Chapter 34 Bird of Paradise 19
At the same time, the bosses and guys who were gambling also discovered the presence of the police officers.
Someone shouted, "Run!"
Then there was a loud crash, the gambling table was overturned, and the cash on the table scattered. The bosses who participated in the gambling fled in panic like birds and beasts seeing a hunter.
The underground had been dug into a maze, with more than one entrance. Some quick-moving bosses rushed to other exits, while others ran panicked deeper into the cave.
Then with a snap, the lights in the underground casino went out.
Guo Zhengyao and his team were prepared, quickly turning on their flashlights. He ignored the scattered money on the floor, leaped over the gambling table, and gave chase, followed by the police dog and officers.
"Want to run?! Not that easy!"
"Don't move!"
"Get down!"
Those guys were desperate criminals, but the bosses were the most cowardly. Some of them were so frightened that they squatted on the ground, not daring to breathe.
Guo Zhengyao chased after those who had escaped. After only a few steps, a short man gasped and held his head in his hands: "Brother, I can't run anymore. I'm squatting down. Don't hit me, this is my first time here..."
Guo Zhengyao said to the young police officer behind him, "Cuff him and remember to search him!"
A few people still managed to escape. Guo Zhengyao followed another passage into the mountains. Luo Siwei's voice came over the police radio: "C1, there's someone in the bushes to your side and front."
Guo Zhengyao said, "I understand, Captain Luo."
He ran closer and saw that the man was an old gambler with gray hair in his fifties. Seeing that he couldn't escape, he stood up, threw a handful of money behind him, and then ran forward.
For a moment, pink banknotes were scattered all over the ground by the wind, which looked quite spectacular.
This trick won't work on Guo Zhengyao, as he has also seen money.
Guo Zhengyao chased him relentlessly for several dozen meters. The man in front of him was elderly, and his strength finally wore off, slowing him down. Guo Zhengyao seized his opportunity and shoved the man's shoulder, sending the old gambler stumbling and falling into the half-man-high weeds.
Guo Zhengyao grabbed the man, handcuffed his hands behind his back, and felt around him to see if he had any hidden weapons.
The old gambler was not discouraged. He pointed to his trouser pocket and begged breathlessly, "Officer, here's the money. Please spare my life..."
Guo Zhengyao pulled him up from the ground and said, "You want to bribe the police with just a few bucks? This is an aggravated crime."
Then he said to the young police officer who came over: "Pick up the money. The gambling money is confiscated."
In a blink of an eye, more than a dozen people were apprehended, most of them gambling bosses, and were taken to the cemetery's exit. Several plastic bags containing gambling money were also seized. They were filled with hundred-yuan bills, tied into 11,000-yuan bundles, and they were heavy to carry.
The whole process was very quick and took only a few minutes.
Those bosses were like stray dogs, squatting on the ground with handcuffs on their hands, coughing and gasping one by one.
"Don't move!" Guo Zhengyao maintained order. "Squat down! Squat down! Squat in a row! Tell us your names and ID numbers!"
He counted the number of people, eighteen in total. After carefully identifying each one, but failing to spot the target, Guo Zhengyao reported into the police radio: "Most of these are the bosses, with two employees. Huang Gan and Li Muyao are not here."
Chi Li said: "Ask the guys about the situation."
Guo Zhengyao kicked a younger man who looked like a staff member and said, "Do you know where Lao Gui went?"
"I... I don't know." The younger brother squatted on the ground and stammered, "Just now, he was here watching over the stall, and then he said he was going to the bathroom... I don't know where he went."
Guo Zhengyao asked, "Where's the rest of the gambling money?"
The younger brother said, "The money is kept in a special safe by the old ghost, and he is responsible for taking it out every day."
Chi Li said on the intercom: "Ask where Li Muyao is."
Guo Zhengyao followed his instructions, but the younger brother hesitated. Seeing that he was speaking with such difficulty, Guo Zhengyao reached out and tugged at his collar, demanding, "Where's the driver? Where's your car?"
The younger brother then spoke: "We have several cars parked in different locations on the mountain and below, all covered with leaf curtains as camouflage. The old ghost didn't even tell us, so I don't know where they are parked..."
Guo Zhengyao asked a few more questions, and seeing that they really didn't know, he turned and said to them, "Captain Chi, I'll continue the interrogation here. The rest is up to you."
Chi Li's voice came: "I know, the special police have already gone to chase the escaped people. Keep an eye on them and clear the scene as soon as possible."
As time passed, the sky became darker and muffled thunder could be heard from the horizon.
The police caught most of the bosses and their employees, but there were still a few who slipped away. Most of these people were from gambling gangs. They ran desperately in the mountains and dived into the bushes at an extremely fast speed.
But they couldn't escape. Drones were circling overhead, and armed SWAT officers were chasing them. In the distance, they could hear the barking of police dogs.
Even if those people hid deeper in the bushes, they could not escape the infrared surveillance equipment.
Luo Siwei stared at the screen in front of him. The infrared signal was very small, just a tiny dot on the screen when not magnified. This was a somewhat tedious task, but there could be no mistakes.
Luo Siwei quickly reported the location: "D3, there is a target person fifty meters ahead of you."
"E5, there's one hiding somewhere in your direction."
She had excellent eyesight and quick reflexes, and under her guidance, several more people were quickly apprehended.
The police encirclement gradually tightened, and with the drones in the sky, the criminals had no way to escape.
"B2, be careful! There are three people ahead of you." Luo Siwei recognized one of them as the tall man who had troubled her in the bar that day. He was clearly one of Huang Gan's core members. She was about to alert the special police when she heard a muffled sound in her headset. It wasn't thunder, but a gunshot. The other party pulled out a gun and fired!
Then some special police officers drew their guns and fought back. Bang bang, several more gunshots were heard, and for a moment the sound of gunfire filled the mountains.
Chi Li stood up and said to Luo Siwei, "You keep an eye on it here. I'll go down and take a look."
Luo Siwei nodded: "Be careful."
Chi Li took Liu Ran out of the car, leaving only Luo Siwei and Yu Kaixuan in the command car. Their car was the farthest away and it was relatively safe here.
After a fierce fight, the SWAT caught the bodyguard and the gunfire stopped.
Even as the arrest operation neared its end, Luo Siwei dared not let her guard down. Up to this point, neither Huang Gan nor Li Muyao had appeared, and the other party's car had not been discovered.
Luo Siwei's gaze lingered on the infrared surveillance and the images transmitted by the drone. Where were those people and cars hiding?
This grave mountain in Che County is not very high, but the terrain is very complex and the vegetation on it is very lush.
Looking at the surveillance footage, Luo Siwei suddenly had an idea. She called up the previous records and quickly drew the movement trajectories of all the people on the screen.
It looked like they were fleeing in all directions, centered around the cemetery, in a very disorderly manner. However, a closer look revealed that some were running up the mountain, while others were running down.
Most of those who ran into the mountains were bosses who were unfamiliar with the terrain. They have now been caught by the criminal police and brought back.
The people running down the mountain were divided into two directions. One direction was where the gunshots were heard, and the other direction was a small path where three figures were moving very fast.
Luo Siwei found the corresponding drone footage, and her eyes fell on the man in the front. The man's speed was obviously faster than everyone else.
Although there were police officers tracking in this direction, that man was like a rat, moving quickly through the mountains and forests, and even kept a distance from the police officers behind him. This could only be done by someone with great physical strength and extremely familiarity with the terrain.
Luo Siwei found the footage taken by the drone and identified the man as Huang Gan.
She hurriedly said on the channel: "Everyone, please pay attention. The main culprit is in the northwest direction."
The police officers quickly gathered and headed in the direction she mentioned. Police mountain bikes and police dogs rushed up at an extremely fast speed, like sharp arrows shot out.
Luo Siwei discovered that they were close to the edge of the police's control area. If they went any further, they would reach the bottom of a cliff and there was no way out.
What is Huang Gan doing there?
At that moment, Luo Siwei suddenly realized why the drones and infrared rays could not find where those people hid the car. The other party's car might be parked in a cave next to the cliff!
Infrared radiation works by generating thermal images. The temperature inside the cave is consistently lower than outside, and the mountain walls provide a natural barrier. Huang Gan likely anticipated this and used the cave to conceal his vehicle.
So cunning.
Luo Siwei hurriedly posted a message on the public channel: "Attention all police officers! The other party has hidden the car in a cave at the bottom of the cliff!"
Chi Li also heard the news during the intercom: "The SWAT team should pay attention to intercept them. The remaining police officers from Team A and Team C should provide support. It's best not to let them get on the bus!"
The SWAT team in the channel responded: "Got it! We'll be there right away!"
A drone filmed the scene from high above, and everything was just as Luo Siwei had expected. The three people on the run were Huang Gan and his two cronies, one of whom was the fat man who had troubled Luo Siwei in the bar last time.
At this time, the sky was getting dark and a storm was about to come. Even the drone's lens was affected and the picture gradually became blurred.
Huang Gan was found and the battle began.
Seeing that several special police officers were about to catch up with them, one of the guys following Huang Gan drew his gun, turned around and fired, and the gunshots echoed in the mountains and forests.
A special police officer raised his gun and shot the guy in the leg with a bang. The man screamed and fell to the ground.
At this moment, a truck covered with branches and leaves suddenly swooped out from a cave nearby.
It was a specially built giant truck, painted in camouflage colors and covered with leaves as camouflage.
Li Muyao had ambushed in the cave early on. The police used a jammer to cut off their communication. He heard gunshots and saw someone running from afar, so he drove the car out of the cave.
The truck drove forward in front of Huang Gan and braked suddenly. Li Muyao shouted, "Get in the car!"
Huang Gan ran a few steps quickly, opened the passenger door, climbed onto the truck, and then the fat man squeezed in.
Li Muyao stepped on the accelerator and sped up. Fatty and Huang Gan raised their guns and fired all the way.
The truck was enormous, zigzagging along the narrow mountain road, nearly knocking over several officers. Fast-moving bullets whizzed past the officers. In this life-or-death situation, no one retreated in fear; everyone bravely charged forward.
"careful!"
"Don't let them get away!"
The officers fired at the truck, but the glass was bulletproof, so the bullets bounced back instead of penetrating it. The truck's tires were also custom-made, pushing several small tire puncture devices aside like mere decorations.
The truck was about to break through the police encirclement and roll towards the path down the mountain.
The truck barreled down the mountain like a giant cannonball, and the flesh and blood of a few police officers alone were powerless to stop it.
At this moment, a muffled thunder sounded in the sky. Almost in an instant, the sky darkened completely, and then raindrops as big as beans fell sporadically.
Luo Siwei also heard the gunshots and shouts outside. She vaguely identified the direction and shouted to the driver: "Old Yu, that car is coming!"
The direction the truck was heading was exactly the platform where their command vehicle was located.
But in a blink of an eye, the truck almost fell straight down the mountain, only a few dozen meters away from them, and rushed straight in this direction.
Luo Siwei could even see the three people sitting in the car from the front window.
Lao Yu hurriedly started the command vehicle and wanted to change direction.
At the same time, Huang Gan, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, also discovered them. He raised his gun and fired at the command vehicle in front.
With a few bangs, two bullets hit the command vehicle. The front window glass shattered with a loud noise, turning into a spider web. Luo Siwei only felt a heat on her neck, and a stream of blood sprayed on her body. Then Lao Yu's body fell to the ground.
The truck rammed straight into their command vehicle...
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