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  In 20XX, in the afternoon, a group of people sat in a hidden room in Beijing, China, watching pictures flashing on the screen in front of them.

  "This man is Zhang Xiaobao, male, currently 35 years old. In his childhood, he lived in an orphanage in H City, T Province. At the age of six, due to a flood that destroyed the orphanage, he was rescued by the then-director surnamed Zhang, who unfortunately died in the process. Afterwards, the person called Xiaobao in the orphanage took on the surname Zhang and his whereabouts were unknown."

  A man in his forties pointed to a picture of a child with a timid expression on the screen, introducing him to the rest of the crowd. As the image changed, another picture appeared, still of a child, but with a more mature face, looking around ten years old, and the timid look was gone from his eyes.

  The middle-aged man's voice sounded again: "This photo was taken by Zhang Xiaobao in the juvenile reform school when he was nine years old. He was detained for a large amount of theft and escaped with more than ten people from the juvenile reform school a month later. The file lost his trace again."

  When another photo flashed, the middle-aged man continued to introduce: "This is a photo of Zhang Xiaobao when he was 17 years old in prison. Due to frequent exercise, he looks like he's over 20 years old. According to our further understanding, this is his third time entering prison. Later we realized that he entered prison for the sake of entering prison, and each time he committed an error that would result in a sentence of half a year of labor reform, due to false age reporting, without knowing that he was still underage.

  Everyone please take a look at the next picture, this is his 24-year-old ninth prison photo. Each time he goes in, the name used is fake, and there are some slight changes in appearance. After understanding, his purpose of entering the prison is to learn the skills of those with special criminal talents in the prison.

  Every time he was released from prison, he committed a crime together, all of which were stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of property from certain officials, used for his practice expenses. His last imprisonment was at the age of 26, because it was impossible to investigate his past files, this time only three months short, specifically to bid farewell to one of his 'masters'.

  After that, he committed many more crimes, and any local police station was powerless to catch him. A wanted notice had been hanging over him all the time. Later, relevant departments found out that during his years in prison, he had learned various skills including theft, qigong, lock-picking, common vehicle driving, financial fraud, disguise, voice disguise, counterfeiting, surveillance and anti-surveillance, wilderness survival, and special combat.

  Of course, there is also the most important escape technique. In several captures, our local police officers found that he can jump from a 15-meter high place without any injury, climb a 9-meter high wall with his bare hands, and master multiple disciplines such as criminal psychology, behavioral psychology, social psychology, etc., and was identified as an extremely dangerous criminal.

  As he said this, the middle-aged man let out a soft sigh, and the others also sighed in unison, it was unclear whether they were sighing over Zhang Xiaobao's criminal record or his skills and perseverance.

  It seems that after this sigh, the crowd relaxed a bit, and the middle-aged man continued to introduce: "After Zhang Xiaobao was 28 years old, our relevant departments could no longer find any information about him. Until last year, when a series of international fraud cases were summarized, we got his news again.

  Zhang Xiaobao bid farewell to the criminal ways of theft and extortion after the age of 28, and began to use his other skills to carry out large-scale economic fraud. In China, he mainly cheated high-ranking officials by making excuses for them to pay money or provide large bank loans. Abroad, he mainly cheated some financial groups.

  Every time he scams, his identity changes, and the total amount of scam funds, calculated by relevant departments, has reached a terrifying number of 1.6 trillion US dollars, but we can't find where this money is."

  When the crowd heard this number, they all took a deep breath, and in their eyes, there was not so much hatred for the criminal as an unspeakable admiration. The middle-aged man who introduced him also felt the shock brought by this number, and after a while, he said:

  "This time, we finally found out where Zhang Xiaobao is. Just this morning, we received intelligence that Zhang Xiaobao took the flight from the US to T Province H City that arrived at noon today. This time, he used the name he first registered with the civil affairs department when he was six years old after going through a flood disaster. The name is Zhang Xiaobao, and he also used the ID card issued under that registered name."

  From this, we finally grasped his identity, but we still didn't know the purpose of what he did. Our task was to capture him and find out where that money went. According to the people who had been following him, after getting off the plane, he directly went to the original site of the orphanage, which is now a supermarket. In order to prevent him from having other destructive means, this time we formulated a plan to first get close, then observe, and finally capture him.

  At this point, the middle-aged man stopped his voice, his eyes swept across the faces of the crowd, and finally stayed on a woman who was about thirty years old. He nodded to her and said: "Wang Juan, this task of getting close and observing is assigned to you. Do you have confidence in completing the task?"

  "I will definitely complete the task!" The woman known as Wang Juan stood up and replied solemnly.

  When everyone left, a hint of confusion flashed in Wang Juan's eyes. She had handled many cases before and was always confident, but this time she hesitated or worried. At the age of 16, she completed her master's degree in law and directly entered the military academy. At the age of 20, after completing her studies in command and other subjects, she joined the women's special operations team to learn some combat skills and detective techniques.

  She then devoted herself to the police station, specializing in the collation and cracking of major cases. She had never failed once, and every time she captured a criminal, they were guilty as charged. But this time, she felt uneasy in her heart. She also had Zhang Xiaobao's file, which was more detailed than what the director said.

  Zhang Xiaobao indeed committed a crime, but what he stole at the beginning were some officials, and each time he could steal a lot of money. This can only show that those officials had a lot of money. The later fraud was mainly by those officials who wanted to achieve political achievements. The total amount of fraudulent money is approximately 30 billion US dollars. Other funds are from overseas fraud. This time, the main purpose is to get the money in hand.

  Apart from theft and fraud, Zhang Xiaobao seems to have no robbery case on his record, nor any rape case. With his abilities, he should be capable of achieving these two things. What is really going on in his mind?

  Taking a deep breath, Wang Juan tried her best not to think about things she shouldn't be thinking about. Her orders were to get close, observe and make the arrest at the right moment. Considering anything else was pointless, as long as she caught the person it would be fine.

  In H city, T province, a man in his thirties wearing casual clothes stood at the entrance of a large supermarket. His face was somewhat pale and his eyes were fixed on the entire supermarket as he listened to the phone call.

  "Zhang, the police over there have already been deployed. Don't you want to try somewhere else? Maybe there's still a chance. As long as you want to leave, we'll arrange for someone to escort you back immediately." A woman's voice came from the phone.

  "No need to, I've been to all the hospitals that can be found. With only half a month of life left, I want to die in my hometown. The things I instructed have all been arranged." The man responded calmly.

  "Zhang, don't worry, the four funds are all set up and will continue to operate according to your ideas with or without you. We no longer need to cheat. The industries we invested in will double their assets in a few years. As you wished, within twenty years, every child in any country can sit in a bright classroom to read books, and no orphanage will be washed away by floods. Zhang, are you really not considering it again? There's still one place that hasn't been tried yet, I heard the folk remedy is very effective." The woman's voice persuaded once more.

  "It's too late, I know my own illness. After I'm gone, do well, and that wasn't my intention, it was the dean's grandfather's intention. Alright, let me cherish this place one last time." The man still had a calm demeanor, his facial expression unchanged, and as he turned off his phone, everything around him seemed to be very far away.

  Ten minutes passed, half an hour passed, an hour passed, the crowd in front of the supermarket kept changing, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the man's posture, standing there like that, his pupils had long lost their focus, and something flashed in them.

  "Four years ago, this supermarket had been thriving since its completion, receiving many customers every day and also generating a lot of tax revenue for the local area." Suddenly, a woman's voice sounded beside the man.

  The man heard the voice, slowly turned his head around, and saw a woman's delicate face in her thirties. She nodded slightly and said: "Yes, the supermarket appeared, but the original orphanage was moved to an even more remote place. I don't know how much of these taxes flowed into the pockets of those who shouldn't have them, nor do I know how much of this money was spent on the children in the orphanage. Who is drinking and laughing, and who is silently crying?"

  The woman was at a loss for words for a moment, and after a while, she said with a sigh of relief: "You are indeed overthinking, some things are not what you should think about. Three years ago, that orphanage had already moved to a new location, the children are living well, there are still good people in this world."

  "This I certainly know, 62.57 million yuan was invested, and there is still an annual living security fee of 1.5 million. Six people who wanted to get their hands on this money have died, so how could my younger brother and sisters not live well? Whoever touches the 'Director Grandfather Orphanage' fund will die." The man sneered.

  "Oh? You actually know so much about it?" The woman asked in surprise.

  "The money I invested, the people I killed, how could you not know? Ms. Wang Juan, are you saying that's right?" The man's tone remained calm.

  The king didn't expect to be recognized as soon as he appeared, and even his name was called out. He couldn't care about other explorations anymore, and directly reached into his pocket. Before she could pull out the gun, a strong hand grasped her arm, and at the same time, a man's voice came:

  "No need to make it so complicated, pulling out a gun in public will only alarm others. This time I've come back using my real name, and I didn't think of running away. I'll go with you, let you complete your mission smoothly. The legendary 'Queen of the Special Female Action Squad', are you okay with that?"

  Wang Juan struggled with all her might, but found herself unable to break free. She nodded and said, "Alright, I hope what you're saying is true, Comrade Zhang Xiaobao, international swindler. Otherwise, don't think that just because you've got me tied up, the sniper will hold back."

  "Don't worry, I would have escaped long ago. In a place like this, snipers are nothing. You might be disappointed, the 16 billion is gone, but I left 5 million for you as expenses. The 16 billion is just data you obtained, the real data is much more than that. I hope before I'm executed, you can accompany me, and I'll give you that 5 million. As a man, I think the greatest happiness is to have a beauty by my side before I die." Zhang Xiaobao said with a smile, staring at Wang Juan's icy face.

  "Where's the money?" Wang Juan heard that the money was gone, and she subconsciously asked.

  "You'll never know, I've heard there are many nerve-stimulating drugs, why not try them on me and see if I'll reveal this secret? Remember to use a large dose, I've taken too much of this kind of medicine before, small doses won't work." Zhang Xiaobao withdrew his hand.

  "Do you take drugs?"

  "It's almost the same, no big difference. When I'm in pain, I always worry about being cheated or making mistakes during investments. Taking some medicine will make me feel much better. Let's go, I want to hurry up and accompany my grandfather, the hospital director. If you're not in a rush, you can accompany me to that liangfen shop at the end of this street and have a bowl of liangfen on me."

  "When I was five years old, I had it once, and the director's grandfather took me to eat it. It was the best thing I've ever eaten in my life. Since then, no matter how much money I have, I haven't eaten it again. Today, I finally can eat it. I fulfilled Grandpa's wish, and I think I'm qualified to eat another bowl. I sent someone to investigate, and it's still the same old man selling it as before. It was two yuan a bowl back then, now it's five yuan a bowl. Hopefully, the taste hasn't changed."

  Zhang Xiaobao spoke without any sense of being caught, his eyes gazing in the direction of the street, filled with nostalgia.

  For some reason, after hearing these words, Wang Juan's inner heart seemed to be touched by something, and in a daze, the desire to complete the task finally suppressed other thoughts that shouldn't have appeared. Seeing that there were too many people coming and going at the entrance of this supermarket, considering that there should be fewer people at the Liangfen shop on the street, it would be possible to minimize casualties when conflicts arise, nodded, and pulled Zhang Xiaobao's arm towards that direction.

  "Don't move, don't even move, and don't come near me. Whoever comes near me will be blown up together with me."

  Just as Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had just walked out a few steps, a sudden loud voice appeared in the ears of the two people. The two turned back at the same time, only to see a man wearing bloated clothes, one hand tightly holding a child under the age of two, the other hand pressing something, shouting loudly there.

  Wang Juan's first thought was that Zhang Xiaobao wanted to run, deliberately arranging for someone to create chaos. When she turned her head to look over, Zhang Xiaobao's eyes were fixed on the child and the shouting man's other hand, his usual calm expression suddenly twisted in anger as he forced out a few words: "It wasn't me who arranged this, I, Zhang Xiaobao, would never stoop to using such tactics. You're taking advantage of your status to have the people around us withdraw, I'll think of a way to save the child."

  "No way, I don't trust you. My mission is to bring you back, other things are handled by others." Wang Juan hesitated for a moment and rejected Zhang Xiaobao's proposal.

  "I want to run and you can't stop me, save that child and I'll give you an additional 5 million."

  "Do you know that kid?"

  "I don't know, I saw the helplessness in his eyes, just like the look in the eyes of my younger brother and sisters who drowned in the orphanage when I was washed away by the flood, and I lived while they died."

  "It's still no good, I can't take care of things outside of the task, I must ensure that you are taken back smoothly." Wang Juan struggled in her heart for a moment, and still refused.

  Just as the two people were persuading each other there, a large number of police had arrived. The reason why they came so quickly was that this supermarket belonged to foreign capital.

  "Release the hostages in your hands, ask for leniency, and you can make your demands." One of the police officers who arrived should be a leader, hiding behind a police car, using a loudspeaker to shout at the "bandit" standing at the supermarket entrance.

  "Get away from me with your leniency, don't come near me or I'll die together with this child. Money, I want money, and a plane that can take me out of here, I want to go to the Vatican." The hostage-taker holding the child shouted loudly at the police.

  "Look, now even the bandits are smarter than you police, they know that everything you say is a lie and they also know to run to some places where our country has bad relations. Now it's your turn to stand out, I never thought that this stupid leader would dare to arrange snipers." Zhang Xiaobao tried his best not to get too excited and said to Wang Juan.

  Wang Juan glanced at the detonator in the man's hand and pulled Zhang Xiaobao to the front of the police leader, taking out his ID and ordering: "Snipers are not allowed to fire under any circumstances, ensure the safety of the hostages, organize negotiators for negotiations, and stabilize the emotions of the criminals."

  At this time, the leader of the police station also reacted and asked what kind of explosive device it was. While arranging things in the back, he sent someone to comfort the child who had been crying nonstop, wanting to use himself as a hostage in exchange for the parent.

  "King Quail, I'll go instead. Let me give him a chance." Zhang Xiaobao was really unwilling to wait any longer, and as he spoke, he didn't care about Wang Quan, directly walking forward. Before Wang Quan could catch up, Zhang Xiaobao had already approached the bandit, who looked at him with a wary expression:

  "Brother, I thought you were a clever guy, but it turns out you're so stupid. How much money can you cheat from a little kid? From what you said earlier about running to that country, you should have some experience. Why not catch me instead and exchange with the kid? Look at this: Swiss banknotes, Citibank notes, HSBC notes, and some other miscellaneous things. Do you know my identity now? Exchange or not, if we exchange, I'll satisfy your demands. If not, even if you run away today, I'll put out a reward of tens of millions to take your life, and you can escape anywhere in the world."

  Zhang Xiaobao spoke while constantly pulling things out of his body and throwing them at the bandit's feet. The bandit couldn't help but follow each item with his eyes, then looked up to see what this person was wearing on his body, the watch on his wrist, and that temperament. He looked at the child in his arms again, and finally nodded hesitantly.

  "No way, you can't go over there, you have to come back with me." Wang Juan grabbed Zhang Xiaobao's arm as soon as she saw that he really wanted to go over and exchange.

  Unfortunately, she was a woman after all, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't match Zhang Xiaobao's strength. She was dragged by Zhang Xiaobao to the bandit's presence. The bandit didn't care who came as long as the person's identity was more important, that would be enough. Let go of the child, he grabbed Zhang Xiaobao's other arm with one hand and a triumphant smile appeared on his face.

  Naturally, someone came over to grab the child and hide in a safe place. The bandit thought he was the luckiest person, repeating what he said earlier to the police outside, and then said to Zhang Xiaobao: "You also have to give me money, otherwise I won't let you go."

  "I'm giving it to your mom." Zhang Xiaobao took advantage of the brief moment when the bandit's spirit was relaxed, pulled out his arm that was being held by Wang Juan, and pressed it onto the bandit's thumb on the detonator. As he cursed, his other hand suddenly used force and snapped the bandit's arm with a loud crack.

  Just as Zhang Xiaobao was about to take further action, a severe pain suddenly spread throughout his brain, and his vision turned black. The hand holding the detonator also involuntarily loosened its grip.

  A loud rumble, Zhang Xiaobao's last thought was that he didn't get to eat that bowl of liangfen, while Wang Juan's final thought was that these two people were not in cahoots.