Chapter 54 Red Leaves 15
"Super Typhoon Nick is expected to reach Donglan City around midnight tomorrow, with peak wind speeds of Force 15. The Donglan Meteorological Bureau will issue an orange typhoon warning and a blue rainstorm warning..."
At noon in the summer, not far from the ATM of Jinbei Savings Bank in Donglan City, the latest weather alerts were broadcast in the command vehicle.
This new command vehicle may appear unremarkable on the surface, but it is actually bulletproof and its glass is more durable, especially the special brown glass. You cannot see the interior of the vehicle from the outside, but from the inside, you can see a wide and unobstructed view.
Guo Zhengyao, sitting in the driver's seat, looked up at the sky. It was a clear blue, without a single cloud. This apparent calmness suggested a storm might be brewing. He grew impatient. "Why haven't those people shown up yet? Are they trying to take advantage of the typhoon?"
"That's not a bad thing." Huo Cunsheng hummed a little tune. "At least there are fewer people around. We can see their movements more clearly."
Just as they said this, someone knocked on the back door of the command vehicle.
Several people were stunned. Guo Zhengyao frowned: "Is it because parking is not allowed here?"
Huo Cunsheng was puzzled: "We have already greeted the traffic police."
"The traffic police came and knocked on the windshield. They must be one of our own," Tang Xi said as he went over to open the car door. "Maybe it's Captain Luo coming over."
Originally, Luo Siwei wanted to come with them, but Chi Li asked her to go to the hospital first on the pretext of a follow-up examination, and then come to meet them after the examination.
This was already the second day they had been waiting. Because a typhoon was approaching, there were fewer pedestrians on the streets than the day before. Judging from the previous withdrawal times, those people always came to withdraw money in the afternoon, so the highlight was in the afternoon.
As soon as the car door opened, several people saw Luo Siwei standing outside the door.
She was wearing clothes that were easy to catch today, and she also put on a transparent coat with a hood on the outside. The clothes looked fashionable and could also be used as a simple raincoat when it rained.
Everyone hurriedly greeted him: "Captain Luo..."
Luo Siwei got in the car and handed a bag of food to Tang Xi. Tang Xi opened it and found the afternoon tea he had just ordered. The aroma of food filled the command car immediately.
Huo Cunsheng immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, Captain Luo. I just didn't have enough for lunch. Give me a burger."
Luo Siwei didn't take credit for it, and said, "Captain Chi bought it for you. He had to go to the nearby police station this afternoon to do some work, so he brought me here."
Huo Cunsheng didn't mind this. He grabbed a burger and began to devour it. "Captain Luo, I'm relieved you're here. With you in charge, today's operation will definitely be fine."
"We can't be careless. How are you progressing?" Luo Siwei's eyes fell on the monitors. Some of the monitors were far away and the figures were very small, which seemed to be a test of eyesight.
Guo Zhengyao said, "The surveillance for this afternoon has been completed. There are guards outside the main ATMs."
Luo Siwei pursed her lips and checked the surveillance camera. She pointed her finger at the camera and asked, "These three on the left, three on the right, and these few, these are all our people, right?"
Tang Xi took a look and saw that those were the team members, including Shen Qing and Ni Xiang. They were responsible for leading the team on the left and right sides of the small square respectively.
Huo Cunsheng bit into his hamburger and nodded quickly: "Captain Luo, you have a really good eye. How did you see that?"
Luo Siwei held his forehead and asked, "How can you stand in the square facing the wind during a typhoon? Didn't you adjust your plans today?"
The young officers lacked experience, standing straight and looking meticulously in the direction of the ATM. Luo Siwei circled the ones with the most standard posture; they were indeed his own people.
If it was the situation yesterday, when there were many people on the street and the flow of people was large, it would not be noticeable. But now, with the typhoon approaching, they had it written on their faces that they were here to follow us.
Guo Zhengyao suddenly realized it. He had been sitting in the command vehicle and only realized this when he was reminded.
Huo Cunsheng reacted the fastest, stuffing his burger into his mouth and preparing to open the door and get out. "Captain Luo, you're really observant. Young police officers are inexperienced and don't know how to adapt. I'll go talk to them."
Luo Siwei took the control headset and addressed the officers over the channel, "Pay attention to your surroundings and weather changes. Find shelter, or go to a convenience store or milk tea shop with a wide view and easy observation. Buy something to hold onto. Don't just stand there like an idiot. Also, don't just stare at the ATM. Keep an eye out for suspicious individuals around you. Remember to be flexible."
After the police officers responded, they all started to move.
Luo Siwei began to contact Huo Cunsheng again, giving guidance to several team members and adjusting each person to the best monitoring position.
Soon, the police officers disappeared into the crowd, making it impossible to detect any flaws.
As time went on, the typhoon gradually approached. It was still afternoon, but the sky outside had darkened, and some shops along the street began to close. The number of people in the square was only one-third of what it used to be. Most people on the street were in a hurry, walking against the wind and moving quickly forward.
On days like this, there aren't many people withdrawing money. Occasionally someone comes to withdraw money, but they are not the police's targets.
Just then, a woman wearing a mask and glasses, holding a hat, and looking somewhat older, walked towards the ATM. The woman looked a bit like the person who withdrew money last time. Tang Xi hurriedly issued a warning: "Suspicious person appears!"
Luo Siwei said: "Everyone pay attention!"
For a moment, all the police officers were focused, but the woman walked to the ATM, quickened her pace, and walked straight past without looking around.
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Everyone who saw this scene was a little discouraged. They were like farmers waiting for a rabbit to appear, but the rabbit never showed up.
Guo Zhengyao even shouted out, cursing softly, "Fuck...it's not him?"
Luo Siwei's eyes remained fixed on the screen until the woman's back disappeared from the surveillance camera.
Several ATMs had been empty for a while. The team members were feeling a bit agitated. Ni Xiang speculated, "Could it be that the weather is bad today and the other party isn't coming?"
Luo Siwei spoke, her voice calm and steady: "Don't be impatient, just wait." Then she stood up and said, "I'll go down and take a look." Before leaving, Luo Siwei patted Tang Xi and said, "Share a copy of the surveillance signal with my phone."
After a few words, the team members' emotions were calmed down again. They continued to hide themselves like hunters waiting for prey.
Luo Siwei got out of the command car. The wind was a bit strong outside, so she didn't go to the small square, but went to the intersection not far ahead. Luo Siwei bought a cup of coffee at a roadside coffee shop and sat inside to drink it. She looked like she was browsing her phone, but in fact she was also paying attention to the changes in the small square.
From her angle, she could see the direction of the ATM from afar.
After a short period of peak withdrawals, the area in front of the ATM became quiet and empty again. As the typhoon approached, even sitting in the coffee shop, one could hear the whistling of the wind outside.
The sky was growing darker, and a storm was approaching. Vehicles passed by from time to time on the main road in front of the small square.
Just when everyone thought they might return empty-handed again today, the woman who had passed by earlier unexpectedly returned, walking back from the other side of the road. She looked around, then carefully walked into an ATM compartment and closed the outer door.
"I've waited for it! It's her. She actually has the awareness of anti-reconnaissance..." Seeing this scene, Guo Zhengyao was somewhat glad that Luo Siwei came over to adjust the control plan. If he had led the team today, the mission would probably have failed.
Tang Xi turned on the surveillance camera. In the gray surveillance video, the woman first chose a suitable obstruction angle, then lowered her head and tremblingly took out a few cards from her pocket.
As a card was inserted, a prompt window popped up on the police computer, indicating that the card in the woman's hand was the suspicious card that the police had previously marked.
Tang Xi hurriedly informed his teammates in the chat: "Confirmed, it's her."
Luo Siwei said: "According to the previous plan, the police officers are ready to act!"
"Got it!" Ni Xiang was the first to run out.
Shen Qing also said: "Captain Luo, my people will be here soon."
Tang Xi reported: "She started to enter the password for the first card."
Luo Siwei saw the young police officer running on the screen and reminded him, "Don't alert the enemy yet. Walk quickly and pay attention to the speed of the people around you. Don't alert them."
At the same time, many people ran towards the ATM, which was too conspicuous. There were not many people in the small square at the moment, but not too few either. If they were bound to be discovered, they should try to do it as late as possible.
When the police officers heard her words, they slowed down their pace, moved closer to her, and gradually formed an encirclement.
At the same time, Luo Siwei also stood up. She pulled down her clothes, put on her hood, and walked forward quickly.
Based on previous surveillance footage, it takes a woman about eight minutes to withdraw money, so they have enough time.
Moreover, the police were outnumbered, while the other side only had a middle-aged woman who looked older, so their chances of winning were very high. They were just afraid that something might happen and cause complications.
Just when the police officers felt that this operation was a sure success and were gradually approaching the ATM, something unexpected happened...
On the street on a typhoon day, in the small square not far from Donglan Shopping Mall, although the number of people on the road was reduced by half, it was not empty.
A seemingly ordinary passerby in black, wearing a mask, suddenly walked up to the door of the ATM. He looked like he was waiting to withdraw money and knocked on the door of the ATM compartment seemingly casually.
At that moment, the woman who was withdrawing money suddenly stopped withdrawing money. Without caring about the money that had been withdrawn from the ATM and the card in the machine, she suddenly turned around and rushed out of the ATM compartment.
The man outside the ATM pulled her up and they both ran in the same direction.
"We've been discovered!" Luo Siwei frowned and shouted. Disguise was meaningless at this point. She warned the police: "There's an accomplice! Start arresting them!"
Seeing the other party running out, the other police officers also ran.
At the same time, rain suddenly fell from the sky, and the raindrops almost swept across horizontally. The rustling sound of rain continued, and the passers-by who were originally walking quickly on the road also hurried to hide from the rain.
For a moment, the small square in front of the ATM was in complete chaos.
Shen Qing was running in the front. Just as he was about to step forward to arrest the suspect, a group of people suddenly rushed in this direction. Several layers of people blocked the police officers' view.
Shen Qing was anxious, but he was squeezed by the crowd and felt helpless. When he reached out to separate the crowd and wanted to look for the man and woman again, he found that the two people who were originally not far away had disappeared.
Shen Qing apologized a little: "I seem to have lost it..."
They were inside the police station, but Tang Xi watched the entire incident from the roadside surveillance cameras. He looked down from above, as if from a god's perspective, capturing the movements of the crowds with unmistakable clarity. "Some of the people in the crowd might be the other side, like that sanitation worker. He was just sweeping the streets to attract people. Some people are deliberately moving in your direction, perhaps trying to stop you."
Luo Siwei thought about who those people who would help her would be, and then she thought of those people who lived in shared housing...
Meanwhile, another team of police officers was still chasing them. Ni Xiang's agility, weaving through the crowd in the wind and rain, made her even faster than the male officers.
At this time, the man in black had dragged the woman to the edge of the small square.
On the other side, two team members also ran over. Under the double attack, the two were like turtles in a jar.
The man and woman in black were obviously panicked, and retreated to the side of the road with frightened eyes.
At that moment, a black car with its license plate obscured suddenly drove over. It stopped by the side of the road, blocking the officers' view. A man stuck his head out and hoarsely shouted, "Get in!"
The back door opened and the man and woman got inside.
A gust of wind blew, bringing raindrops to her face. Running in this direction was against the wind. Ni Xiang tried her best, but only closed the gap by a few meters. Her heart was pounding, but it was too late...
Is this operation going to fail?
Ni Xiang was thinking when she saw a familiar figure walking towards her on the side of the road. It was Luo Siwei.
She did not try to arrest the man and woman, nor did she try to stop the car. Instead, she sneaked up to the rear of the car. Taking advantage of the few seconds when the man and woman got in the car, Luo Siwei reached out and gently patted the rear of the car, getting something on it.
The car stopped and the two men got in. It all happened in an instant.
The car started without even closing the door, and drove out crookedly. Then the driver stepped on the accelerator and sped away from the scene, but disappeared in just a few seconds.
Ni Xiang ran so hard that she was out of breath, but still couldn't catch them. She covered her ribs and coughed. Several other team members also rushed over.
Luo Siwei said, "Let's go and meet up with the other team members." Then she held onto the headset and said to Tang Xi in the command car, "I've put a tracker on the car, so you can't run away. Everyone, gather and proceed to the next step."
When Ni Xiang heard this, she recalled what she had just done, understood what Luo Siwei had done, and gave her a thumbs up.
In fact, when formulating the plan this time, Chi Li and Luo Siwei had already taken into account that the other side might have multiple people taking action to resist arrest.
So the police originally had a plan B.
If the police's actions were discovered and they couldn't catch the other party, they would let them escape and then track them down. So before setting off, Chi Li considered the other party's perspective and drew the most suitable escape route.
Luo Siwei set up an ambush in advance at the estimated location and successfully placed the tracker.
It can be said that everything is currently under the control of the police.
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