The yellow-haired youngster was the most honest and not only told me the location of the fortress, but also took me to the fortress.
His only plea was for a reduced sentence.
Xia Gehuai and I discussed that without this young man leading the way, it would not be easy for us to find a fortress deep in the mountains.
When the police arrived, they were stunned to see the mountain bandits kneeling all over the ground.
“How did you catch them? These guys have been sneaking us around for ages.” Their mouths were wide open and they couldn’t believe their eyes as they looked at the door of mountain bandits who were honestly waiting to be arrested.
Xia Gehuai and I laughed and gestured at the guns, and it dawned on him, “So you two have guns. What unit are you two from? This isn’t a policeman’s sidearm.”
I said, “I’m not a policeman.”
Tiezhu was being handcuffed to the police car, when he heard this, he struggled like a chicken, turned back and yelled, “He’s not a police officer, he can’t have a gun, why don’t you arrest him?!!!”
Tiezhu had lost all his face tonight, even though his brothers had betrayed him, but he still took it out on me, and he would never miss it if he could see me make a fool of myself or make a fool of myself.
I smiled and saluted the policeman, saying, “I was originally attached to the Snow Leopard Special Forces of the Western Military Region. Now I am on a special mission! This is my companion, who is a police officer and can prove my identity.”
“You’re a special forces officer! No wonder!” The policeman was incomparably excited and turned his head to Tie Zhu who was desperate as death and said, “Alright, don’t look, you didn’t plant yourself unjustly today, you could have lost to a special soldier king.”
I looked at Tiezhu’s face, he must be regretting that he didn’t read the calendar before he went out to rob today.
After the dozen robbers and the driver of the black car were handcuffed and escorted to the car, I spoke to the policeman about the hostages that the mountain bandits had just confided in.
“What, they’ve taken other hostages?!”
“That’s right, they said they’ve all been taken to the fortress. Leave this yellow hair to me, we’ll feel our way to the fortress now and get the people out while it’s dark.”
The policeman was embarra*sed and frowned, “No, that’s too reckless. You don’t know those deep mountain strongholds, isolated from the world, and many times the whole village resists the law. If we rashly go there like this, even if they don’t hand over the people, they may secretly transfer the hostages. If they can’t, it’s possible to kill them and destroy their bodies. It’s too easy to dump a body in the mountains, just find a ravine, unless you use police dogs to search the mountains, you won’t be discovered for eight or ten years. Even if we go and rescue the hostages, we may not be able to leave the fortress, and those mothers and fathers will lie on the road and stop your car from leaving. You’ve never enforced the law at the gra*sroots level, you don’t know how hard it is! We definitely have to rescue the people, but we have to go back and discuss it slowly.”
“You have a point.” I nodded, my plan was indeed too crude.
We had encountered this kind of thing when we were working with the narcotics police at the border, sometimes the whole village was a drug making village and once the drug dealers escaped in, the whole village cooperated with the dealers to escape.
“Let’s go back today and think about it when we get back to the station. Going over there now will only increase the danger to the hostages, and since they are planning to extort money, they shouldn’t mess around until they get it.”
I was about to get into the police car and go back with them when my phone thought in my pocket.
Han Kun’s number had been deleted by me, so this number didn’t show Han Kun’s name, but I could remember his number by heart.
I thought Han Kun had broken up with me and declared himself my enemy, so why was he suddenly calling me now?
“Hello, Uncle Han.”
Although I hated him in my heart, I still subconsciously treated him with respect, something that couldn’t be changed overnight.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t Han Kun who spoke on the phone, but a very heavy-voiced dialect.
I guessed that Han Kun’s phone had been picked up and that he had probably called me from his address book, as Han Kun had just talked to me on the phone and his call history would be at the top. I put him on speakerphone and said I didn’t understand him while trying to get the local police to listen for me.
I didn’t know that after I said I didn’t understand, the person on the other end changed, and this time it was the voice of a younger kid.
“We have your family, so call me right now for five million dollars, or you can wait for his body to be collected.”
“What did you say?!” I thought I had misheard and repeated it again.
“We have your uncle! Five million dollars, give it to us or we’ll tear the ticket!” The other side was in a hurry and the dialect was mixed in with the Mandarin.
“Who are you scaring a little kid, where’s your adult?” I cursed in a broken voice.
I don’t know which bear child picked up Han Kun’s mobile phone and made this kind of call to scare people, he was really tired of living.
But just as I finished my words, the local police officer from Heshui County ran over quickly and mouthed at me, “This is the local dialect.”
I froze, the other party’s phone had already hung up.
I turned my head and asked Yellow Hair, “Did you understand the dialect just now?”
Huang Mao shrank back, a little afraid to look at me, and nodded.
I hurriedly asked, “Was the man you kidnapped wearing a suit, with short hair, a big back and silver eyes ……”
Seeing that I was incoherent, Xia Gehuai immediately opened his mobile phone and retrieved a photo of Han Kun’s identity document, placed it in front of Huang Mao and asked, “Is this the man?!”
Huang Mao’s head nodded like a chicken pecking rice and said in accented Mandarin, “That’s him, and he has a few others. But those few people might have run away.”
My brain buzzed, Uncle Han had been kidnapped.
Holy sh*t, Han Kun would be kidnapped, this wasn’t a joke.
I guess Han Kun was in a similar situation as me. He drove here, wasn’t familiar with the roads, so he just used the navigation and then fell into this gang’s trap.
What was worse than us was that Han Kun did not have a gun and had to be left to fend for himself and was tied up in the fortress of these robbers.
These robbers captured Han Kun and tried to blackmail his family. But Han Kun had no father, no mother, no children, let alone brothers and sisters. Those robbers then had to follow the call records in their address book and called me.
It was so unlucky that Han Kun would meet with such a bad luck.
I said to Xia Gehuai and the police from Blackwater County, “I have to go and save someone, that’s my uncle, I can’t wait.”
Xia Gehuai was exhausted, but he knew that Han Kun was my benefactor, and even though he had lied to me about many things, it was true that he had helped me back then.
Yes, Han Kun was one of the murderers who killed my parents.
But if he was to be killed, it would have to be by my hand, and there was no way I would let him die at the hands of these petty people.
“But we don’t have enough police manpower even now.” The police officer from Blackwater County said helplessly.
I picked up a sniper and put it on my back.
“You guys go back first, I’ll just go by myself.”
“That won’t work, there might be hundreds of people in their fortress, you can’t do it alone, maybe something will happen to you too!”
I said, “Don’t worry, I’ve been on dozens of missions with one person against a hundred people. I can do it all by myself.”
