I was beyond surprised.
Even if the police in Tong can’t, the Snow Leopards aren’t idle, how can they not catch a single killer when there were so many of them?
They weren’t professional killers, they might be good at it, but they wouldn’t be that proficient at anti-stalking and anti-arrest.
We were able to wipe out even the professional criminal gangs across the border, and now we haven’t caught a single one.
“Have you seen the live surveillance?” I asked.
“There’s too much surveillance, I’ve arranged for people to work overtime to look at it. Zhang Chao, I’m going to ask you once, if I’m wrong, you can take it as a fart.”
“Go ahead.”
“In this case, have you exaggerated?”
“You suspect I’ve misrepresented?” I said breathlessly, “Is there something wrong with me?”
Ouyang An scratched his head and said, “Then did you inhale any hallucinogens? You’ve been a special forces soldier for so many years, you should know that some poisonous mushrooms can make people hallucinate.”
I said, “Ouyang An, you’re here to cause trouble on purpose, aren’t you? Even if I ate the poisonous mushrooms, did the others eat them too? My Snow Leopard’s men and Han Kun saw them too. And the building collapsed too, it can’t be that I used illusions to blow it up.”
“Fine, fine, fine, I told you a long time ago, if you don’t ask the right questions, just think of me as a fart.”
I said, “Your fart stinks too much. I suspect the old man got you here to give me a hard time on purpose.”
“Hey, you’re still not letting up. If there are twenty or thirty killers and none of your men have been caught, either you are too incompetent or you are hallucinating. When things go wrong, it’s a demon. I’m just doing a conventional logical analysis. You are a deadhead and only use force, this matter still requires brain power. But I don’t blame you, after all, you’re just a high school student, I’m a regular military school graduate. Hey, you still have to listen to me when it comes to using your brain.”
I thought to myself, “This grandson hasn’t done anything yet, but he’s bragging about it first.
When he saw that I had turned away from him, he went around to the other side and said, “What do you think? Twenty or thirty people can’t have just vanished into thin air. There must be someone, how did they get away?”
I said, “Then use your ingenuity to solve the mystery. Don’t put up a national wanted notice for the Moon Jung Army yet, have someone wanted in secret. This man can’t run away, he has a big family and a precious son in my hands. As long as we catch Yue Zhengjun, Jiang Ming won’t get away.”
Ouyang An said, “I’m not going to lie to you, it didn’t take long for your national wanted notice to go up, it was suppressed, it simply wouldn’t pass.”
“What? Who is it?”
“Yue Zhengbing, this person is not low in the army and has made several greetings, so this wanted notice is being suppressed for the time being.”
Only one person from the Yue family could enter the Jianghu, the rest of them could only do other things. This odd family rule shows its superiority at this time, when something happens to the head of the family, the rest of the brothers in power can help each other out.
I nodded: “Then it’s just as well to give a favor. Yue Zhengjun is a dangerous man, so let’s all be careful. But he was badly wounded, I shot him through the shoulder, he must go to hospital for this kind of injury, otherwise he will lose his arm.”
I was worried that Ouyang An would underestimate Yue Zhengjun’s ability, and that it would definitely turn into a one-sided massacre for Yue Zhengjun.
I wouldn’t be able to move for the next two or three months, and Snow Leopard had been badly injured, so I would have to rely on Ouyang An to direct the rest of the chase. This guy is blindly arrogant and has an empty vision, so it’s easy for things to go wrong.
Ouyang An said, “Once we have found the target, we will not act rashly. I will have the armed forces follow. You don’t need to teach me this, when you were in Snow Leopard, I was also in military school, while helping the local public security out on missions, but I didn’t have any time to spare.”
I was more worried when he said that, and said, “If you think so, then I’ll pay for your share of the funeral in advance. You can’t think of this man as a person, you have to think of him as an army. And a heavily armed army at that.”
I wasn’t exaggerating at all, for the sake of an old friend, and I didn’t want to see Ouyang An stabbed to death by the Moon Jung Army one day.
He had spent so many years in school that he had no idea how dangerous the jungle was, especially Yue Zhengjun and Jiang Yunqing, two men who were so strong that one could be worth a heavily armed squad.
Not quite convinced, Ouyang An patted my leg and said, “You’d better get your leg better first. If we don’t find new evidence, Jiang Ming will be released in three days. If he fails to kill you once, he will definitely kill you a second time. Get your leg well and run, I don’t want you lying in a crystal coffin the next time I see you either.”
I was going to tell Ouyang An about the jungle, but I really didn’t want to see Sun for one more second, and anyway, a self-righteous man like him wouldn’t really be out on the scene, he would just sit in the master control room and take command.
I waved my hand and told him to get lost, this guy reminded me of Li Ge, aren’t all people who have studied at university like this? But Baldy, a senior student at Tsinghua, was obviously much more normal.
Three days later, Ouyang An brought me the second piece of bad news, Jiang Ming had been released.
All the charges against Jiang Ming came from a confession, there was no solid physical evidence.
It is said that on the day Jiang Ming was released, Xia Gehuai tried his best to prevent it, rushing to the entrance of the detention centre and punching Jiang Ming in the face.
Xia Gehuai was too impulsive, but I can understand that no one working on a case can stand the idea of a suspect being released in front of his or her face.
The result was good, Xia Gehuai was suspended from duty on probation and is now squatting at home.
He is a police officer in the official establishment and would not normally be sacked. I asked him to come and see me at the hospital, but he stammered and refused to do so.
“You f*cking know you can’t face me now? Get your ass over here, I want to talk to you about something, it just so happens that you are now suspended and I don’t have anyone else I can trust except you.”
In the past two days, Chu Xiaoxiao had been accompanying me, and Chu Huaien had called several times to ask Chu Xiaoxiao to return, but Chu Xiaoxiao had simply hung up.
If Jiang Ming and Yue Zhengjun weren’t still at large, I would really think that this was a divine day.
That afternoon, Xia Gehuai finally appeared in the ward with a shy face, holding a large fruit basket.
“Are you ashamed of yourself? Have you ever thought about what you’re doing? Now you’re back to your old self again.”
Xia Gehuai rubbed his head and said, “Come on, don’t scold me, I’ll go back to the same place. I couldn’t help it, Jiang Ming is a beast, he swindled us police officers into becoming his personal bodyguards. I didn’t figure out what he was up to until later. He had someone give him up first, so we would definitely have him arrested, and then he would have the killers do it to you afterwards. He figured that his second uncle would go to your rescue, so he could kill two birds with one stone and get rid of both of you in one go. But he knew very well that his second uncle, that character, would teach him a lesson and would definitely go after him before coming to your rescue. Only by hiding in the guardhouse, with us closing the heavy iron gates for him personally and standing guard for him as a bodyguard, will his second uncle not be able to enter and find him. You say this B*****d has got us cops all figured out! How the f*ck can I swallow this?!”
I had already scolded Xia Gehuai for these rants, Jiang Ming, this pervert, when others counted one step, he could count a hundred steps and count himself in too.
The most frightening thing about him is not his cleverness, but his recklessness. The average person’s calculations always have to make themselves invincible, or the outcome is controllable.
