The three newcomers were being obstinate and unreasonable, but Xu Leigang was no pushover either. When it came to arguing, whom had he ever feared?
Amid the quarrel, both sides gradually figured out what the other was thinking.
The three outsiders insisted they were aerial photography enthusiasts who could film in any area that was not a no-fly zone. Their drones were more than a hundred meters above the ground, so fundamentally, they could not affect anything below them—other than making a bit more noise.
But if the noise was too loud, they could report it to the authorities. No one was stopping them.
Their drones had lost contact inside Luohua Manor, and they strongly demanded that the other side hand them over. Apparently, the two drones were quite expensive, not the cheap four- or five-thousand-yuan kind—each one cost over twenty thousand.
From beginning to end, the three had not revealed their identities, which showed that they had their own concerns as well.
Their final condition was that if Luohua Manor would not hand over the drones, they wanted to enter the manor and look for them themselves.
If the manor would not let them search, then sorry, they would ask the police to uphold justice.
Clearly, before the higher-ups made a decision, bringing in the police was not a bad option.
Otherwise, once the snow got too deep, any further action might have to wait until spring next year.
Xu Leigang did not know who they were. In his view, alerting the police was not such a terrible thing.
However, if they wanted to call the police, he would not let them have their way so easily. They knew how to disgust people—did they think he did not?
So he settled for the next best thing and said that