That's right, just as Lin Yi thought.
Gin and Vodka were currently sitting in the Porsche downstairs, wearing headsets and holding a laptop, monitoring them.
Vodka said from the side, "Boss, I've already checked his information, it's very clean, there's no problem… he's just an ordinary high school student."
"He recently got a girlfriend, and it just so happens that the girl is one of Akemi's subordinates. He wants to earn some money to send that girl to Teitan High School to receive higher education… so he wanted to take the risk and accepted Akemi's invitation."
"He and that girl met purely by accident, they met because of school bullying."
Gin, with a cigarette in his mouth, looked at the scene on the screen.
Especially when he saw Miyano Akemi, he couldn't help but think of Akai Shūichi, the bastard who almost sent him to jail to pick up soap.
He also thought of the fish he had been fishing for two years, but the main target hadn't been caught, and instead he had attracted a bunch of miscellaneous things.
He snorted in dissatisfaction as the two people on the laptop started discussing how to infiltrate the department store.
It took so many days to infiltrate a department store with no security measures, they're just trash!
Even drawing a blueprint.
Why not just sneak in at midnight, then kill all the security guards directly, and then delete all the surveillance footage? Wouldn't that be the end of it?
Putting in so much effort, do you really think this is a movie shoot?
Gin doesn't have the patience to watch them play house.
He slammed the laptop shut, casually tossed it to Vodka, took off his headset, and said coldly, "In the future, for trivial matters like this, figure things out before notifying me."
Vodka opened his mouth, wanting to say that you were the one who told me to do this, to immediately notify you if anyone approached Miyano Akemi.
However, seeing Gin's sour face, Vodka could only swallow his anger and said, "Yes… I understand."
"Then…" Vodka asked cautiously, "Should we continue?"
"Let's go. Continuing to stay here is a waste of time."
Putting everything else aside, Gin knew Lin Yi hadn't done anything wrong just by watching them fumble around trying to hack into a department store for days.
He thought he could learn how to commit crimes just by watching a couple of crime movies; it's simply ridiculous.
And the reconnaissance, the hand-drawn maps.
For companies like department stores, there are hundreds in Tokyo. You can just get the blueprints from a construction team; it's just a matter of spending some money. Is there a need to go to so much trouble?
Even an undercover agent wouldn't be this ignorant.
The surveillance time wasn't even two minutes before Gin wanted to call it off.
Vodka was helpless. It took him half an hour just to install the cameras.
However, he didn't dare disobey his boss. After putting the laptop away, he drove off.
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Akemi felt a little strange, wondering why Gin's instructions were delayed.
Weren't they supposed to ask him a few questions?
Why aren't they asking?
Although a little puzzled, Akemi could only continue chatting with Lin Yi.
Akemi didn't know that Gin had already passed on Lin Yi after listening to their crime plan. He didn't think the FBI would send someone so incompetent to carry out the mission.
If Lin Yi heard Gin's evaluation of him, he would definitely chuckle.
He's here to pick up girls, not to learn how to commit crimes.
If conditions allowed, he would even be willing to continue dragging out the reconnaissance time for another month!
By then, the rice would be cooked, so why would he need to sneak into a department store?
Lin Yi couldn't hear Gin's evaluation of him, nor did he know that the people monitoring him had already left.
He was still acting cautiously.
Being watched is a very uncomfortable thing.
So, Lin Yi only sat in Akemi's house for a little over an hour, following the previous routine, discussing work, and then chatting casually.
After completing this pattern, he slipped away.
"It's getting late. I should go back first. Staying here for too long… will have a bad influence on you."
Knowing that there was no way to pounce on Akemi today, Lin Yi wouldn't reveal his wolfish side.
His demeanor was gentle and full of gentlemanly grace.
Akemi naturally nodded and sent Lin Yi to the door.
When he came out downstairs, Lin Yi couldn't see the black Porsche anymore.
This made Lin Yi breathe a long sigh of relief!
What he feared most was Gin ignoring everything and directly hanging him up for a beating, trying to force a confession.
If that were the case, Lin Yi would have to let Gin experience what it means for the father of your father to be your grandfather.
Wearing a special bulletproof vest, he would just unleash a flurry of wild punches.
What? You think my way of hitting people is a bit like CXK?
Please, my profession is a scumbag, not a detective, let alone a criminal.
Picking up girls is my forte; fighting and killing are not suitable for me.
As long as I can beat them to death, who cares if it looks good.
Hailing a taxi, Lin Yi didn't forget to open Akemi's third-person perspective on the way back to see what she was doing.
He saw Akemi first clean up the table, then take down the decorative polar bear from the refrigerator, pull out its eyeballs, and pull out a camera.
In addition, there was also a camera placed on the TV.
Finally, there was a bug under the table.
When she finished doing these things, Gin and Vodka didn't appear, obviously they had really left.
So, Akemi started packing her clothes and went to take a shower.
Seeing this, Lin Yi decisively turned it off.
Watching people shower is impolite.
Is this something a human would do?
Okay, actually, Lin Yi doesn't want to watch now, just to save this surprise first.
If you know everything, there will be no surprises.
"Tomorrow is the last day of reconnaissance… Happy times always pass especially quickly."
Lin Yi felt a little emotional.
"Adding the night after tomorrow… there are a total of two days left to build up goodwill."
"After spending so much time, it should be about the same."
"Then it's decided… I'll try attacking the night after tomorrow."
Lin Yi made up his mind to try attacking the night after tomorrow to see how she reacts.
By the eighth day, they had already scouted the place.
The reason Lin Yi was still coming to the department store was to propose the infiltration route.
In fact, Lin Yi knew very well that once he infiltrated the department store at night, the instance would automatically trigger.
At that point, any route would be nonsense.
But Mingmei didn't know this, and she felt that planning the route was indeed very important.
In addition to this, the two also discussed what they should take if the infiltration was successful.
Mingmei might have been considering that if she couldn't get back enough money from the bank to reach one billion, she wouldn't be able to redeem her and her sister's freedom.
So, she drew a circle around the jewelry area: "Let's start with the jewelry..."
"Jewelry?"
As soon as Lin Yi heard this, he knew that Mingmei hadn't seen much of the world. What era was this? Still stealing jewelry? How tacky.
Those robbers who specialized in robbing jewelry stores were obviously amateurs.
How could someone with his taste target jewelry?
However, directly shaking his head to deny it would be hurtful, so Lin Yi instead asked, "I heard from a friend before that these jewels are very difficult to sell once you get them. Even if you do sell them, the price will be cut by at least half."
"More than half."
Mingmei was an expert in this area, and she smiled wryly, "It's seventy percent."
Lin Yi was shocked by this commission: "Seventy percent? Are you kidding me? A 100,000 yen necklace can only be sold for 30,000 yen?"
"I'm not kidding you, it's true."
Mingmei smiled bitterly repeatedly: "Think about it, even if you get these jewels, how are you going to sell them?"
"Sell them little by little? Your things are of unknown origin, even if you lower the price, many people won't buy them. Because if they find out that these jewels are stolen goods, not only will their money be wasted, but the jewels will also be recovered."
"In addition to this, the buyers will also be prosecuted by the inspection for buying stolen goods..."
"This..." Lin Yi opened his mouth, indeed not knowing what to say.
It's not his fault. He used to be a model student, never even been in a fight, let alone stealing things and fencing stolen goods.
Naturally, he wasn't clear about the twists and turns involved.
"It's just that the price of seventy percent is too low, isn't it?" Lin Yi still felt it was a bit unbelievable.
"Then what can you do?" Mingmei said helplessly: "Without sales channels, you can only be slaughtered... If you don't sell, you can only let this batch of jewelry rot in your hands."
Lin Yi asked curiously: "How do those who buy jewelry fence the stolen goods?"
"Those who buy jewelry... are often people from jewelry stores."
Mingmei flipped her palm and said, "They only need to buy jewelry from thieves at extremely low prices, and then clear the origins of these jewels so they can be sold at the original price... They can make a huge profit in the process."
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After listening, Lin Yi immediately took a breath: "Sure enough... Capital's money comes so quickly. They can make a lot of money without doing anything."
"Isn't it?" Mingmei shrugged and said, "You may have heard of people getting rich by robbing banks, or getting rich by robbing gold... But have you ever heard of anyone getting rich by stealing things?"
Lin Yi thought about it seriously, and it was true that no one had ever gotten rich by stealing. Stealing cheap things, like those jewels, wouldn't earn much money. Stealing more valuable things would be too hot to handle, and they would easily be targeted by the police, so they wouldn't dare to sell them easily.
No wonder jewelry stores are easier to rob than banks, but Mingmei still didn't target jewelry stores. It turned out there was such a reason.
No matter how much jewelry you rob, it's ultimately making wedding clothes for others.
Only banknotes are truly your own, and they are all cash, which is easy to sell.
Even if the bank announces the stolen serial numbers, it's useless. Who would specifically look at the serial numbers when receiving money?
"Since the commission on jewelry is so high, I think we should rob watches instead," Lin Yi said.
"Watches?" Mingmei was stunned for a moment. She asked doubtfully: "Watches... are they worth a lot of money?"
Mingmei didn't know the value of watches, that's because she was a woman, which was normal.
Most women don't know the value of watches, just like most men don't know the value of cosmetics.
Lin Yi immediately explained to her how valuable watches were.
Poor people play with cars, rich people play with watches.
Since they were going to rob valuable things, they definitely had to target watches.
Some people will definitely object to this statement.
What poor people play with cars, rich people play with watches.
I can use twenty Lamborghinis to blind your dog eyes.
Can you use twenty Patek Philippes to blind my dog eyes?
Here's an example, at a large cocktail party, when someone shows off their newly bought Lamborghini, you suddenly walk over and inadvertently flash your watch, and others realize that your watch is more expensive than his Lamborghini.
What's the difference?
This is the difference between a nouveau riche and a true rich and handsome guy!
You've made a good impression in silence.
No matter how many words you say, it's not as good as me flashing my watch.
It's impossible for one person to have 20 Lamborghinis, because they are repetitive in nature, and you wouldn't want to buy twenty Lamborghinis, not only is placement a problem, but maintenance is also a problem.
But a person can have 20 high-end watches.
Lamborghinis are not difficult to buy, because they are not limited, you can drive one, smash one, send one.
And each high-end watch is a limited-edition work of art, they are all handmade, in limited quantities, and there are only so many in the world.
From a collector's value perspective.
A car is scrapped in twenty or thirty years.
But many high-end watches can last a hundred years.
If you're short on money, you can resell them and even make a profit.
After Lin Yi explained the value of the watches to Mingmei, she suddenly understood.
She asked, "However, each watch has its unique serial number, right? Will anyone buy them?"
Lin Yi chuckled and patted her shoulder, saying, "It just so happens I know a friend who specializes in buying these watches... he only takes a 50% cut!"
Upon hearing this, Mingmei's eyes lit up, and she decisively circled the watch area: "Then let's start with the watches."
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