Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 50 - 47 Climbing Over the Wall_1

“What are you doing here?” Feng Yi asked again.

After a while, the child stammered out, “I…I just wanted to grab… borrow a ladder…”

Feng Yi followed the child’s gaze.

There was indeed a folding ladder in the corner of the front yard; Feng Yi had moved it out a few days ago when he was cleaning the backyard and had left it there ever since. Probably, these three kids had seen the ladder during the day.

Upon seeing the ladder, Feng Yi remembered that when he was tidying up the ladder, he had indeed smelled some scents—it was these kids’.

Xue Lin probably wouldn’t have guessed that the ladder he bought for his own use had instead become these kids’ tool for climbing over the walls—they would climb over the tree outside the back wall and then step on the ladder to get back out.

“You want to borrow the ladder for what? To climb over someone’s wall again?” Feng Yi asked.

The child shrank his neck and stayed silent, refusing to look at Feng Yi.

“Fine, if you won’t talk, I won’t lend it.”

Feng Yi looked at the time; it was already past 11 p.m., and this child was still lingering outside!

If they have the energy to cause trouble at this hour, they must not have enough homework!

Feng Yi decided to sit on the steps in front of the door and took out his phone, “You’re not going to talk? Then I’ll call the property management and tell them you’re climbing over my wall again.”

“I didn’t climb!”

“Then they did,” Feng Yi dialed the property management’s number. Always roaming around nearby, his nose couldn’t be ignored. If he didn’t deal with these kids, he wouldn’t be able to sleep peacefully at night.

Seeing that Feng Yi was really about to make a call, the child became anxious, “They didn’t climb today either! They went to…”

Feng Yi raised an eyebrow: “Went to climb where?”

The child fell silent again.

Feng Yi gave him a glance, stood up, walked out of the yard, and in the gaze of the anxious and uncertain child, took a deep breath and captured enough scent molecules in the air.

There weren’t many people moving around in this part of the neighborhood, so Feng Yi could smell the scents of the elderly, children, and pets who had walked here during the day, and even vaguely outline their movements.

As for the night, the scents were even clearer. People walking around the neighborhood wouldn’t come to this side because it was near the river where mosquitoes were abundant at night, and sometimes one might even encounter snakes.

The most distinct scent clues came from those three brats. They had even sprayed mosquito repellent.

These scent clues converged together, like time flowing backward, then reappeared in Feng Yi’s mind in another form.

As the child was filled with doubts and uncertainty, he saw Feng Yi walk in one particular direction.

And that was towards…

The child shuddered inexplicably.

“Wow, impressive! So now you’re not just climbing over the homeowner’s walls but also the neighborhood’s perimeter wall?” said Feng Yi.

He “saw” the three kids go to the wall closest to the river, where they paused, probably discussing how to climb over. Eventually, the one who was left behind acted as a human ladder, while the other two stepped on him to climb over the wall.

So in sync with each other, they were clearly experienced. They had not just done this once, and if not here, they had climbed over somewhere else.

The one who was left was the same kid that had been lingering in Feng Yi’s front yard for half an hour.

After Feng Yi spelled out these details, the child looked at him with eyes that shifted from uncertainty to fear.

Feng Yi ignored the child’s gaze, as if he were looking at a monster, and took another look at the community wall, which was equipped with sensor devices and an alarm controller. How did these kids manage to climb over without making a sound?

This time, Feng Yi didn’t hesitate and called the property management directly to report the situation. He also learned that there had been recent inspections of the gates during the day, but there was a malfunction at the control center, and the repairman had only arrived in the evening. It would take an hour to fix, so for that hour, even if anyone climbed over, the controller would not set off an alarm.

The property management hadn’t considered it a big deal and hadn’t informed the residents, not anticipating that these three kids would take advantage of the gap!

With such enthusiasm, they could have done something constructive, but instead, they chose to climb over the perimeter wall in the middle of the night!!

They’ve never been this proactive about highlighting the key points for an exam!!!

After calling property management, Feng Yi looked towards the child not far away.

Knowing he couldn’t escape, the child had given up on making excuses and was dejectedly squatting on the ground.

Feng Yi was about to scoff at him when a breeze blew from the direction of the riverbank, and the words he was about to say halted.

Feng Yi turned his gaze towards the nearby river.

Although the view was obstructed by a wall, he couldn’t truly see what was happening on the other side. But Feng Yi could imagine the river’s surface; he had stood on the attic balcony just last night admiring the nocturnal riverscape.

The weather tonight was the same as yesterday, without many clouds, and bathed in moonlight. The river undulated in the evening breeze, reflecting the twinkling moonlight. Aside from the usual clamor of frog croaks and insect chirps, there seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary.

Feng Yi took several deep breaths in quick succession, analyzing the strange earthy scent in the air.

It was his first time smelling this sort of earthiness, but instinctively, he felt a hint of threat within it.

And the direction of this unidentified threat was precisely where the two children had gone.

“Stay here and wait!”

After leaving the message, Feng Yi quickly rushed to the edge of the fence, clambering up almost against it and flipped to the other side in the blink of an eye.

The squatting child was utterly baffled, not understanding why Feng Yi had suddenly vaulted over.

Right, how did he climb the fence just now? If he learned that, he wouldn’t need to rely on others…

He tried to recall the way Feng Yi had scaled the fence; it was too quick, he hadn’t seen clearly… How did he do it?

After puzzling over it for a while and still not understanding, he gave up thinking about it. As for Feng Yi’s instruction to “stay here and wait,” that was impossible. Although he didn’t know why he was afraid of Feng Yi, he had been scared from the very first glance, but that didn’t mean he would listen to Feng Yi!

If he hadn’t lost at rock-paper-scissors, would he have been left behind to act as a human ladder?

He had remembered a foldable ladder inside Feng Yi’s residence, but he was also afraid of Feng Yi. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been loitering outside for half an hour without taking action.

After Cao Xing showed them Feng Yi during the day, he claimed he wasn’t afraid anymore, but for some reason, just the sight of Feng Yi made him so scared he couldn’t speak, and felt like crying as soon as he opened his mouth. However, he couldn’t let others know that; it would be too embarrassing.

Now that Feng Yi had left, his stubborn courage had returned!

Staying put was out of the question, not only would he not stay there obediently, but he also intended to…

He got up and ran to Feng Yi’s front yard, huffing and puffing as he moved the foldable ladder out, planning to follow over the fence.

But he never got the chance. Not long after he moved the ladder, and before he reached the fence, he was caught by the property management staff who had rushed over.

The property management team sent three people: one to stop the child, while the other two looked around.

“Where’s the person who called earlier?”

Resigned, the child set down the ladder, “He’s gone over to the other side! I don’t know what happened, he just suddenly rushed over and whoosh, flipped over to the other side.”

The three property management staff members looked at each other suspiciously.

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“Even though our complex can’t install many things due to its location, is the perimeter fence really that easy to climb over?”

Not only are those three mischievous kids plotting something, but can the residents also easily hop over it?

“Our complex’s perimeter fence is indeed a bit old; it’s time for an upgrade!”

“Enough about that, have we contacted the parents of those three? Inform this kid’s parents to take him back. The other two’s parents should come with us to look for them. It’s dangerous by the riverside at night!”

Meanwhile, Cao Xing and his companion, who had climbed over the wall of the complex, had already arrived at their destination, one holding a flashlight and the other wielding a stick, searching through the bushes.

The maintenance of the fence and sensors by the property, Cao Xing had learned from one of his lackeys who had eavesdropped on the information.

Knowing that the detection devices would be deactivated, Cao Xing spontaneously contacted two buddies to sneak out and stealthily collect wild bird eggs by the riverside.

A few days ago, he had heard about wild bird eggs in the bushes along the riverbank and had kept it in mind. It was inconvenient to act during the day with people walking, jogging, and walking dogs around, and it was difficult to sneak out of the complex at night. That’s why they had set their sights on a residence like Feng Yi’s, not expecting to be caught red-handed by Feng Yi himself.

They hadn’t planned to sneak out tonight, but when they received the last-minute “intelligence,” missing the opportunity would have been too much to bear. Curious about the wild bird eggs, they still sneaked out in the evening despite warnings from their parents earlier that day.

The operation was rushed; their gear wasn’t fully prepared, and as they got close to the riverbank, they were terribly bothered by various mosquitoes and insects.

“Brother Xing, should we head back?”

“What’s up? You scared?”

“No… who’s scared! But there are just too many mosquitoes here, and something flew onto my head just now. I smacked it away. My scalp is itching a bit now.”

“Just wait a little longer. We’ll grab a few bird eggs and head back. I remember it’s around this area.”

Having grown up near the river, they were familiar with this stretch of the riverbank. Despite being told many times by adults not to go near the river, their curiosity often got the best of them, and they had secretly gone into the water a few times. Last year, they got caught sneaking into the river for a swim and nearly had their behinds spanked raw.

But there’s a saying, “A healed scar forgets the pain,” especially for mischievous kids of this age. If they aren’t scolded for three days, they’re climbing roofs and prying tiles—it isn’t an exaggeration. They’re more proactive than those seven or eight-year-olds, wildly unbridled without restraint. You never know what kind of dumb stuff they might do.