Without paying particular attention to the person sitting next to him, Li Lechen only caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye that it was a man in his twenties.

Anyway, he was just a student, the kind of person who was completely inconspicuous, so he tilted his head and continued to catch up on his sleep by the window. He was transferring trains at almost the final stop, so he still had nearly half an hour to sleep.

I dozed off for about a few minutes.

Suddenly, a familiar voice rang in my ears: "Dear master, someone is trying to approach your bag."

"!!!"

Li Lechen suddenly woke up.

Actually, the voice of the smart assistant was very gentle. In fact, because Li Lechen was sleeping, the words it spoke were particularly soft and had a hypnotic effect. The reason why Li Lechen was startled awake was mainly because of this content.

She looked warily at the man sitting next to her.

The man was also taken aback. He didn't expect that the student, who had been sleeping soundly, would suddenly wake up. So he looked up, rolled his eyes, and slowly shifted his gaze to the other side.

"Is it the person next to me who's going to touch my bag?" Li Lechen asked the smart assistant telepathically.

"Yes."

After receiving a positive response from the AI ​​assistant, Li Lechen became even more wary of the man beside him. Essentially, he fell into the category of "pickpocket" as defined by the artificial intelligence.

However, after Li Lechen suddenly woke up, the man's gaze never returned to this side, so Li Lechen naturally couldn't meet his eyes and see anything wrong from his gaze.

A pickpocket, one failed attempt—is that all there is to it? This certainly won't be his first attempt, and it certainly won't be his last. It's said there's a rule in the pickpocketing world: when you go out "hunting," you have to take something with you. If you come away empty-handed, it's considered bad luck, and you'll easily get caught if you try again.

So, knowing that there was a pickpocket next to him, Li Lechen naturally couldn't do nothing.

The "tightening spell" is pointless now; making this guy suffer from headaches and foot pain might even force the bus to stop and take him to the hospital.

However, Li Lechen thought it was worth using the "spiritual cleansing" that had embarrassed Liu Yu last time. He wondered how effective it would be to give a "pickpocket" some inspirational platitudes.

The man next door continued to pretend to look at the scenery on the other side, unaware that the high school boy next to him had secretly used something on himself and was waiting to see what would happen.

The bus arrived at another stop. Not many people got off, but a large group got on.

"Passengers, please move to the inside." The announcement came over the loudspeaker. "Please keep your personal belongings safe and give up your seats to the elderly, pregnant women, and children."

There were indeed several vulnerable groups among those who boarded the bus; at least, a pregnant woman who was about five or six months pregnant did not have a seat at that moment.

Someone was already preparing to offer their seat.

"Sit here with me!"

Suddenly, the man next to Li Lechen stood up and shouted at the pregnant woman who was still some distance away from him.

This shout drew everyone's attention.

The man seemed unconcerned and even waved at the pregnant woman.

Most of the people on the bus gave each other approving looks, some indifferent looks, and most of them expressionless looks, probably thinking that since someone had given up their seat, they would just continue to enjoy the scenery.

The pregnant woman boarded the bus. Although people always offer her a seat when she takes the bus, this was the first time someone had waved to her from afar and offered her a seat like this.

Since the person was so kind, it wouldn't be right to refuse their seat and then ask someone else to give it up. So, with her big belly sticking out, she squeezed and squeezed through the crowded bus aisle until she finally made it to this side.

The man had already stood up, making way for the pregnant woman.

Seeing the pregnant woman sit down, Li Lechen also moved his body over to make more space, since the pregnant woman was heavily pregnant, so it was like having two people.

After the pregnant woman sat down, she was about to look up and thank the man who had given her his seat when she heard him say, "I also gave up my seat to a pregnant woman on the bus yesterday."

"You're really something."

"Then I stole her wallet when she wasn't looking."

"!!!"

The pregnant woman had intended to say "You are such a good person," but before she could even utter the word "good," she heard this sentence and was completely stunned and unable to react.

If she hadn't misheard, this must be a misunderstanding, or perhaps there was more to it. The pregnant woman kept thinking to herself, and meeting the sincere gaze of the man who had offered her his seat, she became increasingly flustered.

In a panic, I instinctively clutched my bag tightly.

“If you’re keeping your bag covered like that, we usually won’t bother with you,” the man continued sincerely. Then, he gestured to a girl standing not far from him and added, “That girl, wearing headphones and watching a show, is someone we could target.”

"!!!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

This time, not only the pregnant woman, but also several other people close to the man, all looked at him in shock.

This wasn't the first time Li Lechen had encountered this situation, and he was already quite clear about the effect of the "spiritual cleanser," which mainly allowed people to express their innermost thoughts directly, giving them a feeling of returning to their true selves.

Wow! So this is what the inner world of a pickpocket is like; it even has a bit of a textbook feel to it.

The man, seemingly oblivious, continued explaining to the pregnant woman, moving forward to demonstrate: "Her bag is slung across her body here. Judging from the size of the bag, she usually doesn't put a wallet inside, but there will be some money. The money is kept in a small pocket, so I usually..."

As he spoke, the man stumbled and bumped into the girl.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!"

Before the girl could say anything after taking off her headphones, the man quickly apologized. At the same time, something flashed in his hand, and the girl's bag was slashed.

The girl, who had been wearing headphones, didn't react much after being bumped into and apologized to, except for a slight frown of displeasure. She prepared to put her headphones back in and continue watching her show. However, several passengers around her widened their eyes once again.

That's right, they listened to the man's explanation first, and then watched him commit the pickpocketing. So that's how pickpocketing on a train is done—it's so fast, you wouldn't notice it unless you were paying attention beforehand.

That's right, the girl whose bag was slashed had no idea.

Are they filming a movie?

Several people had already begun looking around the carriage. Unfortunately, they did not find any security cameras.

Could it be a hidden camera?

There's absolutely no other possibility for this, except for a staged photo shoot arranged in advance!

Although the passengers tried to think of the situation in a positive light, and to imagine the man as an actor, the fact remains that the man spoke again: "I basically do this three to five times a day. When I'm lucky, I can make three to five thousand a day, and when I'm unlucky, I only make a few hundred."

By this point, everyone was no longer shocked and watched the man continue his "acting".

The girl whose bag had been slashed seemed to sense something was wrong. She looked at the man who had bumped into her earlier and was now chattering away, and took off her headphones.