gentry

Chapter 58
After 27 days.

In the lobby of the bank, people come and go.A figure walked into the bank, came to the reception desk, and showed a key to the lobby manager.

The bank manager checked the keys, then nodded towards the man, and then led the man to the safe.The bank manager opened the door of the vault, and the person entered the vault alone, and the manager then turned and left.

The visitor walked to No. 167 safe, inserted the key, turned the combination dial of the safe, and twisted the key.The safe door clicked open immediately.

At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind the man.

"Doctor Huo, we meet again."

The figure in front of the safe turned his head when he heard the sound, it was Hovens, and standing behind him at this time were Luo Fei and Qin Xiaoman.

Hovans looked at the two people, a little surprised, then smiled and said: "Detective Luo, Detective Qin, what a coincidence, you also come to the bank to deposit things?"

Luo Fei smiled back: "No, I'm here to find you."

"I have something to do now, you can wait for me in the consulting room." Hovens pointed to the safe behind him and smiled.

"This matter is urgent, and I want to talk to you right now." Luo Fei said softly and firmly.

"Here? It's not convenient." Hovans was taken aback, and adjusted his glasses. "And according to the regulations, the vault can only accept one customer at a time."

Luo Fei smiled and waved his hands: "It's okay, I'm an acquaintance with the bank manager, he can make an exception for me."

"Really, you have quite a wide network." Hovans said, walking in front of Luo Fei, meeting Luo Fei's eyes, "Okay, what's the matter?"

"Have you heard of the diamond theft from Huiqi Bank ten years ago?" Luo Fei asked seriously.

Howens shook his head: "No, I was in Austria ten years ago."

"Ten years ago, in this secret room, a box of priceless diamonds disappeared. I deduced how the four thieves took advantage of their profession to open the safe together, but they still couldn't think of the last step. How to decipher the alarm device on the lockbox." Luo Fei said, pointing to the wall clock on the wall, "until I saw this one day, I suddenly realized that no matter how perfect the lockbox is designed, it cannot resist a natural enemy..."

"Don't be so secretive and tell me quickly, I've been itching for almost a month, what the hell is it?" Xiaoman said impatiently.

"Time." Luo Fei said, stroking his beard.

"I really don't understand what you are talking about, if there is nothing wrong with me..."

Hovans, who looked suspicious, was about to leave, but Luo Fei stopped him with his cane.

"Doctor Huo, be patient, and you will understand after listening to me. I suddenly realized that since the siren is going to sound, it must use electricity, and to use electricity, it needs batteries, and batteries have a life. So I passed the long-distance I contacted the American company that produced the lockbox by phone, and learned from them that after the alarm switch is turned on, the battery of the alarm can last up to ten years. And I believe that ten years ago, the engineer Zheng Yuan also made the same call... "

Luo Fei said as he walked to the safe, shaking his hands mysteriously as if he was doing magic, and continued: "So the four of them only need to add ten years to their plan, and it can be perfectly implemented. Then The box of diamonds never actually left the vault, it's always been in the safe."

At this time, Xiaoman hurriedly interrupted Luo Fei: "Wait, I don't understand, isn't safe 168 opened and there is nothing in it?"

Luo Fei nodded triumphantly: "Yes, but it's not safe No. 168 that Charlie Jin deposited diamonds in, but another safe next door."

Xiaoman stared at Luo Fei with wide eyes: "How is this possible?"

"Of course it's possible." Luo Fei walked to the safe and pointed to the number plate on it, "The second biggest loophole of the safe is that the number of the safe is not engraved on it, but a nameplate fixed with screws. Easily removed and replaced."

"The numbers of the safes are all consecutive. Once the number is changed, wouldn't the customer notice?" Xiaoman immediately retorted.

Luo Fei leaned against the wall of the safe with open arms and said: "There is a way to avoid attracting attention, and that is to change all the numbers in this row. Most people only pay attention to the continuity of the adjacent numbers, and do not pay attention to the numbers in the upper and lower rows. numerical relationship."

"This is not a small project." Xiaoman shook her head in disbelief.

"I tested it, and a person who has been trained and skilled can do it in 10 minutes. Back then, just before Charlie Jin entered the vault, the last client who entered the vault should be those four people..." Luo Fei stood Between No. 167 and No. 168 safes, there was an exchange of gestures, "The No. 168 safe that Charlie Jin saw when he entered the safe was actually No. 167 next to it, which was rented by four accomplices in advance. The fake lock cylinder that Fang Libin replaced in advance was made according to the key and initial password of 168."

Xiaoman scanned the entire row of safes and asked: "But in this way, the numbers on the entire row of safes are wrong, won't it be discovered by later people?"

Luo Fei shook his head: "No, Zhao Datong, as the manager, helps Charlie Jin arrange daily affairs. He specially arranges the time to come to the bank to store diamonds before the bank closes. When Charlie Jin leaves, Wang Jifu immediately stops the safe for the day. No other customers entered the vault. The next thing went very smoothly. Charlie Jin left the bank and went home alone, but Zhao Datong stayed behind. Zhao Datong, Wang Jifu, and Fang Libin hid in Wang Jifu's office together."

As Luo Fei spoke, he turned to Hovens again, and said in a low voice on purpose: "At night, when it was the turn of Zheng Yuan, the security guard, four people entered the safe together. They recovered the safe number and replaced it with the original one. lock cylinder."

"What you said can be done by one person, why do you have to go in with four people?" Xiaoman asked at this time.

"The biggest problem with gang crimes is not the cooperation during the crime, but the mutual trust after committing the crime. Even if most gangs succeed at the time, the result will be due to internal strife afterwards, or the uneven distribution of spoils, or the breakdown of the offensive and defensive alliance. For a The wealth that can only be withdrawn after ten years, these four people have used a very unique method to ensure mutual trustworthiness..." Luo Fei stretched out his hands, making a three in one hand, and holding the key on the Hovens safe in the other. The key, continued, "The password of the safe consists of three sets of numbers. Zhao Datong, Fang Libin, and Zheng Yuan each set one of the numbers, and only you know it, while Wang Jifu holds the key to the safe."

Xiaoman continued thoughtfully: "So after doing all this, they went back to the hiding place, and after dawn, they mixed with the crowd and left separately. During the day, the four of them came out of Wang Jifu's office and mixed with the people who came and went in the bank."

Luo Fei nodded: "One day later, that is, on Monday morning, Wang Jifu opened the door of the vault early in the morning, opened the 168 cabinet with the key and password prepared in advance, and then called the police. Naturally, the police couldn't find anything, including Kim Charlie. Everyone thought that the diamond had disappeared, but no one would have thought that it was actually in the safe next door to No. 167." Luo Fei said and looked at Hovens, "You should know what Dr. Huo is going to do next, right? , the four accomplices who committed the crime parted ways, not only changed jobs, but also moved and changed addresses, ensuring that they would no longer have any contact with each other, until one day ten years later, they would meet again at the designated place, gather together the password and key, Open the safe and take out the lockbox with the dead battery."

After listening to Luo Fei's words, Hovens closed his eyes, and his eyes rolled quickly, but his face was still smiling.

"In order to confirm this hypothesis, I found the current bank manager. Although he could not disclose the customer's information, I persuaded him to check the contracts of cabinets 167 and 169. It turned out that the lease of cabinet 167 was exactly ten years, and the lessee was anonymous. , and there is a strange side agreement, which stipulates that no one has the right to open the safe within ten years. After ten years, on the last day of the lease, that is, today, you can enter the safe with the key of 167 cabinets and take away the safe. items."

"So, it's in the safe now." Xiao Man pointed at No. 167 safe with her mouth open, and was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a moment.

"Doctor Huo, it's really strange. Why do you have the key to cabinet 167 in your hand? Can you see what's inside?" Luo Fei said this, and once again faced Hovens, staring at him with sharp eyes.

Hovens suddenly opened his eyes, and said with a downcast face, "I don't understand the story you made up. I rented cabinet 167. The items inside are my personal privacy, and you have no right to see them."

"Didn't you say that you were in Austria ten years ago, how did you rent the safe here?" Luo Fei asked.

"I entrusted someone to rent it for me."

Luo Fei looked at Huo Wensi with a sneer: "Doctor Huo, I really admire you for being so calm until now."

"Because I'm telling the truth." Hovans said in a smooth tone.

Afterwards, Hovens went to the safe and wanted to close the door, but was blocked by Luo Shen who followed.

"Why, don't you take anything?"

Hovans shook off Luo Fei's hand, and said coldly, "You guys disturbed me with unreasonable disturbances, so I won't accompany you if nothing happens."

"Wait, I only told half of the story just now, and I haven't finished the second half." Luo Fei stared at Hovens and said.

"I'm not interested in listening, please return the key to me." Hovens held out his hand to Luo Fei.

Luo Fei gently placed the key of the safe in Hovens' palm, and then immediately took it back, Hovens immediately snatched it.

"Don't you think this is boring?" Hovans sighed.

"Of course not." Luo Fei reinserted the key in the safe with great interest, then turned around and said to Hovens meaningfully: "You will be interested, because this story is related to you, I came here a month ago I went to your psychological clinic, looked through the medical records, and found that a serial number was missing..."

(End of this chapter)