Courtyard House: A Major Power's Heavy Industry, Hand-Crafted Nuclear Fusion

"ah----!!!"

Banggeng's screams, like the broken strings of an erhu, were mournful and shrill, echoing for a long time in the courtyard.

Then came a muffled "thump".

Banggeng was thrown off the windowsill like a tattered sack, crashing heavily onto the cold, hard frozen ground.

"Zira—"

On the window frame of Su Zheng's house, residual blue arcs of electricity still flickered, emitting a chilling, acrid smell. It was the smell of flesh being instantly burned by high temperatures, mixed with the odor of ionized ozone in the air, extremely pungent.

"Great job! My dear grandson!"

Madam Jia, not even bothering to put on her shoes, rushed barefoot out of the house. Seeing Banggeng lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth and convulsing, her old face turned deathly pale, followed by a frantic scream:

"Murder! That damned Su Zheng, he's a bastard! He electrified the window! He's trying to electrocute my dog!"

Qin Huairu also staggered out and threw herself onto Banggeng.

"Bang Geng! Bang Geng, how are you? Don't scare your mother!" Qin Huairu cried her heart out.

At this moment, Banggeng had completely lost the "charging into battle" spirit he had just displayed. His eyes rolled back, and his hands and feet twitched uncontrollably. The palm of the hand that had been pressed against the window was now charred black, as if it had been branded with a hot iron.

The most embarrassing thing was that his crotch was soaked, and yellow urine was flowing down his trouser leg and onto the ground, still steaming.

The neighbors were stunned by what they saw.

The second aunt was so frightened that she dropped the soy sauce bottle in her hand, and the third aunt stopped washing clothes and all gathered around, but no one dared to get too close, for fear that there might still be residual electricity.

"What... what's going on?"

"Has the stick-like creature... been electrocuted?"

"My God, how come Su Zheng's window is electrified?"

"That kid, why would he go and try to climb out of someone's window?"

The crowd buzzed with discussion, some expressing sympathy, others gloating, and still others simply enjoying the spectacle.

"It's all Su Zheng's fault! It's all that little bastard's fault!"

When Jia Zhangshi saw that Bang Geng was convulsing but not dead (actually just a nerve spasm), her fear subsided slightly, replaced by overwhelming anger and the instinct to extort.

She suddenly stood up, grabbed a brick from the side, and rushed towards Su Zheng's door like a madwoman.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

She pounded on Su Zheng's door, yelling, "Su Zheng! You murderer! Get out here! You electrocuted my grandson! You have to pay for it with your life! You have to pay for it with money!"

"You deliberately harmed someone! You set a trap in the window! You're a spy! You're a counter-revolutionary!"

Jia Zhangshi kept accusing Su Zheng, trying to first label him as a "bad person".

Just then.

"Make way, make way!"

A cold voice came from outside the crowd.

Everyone turned around and saw Su Zhengzheng walking slowly through the moon gate with his hands behind his back.

He remained calm, with even a faint, cold smile playing on his lips, as if the farce unfolding before him had nothing to do with him.

"Su Zheng! You dare come back!" Seeing Su Zheng, Jia Zhangshi reacted as if she'd seen her father's killer. She brandished a brick and charged forward, yelling, "You little beast! I'll take your life!"

"stop!"

Yi Zhonghai arrived at this moment. Although he also hated Su Zheng, he knew he couldn't let Jia Zhangshi actually hit someone, otherwise he would lose his reason. He grabbed Jia Zhangshi and looked at Su Zheng with a gloomy face.

"Su Zheng, look what you've done! You're a perfectly good neighbor, why are you putting electricity on the window? This could kill someone! This is intentional assault!" Yi Zhonghai started by setting the tone.

Su Zheng stopped walking, without explaining or backing down because of Jia Zhangshi's bricks.

He merely glanced at the stick lying on the ground, then looked at the disconnected pressure switch on his window.

"Sir, I don't understand what you're saying."

Su Zheng's voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly throughout the room, "I installed a security screen on my own window, how did that become intentional assault? Is it illegal to use security screens these days?"

"Theft prevention?" Qin Huairu looked up, her face streaked with tears, her eyes filled with resentment. "Su Zheng, is that theft prevention? That's an electric fence! Are you trying to electrocute Bang Geng?! We're all neighbors, even if... even if Bang Geng is a little naughty, you can't be so cruel!"

Qin Huairu's "soft approach" instantly won the sympathy of many neighbors. Indeed, no matter what, using electricity on a child is a bit harsh.

"Naughty?" Su Zheng sneered. "Prying open the latch and climbing through the window is considered naughty? According to national law, that's burglary! That's illegal intrusion!"

He pointed to the charred hand on the stick, his tone suddenly turning stern:

"Everyone in the neighborhood has eyes. If he didn't reach out to open my window, if he didn't try to climb into my house, would he get electrocuted? My electric fence is installed inside the window, only triggered by intruders! If he doesn't steal, he won't get electrocuted! Who can prove he didn't steal?"

"You're talking nonsense! My dog ​​was just passing by! He was just curious and took a look!" Jia Zhangshi still argued, "It's your broken window that's leaking electricity! You're framing me!"

Whether it's a setup or not is neither up to you nor me to decide.

Su Zheng ignored the group of unreasonable beasts.

He turned around, took out a handful of coins from his pocket, and handed them to Liu Guangtian, who was watching the commotion.

"Guangtian, go to the factory's security department and call Section Chief Wang."

Su Zheng's voice was icy cold. "Say that my 'security technology test' at home successfully captured an intruder attempting to damage research property. Have the security department send someone to handle this immediately!"

"Security...Security Department?"

Upon hearing these three words, Jia Zhangshi's crying stopped abruptly.

Yi Zhonghai's face turned deathly pale instantly.

Su Zheng actually reported this to the security department? And he even mentioned something about a "security test"?

The nature of it has changed!