History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 25 The Gold Thief
Thinking about her first interview after graduation on Thursday, Alice had no choice but to take back those wild thoughts in her heart and think about the arrangements for the next few days.Although she can go directly to the metropolitan city by plane or train, she is worried that her shabby appearance will make her lose points in the eyes of the interviewer and fail to apply for the job.Although no one can have setbacks, for Alice, who is new to society, she always hopes that the balance on the good side will always tilt towards her.Thinking of this, although the cyst was shy, she still decided to take a trip to Ferodo City, where the Golden Horn of the Galaxy has the most high-quality and cheap gold jewelry in the entire region.Alice knew that there was a Baghdad Diamond Center in the metropolitan city of the final destination, but the price there was not yet affordable to her, but she hoped that one day it would be.

In the southwest corner of the first floor of the Galaxy Mall in Ferodo City, there are 37 of the best gold shops, often called the "Golden Galaxy Corner".There is an endless stream of gold investors and jewelry wholesalers from several surrounding cities.The cheap and good quality here always allows all levels of gold, a metal that is an eternal symbol of wealth, to find the most suitable price for the quantity they need.

Many tourists who get off the plane, train or car always drag their suitcases to the Golden Horn of the Galaxy for a "visit here" because they have other arrangements in the next few days.Because for many tourists who know that they will only "see but not buy", such a quick tour is enough to feast their eyes on these dazzling sights.

It was a cold winter day, and the monsoon blowing from the Arctic Circle had caused the city to drop at least 20 degrees Fahrenheit in the past week, and such coldness would certainly not reduce the enthusiasm of tourists for the Golden Horn of the Galaxy.As usual, this place is bustling with young and middle-aged people with bags, come here to choose Christmas gifts for yourself or your partner or women and men for important anniversaries, or come here to prepare a few good collections Wholesalers who are going to wholesale to their own cities for sale, as well as those foreign tourists who have just come from the airport, train station or bus station with suitcases of all sizes.

Alice, who just graduated from college, saved some money while doing odd jobs in the past few years. She took the morning bus from Calli, which is more than 100 miles away from Ferodo, and hoped to interview for Thursday, tomorrow. When you are yourself, use a little gold or silver jewelry to add some luxurious luster.Alice plans to take the bus from Carli at 08:30 and arrive at Ferodo around 10:30, take a taxi for more than ten minutes to the Galaxy Mall, and spend about two hours choosing, tangling, listening to the introduction of the shopping guide, bargaining, and closing the deal. Then catch the flight that departs at [-]:[-] pm and fly to the metropolitan city where the interview has been scheduled.

I chose to come here on Wednesday because I hope that there will be little traffic from morning to noon.Alice, who is dragging a large suitcase with her, also looks like tourists who just want to pass by in a hurry.

Alice, dragging her suitcase in the Golden Horn of the Galaxy, wandered aimlessly for a while, looked down at the exquisite jewelry in the glass display case and the prices next to them, and looked around for a while as if trying to find the helper she "came with" Cheer yourself up or act as a "companion" with red and black faces bargaining.However, Alice, who has always liked to be alone, naturally would not have such a companion, and the scene of someone helping her to bargain for the price has never appeared in her life since she was a child. Those are just TV, A scene from a movie or a novelist.

Suddenly, at the edge of the nearly 37-square-foot area where the [-] gold stores are located in the southwest corner of the Galaxy Mall, there was a sharp, hazy "robbery! Get down!", accompanied by more than a dozen smoke bombs exploding.In an instant, the entire Golden Horn of the Galaxy was filled with white mist created by smoke bombs.

No one was injured in the explosion, but it may be that this special smoke bomb contains ingredients that can make people faint quickly. People including Alice gradually fell to the ground in the smoke.At the same time, the dozen or so people who detonated the smoke bombs skillfully lowered all the security doors surrounding the 1000-square-foot "Galaxy Golden Horn" area, forming a space independent of the outside world.

About ten minutes later, more than 100 customers and staff who were stunned by the smoke bombs gradually woke up, and found that their hands were handcuffed behind their backs, but they were sitting on the ground.At this time, more than a dozen women wearing masks and sunglasses stood among them with long and short weapons.The robbers who just did the "masterpieces" of detonating the smoke bombs, closing all the gates, and handcuffing everyone to the ground used a rustling female voice to order all the kidnapped humanely, as long as everyone obeys the order, they can walk out alive this mall.

Being handcuffed in the crowd, Alice, who was sitting on the ground, felt a little strange. The three or four female robbers who spoke just now sounded the same.After a while, she figured it out. It must be that these people have used carefully tuned voice changers to make everyone's voices sound similar.Huh?In that case, are the dozen or so "they" really all women?Thinking of this, Alice's left ring finger couldn't help numb.When she was a child, she especially liked to secretly watch movies or TV shows about masks, face-changing, and disguises. Later, Alice also liked to find novels with these plots to find novels.Unexpectedly, I was in it today.

At this time, the robbers began to coerce the male and female customers and staff kidnapped by "them" into the inner rooms of these gold shops one after another at gunpoint.More than ten minutes later, the two robbers and one kidnapped person who went in just now turned out to be three robbers, a woman wearing sunglasses and a mask.At this time, Alice was poked on the left shoulder by the muzzle of a gun, and the voice under the mask with a little rustle that was hard to notice ordered her to get up and follow them.

Alice, whose legs and shoulders were already numb, got up with difficulty, and followed the two female robbers to the back room of one of the gold shops.The two forced her to take off her clothes, leave all her personal belongings behind, and put on clothes similar to those of the two and the dozen or so accomplices outside, including a round cap, sunglasses, earplugs, and a specially treated plug. After wearing a mask and hat that shut their mouths, and wearing a pair of gloves like theirs, they stuffed a toy gun that looked like the guy they were holding in their hands.When Alice went back outside the gold shop and walked past a large mirror that customers usually try on, she found that she was almost the same as these robbers.She was threatened not to do anything she hadn't been given orders, or the blow-up that was stuffed into her mouth in the mask would blow her head off.

Alice found that her vision behind the sunglasses is very blurry and narrow, and she can't speak because of the mask. The sound insulation effect of the earplugs in her ears is very good, but she can still hear the rustling of the robbers in the earplugs. The female voice commands.Can you see the difference between yourself and the robber?This is probably only known to the robbers themselves, if they have certain marks and reserved characteristics to distinguish them.She couldn't help but think to herself, what are you thinking about?However, if I walk on the street in this outfit and do something, I guess others really don't know who did it.And this idea of ​​wanting to do something masked has been planted in Alice's heart for more than ten years, just waiting for an opportunity to break out of the ground.

Alice, who was dressed as a robber, can now sit on the floor without being handcuffed behind her hands, and she can stand and look around the hall.She saw about 100 or 200 people dressed as robbers like her standing in the hall with weapons, while nearly [-] people were still sitting on the ground.When the smoke bomb exploded, there were nearly [-] people in the gold store group in the southwest corner of the Galaxy Mall. While changing the hijacked customers and staff into their outfits, the robbers made those who looked too different from them : People who were too fat, too thin, too short, or too tall, too old, or too small walked out of the mall unscathed.

At this time, the robbers began their next move.

They handcuffed the remaining 100 abductees in groups of seven or eight, with their left hands handcuffed to their right hands, and their left feet to their right feet.These more than ten groups of hostages connected in pairs were asked to stand in front of the more than ten closed gates.Behind each chained group stood two or three armed robbers.Alice thought, she didn't know how many of these robbers standing among the kidnapped were real robbers and how many were fake robbers.Alice was not assigned to the "robbers" who were guarding the hostages with guns. Instead, she followed the other 4 or [-] robbers into a dark room behind a gold shop according to the instructions from the earbuds with a rustling female voice. , and then walked down the stairs for three or four minutes to the city's sewer network.

The following plot can be finished in a few words: None of the "robbers" left in the hall are their accomplices, but the robbers use earplugs to instruct the customers who are being changed, and remotely instruct those customers through the loudspeaker in the mask. The handcuffed customer slowly opened the door and walked out of the hall.Almost all of the customers who were changed were detained and investigated for several days to confirm their identities.Afterwards, although the police discovered the gold store underground passageway carefully camouflaged by the robbers at noon the next day, after nearly 300 years of continuous expansion, improvement, and repair, the urban sewer network and urban sewer network that were abandoned 100 years ago and The underground rail transit network has long been as incomprehensible as the secret passages in the Egyptian pyramids.

And Alice and the rest of the robbers walked through the abandoned urban drainage network for about half an hour, when the chained and dressed customers who were left in the lobby opened the gates and were about to walk towards the police, They had gone up a staircase to a large room.This house seems to be the temporary base camp of these "female robbers".In the following day, Alice saw the robbers wrapped around her body, as well as the one-ounce, three-ounce, five-ounce, seven-ounce, and eleven-ounce gold bars on the hostages in disguise. take it off.

Alice silently counted. The dresses and trench coats that the robbers asked her to put on had hidden compartments. A total of 11 yuan gold bars, large and small, were placed on her body.When she took it out, she saw that there were three five-ounce pieces, five three-ounce pieces, and three seven-ounce pieces, for a total of 51 ounces.There were a total of 50 people from the gold store to this big house, and she silently calculated that if each person carried more than ten ounces, then this group of robbers should have looted nearly 200 pounds of gold from the gold store this time. !I weigh 110 seven pounds with a six-foot shapely figure, and I really made a fortune watching "them" this time.Hey, what are you thinking about?Will they tear themselves apart?This is probably the most should be considered, right?
In the next two days, Alice was locked in a room alone, and only when eating, would burgers, sandwiches, macaroni, pasta and the like be stuffed through the door hole.This is a room with a bathroom. From this point of view, Alice still feels from the bottom of her heart that these robbers are really thoughtful. After all, if it is convenient for many people to go to the same bathroom, wouldn’t it increase mutual understanding and exposure? risks of?Although this is a bit of a waste of room, judging from the "harvest" of more than 200 pounds of gold this time, it is quite worth it!Thinking of this, Alice felt a little flustered this time: Why do I keep thinking about these things?Shouldn't you think too much about what the robbers will do to you?Torn ticket?Long-term kidnapping?Or... Pull her into the gang?Hey……

About ten hours after Alice was sent to this small separate room, a small notebook was pushed in through the food delivery door.Naturally, the curious Alice would not fail to open the book, and the first time she saw the content in the book, the book slipped from Alice's trembling and stiff hands.

"Name: Alice Venabili.

Date of birth: September 2097, 2120, now (23) [-] years old.

Place of Birth: Carleigh Central Hospital; Nurse Delivered: Mary Iranville

Kindergarten: Nanshan Community Kindergarten in Carley; Primary School (grades 7-9): Greenfield Elementary School in Carley; Middle School (grades 10-12) South Hill Middle School in Carley; University: Carley Comprehensive College.

In 2110, during the parade performance of the 357th anniversary of the founding of the city of Carli, she was almost perfectly dressed as Ms. Firstin Catherine in the preparatory committee more than three centuries ago, and was honored by the then mayor Orlando Williams. award.

What is this for?Threatening yourself not to speak out after the fact?Do you know any information about "them" now?So they really let themselves go?But why?Even if she didn't threaten herself like that, even under interrogation by the police, what could Alice say by herself?Alice began to anxiously wait for her fate...

Alice didn't "wait" for too long. Almost sixty hours after she was stunned by the gold store, she and the robbers came to this place, but it must be within the center of Ferodo Almost two nights later in the big house, two robbers in the same costume opened and closed the door of her room.One of the rustling female voices ordered Alice to dress like the two of them, but this time they handed her a new trench coat.

Under the surveillance of the two robbers who seemed to be bottomless and the two pairs of sunglasses, Alice, who had been sleeping in bed all this time, took off her previous windbreaker, put on a new one, and then put on a mask that made her unable to speak , Plug in the earphones so that I can only hear their orders, and the same pair of bottomless sunglasses as them, and the black round hat.At this time, the two faces that looked almost the same looked at each other, and Alice heard the rustling female voice ordering her to go with them.

Two female robbers "escorted" Alice from the third floor where she lived in this room to the third basement floor, and came to the dark underground world where the criss-crossing sewer network and abandoned rail transit mixed. .The three of them walked around in this maze-like underground pipe network for about four to ten minutes, and Alice heard the order from the rustling female voice to stop.The two robbers used two time locks, about the thickness of two thumbs, to tie Alice's hands to a rusty and moldy water pipe with the chains that tie the iron fence door. Two minutes later, the two female robbers disappeared into the mist tens of meters away from the dimly lit abandoned subway station.

An hour later, the two chronograph locks opened by themselves.Taking off the sunglasses that blurred her vision, Alice found a ladder extending upwards next to the water pipe tied to her.After running hard for a few minutes along the ladder, Alice, who saw the fresh air again, found herself lying on the ground under the night, surrounded by cars parked at the sewer mouth.After climbing out of the well, Alice walked towards what looked like a 24 Vanishing Supermarket about two miles away.Thinking that she was penniless and all her belongings had been left in the back room of the gold shop, Alice subconsciously touched the pocket of the windbreaker, and there were actually two three-ounce gold bars in it, enough for her to eat for the next three or four days. Live cash.

After arriving in the metropolis, Alice successfully passed the interview, got the jewelry she wanted to buy with the help of two gold bars, and rented an apartment in a high-quality community.I don't know why, but I have some strange thoughts in my heart. It's hard to explain whether it's reluctance, curiosity, nostalgia, or something else. Anyway, these thoughts make Alice not willing to throw away the "robber outfit" that has been with her for five or six days. Instead, I hid them in the corner of my closet.

In the step-by-step and nine-to-five days of the company, the young Alice gradually transitioned from excitement at the beginning to positiveness at the beginning, and then to the habitual attitude towards this well-paid job that lacked fun and novelty. Work hard, and then start muddling along from the heart.Alice used to despise her current attitude towards work, but when she thought about it, what kind of surprises could this step-by-step world give her?After that, I "obeyed" my own little inertia, and slacked off little by little.

One day almost three years later, when Alice was taking clothes from the closet, she saw bursts of red light flashing from the earplugs of one of the robbers in the corner.Alice, who subconsciously put on earplugs, heard a repeated rustling female voice:

"November 2123, 11 at 27:11, Metropolitan City, Empire Mall, Baghdad Diamond Center.

November 2123, 11 at 27:11, Metropolitan City, Empire Mall, Baghdad Diamond Center.

At 2123:11 on November 27, 11, Metropolitan City, Empire Mall, Baghdad Diamond Center..."

After repeating these boring words with only time and place fifty times in 10 minutes, the rustling female voice and the red light stopped, as if nothing had happened.But after listening to this, along with the beating of the heart and the unnatural tightening of the waist, Alice's heart began to surge for a long time...

Seventeen days later, Alice put on the long-washed black dress and windbreaker of the robber, put on a black mask that made her unable to speak, and a pair of clothes that made others feel bottomless but she was able to live in the dark. Sunglasses that can be seen clearly in dim light, the pair of earplugs that can hear the rustling female voice, the black round hat and the pair of black gloves.

2123年11月27日11时整，拖着一个黑色26英寸旅行箱的艾莉丝准时出现在了大都会市，帝国商场的巴格达钻石中心。

At 11:23, the long-lost rustling female voice instructed in the earplugs: Start to act!At the same time, the mask that made Alice unable to speak uttered a cry of "robbing! Everyone get down!".The shouting in the earplugs was still a female voice with rustling.

"Woman in black, sunglasses and mask" is still the common name for the robbers in the same type of robbery that has never been cracked for hundreds of years.These people never seem to have a command center or a few core members, and over the centuries new people have been added to join them with each robbery and kidnapping.

(End of this chapter)