Guan Xia was reborn with her memories intact, always believing she had a script for a second chance at life, one filled with striving and making progress. Thus, from the moment she could speak, she...
Chapter 211 211 It seems slow, but everything happens very quickly...
With such beautiful expectations, Ji An reselected the navigation, and then Zhong Xiaoyu stepped on the accelerator and continued to lead the way.
Guan Xia shook her arms, which were numb from holding herself up, and glanced at the new navigation. She found that although there was a detour, it would still only take 14 minutes to reach her destination because it was early in the morning.
"We're finally almost there," Pang Le said, but he didn't relax at all, still keeping a close eye on all directions. "I hope that organization won't cause any more trouble in the next few miles."
Guan Xia also sincerely hoped so, but when she thought about the madness of the criminal organization's two consecutive attacks, she knew that the remaining 14 minutes would not be safe either.
Sure enough, they arrived at another intersection. This time, when they were still hundreds of meters away from the intersection, everyone saw something was wrong from afar.
There were no large vehicles, but at this quiet time of night, there was an unusual traffic jam and crowds of people, as if something unexpected had happened.
Including Guan Xia, everyone in the car leaned out the windows to look forward. Pang Le hissed, "Those crazy guys wouldn't have deliberately caused a car accident just to stop us, right? When they couldn't hit us, they simply hit ordinary people. They can't be so careless about human life."
The other people didn't say anything. As they watched the scene in front of them become more and more intense, they all had a bad premonition in their hearts and their expressions became more solemn than before.
Zhong Xiaoyu slowed down the car and asked Guan Xia without turning back, "Do you want to turn around again?"
Guan Xia's instinctive reaction was to avoid this commotion which was obviously a trap as much as possible, but after turning around to observe the traffic around him, he knew that the plan was a little difficult to implement.
Perhaps the vehicles in the other lanes wanted to watch the excitement. Although it was late at night, they chose to drive around and back, so that all three lanes were full of cars. There were cars behind Guan Xia and her friends, and there were cars on both sides. It was impossible for them to turn around like before without affecting other vehicles.
After just a short while of observation, Guan Xia and her friends' car was stuck in the middle, almost being forced to merge with the cars stuck in front, making the traffic jam even longer.
There was no sign of danger at the moment, but the streets were so unusually busy late at night that the four people in the car felt a little creepy.
Several people looked at each other in confusion. Pang Le asked, "What should we do? Call the police? Let the traffic police come and handle it?"
Guan Xia was about to answer when he saw that the cars on both sides that were also forced to stop opened their doors, and the people in the cars walked forward through the gap between the vehicles with a bit of curiosity on their faces.
This action immediately attracted the attention of several people. Zhong Xiaoyu opened the sealed car window and peeked forward. After a moment, she retracted her head and said, "I faintly heard the discussion of the onlookers up front. It seems that there is a fight up front, and there are knives."
Pang Le frowned when he heard this. "They even used knives. Could those people be acting so realistically? Or did they just run into us by accident?"
Zhong Xiaoyu closed the car window again, turned to look at Guan Xia and said, "Why don't you wait in the car while I go over and take a look, or we can ask Xu Nian and the others to go and take a look. Ordinary people can't tell if this fight is real or fake, but we can definitely tell. If it's fake, then it means they are indeed members of that organization. We can then respond accordingly."
Ji An frowned and thought silently. Pang Le and Zhong Xiaoyu looked at Guan Xia with questioning eyes.
Guan Xia only considered it for two seconds before shaking his head. "No, it's too dangerous. If they really are setting a trap, then who knows how many of their people are hiding in the crowd. Once we get off the bus, with the enemy hiding in plain sight and us in plain sight, it would be easy for anyone to suffer."
Zhong Xiaoyu scratched his face and said with a headache, "What should we do? Did those people really come to attack us so hastily? Why do they seem so prepared? If all else fails, why don't we just contact Xu Nian and his local colleagues and let them handle it while we observe in secret?"
This time, without Guan Xia's response, Ji An said, "It's a bit dangerous. We've confirmed from the previous two attacks that they know the vehicle we're driving. If it stays there for a long time, what if they're so ruthless as to pour gasoline and set it on fire?"
Pang Le shuddered when he heard this. "That makes sense. That organization dared to attack the police convoy and kill people in front of a group of police officers. They might really dare to do such a daring thing."
While Ji An and the others were discussing, Guan Xia simply turned on the system's shared vision. The moment she saw the soul light ball clearly, Guan Xia's heart suddenly tightened.
Sure enough, their premonition was right. This seemingly normal accident was indeed the work of that organization. Among the countless onlookers in front, there were five people whose soul light balls were wrapped in blood. The blood-red light ball in the front and the center of the crowd was so rich in color that it was almost as rich as Wu Xingxian's.
Guan Xia guessed that it should be a killer like Lu Manqing, the main attacker in this attack.
After spending several hundred more Halo Points, Guan Xia was nervous, but because of the system, she felt extra reassured. She pinched her brows and interrupted Ji An and the others' discussion. She said firmly, "I just observed carefully. Although I can't see anything wrong, my intuition tells me that it is definitely coming for us."
The other three were not surprised. They just asked Guan Xia, "So what should we do next? Call for backup?"
Just as Ji An finished speaking, Guan Xia's phone rang. Guan Xia picked it up and said, "We need to call for support, but we can't just sit there and wait. I plan to get out of the car and observe to determine how many people in the crowd are here to attack us."
The three people's expressions tensed up. Before they could dissuade him, Xu Nian asked, "Are you sure?"
Guan Xia nodded confidently once again and said, "Yes, I am sure I can find all the members of that organization in a very short time."
Xu Nian said calmly, "Okay, then Sister Ji and Brother Jiang will stay in the car. The others will get out and surround Guan Xia in the middle. Make sure she's safe."
Ji An asked, "When will the support arrive?"
Xu Nian replied, "Fifteen minutes. As soon as I found the traffic jam, I immediately called for backup. They are already on their way."
It only took fifteen minutes for Guan Xia to breathe a sigh of relief. He felt that the more critical the moment, the more reliable the people around him could be. Guan Xia was now extremely grateful that everything was arranged just right.
It just so happened that Xu Nian lived across the street from her, and it just so happened that through Xu Nian she later met Ji An and Zhong Xiaoyu, and it just so happened that she discovered the criminal organization centered on Wu Yang. Before everything developed to the most uncontrollable stage, they took the lead in solving the problem.
Sometimes, when Guan Xia was free, she would wonder what would happen to her now if the system had been triggered a little later, or if she had met the right person to work with a little later. Would she be overwhelmed, or even worse, trapped in a difficult situation where she had to be on the lookout for her life at all times?
Fortunately, fortunately, things did not develop so badly. No matter how difficult the case was to investigate, the upgraded system would always make it easier for her.
Thinking of this, Guan Xia felt calmer and replied calmly, "Okay, then I'll get off the car now and find the people related to that organization in the crowd as soon as possible."
Once Guan Xia makes a decision, she will not be timid and retreat, so as soon as the phone was hung up, Guan Xia asked Zhong Xiaoyu to unlock the car and opened the car door before Xu Nian and the others came. Of course, before getting out of the car, she made sure that the surroundings were safe, unless there was a sniper rifle that could kill her from a long distance.
Pang Le was a little nervous at first, but seeing Guan Xia so calm, she quickly calmed down. However, she still stood in front of Guan Xia at the first moment to separate her from the crowd.
Because Pang Le was too tall, Guan Xia had to lean out half of his body to get a clearer view of the crowd in front of him.
Guan Xia was originally worried that the people sent by that organization might be mixed in with the crowd, but as she got off the car, the people from that criminal organization began to move, and this worry disappeared. After Guan Xia opened the shared vision again, it took only a few minutes for her to recognize four of the five people suspected to be from that organization.
Not knowing what the mission of the fifth one, the one with the richest blood color, was, Guan Xia deliberately waited for a few minutes, but he didn't wait for the last person to move to the outermost edge of the crowd.
Guan Xia couldn't help but wonder if the last one was one of the people involved in the fight, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why his soul light ball was always in the middle of the crowd and hardly moved.
After waiting for another two minutes and making sure that the fifth person would not move and appear in front of Guan Xia, Guan Xia gave up and got into the car again with the others.
As soon as I settled down in my seat, Xu Nian called and asked, "How is it? Are you sure?"
Guan Xia recalled the appearance and attire of the four individuals he had just seen. After the system was activated and began playing the video in his mind, he nodded and said confidently, "Confirmed. I've found four in total, but I suspect there are more. When you share this information with the task force, emphasize that they must be extremely careful during the arrest."
Xu Nian responded, "Okay."
Guan Xiacai took a deep breath and quickly described the appearance of the four people she recognized. "There are four people, three women and one man. They are all alone at the outermost edge of the crowd. They are wearing a black skull T-shirt and blood-red linen trousers, a white suspender dress with a large bow on the back, a white T-shirt with a pair of colorful wings on the back, black shorts, and a light gray short-sleeved sports suit. Now, identify them and tell me where they are. See if they are the same people I recognized."
No one suspected him. After Guan Xia finished speaking, he looked forward, and from time to time someone asked an uncertain question.
"Is that the one in the white slip dress, the one wearing white sneakers, a pink bag slung across her body, and the fat guy in the brown short-sleeved shirt standing next to her?"
Guan Xia leaned over to take a look and replied, "Yes, it's her."
"He's wearing a light grey short-sleeved sports suit, a waist bag, and headphones around his neck. Next to him is a tall, thin man in cycling clothes."
Guan Xia leaned over to take another look and said, "Yes, it's that person."
Several people chatted about it, and two minutes later Xu Nian said, "I've confirmed the target. I'll share the information with the task force now. Once the backup arrives, we'll arrest them immediately. Guan Xia and Pang Le will stay in the car. Zhong Xiaoyu and Ji An will also stay. Be careful."
Compared to the four of them who stayed in the car, Xu Nian and the others had to be more cautious. Guan Xia couldn't help but laugh and warned, "You guys have to be careful. Let me reiterate one thing: there's a high probability that there are members of their organization in the crowd. I suspect that those responsible for the accident are from that organization. You have to be extra careful when arresting them. Just treat it like you're facing Lu Manqing and be extremely cautious."
Guan Xia reminded him so seriously, and Xu Nian agreed with the same seriousness: "Okay, don't worry, we will be careful."
After hanging up the phone, he waited for another five or six minutes, and finally heard the sound of sirens coming from afar. When the convoy of five or six police cars drove to the intersection and stopped by the side of the road, Guan Xia noticed that Xu Nian and others also got out of the car. The four of them first pretended to look around curiously for a while, then slowly walked forward, forming a circle with the support personnel who arrived quickly, and gradually approached the target they had been staring at.
Having anticipated what would happen next, Guan Xia subconsciously held her breath.
It seemed slow, but everything happened very quickly. Guan Xia only felt the figures shaking in front of her eyes and screams coming from the crowd. When she finally looked inside through the gap in the crowd running out, she saw that everything was over.
Jiang Yingyao and Wang Yu worked together to pin the young man wearing a skull T-shirt to the ground. Another policeman standing on the side in alert was holding a dagger in his hand, which must have been snatched from the criminal during the arrest.
Finally safe, Guan Xia breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back in the chair, feeling that this short hour was longer than the three days in Lijia Village combined.
Fortunately, there was no danger. Guan Xia had a hunch that they would be able to reach the police station responsible for the rainy night murder case smoothly next.