Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 331 Counterattack
Hengyuan Building.

There is a large supermarket on the underground first floor, office buildings on the first, second and third floors, and Hengyuan Hotel above that.

The elevators in the office building and the hotel are used separately.

Behind the front desk hangs a row of clocks with different time zones.

The time is now 5:30 pm and people are starting to enter the hotel lobby.

Sitting on the sofa opposite the lobby were customers preparing to check in. Linjiang City could be considered a half-tourist city.

Hengyuan Hotel is a four-star hotel with foreign-related business qualifications, so you can see many foreign tourists with travel bags stopping in the lobby.

Li Peiwen had only three people under her command. After the shooting, she ran out of the community and rushed into the hotel lobby immediately.

"You, guard the elevator!"

"Shitou, go guard the fire escape stairs."

"Che Yi, go to the underground parking lot! This building has too many floors. We must wait for support! Don't act rashly!"

"Yes!" The three people agreed, took a look at the hotel floor plan on the wall, and ran quickly to the designated location.

Li Peiwen came to the hotel front desk and showed his ID to the staff: "I am from the security department. Call your manager out immediately."

Two waitresses in uniform looked at the man who was operating the computer. Men generally know more than women, and when he heard that it was the security department, he was stunned and opened his mouth wide.

The hotel had dealt with the police and fire department many times, but this was his first time encountering the security department.

The man swallowed his saliva and asked the name he was thinking of: "Guo... An?"

Li Peiwen didn't have time to explain to him. He glanced at his name tag and immediately said, "There's a gunman in your hotel. I need you to stop the elevator immediately and close all entrances and exits!"

"This……"

"Right now, restrict anyone from entering or leaving, including the underground parking lot!"

The lobby manager was shocked: "I need to call the chairman!"

Although he had heard the word "gunman", what the other party said was too big and the details were too special, so he naturally remained skeptical.

Li Peiwen gritted his teeth and said, "I'm telling you, if you waste my time and let the gunman escape, your hotel will be closed!"

The lobby manager was not threatened by her. He immediately picked up the landline on the table and dialed a number...

Li Peiwen had no choice but to grit her teeth and wait. She calculated the time in her mind. Only five minutes had passed from the time the shooting occurred to the time she arrived at the scene.

The gunman was located on the upper floors of the hotel, at least on the 15th floor or above. Even if he took the elevator and ran out of the hotel, the front desk should have seen him.

Unless the other party took the elevator directly to the underground parking lot and drove away directly...

With this in mind, Li Peiwen stared at a trembling waitress and asked, "Have you ever seen a guest carrying a big bag walk out of the hotel?"

The waitress shook her head and said, "Check-out time is 12 noon. Very few guests check out at this time because it counts as a full day."

"Please bring me all the surveillance cameras in the hotel. I want to see them." Li Peiwen said, walking around the front desk.

But the lobby manager immediately stopped her and said, "Please wait a moment. Our chairman is calling the municipal bureau. Once we confirm your identity, we will immediately cooperate with your actions."

"you……"

"I'm sorry, this is the hotel's rule, there's nothing I can do about it!"

Li Peiwen was stopped by him and was about to lose his temper, but he saw a bloody hand appear behind him and a certificate appeared in front of the lobby manager.

"City Bureau Criminal Police Division, I'm Deputy Division Chief Luo Rui. From now on, please immediately cooperate with our police investigation!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the lobby manager was stunned. Luo Rui's name was well-known in Linjiang City. It was he who started the crackdown on prostitution not long ago, and there have always been legends about him in Linjiang City.

In any entertainment venue, hotel or other place, everyone knows the name of "Luo's Anti-pornography Campaign".

Besides, two years ago, Luo Rui and Qinggui Chen Hao searched the whole city for the suspect who robbed the escort vehicle, and they were also in danger in the jewelry store explosion.

At that time, Hu Changyu from the Municipal Bureau was still under pressure and trying his best to hunt down X, so everyone in Linjiang City knew these people.

As the saying goes, a person's name is like a tree's shadow. When the lobby manager saw him, he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, Captain Luo. Please tell me what you need us to do."

Luo Rui nodded to Cai Xiaojing, and the latter and Lin Chen immediately walked around the front desk, pushed aside several staff members, and each of them started operating a computer.

"Yonghui, take a group of people to the underground parking lot and seal the exit. Do not allow any vehicles to enter or leave."

Luo Rui then looked at the several technical detectives who followed him and said, "You are stationed at the back door of the hotel and no one is allowed to enter or leave. If someone breaks in by force, do not fight them and notify us immediately!"

"Yes!"

After Luo Rui finished speaking, Li Peiwen was looking at him.

He said, "The SWAT team will be here in a few minutes. We must first ensure that the gunman is still in the building."

Li Peiwen sighed: "Captain Luo, your name is more useful than the name of our department."

"You are a special department. You are rarely seen all day long. The common people have a very unfamiliar impression of you. Most of them deal with grassroots police officers like us."

"What a grassroots policeman." Li Peiwen just sighed slightly and then got back to business: "Is the woman's life in danger?"

"She is still breathing and the ambulance has taken her away."

"Fortunately."

"But that child..."

"It does not matter."

As soon as Li Peiwen finished speaking, Luo Rui stared at her: "Not important?"

"Uh... I mean it's not important to the case we're investigating, don't get me wrong."

Luo Rui looked at her deeply and said nothing more.

Time passed slowly, and the shrill sound of sirens was heard outside the building, and more than one police car came over.

Cai Xiaojing looked up from the computer: "I checked the surveillance cameras in the hotel lobby and back door. No suspicious people left the hotel in the past fifteen minutes."

Lin Chen also released the mouse: "In the four elevators, no suspicious man came down in the past fifteen minutes."

"What about the surveillance in the underground parking lot?"

Cai Xiaojing shook her head: "There are not many surveillance cameras in the parking lot, and there are many blind spots that the surveillance cameras cannot capture..."

Lin Chen replied, “None of the four elevators go to the underground parking lot.”

Li Peiwen asked, "Could it be that they took the fire escape stairs?"

Escaping in an elevator is certainly fast, but facing surveillance video, a professional gunman should not reveal such a big flaw.

Moreover, the killing was done at a long distance, so the gun used must have been a sniper rifle.

Such people are bold and careful, and they are all risking their lives. It is possible that they have someone to pick them up. As long as they leave the hotel, they can immediately disappear in the crowd.

In the current era, without a complete Skynet system, it is difficult to catch them.

This is also why, although Li Peiwen is a member of the security department and has received professional training, he did not rush into the building at the first moment.

It’s such a big building. As long as the gunman hasn’t escaped from the hotel, we should immediately cordon off the scene and wait for the special police to come and support. It’s only a matter of time before we catch him.

But on the other hand, no one staying in the upper floors of the hotel called the police, which shows that the seriousness of the incident has not risen to the level of hostage-taking.

But we cannot rule out the possibility that the gunman might be desperate, so Lin Chen is currently checking the surveillance on each floor to see if any hostage-taking incident has occurred.

Cai Xiaojing moved very quickly. After a while, she raised her head and said, "The security door leading to the first floor is also monitored. No one has come down in the past fifteen minutes."

Luo Rui pondered and said, "Does that mean the gunman is still in the building? That's impossible. When he fired the gun, he saw me. He must have known that the police were around. Could it be that the gunman really wanted to take hostages?"

Hearing this, Li Peiwen shook his head, his eyes sharp, and he seemed to be deeply touched and said: "No, I have dealt with these people before. These people are paid to do things. After they succeed, they will definitely leave the scene immediately. Generally, they will not take hostages.

Even if they cannot escape, they rarely kidnap innocent people.

If we really do this, we will be confronting the entire urban police system, and the nature of the matter will escalate...

Face to face with the police, they knew they would not survive.”

In fact, Li Peiwen didn't say something else. When encountering such a situation, the hired gunmen would keep many life-saving methods on hand for exchange in order to save their own lives.

Their detention, arrest, or release is not subject to existing laws.

This has gone beyond the scope of public security, procuratorial and judicial organs, and is beyond most people's cognition. This is why Luo Rui doesn't like people like Li Peiwen.

When the SWAT team pushed open the double glass doors and arrived with their team, Lin Chen raised his head from the monitor screen: "Here... there's something wrong with this person!"

Luo Rui and Li Peiwen quickly stood in front of the computer and looked down at the surveillance screen.

The picture is being played at three times the speed, and the floor displayed in the upper left corner is the 18th floor.

It was six o'clock yesterday afternoon. A man with a travel bag on one shoulder came out of the elevator, looked around, then walked to room 1808 and swiped his card to enter.

The man was tall and straight, wearing a baseball cap with the brim pulled down very low.

It doesn't matter, what matters is the travel bag he carries with him.

This bag is just big enough to hold a sniper rifle.

"No. 1808, No. 1808..." Luo Rui muttered, and immediately said: "This room is right in front of the residential area, Meng Jiayao's bedroom and the customer balcony! It's him!"

Upon hearing this, without waiting for Luo Rui's instructions, Cai Xiaojing immediately entered room 1808 into the hotel's resident system.

Lin Chen also quickly increased the speed of the video playback...

The customer’s identity information immediately popped up in the hotel system.

Cai Xiaojing said: "This man is called Basong Charunpong, he is 28 years old, and the passport he used when checking in showed that he came from Hong Kong."

Luo Rui nodded, turned around, and found that Li Peiwen had already walked into the elevator with a team of special police.

"Damn, the news is still unclear, why are you in such a hurry?" Luo Rui quickly took the walkie-talkie from a special police officer and threw it to Cai Xiaojing: "Keep in touch!"

He jogged toward the elevator and stepped inside just as the doors were about to close.

While pressing the floor button, Li Peiwen contacted his three team members and pulled out his service pistol from his waist.

The other SWAT officers took the other three elevators. Luo Rui asked another SWAT officer for the intercom, and Cai Xiaojing's voice came out immediately: "The guest in room 1808 has not left the hotel room since he checked in at pm last night. After the shooting, the door was not opened. You must be careful."

"Okay, got it!"

Soon, the 18th floor arrived.

To be on the safe side, Li Peiwen and the others came up and started to take action.

Since the gunman was carrying a sniper rifle, it is not yet known whether he had any other guns or dangerous items.

So experienced special police took the lead and were divided into three groups. One group carried the weapons and rammed the doorposts, one group held explosion-proof shields, and the last group was the assault team, which carried out confrontation and arrests.

In addition, SWAT officers were stationed at both ends of the corridor, ready to guard against a gunman escaping at any time.

There were other residents on this floor, but they were not asked to leave.

The SWAT captain looked around and when he saw that everyone was in place, he raised a fist, extended his index finger, middle finger, and finally his thumb.

With a "bang", the door of the hotel room was directly opened by hitting the doorpost.

SWAT officers carrying riot shields entered first, followed by a third group of personnel.

They moved very quickly and gestured constantly.

Especially the special police officer who led the team, after he entered the door, he stood in a very experienced position to cover his team members' entry.

Luo Rui and Li Peiwen followed him in and immediately saw the sniper rifle dropped on the ground and a man in a jacket kneeling under the balcony with his forehead touching the wall.

Two SWAT officers immediately rushed forward and held the man’s shoulders down.

But everyone saw that the man's head was covered in blood and the white walls were also splattered with blood.

"Dead?" Li Peiwen held the gun with both hands, then held it with one hand, and stretched out one hand to check the man's wound.

Luo Rui stood aside and looked out the window.

This room is enclosed, and the balcony window cannot be pushed open directly. Instead, it has to be pushed up, but only halfway, so at most half of your head can be squeezed in.

Looking outside, you can just see Room 4, Building 1002 where Meng Jiayao lives.

Although the two places are separated by a road and a wall, the distance between them is within 500 meters.

When Luo Rui was rescuing Meng Jiayao, the sun's rays were shining right here. The sunlight was reflected on the sight of the sniper rifle and then refracted onto the residential building opposite.

Now that he thought about it, the gunman wanted to kill Meng Jiayao. If he had targeted himself, Luo Rui would have died long ago.

At this time, Li Peiwen held the man's shoulders and straightened his body.

I saw that the left side of the opponent's head was covered in blood and flesh, and it was obvious that he had been shot.

"It was a bullet from a sniper rifle." said the SWAT officer leading the team.

"What?" Before Li Peiwen could react, he saw Luo Rui running out of the room.

She immediately followed and chased Luo Rui into the elevator.

After the two men left the hotel, they took their companions and headed straight for Building No. 4 in the residential complex. After reaching the rooftop, they found that there was not a single ghost on the rooftop.

Luo Rui ran to the rooftop facing the Hengyuan Hotel.

Just as Li Peiwen was about to move forward, Luo Rui immediately shouted, "Don't move!"

"what happened?"

"Are you a policeman?" Luo Rui asked.

Li Peiwen was confronted and looked at him coldly: "What do you mean?"

"You can see that the waterproofing measures on the rooftop are not good. The ground is black and moldy. If the second gunman shoots at this location, it will leave a lot of traces."

Li Peiwen retorted: "We don't have time to worry about this now. The second gunman hasn't gotten far yet. It's not too late to arrest him now."

"That's fine! You organize people to capture them!" Luo Rui took out blue foot covers from his pocket, stood on one foot, and put them on in rotation.

"you……"

"If you have time to argue with me, you might as well go to the community and check the surveillance to see which direction this person escaped from. Damn, I'm so unlucky to be involved in your case! The case hasn't been investigated yet, and two professional gunmen appear here, acting like a movie."

Luo Rui complained as he carefully approached the wall at the edge of the rooftop.

Li Peiwen snorted coldly and turned away.

Soon, Cai Xiaojing led the technical investigation police to the rooftop and began to collect footprints nearby.

Luo Rui quickly reported the matter to the Municipal Bureau. After Lu Kangming answered the phone, he was shocked and hurried to find Tang Zhiguo.

Tang Zhiguo also started to report it, and after making many calls, he finally called back.

"Luo Rui, you have to assist them in investigating this case."

"Why?" Luo Rui, standing on the rooftop, facing the wind, immediately retorted.

His voice was so loud that it reached the ears of the police officers who were collecting physical evidence at the scene.

"No, Director Tang, I'm not targeting you. My tone is not very nice, but you have to know the nature of this case. Our city bureau's criminal police detachment investigates homicides or major homicides in the city, but this case is completely beyond our standards!

Why should I assist Li Peiwen in his investigation? Why should I let my officers take this risk?

Besides, if we died, the funeral expenses would not be as much as theirs, don’t you think that’s true?”

Luo Rui expressed all his dissatisfaction. Tang Zhiguo had never seen Luo Rui lose his temper. He was stunned for a long time and replied: "No, I just called Captain Zhu, and he said that you agreed to investigate this case..."

"When did I agree? I only agreed to investigate the case of Zhang Jichun's murder. The circumstances of Zhang Jichun's murder are very clear. He was threatened by two gangsters and fell into the water from the cross-river bridge and died!

Furthermore, the gunman we found at the scene clearly does not match the appearance of the two criminals. What does he have to do with our city police?"

Tang Zhiguo blushed at what he said. If Kang Bolin dared to talk to him like that, he would have scolded him to death. But Luo Rui was different, he had someone to protect him.

Not only that, Tang Zhiguo heard the news from the city that Linjiang City is now attracting investment. This group of people found out that Luo Rui, in the capacity of a father-in-law who is not yet his father-in-law, has set up an investment company in the province and city.

This company has strong strength and accurate investment, and its investment projects are all star enterprises from all over the country.

The bigwigs of China Merchants Group are discussing asking Luo Rui to help them build their hometown.

This person happened to be his subordinate, and Tang Zhiguo seemed helpless.

Although Luo Rui works in the system, outside the system, he can sit on equal footing with Tang Zhiguo's leaders and chat and laugh happily.

This is fucking shit.

"Deputy Branch, the security department's investigation documents have come down, what do you say we should do?"

Luo Rui replied: "I didn't say we won't help. Just ask a team to help Li Peiwen run errands. My criminal team will be withdrawn."

"This……"

"My name isn't on the investigation documents, right?"

"Wait a minute, I'll make a few calls first."

"Okay." Luo Rui hung up the phone, then walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down. He saw that the road outside the community was full of police cars.

Hengyuan Hotel and the residential area have been blocked off, with special police and civilian police going in and out.

At this time, Fang Yonghui and Lin Chen ran up to the rooftop, both of them panting.

Fang Yonghui said, "I've been a policeman for so long, but I've never dealt with Guo An before. Luo Da, a lot of people just came."

"Who are they?"

"I don't know their identities, but they are one level higher than our city bureau."

Lin Chen said, "I just saw Team Leader Li lead the SWAT team to chase the gunman to the south of the city."

Luo Rui teased: "You're pretty quick."

It is not difficult to speculate this matter. One gunman stayed in the Hengyuan Hotel, using a sniper rifle, looking for an opportunity to attack Meng Jiayao. Another gunman sneaked into the community, also looking for an opportunity to kill Meng Jiayao.

After the gunman in the hotel successfully shot, the gunman on the rooftop of the community decisively shot and killed his companions to eliminate the hidden danger of exposure.

Luo Rui thought about it, if it was the gunman in the community who killed Meng Jiayao, then would the gunman hiding in the hotel make the same choice if his companion was exposed?

Professional, really professional! Luo Rui complained in his heart.

The only variable here is that by chance, I discovered the existence of Meng Jiayuan and found her in time.

And judging from the situation at the time, the two gunmen must have noticed the police coming to their door, so they did not choose to alert the enemy. Instead, they waited until Meng Jiayuan was discovered and was about to be caught, and then they were forced to open fire.

Luo Rui now thinks back that Meng Jiayuan had always been on high alert, and the curtains on the balcony and bedroom were drawn tightly. She probably knew that she might be in danger.

First, Qiu Mingjie was killed, then Zhang Jichun, and finally Meng Jiayao.

Guoan intervened. There was no doubt that the identities of these three people were very clear, and they were undoubtedly spies.

Qiu Mingjie is a professor at the Research Institute, and Zhang Jichun is also a professor at the School of Literature. Both of them are highly respected people in society.

And how did Meng Jiayuan, a young woman, get involved with them?

Her child is Qiu Mingjie's, but the mother and child are raised in the same community by Zhang Jichun.

Luo Rui could only sigh that these old professors really knew how to have fun.

The two gunmen were determined to kill her at all costs. It seemed that this woman knew a lot of things.

As he was thinking this, Luo Rui's cell phone rang.

The person who called was not Tang Zhiguo, but Zhu Yong.

He started by saying, "Luo Rui, you have been appointed to lead the investigation of this case. Please do your best to cooperate with Li Peiwen..."

"But……"

"No buts, don't you just want benefits? Tell me, what do you want?"

Luo Rui couldn't help but blurt out: "You are really good at judging people."

(End of this chapter)