Chapter 22 second quarter

The thief managed to break in through the window.When he entered the room, he was startled.The room was in a mess, as if it had just been patronized by colleagues. What was even more strange was that the air conditioner was turned on on a cold December day.He wanted to turn off the air conditioner, but held back.Although the experience is pitiful, after all, he has also learned that it is best to keep his own business and avoid unnecessary contact. While shivering from the cold, he began to search for belongings in the house.He was a little surprised when a box of adult videos fell on the floor, but it was empty.

He took a step towards the closet, but just stepped on the skateboard, the sole of his foot slipped, his body suddenly lost his balance, and he almost fell down.He grabbed the quilt in the closet and managed to steady himself, but at the same time he tripped over the headphone cable.The trip didn't matter, the headphone cable slipped out of the audio jack, and the roar of a heavy metal band suddenly rang out from the speaker with a power of 100 watts.He screamed in fright, and quickly turned off the sound. Shintaro was watching Midori Hashiba's performance ecstatically, when he suddenly noticed a noise on the second floor, and he came back to his senses in an instant.

What happened? He didn't expect thieves at all, he was only worried about those electrical appliances that were left unattended after opening.There should be no problem, right?He was a little uneasy. Shintaro turned off the TV, walked up to the second floor, and entered Nobuhiko's room again.As soon as I entered the door, I was shaking from the cold, and the room was as cold as a thousand-year-old icehouse. He looked around the room and found nothing unusual.He lifted the remote control of the air conditioner and pressed it again casually. The cold air from the air outlet became stronger and stronger. It turned out that he pressed it into the "strong cooling" mode.

No, no, how did it happen? He was thinking about how to remedy it, when a sound suddenly came from the side.According to the reputation, the video recorder, which had been motionless just now, was powered on and started to run.In fact, it was just the recording program started by the scheduled recording timer, but he panicked for unknown reasons, thinking that it was all due to his messing around earlier, that it would suddenly start to blow up.He desperately pressed the switch, but the video recorder showed no sign of stopping, which made him panic. "Is it broken? Oh, it's bad, it's broken." Faced with the video recorder that refused to stop no matter what, Shintaro was very anxious, thinking that something must be wrong with it.

In the confusion, he suddenly thought of cutting off the power.After finding the plug of the video recorder along the wire, he pulled it out without hesitation, and the video recorder stopped working immediately. "Okay, okay, finally stopped." He tentatively plugged it in again, and the VCR remained still, which relieved him. "The recent machines are really outrageous, all of them are so complicated, I can't figure out whether it is more convenient or more troublesome, and it will break if you touch it casually." Muttering and complaining, Shintaro remembered the Enka special program he had just watched.He directly pressed the power button to turn on the TV, but cartoons were playing on the screen.He wanted to change the channel, but he couldn't find the channel button on the fuselage, so he had to look around in annoyance, looking for the remote control.

Under the bed is something that looks like a remote control, with black square buttons on it.When I took it in my hand, the buttons with numbers printed on them were shining. That's it, you can't go wrong, the button for the channel is also there. He trusted his own judgment.Although the numbers on the buttons were only zero to nine, he had no doubts.He didn't even notice the benevolent word "OUTSIDE" printed on a button, and the small hole above it beeping incessantly.He usually used the main phone in the living room on the first floor, and he never dreamed that it was actually a cordless phone.

I remember it was a channel. Shintaro pressed the button, and after a beep, of course, the TV screen did not change. Am I wrong?If it's not one channel, then it's ten. He was about to press ten, but stopped because there was no such button.He tilted his head wondering. Strange, there should be. But he didn't think deeply, and instead pressed one and zero respectively.The picture remains the same.Just as his heart was burning, a human voice suddenly came from his hand, and the voice came from the "TV remote control" in his hand. "Wow!" Surprised, he threw the thing on the bed.After staring blankly for a while, he left the room as if fleeing, only feeling hairy in his heart.

Not long after Shintaro left, the thief got out from the hanger full of clothes.Just now when he heard someone going upstairs, he hurriedly hid inside, and only slipped out again when the other person walked away.He hurriedly rubbed his whole body with his hands to keep warm.The clothes hanger was directly under the air conditioner, and during the time of hiding, he had blown enough air, and after Shintaro switched to the "strong cooling" mode, he was almost frozen to death. In this state, he didn't know who came in or what he did. He could only hear from Shintaro's soliloquy that it was an old man who came.He thought to himself, if only grandpa is the housekeeper, there is still a lot to do.

Seeing a paper cutter on the table, he picked it up and walked out of the room.Creeping down to the middle of the stairs, he stopped his steps and spied on the movement downstairs.There was no sound of conversation downstairs, and he judged that there should be no one else besides the old man just now. very good. He took a deep breath and walked down the stairs. Shintaro returned to the living room and turned on the forty-inch TV again, but the enka program had already finished.He picked up the remote control and changed the channel casually.Inadvertently, he pressed the input switch button, and the TV screen was switched to the video input mode immediately, but the VCR was not turned on, so the screen became gray.He panicked again when he saw this.

What, what, what, what's wrong?What kind of nerves are all of these people going on? He desperately pressed the button to change the channel, but the picture did not change.He turned off the power and turned it back on again, still the same.In desperation, he had to turn it off first. "Really, what kind of rotten machines are these these days?" Shintaro muttered and sat on the sofa, and then he felt something stuck under his buttocks. He stood up and saw that it was sitting on a video tape, which was the one he brought over. Disc AV.He clapped his hands. Almost forgot about it.Wouldn't it be a waste of work if you can't see this?

After remembering his original intention, he inserted the video tape into the VCR cassette.Unlike when he was in Nobuhiko's room, this time he inhaled the VCR easily.This video tape has already been turned on to prevent accidental deletion. After it is placed in the tape compartment, the new type of video recorder usually directly switches to playback.The video recorder in Shintaro's house also has this function, and it started working quickly. The only thing missing now is the TV, and we have to find a way to get it on. Shintaro was about to pick up the remote control to turn on the TV again when his mouth was suddenly blocked.Just as I was about to struggle, there was an extra paper cutter in front of my eyes. "Here, give me, be quiet!" A male voice threatened, "If you don't want to see Hades, just do as I say, and don't resist. Do you understand?" Shintaro was so shocked that he almost peed his pants.He shook his head and nodded, even if the other party didn't say that he was not allowed to resist, he definitely had no such intention.He is as timid as a mouse by nature, he cherishes life the most, and wants to live a long life.Suddenly encountering such a life-threatening situation, he couldn't help but panic, and it was very difficult to stand up. "Okay, no, don't make a sound, put your hands behind your back." Shintaro complied.After the robber let go of his hand covering his mouth, he didn't cry out for help. His wrists were tied with a handkerchief, and he sat on the sofa as he was, and was ordered not to move around. The robber was about forty, dark and thin, and wore a gray jacket.That face looked like a heinous criminal. The thief is timid.The figure of the old man in front of him was unexpectedly young, and his attitude was very calm.He didn't try to resist at all, but made the thief feel nervous.The thief knew that his appearance was not intimidating, so he couldn't help but think to himself, maybe this old man doesn't take me seriously, right? "Take, take the money out!" The thief pointed a knife at his throat and said. "You can take as much as you want," the old man replied, "please leave quickly." "Where's the money?" "My coat is hanging in the next room, and I have my wallet in it." "Anywhere else?" The old man shook his head. "My son has always advocated that no extra money should be kept at home, but a wallet for living expenses, and the daughter-in-law always carries it with her." The thief wanted to smack his lips in dissatisfaction, but he couldn't make a sound.He was so nervous that his mouth was dry and smoking. The thief found a plain-colored scarf and handbag on the sofa, tied the old man's feet with the scarf, and stuffed the handbag into his mouth.The old man rolled his eyes, whimpered in his throat, and looked like he was dying. The thief walked into the Japanese room next to it.As the old man said, there was a brown coat hanging on the hanger.I searched the inner pocket, and sure enough, I found a black leather wallet.He ignored the coins and only took out the banknotes. There were two 10,000-yuan notes and four 1,000-yuan notes inside.Although I feel uneasy about taking away the old man's pocket money, I have come to this point, and I can't go home empty-handed.He stuffed all the bills into his trouser pocket. Back in the living room, he looked around for something of value, but found nothing.The most expensive one seems to be a forty-inch TV, but I can't carry it away. "No, there is no way. Let's forget it for today." After throwing these words at the old man, the thief left the living room, walked through the corridor, and walked out of the entrance. At this moment, the door suddenly opened. The thief's exclamation choked in his throat.The ones who appeared at the door were clearly the family of three they had seen before, and there were policemen in uniform standing beside them. For about two seconds, the thief confronted them on the spot.No one made a sound, and even their expressions remained unchanged. Then the thief fell to the ground.