Chapter 88: Danger
In the bushes near the cold storage.
Leng Xiaohe lowered her body, her tactical gloves tightly gripping her gun, her knuckles turning white. "What should we do now? Arrest them immediately?"
Li Qihan half-crouched, his eyes narrowed slightly behind his night-vision goggles. He raised his hand to gesture for silence, his voice lowered to a whisper: "Without evidence and without catching them in the act, they'll most likely deny it."
Xiang Quan’s video cannot identify the murderer.
"We failed to subdue them this time. Next time we track them down, Xiang Quan will be in greater danger."
The trafficking of human organs is a deeply hidden illegal industry chain, and this time is a good opportunity to wipe it out.
He turned to look at Xia Lili, who was lying on her right. The moonlight cast mottled shadows on her pale face. "And in your hallucination, you saw two men in white coats killing someone, and then loading Xiang Quan and other frozen goods onto the transport truck, right?"
Xia Lili bit her lower lip and nodded, her hair on her forehead soaked with cold sweat: "Yes, I saw the frozen goods in the car..."
"It's not a medical storage box. There are dead fish and discolored frozen meat. It should be normal supermarket waste."
Maybe they wanted to treat Xiang Quan's body as supermarket waste.
Perhaps they were afraid that the police investigation into Xiang Quan's accidental freezing to death would involve the organ smuggling case, so they didn't dare to put the organs in the cold storage today.
Not far away, Luo Xiao was monitoring the warehouse through a telescope. He adjusted his headset and said in a hoarse voice, "That's right. And if we tell Xiang Quan about this now, what will happen if he loses his composure?"
A cold wind blew by, and Xia Lili shivered unconsciously.
She stared at the dim light coming from the warehouse, her voice tense: "But...will Brother Xiang be in danger?"
Li Qihan's tone was indifferent, yet it had a calming power: "Human lives are at stake. Relax, we have a backup plan."
Luo Xiao was a little surprised: "Start Plan B now?"
Li Qihan nodded: "Just in case. Please call the command center for me."
After Li Qihan finished speaking, he quietly stood up and took down a rectangular aluminum alloy weapon box from the trunk of the car.
Xia Lili looked at the rectangular box, slightly surprised. Could it be that the box contained...
After unlocking with fingerprints, the metal box opened with a slight hydraulic sound, revealing an LR4 high-precision sniper rifle broken into several parts.
Li Qihan's bony hands assembled the barrel and gun body like precision instruments, and the threads of the rotating silencer fit perfectly.
There was a crisp "click" sound when the bullet was pressed into the magazine.
Although Zhou Linjing talks about "sniper" to Xia Lili every day, this is the first time that Xia Lili sees a sniper rifle in real life. It's so cool.
Xia Lili was extremely surprised and leaned close to Leng Xiaohe's ear: "Sister Xiaohe, Captain Li is also a sniper?"
Leng Xiaohe smiled and put her index finger to her lips: "Shh - Captain Li used to be the ace sniper of the special police detachment and the leader of the team."
She glanced around and added in a low voice, "Not only that, Captain Li can even fly a helicopter. He's practically an encyclopedia of the police force."
"Wow!" Xia Lili covered her mouth, her eyes widening. "This is too outrageous, right? No wonder she's so young..."
"Stop, stop," Leng Xiaohe suddenly winked mischievously. "In terms of youth, who can compare to our young Boss Xia?" She deliberately dragged out her tone. "Some of them are Captain Li's immediate superiors~"
Xia Lili's face flushed immediately. "Forget it. I got here by making a fortune."
"Fortunately, I have a sniper rifle, otherwise if I had missed someone like Sun Yongfeng..." Xia Lili said in a resentful tone.
Leng Xiaohe patted her shoulder and said, "For operations like this involving the cooperation of ordinary citizens, Captain Li will always apply for a backup plan to ensure the safety of citizens."
At this moment, Li Qihan knelt on one knee, his slender fingers firmly holding the sniper rifle, the barrel of the gun gleaming with a cold metallic luster in the moonlight.
He was wearing a headset, his head slightly tilted, his right eye close to the scope, his breathing steady and almost silent.
"The sniper position is in place."
He reported briefly into his headset, his voice like an undercurrent surging beneath the surface of the ice. A confirmation came from the command center: "Sniper observation position approved, using clearance code T-7429."
Li Qihan's tactical gloves and the buttstock form a stable triangular support.
The slightly curved knuckles are like the clenched claws of a bird of prey, ready to strike.
Snipers are usually accompanied by observers, and Luo Xiao acted as a temporary observer. "The wind is northeast, force 3, and the humidity is 67%."
"Got it." Li Qihan's index finger lightly pressed on the trigger guard.
Xia Lili looked at Li Qihan, and her worries about Xiang Quan's safety were lessened, but she still couldn't help feeling nervous.
Time passes by every second.
It was not until 1:30 in the morning that Sun Yongfeng left the cold storage in a casual manner.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Li Qihan still stayed in front of the sniper rifle, just moving his shoulders slightly.
After all, Xia Lili had great respect for him, and Li Qihan actually lay there and observed him for more than two hours.
Time passed minute by minute, and finally it was two o'clock in the morning when Xiang Quan got off work.
Xiang Quan closed the cold storage door and walked towards the location agreed with the police as planned.
Just at this moment, his cell phone rang!
Xiang Quan swallowed and answered the phone. It was his supervisor calling.
"Lao Xiang, you told me last time that the temperature in the cold storage has been low recently. You suspected that the temperature control equipment in the cold storage was broken, right?"
Xiang Quan hummed, trying his best to remain calm: "What's the matter, Boss?"
The supervisor said in a commanding tone, "Okay, check the central controller for me, take a picture and send it to me. I need it now."
Xiang Quan moved his lips: "Okay, I'll go back and take a look now."
Xiang Quan and the police officer Yi Jin sitting opposite him exchanged glances.
Yi Jin was the policeman with a similar build who replaced Xiang Quan and returned to the cold storage. He had already exchanged clothes with Xiang Quan and was wearing a blue baseball cap used for moving goods in the supermarket.
Yi Jin imitated Lao Er's walking posture and returned to the cold storage. He opened the door of the cold storage according to the password given to him by Lao Er and walked in.
Xia Lili and others who were observing secretly held their breath.
The murderer is about to appear!
Less than seven minutes later, a supermarket waste transport truck drove in front of the cold storage. Two people in white coats and wearing masks got off the truck and entered the cold storage.
While Xiang Quan was carrying out the moving work, he had quietly installed police cameras in the cold storage.
The tablet in Li Qihan's hand flashed with real-time images of the cold storage monitoring, and the cold blue light reflected on her tense face.
In the picture, a figure in a white coat sneaked into the cold storage and picked up the sharp meat hook hanging on the operating table. The tip of the metal hook shone coldly under the light of the cold storage.
"action!"
He whispered orders into his headset.
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