Around 11 o'clock in the evening, Yoshino finished his debt collection task for the day, went home and lay down on the sofa with his legs crossed.
There is a newspaper on the coffee table in the living room that seems to have been there for a long time.
We have already entered the information age, and the domestic newspaper industry, which is known as the most popular newspaper reader in the world, has also been impacted by the waves of the Internet. However, the people of this country have attached great importance to the cultivation of media interests since elementary school, and most people have developed
It has become a good habit to read newspapers.
According to statistics from professional organizations, the newspaper penetration rate in the United States is 263 copies per 1,000 people, but in Japan it is as high as 647 copies. It can be said that almost all people read newspapers.
Just like Yoshino, he goes around collecting debts during the day and does all kinds of evil in order to get the borrowers to repay their money. However, after returning home, he is actually very willing to pick up the newspaper in a polite manner, drink a cup of hot tea, and read the news with relish. This makes him feel
I am closely integrated with the entire society and have never been disconnected.
For Yoshino, who must read the latest newspaper every day, the old newspaper placed on the coffee table was indeed unusual.
Yoshino glanced at the coffee table and reached out to pick up the newspaper.
The date on the first page of the newspaper was July 2. The headlines were related to the parliamentary election and the earthquake in the North Sea. These were not important.
The main reason why Yoshino saved this newspaper was on the fourth page, in the upper left corner - a piece of social news about three elderly people who committed suicide by lying on the train at a subway station.
At first, this news was placed in a very prominent position on the front page of "Lidu Daily". Yoshino's boss Koda Manami personally coordinated and moved it again and again, and finally it went to "Jing'an Evening News" with a small circulation.
》A very low position, I have to say that the power of money is omnipotent.
One of the three elderly people who committed suicide, a grandmother named Natsuki Uehara, was a loan client of Yoshino.
In order to get more commissions, Yoshino used extremely aggressive methods to collect debts, but perhaps because he had not been in the industry for too long, Natsuki Uehara became his first client who was forced to commit suicide.
The moment he heard the news that Natsuki Uehara committed suicide by lying on the train, Yoshino was frightened. While feeling guilty, he thought that he had made a huge mistake and was destined to go to jail.
"The door to hell has opened," boss Koda patted him on the shoulder lightly, "but it's not for you, so why panic? Young man, this is the beginning of your loan sharking career."
In fact, Yoshino did not need to be nervous. It took two or three days before the police came to Yoshino for questioning. Yoshino dealt with it according to the boss's instructions, and it was over.
After this incident happened, Yoshino's understanding of the entire world was overturned - all the beauty and happiness in this world only bloom to the strong. The boss Koda is such a strong person, and Yoshino must work hard to become such a strong person.
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Yoshino read the piece of news that had special meaning to him over and over again until he looked at those cold words and felt no guilt at all.
Putting down the newspaper, Yoshino turned on the remote control and selected a thriller movie played on Lito TV Station.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
There was a rapid and dull knocking sound at the door.
Yoshino was startled, not because the knock on the door came too suddenly, but because he was very familiar with this kind of knock on the door - in the past, this kind of scary knock on the door would only appear at the doors of Yoshino's loan shark clients.
On the doorstep.
"Who's knocking on the door?" my wife's voice came from the bedroom. "It's scary."
"It's just a prank," Yoshino replied: "Don't make a fuss."
After being frightened, Yoshino quickly calmed down. One of his reactions was that he was maliciously retaliated by his client.
Thinking of this, Yoshino unconsciously smiled cruelly. During these days, those poor debtors had no sense of resistance, which made his life as dull as water and drowsy.
Yoshino deliberately waited for the knock on the door to ring a few more times before running to open the door.
As a result, halfway through, the knock on the door stopped.
When I opened the door, there was no one in sight.
Yoshino walked to the corridor and searched up and down, but couldn't find the person knocking on the door.
"Interesting," Yoshino sneered, "You're playing hide and seek with me."
Just wait and see.
Yoshino closed the door and stood guard at the door. After waiting for more than half an hour, there was no more knocking on the door.
"Forget it, I'll go to the property management company tomorrow to check the video surveillance. Why wait here?"
With this thought in mind, Yoshino returned to the sofa.
As soon as I sat down, the knock on the door rang again.
"asshole!"
Yoshino was furious, and this time he rushed to the door without waiting for a moment.
Halfway through, the knocking on the door stopped again.
After opening the door, there was still no one.
Yoshino said fiercely to the corridor: "Boy, don't let me catch you, otherwise I will twist off your head and smash walnuts every day."
All night long, Yoshino was almost annoyed to death by this knock on the door.
In the end, I just stayed at the door, only to be woken up by a sudden knock on the door.
At six in the morning, Yoshino, with bloodshot eyes, came to the property video surveillance room.
"As a property manager, are you just going to let those bastards play unscrupulous pranks in the owners' homes?"
"Are all the property fees paid every year used to connect sewers? Or are they used to connect your brains?"
"I want to see the video surveillance from last night!"
After reading it, Yoshino was so surprised that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
Throughout the night, no one came to Yoshino's house. Every once in a while, Yoshino came out of the house angrily and walked back and forth in the corridor.
"this……"
"Yoshino-san," the property manager said tentatively, "I heard that many people have experienced auditory hallucinations recently. Do you think it would be convenient to go to the hospital for a checkup in the near future?"
"asshole."
Yoshino returned home, and his wife came over with a worried look on her face and said: "Just now, an old woman called me and said that you owed her a loan shark and asked you to pay back as soon as possible. Husband, you really owe her money.
Loan sharking?”
"Old woman?" Yoshino said angrily, "What's your name?" There were many old women who were forced into debt by him, who knows.
"Well, she hung up the phone without saying her name."
"Where's her phone number? I want to see who it is."
My wife took her mobile phone and the recent call history column showed garbled characters.
I called the communication company to check, but it showed that no one had called my wife just now. It was really a ghost in broad daylight.
"Let's do this for now. Nine times out of ten, it was the person who played the prank last night," Yoshino said, "I will definitely find her out today."
Yoshino left home and went straight to the company.
He planned to look through the clients he had recently followed in order to find suspicious objects.
During this period, my wife called again and said that the old woman kept calling home and repeatedly asked for repayment. She tried to reason with the old woman, but the old woman did not answer at all and hung up after speaking.
Then, Yoshino's brother and neighbor on the same floor also called and was also harassed by the old debt collector.
These are all low-level methods that Yoshino usually uses to collect debts, but he didn't expect that one day he would be paid back.
"It's so abominable," Yoshino clenched his fists, "Do you want to fight me to death?"
When he arrived at the company, his familiar colleague asked him: "Are you very tight on money recently? Why did an old lady call and say that you borrowed money from her and refused to repay it?"
Yoshino was so angry that he opened his work records and vowed to find the prankster.
After a while, colleagues gathered at the window, and someone shouted: "Yoshino, come and take a look."
Yoshino walked over and saw a huge banner hung between two street lamps opposite the building: [Yoshino-san, pay back the money!]
A huge banner rolled down from the roof of the building opposite, with the same five words: [Yoshino-san, pay back the money!]
"Finally, the truth is revealed."
Yoshino's face turned black and he said nothing. He walked downstairs to the video surveillance room and called up the surveillance video at the gate. He was dumbfounded again——
On the deserted road, a banner appeared out of thin air, rolling from one streetlight to another, with no one controlling the whole process.
"Is this a trick? Magic..."
Even the company's property management was shocked and said it was unbelievable.
Yoshino hurriedly ran to the building opposite. At this time, he felt that something was not right. But he still comforted himself: Maybe it was operated by a drone. If the pulling rope was very small, it was normal that it could not be seen in the video.
But after walking out of the building, no drones or anything else were seen in the sky, which shows that this speculation is mostly wishful thinking.
When we arrived at the building opposite, we checked the video surveillance near the roof. When the banner was lowered, no one came upstairs at all, and the banner just fell down out of thin air.
Until this moment, Yoshino finally broke out in cold sweat.
The company could no longer stay for the time being. Yoshino returned home with the information. His wife opened the door and welcomed him in, asking: "Why did you order so many takeaways this morning? I paid a lot of money."
"What takeout? I haven't ordered any."
As soon as I entered the house, I saw a table full of pizza, rice balls, sushi, barbecue, and cold noodles, which I couldn't finish in a few days.
I called the takeaway company to find out which mobile phone number the order was from, but all I saw were garbled characters.
Yoshino felt that his spirit was beginning to become a little chaotic.
"Who is it? Let's make peace, okay?"
It's a good idea to think so, but it's a pity that now I can't even see the other party in person, and I don't have any contact information.
The next day made Yoshino even more devastated. Seven or eight sexy girls in scantily clad clothes came to provide services one after another, making his wife's face extremely ugly.
The ambulance came and went like a reminder, and came again.
Yoshino's heart kept beating.
When dinner was approaching, a company specializing in funeral services also came to discuss Yoshino's burial matters.
At night, the never-ending knock on the door rang again. When I opened the door, there was no one there. Occasionally, I could see a familiar figure of a stooped old man wandering in the corridor. Koda hurried up and found out
I got it wrong.
For several days in a row, Yoshino encountered this seemingly endless situation.
This reminded him of all the things he had done to those poor debtors that were extremely excessive in retrospect.
At that time, Yoshino looked at their haggard and helpless faces and couldn't help but feel smug.
There was a senior in the company named Ryo Na who reminded him not to do things too badly.
Yoshino also laughed at the other person and told him: "Rana-chan, loan sharks are worms in society, there is no need to have sympathy for them. In addition, you must know that debt collection is a craft, and only the best debt collectors can
Squeeze the juice from the drained radish."
This is true. Yoshino is one of the most powerful debt collectors in Koda Company. Yoshino received a very generous red envelope at the end of last year.
But who would have thought that things would develop to where they are today.
Finally unable to bear it anymore, Yoshino called the police, but it was only in the evening that the police came to the door.
With a haggard look on his face, Yoshino told the police what had happened in the past few days, and said pitifully: "Police officer, I've had enough. Such pranks are driving me crazy. Please do a good job and find her out. As long as
Stop torturing me, no matter what you do."
The policeman lowered his head, finished taking notes bit by bit, and suddenly said: "This is the first time I've heard that people who borrow money at high interest rates have to call the police."
Yoshino was shocked.
The voice was very old and hoarse, clearly coming from an old woman.
Yoshino looked at the police with wide eyes.
The policeman raised the brim of his police hat, revealing an old face full of wrinkles, smiling at him.
Yoshino's heart suddenly shrank into a ball, and cold sweat poured from his back——
Recognized, this old man is the grandmother of Tanaka Satomi who was forced to death by him not long ago!
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