Alarm center, Shasi, Hunan Province.
"Hello, this is the Yaoyaoling Police Alarm Center. Are you going to report a crime?" a female operator answered the phone and asked.
"Hey, there's a bomb in the Wanlong Shopping Mall. Send someone there quickly, or it will explode if you're late." A sinister male voice came from the other end of the phone, speaking in unstandard Chinese.
The female operator frowned and said, "Sir, making a false report is against the law. Please don't waste police resources."
"Hehe, believe it or not, but I want to remind you that today is the weekend and there are a lot of people in the mall. It will be fun if it explodes, hahaha..." After saying that, the man hung up the phone.
The female operator's brows furrowed even more.
She has been in this position for several years and, although it is not common, she occasionally receives prank calls to the police.
Faced with such situations, she usually ignores them.
But this time, she had a bad feeling, so she felt uneasy for the next few minutes.
Wanlong Shopping Mall has a large flow of people. If there really is a bomb, the number of casualties will be absolutely staggering.
The female operator didn't dare to take the risk, so she immediately called the intercom near Wanlong Shopping Mall.
"We've received a report that there's a bomb inside the Wanlong Shopping Center. Police officers nearby, please rush over and check immediately."
In a police car, two policemen, one old and one young, were patrolling.
At this moment, the call from the main station suddenly rang, and the words just spoken by the female operator were heard.
The older police officer picked up the intercom and replied, "I'm Captain Guo Hua from the Haosong Road Police Station. We're less than 300 meters from the Wanlong Shopping Center. We're heading over to check it out now."
After Guo Hua finished speaking, he said to the young police officer who was driving, "Xiao Zhao, go to Wanlong Shopping Mall."
"Okay, Master." Xiao Zhao responded, then turned around and drove towards Wanlong Shopping Mall.
The two arrived at Wanlong Shopping Mall, got out of the car and walked towards the mall gate.
But not long after he walked out, Guo Hua was bumped by a hooded man coming towards him.
"How do you walk?" Xiao Zhao was so angry that he yelled.
"Forget it, business is more important." Guo Hua looked at the man's back deeply, then continued walking towards the mall.
"Is the person in charge of your mall here?" Guo Hua asked a mall security guard.
"Officer, what happened?" The security guard was startled when he saw two policemen coming to find his boss.
"Someone reported that there was a bomb in your mall. I have to evacuate the people in the mall now," said Guo Hua.
"Officer, are you kidding me?" The security guard was shocked by the news and showed an expression of disbelief.
"Who is kidding you? Call the person in charge of your shopping mall out." Guo Hua had a stern face and looked very serious.
"This..." The security guard hesitated.
Today is the weekend and there are a lot of people in the mall. If I suddenly tell my boss that I want to evacuate the crowd, I will definitely be scolded to death.
"Why are you still standing there? Why don't you call your person in charge out?" Xiao Zhao was relatively young, and when he saw that the security guard was taking no action, he immediately became angry.
At this moment, a middle-aged man in a suit walked out of the mall, followed by a woman who looked like a secretary.
"What's going on?" the middle-aged man asked with a frown.
He is the person in charge of Wanlong Shopping Mall, Gao Renjie.
"Mr. Gao, this is what happened. These two police officers said they received a report that there was a bomb in our mall and that everyone inside needed to be evacuated." Seeing that the mall's boss had come out, the security guard didn't dare to hide anything, so he told him what had happened.
Gao Renjie burst into laughter upon hearing this, then suppressed his smile and said to Guo Hua somewhat rudely, "Officer, you said there was a bomb in our mall. Do you have any evidence? What if it's fake news? Do you know how much money our mall will lose by causing such trouble? Are you going to pay for it?"
make trouble?
Guo Hua also frowned when he heard this.
"Mr. Gao, right? Although I have no evidence, now that we have received the report, we must ensure the safety of people's lives. If the bomb really explodes, it will definitely cause huge casualties, so I hope you can cooperate with our police work." Although Guo Hua was negotiating, his tone was quite tough.
"I can cooperate with other things, but evacuating all the people... I can tell you clearly that it is impossible!" Gao Renjie was also very strong.
For a while, the two sides were deadlocked.
Just at this moment, an old man dressed as a cleaner stumbled out.
"Boss, there is a bomb in the toilet!" the old man said in panic.
Gao Renjie's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he immediately yelled, "What nonsense are you talking about? Are you quitting?"
"I, I, I am not lying. There really is a bomb." The cleaner said with a pale face and trembling.
He is a cleaner in charge of the third and fourth floors of the Wanlong Shopping Mall. His usual job is to mop the floor and clean the toilets.
Today he went to clean the toilet as usual, but found that one of the toilets had been closed and had not been opened for more than half an hour, so the old man went to knock on the door of that toilet.
"Is anyone there?"
No one responded.
"Is anyone there? We need to clean up." The old man knocked on the door again.
Still no one responded.
The old man was a practical man. He was afraid that someone might faint in the toilet, so he knocked more urgently and even pushed the door hard.
After pushing for a while, the toilet door was finally opened, but there was no one inside, only a black travel bag in the corner.
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