Chapter 4 Safe House

Cui Jian, with gauze wrapped around his head and wearing a hospital gown, sat leaning back on the hospital bed. He listened to the attending doctor's introduction to his injuries with a polite smile and answered some of the doctor's questions perfunctorily.

After sending the attending doctor away, Cui Jian put away his smile and stared at the sunlight outside the window in a daze, sorting out two memories in his mind. It didn't take him much time to sort out the memories of this year clearly.

Reaching out to turn off the IV drip and pull out the needle, Cui Jian got out of bed. He opened the closet corresponding to his bed and took out his own clothes to change into. His wallet, cell phone, and bank card were all inside.

A big brother in the same ward asked, "Brother, where are you going?"

"Go eat." Cui Jian replied with a smile and left the ward.

I passed a nurse in the corridor, took the mask from the nurse's pocket and put it on, walked to the nurse's station, stopped to look at the layout map for a while, and then took the elevator to the twelfth floor.

The 12th floor was mostly occupied by elderly patients. Cui Jian looked inside each ward he passed and finally walked into the third ward. There were three patients in the ward, one was absent and two were sleeping. In order to take care of the elderly patients, a wired telephone was placed on their bedside table.

Cui Jian took out two tissues, held the receiver with one hand, and dialed a number with the other hand through the tissues. After waiting for a while, the other side heard an electronic voice and reported a string of numbers. Cui Jian listened to the numbers again, memorized them in his mind, hung up the phone, picked up a male patient's cowboy hat and put it on his head. After leaving, he wiped the door handle with a tissue.

After leaving the hospital, Cui Jian walked a few dozen meters into a convenience store, asked for a pack of cigarettes, a lighter and a paper administrative map of Hancheng. He gave the only 5,000 won in his wallet to the owner and asked the owner for the location of the nearby ATM.

Arriving at the ATM, Cui Jian chose to withdraw money without a card. He first entered an account number and then a password, but the interface showed that the account number or password was wrong. Cui Jian went over it in his mind and repeated the above steps, but it still showed that the account number or password was wrong.

Cui Jian left the ATM and went into the nearby men's restroom, where he pulled out a paper map and placed the tobacco on each dot according to the numbers given in the phone number. Finally, he scratched a spot on the map with his fingernail.

Cui Jian searched all his pockets but couldn't find a single coin, so he just went out for a stroll. After walking around the street for a while, he found his target: a primary school student who was treating two classmates to spicy noodles at a convenience store.

As a primary school student, you should not bring money to school, because it is easy to be targeted by bad people. What kind of parents do not even have this common sense? I should provide social education for parents and students for free.

Why did he target elementary school students? Because most adults use credit cards and mobile phones to pay. There are also many people who use cash, but after all, this is in the hospital circle, and the target is likely to be the patient's family. Cui Jian would not do such a wicked thing unless it was absolutely necessary. Besides, Cui Jian only needed a little change, so there was no need to make a big fuss. Imagine if someone would rob a bank just because they needed to take the bus?

Cui Jian bought a subway ticket for 1,500 yuan and it took more than half an hour to reach his destination. He got off the subway station.

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This is an old self-built residential area with many narrow alleys. However, because there are many residents, there are various shops in the alleys, most of which are small businesses run by the landlords themselves.

Entering the alley from the street, Cui Jian slowed down his pace and looked around as he walked. This community is very large, like a maze, with no green belts and no property security. One of the 5-meter-wide alleys is the commercial street inside this community. There are mainly restaurants for breakfast and supper, as well as electrical appliances, furniture repair and recycling shops. There are many people on the street. Cui Jian walked from the beginning to the end of the street but did not find the store he liked. He could only go into the alley again and began to search regularly. Finally, he saw a mobile phone and computer repair shop called Quanneng.

The repair shop is a corner store with four rolling shutters, only the two on the east side are open. Cabinets filled with mobile phones block most of the doors, leaving only an 80-centimeter entrance to the store. Inside the store, a man with messy hair and stubble is checking the circuit of a disassembled mobile phone in front of him with a multimeter.

The man with a scruffy face was about 30 years old. Unlike his messy hair, his hands and body were clean, and his clothes were neatly dressed.

The man saw Cui Jian immediately, and he stared at Cui Jian's every move without hiding his gaze. Cui Jian walked around while keeping his eyes on the man in a very impolite manner.

Cui Jian walked into the store from the entrance, looked away from the man and looked inside the store. The store was very clean, with no dust on the countertops and no garbage on the floor. There were two rows of shelves against the wall, with second-hand computers and monitors on them.

The man said nothing and let Cui Jiandong knock and touch him.

Cui Jian walked around to the counter, looked at the second-hand mobile phones on the counter, and asked, "Where is the door?"

The man asked casually, "What door?"

Cui Jian looked at the man: "The Gate of Hell."

The man was silent for a few seconds, then raised his left thumb to the side. Cui Jian followed the direction of his thumb and entered the self-built house through the back door. As the store occupied a large area, there was only one staircase. Cui Jian went upstairs and walked halfway up the stairs. There was a "click" sound from the ceiling. Cui Jian took two steps back, a piece of the ceiling was moved away, and an electric attic ladder was slowly lowered.

At the same time, the man reached out and tapped a few times on the keyboard in front of him, and the shutter door fell, and the lights in the room came on. He picked up the cane beside him, limped to the shelf with the help of the cane, took a box from the shelf drawer and returned to his seat.

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There is a world in the attic, about 50 square meters of space, clean and spotless. At first glance, there is nothing inside except a table and a chair.

As there was only one dim light, Cui Jian did not dare to walk around. He looked around for a while, then reached out and pressed a button. A mechanism appeared on the white wall, and a wall the size of a poker card moved outwards and then to the other side, revealing a liquid crystal display.

Cui Jian approached the monitor, which scanned Cui Jian's retina and asked him to blink and open his mouth. After completing the authentication, the fluorescent lights on the attic ceiling all lit up, and the cabinets attached to the walls turned over, revealing a variety of neatly arranged firearms and special equipment.

At the same time, a monitor was raised on the middle table. Cui Jian walked over and sat opposite the monitor, raising his hand: "Hi, housekeeper."

(End of this chapter)