Chapter 55 Red Leaves 16
All the police officers gathered. Guo Zhengyao and Huo Cunsheng sat in the driver's and co-driver's seats of the command vehicle. The back seat was left for Luo Siwei and Tang Xi. Ni Xiang also followed them into the vehicle.
The police officer on duty in the field had just been caught in the rain, and his hair and clothes were wet. Luo Siwei was wearing a transparent coat to protect herself from the rain. She took out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Ni Xiang.
Ni Xiang thanked him, took the tissue, and gently wiped her wet hair from her forehead. She thought, "I just glanced at the man driving the car. He looked familiar."
Luo Siwei took out her phone and pulled up a photo of Zhai Yifei: "Is it him?"
Ni Xiang nodded. "Very similar. There's a woman in the passenger seat who looks like Qi Moxue."
Hearing their conversation, Huo Cunsheng said, "I've always felt there was something fishy about these guys. What did I say? They're really a gang!"
Soon, the computer received the signal emitted by the tracker.
Luo Siwei said, "Go straight along Jiangnan Road."
Guo Zhengyao started the car and drove in the direction she pointed.
At the same time, the black car was driving very fast in the wind and rain.
In addition to Zhai Yifei who was driving and Qi Moxue who was sitting in the front seat, there were three people sitting in the back seat of the car. The old woman sitting by the window on the left was wearing an orange coat of a sanitation worker. Now that the crisis was over, she reached out and tremblingly took off the coat.
Sitting next to her were the man and woman who had just withdrawn money and ran away. Their chests were still heaving, and they were obviously still in shock.
Qi Moxue's hair and clothes were half soaked by the heavy rain. She turned back angrily at the two elderly people sitting in the back seat and said, "Aunt An, Uncle Ge, didn't I tell you to be careful because things are tense lately? If Yifei hadn't told me you were going to borrow his car and asked the people living in the shared apartment to cover for you, I wouldn't have known you were so smart as to come here to withdraw money!"
The two people sitting in the back row lowered their heads and listened to the lecture like children who had done something wrong.
After a while, the woman called Auntie An sobbed softly and said, "But we have no money."
Qi Moxue said, "Didn't I give you money? I've also seen the latest accounts."
Aunt An's eyes were red, and she sobbed softly: "After handling the last funeral, we are very tight on money, and we can't just rely on your salary and Boss Zhai's support..."
When the word money was mentioned, everyone in the car fell silent for a moment, and the atmosphere became a little depressing.
As time went by, the typhoon grew stronger and stronger. The car was driving, and the water on the windshield seemed to be splashed on it, and the outside world was hazy.
Qi Moxue stopped questioning them and turned to discuss with Zhai Yifei: "I just saw an arresting police officer who looked like one of the officers who was looking for me."
Zhai Yifei hummed, "Someone from my area has gone there before to check things out, and after a round of searching, they specifically asked to rent a shared apartment like yours."
It turns out that the situation has become so critical.
Aunt An was even more frightened when she heard this. She grabbed the front seat with her skinny hands and said in a trembling voice, "What should we do now? What if we are really caught by the police..."
Qi Moxue smiled helplessly: "If we really get caught, we can only prepare for the worst."
"Will we be discovered?" The man in black named Uncle Ge, whose full name is Ge Wenfeng, looked from behind and saw that theirs was the only car on the entire street.
Zhai Yifei was the first to react after hearing this: "Could the police have some electronic eyes or surveillance? Then we can't go back now..."
Qi Moxue recalled her last meeting with the police officers and said, "If it were any other police force, it wouldn't necessarily be the case, but I met one of their female captains last time. She provoked me with words, trying to extract information from me. I only discovered later...if those police officers were smart enough, they might be monitoring our movements."
"If they discover our 'home', that would be dangerous," Zhai Yifei said. "I still have plenty of gas in the car, so let's take them for a few drives."
In the command vehicle.
It was past five in the afternoon, and the sky had already darkened to midnight. Everyone agreed, and no one asked about dinner. The tracker could be discovered at any moment, and the opportunity was fleeting. The mission was more important.
The atmosphere in the police car was serious and no one spoke for a while.
The broadcast began again with a warning: "The Donglan Meteorological Bureau has issued a typhoon warning. The typhoon has entered Donglan City and is expected to pass through our city between 12:00 PM and 2:00 AM tonight. Citizens are requested to prepare as soon as possible and be careful of urban flooding..."
Luo Siwei stared out the window. The shadows of the trees swayed in the wind and rain. The streets were much less crowded. Not daring to relax, she withdrew her gaze from the window and stared intently at the blip on the screen. The target vehicle was still moving, heading toward the western suburbs of Donglan City.
The rain outside the window was getting heavier. Only the instant the wipers swung could clear the water, allowing Guo Zhengyao to temporarily see the road conditions ahead. He frowned and looked ahead: "It rained a lot this year. It rained even harder than the time when we arrested the old ghost."
Huo Cunsheng said, "Brother, this is a strong typhoon that only occurs once every few years. How can you compare it to ordinary rain?"
Then he took a look and told a cold joke: "It's really bigger than the day Aunt Xue knocked on the door."
After driving for another ten minutes, the car still showed no intention of stopping.
Luo Siwei's expression was solemn, her brows slightly furrowed as she stared intently at the signal on the surveillance camera. "There's something wrong with their route." Logically, the elderly wouldn't choose to withdraw money from such a long distance. She then confirmed, "They might know we're tracking them and are leading us in circles."
Guo Zhengyao turned around and asked, "Captain Luo, what should we do now?"
Luo Siwei lowered his head and pondered for a moment before making a decision: "Since several major suspects are in the car now, we won't wait for them to return. Let's directly notify the other police cars and make the arrest!"
After receiving the order, several police cars suddenly accelerated and chased in the direction of the car.
As time went by, the road was filled with water, and in some low-lying areas the water level was even higher than the tires.
Zhai Yifei, who was driving, discovered that something was wrong. Several cars suddenly appeared on the street which was originally empty, and drove towards them at the same time.
"It might be the police! Hold on tight." Zhai Yifei said as he stepped on the accelerator and drove the car forward.
Auntie An, who was sitting in the back seat, was still crying. She sobbed softly, "It's all my fault. I led the police here. I wasn't careful enough..."
Qi Moxue turned around and said, "Don't talk about this now. Let's think about how to get out of this first."
Apparently, the police had already made arrangements. A car pulled out from the intersection ahead, clearly intending to block their path. Zhai Yifei didn't slow down or stop, but instead gritted his teeth and turned the steering wheel.
It was a dark, rainy night, the ground was slippery, and the car drifted directly out. Their car seemed to be a boat sailing in the water, stirring up two-meter-high splashes.
The people in the car screamed. Qi Moxue felt that she was almost thrown out. She reached out and grabbed the handle above the car door before she regained control of her body.
Several police cars gathered and tracked the vehicle according to the route planned by the tracker, following closely behind their vehicle.
Zhai Yifei's palms were sweaty. He gripped the steering wheel tightly and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom. At this moment, something unexpected happened behind the car.
Aunt An suddenly stopped talking, her eyes slightly opened, and her body fell to the side of the seat.
Ge Wenfeng hurriedly pulled her up and saw that her lips were purple and her pulse was beating rapidly, which were obvious symptoms of a heart attack. "Oh no, she's having a heart attack."
The intense exercise, sadness, guilt, and the police chase made the woman's heart unable to bear the burden any longer.
Qi Moxue turned around from the front row and called out, "Auntie An!"
Uncle Ge reacted quickly. He dug out a small gourd of quick-acting heart pills from his schoolbag and poured out all the medicine inside: "There are only three pills left."
He didn't care about anything else and stuffed three pills into Aunt An's mouth.
Qi Moxue turned around and asked him, "Why didn't you go buy medicine? Where's the nitroglycerin?"
The old man beside her hesitated for a moment and told her, "We...are out of money. We haven't had our medicine for a week. We can't rely on you for everything, so we wanted to take the risk and get the money today."
"Is there a pharmacy nearby?" Qi Moxue asked.
Zhai Yifei yelled, "Are you trying to kill yourself? How could you possibly go to the pharmacy to buy medicine when the police are following you so closely?"
Qi Moxue was stunned for a moment, then she made a decision: "We can't just watch her die, call the emergency number!"
Zhai Yifei quickly rejected this idea, sweat breaking out on his forehead. "On a typhoon night like this, if you wait for the ambulance to arrive, you might be gone by the time it arrives."
Qi Moxue was somewhat bewildered. She asked the man beside her, "What should we do now?"
"The West Court of the First Hospital is not far away. Let's go to the hospital now!" Zhai Yifei gritted his teeth, and the car suddenly turned and drove towards the hospital.
Several police cars following closely behind also noticed the car's change of route.
Tang Xi looked at the route and said, "They suddenly changed direction. Do we need to speed up the capture?"
"Don't worry, they will stop." Luo Siwei pointed to the front of the surveillance map: "They are heading towards Wulu Bridge."
Ni Xiang immediately understood: "I know that over there, water will accumulate as soon as it rains, not to mention the strong wind and rain now."
The roads are slippery in rainy days and speeding can easily cause car accidents. Their purpose is only to arrest, not to kill.
Judging from the chassis of the other car, they might not even be able to reach the other side of the bridge.
However, what did those people want to do by suddenly changing their route?
Luo Siwei frowned slightly when she thought of this, she discovered some clues.
Not far ahead after crossing the bridge is the West Branch of Donglan First Hospital...
The black car finally arrived under the Wulu Bridge, which was the only way to get to the hospital.
The downpour continued, the water level on both sides of the road rising higher and higher, and the police car following closely behind was getting closer and closer. In the car, besides the sound of rain and water, the only sound was Aunt An's labored breathing.
Soon, the people in the car also discovered that the water level on the roadside was rising rapidly, and driving forward would mean a dead end.
"Charge!" Qi Moxue shouted.
Zhai Yifei's eyes were already red. He stepped on the accelerator to drive the car forward. The tires cut through the water. The car moved forward for a while, but the roaring engine suddenly stopped.
The entire car was stuck in half a meter of water.
It was as if a song was at its most intense point but was forcibly paused.
Zhai Yifei hammered the steering wheel hard and then collapsed on it.
Qi Moxue's heart seemed to sink into deep water, but she smiled at this moment: "Finally, it has come to this..."
The sound of an old man sobbing could be heard from the back row.
Qi Moxue comforted them in return: "It doesn't matter. The police will find out sooner or later anyway. Now it's more important to save people... Let's turn ourselves in. The police won't sit idly by..."
Four police cars stopped not far from the broken-down car, and the chase on the typhoon night finally came to an end.
Guo Zhengyao said, "Their car's engine was flooded and broke down."
As soon as he said this, the door of the car was opened.
Qi Moxue and Zhai Yifei, who were sitting in the front seat of the car, got out, stood in the water, and waved their arms at several police cars.
Luo Siwei said calmly: "Let's drive the car over and take a look." The command vehicle has a higher chassis and the engine has been waterproofed, so the water depth it can withstand is dozens of centimeters higher than that of ordinary cars.
Guo Zhengyao started the car again and slowly moved forward.
Qi Moxue raised her hands in the pouring rain. She couldn't open her eyes because of the rain, and made a gesture of surrender with her hands: "Please, please save me..."
The rear door of the car opened, and several police officers saw the situation inside. This arrest was different from their previous arrests. There were no vicious gangsters in the car, but weak old people and patients.
Luo Siwei looked up and she quickly realized that the middle-aged woman was not pretending, but was really having a heart attack.
Seeing that she didn't answer immediately, Qi Moxue's eyes turned red. She shouted to the police for help: "Her name is An Jihong, she is an old teacher. She has taught for half her life. Apart from embezzling some pension benefits, she has never done anything wrong."
Standing in the heavy rain, with her hair and clothes completely soaked, Qi Moxue's eyes were full of pleading: "Please, save her..."
Luo Siwei used to think that after seeing so many deaths, she would get used to everything. But in reality, the more corpses she saw, the more she didn't want people to leave.
Every life is unique, and she doesn't want to face the process of others' death.
He looked at the suspect standing in front of him, and then at the old man lying in the back seat of the car with an increasingly pale face. They were police officers, and the other party was a murder suspect, but at the same time, they were all human beings.
Luo Siwei made a choice: "Save people first!"
After hearing her order, the police officers took action. They found a raincoat from the police car, wrapped the old man in it and took him up.
At this time, Qi Moxue pulled her back and said, "Officer Luo, can you take me to the hospital? I'm more familiar with her condition."
Luo Siwei was a little hesitant.
Qi Moxue pleaded again, "I've been caught by you. I will cooperate with the police and surrender myself. Please handcuff me. After I go to the hospital with her, I will tell you everything!"
In the current situation, Qi Moxue was clearly more familiar with the woman's identity and condition, and was able to comfort the patient. Having her by her side would undoubtedly be helpful in saving lives. Luo Siwei took out handcuffs and handcuffed Qi Moxue's hands, then took her to the command vehicle.
Luo Siwei then arranged the work: "Shen Qing, Tang Xi, you and I will take the person to a nearby hospital. Lao Huo, Ni Xiang, Guo Zhengyao, you will be responsible for detaining the other suspects and return to the Municipal Bureau first!"
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