Chapter 36 Let’s Get Off at Midway Island
Episode 36 Let’s get off at Midway Island
[There can be no delay in kidnapping and carjacking]
In fact, this kind of text message will not be as straightforward as an ambiguous text message. The first two words are slang. The main reason is that I don’t want to teach you bad things, and secondly, I just want to talk about these two words at a glance, so there’s no need to beat around the bush.
Wendy Gale obviously has an identity.
From these two sentences, we can at least speculate that the deceased Gail was related to the robbery gang, who wanted to kidnap Doris and assist in the carjacking. But I didn't expect that Wendy Gale sent it before anything even started.
Also, Wendy Gale had a gun.
It is said that he is a clerk working in a top law firm, and he does not live on the edge of a knife, unless it is a hobby. However, this most likely means that the robber gang has abundant war resources and even marginalized people have weapons.
Most of the core members of Anubis were disbanded by Fu Lin's team last year, which also cut off the supply of arms and weapons and sent the main criminals to prison. The fact that such a large-scale collective crime has occurred and they are fully prepared also shows that the robber gang is likely to have gathered together temporarily.
"It seems that every box needs to be checked carefully."
Shang Hexing's words made me nervous, and he obviously saw through my thoughts and quickly said, "What? Am I making you nervous again?"
Even though I am usually very quiet, it doesn’t mean that my brain is always in shutdown mode.
I glanced at him and replied slowly, "I think we should check every box. It will waste time and alert the enemy. We are facing desperate criminals. If they get excited, they will not have the patience to argue with you and me. We should just shoot them. We should pay attention to the results or effects when doing things. We should not solve the problem by throwing water on the fire."
Shang Hexing raised his eyebrows slightly.
I don't care at all whether my performance here will steal the limelight from the protagonist of the comic.
Because comics will be edited and filtered by themselves anyway, and if the protagonist is weaker than me, it can’t be considered my fault.
I just need to express my thoughts.
Shang Hexing asked: "What do you want?"
"We need to round up the robbers." I held up my finger. "We need the conductor to help us do this."
The conductor's eyes widened, "What?!"
"What what?" I asked back.
"Go and call the conductor first."
I urged the conductor to go first. Since we were snack buddies and he was considered Fu Lin's friend, I naturally gained his trust. "Don't let too many people know. Just say that Mr. Fu asked him to come."
The conductor was about to open his mouth, but I interrupted him, put my hat on his head and said, "If this plan fails, it will be largely your fault. You must be very careful!"
In one sentence, the responsibility is put in place.
The conductor also panicked, quickly shut his mouth, nodded silently, and ran back.
Shortly after the conductor left, I resumed dialing Wendy Gale's stuff.
In addition to several mobile phones, the personal belongings included chargers, as well as notebooks and pens, which are essential for office work. There was a signature pen pinned to the notepad. In addition, there is a small box, which also contains a golden Parker ballpoint pen, which is a very common style. There is no mechanism on the pen.
Shang Hexing looked down at me sitting on the sofa and asked, "What exactly do you want to do? How are you going to get the robbers to gather together?"
"Have you heard of light traps?" I began to unpack the documents. "They're the kind where you shine a light and the bugs automatically fly over."
"Then what?"
I explained, "They are robbers, so they are naturally thinking about how to gather all the scattered passengers together, which will be easier for them. Don't forget, this is a luxury train, and there are many high-net-worth people. They definitely don't want to lose any of them. Being able to gather the people together is equivalent to saving them a lot of trouble."
I continued, "If they are smart, they will seize the opportunity I provide. In addition, we can control their rhythm. From the information they sent, we can see that they are still in the process of contacting each other. There are many details and people that cannot be matched one by one. We can disrupt their rhythm."
"It won't do any harm to us, will it?"
Shang Hexing crossed his arms, still confused about my intentions, "Who knows if you are an accomplice of the criminals?"
I had never thought about this part. "You really make sense. But if you are smart, why did I hijack another train when I hijacked one person? Am I bringing myself a huge trouble? I am not Sisyphus, why should I roll a stone ball up the mountain? Why should I punish myself? You are so smart, tell me why?"
“…”
"Are you unable to wake up? Can't move your head?"
I showed my concern for him again, "You can rely on me more."
I pat myself on the back, this is what is meant by recommended.
You know, I am not usually a proactive person, but he glared at me.
*
When the conductor came over, An Qingyan followed.
The scene was under control of the train conductor. I guess now, apart from a few of us and the murderer, no one knows what kind of person was in that bathroom.
After Doris came to identify the body, An Qingyan told her not to panic, not to say anything, and to go back to her seat first.
In fact, the best solution is to stop the car and then deal with the case, and try not to alert the enemy, which will cause complications. However, everyone's idea was to keep the dangerous people within the smallest scope and not give the murderer a chance to take other measures on Midway Island.
The most important thing is that although there was no communication between each other, everyone was sure that it must be a group of girls who accidentally injured someone. It was not difficult to locate and control the murderer before getting out of the car.
But who knew that this would lead to a new case.
I was originally planning to say that this was my idea, but as soon as An Qingyan entered the box, the words on my lips automatically rolled around and changed into another sentence. While speaking, I deliberately looked at Shang Hexing next to me, guiding everyone to focus their attention on him.
Let’s first state our assumptions about Wendy’s belongings.
This inference of train hijacking indeed caused the train conductor and An Qingyan's expressions to change.
This is actually the key point.
I want to know what thoughts and plans they have on this matter. The most important thing is whether they are one of the masterminds of this carjacking. If so, you can take it down on the spot.
The train conductor is an important position.
If he is also a robber, then it will do us more good than harm if we take him down first.
"Mr. Fu said that we can promote a self-service morning tea service to attract all the passengers to gather in the restaurant car."
When we came from the seventh carriage just now, we actually passed by the restaurant.
They prepare light meals for passengers long before the train departs, such as various vegetable and fruit salads, whole wheat sandwiches, Italian panini with avocado and chicken, beef mini burgers, pumpkin soup, tomato soup, baguette and butter, Greek yogurt bowls, fruit tarts, chocolate mousse, and various teas, coffees and other drinks.
This can be turned into a morning tea and light meal buffet to attract passengers. These passengers then attract more robbers.
"But isn't our most important goal to catch the robbers? What if the robbers take control of the passengers? How can we resist? If the passengers know that we let them take risks, wouldn't it be very dangerous?"
The conductor thought our plan was too risky.
"Conductor, do you want to be a hero?"
From the tone of his voice I heard before, he seemed quite complacent about his past as a policeman.
"Think about it. When everyone is trapped, how many people will respect you if you say that you used to be a police officer? Fortune and wealth are achieved through risk... No, fame and reputation are achieved through risk. And why would we let the passengers get killed? The kidnappers will not be willing to hurt the passengers before receiving the ransom."
The conductor looked enlightened, so I pressed on, "Really?"
The conductor said in a deep voice, "Indeed."
After he said this, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Shang Hexing and An Qingyan were both observing my state, as if they were trying to guess what my plans were.
I'm not usually such an aggressive person, but I really don't have much time left.
"Are you worried about what will happen if the passengers find out?"
I looked around and said, "You know, I know, Mr. Fu knows, Mr. An Qingyan knows, only four people know. If anyone spreads that this is actually a trap designed by the conductor, we can all testify that this is definitely not done by you, right? Even if you don't believe me, you have to believe Mr. Fu, right?"
"That's true." The conductor looked at Shang Hexing, "I have always trusted Mr. Fu Lin."
An Qingyan quietly poked me from the side and said, "You're changing the concept."
This was indeed not the conductor's idea at all. The conductor thought it was an idea proposed by "Fu Lin". And he really wouldn't believe me, a stranger, but I just turned my attention to Fu Lin again.
Thus, the morning tea buffet session led by the train conductor officially began.
The food buffet session will be announced to each box via broadcast at 10:25, and the time is set at 10:30. To ensure that every passenger would participate, I added a sentence in the notice: "The conductor will come to the restaurant to host the opening speech of the Mir train. Passengers are invited to join us."
This is mainly to mobilize everyone's instinctive collective consciousness.
Some people do join in the fun for free food.
Some people also don't like this part, but you can add a sentence to make the other person realize that it's time for him to go over.
This part actually does not have much effect, but the herd effect, the bandwagon effect, the authority effect and social collectivism will make them unconsciously think, since everyone has gone there, I might as well take a look.
Just this little thought can catalyze overall action.
This is especially effective for people who have been socially conditioned for a long time.
In addition, most of the people on the train are middle and upper class in society. They understand the importance of this kind of social interaction better. They will naturally think that this is a social activity hosted by the conductor and will participate in it imperceptibly.
Of course, many people may think that everyone just goes there to eat and drink for free.
All in all, things went pretty smoothly.
Most of the passengers approached the restaurant with joy, and I even added snacks from my card drawing system among the food, so that more people would gather together for this bite of delicious food.
An Qingyan will enter the entire train passenger group to observe the situation and grasp the progress.
The conductor will stay in the train cab all the time on the grounds that he needs to control the entire train.
Shang Hexing and I were running around, clearing out the robbers who were scattered outside the train. One of them slipped into Fu Lin's box. I was still thinking about how to delay it, but fate still made Shang Hexing meet Fu Lin.
My heart was in my throat at the time, fearing that Shang Hexing would find out something and push Fu Lin into the fire pit.
Haven't you been taking care of Fu Lin these days?
"Shang Hexing"'s physical condition is really fragile, even more fragile than my original body, and he is always sick.
If Fu Lin didn't have such a strong will and obsession, he probably wouldn't have survived the repeated beatings.
If I were Shang Hexing, I probably wouldn't be willing to change it back.
Or, if Shang Hexing feels that he can only get his body back when he is in danger of life and death, Fu Lin is also in danger.
In my imagination, once the two of them meet, there will be danger everywhere and they will be in danger of death. I even stuck to the door to prevent Shang Hexing from holding the door handle.
As a result, the two people were unusually calm.
Later, thinking about it carefully, Fu Lin is not an impulsive person, and Shang Hexing may not know that the old man in the wheelchair is Fu Lin. Even if I knew, the current Shanghe Star might not be strong enough for me to defeat it.
I have a card buff.
But I wasn't that brave at the time. I still remember that when Fu Lin saw me blocking him at the door, he looked as if he had seen a ghost, which made me want to hit him.
I defended him so much.
He didn't even take my concern into consideration.
Since we had already taken a break in carriage C, Shang Hexing also took the opportunity to check the range of the robbers and entered another dilemma.
"How to find the criminals who are among the passengers?"
Now An Qingyan and some train attendants and security guards are actively mixing among the passengers and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack. They are still waiting for "Fu Lin" to give a signal before they can take action.
In addition, after finding the criminals, what are the chances of a successful counterattack?
Everyone's actions are based on trust in "Fu Lin".
However, Shang Hexing obviously had no fighting skills and could not be trusted at all.
There is no way to put this into words.
I actually know how to solve the train problem.
When I saw Wendy's identity, everything connected together. But it’s not convenient for me to say it directly. In the small compartment for three people, I deliberately asked, "How long will it take for the train to reach Midway Island?"
Fu Lin first glanced at the time, "19 minutes..."
Shang Hexing also said: "The robbers will not agree to stop at Midway Island."
The robbers would definitely not stop as planned, have contact with the island's sheriff, or give them an opportunity to subdue them.
The two voices overlapped, which made the two people subconsciously pay attention to the mood and expression of the speaker. However, they were quickly distracted by my words, "I know how to solve the train problem."
After saying this, their eyes all fell on me at the same time.
I said, there is an incendiary bomb in the car.
"How could that be?" Shang Hexing couldn't help but frown. "Did the robbers intend to kill the passengers and burn the entire train after stealing the money?"
"Who knows?" I said lightly, "But it's not surprising that the gangsters do such heinous things."
Since he agreed with my idea, Shang Hexing asked, "Where did you see the incendiary bomb, and what are you going to do?"
"I guess they wanted to set the car on fire and force the people out of the car."
The voice came from Fu Lin.
As soon as the words fell, Shang Hexing's first reaction was to look in his direction with a look of "Are you crazy?"
I was originally standing between Shang Hexing and Fu Lin, but because of their misplaced public conversation, I quietly chose to sit beside them and let them fight it out.
Fu Lin didn't look at Shang Hexing, but just pressed the sofa chair we were working on, and lowered his voice and said, "The seat filling is made of polyurethane foam, and the coating on it is polyvinyl chloride. This train actually has a serious problem of cutting corners. There is no need to keep this train."
As soon as he finished speaking, Fu Lin looked at me with great certainty, "You have also discovered this, so you came up with the idea of using incendiary bombs, right?"
My heart was shaking like a rattle.
I don’t know—
Shang Hexing also looked at me with a meaningful look.
Anyway, I asked Shang Hexing, "They should be using remotely detonated incendiary bombs. Do you have a way to find their location? Because the robbers used jammers to block the signal here."
Seeing that both of us were calm about this matter, Shang Hexing also followed us onto the pirate ship and said, "I can detect the range of radio frequencies to determine the frequency used by the bomb detonation signal, and thus locate the signal."
"But what about evacuating the crowd?" Shang Hexing asked.
I said decisively: "I'll do it."
Before I finished speaking, Shang Hexing's eyes flashed with a hint of hesitation, and it was obvious that he did not completely trust me.
At this moment, his cell phone screen suddenly lit up and a piercing noise exploded from the speaker.
There were sporadic shouts, and then a gunshot that cut the air like a knife - sharp, clear, and terrifying.
The picture on the mobile phone was shaking constantly, and the chaotic image of the crowd came into view: the tables and chairs in the restaurant were collapsed, the glass windows were pierced by bullets, and the fragments were scattered like icy rain. The bullet completely disappeared from the surveillance camera.
This shocked everyone.
Shouldn't this be bulletproof or impact and break-resistant windows?
If the bullet penetrates the glass window, will the glass cover of the tunnel outside be broken?
You know, they have already entered the sea.
This speculation is that the cold and terrifying ghost hand can penetrate the body and grab the human heart tightly the moment it penetrates the body.
For a moment, everyone held their breath and looked out the window to see what was happening. Even we forgot to breathe.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
The glass windows did not break into large pieces as expected, and the wind outside the lane was unable to flow smoothly into the car due to the pressure difference.
After a few seconds of being stunned, the cries and screams once again merged into one, like needles piercing the eardrums.
"Help!"
"Get down!"
“Stop making noise—!!”
These sounds came one after another.
And we three understood at the same time—
It doesn't matter whether this shoddy train stays or not, we should all get off at Midway Island as soon as possible.
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