Under such circumstances, Wang Yong had no choice but to obediently hand over the suitcase.
The old man took the suitcase, placed it directly on a taxi, and opened it. He picked up the Five Discs from inside, examined them for a while, and then nodded in satisfaction. He closed the suitcase and walked straight into the darkness, carrying it with him.
A man in black handed a black leather bag to Wang Yong.
Immediately after, the group drove away on the provincial highway, all their vehicles hiding their license plates, making it impossible to track them down.
Wang Yong opened the bag and found it filled with cash.
“Haha! This is real money!”
Wang Yong’s eyes flickered, and he quickly got into a car, handing the driver five hundred yuan. “Take me to a big hotel nearby. Whatever you saw tonight, better keep it to yourself. You saw those people—they had guns.”
“I understand, I understand!”
The driver naturally knew how to respond—he had experienced a scare but gained some extra cash. “The biggest hotel around here is Linhai Grand Hotel…”
“Fine, just take me there.”
Wang Yong was excited, yet nervous. He muttered to himself, “Didn’t expect those island country bastards to actually be so straightforward! But how the hell did they track me down? Did they plant a tracker on me? No good! I need to change clothes, switch this bag, and find another place to stay!”
Wang Yong plotted his next moves carefully. His reason for coming to Zhonghai City was to sell the Five Discs to the island country buyers.
But the island group had been unexpectedly elusive and difficult to predict.
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On the provincial highway, three black sedans sped forward.
But it wasn’t long before they noticed several police cars blocking the road ahead, with dozens of armed SWAT officers setting up a checkpoint, ready for thorough vehicle inspections.
Seeing this, the three cars hastily pulled over.
Behind them came a heavily modified bus driven by a beautiful woman, with another beautiful woman seated in the front passenger seat. Inside the bus, more than ten armed SWAT officers were lying in ambush.
“Crash into them!”
The woman in the front passenger seat suddenly whispered excitedly.
The driver responded calmly, “Sister Lin Xue, don’t be reckless this time. They’re armed foreign criminals. Our mission is to force them off the highway and onto the ferry.”
“Hehe, I know.”
Lin Xue smiled slightly, gripped the handle tightly, and braced for impact.
“Bang!”
The reinforced bus slammed into the last black sedan, sending it off the highway. The middle black sedan reacted quickly, turning off the road before the collision. Upon hearing the crash, the SWAT officers two hundred meters ahead rushed forward. Seeing this, the two black cars sped off into the fields eastward. From the crashed car, four or five black-clad men emerged, shooting wildly at the officers. But they didn’t know that more SWAT officers were waiting on the side of the bus.
Soon, these black-clad men were easily eliminated, and a large group of SWAT officers began chasing the two escaping vehicles.
To the east was a river called Huangyan River.
Along this stretch, there were only small paths along the riverbank, no bridges.
A ferry was docked by the river, also filled with hidden SWAT officers.
The black cars stopped by the riverbank. As the old man led the group toward the ferry, he suddenly halted, speaking a few words in Japanese. The group immediately turned back. Seeing this, the SWAT officers on the ferry rushed out, gunfire erupted, and several more black-clad men were shot dead.
With SWAT officers on the ferry, and more surrounding from all directions, the old man quickly opened the suitcase, tucked the Five Discs into his jacket, and with a cold smirk, said, “What a perfect ambush! But too bad, you Chinese can’t beat me. The Five Discs are mine now, and you won’t catch me either!”
After saying this, the old man and the remaining five or six black-clad men jumped into the Huangyan River.
In the darkness, two fishing boats hidden along the riverbank started their engines, and massive fishing nets began enclosing the old man and his group…
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Twenty minutes later, the nets captured four or five more black-clad men.
But the old man was not among them.
“Damn it! We planned everything so carefully, yet he still escaped! No way—we can’t let the Five Discs leave the country. Immediately notify local public security and armed police forces to fully capture this fugitive, Anpei Chunya!” Chu Miaoyi ordered the SWAT officers behind her. She was the main person in charge of this operation, and naturally responsible for the failure to capture Anpei.
Lin Xue patted Chu Miaoyi’s arm, “No big deal. This old guy can’t have gone far. I bet he’ll stay hidden on the water for a few days. We just need to follow the river upstream to find him.”
“Upstream? Why not downstream?” Chu Miaoyi asked, puzzled.
Lin Xue smiled slightly, “Obviously, Anpei Chunya knows the terrain well. Under our tight inspections, he definitely won’t go downstream, because downstream leads to the bustling downtown area, full of people. Once we issue a wanted notice, he won’t have anywhere to hide. Therefore, he can only head to remote areas. Going upstream, he will likely reach Jing Shui River, which leads to Jing Shui Village.”
“Jing Shui Village!”
Chu Miaoyi’s eyes lit up. “If he really goes there, great! Li Lan from Shuimiao Company has set up many hidden surveillance cameras in Jing Shui Village. If he dares to show up, he’ll definitely be discovered.”
“So, it’s time for me, Shuimiao’s personal bodyguard, to step in.” Lin Xue leaned close to Chu Miaoyi’s ear and whispered, “Don’t get jealous then…”
“Get out of here! I won’t be jealous! He’s surrounded by beauties anyway…”
Before Chu Miaoyi could finish speaking, she turned around and saw that Lin Xue had already left.
It turned out that Chu Miaoyi and Lin Xue had come to Zhonghai City for a hidden reason, even keeping Director Zhang in the dark. The order to track the Five Discs had come directly from the provincial bureau. Because of Yao Ye’s incident, Director Yao wanted to make things difficult for Chu Miaoyi, so he assigned her to lead this case. Originally, Chu Miaoyi and her team had already discovered that the Five Discs were hidden inside a porcelain bottle, but they chose to stay silent and let things unfold to catch the bigger fish. Tonight, when Anpei Chunya appeared, they decided to close the net. Originally thinking everything was foolproof, they were caught off guard when Anpei Chunya escaped with the Five Discs.
After thinking it through, Chu Miaoyi found Lin Xue’s analysis convincing. To give her a hand, Chu Miaoyi quickly called the fisheries administration department in Zhonghai, requesting them to dispatch a fisheries patrol boat immediately to assist in the search and capture of Anpei Chunya.
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