In Zhonghai City in December, the nights are long and the days are short. Just after six o'clock, the sky outside slowly darkens. The street lights on both sides of the road gradually light up, allowing the city to continue to be bright. People after work are like huge spider webs.
In the streets and alleys of this city, various sounds echo over the city.
"Wow..." Zhuang Rui pulled down the rolling shutter door halfway in the store, carried several iron boxes with individual items and seals on them to the counter, and closed the safety door. The contents of these boxes were...
It’s worth a million dollars, and usually there are two security guards working with Zhuang Rui, but today is the weekend and the security company is training and they have temporarily recruited them back.
The day's work is coming to an end. Although he is not very busy, Zhuang Rui's young face still shows a hint of fatigue. It may be because it is the end of the year and Zhuang Rui has not been home for a year and is a little homesick.
Zhuang Rui is 24 years old this year. He was born in a single-parent family in an ancient city in northern Jiangsu. He is 1.8 meters tall. Although his appearance is not handsome, his smile gives people a kind feeling. There is a trace of calmness in his movements. He looks
How many years older than your actual age.
Zhuang Rui was also a lively person when he was in college. However, after leaving school, things went wrong for him, which made Zhuang Rui more restrained and his person became much more mature and steady. Apart from scolding a certain association while watching football, he never got off work.
From now on, he will spend more time reading some historical novels in the rented house. He just bought a set of "Emperor Kangxi" written by Yue Hehe a few days ago. If he were not afraid of the negative impact, he would bring it to his work.
look.
In 2000, Zhuang Rui graduated from a prestigious university in Zhonghai City with a major in finance and accounting. Logically speaking, college graduates at that time were still good girls and had no worries about getting married. It was not difficult to find a job. However, Zhuang Rui's luck was not very good. He got married just a few days after graduation.
I got sick and missed the civil service exam that year. After I recovered, I worked in a small company in my hometown for a few days. I felt like there was no progress, so I returned to Zhonghai and worked as an accountant in this pawn shop.
Generally speaking, private companies prefer to hire experienced accountants with many years of work experience. When entering the government department, you need connections. When he first arrived at China Shipping, Zhuang Rui couldn't find a suitable job for more than a month. In the end, he
Zhuang Rui's family was able to work in this pawn shop not long after its establishment with the help of a college classmate and dormitory boss at Zhonghai.
When it comes to pawn shops, people's first impression is probably that of pawn shops. When thinking of pawn shops, the words "worm-eaten and rat-bitten, bare boards, hairless, and tattered coats" from the TV series that just ended will immediately come to mind.
appear in people's minds.
In fact, with the development of the times, pawn shops have become multi-functional places that integrate financing, Taobao, and storage.
The pawn shop where Zhuang Rui works has a collection of must-have items such as diamond rings, jade bracelets, and brand-name watches. Since the prices charged for these items are generally around half of the original price, once these items are considered top-notch items,
, the selling price will only be slightly higher than the closing price, which is very attractive to some people who are short of money but pursue branded luxury goods.
Zhuang Rui has seen many beautiful women and handsome men wearing gold and silver. They come here and directly buy the jewelry that they don't like, and then go to the special area to find the items they like. In this way, not only can they get the perfect items
Circulation will not cause a backlog of funds.
The personnel structure within the pawn shop is very simple. The chief appraiser, Uncle De, is also the manager of the pawn shop, and there are two young appraisers who have returned from abroad. They are mainly responsible for appraising some foreign artworks and luxury goods. They are all in their early thirties.
Age, I have been in this circle for a while, and they are both from professional backgrounds. However, these two usually have high self-esteem and have never been favored by Uncle De. The other two are the cashier Xu Ling and the salesperson in Juedang District.
Uncle De's name is Madelin. Before liberation, he worked as a boy in a pawn shop in Zhonghai. Later he has been engaged in the excavation and appraisal of cultural relics, specializing in miscellaneous items and calligraphy and painting. He has a high reputation in the Zhonghai cultural relics and antiques collection community.
Before the pawn shop opened, it took a lot of effort to invite Uncle De, who had retired from the China Maritime Museum, as the chief appraiser and manager of the pawn shop. He placed it in the former pawn shop and called it the big shopkeeper.
Uncle De liked Zhuang Rui, a down-to-earth and hard-working young man, and wanted to bring him into this industry. However, although Zhuang Rui liked reading historical novels, he was not very interested in these antiques. Zuo Erjin taught Uncle De
He has ear irritation in his right ear, and when he talks, he will change the topic to a certain historical figure or story, which often makes Uncle De so angry that he blows his beard and stares.
According to regulations, cashier Xu Ling was supposed to hand over the items in the Judang area to the bank deposit car with Zhuang Rui when she got off work, but the money-worshiping girl wanted to go to the Oriental Pearl Tower for dinner with boyfriend No. N today, so she left early.
Let's go. Xu Ling is a native of Zhonghai. She has excuses like this every day. This is not the first time. Zhuang Rui is also used to it.
The pawn shop gets off work at six o'clock in the evening, and the bank's deposit car usually doesn't arrive until around six-thirty. By six o'clock, Uncle De and the salesperson from Juedang District have all left, especially the two highly paid appraisers.
Zhuang Rui was the only one who was commuting with a stopwatch. After pulling down the rolling shutter door halfway, he sat at the counter and waited for someone from the bank to come. According to regulations, the cash box and the box for storing valuable jewelry must be opened by
The escort came in to collect it and check the integrity of the seal.
The last ray of sunset shined into the store through the glass door. Suddenly, Zhuang Rui felt a darkness in front of him, and three figures came in from under the half-closed rolling shutter door.
"It's only 6:10. The bank's car usually doesn't arrive so early."
Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment. Although on weekends, the deposit car would arrive a little earlier, but it would still be around 6:20. Since the people who came in were all backlit, Zhuang Rui couldn't see many people clearly for a while.
However, he also knew that these people were not bank deposit clerks. He could see that there was no bank deposit car parked at the door.
"Gentlemen, we're off work. If you need anything, please come back tomorrow. We're open on Saturdays and Sundays, eh?"
Midway through Zhuang Rui's words, he suddenly realized that the three people who came in were all men. What stopped him from continuing was that these three people all wore knitted hats on their heads, the kind that could be turned down to cover only the eyes.
Exposed hats. This kind of hat was very popular a few years ago, but now it is rare to see anyone wearing it. Although it is December, the weather in Zhonghai is not cold enough to wear such a hat. Zhuang
An unpleasant feeling suddenly arose in Rui's heart.
"Boy, stop talking nonsense and hand over the box you have."
Two people stood in front of the counter, and the other person ran directly to the pawn shop. Judging from their actions, they should be quite familiar with this pawn shop.
"You are committing a crime. The bank's security personnel will be here soon. If you don't run away now, you won't be able to escape even if you want to."
Zhuang Rui knew that he had encountered robbers. Although the police station in his jurisdiction came to conduct several drills, he never expected that in addition to banks, even pawn shops would become the targets of these people.
However, except for the initial panic, Zhuang Rui quickly calmed down, because the counters of the pawn shop are all designed according to the anti-theft and anti-robbery counters of banks. The steel window lattice completely isolates the counter from the outside. If they had come earlier, they would have
You can grab the items in the perfect area, but now that you have collected all these things, Zhuang Rui believes that with just these few people, there is absolutely no way to break through the security door in a short time.
While talking to the robber, Zhuang Rui sat back on the chair. His hand had already reached for the alarm button. As long as he pressed it, the 110 police and the nearby police station would receive an alert immediately, and the alarm would be received as soon as five days at the earliest.
They can arrive within minutes. This is not a movie. During the year, on-site drills have been conducted several times. Zhuang Rui is still very proud of the police who arrive quickly every time.
Confidence.
"Damn it, brother, everything here has been put away. There are no hairy things. It's clean. Brother, didn't you step on it yourself last time?"
Naturally, the man who ran to Juedang District couldn't find anything, so he shouted to Zhang Yang with an authentic Northeastern accent.
"Who the hell are you scolding? I told you to be civilized. Damn it, how many times have I told you to speak Mandarin."
The bandit leader who was separated from Zhuang Rui by an anti-theft net cursed angrily. He was very dissatisfied with the quality of his subordinates. It might also be because he was questioned by his subordinates. Zhuang Rui wanted to laugh when he heard this. There are still five lectures, four beauties and three in these days.
He was a loving robber, but he stopped laughing immediately because a black gun was pointed at him through the security window.
Zhuang Rui shuddered all over, and pressed the finger that was already on the alarm button hard, and the piercing alarm sounded. He believed that as long as he delayed for a few minutes, these people would never be able to escape, but
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of braking at the door of the pawn shop. Zhuang Rui looked out and was overjoyed. It turned out that the bank's deposit vehicle had arrived early. This was normal on weekends.
Seeing that the gang 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. There was a blind spot for shooting. The gangsters could not do anything to him outside, but Zhuang Rui was sitting there.
The rotating chair slipped, causing Zhuang Rui not to lie down, but to step back more than a meter, and he was face to face with the bandit leader.
"Boy, you are playing tricks!".
As the bandit leader shouted angrily, he suddenly pulled the trigger on Zhuang Rui. When he spoke, Zhuang Rui subconsciously turned sideways. The bullet grazed his eyes and flew past. Zhuang Rui only felt a flash of fire first.
It flew past his eyes, and then Zhuang Rui felt a stinging heat coming from his eyes.
The eyes are the most developed and sensitive part of the human body's nervous system. Blood seeped out from between the fingers of Zhuang Rui's hands covering his eyes. The severe pain caused Zhuang Rui's body to spin in a circle and fall backwards. He could not see.
I realized that the position where the back of my head was leaning was where the alarm button was.
There was a sound of "Bang...", and the back of Zhuang Rui's head hit the glass box outside the alarm button hard. The huge impact caused the square glass box to shatter, and blood instantly stained the place where the alarm button was installed.
On that side of the counter, Zhuang Rui's head was leaning on the counter, and he was already unconscious.
The sound of gunshots and sirens alerted the bank depositaries outside the door. The bank depositors with live ammunition quickly rushed into the pawn shop, and the gang leader's pistol seemed to be homemade, and fired the sinister bullet that he shot at Zhuang Rui.
After the bullets, there was no more shooting, and there were no hostages in the pawn shop for them to take. After a fight, it was obvious that the professional skills of these robbers were not very skilled. Soon the three robbers were subdued by several bank security guards.
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"Xiaozhuang, Xiaozhuang, how are you? Can you speak?"
The bank cashier, who was familiar with Zhuang Rui, called out urgently to Zhuang Rui who was inside the counter, but they still couldn't hear the answer. The hall where the gun had just been fired was filled with the strong smell of low-quality fire, and their hearts gradually sank.
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Standing outside, you can see the blood stains inside the counter, but the security door cannot be opened. Everyone outside is helpless. After a few minutes, 100 police officers who received the call also arrived at the scene and cordoned off the outside of the pawn shop.
, several robbers were covered and taken to the police car, but everyone looked nervously at Zhuang Rui, who only had a piece of scalp exposed inside the counter, waiting for someone from the pawn shop to open the security door after being notified.
No one noticed that the blood seeping from the back of Zhuang Rui's head slowly penetrated into the gap of the alarm button. A blue current was introduced into Zhuang Rui's brain along the blood, causing his body to twitch slightly.
Standing up, the hands covering his face had already dropped down. If anyone could see Zhuang Rui's face now, they would find that a colorful halo appeared around Zhuang Rui's eyes, but it was only a short ten years.
