Chapter 50: I asked you to pickpocket things, but you picked ours?

The three of them walked forward for a while, and after passing through a long corridor built of wood, they saw three or four people sitting at the end of the corridor. They should be the inspectors that Wei Zichao mentioned.

“Turn off all your cell phones and put them in your bag. Come back and pick them up when the conference is over.”

As soon as the three approached, they were stopped by a middle-aged man in his thirties.

The middle-aged man seemed to know Wei Zichao and said with a smile, “Brother Wei, are you bringing someone new here this year?”

As he spoke, he took out a transparent bag from his side, put the phone that Wei Zichao handed over into the bag, sealed it, and put it aside.

“He’s a friend of Zhifeng’s. I think he has good skills, so I brought him here to see the world.” Wei Zichao explained with a smile.

“Brother Wei, have you explained the rules?”

“I told you on the way.”

“Since Brother Wei has said it, I will not say much.” The middle-aged man said, looking at Su Rui: “You look not much different in age from Zhifeng, it’s not bad for you to see the world. After you go in, talk less, watch more and learn more. Those who came today are all big shots in the thieves’ sect. If you can learn a few tricks from them, you will benefit a lot in your life.”

“Old Zhang, Su Rui is a little young, but his skills are no worse than mine. His techniques are much better than mine.” Wei Zichao said with a smile on his face.

“real or fake?”

Zhang Baochun looked at Su Rui in surprise. Wei Zichao was a veteran in their industry. He was always able to advance to the top eight in every thief selection conference. Among the thieves, there were not many people with higher prestige and skills than Wei Zichao.

Especially in terms of technique, he had personal experience with it. Even though Wei Zichao was much older than him, he was much better than him in terms of technique and eye skills.

But now, Wei Zichao actually said that the young man in front of him was more skilled than him. One can imagine the shock in Zhang Baochun’s heart.

“Why would I lie to you?” Wei Zichao said unhappily.

“If he’s better than Brother Wei, then doesn’t that mean he’s better than me?” Zhang Baochun took a breath.

“Aren’t you just talking nonsense?” Wei Zichao was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.

Zhang Baochun smiled awkwardly, then took the phone from Su Rui and patted Su Rui on the shoulder: “Brother, you are amazing! Even Brother Wei couldn’t help but praise your technique. It seems that even if you can’t make it to the quarterfinals this time, you can still catch the eyes of those big guys.”

Wei Zichao smiled noncommittally: “Who knows! Some big guys will be eager to accept me as their disciple.”

“At his age, he already has such skills. If he has the guidance of an expert, he may become a big boss in the thieves’ sect in a few years.”

Zhang Baochun nodded. Wei Zichao said that it was a bit exaggerated to rush to accept disciples, but it was not a rash thing for a big boss to want to accept a closed disciple because he was excited about the opportunity.

Zhang Baochun winked at Su Rui and said, “Brother Su, congratulations in advance.”

After a few words of greeting, Su Rui followed Wei Zichao inside.

It’s true, from the outside, this Thief God Selection Conference looks very casual, but when you get inside, it’s much more formal, with people standing guard and checking at every corner.

After turning several turns, Su Rui remembered the route he came in and soon arrived at a hall.

The hall was already full of people. Su Rui took a quick look and saw that there were at least forty or fifty people.

Of course, not all of them are here to participate in the Thief God Selection Conference. Many of them are in a similar situation to Ding Zhifeng, and they come to see the world.

“Is everyone here?” There were a few seats in front of the crowd. A man who looked to be in his fifties stood up and pressed his hands. After everyone quieted down, he said:
“Now that everyone is here, let’s get started.”

As soon as he announced it, someone shouted, “Brother Songpeng hasn’t arrived yet.”

The man looked at the person who spoke: “Song Peng? There’s no need to wait for him. That guy was arrested by the Beihai Branch when he went to Beihai to do some work yesterday. He will be sentenced to at least ten years in prison. If we wait for him, we won’t have to hold the Thief God Selection Conference.”

It can be heard that the man was a little angry about Song Peng being arrested.

After hearing this, Su Rui asked curiously, “Senior Wei, Song Peng has been arrested. Aren’t you worried that he will leak the address of our Thief God Selection Conference?”

“You don’t understand this.”

Wei Zichao explained: “No matter who is caught, we are only allowed to tell others about what we have done during the interrogation. We are not allowed to mention anything involving other people, especially anything related to the Thief God Conference. We are not allowed to reveal anything to the police.”

Can this be a deterrent?

Su Rui expressed doubt.

People have been arrested, how could they still be restricted by such rules?

To put it bluntly, if they are really caught, and the police have solid evidence, they will confess as many people as possible, and if they have made significant contributions, they can be given a reduced sentence.

Not to mention the Thief God Selection Conference. If you really tell it, you might have been sentenced to 10 years, but it wouldn’t be a problem to reduce your sentence by three to five years.

Who can resist such temptation?
Most people can’t help it, let alone a group of thieves.

But Wei Zichao’s next words broke Su Rui’s perception of thieves: “Are you thinking that this rule can limit the people who are caught?”

Su Rui looked at the other person in surprise.

“Indeed, this kind of rule is the same as non-existent for those who have been arrested.” Wei Zichao said frankly.

“Then why…”

Before Su Rui could even ask, he saw Wei Zichao’s expression turn cold: “But have you ever thought about what will happen to his family and himself if we fail to catch all of us?”

Su Rui swallowed and said, “Kill…”

Wei Zichao shook his head: “We are thieves, not murderers. We don’t kill people, but stealing is our strong point. How dare he say that he can stop everyone from stealing from him alone?”

After hearing this, Su Rui began to understand why Wei Zichao was so confident.

The group rose up and attacked.

People who work in their field know best the abilities of others in the same field.

If you really offend everyone, the consequences can be imagined.

As the saying goes, you can only catch a thief for a thousand days, but you can’t guard against thieves for a thousand days.

However, this group of people is cruel enough.

Originally, Su Rui felt that it was a bit cruel to catch all these people in one fell swoop, but now, he just wanted to send all of them to jail urgently.

Threatening the arrested accomplices, no normal person would tolerate such a thing.

However, when the man said this, many people at the scene were frightened and stood up immediately: “Old Song was arrested?”

“Ok!”

“Isn’t that guy always very cautious? How did he get caught? And he had always been active in Beijiang District and rarely went to Beihai District. How did he get caught by Beihai Branch?”

“The specific reason has not been found yet, but the fact that he was arrested has been confirmed.”

“He really was caught!”

“That guy is also unlucky. This time, I’m afraid it will take more than 10 years for him to get started. By the time he gets out, most of us will have retired from this business and retired.”

“It’s not just Lao Song who was arrested. Many brothers have been arrested in the past two days. Fortunately, they are all peripheral personnel and don’t know the information about our conference.”

“Senior Zhou, let’s get started. Although it’s relatively safe here, the Ningcheng police have been looking for us these past few days. It’s better to finish it as soon as possible and leave.”

Senior Zhou, that is, Zhou Kaishan, the man who was arrested in Song Peng, nodded to everyone and said, “Let’s get started!”

“This time, the selection process for the Thief God is the same as the previous ones. The competition is divided into two items. The one with the highest total score in the two items will be the new Thief God.”

While Zhou Kaishan was speaking, Ding Zhifeng nudged Su Rui with his elbow and said, “Senior, see, this senior Zhou is called Zhou Kaishan. He has been in this business for more than 40 years and is the thief god of the previous generation.”

“This time, the Thief God Selection Conference will be hosted by Senior Zhou.” Su Rui nodded and asked, “Do you know the two items that Senior Zhou mentioned?”

“Senior, don’t you know?” Ding Zhifeng looked at Su Rui in surprise.

Su Rui said awkwardly: “I didn’t come to Ningcheng to participate in the Thief God Selection Conference. It was only when I met you that night that I learned about this incident in Ningcheng.”

“That’s it!”

Ding Zhifeng didn’t think much about it and explained, “There are two items in this Thief God Selection Competition. One is practical, which is to see who steals more things with higher value, and the points are calculated based on this.

As for the second item, the top eight who passed the first item will compete with each other to see who has better methods and who is most familiar with the skills of the thief. Senior Zhou and others will give their scores. The one with the highest total score in the last two items will be the thief god. “

“Of course, whether it’s the first or the second item, you have to steal it yourself. You can’t use any tricks. Simply put, the method must be recognized by everyone.”

“Otherwise, if you just take something from home and say you stole it, that would be a mess.”

“Of course, most of those who can come here are good at martial arts and would not do such a thing. And even if they did, the second skill would not be hidden.”

Ding Zhifeng talked a lot, covering every detail, explaining the two competitions and some of the rules involved clearly.

“Senior Su Rui, if you can make it to the quarterfinals, or even the semifinals, I will be so proud. In future Thief God Selection Conferences, I can come alone even without Brother Wei to lead me.” Ding Zhifeng smiled slightly.

Su Rui suddenly understood why Ding Zhifeng invited him to participate in the Thief God Selection Conference after meeting him.

This guy also has his own selfish motives.

Su Rui has good grades and a high ranking, so he is respected in this industry and his status is incomparable to before.

This is probably the same principle as recommending people to become officials in the past.

If the person you recommended becomes a high-ranking official, your status as the recommender will naturally rise as well.

In this regard, the robbers still follow some rules from ancient times.

But after learning about the rules of the Thief God Selection Conference, Su Rui had a headache. At first, he didn’t know that the first item was about the value and amount of stolen things, and he didn’t make any preparations before coming.

In this way, he will not be able to participate in the Thief God Selection Conference.

If he can’t participate, he won’t be able to win the trust of the majority of people. It will be too difficult for him to catch everyone by himself.

Su Rui subconsciously touched an old-fashioned mobile phone that he had just obtained from Zhang Baochun, wondering whether he should notify Xia Jie, Li Anmin and others to come over now.

But after thinking about it, Su Rui let go of the phone and stretched out his hand and said, “Everyone who comes here brings something with them?”

“That’s not true.”

Ding Zhifeng explained: “For people like Brother Wei who advance directly to the quarterfinals, there is no need to steal things to prove their strength.”

“For example, if you can make it to the semi-finals this year, you don’t have to participate in the first event next year and can go directly to the quarter-finals. In this way, you only need to compete with others.”

“How do you calculate the score for the first item?”

“The score will be the same as the highest one, but in terms of skills, the person who directly advances to the quarterfinals will have to compete with all the people who advance to the quarterfinals through competition.”

“Moreover, if the person who advances directly to the quarterfinals becomes the new Thief God, everyone else can take the opportunity to challenge him. Whoever wins will become the Thief God.”

Su Rui nodded in his heart. This was fair. No one could go straight into the top eight. As long as one scored a certain number of points in the competition, one could become the God of Thieves.

“Senior, you went out with me yesterday, so you should have gained something, right?” Ding Zhifeng asked.

“Yes, the harvest is not small.” Su Rui said without blushing or beating his heart.

“That’s good. I was worried that Senior had no gains. With your ability, if you can enter the quarterfinals, you may even be able to make it to the semifinals.”

Ding Zhifeng is fully confident in Su Rui’s abilities. In terms of techniques, even Wei Zichao can’t compare to him.

But Su Rui had a headache, so he said, “I’ll go around by myself.”

There is no other way but to focus on the people present.

Su Rui wanted to take a walk, but Ding Zhifeng did not follow him. When he first came to the God-stealing Conference, he was as curious as Su Rui and wandered around everywhere.

While Su Rui was wandering around, the first competition of the Thief God Selection Conference had already begun.

The first person to come forward was a man about the same age as Zhang Baochun. He took out all the things he had brought with him: “I took them last night. Thirty-three people, thirty-four thousand in cash, thirty-three mobile phones, nine gold and silver jewelry, and other things. The total value is probably more than 33.”

After saying that, he looked at everyone and said, “If you brothers have more than me, you can show them to everyone now.”

As soon as he finished speaking, there were exclamations from the audience.

“It’s Fan Kong!!”

“So it’s him! He almost made it to the quarterfinals last time. It was said before that he would definitely make it to the quarterfinals within three to five years. Now it seems that what he said is true!”

“Fan Kong is indeed a real talent. His skills are unmatched by most people. His eyesight is only slightly worse, but his skills are strong enough to make up for the shortcomings of his eyesight.”

Everyone exclaimed.

Even Su Rui, who had just received more than 50,000 yuan in cash, couldn’t help but look up.

More than 17 a night, no wonder these guys can get rich.

Even if you don’t work every night, and don’t get this much income every day, it’s safe to make over a million a month.

However, it also indirectly shows that the other party must have real kung fu skills and is no weaker than Wei Zichao and others. In fact, because of his youth, he may even be stronger.

Moreover, in just a short while, he had already stolen things worth nearly 200,000 yuan from the people present.

It is conceivable how much the people who participated in the Thief God Selection Conference stole in one night.

Next, several more people showed their earnings for one night. Although the values ​​were not small, none of them exceeded Fan Kong’s.

This also made Fan Kong, who was only in his thirties, look radiant.

After all, being able to enter the second competition as the first in the first event is enough to prove his ability. As long as he performs stably in the second competition, perhaps he will be the God of Thieves this time.

“Thank you for your kindness, I’m just lucky.”

“However, if no other brothers step forward, then I, Fan Kong, will take the first place in this competition.”

Fan Kong bowed to everyone.

“and many more!”

Su Rui walked out of the crowd holding a lot of good stuff, and then put them on the table in the middle of the hall: “I also have some things I want to show you. Please help me judge how much these things are worth.”

There weren’t many things, at least compared to what Fan Kong and the others had, the variety was very small.

In addition to cash, there are some gold jewelry.

Su Rui was a guy who only cared about expensive things. He was too lazy to even take his cell phone or something like that because it was too heavy and difficult to hide on his body.

Anyone else?
Everyone was surprised. Although they didn’t think Su Rui’s harvest could exceed Fan Kong’s, they still cast their eyes towards the pile of things on the table.

No one looked at the cash, as they all looked the same, but the amount of cash did surprise everyone for a while.

But when they looked at the pile of gold jewelry, many people below frowned.

These gold jewellery look familiar!
(End of this chapter)