Thief of Shooting Meteor

A mask used to change one's appearance. Combined with superhuman acting skill, it can turn the false into the real.

The meteor thief Leblanc treats a theft like attending a masquerade ball, and hiding his identity is part of the ritual.

“Why can a mask also change your height and your voice? Hahahaha, that is a secretly patented technology.”

The thief used the mask to turn himself into an ordinary employee, slipped into the Corporation's security meeting, and put forward proposals on “anti theft measures”. It was only half a month after the theft was over that the security department remembered they had never once seen this “colleague”.

A thief lives a double life and always needs some means of concealment. That is a tradition in the world of thieves.

“Have your screenwriters think of something, see whether the thief can wear the mask from beginning to end,” said the publicity officer of the Corporation's film and television department. “I want to emphasize the demand for this mask product. It is cheap and well loved.”

Special gloves woven from nano material, able to form patterns on their surface in an instant.

The meteor thief Leblanc is clean, but that does not mean he leaves no traces. He always leaves misleading clues behind, provoking to just the right degree.

“Why have the people at the Corporation been fooled by fake fingerprints who knows how many times? Perhaps you should ask the Corporation instead of me.”

His gloves can produce all sorts of different patterns, which not only makes the Corporation's fingerprint recognition technology a laughing stock, but also leaves behind a pile of harmless “theft loopholes”. The security department found hundreds of prints inside the secret room storing the treasures, among them a prehistoric flying dragon, a planetary ladybug, a Labrador retriever… Of course, not one of them was his.

Simply vanishing every time is far too dull, no different from a pack of cowardly petty thieves.

“Even a joke cannot be complete nonsense. Who still uses a fingerprint system these days?” the Corporation's security department complained. “Do these screenwriters know anything at all about real life?”

A steel cable disguised as a woven belt, with a hook and a pulley hidden inside the buckle.

A thief who plans carefully can always escape safely in any situation, and always keeps a lifesaving hook at his waist.

“How does a hook at your waist aim precisely at the spot you want to reach… Would you explain how it is that you take a step?”

The secret room storing the treasures was full of dangerous traps, yet the thief used the anchor hook at his hip to move and evade, like a waltz in mid air. The hook was fired at a wall dozens of meters high in a third of a second, the pulley spun fast, and in the blink of an eye it brought the thief right in front of the “Lion's Star”.

With the help of a cable wound around the waist, one can fly up high. This is a thief's basic professional skill.

“For the sequel you could let us handle the stunts, it would save you a bit of money,” the action director said with a mocking air. “With the mask on, the audience cannot tell one person from another anyway.”

A pair of boots that enhance the functions of the human body, letting the thief stride between buildings.

When the thief shoots quickly across the city sky, he deliberately leaves a dazzling afterimage behind him, and that is the origin of the name “shooting meteor”.

“How do I get away if there are no high rise buildings? Hahaha, please stop asking such dull questions.”

Escaping again and again through situations that looked perilous but never were made the work easy and familiar for the thief. No one in the city could keep up with the thief's meteor trail, unless someone knew where his base was. What took the thief by surprise was a detective with a bird's nest of hair, sitting in Leblanc's own chair with a cup of coffee, waiting there for a very long time.

The thief's story has ended, and now it is time to tell the detective's story.

“Many people do not believe we would dare write it that way, and that is exactly why we wrote it that way.” The screenwriter (name withheld) explaining the thief's controversial ending.