Chapter 48: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, the Oriole Waits Behind (Part 2)

  I scrambled up, grabbing my mom's hand and shouting: "Mom! Quick, get inside! Get inside! Crouch against the wall, whatever you do, don't go near the window! Hurry! Where's Dad? Where's Dad?!?!?"

  My five internal organs were all stirred up, and Wang Yong comforted me by saying: "Don't worry, I'll follow you all the way, there's no one else with us!"

  I don't have time to care about him, it's not that I don't believe what he says, it's just that I can't take the risk.

  Now I have no idea what's going on, don't know why Wu Hongyu wants to kill me, don't know where his gun came from, don't know why the gun exploded, don't know if there are other bombs, how many more bombs...

  I called Dad and told him not to go home, but to immediately enter the nearest police station. I asked a friend from the Municipal Bureau to drive over and pick him up. He shouldn't trust anyone else!

  Then I called a few friends at the municipal bureau, ordering my mom to go home and hide, using transparent tape used at home to wrap around the scene, anyone who wants to get close will face a bloody dissecting knife!

  Fifty seconds later, community police arrived, fifteen minutes later, the police on duty at the municipal bureau came over, followed by SWAT, riot police and bomb disposal teams.

  I've worked at the municipal bureau for two years, although I've offended quite a few people, but at the same time I've also made many friends. More than half of the city's detectives rushed over and asked me: "What happened?" "Are you hurt? Let's get an ambulance first!"

  I shook my head, I really had no idea what was going on, but all I wanted to ask for one thing: "Is my dad okay? Please protect my parents first, sorry..."

  Wang Yong explained a few words to them and came over to hold my hand that was holding the knife, "Okay, it's alright now, first put down the knife..."

  I hardly dared to breathe: "Is it really all right now?"

  "It's really nothing," said Wang Yong.

  Friends from the municipal bureau also advised me: "Really, we are here." "Don't worry, the director is at the entrance of the community and will be right over. Who cares who's looking for trouble? We're not afraid!"...

  Wang Yong gently pried open my numb fingers one by one, taking the scalpel out of my hand. The scalpel was stained with Wu Hongxu's blood, and forensic expert Zhao put it into an evidence bag and sealed it.

  "It's very expensive, don't break it, return it to me as soon as possible."

  When I said that, they all breathed a sigh of relief and laughed: "Alright, alright, we know that the heart-aching knife is just recovering eight-tenths of our spirit!"

  Before long, Director Wang of the Municipal Bureau arrived in person.

  Wang Yong reported the situation to Director Wang, and he said that roughly speaking, he inadvertently discovered that Wu Hongxu was following me, so he counter-followed Wu Hongxu all the way to my doorstep. Wu Hongxu took out a gun to kill me, and he quickly intervened to stop him.

  According to Wang Yong's experience, the gun was made by 3D printing, model MAAC-10, with extremely high lethality. It is a lightweight, fully automatic firearm, also known as a submachine gun. For those who have no concept of guns, it can be understood like this: if two people are facing each other, one holding a handgun and the other holding a MAC-10, and they both say "put down your gun!" at the same time, the person with the handgun will definitely choose to put it down first, or be shot into Swiss cheese.

  Wu Hongxi also installed a self-destruct device on it, which led to the final explosion.

  According to Wang Yong's observation and investigation, he can confirm that Wu Hongyu has no other accomplices, only himself.

  He took a sneak shot of Wu Hongxi's photo on the road, and the photo was passed to Provincial Hall's Chang brother. Chang brother asked an acquaintance for help in investigating, but after comparing the facial features of the suspect, it wasn't this person. The investigation is still ongoing, and there hasn't been any other news yet.

  "Hmm." "Hmm." "Good, very good." Director Wang was extremely satisfied with Wang Yong, nodding repeatedly.

  I stormed at Wang Yong: "Did you really follow all the way?! Why didn't you take action on the road? Did you have to wait for him to point a gun at my family before taking action to stop him?! What do you mean?!?"

  Wang Yong explained: "I asked Chang often, but I was always uncertain about his identity, and the situation was unclear..."

  "You won't go ask him! You won't search his luggage! How dare you search mine with such confidence!! You won't even consider the possibility that I might be telling the truth!!! You've been following me all along! How can you say you've been following me..." I shouted indignantly.

  Others came to pull me, Director Wang apologized for me: "Don't mind, she's just frightened, understand? As police officers, we're not afraid of anything, but what we fear most is our family being threatened. You," he said to several friends who were close to me, "don't worry about anything else, just accompany her well and take her to the hospital for a thorough examination first. Her right shoulder doesn't seem to be moving properly, she might be injured, hurry up and go to the hospital, don't delay."

  "We asked her to go, but she didn't." "Exactly, we've advised her several times already."

  Director Wang glared and ordered: "Turn it back! Get it over here for me!"

  ……

  Wang Yong hit people very accurately, so it's described as "accurate" because he really hits people very accurately. He knocked Wu Hongyu unconscious with one move and said that there was no need to rush him to the hospital, he would wake up after 60 minutes. And indeed, Wu Hongyu woke up exactly 60 minutes later, not a minute more or less.

  But five hours passed and Wu Hongxi did not say a word in the interrogation room.

  His identity has been confirmed and DNA matching results show that he is the son of Wu Jianguo, a suspect in the system.

  Wu Jianguo, this guy, I racked my brains and couldn't figure out who he was. Among the cases I cracked at the provincial bureau and municipal bureau, there wasn't anyone by that name. If there were, I would definitely remember him - after all, he had a MAC-10 printed by himself to shoot my son, how could I not remember?!

  Wu Hongxi's Chinese is not good, and I also found out that he recently returned from the United States. I recalled the cases I cracked when I was working as a private investigator abroad to make foreign money, even those with only a little connection, but still nothing.

  Moreover, most of the cases I accepted at that time were in Germany, while Wu Hongxi's activity area was mainly in the United States. It's strange, where did this Wu Hongxi come from?

  "Haven't thought of it yet?" asked Xiao Nie, Xiao Nie is a good friend of mine from the Municipal Bureau, her name is Nie Jing (Jing has the same pronunciation as "quiet", meaning a talented woman).

  "I said: 'No, you just tell me then. We're both thousand-year-old foxes, so let's not play word games with each other!'"

  "Who's the fox!" Little Nie puffed out his cheeks.

  "Oh, sorry I was wrong," I said, "You weren't a fox at first."

  "Don't want to know about the investigation anymore, huh?!!" Little Nie was furious.

  Haha, it's so much fun! No wonder the civil police guarding the isolation zone always tease me with my nickname. When I can have fun, I really can't help myself, especially when it comes to someone who is a bit dark-bellied.