In Baoshan District, Shanglu City, in a cheap apartment.
Ma Yang, who is 32 years old, is sitting on the bed, deep in thought with a serious expression.
After a long while, the protest of his stomach pulls him out of his thoughts.
"Forget it. Anyway, those policemen can't find me for a while. Let's have a meal first!" Having made the decision that eating is the most important thing in the world, Ma Yang takes out his mobile phone and orders a takeout.
While waiting for the takeout, he goes to the mini balcony attached to this apartment and smokes a sullen cigarette.
The culprit of the serial theft case that has been giving the entire Shanglu police force a headache has been hesitating for a whole day. Should he leave Shanglu?
The reason why he has this thought is naturally because he was caught on the hidden surveillance camera during his theft in the early morning. Although he just took off his hat at that time, he can't guarantee that the police won't figure out his identity through his hair, forehead, and eyes.
Of course, the exposure of the upper half of his face is just one of the reasons, and not the main one. After all, it's really incredible to identify this person from the vast crowd just based on the upper half of his face.
The main reason why he wants to leave Shanglu is that his superpower has been exposed.
Although he is just a thief who has awakened superpowers and only uses them to steal things, and he knows that he is definitely not a smart person, he is by no means stupid.
Since someone like him can awaken superpowers, there must be people with superpowers in the official forces! There must be some among the policemen! Who knows what strange abilities those official superpower users have? What if there is someone who can find him?
"Sigh—" Ma Yang lets out a long sigh and makes his final decision.
It's better to be safe than sorry. He decides to leave Shanglu and go to another big city. He will lie low for a while and come out to make money after the situation calms down.
Now, his backpack contains nearly 100,000 yuan in cash and various jewelry mainly made of gold. If he sells the latter on the black market and adds the former, he can get at least 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, which is enough for him to live a carefree life for a whole year without doing anything.
After making the decision, Ma Yang pinches out the cigarette butt and casually throws it downstairs. Just then, he suddenly sees a red figure appear downstairs.
His apartment is on the sixth floor, which is not too high, and he doesn't have myopia, so he can see the situation downstairs quite clearly.
At this moment, in front of his apartment building, there is a red figure standing there quietly without moving.
"What the hell is that?" Ma Yang rubs his eyes and squints to take a closer look. He discovers that it is a woman, a woman with long black hair and wearing a blood-red dress.
Suddenly, the woman seems to sense that someone is looking at her upstairs and suddenly looks up.
Then Ma Yang sees a pale face with disheveled hair, and a pair of gray-black eyes with bloodshot eyes that he shouldn't have seen, but he did.
"Ugh!" Ma Yang's head feels heavy, and his legs go weak. He collapses onto the balcony.
When he regains his strength and stands up to look downstairs again, the woman in the red dress has disappeared.
"What on earth is that?" Ma Yang holds his head and turns back into the room. After taking a rest, he takes out a map of Shanglu City from the backpack placed on the bedside table and spreads it out on the bed.
There are dozens of red circles of different sizes circled on the entire map. Most of them are concentrated in the downtown area in the center and by the river, and a small part are scattered in other places. Two of them have been crossed out with red crosses.
These circled areas are all the high-end and top-level residential communities in Shanglu City, and they are also the targets he will choose for his subsequent thefts. After practicing several times in ordinary residential communities, he no longer bullies these ordinary people who have a hard life, and he is no longer satisfied with getting only a few thousand yuan or even a few hundred yuan after a painstaking theft. So he resolutely changes his target to those "upper-class people" who live in mansions, travel in luxury cars, and wear gold and silver all day long.
Indeed, although the main property of these "upper-class people" exists in the form of numbers and real estate, it doesn't mean that there is no property in their homes. After excluding those artworks and antiques that are known to be valuable but difficult to sell, Ma Yang can still get tens of thousands of yuan in cash and property after a "burglary". Although it's not a large amount, it's dozens or hundreds of times more than that of an ordinary family.
"Who should I choose tonight... It's you!" Ma Yang uses a red pen in his hand to cross out a red circle by the river in the Dongpu New Area.
"I remember this community is called 'Binjiangyuan', one of the top ten most luxurious residential communities in Shanglu. Hehe, I hope it will bring me a good harvest."
At this moment, he seems to have forgotten that just a minute ago, he had decided to leave Shanglu on the balcony. He also forgets the fact that his superpower has been exposed and that there is a great possibility that he is being hunted down by official superpower users.
At the same time, on a busy street in Hongkou District, a scene that makes people confused is being staged.
On a sidewalk, a group of four people are walking forward at a constant speed. This is not a strange thing in itself, but every time they move forward a certain distance, one of the four young men will squat down and touch the stone bricks on the ground. After about more than twenty seconds, he will stand up, walk forward a certain distance, and then squat down to touch the stone bricks again, repeating this process.
According to reason, if this scene is seen by passers-by, it will definitely be recorded and posted online. But the pedestrians on this sidewalk seem to be unable to see them and ignore these four people, walking on their own silently.
"Hallucination Creation · Domain", this is the name after Tang Xiuxiu's second ability reaches the "Change" realm and undergoes a qualitative change. As the name implies, she can define a certain area and make the people in the domain fall into the hallucinations she creates.
This is why the pedestrians turn a blind eye to the four members of the investigation team. After all, in their eyes, these four people don't exist at all.
"There's a situation." When they reach the bottom of the steps of a pedestrian overpass, Liu Wang's expression changes and he says, "The criminal changed into his black clothes here, and his appearance was exposed."
"It seems that we have found the key clue." Lin Yuexiang has a faint smile on his face.
In today's society, as long as there is a picture of the criminal's face, it's just a matter of time before he is found.
Lei Ting naturally understands this truth, so he asks, "So can we call it a day?"
"No." Lin Yuexiang shakes his head. "We still need to keep going. Although providing the police with the criminal's face directly can help find him, it will take at least one or two days at the earliest. But if we keep going like this, we can catch him before dawn at the earliest. Since this case is in the hands of our 'Superpower Investigation Team', we must solve it as quickly as possible."
"I understand." Lei Ting nods firmly.
However, although that's what he said, in order to avoid any accidents, it's necessary to proceed with two lines simultaneously. So the four of them specifically go to a blind spot of the surveillance camera. Liu Wang projects the image, and Lin Yuexiang uses his all-black mobile phone to take a photo of the criminal's face in the projection and sends it to someone.
After finishing this, the four of them continue to walk along the original route, but they speed up a lot.
Then, in a flash, Liu Wang makes a discovery at the corner of the sidewalk. He stands up again and says, "The criminal got off the taxi here. It's an orange taxi, and the license plate number is ********."
"Okay, then we just need to go to the corresponding taxi company to find that taxi. Liu Wang, you've worked hard." Lin Yuexiang pats Liu Wang on the shoulder.
"Just don't forget my 'out-of-duty bonus'." Liu Wang reminds.
"Don't worry, we won't short you a penny. Let's go. It's not too far from where we parked the car." After saying that, Lin Yuexiang turns around and walks back.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one around is paying attention, Tang Xiuxiu takes back the domain and follows behind.
"'Out-of-duty bonus'? There's such a thing?" Lei Ting is completely shocked by what Liu Wang just said.
It seems that the salary is not just the "salary"!