Chapter 319 The risk increases greatly!
Xia Lili nimbly crossed a tilted concrete slab. Her excellent eyesight immediately caught a black shadow in the distance quickly flashing into the crevice of the ruins.
The man was also holding a small dark box in his hand, which looked very much like a professional lock-picking toolbox.
"I saw them!" She lowered her voice and immediately warned, "At nine o'clock, someone just went in!"
All the team members tensed up instantly, silently gripped their weapons at their waists, and slowly advanced in the direction indicated by Xia Lili in a tactical formation.
Collapsed walls, scattered furniture and broken pipes were everywhere, greatly increasing the difficulty of movement and interception.
Xia Lili stared closely at every team member who passed by her, looking into their eyes one by one.
Just as her eyes met with the second team member.
A hallucination pierced her mind: she saw this team member being attacked from behind during the pursuit, and was stabbed three times in a row, each of which was fatal!
The other party violently snatched the weapon from him.
The scene finally freezes on him lying in a pool of blood, with three blurry but indifferent figures standing beside him.
Immediately afterwards, Xia Lili's eyes met the fifth female member of the team.
At that moment, powerful hallucinations flooded into her mind like a tide.
She clearly "saw" the young female team member being brutally taken hostage by a man wearing a black hood.
The man pressed a cold dagger against her throat and roared towards Deputy Captain Zhong and the other team members, "Whoever dares to follow me, I'll kill her with a single blow!"
The hallucination continued: the female team member was dragged and pulled by the criminals through the ruins.
They showed no regard for her safety at all, and their rough movements left several deep bloody scratches on her arms and waist from the exposed steel bars and gravel along the way.
She gritted her teeth, endured the pain, and was eventually forced into a gray van that had been waiting at the end of the ruins.
The vehicle started immediately and sped towards the northwest.
What is shocking is that this van can drive extremely flexibly on the chaotic roads after the earthquake.
They skillfully avoided various collapsed walls, cracks and obstacles. It was obvious that their escape route was carefully planned and they were very familiar with the road conditions after the earthquake.
The next hallucination scene shifted to the interior of the car: The female team member, filled with extreme anger and unwillingness, shouted at the criminals, "You unscrupulous bastards, you shall not live happier!"
What she got in return was that the criminal in the passenger seat suddenly turned around and slapped her fiercely in the face.
Xia Lili looked out through the car window. The van was speeding across a section of highway, and a green road sign flashed by outside the window.
Despite her extremely fast speed, her exceptional eyesight still managed to capture some key information on the road sign: "Chu County 21km, Zhouyuan 3.6km."
The last scene of the illusion is suffocatingly cruel.
The body of the young female team member was casually thrown on the cold concrete ground, lifeless.
Beside her, the group of criminals sat together, excitedly counting the loot, with no respect for the lives under their feet.
Then, a criminal roughly dragged her body out of the house.
Their hiding place was an extremely ordinary rural bungalow with a few broken and rusty blue iron sheets on the roof. It was surrounded by weeds and the environment was desolate and hidden.
The criminals dragged the female team member's body to the nearby water, tied stones to her body with rough hemp rope, and then threw her into the water without mercy.
A series of turbid ripples appeared on the water surface, and soon it returned to silence.
In this heartbreaking scene, Xia Lili keenly noticed that not far away, a tall high-voltage power tower stood silently in the night.
The cruel scenes gradually faded away, and Xia Lili suddenly came to her senses and realized that her back was already soaked with cold sweat.
In the hallucination just now, she clearly saw that behind the hooded man who was taking the hostages, there were three accomplices fleeing in panic.
Judging from the figures, there are four people in this team, including the hijacker!
What frightened her even more was that the clothing and body shapes of these people were completely different from the three criminals who attacked the second team member and snatched weapons in her previous hallucination.
Plus the three criminals that Team A is chasing...
She quickly came to a disturbing conclusion: the size of this criminal gang was at least ten people!
Xia Lili's heart tightened instantly.
The balance of power between the enemy and us suddenly shifted, and their original action plan and personnel deployment suddenly became inadequate.
What's more, they are a group of ruthless criminals who are familiar with the terrain and even dare to take advantage of the earthquake to rob people.
The danger of this operation is rising rapidly!
Xia Lili concentrated on recalling every detail of the hallucination: the direction of the criminals' escape, the characteristics of the highway, and the environment around their lair.
Especially the high-voltage power line tower and the broken blue iron roof.
With the help of traffic monitoring, satellite positioning and terrain comparison, there is a chance to directly locate their hiding place.
More importantly, at the end of the hallucination, the group took off their black hoods when counting the stolen goods and dealing with the bodies.
Xia Lili could see almost everyone's face clearly!
She quickly calmed down, realizing that pursuing them rashly through the ruins would be extremely risky. The enemy was numerous and familiar with the terrain, making it easy for them to set up an ambush.
The police lack air support, and even if they were to deploy it temporarily, it would only alert the enemy.
What worries her even more is that in such a chaotic environment, if the police officers are attacked and their weapons are stolen, and the criminals escape, the consequences will be unimaginable.
The risks will increase exponentially.
We must not allow criminals to take advantage of this opportunity!
Just as Deputy Captain Zhong was about to take the lead and bend down, preparing to lead his men into the narrow gap, Xia Lili's clear and firm voice suddenly rang out:
"Attention everyone in Team B, halt action immediately!"
"Everyone evacuate, don't alert the enemy!"
The team members were stunned when they heard this and looked at each other, but they still followed the order without hesitation, quickly and silently exited the ruins area, and followed Xia Lili to hide in a secluded alley nearby.
As soon as he stood firm in the shadows, Deputy Captain Zhong hurried forward and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong, Xiao Xia?"
His eyes were heavy, and his tone was filled with foreboding: "Did you...see that someone among us was sacrificed?"
Xia Lili nodded heavily, her voice low but clear: "More than one."
She looked around at the nervous faces around her and continued to explain, "This gang of criminals consists of far more than six people. Preliminary estimates show there are at least ten."
"Not only did they plan thoroughly, but their escape route was also extremely complete. More importantly—"
Xia Lili paused, her tone growing more severe. "These people are extremely brutal. If one of us is left alone, he'll be killed or kidnapped in an instant."
"The risk of fighting in such a complex ruined environment is too high. I have decided to terminate the operation."
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