78: Pickpocket: I've seen a ghost in broad daylight! Boss Yang's liver tingled; he had a bad feeling.

[The Streamer made a move? What does that mean? Did the Streamer just make a move? But I didn't see anything...]

[Hahahaha, the Streamer is full of golden phrases. Even if I don't know what they mean, they sound impressive.]

[If I'm not mistaken, the Streamer means he made a move just now and put the wallets back!]

[Hiss! No way, how is that possible!]

The Streamer just brushed past these people. How could he have had the time to take back three wallets at once?]

[Yeah, if that's true, it's too exaggerated. The wallets were back in the blink of an eye?]

...The fans in the live broadcast room were all expressing their confusion at this moment.

Because the time Xu Lu spent interacting with those two groups of people was too short, so short that everyone didn't believe he had the time to retrieve the wallets, and three of them at that!

But if Xu Lu hadn't retrieved the wallets, the audience couldn't think of any other reason, because the possibility of the thieves actively putting the wallets back was even lower!

Compared to the fans' bewilderment, Xu Lu himself was quite happy.

He had just seized another opportunity to show off. Although the fans couldn't see his technique clearly, it didn't matter.

Because the '1/3' next to 'Thievery Mastery' on the attribute panel had already changed to '2/3'.

This meant that his 'returning the favor' operation against the Pickpockets just now counted as a valid use of a skill.

As for the first time he used the 'Thievery Mastery' skill, it was, of course, when he peeled eggs on the set of a world without thieves... In an alley unseen by Xu Lu and the live broadcast audience.

The several Pickpockets who had just committed the theft were now stopped, preparing to check their haul and deal with the stolen goods.

Because the theft process had been quite smooth, the Pickpockets were currently chatting and laughing.

But the next moment, the tall, thin Pickpocket among them felt like he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Because he found his satchel to be empty; the thick wallet he had just deftly removed from a 'fat sheep's' pocket had now vanished without a trace.

His companion saw his expression and casually asked:

"Lao Dang, what are you doing, stunned? Hurry up and take the money out of the wallet, and throw the bag away!"

"It's gone! The wallet is gone!"

The tall, thin Pickpocket, who had come back to his senses after being called by his companion, now had a ghost-like expression and murmured,

"What do you mean, the wallet... huh, where's the bag I got? Why is it gone!"

The woman in red, who was about to interject, was also rummaging through her bag with a shocked expression.

But she turned her bag inside out, and the wallet she had snatched from someone else's bag not long ago was nowhere to be found.

Soon, the other two thieves also discovered the anomaly; the wallets they had obtained had also mysteriously disappeared... Just as the Pickpockets were bewildered and somewhat paranoid, a loud shout rang out from behind them:

"Police! Nobody move, hands on your head, face the wall!"

As soon as the words fell, before the thieves could react and try to escape, several plainclothes anti-Pickpocket officers appeared as if from the sky.

Soon, all four Pickpockets in the gang were apprehended.

But what surprised the plainclothes officers was that no stolen goods were found on these Pickpockets!

The plainclothes police officer leading the team sneered and said,

"You guys are good, the speed at which you transfer stolen goods is too fast. Speak! Where did you hide all the stolen goods?"

"Officer, if I say we're not thieves, would you believe me?"

One of the thieves said, clinging to a sliver of hope.

The officer continued to sneer, saying,

"I advise you not to cling to these futile fantasies. We've been watching you for days, and we've long seen your acts of theft on surveillance.

Now, honestly point out the location of the stolen goods, and everyone will have an easier time!"

Hearing this, the thieves all hung their heads in dejection. The one who had spoken earlier said gloomily,

"Then, Officer, if I say we didn't Pickpocket any wallets today, would you believe us?"

Hearing this, the officer was shocked and said,

"Ho! I didn't expect you to be so stubborn. You're still talking tough at a time like this. Do you think the surveillance we saw was fake?

Just ten minutes ago, all four of you committed acts of pickpocketing against a group of tourists coming out of the station. The evidence is conclusive."

"But officer, we really didn't Pickpocket any wallets. If you don't believe us, you can search us... We didn't even have time to hide the stolen goods. Today, we really failed. Can we talk about yesterday's crime?"

The Pickpockets said with terrified expressions.

Several plainclothes officers exchanged glances and laughed:

"I didn't expect to encounter such a challenging case, haha, this is interesting now. Let's take them back and interrogate them properly!"

"Officer, we're not challenging at all, please, we really didn't succeed!

Oh no, or rather, we succeeded at first, but when we got back here, the wallets we picked somehow mysteriously disappeared!"

One of the Pickpockets shouted loudly.

Unfortunately, their words sounded like sophistry to the plainclothes officers, and soon, all four were taken back.

But half an hour later, several plainclothes officers were also a bit dumbfounded.

Because no matter how they questioned them, the Pickpockets insisted that they hadn't picked any wallets today.

Logically speaking, for these Pickpockets, since they were caught and there was surveillance, there was no need to hide such a thing, and it couldn't be hidden anyway.

But the fact was, several Pickpockets all stated that they had indeed felt wallets on the 'fat sheep' earlier, but upon returning to check, the wallets had vanished without a trace.

"Could we have missed some important detail?"

The experienced plainclothes police officer pondered.

Because based on his analysis of the Pickpockets' expressions, he found that these people were actually not lying.

"Watch the surveillance again!"

The plainclothes officer leading the team said. Soon, everyone saw the process of the four Pickpockets committing their crimes separately again.

Originally, the surveillance video would have ended here, because the Pickpockets had succeeded and were about to leave.

Only this time, the plainclothes police officer leading the team spoke up:

"Don't stop, keep watching! Here, here, what is the identity of this young man?"

"Captain, you're not suspecting that this young man pickpocketed the wallets again, are you? That's impossible!"

A plainclothes officer asked doubtfully.

The plainclothes officer leading the team, however, said with a solemn expression,

"Rewind the time a bit. Look here, this young man has been following this group of people. Huh, is he live streaming?"

At this point, the plainclothes officer leading the team was also a bit stunned.

But soon, he saw an even stranger scene and said,

"Pay attention, look where this young man went after passing through this group of people? He didn't go anywhere, he just circled back behind these victims!"

"But what does that prove? Captain, we've slowed the video down to its slowest, and the four guys' acts of theft are clear at a glance, but we still haven't seen anything useful about the young man!"

"No problem, first find out this young man's identity, and we'll proactively approach him!"

...Boss Yang, who was working, felt her heart tremble, suddenly sensing that something bad was about to happen!