Chapter 228 Night Chase, Dragon Fang Assault Captures the Thief

This is both a test and an application of pressure.

Sha Ruijin wanted to use the investigation team's name to find out the military's true intentions in Hong Kong.

Just as Liu Changchun was about to retort, Shen Zhong, who was sitting at the end of the long table, spoke first.

"I agree with Secretary Sha's proposal."

Shen Zhong placed his hands on the table, sitting upright.

"The military region will fully cooperate with the investigation team. Whoever needs to be investigated will be investigated, and there will be absolutely no leniency."

The air in the meeting room froze as soon as those words were spoken.

Li Dakang turned to look at Shen Zhong, completely baffled as to why this usually assertive political commissar of the military region would suddenly compromise.

Gao Yuliang, sitting opposite him, paused for a moment while holding the pen.

Sha Ruijin continued drinking his tea, secretly making plans.

Shen Zhong's concession was so decisive. Could it be that there was really a problem with the military's deployment on Hong Kong Island? Or is Shen Zhong preparing to use the Hong Kong Island issue as a bargaining chip to protect He Xia's project in Luzhou?

Sha Ruijin placed the teacup on the table and tapped it.

"Since Political Commissar Shen has expressed his opinion, then this matter is settled. An investigation team will be formed immediately after the meeting."

The underground operations room of the Handong Provincial Military Region.

The dark blue tactical screen flickered, displaying an electronic map of Handong Province marked with a dense array of red and blue dots.

Shen Zhong, dressed in a pine-green military uniform, stood in front of the sand table, his face cold and hard.

He had no intention of compromising with Sha Ruijin; the joint investigation team was merely a smokescreen to lull his opponents into a false sense of security.

Zhou Weiguo strode in, stood at attention, and saluted.

"Sir, we've located the four thugs who caused the trouble. They're wanted criminals who fled from Jingzhou. They escaped along the national highway after the incident and their whereabouts are currently unknown. The public security system has been holding back and hasn't opened a case or launched an investigation."

Shen Zhong pointed his red baton at the border between Lüzhou and Jingzhou.

"If the police won't investigate, we will. We'll use the military's surveillance system to pull up all the cameras along the route. We'll dig three feet into the ground to find these four people."

"Once we catch them, we can follow the clues and bring the mastermind behind it all to light."

"Yes!" Zhou Weiguo accepted the order and turned around.

Shen Zhong turned his head and looked at the other person standing in the corner.

Qi Tongwei.

He had taken off his crisp police uniform and was wearing an ordinary black jacket, exuding a wildness about him.

"Tongwei, Yi Xuexi may appear upright and incorruptible on the surface, but he must have weaknesses deep down. Since he dares to come to Luzhou to cause trouble, I will make him reveal his true colors."

Shen Zhong threw a thick file on the table.

"Go investigate him. Don't use the police system, use your own connections. I want all the details about him over the past ten years, even the meals he's had or the cigarettes he's received, dig them all up."

Qi Tongwei stepped forward, picked up the file, and glanced at it.

"Don't worry, sir. I'm very familiar with these stubborn guys who pretend to be high and mighty."

Shen Zhong patted Qi Tongwei on the shoulder.

"Go ahead. Once you've accomplished this, I'll give you a whole new stage."

The underground operations room of the Handong Provincial Military Region.

The dark blue tactical screen occupied an entire wall, radiating a cold, hard light.

Zhou Weiguo stood in front of the control panel, his fingers rapidly tapping on the keyboard.

The screen was divided into dozens of small sections, all of which were surveillance cameras covering major traffic arteries in Luzhou City.

These four troublemakers were very cunning.

After committing the crime, they completely avoided all main roads and security checkpoints.

They deliberately chose to travel through back streets and alleys without streetlights or blind spots for surveillance cameras.

The local police's conventional tracking methods are completely ineffective against their counter-surveillance capabilities.

"Retrieve all records of private vehicles along the route and activate the Sky Eye system for cross-comparison."

Zhou Weiguo issued the order.

Two military technicians immediately began working, and massive amounts of data scrolled rapidly across the screen.

Ten minutes later, the image freezes on a black Santana sedan.

The car had no license plates and its windows were covered with extremely dark explosion-proof film. It was speeding north along the bumpy provincial highway.

The destination was a no-man's-land bordering a neighboring province.

"Enlarge the faces of the driver and passenger in the driver's and passenger's seats and extract their gait features."

Zhou Weiguo stared at the screen.

The image gradually became clear after being sharpened using a military-grade system.

The gait analysis module and the micro-expression recognition library are operating at high speed simultaneously.

The progress bar is full.

A glaring red warning box popped up on the screen.

The system comparison results are in.

These four men were not ordinary construction workers at all; they were all wanted criminals with serious criminal records, who had fled to various places.

They have all killed people; they are extremely ruthless.

No wonder they were able to turn the Luzhou construction site upside down in just a few minutes.

Zhou Weiguo grabbed the tactical helmet from the table and put it directly on his head.

"Dragon Fang Squad, fully armed, assemble on the helipad in five minutes."

"Helicopter formation, prepare. We need to intercept them before they can silence us."

Three Black Hawk helicopters tore through the night sky, flying low to the treetops and avoiding all civilian radar.

The roar of the propellers was drowned out by the heavy rain.

Upon reaching the border of the neighboring province, the helicopter hovered.

Zhou Weiguo led the rappelling, followed closely by six members of the Dragon Tooth Special Forces.

They quickly dispersed into tactical formations and, under the cover of night, made their way towards the long-abandoned quarry.

The night was filled with continuous rain, and it was pitch black all around.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of dust and a damp, earthy odor.

A row of dilapidated tin-roofed houses is hidden among the weeds halfway up the mountain, one of which is lit by a dim light bulb.

Inside the room, four thugs sat around a greasy wooden table.

Several plates of peanuts and two bottles of cheap, low-quality liquor were scattered on the table.

Two men in black raincoats stood to one side, rain dripping down their clothes.

One of the men in the raincoat uncorked the bottle and poured baijiu (Chinese liquor) into four disposable plastic cups.

The baijiu had a slightly yellowish hue and an extremely strange, cloying sweetness.

The scarred man leading the group picked up the cup, brought it to his nose, and sniffed it. He immediately frowned.

"Boss, what happened to the final payment you promised? Are you trying to fool the guys with this cheap liquor?"

Without saying a word, the man in the raincoat pulled a thick brown paper bag from his pocket and threw it directly on the table.

The paper bag hit the table with a dull thud.

"Drink this toast to send us off, take the money and leave, never to return to Handong."

Scarface reached out and grabbed the paper bag, unsealed it, glanced at the bundles of banknotes inside, and nodded in satisfaction.

He raised his glass, ready to put it in his mouth.

Outside the prefabricated house, Zhou Weiguo, along with six fully armed Longya special forces members, had already silently positioned themselves against the outside of the corrugated iron wall.

The green field of vision provided by the night vision goggles revealed the movements of the six people inside the house.

The wine was laced with deadly poison; this was a cover-up orchestrated by Xiao Gangyu to silence witnesses.

Once these four people are dead, the case at the Luzhou construction site will become an unsolved mystery that will never be solved.

Zhou Weiguo raised his right hand, making a tactical gesture.

The three team members immediately positioned themselves on either side of the window and pulled out the safety pins of the stun grenades.

The other three team members quickly climbed the rusty iron ladder to the roof, aiming their guns at the thin sheet metal.

action.