Chapter 463 Chapter 460: Hasty Action

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.

"We've caught 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 in the urban-suburban area, not necessarily in a building. They may be in a car, 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 black market? Are those guys trying to sell the stolen goods?"

After Lucy heard this, she thought for a moment and 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.”

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, including inquiry, price comparison, and arranging transaction details... It took almost a day and a half to complete these basic processes.

"Found them. 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 spoke at a high volume. "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 follow the finishing and encirclement!"

"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 were the off-road vehicles they were following to protect." Yanqiao continued to report the situation: "There is a person in the cab of the truck who seems to be inactive. The other person may not be in the yard, but he may be there. 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 drive the car away directly. 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 match, 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 short blade for tires from his belt, and then stabbed it into the tire from the inside. This is a triangular cone-shaped blade tool, very short, and the blade is just enough to puncture the tire. As long as it is not pulled out actively, it will remain on the tire and block the gas leakage outward. However, as long as the tire rotates, it will be thrown off quickly under the combined effect of centrifugal force and tire pressure, and then the triangular opening will leak air, and the tire will deflate.

It is also very useful for moving cars. Throw it over and stab it in, and it will be thrown out in a while, and then it will leak air. It is easier to carry than caltrops, and the effect is also good. In addition, it can delay the deflation effect, which is more suitable for cunning guys like Zhuang Xuteng.

All four wheels are pierced, this is the disadvantage of not using armored tires. Then, Zhuang Xuteng got under the truck, opened the ghost jelly and ghost tentacles, and prepared to start making trouble.

Thanks to the thieves for 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 was 16:50, he used the ghost tentacle to press the button of the toilet in the monitor's room. The sound of gurgling and puffing water immediately attracted the mercenary's attention.

There was no one in the bathroom, so why did the toilet flush? The man immediately got up, put on the shadow gun ring, and walked to the bathroom. Zhuang Xuteng used the ghost tentacle to slowly pull the curtain to reduce the visible range, and at the same time got out from the front of the car close to the front wheel. This is the driver's blind spot.

The white beast drove into the parking lot on time with great momentum, which meant that Zhuang Xuteng was going to take action. After practicing magic power on the hospital bed for a month, he became more proficient in using the ghost tentacle. First, poke the walkie-talkie on the co-pilot seat with your hand and let it roll to the ground. While the driver was stunned and leaned over to pick it up reflexively, he used the ghost tentacles to pull out the anti-lock device in the door, and at the same time used his natural hands to pull open the door on the side of the cab.

Zhuang Xuteng jumped up and half of his body jumped directly into the cab. He shot the man directly without hesitation or mercy. Bone spear technique, three shots in a row, one shot to the head, one shot to the neck, and one shot from the armpit to the heart. He got into the car, and while the observer in the room was staring at the toilet in a daze, he pushed the body to the co-pilot seat and sat behind the steering wheel.

The ghost tentacles brought the walkie-talkie to him, and he also found the car keys by searching the whole car. Through the rearview mirror, he saw the boxes placed in the car, which emitted shadow energy signals similar to the color of banknotes. At the same time, he also saw the white beast reversing, aiming the rear of the car at the rear of the car. Ge Gongdao braked the car urgently, got out of the cab, ran to the rear of the car at the fastest speed, and began to connect the two cars with hooks.

Although the snow was slippery, he had supercomputing skills, so he was a flexible big guy. He fastened the hook and pulled it with his hand to test the strength. The truck shook and behaved very docilely. Ge Gongdao took the time to look in the rearview mirror and saw Zhuang Xuteng's thumbs up. He immediately felt a sense of accomplishment that "the mercenary mission went smoothly."

This feeling has been missing for a long time.

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