construction were corroded, so that the buildings behind it became unfinished buildings. In addition, the security in the area was not good and there were many gang crimes. Basically, young girls did not dare to live nearby. If the two brothers' official accounts were not in the development stage and their economic conditions were not very good, they would not have to stay in this place for two years.
So it was quite strange to see such a dazzling light outside. Mo Xiao remembered that opposite the house was a large pond that was about to dry up, so it was impossible for light to appear there at all.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, so Mo Xiao's attention shifted from the door to the window.
Mo Xiao frowned and approached the window. The window glass was the one that the two brothers had specially replaced with thicker and more soundproofed ones because they couldn't stand the battle-damaged glass some time ago. Because Mo Xiao usually worked late at night and stayed up late to do copywriting and slept during the day, they spent a lot of money to replace the windows and doors when they first moved in.
Mo Xiao had personally tested the thickness of this glass. Unless it was hit hard by a metal object, not even a scratch would be left.
Mo Xiao moved closer to the window. It was pitch black outside and he could only see faint lights in one or two buildings in the distance. But what was unusual was that there was suddenly a burst of fire shooting up into the sky about a hundred meters away.
That direction seems to be the only commercial street nearby.
Is there a fire over there?