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Chapter 41 The Devil Comes to Maple Street (5)
It wasn't until just now that Yan Su suddenly realized that this was not a password in the first place.The simplest and most common things are tagged with passwords, and they are dissected bluntly. Of course, no correct answer can be found.

But if it's as he guessed, then...he turned his eyes and looked at Zhen Ai quietly, she was watching the registrar fill out the form with great interest...then, she lied to him.

He looked back silently.

The black beauty finished filling in with a brush, raised her eyelids and asked Yan Su, "What about you?"

"Same as her."

Yan Su answered without hesitation, and only after he finished speaking did he realize that the atmosphere was very delicate. She happily took charge of the selection, and he did not express any objection, just like a submissive and obedient husband to his wife.

Oh, he smiled lightly.

On the way back, Zhen Ai was still in a good mood, leaning against the window to draw circles.Yan Shuan's expression was perfectly calm, and there was nothing unusual about it.

Zhen Ai still didn't realize it, she talked easily and happily about where she would go to serve on the date and date, Yan Su listened quietly, and when she paused, said suddenly: "I've already figured out the password."

Zhen Ai exclaimed in a low voice: "So fast?"

Her heart suddenly cheered up.

After waiting for so long, the dawn finally appeared, and I could finally walk along the message left by my brother.It seems that until this moment, her life has a different purpose besides research.

A lot of words came to my lips, I just said: "Thank you, Yan Su."

Yan Su didn't respond.He had thought at the beginning that when the password was unlocked, he would carefully observe Zhen Ai's expression, joy, excitement, admiration...

But at this moment, he stubbornly looked forward, and bent his lips, "I didn't expect this password to be so simple. Or, it can't be called a password."

He narrowed his pupils slightly, and glanced at Zhen Ai through the rearview mirror.

Zhen Ai smiled embarrassedly: "My brother said, as long as I read more books, I will be able to solve it. But I have read a lot of books, but I still don't understand."

After listening to Yan Su, he was even more sure that his answer was correct.

He also smiled: "Did your brother tell you other things?" After finishing speaking, he glanced at her again.

Zhen Ai sensed something was wrong.From just now, his words seemed hesitant to speak.But the Yan Su she knew was not like this.

Seeing her stiff body, Yan Su felt a thorn in her heart, and withdrew her smile: "What you gave me is not all of it, is it?"

Zhen Ai shook, she should have expected that he would see it.

She suddenly remembered what her brother said: as long as you read more books, you will be able to solve it yourself.But if you can't untie it and ask someone for help, the person who helped you decrypt it said it was very simple, suspecting that this is not all, then it is very likely that he successfully unlocked the first step.You then use the method I taught you to continue with the following steps.If you trust him, decrypt it with him; if you don't trust him, I still believe you can unlock the rest of the code.

Zhen Ai's heart skipped a beat, she was smart in words, since he could see the password, how could he not see her intention?

"Your brother is very smart. He said, this is a cipher, and the answer is the location. He misled all the experts to use professional decryption methods to analyze it, and went further and further. At the same time, he also concealed the fact that unlocking the cipher requires More than one step."

Zhen Ai's face paled when she heard his words.Yan Su was right, this was the tacit understanding between her and her brother.

"The dozens of addresses directly analyzed based on this password are all fake. The correct answer of the first step is not the location. But as long as the result of the first step comes out, you can solve it." The scenery outside the window was in his There is no emotion in his eyes, "I want to know, if I tell you the result of the first step, what will you do next? According to your original plan, tell me that the password cannot be solved, and then To deal with it secretly?"

Zhen Ai didn't expect him to see through everything, she was embarrassed and ashamed, she didn't dare to look at him, looked outside, and whispered: "I'm sorry, I kept you a secret."

Yan Su said calmly: "It doesn't matter, it's a very important secret to you. You are very careful, so you should have reservations and concealment."

He was so understanding for the first time.

Zhen Xin's heart felt cold, and she looked at him anxiously, he seemed generous, but there was no warmth in his eyes.

Zhen Ai knew that if she told the truth from the beginning, Yan Su would definitely help her.

But she said that she would tell him everything, and then secretly concealed part of it.

She lowered her head: "If you want to blame me, just say it."

Yan Su was very calm: "I don't want to say."

"why?"

"Be careful what you say."

Zhen Ai instantly felt as if she was standing barefoot in the ice and snow on a cold day. She looked at the lush green roadside, and her heart was as desolate as winter.She couldn't sit still any longer, and saw that she was about to turn a corner ahead, she hurriedly said, "Let's stop at the bank ahead, I have to do something."

Yan Su parked the car on the side of the road, Zhen Ai unfastened her seat belt, and said in a low voice, "Go first, I'll take a taxi later."

Yan Su turned to look at her: "I'll wait for you."

"No need." Zhen Ai tried her best to smile, wanting to get out of the car wholeheartedly, but the seat belt buckle seemed to be against her, and she couldn't untie it no matter what.Anxious and ashamed, she blushed, clenched her fist impertinently, and slammed the buckle hard.

The very familiar white palm stretched out and brushed the back of her hand, which was slightly cool.He bullied himself, and with a move of his finger, the seat belt popped out.

She looked at his profile, handsome, indifferent, expressionless; she felt more and more ashamed.Before he could sit down, she pushed open the car door and fled out like flying.

Yan Su raised his eyes, looked at her little figure running away on the street full of maple trees, and frowned.The body is full of unspeakable annoyance and frustration.It's clearly a trivial matter, why does he care so much about it?
Intellectually, he was well aware of her cautious and vigilant personality, as well as her natural restlessness and suspicion.But emotionally, he was still inexplicably angry at why he couldn't gain her trust, unreserved trust.

He didn't understand, and he didn't know how to express it.

Emotion, heh, it's ridiculous, when will he think about the problem emotionally?
But now, she is also sensitive, and runs away with guilt and shame.

This was not the result he wanted.

He was inexplicably irritable and restless, his chest beating with unexpressed sullenness, and he raised his hand and punched hard on the steering wheel.After smashing it, he was stunned, why was he angry?

Punch down and hit the headlights.He followed the faint light and looked over, and the street sign read Maple Street Maple Street brilliantly.The place where Zhen Ai disappeared was the bank at 13 Maple Street.

This address is so familiar, brother Zhen Ai's password, among the dozens of wrong addresses that were solved, this is one.

An inexplicable sense of foreboding rose in Yan Su's heart. The moment he pushed the door and got off the car, six piercing gunshots shot through the dense maple forest on the street, and flocks of birds spread their wings and flew straight into the blue sky.

A second later, the siren blared, and in an instant there was another gunshot, and the screams and screams broke the tranquility of the street.The people at the gate of the bank fled in all directions like crazy.

Yan Su's heart sank severely.

The fallen leaves rustled in the maple forest, and the birds flew wildly in flocks. He ran towards the bank like a gust of wind, and the windbreaker pulled out a black flower among the fallen leaves and birds.

Zhen Ai ran into the bank in a daze, her mood dropped to the bottom.

That's what she planned at the beginning, and when Yan Su unlocked the first step, she would use the key that her brother gave her to complete the remaining steps.At first, she really didn't trust anyone but herself.

Now, she trusted him, but she was reluctant to involve him.

He is so smart that he can see her thoughts and intentions clearly.He must be angry.

She could imagine that if he hadn't followed the precept of "be cautious in words and deeds", he would have sullenly declared arrogantly and seriously: "Miss Zhen Ai, you have lost my friendship since then."

She stopped in her tracks, imagining his face and tone in her mind. She was clearly depressed, but wanted to laugh.

He will definitely wait for her outside, let's finish things quickly and go back and make up.

At 11 am, there are many people in the bank.Zhen Ai registered her name at the front desk, and glanced at the waiter's register, which was divided into several categories. Zhen Ai came to handle the personal password safe business, and there were more than a dozen people in front of her.The personal code safe business is a complicated process, and it takes an average of ten minutes per person. She estimates that it will take until the afternoon.

Well, why don't you invite Yan Su to eat now.

Invite him to eat delicious food, he will not be angry!

But before she could turn around, she noticed a change in the air around her.

got windy.

Something faster than the speed of sound swished past her ear, and almost at the same moment, a deafening gunshot exploded beside her eardrum.

Everything seemed to happen in a thousandth of a second, everyone screamed, and banknotes flew over the counter.

A man's arrogant and sloppy command echoed throughout the bank: "On Your Knees! (All kneel down!)" All the customers in the hall relied on their instincts, and instantly knelt down on the ground, trembling with their heads in their hands.

Zhen Ai's first reaction was to turn around.

Against the light, the man with wide arms and narrow waist was wearing a gray T-shirt and wide-leg trousers, with his left hand casually in his trouser pocket, and his right hand holding a submachine gun, pointing straight in the direction of Zhen Ai, as if aiming at Zhen Ai. Like her.

There was only a short distance of two to three meters between the two of them, Zhen Ai stared at the black muzzle of the gun, her whole body stiffened.

The man has a clean and handsome face, holding a gun, standing vigorously like a statue.The clothes are very thin, wrapped around the muscular and smooth body, tall and straight with a sporty beauty, it can even be described as sexy.

Zhen Ai remained motionless, and now it was too late to squat down, instead she would trigger the reaction of the gunman because of her movements.

But she was surprisingly not afraid, and a thought flashed in her mind: Because she didn't carry a gun with Yan Su; but she was vigilant by nature, and she carried a neurotoxin test tube needle. As long as she had a chance to touch this person in front of her, she You can kill him with one blow.

If he was just grabbing money, she would stand by.After all, it was easy to kill with poison, but there were a lot of troubles afterwards; but if he wanted to kill, she couldn't ignore it.

Still thinking, the sun behind the man flickered.The bank guard in the foyer pulled out his pistol from his holster, aimed at the back of the intruder, and at the same time made a gesture of squatting to avoid Zhen Ai.

Zhen Ai's heart suddenly hung in her throat, ready to fall down at any moment.

But with a gunshot, it was the guard who drew the gun who fell down.It was another guard who fired.

One of the two was an accomplice of the robber!

Two prisoners appeared, and Zhen Ai's plan fell through before it could be formed.

The guard was shot in the right chest, and the blood stained the ground instantly. He grinned in pain, and lay on the ground twitching.Seeing this, the people kneeling on the ground with their heads in their arms were even more frightened and dared not move. Several young women sobbed uncontrollably.

The man in the middle of the hall remained motionless with an extremely indifferent expression. He glanced at Zhen Ai and suddenly raised his gun and fired into the sky.The huge chandelier near the door was interrupted and slid straight down.Thousands of tiny pieces of glass fell to the ground, smashed to the ground with deafening bangs, leaving only powder and skeletons, and blocked the glass door in a messy manner.

Zhen Ai retreated reflexively, but the glass fragments were obviously faster than her.

Several pieces of broken glass slashed across her body, and one piece even grazed her cheekbone, causing a knife-like pain on her face.She stepped on a piece of glass and fell to the ground, and a few more pieces of glass pierced into the palm of her arm, the pain was as if she had been stabbed with countless needles.

She was trembling with pain, but she gritted her teeth without making a sound.

The moment the gunshots subsided, sirens suddenly blared in the empty hall, and red lights flashed—a bank employee pressed the alarm.

"Fuck!"

Zhen Ai heard a squatting customer next to him curse and stand up, she was shocked, just about to get up to pull him, but she didn't expect that man in his early twenties to turn around and shout at the gangster wearing a guard uniform: " Arch!"

The fake guard called Arch opened the desk drawer with a clatter, shouted "Jack" and threw two guns over.The voice was rough and unrestrained, like a bank robbery was a joke.

There is actually an accomplice among the customers!
Zhen Ai raised her head and watched helplessly as two guns flew over her head and landed in the hands of that young man named Jack.

Jack skillfully pinned the pistol on his waist with one hand, grabbed the sniper rifle with the other and aimed at the red siren on the wall opposite the bank counter, the bullet flew out with a "snap", and the siren shattered into powder.

Zhen Ai looked at it in surprise, her heart sank.

At a distance of about 30 meters, the radius of the siren was less than 4 centimeters. This man was very accurate with marksmanship.

No, something is wrong.

Smash the siren and the world is quiet.

Jack ran up and jumped in two or three steps, and jumped onto the counter with ease. His feet were shoulder-width apart, and he stood firmly in front of the broken and open window. A teller said word by word:

"Who the hell sounded the siren?"

This sentence silenced the whole bank, and the sobbing female customers all turned pale, looking at the hell Shura standing tall on the counter in horror.

The words are plain, but they are reminding everyone that he is going to kill someone.

The clerks at the counter were scared out of their wits and no one dared to admit it.

Jack smiled: "I'll kill you all if you don't admit it." He raised his gun as he spoke.There was a terrified scream and a rustle of ducking across the counter, while on this side everyone was covering their ears in agony.

Zhen Ai's heart suddenly throbbed in pain, for the next stranger who might die in front of her.

But the moment he raised the gun, a trembling and tenacious female voice suddenly came: "I pressed it..." Before the words finished, three gunshots fired in succession.

Blood splashed on the glass of the counter, like blooming red plums.

"Rachel! Oh my God! No!" The colleague of the deceased cried bitterly in a low voice, but he didn't dare to let it out, the crying sound was suppressed like a ghost.

The hostages outside were completely silent, and they all closed their eyes in silence, and a string of crystal clear teardrops fell down.That is when people with compassion and conscience shed tears for the good and evil of the same kind.

Zhen Ai stared fixedly at the blood drop on the glass, her eyes turned red in an instant.

Why is human life so fragile?Why do people kill their own kind?The grief and pain surging in her chest was like a volcano before it erupted, overwhelming her.She clenched her hands tightly into fists, and her fingers seemed to be pinched into the flesh, but she couldn't feel any pain.

She wanted to kill them, kill them.She just knows how to control violence with violence.

Ventilation fans are on in the bank, smash the test tube needles on the ground, let them all die!All to die!

But damn it, there are so many innocent people here.

Unmoved, Jack took the big bag from Arch and threw it over the counter, shaking the gun in his hand at the people inside, "You guys, hurry up and put all the money in!"

At this time, the siren sounded again through the sky——from outside the bank.

Zhen Ai immediately turned around.The entrance of the bank was surrounded by riot police in an instant, each with their guns aimed at the inside of the bank, waiting for orders from their superiors.

Zhen Ai was stunned, it's impossible!

The series of things that happened in the bank just now did not exceed 50 seconds at most.Where did so many riot police parachute from in such a short period of time?
The glass door of the bank is empty, blocked by a huge broken chandelier shelf.The man with the submachine gun just now has disappeared.Zhen Ai looked around and found that he had calmly ordered the hostages to tie ropes to each other and form a large circle along the hall.

He was using the hostages as a cover to prevent the police outside from shooting.

Compared to his calmness, the other two panicked.

Arch followed him to drive away the hostages, and asked, "King, why did the police come so early?"

The leader known as King didn't respond at all.

Jack was the youngest of the three, young and energetic, and scolded: "It's getting more and more difficult every time. Recently, these dogs are coming faster and faster."

Zhen Ai once again realized something was wrong, this robbery was wrong.

Just as he was thinking, King suddenly pointed a gun at her, his eyes were very empty, without any emotion.Zhen Ai felt that this person was too weird, and immediately a girl came over and tied Zhen Ai's hands with a rope.

(End of this chapter)