“Go to sleep, don’t ask too many questions, you have a lot to do tomorrow.”
They were blasted back to bed in different rooms by me, Chu Xiaoxiao slept in He Bi’s room while the three of us big men kept watch in the living room.
When I was about to turn off the lights, Cai Xiaobing shouted, “Captain, don’t turn off the lights, I still have to keep an eye on Arashi.”
“It’s off, don’t worry, he won’t get away.”
Cai Xiaobing’s eyes twinkled and seeing the smile at the corner of this mouth, she suddenly understood what I meant and deliberately said loudly, “Okay, I know, I’ll turn off the lights then.”
The room was pitch black, and the three of us lay in the darkness, all three of us awake, with our eyes open in the darkness, my ears and Cai Xiaobing’s ears perked up, listening intently to the movement in the next room.
We could actually hear everything, only Arashi didn’t know, he thought the three of us were really asleep.
I heard Arashi coming in this direction towards the door, but we confiscated all the poison he had on him and felt up the gun on the table, ready to shoot him, but he soon shrank back and then seemed to go drumming on the window.
After another ten seconds or so, Monk said over my Bluetooth headset, “Captain, he’s climbed the sewers and slipped away.”
All three of us got up at the same time and I turned on the surveillance access screen on my phone. Sure enough, Arashi was slipping out with his hair covered by his trench coat and his head down; this kid was really fast at climbing sewers.
“Keep an eye on him for me, he must have gone back to the office to get someone this time. At least he’ll have to be briefed about He Bi, help me listen in on all his communication devices.”
“Captain, that’s a bit of a challenge, you can’t use me like a robot cat.”
“I know you’ve got it in you, cut the crap and make sure nothing happens to Dot this time.”
Arashi was pretty alert, and the three of us left the lights on because we didn’t want to make Arashi nervous.
We had to wait until Arashi had left the cell before we could turn on the lights, but the surveillance feed on our phones kept showing Arashi’s escape route.
Arashi had no idea that none of what I had just asked him was important, what was important was the surveillance footage now.
It would take a long time to search through the vast amount of Skynet information to find a few videos of Arashi, but this was different now, this was the equivalent of us asking Arashi to lead the way and help us find the mysterious crime company.
The interrogation of Arashi was merely a sound bite to get him to drop his guard, but of course, there was still a bit of a windfall in the form of Old Shen.
Maybe if we followed Arashi’s movements, we’d find out about Old Shen too, but that’s not as good as if Arashi had told me himself.
We used the roadside security cameras to relay surveillance on Arashi, who was unaware of it and thought she had run away for a long time.
He ran out three kilometres to the centre of Tongzhou before he put his head down and stood in the crowd, always thinking he had asked us to help him, but in fact he didn’t know that he was now even more firmly under our surveillance because there were even more cameras in the city centre.
Arashi was breathing heavily and took his mobile phone to make a call, which I had also asked Cai Xiaobing to put next to him on purpose. Of course, the phone had also been put into some listening program by us long ago, and Arashi could not identify it.
Cai Xiaobing and I took turns to monitor the video screen and let Meng Meng go to rest for a while.
The first half of the night was me monitoring while Cai Xiaobing went to sleep. Arashi would never have guessed that we didn’t chase him out, but I was already staring at the camera watching him.
When the call was answered, the listening program implanted into his phone was also automatically activated. I turned on the computer that Meng Meng had asked me to prepare long ago, put on the headphones, and the monitored conversation immediately reached my ears.
“San, sh*t’s gone wrong.”
“What is it?” The person’s voice was very lazy, sounding as if he had just woken up, the voice of a man in his thirties.
“Something big has happened, He Bi has really defected, I got caught by Zhang Chao tonight, but luckily I got out.”
Hearing this, the man couldn’t help but say, “What?”
“I’ve run out, I didn’t say anything, I just told them that Old Shen was setting up a stall on the flyover. Old Shen can’t be used for a long time, right? It’s the right time to take this opportunity to get rid of Old Shen. Just that temper of Old Shen’s, he would rather break the jade than the tile, he would definitely strike with Zhang Chao without waiting for him to say anything.”
The man, who was holding back his anger, interrupted Arashi’s chatter, “Let me ask you, weren’t you caught by Zhang Chao? Don’t say anything else for now!”
“Yeah ……”
“You were caught by Zhang Chao, how could you still run away?!” The man asked seriously.
It had to be said that this third brother was much smarter than Arashi, who hadn’t thought that much when he ran.
“I, this, they were asleep and I ran away, three you can rest a*sured that no one followed me.”
My heart was in my throat, worried that this third brother would know I was watching Arashi, if that happened, the line would be broken again.
But to my surprise San said, “Tell me what happened.”
“I’ll talk about it when I get back, there’s a lot of people here.”
“Then go and bring me back some crayfish, your sister-in-law and I want to eat tonight.”
“Just call for takeaway for the crayfish.”
“Why are you talking so much?”
Listening to their conversation, it seemed to have shifted the conversation and I was relieved.
Arashi was walking along the road while explaining the specifics to Sango.
“You say hell no, Ho Bee, this redneck would betray us, is he tired of living,Oh, he was about to be targeted for liquidation by the company. As soon as I arrived at Ho Bee’s house, Zhang Chao was actually ambushed at Ho Bee’s house.”
“Then how did you get caught?” Third Brother asked.
He Bi was picking out lobsters as he told Third Brother the story, and at the end of his speech, he muttered, “It’s all because they shaded me, otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten into trouble today for sure. Third Brother, do you want your lobster spicy?”
I reckoned that such a boring picture was going to last all night today, but Arashi was really bold, running away from us, not hurrying to find a place to hide, and even daring to come out for a swim and buy crayfish, so it seems I hadn’t scared him enough just now.
“Don’t be spicy. By the way, you stand there without it, I’ll send someone to pick you up.”
“But don’t, it’s just a few steps away.”
“You stand still, I’ll send someone to pick you up right away, and don’t call again on this call.”
“Eh, San, then which number do I call from now on?”
Arashi had just finished asking to the phone when the other party turned it off.
I didn’t wake up Meng Meng and looked up the number Arashi had just called on the computer myself, but the number wasn’t real and I couldn’t find out who it was.
I nudged Cai Xiaobing, “No good, Dot might be awake.”
Cai Xiaobing, who was sound asleep, woke up and looked around for a while, so that he thought someone was trying to sneak up on him, and raised his gun and took private aim.
This is how soldiers in the Kunlun Mountains are, they are especially vigilant and hate to sleep with their guns at night, I was the same way back then.
“Who, who’s awake? I’m awake.”
“Go wake up your brain, the person behind Arashi might be awake, but unfortunately Arashi and this person haven’t met yet. You go and inform the others and go and get Arashi immediately.”
Arashi wasn’t far from running out now, our men could be on the scene in three minutes, but I couldn’t go out, I had to be here to take command.
Cai Xiaobing had quickly got into position and went to inform all the snow leopards to prepare for battle.
I dialed Arashi’s number, who didn’t think much of it at first and picked up straight away.
