Extraordinary All-Rounder

Volume One: The Rebirth of a Demon, Chapter 005: Prying Doors and Unlocking

Zhou Ziwei's home is located in the New Century Home residential area in the eastern development zone of the city. This is a high-end residential area where there are no high-rise buildings; the tallest structures only reach four stories, featuring European villa-style architecture. Each household has its own separate garden and outdoor fitness area, and some even come with private outdoor swimming pools.

Nearly half of the city's wealthy residents live in New Century Home, making it a true land of wealth and nobility.

Because Zhou Ziwei was not favored by his father, he naturally could not live in one of those four-story luxury villas with their own swimming pools. The property his father gave him was the lowest-end model in New Century Home, a two-story house with a living area of less than 300 square meters.

Moreover, the property deed is still firmly in the hands of Zhou Ziwei's father, Zhou Zhengxiang, and has never been transferred to Zhou Ziwei.

This is not because Comrade Zhou is stingy; it's because Zhou Ziwei is addicted to gambling. Zhou Zhengxiang is very worried that if the property rights are transferred to his son, that prodigal son might lose the house in just a few days.

Yang Hongtao, dressed in tattered clothes and covered in dust, walked into New Century Home and was checked by the community security guards twice along the way. Fortunately, Zhou Ziwei used to frequently come and go from the community in a disheveled state in the middle of the night, so the security guards did not make a fuss, probably thinking that this guy had been beaten up again for harassing some virtuous woman somewhere!

Standing in front of the familiar yet strange two-story building, Yang Hongtao felt his heart start to pound uncontrollably as he thought about facing the beautiful and cold Wang Xuwei in the identity of Zhou Ziwei.

Although Yang Hongtao now possesses Zhou Ziwei's body, in essence, Wang Xuwei is still someone else's wife! This in itself is an exciting prospect, or perhaps every man has some indecent thoughts deep down, and Yang Hongtao is no exception.

Yang Hongtao approached the tightly closed door and felt around himself, only to realize that the set of keys that Zhou Ziwei used to carry on his waist had long been lost.

With no other choice, Yang Hongtao could only hope that there was someone inside the villa! But after ringing the doorbell for a long time, there was not a single soul to be seen inside, it seemed that Wang Xuwei was not at home at the moment.

Damn! Nobody's home? This is bad!

Yang Hongtao knew that this house was not only frequented by Zhou Ziwei, but Wang Xuwei also often did not return here for two or three days at a time.

If Yang Hongtao had to wait for Wang Xuwei to come home and open the door, who knows how long he would have to wait? And Yang Hongtao had already given all the last few tens of yuan he had to the truck driver who took him back to the city. Now he was penniless, unable to go home, could he really end up homeless?

Although Yang Hongtao could go back to Zhou Ziwei's father's company or home under the guise of Zhou Ziwei to ask for some help, he is, after all, Yang Hongtao, not Zhou Ziwei. Well... it's okay to recognize other people's wives as his own, but recognizing other people's fathers as his own... Yang Hongtao still felt somewhat repelled by this idea.

Moreover, Zhou Ziwei was so disappointing before that none of his family members would have a good face when they saw him. Just thinking about those people's faces, Yang Hongtao immediately abandoned the idea. Even if he really had to squat on the side of the road hungry tonight, he did not want to go to the Zhou family to be the wretched grandson.

Zhou Ziwei spent the night before indulging in pleasure, drinking a lot of alcohol, and not eating much food. Now, after half a day has passed, Yang Hongtao, who has inherited Zhou Ziwei's body, can't help but feel a wave of hunger. Gently rubbing his stomach, his belly rumbled even more.

No, I can't wait any longer, or I'll be starved to faint! Er... being used to being a solitary ghost, suddenly becoming human again is really uncomfortable! I have to find food every day... what a hassle!

Yang Hongtao muttered to himself, looked around, and his gaze suddenly fell on the smooth iron fence surrounding the villa.

The iron fence was more than two meters high. To prevent people from climbing over, it was designed like a thorny tree, covered with small spines, almost nowhere to start, and at the top of the fence, there was an infrared automatic alarm sensor installed. As long as an object touched the induction line, it would immediately emit a piercing alarm that could spread throughout the entire community.

Theoretically, the anti-theft performance of this iron fence was already very strong, but for some reason, Yang Hongtao just glanced at it and immediately determined that... as long as he was willing, he definitely had a way to easily climb over that iron fence without triggering the alarm.

Yang Hongtao was stunned by this sudden thought. He knew that neither the previous life's Yang Hongtao nor this life's Zhou Ziwei was a person who liked sports. In the past, let alone climbing over a two-meter-high iron fence covered with thorns and alarm lines, even jumping over a one-meter-high protective fence on the side of the road, he wouldn't dare to do it. But now...

Yang Hongtao turned his thoughts and immediately understood that this must be due to the fragmented soul memories he had absorbed before.

You know, no matter how messy those soul memories are, as long as they are absorbed by Yang Hongtao's soul, they will automatically become a mark in Yang Hongtao's soul and cannot be erased.

It's like Yang Hongtao has never driven a car in his previous life, but just now when he got on the dilapidated truck that took him back to the city, he naturally had a feeling that he could accelerate that broken car from a standstill to over 200 miles per hour within 30 seconds. This is because one of the residual souls he absorbed before was once a famous professional racing driver.

It seems that the more exquisite a person's skills are in life, the more likely they are to become an indelible obsession in a residual soul after death. When this obsession is absorbed by Yang Hongtao, it automatically becomes an instinct of Yang Hongtao. He doesn't need to learn anything deliberately and can completely master a certain special skill represented by this obsession.

The nearly one hundred residual souls that Yang Hongtao absorbed were all death row inmates who were executed by shooting. Among these death row inmates, there were naturally a few who made a living by robbing and stealing. So although Yang Hongtao has never been trained in this aspect, now he just glanced at the iron fence and had full confidence that he could climb over it.

Damn it, whatever! Anyway, this is "my" home, even if I am caught by the security guard when climbing over the fence, it doesn't matter. This is better than staying hungry and cold at the door, right?

Yang Hongtao thought and did it. Looking around, seeing no one around, he walked half a circle around the iron fence of the courtyard and chose a dead corner that the community surveillance could not cover. Then he took off his tattered upper clothes, twisted them in his hand a few times.

"Whoosh", Yang Hongtao found the right angle, unhesitatingly threw the clothes in his hand, wrapped them around the top of the iron fence close to the induction line, then stepped back a few steps. When the clothes in his hand were stretched straight, he suddenly shouted lightly, ran quickly along the side of the iron fence, and finally leaped up with the inertia of the clothes swinging, and he really flew over the two-meter-high iron fence, without touching the induction line on the iron fence.

Unfortunately, when Yang Hongtao flipped to the other side of the iron fence, his strength was exhausted, and he failed to land one foot away from the iron fence as planned, but almost fell down close to the iron fence.

"Sss", the smooth back was immediately scratched by the thorns on the fence, leaving more than a dozen bloodstains.

"Ouch..." Yang Hongtao gritted his teeth in pain. At the moment of landing, he suddenly straightened his waist, so as not to fall back on the fence, otherwise his butt would have to be pricked into a hornet's nest.

Damn it! How could this happen? Er... it seems that the experience of those thieves is not a problem, but the strength of this brother's body is really too weak.

Well... I have to exercise more in the future! I don't know if practicing Tai Chi every day can quickly enhance my physique?

In the past two years, among the many residual souls absorbed by Yang Hongtao, three were famous bandits and thieves in the country, and they had rich combat skills in their soul memories. Even one of them was a master of Niu's Tai Chi.

Of course, this Tai Chi is not the same as the slow and weak postures played by the old men and women in the park. It is a kind of boxing that can be used in actual combat.

It's just that Yang Hongtao has only heard of Chen Tai Chi and Yang Tai Chi before, as for Niu Tai Chi, he has never heard of it. So although he absorbed the obsession memories of this part of the residual soul, which is equivalent to having the experience of practicing boxing for decades, he still has doubts about the practical value of Niu Tai Chi.

But even if Niu Tai Chi can't be used for fighting, it should still have the effect of strengthening the body.

Anyway, Yang Hongtao finally jumped into the yard, but to enter the villa building, he still needs to find a way to unlock the door.

And this is not a problem for Yang Hongtao at all.

The front door of the courtyard is an electronic lock, which must be opened with an electronic key, and the residual souls of the thieves absorbed by Yang Hongtao are obviously not very good at opening electronic locks in their lifetime. But the lock on the door of the small building inside is an ordinary lock. Yang Hongtao, with the memories of several thieves, believes that even if he closes his eyes, he can easily open this lock.

The tools needed for unlocking are also very simple, just a thin wire, or a toothpick, or even a slightly tough grass root can do.

Iron wires and toothpicks are not easy to find in the villa's yard, but grass roots are everywhere. Yang Hongtao pulled out a few grass roots at random, chose one with excellent toughness, wiped the dirt on it, and then twisted and rubbed it with his fingers a few times, and then gently poked it into the keyhole.

Although Yang Hongtao's skill in prying doors and locks has reached the master level after absorbing the residual soul memories of thieves, this is his first attempt, and he is inevitably a little nervous. When he is nervous, his hands will inevitably tremble, so he failed several times in a row.

Yang Hongtao smiled bitterly, thinking: It's not easy to be a thief. It takes such a strong psychological quality! I'm so nervous about opening the lock of "my own" house. If I really go to pry the locks of other people's houses, I will have a heart attack directly! Er... But... Is this really my home?

Yang Hongtao scratched his head, feeling that he still hasn't entered the role of Zhou Ziwei, otherwise, how could he be so nervous? He immediately closed his eyes and kept reciting in his heart: I am Zhou Ziwei, this is my home... I am Zhou Ziwei, I am opening the lock of my own home...

I don't know if this kind of self-hypnosis worked, but soon Yang Hongtao's slightly trembling hands slowly stabilized, then he concentrated and carefully felt the touch from the grass root, slowly reaching into the lock hole...