Chapter 687: The Thief (I)

(a)

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What happened later on your suede boots illustrates this point.

There is a thief who is constantly active in the vicinity of your residence. He has succeeded many times, and has never been caught by the police.

One day, when you were coming home, he met you on the road and saw the pair of suede boots you were wearing, and his eyes lit up and he was immediately attracted to them. The quality of those leather boots is particularly outstanding, the boots are straight and beautiful, and they fit the leg line very well, and they are not ordinary commodities that can be bought in China at first glance. He felt that this thing must be easy to sell, and it must be sold for a good price, and many people will rush to it.

So, he has been quietly following you, he has found your residence, and mastered your routine.

At that time, you had no money, your salary was either lent to me, or it was in your passbook, and you only had the necessary daily necessities in your residence, and you felt that there was nothing to take special precautions against. So, you're basically unguarded. The last time I was able to enter the house through your skylight shows how lax your precautions are.

The boots, when you're not wearing them, come in a paper shoebox on the inside of a windowsill near the hallway.

After the first hospitalization, although you returned to work after being discharged, your physical condition deteriorated significantly. You feel more and more tired and weak, and when you come home from work, you don't want to do anything but sleep, and you don't have the energy to pay attention to these trivial things.

This creates an opportunity for thieves to commit crimes.

(b)

The theft took place on a cold winter night.

In the middle of winter, you're already calling in sick from time to time.

That day, as you have done recently, you felt very sleepy after taking painkillers. So, after you hastily ate dinner, you turn off the lights and go to bed very early.

As you lie on the bed, through the glass of the door, you can vaguely feel that the light in the hallway outside is still on.

I don't know how long I slept, and you suddenly woke up to some sounds. You sit up with a heavy heart, your mind blank for a moment, and you gradually hear the noise outside. Then you feel a cold wind blowing on your face.

You wrestle with drowsiness, and you slowly sit up.

You think to yourself: How did the window open?

At this time, someone is knocking on your door outside and calling your name.

You sigh and try to get up and open the door.

When you stand up, make sure the window facing the hallway is open. The cold wind was blowing into the room.

You wonder with difficulty, what's going on? This window must have been closed before I went to bed.

You think about these questions and open the door. When you open the door, you find it dark in the hallway. But only for a moment, the lights came on.

You see some neighbors crowding at the door. And the carton with your boots in a neighbor's hand.

You say tiredly, "What's wrong?" ”

The neighbor with your boots looks at you and says, "What were you doing?" ”

You say, "I'm sleeping." ”

The neighbor said strangely, "Don't you feel anything?" ”

You look at everyone, and you smile apologetically and say, "I'm sorry, I've been sleeping hard lately, I ate Sleep Pills before going to bed, I slept deeply, and I didn't hear anything." ”

So everyone told you that your room had just been visited by thieves.

In order to cover up the crime, before the thief started, he first tripped the main electric switch of the small building.

Under the cover of darkness for a short time, the thief opens your window, steals your boots and runs away.

Because of the heavy sleepiness, you can barely open your eyes, you feel that you are unresponsive, although you listen to everyone's words, but you don't understand very well. So, you look at everyone a little confused.

At this moment, you hear a miserable wail somewhere downstairs. The sound of that crying voice makes you feel like you've been dug hard with a hoe.

All of a sudden, your mind comes to your senses again. You ask, "What's that?" ”

From the chaotic explanations of the neighbors, you can roughly understand what happened:

It turned out that after stealing the boots, the thief was in a hurry to escape, so he chose the fastest route to leave the small building. He tried to jump through an empty room on the first floor and run into the intersection of several small roads. He thought to himself that after running through this intersection, it would be more difficult to catch him again. As he stepped on the spot, he saw that the door of the empty room was always open, and that the concrete floor was always covered with a large plank, and he could walk through this plank to reach the always open window. But he didn't know what was under that plank.

Under that plank was the entrance to a bomb shelter. The bomb shelter was vacant for a while, and there was a little water in it. Because of the cold weather, a thin layer of ice formed on the surface of the water.

The thief had bad luck that day, and it happened that in order to clear the stagnant water during the day, the people from the logistics department moved the plank.

The thief stepped in the darkness and stepped on the uncovered plank, and slipped and slid towards the entrance of the hole, and the thief stumbled and fell into the icy water of the dugout. The drop of nearly 2 meters, the collision of cement and the biting cold made him scream. It was this exclamation that exposed him. So, he was quickly caught by the neighbors who had outflanked him.

The cardboard box that fell next to the entrance lid before he fell illustrates who he is. Everybody knows that the boots are yours.

So, when the thief was lifted up from the water, he immediately received several old punches in the face, and in the midst of the howl of the devil and wolf, he was tied up, gagged, and thrown into the corridor on the first floor. Waiting for his fate, of course, is to be sent to the police station.

(c)

When you have a general idea of what happened, you say, "I'll go downstairs and see." ”

Then, you put on a cotton coat and go to the corridor on the first floor.

In the dim light of the hallway, you see the wretched thief.

When you first see his face, you are frozen by his youth.

The thief looked to be only about 16 years old, and his whole body was as wet as a chicken in soup, and the water in his hair was freezing again. His lips were purple from the cold, his face was blue, his teeth were chattering, and his whole body was trembling. Because of the beating, there was a trace of blood hanging from the corner of his mouth, and one of his eye sockets was a little black.

He looks up at you with fear in his eyes.

As others feel, when you look at someone in a certain situation, with a certain eye, they will feel a powerful force pressing from your side, and they will involuntarily produce a certain tendency to obey your thoughts.

You looked at the young thief with such unquestionable eyes.

Under your gaze, the thief's eyes lowered. His head drooped.

He considered himself unlucky and curled up there, waiting for a bleak end.

And at this time, he heard you ask: "Excuse me, are you Yang Minyi?" ”