Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 259 Russian Roulette

Chapter 259 Russian Roulette
Night, eight forty.

The reconnaissance vehicle rushed through the traffic lights and drove to the underground parking lot of Xingyuan Building at a very fast speed.

Luo Rui shouted into the microphone: "Hey, Captain Cai, where are you now? If you can hear me, please reply."

"Hey, Captain Cai, if you hear me, please reply! If it's inconvenient to answer, tap the microphone three times!"

"Captain Cai?"

……

Luo Rui kept repeating his words, and suddenly he was seized by an ominous premonition.

The members of the criminal team also held their breath, not daring to breathe or occupy the channel.

After waiting for half a minute, Cai Xiaojing still didn't respond.

At this time, Yang Bo quickly spoke up: "Luo Da, I'm on the underground first floor. I saw Captain Cai's car and the Volvo car here, but I didn't see her."

Then, Su Mingyuan's voice came from the headset again: "I'm on the ground floor. I guarded the elevator, but I didn't see anyone. Xingyuan Building is too big, I don't know where to look!"

Luo Rui ordered: "Mingyuan, go to the monitoring room of the building immediately!"

"Understood!" Su Mingyuan responded.

The reconnaissance vehicle drove into the parking lot. Because it was going too fast, its tires rubbed against the green-painted ground, making a teeth-grinding squeaking sound.

"Yonghui, follow me! Chuyang, go to the monitoring room."

Luo Rui opened the door before the car stopped.

But at this moment, Chu Yang, who was sitting on the monitor, immediately stopped him. "Team Leader, look at this!"

"what happened?"

Chu Yang swallowed his saliva, pointed at the computer screen, and spoke with a trembling voice.

"I intercepted the surveillance channel of the drug enforcement team. This is the kitchen of Liwan Villa. ... The things were delivered by the courier earlier."

Hearing this, Luo Rui turned his head and looked at the surveillance screen.

The picture has been frozen.

There is a man's head in the foam box!

His face was pale, his eyes were closed, and he looked extremely unreal.

Luo Rui's pupils dilated and the blood in his body froze.

This is Zhang Xun!

Zhang Xun has disappeared for three years!
Liao Kang’s special agent, Nong Ying’s boyfriend!

Luo Rui’s brain almost crashed.

Fang Yonghui shouted from the side: "Luo Da, Luo Da!"

Luo Rui woke up, he exhaled, and shouted to Chu Yang: "Contact Liao Kang, tell all the anti-drug team members to come over and surround Xingyuan Building!"

"Understood!" Chu Yang quickly took out his cell phone and called Liao Kang.

At this time, Su Mingyuan's voice sounded in everyone's earphones.

"Team Leader, I checked the surveillance footage in the elevator. That woman held Captain Cai hostage! Just three minutes ago!"

"Which floor did they go to?" Luo Rui quickly ran to the elevator, his heart sinking to the bottom.

Fang Yonghui and Yang Bo followed suit, both of them took out their service pistols from their waists and loaded them.

Su Mingyuan: "I don't know. That woman shot and blew up the surveillance camera in the elevator!"

Luo Rui and the other two stepped into the elevator. He raised his head and looked toward the top of the elevator to the left rear.

The monitor was broken into pieces, and the broken parts were scattered on the elevator floor.

"Chu Yang, have you contacted the drug enforcement team?"

"I've already called, and their people will be here soon."

"Chu Yang, Ming Yuan, the two of you immediately check all the surveillance videos of Xingyuan Building and find the whereabouts of this woman. Keep talking!"

"Roger that!"

The elevator door had already closed, and Yang Bo asked, "Luo Da, which floor are we going to?"

Luo Rui looked at the floor sign in the elevator. Xingyuan Building has 33 floors in total, and the third floor and above are all office buildings.

However, this elevator can only reach the third floor at most. If you want to go up further, you can only take a special elevator from other floors.

First floor: shopping mall.

Second floor: gym and clubhouse.

Third floor: Cinema.

Why did this woman come to Xingyuan Building? What was her purpose?
Moreover, she was the only one involved in this operation. If she was not the human smuggler, then where were the human smugglers?

Where is Gao Chengyong?
Luo Rui's mind was full of thoughts, but now Cai Xiaojing was in this woman's hands, and he couldn't calm down and think.

"Luo Da?"

At this time, Luo Rui pressed the elevator buttons for the first, second and third floors at the same time.

The elevator made a clanging sound and started to move upwards.

"I'll go to the first floor, Yonghui, you go to the second floor, Yangbo goes to the third floor! Let's wait for news from Chu Yang and the others. If we find the target, we'll meet up on the target floor."

"Understood!" the two people answered in unison.

The elevator reached the first floor and the noisy sounds of the mall immediately rang out.

Luo Rui nodded to the two of them and stepped out of the elevator.

The elevator door closed, he looked left and right, and found that the exit was on the left.

It was easy for that woman to escape.

At this time, Luo Rui's cell phone rang, and he heard the sound of sirens in his ears.

Liao Kang's anxious voice came from the phone: "Hello? Luo Rui, have you found the suspect?"

Luo Rui didn't plan to explain too much to him: "Tell your people to seal off all the streets around Xingyuan Building and Sangong Street, and evacuate the people!"

"I understand!" Liao Kang said without hesitation: "What else?"

"Call a SWAT team into the building. Captain Cai is being held hostage."

Liao Kang took a breath on the phone: "Luo Rui, there is something I need to tell you."

Luo Rui's eyes kept searching in the mall. At this time, there were many people shopping in the mall, and it was so crowded that he couldn't see who was who.

Liao Kang: "We found Zhang Xun."

Luo Rui didn't say a word. He walked through the crowded crowd without putting down the phone.

Liao Kang: "You don't seem surprised?"

Luo Rui: "We'll talk in detail after the operation is over."

Luo Rui hung up the phone, grabbed the back of a man wearing a black hood, and turned his shoulder to take a look.

The man was surprised at first, then dissatisfied: "What are you doing?"

"Sorry, I got the wrong person!"

Luo Rui let go of his hand, patted him on the back, and then squeezed past the watch counter.

At this moment, Chu Yang's voice suddenly came from his earphone.

"Team leader, we found it! This woman appeared at the Century Cinema on the third floor. Two minutes ago, the surveillance camera captured her and Team Cai appearing in the lobby of the cinema!"

"Understood!" Luo Rui agreed and took the nearest mall elevator up.

At the same time, Fang Yonghui on the second floor also rushed over.

Luo Rui was in the elevator and saw a group of fully armed special police rushing into the mall.

Liao Kang rushed in with his men.

Suddenly, the shopping mall on the first floor fell silent, and then it started to boil as if the water in a pot suddenly boiled.

Customers in the mall quickly hid aside, and noisy discussions could be heard everywhere.

Luo Rui ignored them. He ran up to the second floor in three or two steps, then went around the pillar and ran to the elevator on the third floor.

But halfway through, he suddenly heard a gunshot and his steps suddenly stopped.

Yang Bo on the third floor shouted loudly into the headset: "The target is on the third floor, the gunshots seem to come from the screening room inside!"

Luo Rui: "Yang Bo, don't come near! I'll be there soon, Yonghui, quickly evacuate the crowd!"

Fang Yonghui: "Received, Luo Da!"

When Luo Rui ran up to the third floor, he saw Fang Yonghui standing in front of the counter, talking anxiously with the manager of the cinema.

The people watching the movie in the hall, either sitting or standing, didn't seem to care about the previous gunshots.

Luo Rui heard the gunshots on the second floor, so it was impossible for them not to hear them.

Seeing him coming up, Fang Yonghui hurried over and said, "Luo Da, they won't listen to advice!"

"You didn't show your ID?"

At this time, the manager also followed up: "I have seen the police officer's ID, but you said there are criminals, so there are criminals? Officer, we can cooperate with your investigation, but you also have to consider our business!

Look at all the people in this hall. We finally have some business. If we kick them out, how much will we have to pay?"

Fang Yonghui asked anxiously: "Didn't you hear the gunshot just now?"

The manager looked at him with disdain, curled his lips, pointed at the LCD screen on the wall and said, "Look, the one holding the gun is Daniel Wu, and that Louis Koo. This is a police and gangster movie that just came out. Did you hear it? Biubiu, biubiu...

Officer, the gunshots you heard were from a movie, not real."

"Really?" Luo Rui glanced at him and quickly pulled out a pistol from his waist.

When the manager saw the black guy, he was startled and quickly took two steps back.

Then, a group of fully armed special police ran into the hall door, holding standard rifles in their hands.

The manager swallowed, his heart pounding.

Luo Rui ignored him and walked straight to the ticket gate with Fang Yonghui.

Behind them came the shouts of the special police: "Police on duty, everyone leave!"

"Don't crowd, don't be nervous, please leave in an orderly manner."

"Come on, don't stay at the counter. We'll ask the cinema to refund your tickets later!"

……

Luo Rui walked into the corridor. There were movie posters on the walls on both sides, and he could hear the images and sounds in the screening room.

"Yang Bo, where are you?"

"Mr. Luo, screening room number five."

Luo Rui walked around the corner and saw Yang Bo holding a pistol and hiding by the door, which was already closed.

"What's going on inside?"

Yang Bo heaved a sigh of relief when he saw him. "The person should be inside."

"Are you sure?"

"I didn't go in, but the gunshots really came from inside," Yang Bo replied, adding: "I can tell whether it's real gunshots or not."

Luo Rui didn't dare to act rashly. He looked up at the surveillance camera on the ceiling and said, "Yonghui, go check the surveillance camera here. Yangbo, call the manager."

"Yes!" Yang Bo was about to run away with Fang Yonghui, but when he turned around, he saw Liao Kang coming over and the manager was brought by him.

Liao Kang's face had never been so serious, his eyes were red and his lips were tightly pursed.

Luo Rui pointed to the door of Screening Room No. 5.

Liao Kang asked, "Captain Cai is also in there?"

Luo Rui didn't say anything, but turned to look at the manager: "Is there any surveillance camera in the fifth screening room?"

The manager was so frightened that his legs trembled unconsciously: "No...no..."

Luo Rui let out a sigh of relief. Today's surveillance equipment cannot be compared with that of the future.

There is more surveillance in public places, but security precautions in private enterprises are still relatively weak.

A few years later, after surveillance cameras were installed in the screening rooms, the young couples who could not hold back their excitement became much more obedient in their seats.

Luo Rui asked again: "How many people are there in Hall 5?"

The manager shuddered and said, "Not many people. This hall is used to show romance movies."

"Tell me clearly, how many people are there in there?" At this time, Fang Yonghui ran over with Chu Yang.

Chu Yang was still holding a notebook in his hand, panting.

"Team leader, there are a total of 23 people in Hall 5! I checked the surveillance footage from the cinema, and this woman took Captain Cai hostage and entered Hall 5. They are indeed inside, look."

Chu Yang turned the computer screen towards Luo Rui and pressed the play button.

Liao Kang also came over.

In the video, the woman has taken off her sunglasses and her face can be seen clearly.

"Is he a mixed-race child?" Fang Yonghui said.

Everyone was silent as they watched the woman grab Cai Xiaojing's shoulders and lead her into Hall No. 5.

Moreover, Cai Xiaojing looked pale, with beads of sweat all over her face. Before entering the door, she turned back to look at the camera on the ceiling.
Her whole condition was completely wrong, and the woman didn't have a gun to threaten her, so she had a chance to resist.

After the video ended, Liao Kang said: "There are more than 20 hostages inside now. This matter is not easy to handle."

Luo Rui didn't say anything. He put his ear to the door and only heard the sound of the movie.

"Well, I'll go in and talk to the other party."

Liao Kang: "It's too dangerous!"

Luo Rui shook his head: "This woman had a chance to escape, but she didn't. We don't know what her demands are yet. I'll go in and talk to her first to see what she wants to do!"

Liao Kang was silent for a few seconds, then took off his bulletproof vest and handed it to Luo Rui.

"This is Grade IIIA. Ordinary bullets cannot penetrate it. Put it on."

"Okay!" Luo Rui took off his coat, handed it to Fang Yonghui, and then put on the bulletproof vest.

He pulled out the pistol from his waist, checked it, and then put it back.

"Give me another gun."

Liao Kang quickly handed over his gun and looked at the two disciples behind him.

Panda turned around and aimed the law enforcement recorder on his shoulder at Luo Rui's action of taking the gun.

The allocation of police pistols is very strict. They are generally used by one person only. Lending them to others violates the regulations on the management of police firearms and may result in dismissal from public office.

Even if they were colleagues, it would be very troublesome. If Luo Rui used his gun to kill the gangster, regardless of whether he got any credit or not, he would have to write a lot of reports.

If there weren't more than twenty hostages in the screening room, Liao Kang wouldn't dare to lend it out.

Luo Rui tried the gun, then squatted down and tied the gun to his left leg.

The reason why he was so careful was because he knew the woman's shooting skills.

More than a day ago, this woman shot Zeng Mo in the head on the fifth floor of Wanda Shopping Mall. The distance between the two was nearly fifty meters.

At a distance of more than fifty meters, pistol bullets will generally miss the target, and even a sharpshooter cannot always hit the target.

Besides, the woman was using a revolver.

The biggest advantage of a revolver is that it is easy to carry and you can easily hide it in your pocket.

You can reach into your pocket, hold the handle of the gun, and shoot very secretly.

Luo Rui stood up and let out a breath.

"I'm in!"

Just as Luo Rui was about to push the door, Liao Kang said, "There's one more thing I forgot to tell you."

"You said."

"Zhang Xun's body was cut into 18 pieces... We examined it on the spot and found that he didn't just die. His body had been frozen."

"I understand!" Luo Rui nodded and immediately opened the door.

The door was not locked, but he could not see clearly what was going on inside because of the wall of the steps. However, a movie was playing in front of him. It was a newly released love movie, and the volume of the movie was very loud. The lines of the male and female protagonists filled his ears.

The spring door closes automatically.

Liao Kang quickly pushed the door open and waved to the special police behind him. A group of people followed Luo Rui quietly in case of any unexpected situations that they would not be able to deal with in time.

Luo Rui glanced at the big screen, then turned around and appeared in the aisle beside the stairs.

There were more than a dozen rows of seats, with about twenty people sitting there, most of them were couples.

These people didn't notice him at all, and it didn't look like they were being held hostage at all.

They stared at the big screen, eating popcorn and drinking Coke, as if nothing had happened.

If Luo Rui hadn't seen the woman sitting in the last row, he would still feel a little dazed.

At this time, the woman had already noticed him and stood up.

"The movie is over, it's a bad movie!"

The woman yelled to the people below, then quickly took out a revolver and pulled the trigger at Luo Rui.

"boom!"

Luo Rui's hand touched the gun and just made some movement, but he didn't expect that the woman's movement was faster than his!
The bullet hit the carpet at his feet, and the gun was still pointed at him.

"what!"

"Help!"

……

The customers in the cinema all of a sudden started shouting, some were stunned, some rushed out.

Luo Rui didn't dare to move. Although he was wearing a bulletproof vest, the gun was pointed at his head.

Everyone in the cinema was running out, and the woman did not stop them.

Liao Kang and the special police no longer hid, but ran out immediately to cover the hostages' escape.

From beginning to end, the woman just tilted her head and looked at Luo Rui sideways, and next to her, Cai Xiaojing sat on the chair inside, leaning against the back of the chair, with beads of sweat on her face.

After all the hostages were evacuated, special police were already standing in front of the cinema, with their guns pointed at the woman.

The woman curled her lips and sneered, "You policemen always do this, using your numbers to bully the few!"

Luo Rui raised his hands and asked, "Are you the snakehead?"

The woman laughed: "Snake head?"

"Don't get excited. I mean no harm. Tell me your name and what you want to do. As long as you let her go..." Luo Rui pointed at Cai Xiaojing: "We can agree to anything?"

"Let me go?"

"Okay, no problem!" Luo Rui agreed immediately.

Liao Kang hid behind a group of special police and shouted, "We can let you go now, but the prerequisite is that you must release our people!"

The woman sneered: "No need!"

"However, I have two conditions."

Luo Rui: “You speak!”

"First, tell them to withdraw, or I will kill you!"

"I promise you!" Luo Rui waved to Liao Kang and then asked, "What's the second condition?"

The woman took something out of her pocket. From beginning to end, her eyes never left Luo Rui.

"Bring this woman to me!"

The woman threw something in her hand and it fell to the ground.

Luo Rui pointed to the ground, meaning to pick it up.

The woman nodded slightly.

Luo Rui bent down and found it was a yellowed photo.

He picked it up and held it before his eyes to examine it.

He had seen this photo just a few days ago.

The man and woman in the photo are Zhang Xun and Nong Ying. The background is in a photo studio. Both of them were very young at the time.

This is a photo of Zhang Xun before he joined the army. It is also in Nong Ying’s QQ album.

The clues in Luo Rui's mind suddenly became clear.

This woman didn't run away, but came here to watch a movie and meet Nong Ying?

Luo Rui looked up. "No problem, we'll find her right away! But it will take time."

"I can wait, but before that, you guys get out."

Luo Rui threw the photo to Liao Kang: "Call Nong Ying over, you two go out first."

The woman shook her gun. “No, you’re going out too.”

Luo Rui narrowed his eyes slightly and pointed to the seat next to him. "If you want, can I sit down and talk to you?"

The woman hesitated.

Seeing that she was about to reject it, Luo Rui quickly said, "I know Zhang Xun. I also know Nong Ying. It was she who asked me to find Zhang Xun's whereabouts, so I found you."

"Okay, come up and sit in the row below me."

"No problem!" Luo Rui raised his hand and walked up carefully.

The muzzle of the gun in the woman's hand followed him all the time.

She glanced at Liao Kang and said, "If you don't get out when I count to three, I will shoot him! Since you can find me, you should know my shooting skills. I am always very accurate when shooting in the head."

"Don't shoot! We'll retreat immediately!" Liao Kang let out a breath and waved to the special police around him.

After a group of people evacuated, the screening room suddenly became empty.

The movie on the big screen also stopped playing, and the picture froze on the scene where the hero and heroine were kissing.

Luo Rui raised his hands, walked to the twelfth row, and then slowly walked towards the seat inside.

He came under the woman and looked up at Cai Xiaojing. She was pale, with beads of sweat all over her face. She clenched her teeth and looked very painful.

From the moment Luo Rui entered the screening room, she kept her eyes closed and didn't say a word.

Luo Rui's body suddenly froze: "What did you do to her?"

The woman did not answer, but ordered: "Sit down and don't look back!"

Luo Rui didn't listen to the advice: "What happened to her?"

"I didn't expect you to care about her. From what I know, you policemen are indifferent to your companions."

"Answer me!" Luo Rui's upper eyes seemed to be spitting fire.

The woman's eyes narrowed. "She tried to resist. I just injected something into her vein so I could better control her."

"You deserve to die!"

"Ha, yes, I should die, that's right. But I want to ask, who is she to you? Your girlfriend? Why do you care about her so much?"

Luo Rui stared at the woman: "Send her out, I'll be your hostage!"

"I tell you, now is not the time to bargain." The woman shrugged, and then said: "But I can give you a chance."

"You said."

"boom!"

Without any warning, the woman pulled the trigger, and the bullet flew past Luo Rui's ear and hit the stands.

But the muzzle of the gun instantly moved to Luo Rui's forehead.

It was obvious that the woman was very familiar with guns, and judging from the way she shot, she was very skilled.

"This gun of mine can hold six bullets. I fired three times today, so there are still three bullets in it. Have you heard of Russian roulette? As long as you dare to bet and win, I will let her out immediately!"

The woman laughed evilly. “I might as well tell you that if you don’t send her to the hospital in time, her life may be ruined. The substance left in her body is the latest product developed by the snakehead, and it has a very strong medicinal property. Haha, as a police officer, and a woman at that, it’s interesting to be exposed to this…”

Luo Rui clenched his fists tightly, his face ashen. He glanced at Cai Xiaojing, the expression on her face was slowly fading, and she seemed to be on her last breath.

The black muzzle of the gun was only one centimeter away from his forehead. This gun could take his life at any time.

Cai Xiaojing was in critical condition. If she was not sent to the hospital in time, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Make a decision quickly. I think she can't hold on any longer."

"I bet!"

"OK!"

The woman answered, and she stretched out her hand and quickly turned the cylinder of the revolver.

In Luo Rui's pupils, the wheel was spinning rapidly...

I took a day off yesterday, but couldn’t sleep in the early morning. I felt guilty for taking a day off, as if I had cheated on my wife. I felt bad in my heart, but I still got up and wrote a few thousand words. I will update it early today.

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