34: Chapter 34 Twenty Years Ago, the Robbery of the Gold Shop in Honghai City

Luo Wei looked through the rearview mirror.

He had been keeping an eye on Zheng Feiyang's group behind him.

Surrounded by a stream of traffic waiting for inspection, Zheng Feiyang and his group had no way to drive away and escape.

As for the traitors in the car model, they had a corpse in their car!

Unwilling to wait for death, they decided to take a gamble!

They suddenly threw open the car doors, abandoned the vehicle, and fled!

However, the area was swarming with police!

Law enforcement personnel at the checkpoint had long been prepared for emergencies like people trying to ram through!

A good seven or eight people suddenly poured out of the car and scattered in all directions; they definitely had something to hide!

The traitors didn't get very far before the Law enforcement personnel hiding nearby swarmed out!

Seeing the group of traitors being caught, Zheng Feiyang intended to use the chaos to abandon his car and escape.

But he never expected what happened next.

The moment those traitors were brought under control by the Law enforcement personnel,

Without even waiting for an interrogation, they snitched without hesitation!

"It has nothing to do with us!"

"Young Master Zheng killed the person..."

"Young Master Zheng is right there in that Maserati up ahead..."

Zheng Feiyang, who had just opened his car door, felt his whole body go numb upon hearing the traitors frantically snitching on him.

His entire body instantly slumped into the seat; he knew very well that he was finished.

Through the rearview mirror, Luo Wei saw a despondent Zheng Feiyang being dragged out of the car by Law enforcement personnel.

He wasn't worried at all about Zheng Feiyang mentioning him during the interrogation.

After all, Yellow Hair's death had nothing to do with him.

Luo Wei was in no hurry to retrieve the bad luck talisman.

He let the bad luck talisman remain stuck to Zheng Feiyang's body.

Perhaps thanks to the bad luck talisman, Zheng Feiyang would be sentenced to death!

Putting Zheng Feiyang out of his mind, he smoothly passed through the law enforcement checkpoint.

Luo Wei drove the car quickly toward the Bishui Manor Community.

Next, he had to handle the second piece of intelligence refreshed today.

The Scavenging Old Man whom Gu Nanqiao often gave charity to was actually the mastermind behind a major robbery twenty years ago!

Parking the car near the community, Luo Wei sat inside and looked around, searching for the figure of that Scavenging Old Man from last night.

At the same time, he took out his phone and searched for the major robbery that happened twenty years ago.

There weren't many cases that could be called 'major robberies.'

Luo Wei easily found it: the Honghai City Gold Store Robbery Case from twenty years ago!

Late one night twenty years ago, four masked thugs broke into a gold store. They used axes to kill the security guard and the owner's family, then made off with gold jewelry worth millions!

One must realize that twenty years ago, the price of gold was only around a hundred yuan, yet that group managed to steal several million worth of gold jewelry!

If that gold were valued today, it would easily be worth tens of millions, or even over a hundred million!

Luo Wei felt a bit excited as he continued reading about the case.

There was surveillance twenty years ago, but the image quality was extremely blurry.

Through the surveillance, the police could only determine that the four masked thugs were male.

A week after the robbery, three male corpses were found by the seaside.

The police suspected those three corpses were likely the gold store robbers, and that they were killed due to internal strife over the distribution of the loot.

In short, because the investigative technology twenty years ago was too primitive, the gold store robbery remained unsolved, and the killer was never caught!

Before Luo Wei could finish reading the news about the major robbery, a dilapidated tricycle appeared on the street, loaded with various cardboard boxes and plastic bottles.

A filthy old man was pedaling the tricycle with all his might under the scorching sun.

The old man had a scruffy beard and a face full of wrinkles; he looked like he hadn't enjoyed a single good day in his life.

If it hadn't been for the system's intelligence prompt saying the old man was the mastermind of the major robbery,

Luo Wei would never have associated that Scavenging Old Man with the mastermind of a murderous robbery!

So far, the intelligence provided by the system had never been wrong!

In other words, that old man was indeed the mastermind!

Getting out of the car, Luo Wei followed the Scavenging Old Man from a distance.

He found it hard to understand. The old man had clearly stolen a fortune twenty years ago.

Why was he living like this? Had he been swindled out of his money by a woman, lost it in business, or was he just pretending?

Luo Wei wasn't in a hurry to call and report the old man. He wanted to see where the old man lived and if he could find that batch of gold from twenty years ago!

After some time, the old man pedaled his tricycle to a scrap collection station.

The owner of the station was a good person; not only did he give the old man extra money, but he also gave him a bottle of mineral water.

Afterward, the old man rode his tricycle toward an Urban Village.

He parked the tricycle in front of a single-story house.

He opened the door and went inside, only coming out after quite a while.

Then, he got back on his tricycle to go collect more cardboard boxes and bottles.

If he wasn't mistaken, that single-story house was where the old man lived.

Luo Wei looked around to make sure there were no surveillance cameras before walking forward.

He easily picked the lock, and the moment he pushed the door open, a musty, foul stench hit him!

Luo Wei frowned, took a mask from the system inventory to put on, and then walked into the dim house.

Inside, the house was piled with various dust-covered junk. Old furniture and appliances filled the space to the brim.

There was no kitchen in the house; after all, the old man could find all sorts of food outside to fill his stomach, so there was no need to cook.

Luo Wei successfully found the old man's room, which looked like a dog's den. It was also piled with junk, and the bed was covered with a filthy, tattered quilt.

Who with money would live in a place like this? Even if it was an act, it was too much self-torture!

Nevertheless, Luo Wei still searched for the gold with the mindset of 'just in case.'

He observed carefully and soon found a clue.

Everything else in the room was covered in thick dust and looked like it hadn't been moved in a long time.

However, some of the junk under the bed, though also dusty, showed signs of being moved frequently.

Obviously, there must be something under the bed. To check on those things, the old man naturally had to move the junk aside!

With this suspicion in mind, Luo Wei immediately acted and flipped over the old man's dog-den of a bed.

After kicking away various bottles and cans, his eyes immediately lit up!

The ground under the bed produced a hollow sound.

Luo Wei stomped directly on the hollow spot!

Instantly, the wooden floor cracked, revealing a pit.

Lying quietly in the pit was an old-fashioned safe painted green!

The safe weighed a good two hundred pounds, but Luo Wei easily lifted it out of the pit.

He shook the safe; there were clearly things inside, and quite a lot of them!

The problem was that the safe was locked and wouldn't be easy to open.

Just as Luo Wei was thinking about how to open the safe,

The screech of brakes came from outside.

Clearly, the old man was back!

Luo Wei looked around and saw a wooden beam at the top of the house.

He jumped straight up and easily climbed onto the beam...