Card Room - 35. Chapter 049-050

[Chapter 49, Financial Crisis 9-Theft Gang]

In the afternoon, Shanshui B&B.

When Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang sent Shao Qingge downstairs after lunch, a girl was excitedly arguing with the boss: “The house price at the beginning was 10,000 gold coins. Yesterday it rose to 20,000, and today it rose to 40,000! Boss, you too. Too bad, right? Doubled a day, why don’t you grab the money!”

The boss is righteous: “Everything is going up in price now. How can there be no reason for the accommodation fee not to increase? You can’t live in love.”

The woman was so angry that she was about to scold someone, and the boy behind him suddenly grabbed her shoulders and said, “Tingting, we can’t live anymore, let’s move away. It’s too expensive to live here, and the house price might double tomorrow. .”

There was obviously a trace of panic in the girl’s eyes, and she lowered her voice: “But where can we move? Shanshui B&B is the cheapest place to live in City A, and other places might be more expensive. Wouldn’t you let me sleep on the street? ! When you first chased me, you said you wanted me to live a good life, but now, let alone a good life, there is no place to live…” She said that her voice was crying.

The man looked ugly, and changed his mouth after a moment of silence: “Boss, can we use instant noodles and milk to pay for the accommodation?”

The boss became interested: “How many do you have?”

The man said: “I’ll give you a carton of milk and a carton of instant noodles to cover tonight’s accommodation fee?”

The boss held up two fingers: “Two boxes.”

The corners of the man’s mouth twitched suddenly: “Don’t go too far!”

The boss shrugged, and said with a smile: “Before the price rises, a box of instant noodles is 3000, and a box of milk is 2000, which adds up to 5000. The accommodation fee here is 10,000 yuan a day. Two boxes are not too much for you, right? Two boxes, love to live. Can’t live.”

The young men and women glanced at each other, and finally gritted their teeth and agreed.

The woman went through the renewal procedures in the lobby, and the man returned upstairs to move food.

Yu Hanjiang leaned in Xiao Lou’s ear and whispered: “It seems that these two people have no money to pay for the house. They underestimated the trend of rising prices and did not pay the house in advance… or you have the foresight. , Directly paid the accommodation fee for seven days.”

Xiaolou used to take his parents out for travel during winter and summer vacations, and he was used to paying for his accommodation online in one lump sum, because the price of hotels in peak and off-seasons would change a lot. Some hotels have different room rates on weekdays and weekends. Book in advance and be prepared.

He paid the accommodation fee for seven days at a time and only spent 80,000 gold coins.

For those challengers who did not pay the house payment in advance, it was only the next day today. The accommodation fee has risen to 40,000, and tomorrow it will rise to 80,000. The challengers’ initial funds cannot even pay for the room.

At this time, it is a good choice to pay for the room with the materials gathered up.

Once the materials are stolen or robbed, it’s over. Therefore, Xiao Lou especially hated the guys who rely on “stealing other people’s materials” to clear customs. This is simply breaking the road.

**

When the three of them left the hotel, Shao Qingge decided to return to the hotel alone with his laptop, always paying attention to the situation of the stock market.

Xiaolou went to the city to investigate, and Yu Hanjiang went to the construction site again.

Perhaps because the weather was too hot in the afternoon, no one gathered in the central square to make trouble, and the investors who stood on the roof of the building holding banners to talk in the morning were also scattered. 80% of the shops on the street were closed, and the whole city appeared empty. Only the supermarket was still crowded with people and long lines.

Xiao Lou made a circle around the neighborhood. As Director Liu of the Market Supervision Administration came forward to give everyone a reassurance, the day after prices soared, there was no large-scale bloodshed.

He called Yu Hanjiang and asked softly: “How about your team Yu?”

Yu Hanjiang said: “On the construction site, the boss can’t give a solution. The workers all returned home, and the construction site has been completely shut down.”

Xiao Lou asked: “Do we need to sort out the transfer of materials?”

Yu Hanjiang said: “Let’s see the situation tomorrow. I will find a way to get a car to facilitate the transportation of supplies.”

Xiao Lou exhorted: “Be careful yourself, I’ll go back to the hotel and wait for you.”

When I hung up the phone and returned to Shanshui B&B, Xiao Lou unexpectedly saw a man and a woman who had just discussed with the boss to pay the rent with milk and instant noodles standing in the hall with gloomy faces, each carrying a travel bag, but both bags were flat. , Obviously there is not much stuff inside.

The woman seemed to have just cried with red eyes, her voice trembling obviously, pointing to the boss’s nose and cursing: “Our things were stolen in your hotel. As the boss, of course you should be responsible! What! Tell you not to know? You are shameless!”

The boss looked innocent: “I think you are a shame. If you can’t pay for the room, you say something was stolen? Who knows if it’s true… I haven’t seen you out in the past two days, hiding in the room all day. Oh, maybe you two are the thieves.”

The woman was very angry: “Who do you think is the thief? Don’t spit someone!”

The man was obviously irritated, and he came over and tore the boss’s collar: “Check the surveillance and see who stole our things!”

The boss rolled his eyes: “Do you think I am a five-star hotel? Where does the monitoring of the little hotel come from…”

The three quarreled endlessly in the hall. Xiao Lou noticed something was wrong and immediately returned to his residence.

——Someone has come in.

Before Xiao Lou left, he pinched a piece of hair in the crack of the door, but at this time, his short black hair fell on the corner of the wall.

Obviously, the door was opened. It’s just that the door lock didn’t show any signs of being picked.

Is it a master who can open the lock like Team Yu?

Or……

Xiao Lou suddenly thought of a card.

After clearing the Bloody Maple Leaf in the Secret Room of Hearts 3, a fixed reward card will be given [Master/Key].

This key can open any type of door lock in the secret room without leaving a trace. A key can be used up to five times, but if two people commit crimes together, it can be used 10 times.

The thieves can follow the challenger’s movements at any time, wait for the owner of the room to leave, and then use the universal/key to open the door lock and steal materials without knowing it.

Maybe the thief was staying at the hotel, and he was staring at him with his eyes behind him.

Realizing this, Xiao Lou’s back suddenly became cold.

He tried to maintain a calm look, pretending to find nothing, opened the door and entered the room, locked it.

After locking the door, he quickly sent a message to Yu Hanjiang: “The thief stole the supplies of the couple on the 2nd floor, Team Yu, come back as soon as possible, maybe the thief has already caught sight of us.”

Yu Hanjiang replied in seconds: “Come back soon, pay attention to safety.”

***

At the corner of the corridor, a pair of eagle-like eyes kept staring at Xiao Lou’s back.

It was not until Xiao Lou entered the house that the middle-aged man said in a hoarse voice: “The challenger living in 207 is very cautious. There is no material in the house, and all the food is in his portable travel bag.”

The young man next to him said, “Isn’t it possible? They have three people. They can’t live for seven days with the food in the bag. There must be a lot of supplies stored in other places. By the way, the tallest person does it every day. When I went out, maybe it was just to check the supplies, but he moved too fast, and coupled with the detours that had been vigilant, I couldn’t keep up with him at all.”

The middle-aged man sneered: “There must be a lot of supplies they have stored. There is not enough food in the backpack. There will always be times when you can’t help but pick up the goods. It won’t be too late to start.” He paused and turned his head to look. To the young man beside him, “don’t care about the 207 residents. Have you investigated the other rooms?”

The young man said with a smile; “Brother Xu, don’t worry, except for Room 207, all challengers on this floor put things in the house.”

The middle-aged man hooked his mouth slightly: “Action at night.”

***

Yu Hanjiang returned to the bed and breakfast soon.

After entering the house, he rushed to Xiao Lou in two steps, his eyes were full of worry: “Are you okay?”

Xiao Lou smiled and shook his head: “Don’t worry, I happened to be outside when they acted. I’m fine.” He pointed to the hair in the corner, lowered his voice and said in Yu Hanjiang’s ear: “Our room, the thief also came in just now. ”

Yu Hanjiang looked at the hair and frowned slightly: “But when I opened the door just now, the door lock was normal.”

Xiao Lou touched his chin, thoughtfully: “I have never figured out why the hotel supplies where President Shao was staying was stolen, why is it silent? Are all the waiters in the hotel lobby blind? Or, these things. Can a thief fly into the sky and escape?”

Yu Hanjiang turned to look at him: “What did you notice?”

Xiao Lou said: “If I’m right, this thief probably came after perfectly clearing the 3 secret room of Hearts. They have two functional cards that are very convenient for stealing.”

Yu Hanjiang recalled the reward of Heart 3, and suddenly realized: “cloak and key?”

Xiao Lou nodded: “The invisibility cloak has 30 minutes of invisibility every day. The reward key can open any door lock. When there is no one in the room, they can put on the invisibility cloak and open the door directly to take the supplies. Wrapped in the cloak, the milk and instant noodles will also become invisible transparent objects, and they will be taken away without knowing it.”

Yu Hanjiang used his invisibility cloak to enter the warehouse once in the decoration market today.

The cloak of invisibility was originally a limited card for the 3 of Hearts Chamber of Secrets. Only after a perfect pass can the limitation be lifted and taken out of the chamber. It is not easy for this thief to pass the Bloody Maple Leaf in the 3 Secret Chamber of Hearts perfectly.

Xiao Lou immediately said: “Moreover, this thief is not purely for customs clearance. They are probably trying to steal a large amount of materials and sell them later to make huge profits in the back room of the financial crisis!”

Yu Hanjiang’s face suddenly sank.

He also thought of this possibility.

If it is purely for customs clearance, there is no need to steal so many supplies, how much food can be eaten in seven days?

However, according to Shao Qingge’s description, three groups of challengers have been stolen in the hotel where he stayed. The materials lost by the two girls next door alone included several boxes of milk and instant noodles.

When Yu Hanjiang just walked in, the couple in the hall was still making trouble, and obviously a lot of supplies were lost.

This proves that Xiao Lou’s inference is completely correct-the person who stole the materials was not for customs clearance, but wanted to take advantage of the financial crisis and the shortage of materials, stealing other people’s materials to earn a lot of gold coins, and take the gold coins out of the secret room.

They knew very well that the challenger who was stolen by them could not survive seven days at all.

To trade someone else’s life for money is simply eating “human blood steamed buns”!

Originally, Yu Hanjiang didn’t want to be nosy, but since these people stole the Shanshui B&B, they even sneaked into the residence of him and Xiaolou-he had to take care of their ideas!

Yu Hanjiang looked serious and said: “The cooling time of the Invisibility Cloak is refreshed at 24:00 every morning, with a 30-minute usage limit. At 24:00, many people will sleep in the house, but there are also people who are not asleep and enter directly. Stealing things in the house is more risky, and I am more inclined. They will do it around three in the morning.”

Xiao Lou nodded: “At three o’clock in the morning, everyone was asleep at that time. They directly opened the door with the key and carried away the materials in the room… But what if someone hides something under the bed? They move too much, Wouldn’t it wake people up?”

Yu Hanjiang said: “So, they must have other tools of crime in their hands.”

Xiao Lou’s eyes lit up: “For example, inhalational anesthetics? If someone resists, just stun them?”

Yu Hanjiang nodded: “After they enter the world of financial crisis, they only need to find a way to buy a large amount of anesthetics on the first day, and they can survive by stealing things-not only will they live well, but they will be able to sell money later and make a lot of money. ”

Really smart enough.

It is a pity that cleverness is not used in the right way, and it must be cleared at the expense of other challengers.

Xiao Lou clenched his fist hard and said, “What can Team Yu do?”

Yu Hanjiang’s eyes were deep, and he said coldly: “Let the snake out of the cave.”

******

[Chapter 50, Financial Crisis 10-Unexpected Changes]

evening.

Yu Hanjiang rode a small truck borrowed from the construction site in the afternoon to bring in a large amount of supplies.

The two who had been paying attention to the challenger’s movements immediately spotted him.

While moving supplies, Yu Hanjiang and Xiaolou said in a low voice, “I didn’t have enough food. I went and took five boxes of milk, five boxes of biscuits, one box of chocolates and one box of canned fruit.”

Seeing this scene from the window, the young man said excitedly: “Brother Xu, he really went to get things, and canned fruit, this is a luxury food! Let’s sweep the 207 goods by the way tonight, when the time comes. How about transferring again?”

The middle-aged man nodded: “Okay, wait for the evening.”

**

At night, the whole street was extremely quiet, and all the rooms in Shanshui B&B turned off the lights.

People fell asleep.

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou were hidden in the darkness, waiting patiently for the thief to come.

Two o’clock in the morning…

Two thirty in the morning…

Time flies extremely slowly, but Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang are not drowsy. The two of them sit by the bed and wait, worrying that the voice of the voice will cause the thieves to be alert. They tacitly mute their mobile phones and use “texting”. Way to communicate.

Xiao Lou: “Aren’t you coming? This thief is too cautious.”

Yu Hanjiang: “Wait a minute.”

Xiao Lou: “Team Yu, did you really go to the warehouse to bring so many canned fruits? When I carried it just now, I found the boxes were very heavy.”

Yu Hanjiang: “There is no canned fruit in the box.”

Xiao Lou looked up at him suspiciously.

Through the light of the street lamp, you can see Yu Hanjiang’s handsome face. The man’s eyes are particularly deep. He looked at Xiao Lou, and the corners of his lips raised slightly and said, “It’s the bricks on the construction site.”

Xiao Lou: “…”

No wonder it lifted so heavy!

Team Yu actually went to the construction site to bring back a few boxes of bricks, and attracted the thief to the bait. It was amazing!

At three o’clock in the morning, Xiao Lou was very sleepy.

But at this moment, the two suddenly heard the sound of the room being opened.

Xiao Lou immediately became energetic and used the cloak of invisibility at the same time tacitly with Yu Hanjiang.

The door was clearly opened, but you couldn’t see where the other party was, as if a gust of wind had opened the door.

When the two thieves approached the bed and found no one in the room, they were all taken aback.

The young man asked, “Where are the people? I clearly saw them entering the house.”

The other middle-aged man had a slightly hoarse voice and said coldly, “Maybe I turned the window and left. It’s easier to find. It’s important to find supplies.”

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang could hear their conversation, but couldn’t see where they were-the two wearing invisibility cloaks opened the bed directly. From Xiao Lou’s point of view, it was as if the bed was lifted by a pair of invisible hands. , The picture is very fantasy.

A large number of cardboard boxes were exposed under the bed, and the young man said excitedly: “So many! Brother Xu, you guessed it, these three people really put their food elsewhere. Great, today’s harvest is really rich!”

He leaned over to carry the box, only to find that the box was extremely heavy.

The man gritted his teeth and said, “Is it a box of canned fruit?”

The other person seemed to perceive the error and whispered: “Look out of the box.”

The transparent glue at the seal was torn apart vigorously, and the two of them leaned over to see…

A neat box of bricks.

Still a brand new red brick.

The faces of the two people turned green for an instant, and they turned to run, but the next moment, the door was closed with a “bang” and locked, and a low and cold voice came from the air: “Waiting for you for a long time.”

Another voice with a gentle smile: “We also have the cloak of invisibility, and we also successfully cleared the secret room of Hearts 3, so we guessed the two methods of committing the crime.” Xiao Lou’s conversation turned, restraining the smile, and said solemnly. : “How many challengers did you steal? This way of clearing the level of starving others and struggling yourself to death, it’s really bad for you to figure it out!”

The two panicked for a few seconds at first, but quickly calmed down.

The middle-aged man said lightly: “Since you are also friends from Hearts 3, you should know the principle of’make the best use of everything’. [Incognito Card] and [Key Card] are very easy to use in this world. It is better to cooperate with us. The four of you pass the level together-I promise that when you leave the Chamber of 3 of Spades, they will not have less than ten million gold coins in their hands.”

Judging from the sound, a man should be in his forties, very calm.

Xiao Lou said coldly: “Relying on other challengers to pass the level? Do you still have humanity?”

The young man gave a weird smile and said, “What are you talking to me about humanity in this world? I just don’t want to die, I want to live! What does it matter to me whether other people die? Stop talking nonsense, if you are willing to join us, we The four of them work together to make a fortune. If you are not happy, then we will not do anything together. We will not touch your materials again, and you two should not be nosy!”

Xiao Lou had long anticipated that in order to survive in the card world, there would always be people who would do whatever it takes to survive. Without the shackles of law and morality in reality, the harshness of human nature would exceed his imagination.

He is not good at arguing with people, not to mention different ideas, and there is no need to be reasonable.

“A gentleman speaks but doesn’t use his hands” simply doesn’t work in this world.

Therefore, he intends to do it directly.

Xiao Lou approached Yu Hanjiang’s ear and gave a signal. Yu Hanjiang knew, and quickly came to the window to guard the window to prevent two people from turning over the window and escaping, while Xiao Lou activated the circle he had drawn long ago.

Before the two thieves entered the house, Xiao Lou drew many rings to form a dense network of rings, and then lifted the rings to the ceiling by floating.

The two thieves did not realize that there was actually a huge net on the ceiling.

By the moment of awareness, it is too late—

Xiao Lou’s finger lightly lifted, and countless metal rings with a diameter of 30 cm suddenly fell from the sky!

The two thieves wore invisibility cloaks, and Xiao Lou couldn’t see them, but they still existed, and they were entities, rather than directly turning into air–the collision of entities would not directly pass them.

Countless rings smashed down like a torrential rain. However, two rings were waved away in the corner of the room and fell to the ground with a crisp metal landing sound.

–right here!

Xiao Lou is accurately positioned.

Yu Hanjiang rushed over in a vigorous step, kicked his left foot vigorously, and he heard a scream.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Hanjiang stretched out his hand and yanked in the direction where the screams came from. Although he could not see the opponent in his eyes, he could judge the position of the opponent based on the ring and the screams, and grasp the opponent’s arm accurately. , Screw it back hard!

The man screamed like a pig.

Yu Hanjiang said coldly: “The invisibility cloak just makes people invisible to you, it doesn’t make people invisible to you.”

He simply pressed this person to the ground, and Xiao Lou immediately manipulated several metal rings, forming a dense network of rings around him so that the other party had nowhere to hide.

Yu Hanjiang said: “Pick off the cloak.”

The other party gritted his teeth: “Fuck, you can actually do magic tricks?!”

Xiao Lou said: “This is not magic.”

The young man seemed to finally react, and said in surprise, “Is it a card? Do you have such a great card?”

He finally understood that he had hit the iron plate this time and was in a disaster. The man hurriedly changed his words: “Brother, let us go, let us go, can you share half of the stolen materials?”

However, before the words were finished, he suddenly felt a strange coldness on his back.

The biting cold instantly penetrated the heart, from the back to the chest, and the man looked down at his chest in disbelief.

It’s a knife.

The knife pierced his heart accurately from behind.

There was still red blood on the tip of the knife slowly flowing down, his eyes widened, he stared at the knife in a daze, only had time to speak: “Xu…Brother…”

The next moment, the body with the bloody dagger was pushed out forcefully, and suddenly pressed towards Yu Hanjiang.

Reflexively, Yu Hanjiang hid to the side, and after that, the window was smashed open with a “bang”, and the glass shattered to the ground!

The middle-aged man swiftly jumped out of the broken window and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

Because of being given to death by the sword, the effect of the invisibility cloak was ineffective. Gradually, a corpse of a young male lying in a pool of blood appeared on the floor of the room. His eyes almost stared out of his sockets. Obviously, he couldn’t believe it… Will be betrayed by teammates.

Yu Hanjiang looked at the corpse at his feet with an extremely ugly expression.

Xiao Lou was also shocked by the sudden change.

After a long time, Xiao Lou trembled: “In order to escape, he stabbed his teammates to death and threw the corpse over as a shield? Or is he afraid that his teammates would just kill people if they tell where they are hiding?”

Yu Hanjiang said with a calm face: “Fuck! Not even a beast!”

Team Yu has never heard swearing, obviously this time he was very angry.

No more than three prisoners can escape from his men so far.

Today, of course, there is the reason for the cloak of invisibility, and Yu Hanjiang can’t accurately locate the other person. However, being put like this, not only did not catch the thief, but also let the other party kill his companion…

Yu Hanjiang’s face was green, and he said solemnly: “We have to transfer as soon as possible.”

Unexpectedly, things would develop like this.

Instead of fixing the thief, he exposed himself.

Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, “I can’t stay here anymore. The beast actually killed all his companions in order to escape. The method is very brutal. Maybe he will go and come back and retaliate against us.”

Moreover, there is a dead body in the room. If someone calls the police tomorrow, they will not be easy to explain.

Although they didn’t kill this person, they died because of them.

Xiao Lou felt a little uncomfortable, he took a deep breath to adjust his emotions, and quickly called Shao Qingge.

Shao Qingge was sleeping when he was suddenly woken up by the phone, and the man’s lazy voice was still a little confused: “Professor Xiao, what’s the matter? Look for me in the middle of the night…”

Xiao Lou said: “Something went wrong on our side and we need to transfer immediately. Do you want to come with us?”

Shao Qingge sat up from the bed with a carp, “What’s the situation?”

Xiao Lou said helplessly: “Team Yu and I wanted to lead the snake out of the hole to catch the thief, but in the end two thieves, one of them killed the companion directly in order to escape.”

Shao Qingge was completely frightened awake: “Kill, kill?!”

Xiao Lou briefly recounted what happened. When Shao Qingge heard the death in room 207, he said decisively: “I’m acting with you. I don’t want to be caught by the police as a suspect. After 10 minutes, the hotel will meet downstairs.”

The three of them didn’t have much luggage, each of them carried a bag and met downstairs.

Shao Qingge’s face was very serious: “This thief really killed his partner?!”

This person is not only ferocious, but also very decisive. He didn’t hesitate to kill his teammates at critical moments.

Yu Hanjiang is not afraid of revenge, but Xiao Lou and Shao Qingge seldom face such thugs after all. He is afraid that two people will have an accident. It is easy to hide with a gun and hard to guard against an arrow, so it is safer to move to a safe place as soon as possible.

On the construction site, he inspected this afternoon. The workers went on strike completely and were completely abandoned. Prices will continue to rise tomorrow, and work on the construction site will not resume in the future. It can be used as a place for three people to hide temporarily.

Yu Hanjiang pushed the truck, and Shao Qingge and Xiao Lou quickly followed.

They planned to go to the underground warehouse to transport the supplies overnight.

On the street late at night, it was terribly quiet, and the expressions of the three of them were more serious than the other.

It was almost four o’clock in the morning when I arrived at the warehouse. Yu Hanjiang opened the door, and Xiao Lou and Shao Qingge also stepped forward to help and quickly moved the boxes.

However, before they finished moving, they heard a rush of footsteps not far away.

Yu Hanjiang immediately put his finger to his mouth: “Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.”

Xiao Lou and Shao Qingge hid behind the door holding their breath and looked out through the crack of the warehouse door. They saw a dirty boy walking quickly to the corner, pushing out the broken tricycle full of rubbish, and riding Get in the car and ran away in a hurry.

Xiao Lou was startled, and said softly: “Is it the one that Team Yu saw before, the little guy pretending to be a garbage collector?”

Yu Hanjiang nodded: “It’s him.”

Xiao Lou said in a puzzled manner: “He’s watching late at night, where is this going?”

Yu Hanjiang didn’t understand this guy’s thinking, and said, “It’s probably also a night owl.”

Xiao Lou looked at the boy’s back, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, “Team Yu, do you think this guy seems to be paying attention to our movements? On the day I checked in, I paid for the room for 7 days, and he also Pay for 7 days; we hid the materials in the underground warehouse, and he also hid in the underground warehouse; we moved in the middle of the night, and he also ran away on the bike…”

Yu Hanjiang thought about it carefully and it was really: “It’s almost four o’clock in the morning, so many coincidences—it can’t be a coincidence.”

The three looked at each other.

Yu Hanjiang resolutely said: “Catch up and have a look.”

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Go to the hospital to check the body and update it late, sorry!

I have to review it tomorrow, so tomorrow is also the bedtime at night to update, and everyone will do it again before going to bed!

After these two days, I will adjust it back to noon, yeah.