It was already 12 noon after the movie ended. Before Bai Mo could escape, he was stopped by Teng Jie, who warmly invited the two of them to have dinner together in the mall.
When the idol writer invited him to dinner, Yang Lu immediately agreed.
In desperation, Bai Mo could only nod in agreement. He felt that he could not escape the money for this meal. He just hoped that Lu Wan and Teng Jie would not make things difficult for him later.
The four of them walked out of the cinema and walked towards the escalator. At noon, the flow of people in the mall increased a lot. Even on weekdays, there were more people than some small shopping malls on holidays.
The escalator was full of people. Teng Jie and Lu Wan were in the front, and Bai Mo and Yang Lu were in the back.
"Borrow it!" A young boy's voice came from behind.
Bai Mo looked back and saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy walking up, squeezing others. His expression was tense, as if he was really in a hurry.
Coming to Yang Lu and Bai Mo, Bai Mo moved towards Yang Lu, leaving room for the boy to pass.
However, the boy squeezed past Yang Lu, which made Bai Mo feel quite disgusted. He felt that the boy was deliberately squeezing Yang Lu.
However, since the boy was young and Yang Lu didn't react at all, Bai Mo remained silent.
The four of them arrived at the eighth floor. It was lunch time. The eighth floor was the dining floor of the shopping mall. The entrances of every store were filled with diners waiting to eat.
Lu Wan stopped and glanced at Bai Mo, then smiled disdainfully, "You're going out on a date with a girl. Don't you know you should have reserved a table for dinner in advance?"
Come on, come on, Lu Wan's revenge is coming! Unexpectedly, Lu Wan's way of revenge was to ridicule Bai Mo.
Yang Lu, who had always been unhelpful, finally helped Bai Mo this time. She explained: "We decided to come to the mall on the spur of the moment, so we didn't make a reservation."
Seeing Yang Lu speak, Lu Wan naturally would not continue to ridicule Bai Mo. She smiled at Yang Lu and said, "Let's go! Your brother-in-law has already made a reservation for a Western restaurant last night."
The name of the western restaurant is Green Dream Pavilion. The door is full of diners waiting for a table. The four of them squeeze through the crowd and enter the lobby. The waiter leads them to the seat reserved by Teng Jie.
Seeing that Teng Jie had booked a table for four, Bai Mo asked curiously after sitting down: "Brother-in-law, you and my sister are out for dinner, why did you book a table for four?"
Teng Jie smiled and said, "Just in case! If I meet someone I know and want to eat together, wouldn't I have to change places? So I'm used to booking a few more places."
Bai Mo was about to flatter Teng Jie when Yang Lu suddenly said excitedly: "I seem to have lost my phone!"
The three of them looked at Yang Lu, who was rummaging in his satchel in a panic.
Yang Lu wore a white shirt on the upper body and a skirt on the lower body. There were no pockets on the body. All the painting tools were placed in Bai Mo's car. He only had a small shoulder bag with him.
Suddenly, Yang Lu was stunned for a moment. She turned her satchel sideways towards the three of them, and there was a half-finger-long hole on the side.
Lu Wan took the satchel over and frowned, "The hole was newly opened. Your phone was stolen. He is a professional pickpocket."
After saying this, Lu Wan looked at Bai Mo, "Do you remember that when we were going up the escalator, there was a little boy walking up?"
"Remember!" Bai Mo nodded immediately, "When he passed by us, I clearly made room for him, but he squeezed past Yang Lu."
"It's probably him." Lu Wan stood up directly, "Let's go! Go to the surveillance room of the mall."
When a policeman meets a thief, it's like a cat meets a mouse. How can he walk away?
Lu Wan's interest was piqued by this little thief, and regardless of other people's reactions, Lu Wan walked directly to the door.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk!" Teng Jie also stood up. He was not unhappy because Lu Wan left directly. On the contrary, he looked very interested, "I'm afraid Lu Wan was offended by stealing something in front of two detectives. "
The group of people arrived at the mall's control room. When the security guards saw Lu Wan's ID, they immediately gave him a green channel.
As the most luxurious shopping mall in Meihai City, the internal surveillance is naturally unmatched by other shopping malls. Not only are there many surveillance cameras, but the images are particularly clear.
Lu Wan found the surveillance footage of them going up the escalator. The surveillance camera was facing the escalator, and everyone on the escalator could be clearly seen.
It's a pity that there were too many people on the escalator just now, and Yang Lu's body and bag were blocked by Lu Wan in front.
When the boy passed by Yang Lu, he made a very obvious bowing and bending motion. After squeezing to the front, one of his hands was already in his trouser pocket.
"That's him." Lu Wan did time pickpocketing when she first joined the police force. She was very familiar with pickpocket techniques. "When he went up the escalator, his hands were outside, but after passing Yang Lu, one hand was always in his pocket. It must be He stole Yang Lu’s cell phone.”
"What should we do? Call the police?" Yang Lu immediately regretted asking this question. It was really a slap in the face to say that he called the police in front of two people from the city's criminal police team.
Lu Wan didn't say a word. She kept switching surveillance cameras to track the boy's whereabouts. Finally, she discovered that the boy had stolen Yang Lu's cell phone and went to the first floor from another escalator, then left the mall.
Lu Wan changed several more surveillance screens, selected the ones with the boys closest to the surveillance camera, and took photos.
"Let's go!" Lu Wan stood up and walked out of the monitoring room door, acting vigorously and resolutely as if he was handling a major case.
After walking out of the monitoring room, Lu Wan made a phone call, "Xiao Kai! Take a look at the photo I sent you and call up the road surveillance outside the main entrance of Yunlong Mall. I want to know where the boy in the photo has gone."
The formation of the four people changed. Lu Wan walked at the front, followed by Bai Mo and three others.
Bai Mo felt that things had become complicated. Lu Wan seemed to have made a fuss out of a molehill by mobilizing the resources of the criminal police team in order to find Yang Lu's mobile phone.
No matter which city you are in, pickpockets exist. According to the normal procedure, after losing something, report it to the local police station, make a record, and the police will investigate as usual.
Pickpockets are very mobile, and dealing with these people requires patience and time, but Lu Wan has a posture of having to catch people today.
"Is there anything important on the phone?" Bai Mo asked.
Yang Lu was also frightened by Lu Wan's high-profile investigation method. She quickly said: "It's nothing. If you can't find it, forget it. I just want to change my phone."
Teng Jie on the side sighed, "Things are not as simple as you think. She is not targeting the phone you lost, but the boy."
The two looked at Teng Jie in confusion.
Teng Jie said: "Yang Lu's bag is not sold on the street, and the quality is very good. But the boy just lowered his head and accurately cut open Yang Lu's bag, and then took away the phone. Do you think this method is ordinary? Can a little thief do this?"
