In December, the night of Zhonghai City is long and short, just after six o'clock outside the sky slowly darkened, the street lights on both sides of the road gradually lit up, so that the city continues to be bright, the crowd of people who get off work like a huge spider web fills the streets and alleys of the city, and all kinds of sounds echo in the sky above the city.

"......", Zhuang Rui pulled down half of the roller shutter door in the store, carried a few iron boxes that were packed and sealed to the counter, and closed the security door casually.

The day's work is coming to an end, although he is not very busy, but Zhuang Rui's young face still shows a trace of exhaustion, probably because of the end of the year, Zhuang Rui has not been home for a year Zhuang Rui is a little homesick.

Zhuang Rui is 24 years old this year, born in a single-parent family in the ancient city of northern Jiangsu, with a height of 1.8 meters, although his appearance is not handsome, but he gives people a cordial feeling when he laughs, and his gestures reveal a trace of calmness, and he looks a few years older than his actual age.

Zhuang Rui in college is also a person who likes to be lively, but after leaving the school gate, everything is not going well makes Zhuang Rui a lot more restrained, and he has become a lot more mature and stable, in addition to scolding a certain association when watching football, after getting off work, more time is to read some historical novels in a rented house, and only a few days ago I bought a set of "Kangxi Emperor" written by Februaryhe, if it weren't for the fear of bad influence, he wanted to bring it to the unit to see.

In 2000, Zhuang Rui graduated from a famous university in Zhonghai City, majoring in finance and accounting, it stands to reason that the college students who graduated at that time were still good women and did not worry about getting married, and it was not difficult to find a job, but Zhuang Rui's luck was not very good, he got an illness just a few days after graduation, and did not catch up with the civil service examination of that year.

When he first arrived in Zhonghai, Zhuang Rui did not find a suitable job for more than a month, and finally Zhuang Rui's college classmates and dormitory boss in Zhonghai helped to enter the pawnshop not long after its establishment.

When it comes to pawn shops, it is estimated that people's first impression is a pawnshop, and when they think of a pawnshop, the words "insects eat rats, bare boards have no hair, and torn skin and rotten jackets" in the TV series that has just been screened will immediately appear in people's minds.

In fact, with the development of the times, pawnshops have become a multi-functional place integrating financing, Taobao and storage.

The pawnshop where Zhuang Rui works is equipped with diamond rings, jade bracelets, brand-name watches and other unique items, because the price of these items is generally about half of the original price, therefore, once these pawn products are absolutely good, the selling price will only be slightly higher than the price of the pawn, which is very attractive to some people who are shy in their pockets, but pursue brand luxury.

Zhuang Rui has seen a lot of beautiful women and men wearing gold and silver, come here to directly put their own jewelry they don't like, and then go to the absolute area to find their favorite items, so that not only the absolute items can be circulated, but also will not cause a backlog of funds.

The personnel structure in the pawnshop is very simple, the chief appraiser Uncle De is also the manager of the pawnshop, and there are two young appraisers who have returned from abroad, mainly responsible for the appraisal of some foreign artworks and luxury goods, both of whom are in their early thirties, and have been mixed in this circle for a while, and they are also from professional backgrounds, but these two usually think very highly of themselves and have not been treated well by Uncle De. The other is the cashier Xu Ling and the salesman in the Juedang District.

Uncle De's name is Ma Delin, when he was not liberated, he worked as a young man in a pawnshop in Zhonghai, and later he has been engaged in the excavation and identification of cultural relics, specializing in miscellaneous items and calligraphy and painting, and has a high reputation in the collection of cultural relics and antiques in Zhonghai.

Uncle De likes Zhuang Rui very much, a down-to-earth and diligent young man, and wants to bring him into this industry, but although Zhuang Rui likes to read historical novels, he is not very interested in these antiques.

According to the regulations, the cashier Xu Ling was supposed to hand over the items in the absolute area to the bank deposit car with Zhuang Rui when she got off work, but the money worshipper girl was going to go to the Oriental Pearl for dinner with her nth boyfriend today, and she left early, Xu Ling is a native of Zhonghai, and there are such and such things as an excuse every day, this is not the first time, Zhuang Rui is also used to it,

The pawnshop is off work at six o'clock in the evening, and the bank's deposit car generally arrives at about half past six, and at six o'clock, Uncle De and the salesman in the Juedang district have left, and the two high-paid appraisers are even more pinching the stopwatch to get to work, leaving Zhuang Rui alone, he pulled down the roller shutter door halfway, and sat down at the counter to wait for the bank's people to come, according to the regulations, the cash box and the box of valuables stored in the box are to be collected by the escort, and check the integrity of the seal.

The last rays of sunset shone into the store through the glass door, and suddenly, Zhuang Rui felt a darkness in front of him, and three figures came in from under the half-closed roller shutter door.

"It's only six and ten o'clock, and the bank's car doesn't usually come so early. ”

Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment, although on the weekend, the deposit car will arrive a little earlier, but it will also be around 6:20, because the few people who came in were backlit, Zhuang Rui did not see the appearance of several people for a while, but he also knew that these people were not bank depositors, he could see that the bank's deposit car was not parked at the door.

"Gentlemen, we're off work, what do you need to come back tomorrow, we're open on Saturdays and Sundays, huh?".

Zhuang Rui was halfway through his words, and suddenly found that the three people who came in were all men, what made him not continue was that these three people all wore knitted hats on their heads, which is the kind of hat that can be turned down to cover their faces and only their eyes are exposed, this kind of hat was very popular a few years ago, but now it is rare for people to wear it, although it is December, but the weather in Zhonghai is not cold enough to wear this kind of hat, Zhuang Rui suddenly has a bad feeling in his heart.

"Boy, stop talking nonsense and hand over the box you have handy. ”

Two people stood in front of the counter, and the other person ran directly to the Jedi area, judging by their movements, they should be quite familiar with this pawn shop.

"You are committing a crime, and the security guards of the bank will come soon, and if you don't run now, you won't be able to run away if you want to. ”

Zhuang Rui knew that he had encountered robbers, although the police station in the jurisdiction had come to conduct several drills, he never expected that in addition to banks, even pawn shops would become the target of these people.

However, in addition to the initial panic, Zhuang Rui quickly calmed down, because the counters of the pawn shop are all designed in accordance with the anti-theft and anti-robbery counters of the bank, and the steel window lattices make the counters completely isolated from the outside.

While talking to the robbers, Zhuang Rui sat back in the chair, his hand has reached out to the alarm button, as long as he presses it, the 110 police and the nearby police station will receive the alarm immediately, and they can arrive within five minutes at the earliest, this is not a movie, in this year, the on-site drills have also been carried out several times, Zhuang Rui is still very confident in the police who arrive quickly every time.

"Damn, big brother, everything here has been put away, there are no hairy things, it's old and clean, didn't you step on it yourself last time, big brother. ”

The person who ran to the Juedang area naturally couldn't find anything, and shouted to Zhang Yang, speaking in an authentic northeast accent.

"Who the hell are you scolding, tell you to be civilized, I grass, how many times has Lao Tzu told you, you have to speak Mandarin. ”

The bandit leader across the anti-theft net with Zhuang Rui scolded angrily, he was very dissatisfied with the quality of his subordinates, and it was probably because he was questioned by his subordinates, Zhuang Rui who listened to it wanted to laugh in his heart, there are still robbers who talk about four beauties and three loves in these years, but he couldn't laugh right away, because a black hole muzzle was pointed at him through the safety window.

Zhuang Rui was full of excitement, and his fingers on the alarm button were pressed hard, and the piercing alarm sounded, he believed that as long as he dragged it for a few minutes, these people would definitely not be able to run away, but at this moment, there was a sudden sound of brakes at the door of the pawn shop, Zhuang Rui looked out, and was overjoyed, it turned out that the bank's mortgage car arrived in advance, which is normal on the weekend.

Seeing that the bandit leader standing in front of the counter seemed to be distracted by the sound of brakes outside the door, Zhuang Rui took the opportunity to lie down under the counter, where was the dead end of the shooting, and the bandits couldn't help him outside, but the rotating chair that Zhuang Rui was sitting on slipped down, causing Zhuang Rui not to lie down, but to retreat more than a meter back, becoming face to face with the bandit leader.

"Boy, you're playing tricks!".

With the angry shout of the bandit leader, he pulled the trigger on Zhuang Rui, Zhuang Rui subconsciously turned sideways when he spoke, and the bullet flew past his eyes, Zhuang Rui only felt that first a fire flew in front of him, and then Zhuang Rui felt a stinging burning heat from his eyes.

The eyes are the most developed and sensitive part of the nervous system in the human body, and blood has oozed out of the fingers of Zhuang Rui's eyes covering his eyes, and the severe pain made Zhuang Rui's body turn around and fall backwards, he can't see that the position of the back of his head is where the alarm button is.

"Bang......" came out, Zhuang Rui's head slammed into the glass box outside the alarm button, the huge impact made the square glass box shatter, and the blood instantly stained the counter where the alarm button was installed, Zhuang Rui's head rested on the counter, and the whole person was already unconscious.

The sound of gunshots and sirens alarmed the bank cashiers outside the door, and the bank cashier with a real gun and a nuclear bomb quickly rushed into the pawn shop, and the pistol of the bandit leader seemed to be homemade, and after firing the evil bullet shot at Zhuang Rui, it never rang again, and there were no hostages in the pawn shop for them to hijack, after a fight, it was obvious that the professional skills of these robbers were not very skilled, and soon the three robbers were subdued by several bank security guards.

"Xiaozhuang, Xiaozhuang, how are you?

The bank cashier who was familiar with Zhuang Rui hurriedly shouted Zhuang Rui at the counter, but he never heard an answer, and the hall where the gun had just been fired was filled with a strong smell of inferior fire, and their hearts gradually sank.

Standing outside, you can see the blood stains inside the counter, but you can't open the security door, everyone outside is helpless, after a few minutes, the 100 policemen who received the alarm also arrived at the scene, and put the pawn shop on the periphery of the cordon, several robbers were blindfolded and brought into the police car, but everyone looked nervously at Zhuang Rui, who only showed a piece of scalp inside the counter, waiting for the pawn shop to open the security door after receiving the notice.

No one noticed that the blood oozing from the back of Zhuang Rui's head slowly penetrated into the gap of the alarm button, and a blue electric current was introduced into Zhuang Rui's brain along the blood, making his body twitch slightly, and the hands covering his face had already hung down, if anyone could see Zhuang Rui's face now, they would find that around Zhuang Rui's eyes, a colorful halo appeared, but it was only a short dozen seconds, and the halo disappeared.