Volume 1 Hard Times Chapter 060 The Great Thief of the Century (Ask for Collection, Click)
The 24th is the first day of the traditional Christmas festival in the United States. Christmas is equivalent to the Chinese New Year and is the most solemn festival of the year. The holiday is until January 6 of the following year. The residents of Rakuyuji have already started to prepare for tomorrow's Christmas, and it is natural that Christmas trees, chocolates, stockings, etc. will be prepared. The Walmart Super Mall in the heart of the city is the first choice for residents in the surrounding area.
Children wake up early, are eager to try, and follow their parents to the supermarket. However, parents were patient with baking bread, buttering, hot milk, fried eggs. It's still early for the supermarket to open, so hold your breath.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen are one of those parents, and the three children are eager to make it sooner. However, only David, the youngest of the children, had the opportunity to accompany his parents in shopping for Christmas items.
Stephen used a brush to apply a thick lather to the chin and sides of his face in the mirror, and then the sharp Gillette razor slid through it without hindrance, creating a deep ravine on his face and chin, and finally the ravines disappeared, and the snow-white foam dissipated, and his face was bare, revealing a young and handsome face.
"Stephen!" Mrs. Stephen Louise urged.
Stephen quickly rinsed his face, combed his hair, sat down at the dinner table, and led the family in prayer. Stephen grease his hands and his eyes casually swipe over the TV screen. Rakuyuiso TV is broadcasting the news. No, he put down his bread, walked over to the TV, and watched the TV intently, watching the live broadcast of the TV station. The presenter is holding a microphone and is doing a quick report:
“…… I am now on the second floor of the central store of the Wal-Mart Super Mall, please look behind me, it turns out that the second floor of the shelves is full of dazzling, and the second floor of the shelves has been changed beyond recognition, except for the stars in the center, Christmas trees and other Christmas items, other items and shelves are missing...... This is an empty temporary warehouse on the second floor, we interviewed Manager Lawson on the second floor, Manager Lawson, was the temporary warehouse empty? ”
"Hi guys! I'm Lawson, the manager of the second floor of the center. I am sure to tell you that in order to have a happy Christmas for the public, yesterday we organized manpower to replenish each shelf, each trolley was full of hot-selling goods, and the temporary warehouse prepared rich Christmas gifts, but unfortunately, our efforts for this period of time were in vain...... "Manager Lawson has a bitter face and is very helpless.
Stephen was stunned to look at the picture on the TV, the host chattered endlessly, the fruits, drinks, etc. on the first floor are gone, the second floor is mainly edible oil, flour and other items disappeared, the third floor of sporting goods, fitness equipment and sports equipment are swept away, and the worst thing is that the household appliances on the fourth floor, refrigerators, TVs, washing machines, etc., are not left. According to the general manager of the central store, the store lost more than 10 million dollars.
Looking at the picture on TV, Louise was very disappointed. And the three children were very excited, a big event. "Superman must have done it!" The youngest guy, David, said firmly. "Superman doesn't get so boring, he's a chivalrous man, not a thief. I think it's the Hulk! Although the second Hingis is a girl, he is also very concerned about this matter. But the boss didn't speak.
Some people even wonder if Santa Claus is "borrowing" items from super shopping malls with fewer gifts.
"Citizens are speculating about what happened in the store? Overnight, where did the goods that took hundreds of employees a week to stack neatly? If it's a burglar, why isn't the scene scattered? How many people and how many vehicles do you need to complete this daunting task? Every security guard on duty was very sober and confirmed that there was no unusual sound in the store...... We will pay further attention to the circumstances of this incident. Stevenson is here to report for you. ”
"Kids, I can't go to Walmart today, I can only get closer!" The whole family watched the report on TV, and naturally understood the current situation.
A few minutes later, the TV station broke the news that the famous drug retailer CVS Los Angeles headquarters located not far from the super shopping center had stolen drugs worth more than $2 million. On this day, the television station broadcast relevant information on a rolling basis, and the police stationed at the scene, investigated the scene, and questioned the security guards on duty in an orderly manner. Citizens also speculated about the truth of the incident with relish, and talked more after tea and dinner. A day passed, and there was no clue about the super shopping mall case.
Christmas Eve in Rakuyuji was a spooky one, and many families discounted gifts for their children. The policemen waited for the dawn with uneasy feelings. Early the next morning, Stephen turned on the TV early to pay attention to current affairs, and sure enough, the 100,000 tons of wheat, corn and rice that Bunge Company, one of the country's four major grain traders, was ready to transport out of the dock. According to the officer on duty, the same silent, disappeared under the nose.
What disturbed the top management of Luotangji was that on the third day, 200,000 tons of steel, including steel plates, I-beams, pipes, wire rods and cold-rolled coils, disappeared completely. At the same time, a total of hundreds of cars and motorcycles of various types were lost from the adjacent car terminal.
The chickens and dogs jumped in the soup, and after a while, the underground society was also launched, and no valuable clues were found. On the fourth day of waiting, the police breathed a sigh of relief that there were no more major thefts. The continuous thefts have made the people of the Mi Empire more talkative and uneasy, and the voices questioning the police are overwhelming.
The news spread throughout the territory of Midi and the free world of the West, and people speculated whether there really were creatures like Superman. However, the incident did not end there, and while Rakuyuji rejoiced, San Francisco, which was 500 miles away from Rakuyuo, could not be happier. On the 27th, more than 100,000 tons of wheat and corn, 20,000 tons of cotton, 50,000 tons of cement, and more than 100,000 tons of rebar and wire rod were lost in the San Francisco port area. Dozens of containers were collateral losses. What is puzzling is that more than 100 tons of fresh beef have been lost from slaughterhouses on the outskirts of San Francisco.
A total of five large-scale thefts occurred in the two cities, and the police of the two places established a joint mechanism to deal with the cases, and FBI federal agent Michael himself was in charge. To their surprise, large quantities of goods were stolen, but there were no thefts from sensitive areas such as shopping malls and banks, as well as valuables such as jewellery and gold. More than $200,000 in cash was stolen from a bank branch not far from Minato, but it was not noticeable compared to the five cases. However, the police noticed that the bank safe had been broken open by an extremely sharp weapon, and the securities stored in it were not touched. They have reason to wonder if some anti-ZF group is going to need a lot of food and building materials? The case for four consecutive days was welcomed by the people of the United States and became a topic of conversation after dinner.
The focus of the police investigation was on the direction of large-scale organized theft, and the scene was chaotic and there were no clues to exploit, and finally calmed down, and it became one of the biggest unsolved cases of the twentieth century.
However, on the night of the 30th, the largest Wako high-end foreign goods store in Ginza, the Japanese country, was looted, and more than 200,000 tons of marine steel plates, I-beams, and other types of steel were stolen from the special dock of the steel plant in Chiba Prefecture, located in the southeast of Tokyo Bay, and at the same time, a number of foreign shipping containers, 50,000 tons of high-grade cement and other materials and a batch of construction machinery were stolen from the Tokyo dock. The loss of supplies exceeded 200 million US dollars overnight, shocking the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Thinking of the case that happened in the United States, they are also inexplicably sad and indignant. There has always been only robbing and robbing others, and it actually moved on his head, and the Metropolitan Police Department vowed to give the robbers who couldn't open their eyes look good.
The calendar has been replaced with a new one, and New Year's Day in '78 is coming. The initiator, Hongyan, who was crowned as the "thief of the century" by the Emperor of Mi and the Wa Kingdom, appeared on Nanjing Road in Mingzhu City. made a big circle and turned to Pearl City.
Hong Yan originally planned to find Xu Peiqiu to get a place to go abroad, but later considered that he might be mistaken for "coercion to repay kindness", so he rejected this road. After thinking hard, he finally thought of a way and a route. For Hong Yan, there is nothing more profitable in the world than robbery. Of course, his original intention was to make some food for emergency relief, but when he arrived in the Huahua World, he couldn't control his "greed".
It's not easy to come out, he always has to bring some "pearl goods" back to give them away. In addition to a few things that don't need tickets, Hong Yan bumped into a pimple, think about it or the United States and the Japanese country, monitoring equipment anti-theft equipment can only be said to be better than nothing, good things are taken at will, what you want, how much you want.
Change your clothes, change your clothes resolutely. So, wearing small leather shoes, wearing a big plaid suit, and a small baseball cap, a foreign little horse image appeared. Speaking of birds, the American knife appeared, and sure enough, someone immediately took the initiative to serve, no, asked for a change in the American knife to send all kinds of supply tickets for free. What era is the American knife is hard currency!
What a shame it is to exchange American knives around "foreign friends"! Immediately, the old aunt of the "red armband" accompanied the smiling face to drive away, and even the public security came to look. The people around them scattered like birds and beasts, and as soon as the police left, they reappeared and started a guerrilla war. In his previous life, he could only see the "foreign exchange black market" in the newspapers, but in this life he was directly involved in it.
Hong Yan selected three middle-aged people who looked honest and kind, and they either bought electrical appliances for their children's marriage or prepared to stay abroad. Find a relatively secluded place, pull out a list of items that need to be purchased, and the three of them immediately said that they could do it. The two went back to collect the shopping tickets, and in the afternoon and the morning of the next day, the three of them ran to more than a dozen large department stores in Pearl City, and finally purchased all the items. After Hong Yan counted, he finally handed over 2,000 US dollars to each person. The goods in Hong Yan's hands are worth 4,000 RMB, which can be exchanged at 1:2.5, and the shopping ticket is free.
All the items were concentrated in a few large cardboard boxes, and the diamond brand and gem flower watch were bought for 20 yuan, and others such as red light radio, good cloth, corduroy, sea soul shirt, quilt forging noodles, white rabbit toffee, fortified malt milk essence, etc. After packing up, he came to Xinhua Bookstore, pushed the loading trolley, and selected two sets of all the villain books in the villain's bookcase, and guaranteed at least two sets of novels such as the four famous novels. saw the 21 copies of "100,000 Whys" with yellow and blue covers, and also took two sets. I wanted to spend more money, but I found that there were too few children's books in the huge Xinhua bookstore.