A madman in France? How come he's always at crime scenes!

Meng Jiang pressed down on the headset.

"Old He."

"exist."

"The target has received notification to implement Plan Two."

Old He's voice lowered over the walkie-talkie.

"clear."

Meng Jiang then switched gears: "Group 1, make a sound to break down the door in thirty seconds. Group 2, secure the stairwell. Group 3, press the outer perimeter northward, leaving an opening on the south side."

"receive."

As Wu Liang listened, he couldn't help but look at Meng Jiang and secretly admire his abilities.

Let the murderer follow what he thought was a safe path and crawl into the cage that had been prepared beforehand.

Li Mu suddenly said, "The target has begun to move."

On the screen, the red figure stopped in the center of the living room and walked towards the bedroom a few seconds later.

Wu Liang whispered, "He's getting something."

Meng Jiang pressed down on the headset.

"action!"

On the third floor, Old He leaned against the wall and raised his hand to count down.

three.

two.

One.

The battering ram slammed heavily onto the iron gate!

boom! ! !

The loud noise instantly echoed throughout the entire demolition building!

The red figure inside the room suddenly shrank to the window.

The second time.

The door frame groaned under the strain.

"Police! Open the door!"

Old He's voice was like the roar of a black bear, full of pressure.

Just before the third impact, the window of the east-facing apartment on the third floor suddenly opened.

The red figure flipped over.

Li Mu immediately switched the view to the exterior wall.

"Target out of the window!"

Cao Yang slid down from the third-floor awning, his left shoulder hitting the steel frame, and his body visibly tilted to the side. Instead of running towards the main entrance downstairs, he hugged the outer wall and crawled behind the scaffolding.

Everything went exactly as Meng Jiang had predicted.

Wu Liang frowned instead.

"Team Leader Meng."

"explain."

"Isn't everything going a little too smoothly?"

Meng Jiang's eyes never left the screen.

"We need things to go smoothly, otherwise how will the mole believe us?"

Li Mu stared at the thermal image.

"The target has entered the culvert."

In the video, Cao Yang's heat source flashes and disappears underground. The signal is weakened by the cement layer, leaving only intermittent red spots.

Meng Jiang picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Nancang, prepare to receive them."

There was no immediate response on the walkie-talkie.

one second.

two seconds.

Meng Jiang's expression changed.

"Nan Cang, reply."

There was a buzzing sound of electricity, followed by a very soft tapping sound.

Three short and one long.

Meng Jiang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Nancang Jingmo, received."

Wu Liang looked at him.

Meng Jiang said, "It's a pre-arranged password to prevent video interception."

Li Mu suddenly started typing on the keyboard.

"No, there's an extra heat source in the culvert."

Meng Jiang suddenly bent down.

On the screen, the heat source representing Cao Yang stopped in the middle of the culvert, and then another heat source appeared from the side of the culvert, with the two red shadows less than five meters apart.

"There are people waiting for us inside?!" Li Mu's voice became incredulous.

Meng Jiang's expression finally changed.

Cao Yang paused in the culvert for three seconds.

Then the two heat sources are separated.

Cao Yang turned around and did not continue walking towards Nancang.

He changed course!

Li Mu quickly pulled up the map.

"There is also a maintenance branch road on the east side of the culvert, which leads to the basement of the building materials market office building."

Meng Jiang slammed his fist against the car wall.

"Damn it!"

Over the intercom, Lao He's hushed voice came from Nancang.

"Team Leader Meng, the person hasn't arrived."

"East Branch Road! Office building basement!"

There was a brief silence on the intercom.

Then Lao He lowered his voice.

"I'll go."

Just as Meng Jiang was about to speak, footsteps could be heard coming from Lao He's direction.

"Old He!"

"It's too late, Captain Meng! I know the boiler room area well!"

The call was interrupted for half a second, then he picked it up again.

"Don't worry, I'll bite him."

Meng Jiang pressed the intercom and grabbed the bulletproof vest.

Li Mu looked up: "Where are you going?"

"on site."

"It's too late for you to go now."

"We still have to go!"

Wu Liang suddenly reached out and stopped him half a step.

Meng Jiang looked at him.

Wu Liang said, "The person who was supposed to meet him might not have come to rescue him."

Meng Jiang paused for a moment.

"What do you mean?"

Wu Liang pointed at the screen.

"After he handed over the item, the target didn't speed up; instead, he paused for a moment."

Li Mu immediately replayed the video.

The image is very blurry.

But it was clear that Cao Yang's body stiffened for half a second after he took the item.

Wu Liang continued, "If it's an escape route, he should run immediately. He'll also check weapons, but if it's an order..."

Meng Jiang stared at him.

"He might be scared."

Li Mu amplified the trajectory of the heat source.

After entering the East Branch Road, Cao Yang's stride length shortened and his speed decreased.

It doesn't seem like they're running for their lives.

Meng Jiang picked up the walkie-talkie again.

"Old He, the target may have already received orders to be silenced. Be careful, he may have poison sacs, drugs, or explosives on him. Don't give him any time alone."

Old He, panting, replied, "Understood!"

The basement of the abandoned office building was filled with dust.

Old He led two special police officers down the stairs, their flashlights brushing against the wall.

The floor was littered with discarded folders and broken glass.

The sound of metal clashing came from afar, one after another.

Old He raised his hand, and the line stopped.

"Cao Yang!"

No one answered.

A flashlight swept across the area, revealing a half-open iron door at the far end of the basement.

Behind the door was the old boiler room.

Old He made a hand gesture.

A SWAT officer throws a flashbang grenade.

A burst of white light erupted, and the three rushed in.

There was no one in the boiler room, except for a blood-stained coat hanging on the pipes.

"Empty!"

Li Mu spoke almost simultaneously from inside the command vehicle: "The heat source has disappeared."

Meng Jiang shouted, "Impossible!"

"There are residual heat pipes under the boiler room, which are interfering with the footage."

Li Mu gritted his teeth, "He's using a heat source to conceal his whereabouts."

Wu Liang looked at the corner of the screen.

Outside the office building, the cover of an underground ventilation shaft was forcefully pushed open.

In the night vision footage from the drone, a gray shadow crawls out from the ground.

Wu Liang pointed to the screen.

"There."

Li Mu immediately switched the view.

"The ventilation shaft in the southeast corner of the office building!"

Meng Jiang roared, "Group Three! Southeast corner!"

Sun Jin was closest, and he rushed over immediately with a Feishui auxiliary police officer beside him.

Cao Yang had just climbed out of the well, his face covered in soot, but he showed no panic when he saw Sun Jinshi.

Instead, he laughed.

Sun Jin's heart skipped a beat.

"Don't move!"

Cao Yang grinned maliciously and raised his right hand, holding a dark green grenade!

Sun Jin's pupils contracted instantly.

"Grenade!!!"

Cao Yang grinned, black ash mixed with blood smeared between his teeth.

"Come on!!!!"

He flicked his index finger at Sun Jin in a provocative gesture, then pulled directly towards the ring.

At this critical moment.

boom!

A gunshot pierced the night sky, exploding from the side and rear.

Cao Yang swung his right arm violently, splattering blood on the edge of the manhole cover. The grenade rolled half a meter away from his hand, the pull ring still attached.

Zhao Anmin held the gun with both hands, the muzzle of the gun was so steady that it did not shake at all.

"Hold him down!"

Sun Jin was the first to pounce, pressing his knee heavily against Cao Yang's back.

Cao Yang roared in pain, but his body was still arching towards the grenade, his left hand digging into the cement ground, his fingernails flipped up.

"Thunder! Thunder!"

Without hesitation, the auxiliary police officer rushed over, covered the grenade with a blast blanket, and pressed his entire body against it, his face pale.

Sun Jin twisted Cao Yang's left arm tightly.

"Old Zhao!"

Zhao Anmin rushed forward, stepping on Cao Yang's injured right wrist with one foot and pulling his left hand behind his back with the other.

Cao Yang's mouth was full of blood as he struggled desperately.

Sun Jin cursed under his breath and pressed his knee down another half inch.

Cao Yang suddenly clenched his teeth.

Zhao Anmin's expression changed.

"Press his mouth shut!"

Sun Jin reacted extremely quickly, grabbing Cao Yang's cheek with his left hand and forcefully prying open his jaw.

"Ugh—!"

Cao Yang let out a muffled roar.

He wanted to bite, but couldn't. Zhao Anmin pressed down on the back of his neck with one hand, and with the other hand, he reached directly into his mouth and pressed against his jawbone.

"Don't let him close his mouth!"

Sun's forehead veins were bulging.

"Do you think I'm feeding him?"

Cao Yang twisted his body suddenly, almost lifting Sun Jin half an inch off the ground.

The next second, Zhao Anmin's rifle butt slammed into the side of his shoulder blade.

boom!

Cao Yang's body stiffened.

Sun Jinteng made a move, pulled open Cao Yang's mouth, and shone a bright flashlight inside.

"denture!"

Zhao Anmin saw it.

The second tooth on the upper right is a little whiter than the one next to it, and there is a very thin gap at the gum line.

Zhao Anmin pulled out a hemostat from his waist, pinched the tooth, and twisted his wrist.

Click.

Cao Yang's eyes bulged suddenly, and he let out a muffled roar, his saliva mixed with blood dripping onto the ground.

Sun Jin took out handcuffs and cuffed him, then sat down heavily on the ground, panting.

"Damn it, I almost sent him to his death."

At this moment, Lao He rushed out from the direction of the office building, coughing violently, his face covered in dust.

Zhao Anmin is putting dentures into an evidence bag.

"poison?"

Zhao Anmin nodded and handed the evidence bag to the arriving technician.

"If I had been a step too late, he would have bitten me."

Old He raised his hand to wipe his face and spat at Cao Yang, who had given up struggling on the ground.

"These bastards have even paved their own way to their deaths."

The bomb disposal team arrived and moved the dark green grenade into the bomb disposal container. The auxiliary police officer who had just been holding up the bomb blanket got up from the ground, his legs still a little weak.

Zhao Anmin glanced at him.

"What's your name?"

The young auxiliary police officer was taken aback for a moment: "Du... Du Ming."

Zhao Anmin nodded.

I'll write the materials for you later.

Du Ming's lips trembled: "Captain, did I almost...?"

"That's not true."

Zhao Anmin patted the dust off his trousers.

"You just did a great job."