Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

Meteor, Nightingale and Rockbird, three experts worked together and started tracking the thief's whereabouts using the information network as the entry point. Since the theft occurred 30 hours ago, in order to catch up with the progress of these 30 hours, they adopted a plan of accelerating tracking in one way and conducting predictive searches in two ways.

In addition to the whereabouts of the vehicles, they also tracked the mobile phone registration information of several mercenaries to corroborate the whereabouts of several people. A team of mercenaries like Zhuang Xuteng's team that always has encrypted phones and encrypted channels is very rare. Two of the four members are field intelligence officers. This configuration is unique both today and in history. Normal mercenaries do not have free encrypted phone calls, nor do they have encrypted channels available at all times. Because these equipment and information support cost money, and they also require the energy of the middleman's intelligence officer to maintain them - the whereabouts of ordinary mercenaries are not worth the cost.

"Found them, their current approximate locations are all in this area." Yanque located the last and current registered communication tower on their mobile phones, which is responsible for the area with a radius of about 500 meters. "Before you catch up with the surveillance information, I'll do a signal scan first."

Nightingale nodded and said, "Okay, stay hidden and stay safe. I'll let them go first."

Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao had already put on combat equipment and rode the White Beast armored vehicle towards the target location. Although this time it was a pursuit and recovery operation, killing people only took second place, and getting things back was the most important thing. The total weight of those boxes is about one and a half tons. Due to their size, they can only be transported by trucks or armored vehicles. Speedy sports cars cannot carry those things. So two people don't need to drive a high-speed armored ferret or use a helicopter. The white beast is the best choice.

The vehicle was driven by Zhuang Xuteng in order to allow time for Ge Gongdao to adapt to the atmosphere of performing the mission. Of course, he also had to take the time to check his whole body equipment.

"How should we act?" Ge Gongdao tightened his belt, tensed his muscles, sat firmly in his seat, and asked Zhuang Xuteng with his head tilted.

"Same as before: Let's divide our troops into two groups. I'll try to sneak in from behind. You're going to attack from the front or from the side. Let's attack from both sides." Zhuang Xuteng said, "The specific plan will have to wait until the ladies determine the positions of those guys. Let's see. It depends on the terrain. They are at the junction of urban and suburban areas, not necessarily in buildings. They may be in cars, ready to move at any time."

"Well, if it's in the car, then let's attack directly." Ge Gongdao clenched his fists and made bursts of rattling sounds. "To be honest, my hands are a little itchy."

"Don't be too excited. The people opposite are mercenaries who have been working for about three years. They are almost all cunning veterans. You have to be careful not to be tricked by them." Zhuang Xuteng thought for a while, picked up the encrypted channel and asked: " Ladies, can you help me check the news on the black market? Are those guys thinking about selling the stolen goods?"

After Lucy heard it and thought for a moment, she understood what Zhuang Xuteng meant. "After finding the location of the thief, we need to expand the search scope. Those guys must want to sell this batch of goods as soon as possible. The sooner they can cash out, the more choices they will have. It is too difficult to find information about the black market on the Internet. I have people go there Ask around. Let’s go now, and we’ll have the results within half an hour at the earliest.”

Thieves must be dealt with, and those who sell stolen goods must also be on guard. It has been a day and a half since the theft occurred. Ge Gongdao did the calculations at his own speed. Inquiring, comparing prices, arranging transaction details... these basic processes were completed, and it took almost a day and a half.

"Found it, they are at the Jintai Xizhao Motel. I saw their car from the surveillance camera on the street, right in the parking lot." Yanque was quite excited and the volume was very high. "Haha, the hotel is a chain, and its surveillance is transmitted to the storage center in real time through the network, just in time for me to spy in. Meteor, hurry up and catch up with the closing and siege!"

"I know..." Meteor's voice was still very calm. She tracked and checked the actions of those people step by step to prevent anyone from leaving midway or changing the contract midway. Although Yanque found the thieves' car, if they had transferred the goods to another car before, wouldn't they necessarily be in vain if they pursued the old target again?

You can’t rush when it comes to tracking, and you must eliminate mistakes and omissions; you can’t rush when it comes to investigation, and you must leave no blind spots. Yanque intercepted the surveillance video stream by spying on the network transmission nodes, and established a topographic map using all twelve environmental cameras in the hotel. "There is a problem. The video stream is delayed by two minutes and cannot provide real-time information."

Zhuang Xuteng said: "Two minutes, it's not a big problem. We still have on-site investigation. Let's first see which room those people are in and what they were doing two minutes ago."

"I saw and found out that they opened two adjacent rooms two hours ago, 113 and 115, both on the first floor, just at the southeast corner of the courtyard parking lot. Their cars were also parked there, one was The stolen truck, and the other one is the off-road vehicle they were following to protect." Yanque continued to report the situation: "There is a person in the cab of the truck, who seems to be inactive, and may be asleep. The other person is not in the yard, and is probably in the Room. The window of the room should be able to see the car, and the curtains are currently closed.”

Zhuang Xuteng grunted and said, "Although the curtains are closed, you can observe with just a crack. Can you see more clearly?"

"No, the resolution of the surveillance camera is limited. It cannot move the angle, and cannot use the interpolation algorithm...it cannot be seen. You can only think that they are always monitoring."

"That's what I think." Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao took a closer look at the layout of the hotel. The main body of Jintai Xizhao Motel is a three-story L-shaped building with 29 rooms on each floor and a total of four stairs going up and down. A square parking lot is adjacent to the L-shaped building. There are currently ten cars of different models scattered in the parking lot. Only the cars of the thieves and mercenaries are close together and close to the room where they rest.

According to surveillance videos from the Rafat warehouse and along the way, there are four thieves in total. One person is currently in the cab of the truck, and the locations of the other three are unclear. Zhuang Xuteng suggested putting him down first and waiting for him to go around the back of the hotel to investigate the room before Ge Gongdao drove closer.

"It's best to just drive the car away. Catching and punishing the thieves is not our mission goal." Zhuang Xuteng said to Ge Gongdao: "Brother Dao, you have to hold back and don't start fighting when you see them. "

"I know!" Brother Dao smiled and said, "I am a mercenary, not a violent maniac."

"Yeah, okay. We'll be there in two more intersections. I'll get off the car here." Zhuang Xuteng parked the car by the roadside, smeared some black sludge on his face in front of the mirror, then put on the mosaic hood, and made a final inspection Check whether pockets and zippers are tightly closed. "Don't turn off the engine, listen to the radio, and then let's check the time."

Brother Dao stretched out his wrist, and the two of them adjusted the time on their watches to be consistent, and then handed over the driving position. Zhuang Xuteng got out from the back of the car and breathed into the sky first, then found that the white mist caused by his breath was too heavy. So he picked up a handful of snow - of course brushing off the surface layer, but not the layer close to the ground - clenched it into a small snow ball, stuffed it into his mouth and held it.

Ge Gongdao looked at Zhuang Xuteng in the rearview mirror, and was very satisfied with these details of him - he is indeed my comrade-in-arms, he is awesome. But as soon as he was distracted, Zhuang Xuteng disappeared. Ge Gongdao looked left and right, including looking above through the observation window, but couldn't find it.

"Human, report the situation." He could only say this in the encrypted channel.

"We are approaching the target area, and no suspicious findings have been found." After Zhuang Xuteng finished speaking, he added: "To reduce breathing clouds, I will reduce communications. Use short and long taps to confirm the status."

"You're really good at hiding... How did you hide..." Ge Gongdao poked his head around, looking left and right, and finally gave up the search.

With the help of surrounding buildings and various facilities, Zhuang Xuteng secretly and quickly approached Jintai Xizhao Motel. As the weather is freezing, with temperatures as low as ten degrees below zero, no one likes to wander around in the cold on the road. The fewer pedestrians there are, the less likely it is to be discovered, and the easier it is to conceal oneself. However, Zhuang Xuteng was still startled by a pair of eyes in the alley, thinking that he had been accidentally seen. When he took a closer look, he discovered that it was a frozen beggar who was still staring at death.

It was all frozen solid, and when the spirit tentacles touched it, they thought it was a pile of garbage. In addition, the dead body has no breathing, heartbeat, and no temperature, so Zhuang Xuteng was startled by the dead man's eyes.

Apart from this small episode, Zhuang Xuteng's actions were quite smooth. In order to prevent some of his opponent's mercenaries from being able to view the surveillance images, Zhuang Xuteng put a little more thought into avoiding the angles of those cameras.

If you really can't avoid it, use the tentacles of the resentful spirit to get some snow to block it, and then remove the snow after you pass by, which will greatly reduce suspicion.

He climbed three floors to the top of the building, lowered himself forward, crawled close to the edge of the roof, and then looked down at the yard from a high place. Diagonally opposite him are two rooms, 113 and 115. There is no "114" between them, mainly because "4" is a homophonic sound for "death", which is unlucky.

After calculating the illumination of the surrounding light sources, he took out a mini monocular telescope and avoided angles that might cause reflection. Zhuang Xuteng carefully observed the two windows. Sure enough, there was a slit in the middle of the curtain, and people inside could see the two cars parked outside. But now there is only one person staring outside, and the other two people are sleeping in two rooms respectively. Although the person in the truck compartment is not sleeping, he is concentrating on reading a novel, and the walkie-talkie used for communication is placed on the side. In the driver's seat.

"Call the forward," Zhuang Xuteng lowered his voice and called Ge Gongdao's code name for this operation: "Check the tail hook situation. I have a plan called tow truck, do you understand?"

After a while, the reply came: "Crude, the hook is available. I understand what you want to do, good idea."

"At 5:17, I want you to drive in, park the car and establish a connection before 18:00," Zhuang Xuteng said.

"Okay, seventeen or eighteen points, received." Ge Gongdao prepared the tow hook and hurried back to the cab. He kicked the accelerator to increase the pressure of the machine. Then he looked at the hands of the watch and silently thought in his heart. Calculate departure time.

Zhuang Xuteng started to take action. He had already memorized the general direction of the surveillance camera, so he slipped down from the roof and arrived at the parking lot. He then used the cover of the car to slide quickly on the snow in a crawling manner, and soon arrived at Underneath those guys' sports cars. He took a closer look and found that this sports car was a hybrid of steam and electricity. It had no gasoline engine. It started very slowly at low temperatures and had no pursuit capability at all. But just in case... let's equip it with some equipment.

Zhuang Xuteng took out a special tire blade from his belt, then pointed it at the tire and stabbed it in from the inside. This is a Mitsubishi cone-shaped bladed tool, very short, and the blade is just enough to puncture the tire. As long as you don't actively pull it out, it will stay on the tire and block the outward air leakage. However, as long as the tire rotates, it will be thrown off quickly under the combined action of centrifugal force and tire pressure. Then the triangular-shaped opening will leak air, and the tire will deflate.

It also works great for a moving car. Throw it over, dig it in, and it will be thrown out after a while, and then it will leak. It is easier to carry than caltrops and has better effects. In addition, it can delay deflation, making it more suitable for cunning guys like Zhuang Xuteng.

All four wheels are tied on, which is the disadvantage of not using armored tires. Subsequently, Zhuang Xuteng got under the truck, opened the jelly of the resentful spirit and the tentacles of the resentful spirit, and prepared to start causing trouble.

Thanks to the thieves parking the car so close to the room, the van and the two guest rooms were all within Zhuang Xuteng's control. He stared at the time, and when it reached 16:50, he used his wraith tentacle to press the toilet button in the monitor's room. The sound of water purring and puffing immediately attracted the attention of the mercenaries.

There is no one in the bathroom. Why is the toilet flushing? The man immediately stood up, put on his gun ring, and walked to the bathroom. Zhuang Xuteng slowly pulled the curtains with his wraith tentacles to reduce the visible range, and at the same time got out from the front of the car close to the front wheels. This is the driver's blind spot.

The white beast drove into the parking lot aggressively and on time, which meant that Zhuang Xuteng was about to take action. After practicing his magic in the hospital bed for a month, he became more comfortable in using the tentacles of the resentful spirits. First, poke the walkie-talkie on the passenger seat and let it roll to the ground. Taking advantage of the moment when the driver was dazed and then leaned forward to pick it up as a reflex, he used his wraith tentacles to pull up the anti-locking device in the door, and at the same time used his natural hands to open the door on the side of the cab.

Zhuang Xuteng jumped up and jumped half of his body directly into the cab. Without hesitation or mercy, he shot the man. Bone spear technique, three consecutive shots, one to the head, one to the neck, and one to penetrate the heart from the armpit. He got into the car, and while the observers in the room stared blankly at the toilet, he pushed the body into the passenger seat and sat behind the steering wheel.

The tentacles of the wraith sent the walkie-talkie to him, and he found the car keys by searching around the car. Through the rearview mirror, he saw the boxes placed in the carriage, which emitted shadow energy signals similar to the color of banknotes. At the same time, he also saw the white beast reversing the car and pointing the butt of the car at the butt of the car. Ge Gongdao stopped the car suddenly, got out of the cab, ran to the back of the car as fast as he could, and started to connect the two cars with a hook.

Although the snow is slippery, he has super martial arts skills, so he is a big and flexible man. He fastened the hook and pulled it with his hand to test the strength. The truck swayed, acting very docile. Ge Gongdao took the time to glance in the rearview mirror, and when he saw Zhuang Xuteng giving him a thumbs up, he immediately felt a sense of accomplishment that "the mercenary mission went well."

This feeling has been long gone.

Next, get in the car, step on the accelerator, and go!