Chapter 156 I’m afraid that something unexpected will happen during our arrest mission…
After they were far away from the supermarket entrance and turned the corner and could no longer see them, Guan Xia started jogging and got into the car with Jiang Yingyao.
After Wang Yu answered the phone, Guan Xia didn't even have time to speak before she said quickly, "Wang Yu, we need support. Join the group chat where Sister Ji shared her location. Brother Jiang and I will be following."
Wang Yu immediately understood and repeated it to Lu Tingfeng exactly as it was.
Guan Xia heard Lu Tingfeng's deep answer. Although he usually looked lazy and a little careless, he was really reliable when it came to big things.
Wang Yu then asked, "Have you discovered a new suspect?"
Guan Xia hummed, then glanced anxiously at Ji Anfa's shared location. Seeing that she was still standing on the platform, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sister Ji, Brother Jiang, and I left the police station in Liu Xiang's neighborhood. Before visiting her community, we stopped by her supermarket. Sister Ji suspected that the supermarket might be a den. As soon as we reached the supermarket entrance, I saw a middle-aged woman who looked a little strange. Sister Ji immediately followed her and asked Brother Jiang and me to drive behind her."
Wang Yu asked, "Does that middle-aged woman have a means of transportation?"
Guan Xia said, "No, she went straight to the bus stop, probably to catch a bus."
Before Wang Yu could say anything, Lu Tingfeng's voice suddenly came from the receiver.
"It doesn't feel right," Lu Tingfeng said quickly. "If she was an accomplice of Liu Xiang, she would definitely have transportation to move the child, but she took the bus..."
Before Lu Tingfeng finished speaking, Wang Yu also reacted and asked again, "What does that woman look like? Is she very different from Liu Xiang?"
Guan Xia said in a very decisive tone, "Not only does she not have transportation, but judging by the way she's dressed, she must be living in poverty. I can see she looks very distressed, but she's not willing to take a taxi."
Lu Tingfeng added, "That makes the problem even clearer. She's most likely not an accomplice to the crime, but another kind of accomplice who helped Liu Xiang hide the child. She's also most likely not an insider."
Guan Xia thought of Liu Xiang's wide social background and agreed with their speculation.
"Guan Xia, listen to me," Wang Yu's tone became a little heavier, with a hint of soothing. "Liu Xiang's residential complex is relatively close to the city center. I speculate that the middle-aged woman probably doesn't live in Shangshuang City, but in a relatively remote place like a county town. In that case, she is very likely to change cars along the way. If Sister Ji follows her in reverse, it will be very obvious and easy to be discovered. Brother Jiang's target is too conspicuous. Before we arrive, you must take turns tracking Sister Ji."
Guan Xia hadn't expected this and was stunned for a moment, but without much hesitation, she quickly agreed, "Okay."
Lu Tingfeng also said, "Guan Xia, don't be nervous. Based on your description, we estimate that the danger posed by that middle-aged woman is very low. You don't need to get close to her. Just sit in a position where you can observe her and make sure she stays on the bus, or find out which stop she gets off. Of course, you also have to use the seat sharing function the entire time, just like Sister Ji."
Guan Xia was a little nervous after agreeing, but after Lu Tingfeng's explanation, even though it was her first time tracking a criminal suspect, she quickly calmed down. She took a deep breath and said, "I'll remember that. Let's keep in touch. See you later."
Wang Yu also said, "See you later. Be safe. I'm contacting Captain Xu for support now. Don't be afraid. We are all around you."
After hanging up the phone, Guan Xia didn't bother to discuss with Jiang Yingyao. She first took a look at the shared location that Ji An opened in the group, and confirmed that he had boarded the bus and was moving forward with it. Jiang Yingyao was following behind the bus not far away. Only then did she take out her sketchbook with confidence, and skillfully called up the system video of the middle-aged woman in her mind, and quickly drew a sketch by comparing it with the enlarged and paused video image.
It was still the tail end of the morning rush hour, so the car was not speeding up. Guan Xia drew very smoothly. After finishing it in about ten minutes, he skillfully posted it to the group. He also tagged Xu Nian separately, asking him to remember to communicate with Captain Zhou to confirm the identity information of the suspect.
After seeing Xu Nian reply with a "good" in the group chat, Guan Xia put away her phone and asked Jiang Yingyao, "How is Brother Jiang? Is everything going well?"
Compared to Guan Xia's somewhat tense mood, Jiang Yingyao was very relaxed. He smiled and said, "Tracking a peripheral member of a criminal organization won't cause any unexpected problems. Don't worry. Although Sister Ji and I are not from the same police station, we are all criminal police. She is so experienced, she will be fine."
Perhaps infected by Jiang Yingyao's relaxed demeanor, Guan Xia finally relaxed and leaned back in her chair. She forced a smile and said, "I trust Sister Ji, too. By the way, Brother Jiang, have you often carried out tracking missions like this before?"
Jiang Yingyao glanced at the traffic light ahead and saw that there were still about ten seconds before the green light came on. Then he replied, "Yes, there have been, but not that many. The most common missions we carry out are tracking missions."
Guan Xia understood, "Just like the few times we solved cases before?"
Jiang Yingyao nodded. "Yes, but it's not that easy. Before we were with you, we ran into countless detours and our efficiency was not that high. Many times, after tracking for a long time, we found that we had entered a dead end and the clues were stuck and we could not investigate further."
After being with Xu Nian and the others for a long time, Guan Xia also realized how perverted the existence of the system was. However, in her opinion, it was not that easy. Whenever there was a case, she would be busy day and night. Of course, the clues were always found. Although she was a little confused at the beginning, she would always be able to connect them together later.
When Guan Xia thought of this, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Sure enough, the system is the best cheat code for every time traveler. She just didn't know when her system would be able to be upgraded to the maximum level.
Jiang Yingyao was experienced after all. He chatted with Guan Xia from time to time along the way to distract her attention, keeping her relatively calm but not too relaxed. Until about an hour later, Ji An suddenly typed a line of words in the group.
Ji An: @Jiang Yingyao @Guan Xia, please note that the target will get off at the next stop, Pingcheng South Road. In order not to arouse the target's suspicion, I will get off at the next stop after the target's get-off point.
Guan Xia immediately replied "OK" in the group, then switched to the bus APP from the background and opened the navigation directly.
Jiang Yingyao understood the hint very well and stepped on the accelerator to overtake the bus carrying the criminal suspect who had been following him from the left lane. He successfully dropped Guan Xia off before the bus arrived at the station.
Before Guan Xia got off the car, Jiang Yingyao still said with a smile, "Don't be nervous, we are right behind you."
Guan Xia nodded seriously, took a deep breath, then closed the door, walked to the bus station, and tried to find a seat in a corner as usual. While looking at the bus stop sign, he also noticed the bus that the suspect was about to arrive at the station.
A few minutes later, Guan Xia really saw the middle-aged woman he had seen before get off the bus. Without even bothering to see where Ji An was, he turned his head back, left his position in front of the bus stop, and stood diagonally behind the middle-aged woman. While lowering his head to play with his mobile phone, he continued to pay attention to the middle-aged woman's movements out of the corner of his eye.
Thanks to the fact that people nowadays love to play with their mobile phones in their spare time, Guan Xia's appearance is not noticeable at all. The presence of the mobile phone has effectively concealed her tracking behavior.
After more than ten minutes, people came and went at the bus stop, and four or five buses entered and exited the station. As more and more people came, the middle-aged woman finally moved. She still had a sad expression on her face, and walked to the front of the bus where it was convenient to get on the bus.
Guan Xia glanced back and found that it was a D012 bus coming from the South Railway Station to Xinhuai County. At the same time, several people moved and stood behind the middle-aged woman. Seeing this, Guan Xia also walked over, put down his mobile phone and began to wait to get on the bus.
Sure enough, this was the bus the middle-aged woman wanted to transfer to. Compared with the previous buses that had passed by, this bus had obviously more people on it. There was no empty seat at all, and even most of the bus was filled with people standing. Guan Xia took some effort to squeeze onto the bus, and did not dare to stand too far away. She stood two meters away from the middle-aged woman, near the back door of the bus. Whenever the woman wanted to get off, she would definitely pass by her.
Because there were many people in the car, Guan Xia was afraid that she would lose track of her if she misjudged her, so she didn't dare to play with her mobile phone, nor did she dare to look at her too blatantly from time to time. She pretended to look at the scenery outside the window and continued to glance at her out of the corner of her eye.
This stop lasted more than an hour. Guan Xia's feet were numb. She watched the bus drive from the six-lane main road with tall buildings all the way to the small county town with sparse shops and not many people. Only when the bus arrived at the terminal did the middle-aged woman move to the back door of the bus and prepare to get off.
Guan Xia didn't dare to relax at all. Fortunately, there were many people getting off at this station, so Guan Xia was not conspicuous at all among them.
When Guan Xia noticed that the car was about to arrive at the terminal, she explained the situation in the group. So when she got off the car, after Guan Xia saw the figures of Wang Yu and Zhong Xiaoyu out of the corner of her eye, she no longer paid attention to the middle-aged woman, and walked out of the station without looking back. After just a few glances, she saw the car they had been driving for the past two days, and hurriedly jogged over.
As soon as they got in the car, Pang Le gave Guan Xia a big hug and rubbed Guan Xia's face with a little force. He said with a big smile: "Guan Xia, how can you be so capable that you can carry out this kind of mission alone? How is it? Are you nervous? Are you a little excited?"
As soon as Guan Xia got in the car, Jiang Yingyao locked the windows, not worrying that others would hear what they were talking about.
Guan Xia nodded happily. "It's okay. I'm not too nervous. I'm actually a little excited. By the way, why are you here? And why are you in the same car with Sister Ji and Brother Jiang? I just saw Zhong Xiaoyu. Are Xu Nian and Qi Bai here too?"
Pang Le gently touched Guan Xia's face again, then smiled and said, "Not only that, Captain Zhou also sent two groups of people here, fearing that there would be any accidents in our arrest mission this time."
"Arrest?" Guan Xia looked at Ji An with some doubt.
Ji An turned to meet Guan Xia's gaze and explained, "During the time you were following the suspect, we've conducted some analysis on her. Our hypothesis, like Lu Tingfeng's, is that she might be a peripheral member of Liu Xiang's criminal gang, responsible for hiding kidnapped or abducted children. She's also very likely hiding Yan Xingyu, who disappeared at 2:00 PM on August 9th. We don't know how many people are hiding the children there, or whether they're armed. Just in case, we've called for extra support. Once we're sure they're hiding the missing children, we'll immediately shut down that den tonight."
Guan Xia hesitated for a few seconds and said, "But this way, Liu Xiang might not be alerted in the short term. However, Fan Ya, Ge Qing, and Gao Cuicui live in the neighborhood next to Yan Xingyu. Once Yan Xingyu is rescued, it's impossible not to notify his family. Once his family gets the news, these three girls who live so close to him might notify Liu Xiang immediately. Then..."
Guan Xia didn't finish her words, but her meaning was very clear. She had never participated in solving such a big case before, so she was inevitably nervous and a little restrained.
Jiang Yingyao said, "Human lives are always our top priority. Even if there's a risk of alerting the suspect, we can't afford to worry about that. But don't worry, Captain Zhou has already contacted their superiors at the branch. While we're making sure to arrest them, they'll also be arresting the three suspects, including Fan Ya. Lu Tingfeng and the others have covered most of the three suspects this morning. We can be sure not to alert Liu Xiang for at least 48 hours. 48 hours may seem short, but with so many people involved in solving the case, it's enough time for everyone to get a lot done."
After Jiang Yingyao's explanation, Guan Xia stopped thinking about it and quickly recounted the process of following the middle-aged woman.
Guan Xia did nothing along the way. She was observing the middle-aged woman out of the corner of her eye. She found that as the middle-aged woman got closer to her destination, the sad expression on her face became more obvious. It was as if she had encountered a huge difficulty and wanted to find someone for help, but didn't know who to ask. She looked like she was at her wit's end.
Guan Xia speculated, "If this middle-aged woman is really responsible for helping Liu Xiang and the others hide the child, then judging by her expression and body language, she's either an accomplice or the child, and there's a more urgent situation. I personally lean towards the child. After all, if it's an accomplice, she's an adult after all. As long as she's not a wanted criminal, she can still get medical treatment outside, so she wouldn't be so anxious. If it's a child, there's a high probability that if she takes the child out, she'll be discovered and suspected, which is why she's so hesitant to speak, with an expression of despair."
After Guan Xia said this, everyone's expressions became solemn. Jiang Yingyao said, "It seems that Wang Yu's decision to contact Xu Nianzhou and his team for support was correct. We must carry out the arrest tonight."
"Well, let's do this," Jiang Yingyao said, looking up at the sky, then down at the time. "It's already past two in the afternoon. Let's go have some lunch and wait for Wang Yu and the others to come back. Then we'll split up into teams to get a basic understanding of the area around the suspect's residence. That way, we can catch him at night."
Guan Xia thought Jiang Yingyao was going to express some important opinion, but she didn't expect him to take them out for dinner. She was stunned for a moment.
Ji An saw it from behind and couldn't help but laugh, "Brother Jiang, you're still experienced. Before you can carry out an arrest, you have to have the right time, place, and people. The right time means waiting until night, the right place means understanding the environment, and the right people means having a full meal to have strength."
Pang Le laughed out loud at Guan Xia's expression, and couldn't help but rub Guan Xia's face, "It's only been a day and a half since we last met, Guan Xia, how come you're still so cute? No, you're getting cuter and cuter."
Guan Xia felt that her face was about to turn red, so she used a little strength to push Pang Le's hand away. Unconsciously, her tense mood was once again smoothed out by the two people's banter.
Sitting back in the chair in a relatively relaxed posture, Guan Xia finally felt like asking Pang Le about his experiences over the past two days.
When talking about this, Pang Le became quite excited and started talking non-stop. Except for Jiang Yingyao who was multitasking while driving, Guan Xia and Ji An were listening attentively.
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