Chapter 746: Another Missed Strike
An old second-hand car drove into a remote dirt road. The breeze swayed the spider silk in the web, and dew silently moistened the earth.
Turn the key and shut off the engine.
The forest fell silent. After a moment, slight noises were heard again all around, and the frightened animals poked their heads out again.
Bifang opened the car door and waved to Yao Jun: "Get out of the car, walk into the forest, find a place to hide, be careful not to be discovered by them, and wait for me here."
Even though the car had undergone a triple exchange, there was no guarantee that a group of hunters would not come knocking on the door.
It is not safe for Yao Jun to stay in the car alone. They need to try their best to avoid being left alone and eventually being arrested.
After Yao Jun left alone with a portable camera, Bifang made some camouflage at the original spot, erased the footprints, stepped on the spot again, moved forward several hundred meters in other directions, then walked back to the original spot, and then rushed to the destination. The photographer followed carefully behind him.
There was nothing much to film about Yao Jun hiding in one place, so it went without saying who he was following and filming.
There are many national forests near Los Angeles. There are many tourists around these forests, so they look more like parks. Tourists camp here. Roads are built next to them and there are many shops nearby.
Bifang observed the area for a long time and found two ATM machines next to a store.
"Ugly Country is different from China. In China, you can usually only find ATMs at the entrance of banks, but here they are everywhere. This is mainly due to institutional reasons."
"In China, ATMs are just a technical reserve, equivalent to opening a few more service windows, and have nothing to do with institutional innovation. But in the United States, this thing is very useful, and their existence is equivalent to a bank branch."
"For a long time, many states in the United States stipulated that banks could only be single banks, meaning that banks could only have one place of business in a certain place and were not allowed to open branches in other places. This was very similar to the feudal lords in medieval Europe, where each lord had a castle."
Individual banks are naturally not very conducive to risk management and are not friendly to depositors, who have no choice but to deposit their money in local banks.
As for why this pattern occurs, the reasons are complicated, but the fundamental reason is interest.
Then the ATM machine came into being and circumvented this regulation. In the United States, it is not just equivalent to a service window, but a separate branch.
"So even in remote parks and even in corners, you can find them. Of course, there is no restriction on a single bank now, but people are already used to doing business at ATMs, and it is convenient, so there are more and more of them."
Habits are difficult to change. Just like why online payment cannot be developed in the United States, one of the main reasons is that the credit card system here is too developed, which hinders the development of new things.
The photographer captured every detail.
Even this ugly Chinese man himself didn’t know about this. After all, this incident happened in the 1980s , when he was not even born!
The photographer feels that the tempo of the video edited by the Bifang couple will definitely be very fast, and may even be longer, because the information is too dense.
None of the other groups has Bifang's profound knowledge and various unheard-of escape skills.
In front of the two machines is a tree-lined path, and further ahead is a large lake.
This is a very good opportunity.
It was early morning and there were not many tourists. The only people wandering around were one of Los Angeles' characteristics - homeless people.
Slovenly homeless people rummaged through trash cans, trying to find some food scraps left by tourists.
After a while, when the police arrive at work, they will come to drive them away.
These people have no money to go online, let alone have the chance to meet Bifang. This is a very good timing.
"Be careful." Bifang advised the photographer, pointing to the large lake in front of them, "I'm going to swim over there alone and then get money from the machine on the opposite side. If you want to take pictures, you can only go there by yourself, so be careful."
The photographer looked around, feeling nervous.
16% of homeless people in Los Angeles have physical disabilities, 25% have serious mental illness, and many even abuse drugs.
There are tens of thousands of crimes registered at the police station here in a year, and some people are even accused of not registering and choosing to suffer in silence.
It was fine with Bifang by my side, but now that I heard that I was going to be alone...
"Don't be so scared. If you see any danger, just shout loudly. I will rush over as soon as possible. Besides, it's daytime now. The police will be here soon. They will be more restrained."
There are many tourists coming here during the day and at night, so the police force is naturally more sufficient.
Hearing this, the photographer felt a little relieved. Then he saw Bifang take off his coat and clothes, leaving only a pair of shorts. He then stuffed all the clothes into his coat and rolled it into a ball.
Then it followed the river and sank into the lake.
The lake water was cold in the early morning, which gave Bifang goose bumps all over his body and he couldn't help shivering.
Under the stimulation of the cold, the body still took a short time to adapt, the blood flow accelerated, and when it had almost recovered, Bifang swam to the other side of the river.
The lake is extremely wide, conservatively estimated to be over 600 meters. The photographer is not good at swimming, but he was still shocked to see Bifang swimming in such cold water with his clothes held up in one hand.
Twenty minutes later, Bifang carefully got ashore, avoiding everyone's gaze, then shook off the water stains on his body, then wiped his hair with the lining, stood for a while, and put on his coat after he was completely dry.
All bank cards provided by Stealth Tracking are equipped with pre-made alarm systems. Once they are magnetically used, an alarm will be sounded at a fixed location.
At this point, facial disguise is no longer so important. Whether you cover your face or not, the other person will know it is you.
For this reason, Bifang tidied his clothes and went upstairs to get the money.
There is an asphalt road in front of the ATM machine . No normal person would think that Bifang would swim over from the other side of the lake 500 meters away and withdraw money.
Another habitual way of thinking that is broken.
Three hours later, when the hunters drove to the scene, they were again empty-handed.
After exploring the surrounding environment, we found that except for a long straight road in front of the ATM machine that crosses the entire park, the nearest road is more than two kilometers away.
It is very likely that the other party drove along this road, which is an important clue!
Robert immediately ordered: "Investigate all surveillance on the entire road and track the vehicles. I want to know where they went!"
“FUCK!”
Andrew Stumpf, the second-in-command of the operations team who replaced Phillips, saw the empty road surveillance and shouted.
