Chapter 146 Escape
Just as Rong Yuan was about to ask, he saw Zhou Dong suddenly lift the manhole cover and rush out, and then there was a bang bang bang sound from above. The two looked at each other, and then Wang Wenzhong also grabbed the edge of the manhole cover and jumped up, took a look, and gave Rong Yuan a "safe" signal. Rong Yuan also climbed up, first took off the plastic bags on his hands and feet, and then looked at what happened.
The place they came up from was a small alley only two or three hundred meters away from the Public Security Bureau. It was almost dawn and the sky was still dark. The street lamp at the entrance of the alley cast a warm yellow light in, dimly illuminating the scene inside.
With Rong Yuan's eyes, he could see clearly even without the light source. In the alley, three young men with dyed yellow hair were lying on the ground, twitching, and had lost consciousness. A girl with most of her clothes torn was curled up on the ground, trembling constantly, and making intermittent crying sounds. Zhou Dong's eyes were red, and he grabbed a sturdy and short man and beat him violently. The man was beaten so hard that his nose was crooked and his eyes were slanted, and the blood spurted out dyed his fist red.
Recalling the cause of Zhou Dong's sister's death, Rong Yuan understood why he was so angry. Wang Wenzhong looked at him coldly for a while, and when he saw that the man had fainted, he grabbed Zhou Dong and said, "That's enough. You won't get any good even if you beat him to death."
Zhou Dong was furious, how could he listen to such a sentence? He shook Wang Wenzhong off, grabbed the man's head and was about to slam it against the wall! Seeing this, Wang Wenzhong's eyes turned cold, and he slapped Zhou Dong in the face, causing him to fall down in a circle. He tasted a sweet and fishy taste in his mouth, and a stream of blood-red liquid flowed from the corner of his mouth.
Zhou Dong stood up, covering his face. He still hated these people, but the slap made him realize that this was not the time for him to act recklessly.
Wang Wenzhong took out a pair of handcuffs and handcuffed him to the alloy water pipe on the wall. He then took off his coat and covered the girl with it. As soon as the fabric touched the girl's skin, she screamed and shrank back, begging, "No...no..."
His hands paused, then he continued to wrap up the sobbing girl, took off the shirts of several young men and tied them up, then turned to Rong Yuan and said, "I'm going to go to the Public Security Bureau to check the situation first. You stay here and be careful." He handed the gun in his hand to Rong Yuan and said, "Take this for self-defense. Do you know how to use it?"
Rong Yuan nodded.
"That's good." Wang Wenzhong said, "If anything happens, fire a warning shot immediately."
But Rong Yuan turned the gun around and handed it to him, saying, "I'm not in any danger here. If you want to take risks, you should take it with you."
Wang Wenzhong waved his hand and refused, saying: "Your safety is the most important thing."
Without waiting for Rong Yuan to refuse, he grabbed the water pipe and climbed to the roof. After taking a look around, he left immediately. He did not leave through the alley in the normal way, because he was worried that the enemy would set up an ambush on the street outside, and he was also afraid that he would be discovered and implicate Rong Yuan who was hiding here.
Zhou Dong heaved a sigh of relief when Wang Wenzhong left. When that person was there, he could feel that part of his attention was always on him, as if the tip of a knife was always against his back, and he felt very dangerous. Now he could hardly remember what the Wang Wenzhong he met during the jailbreak looked like. Although he also felt that this person was dangerous at that time, he felt more disgusted and disgusted, not like now, just like a herbivore encountering a natural enemy.
He moved his wrists, and the iron handcuffs and water pipes immediately made a clanging sound. He pulled twice violently, but it had no effect except that his wrists were hurt. Zhou Dong sighed. He did not regret what he had done in the past, but he did not want to spend the rest of his life in the cold iron bars, and he did not want to die in humiliation under all kinds of humiliation and bullying. He had learned how to unlock this kind of handcuffs from someone in prison. Although he was not proficient, he could open it in half an hour at most with a paper clip or a hairpin. But in his current state, he could not find the right tools. The only ones who could help him were the girl who shrank like a quail, and the other...
He looked at Rong Yuan and was somewhat surprised to find that there was no worry on his face. Instead, he looked indifferently at the direction where Wang Wenzhong left, slightly absent-minded, with his head slightly tilted, as if he was listening to something.
Sensing his gaze, Rong Yuan glanced at him, took off his coat, frowned at the relatively clean ground, threw his coat on the ground and sat down, raised his arm to sniff the smell on his arm, then turned his head away with a look of disgust.
Zhou Dong couldn't help but laugh.
Rong Yuan put down his arms, put his gun beside him, closed his eyes as if he was resting, and gave off a feeling of keeping people away from him. Zhou Dong tried to talk to him several times, but he failed to utter a single word.
Some people are born to give people a feeling of being difficult to approach, as if the words "stay away from me" are written all over their bodies. If you don't want to make yourself look bad, most people, except those with a certain level of nerves, will not try to say anything to them, because you know that they will ignore you before you open your mouth.
Zhou Dong now clearly felt this feeling from Rong Yuan.
——I’m afraid a stone would be more easily moved than the young man in front of me.
“Oh…”
A faint cry came from the side. The girl who was huddled aside with her legs hugged must have known that she was out of danger now, but perhaps because of fear or humiliation, she kept crying. The faint cry floated in the air and sounded like a female ghost summoning souls from a distance. However, Zhou Dong did not dislike her or feel afraid. This girl always reminded him of his sister who committed suicide by jumping off a building. He felt both sympathy and pity for her.
But the sister is dead, and the child is still alive.
She is both unfortunate and lucky.
Zhou Dong looked at Rong Yuan who was sitting on the side. He had no intention of going forward to comfort her. It seemed that he would not care even if she cried until she was dehydrated. Zhou Dong had no choice but to let the handcuffs hang on the water pipe, half squatted down and gently advised: "Don't cry, it's okay, nothing happened, no one can hurt you, don't be afraid."
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The glimmer of morning light always has a hint of blue, the sky in the distance is pale, and the rich aroma of steamed buns and fried dough sticks wafts from the stalls that opened early. The cleaners are holding large brooms, sweeping the streets rhythmically with "swish, swish".
It was quiet outside the gate of Nanhu Public Security Bureau, with occasional police officers coming in and out on duty. In the duty room, there was an old man in his fifties, who was listening to Qinqiang opera on the radio, his humming voice exuding a sense of sorrow.
Wang Wenzhong had been observing for half an hour and found nothing unusual. He was observing from the corridor window of the commercial building diagonally opposite the Public Security Bureau. Although it was small, he could see most of the scenery of the Public Security Bureau.
Nanhu District has always had good public security, so there is no sense of urgency in the Public Security Bureau, but rather a sense of laziness. Wang Wenzhong was not surprised by this, because most people in the bureau did not know their place was their secret rendezvous point. The only people who knew about it, besides the director, were their own people who were arranged in the detention center building of the Public Security Bureau.
The curtain of a window on the second floor of the detention center was slightly opened, and someone was observing the situation outside from inside. Through the glass, Wang Wenzhong could see that it was one of his companions. Although he looked nervous, he did not look like he was being controlled or bribed. There was some fatigue in his eyes, probably because he had been up all night.
——No abnormalities.
Wang Wenzhong made his judgment and felt relieved, but he was also a little confused - was it possible that the other party's intelligence was incomplete? Or was the prediction wrong?
In any case, as long as Rong Yuan could be sent to that well-defended fortress, there was no need to worry about safety. Wang Wenzhong was not completely relieved to put him alone with the fugitives and the current criminals. He quickly ran to the eleventh floor along the safe passage, then opened the window and jumped, easily jumping onto the roof of the building opposite - because of the extremely tight construction land in City A, the distance between all buildings is also very limited, and the distance between buildings is sometimes so narrow that it feels only as big as a palm.
Wang Wenzhong climbed and jumped, while being careful not to be seen by passers-by and residents in the building. In a few minutes, he easily passed through the roofs of more than a dozen buildings. Suddenly, his eyes became sharp and he disappeared abruptly.
A closer look revealed that there was a narrow passage between two buildings where he disappeared. Suddenly, more than a dozen people who were reading newspapers, walking, shopping, buying breakfast, begging, etc. on the road ran wildly, and in less than a minute, they rushed into the narrow passage from both sides. When they ran to the middle, they could not see Wang Wenzhong, and both sides looked at each other in surprise. Suddenly, someone shuddered, looked up, and saw Wang Wenzhong swooping down like a night owl hunting for prey!
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——I see. They didn’t ambush at the rendezvous point, but rather near the observation point. They expected that we would doubt whether the rendezvous point was safe, so they would definitely check it before going there, and that’s how they arranged it.
Rong Yuan thought to himself. It was now bright outside, and through satellites and monitors, he had a full view of the battle situation on Wang Wenzhong's side.
Not far from him, a girl wrapped in a men's coat looked at him tremblingly, took off her hairpin and handed it to Zhou Dong stealthily. Zhou Dong, who had already reached an understanding and alliance with the girl, inserted one end of the hairpin into the keyhole very carefully, as if all his senses were focused on the tip of this black iron ornament, gently touching the lock cylinder pin inside, not daring to make any sound.
He looked at Rong Yuan from the corner of his eye, not sure if he was really asleep. But he knew he couldn't keep trying for a long time, he only had one chance, if he succeeded he would still have a chance to escape, but if he failed he would definitely alert Rong Yuan.
However, before today, he had only one chance to practice, and his mind was basically filled with theoretical knowledge.
At his signal, the girl walked to the alley entrance. Zhou Dong didn't care what happened to him if he startled Rong Yuan and caused him to shoot, but he couldn't let the girl get accidentally injured by the ricocheting bullet.
He was sweating profusely. A drop of sweat slid onto his eyelashes. He didn't dare wipe it off. He blinked and let it slide down naturally. He stared at the keyhole of the handcuffs, and even felt a little dizzy because he was pressing too hard.
——Is this the location? It seems so… He can’t waste any more time. That killer may come back at any time. Once he enters the Public Security Bureau, he will have no chance to escape!
Zhou Dong tried hard, but the lock didn't open, and the handcuffs accidentally hit the water pipe. He suddenly felt his scalp tingling, and looked at Rong Yuan carefully, but found that he didn't move.
——Didn’t you hear?
Zhou Dong was not sure, but he did not hesitate any longer. He gently used a little force to move the hairpin, and as expected and to his surprise, he heard a "click"!
The lock is opened!
The sound of the bullet hitting the magazine was so loud that he no longer dared to hold on to the illusion that Rong Yuan didn't hear it. He dropped the handcuffs and ran, intending to run out of the alley before Rong Yuan could react or at least take aim.
"Hurry! Hurry!" the girl jumped and urged.
“Go!”
Zhou Dong was so angry at her encouraging action that he almost vomited blood. He ran over and grabbed the girl and ran away. When he turned the corner of the alley, he couldn't help but look back.
In the shadow of the building, the pair of eyes seemed to be dark black, watching them quietly, without any confusion or panic. He just tilted his head and watched them run out without any movement.
Zhou Dong's heart skipped a beat, as if he was handcuffed by another pair of handcuffs. He didn't have time to think about it, and turned and ran over as fast as he could.
"Rong Yuan, are you going to let him escape?"
In the alley, the voice of Pea was heard. There were no outsiders around at this time, so it could speak freely.
Rong Yuan, who had discovered Zhou Dong's intention to escape from the beginning, did not deny it and said, "Keep monitoring and see what he does next. If he is as good as the information says, I will be able to use him in the future."
——After all, going it alone is not a long-term solution. There are many things that he needs others to help him do.
