Chapter 51: The Northern Wilderness Bandits

  Ergou called Heizi, saying that there was a car on the dirt road. This car had been hidden behind a mound of earth by the side of the dirt road for who-knows-how-long without anyone noticing. Just now it came out from behind the mound and stopped on the highway. Its headlights are off. He doesn't know what this car is doing, so he's reporting to Heizi and asking about the situation.

  Hei Zi felt a wave of tension in his heart. This car wouldn't appear here for no reason. There must be something fishy going on.

  "Heizi and Ercheng finished talking and turned to Da Kui, saying: 'Da Kui, now you go back along the small path. Remember not to rush into the house, first observe from outside before entering. If everything is fine, let them put away the Pai Gow and Mahjong first, and have Xiao Fei hide well. Then we'll eat immediately.'"

  Da Gui nodded and ran away, Hei Zi turned his phone to vibrate mode and put it in his pocket, running down the mountain slope towards where the light had appeared earlier.

  Hei Zi didn't call Zhuo Xiao Fei, he thought it was possible that something had already happened now. If he called Zhuo Xiao Fei, others would be exposed. If the police really came, escaping one by one was better than nothing.

  Xiao Fei waited for three or four minutes after Heizi left, but he couldn't wait any longer. He turned off the fire and went to watch Wu Mei play cards. He knew that Wu Mei only had 50,000 yuan on her, which wasn't enough to last long in this casino. He was worried about Wu Mei.

  The fifth sister played very steadily and conservatively. After several hours, she had won the most times, but the money in her hand hadn't increased much. Zhou Xiaotian paid attention to her for a while, seeing that she was too conservative, even if she won every time, she wouldn't win much. Slowly, he didn't pay much attention to her either, and his attention was all focused on the cards.

  Xiao Fei's attention is all focused on Wu Mei, Heizi has gone somewhere, whatever happens outside he doesn't care, he knows that his several brothers are all outside, if something happens they will call him.

  Just as everyone in the house was focused on the card game, three big men wearing down jackets and carrying backpacks and hunting guns quietly pushed open the door and walked in.

  More than a dozen people in the room didn't notice them; one guarded the door while the other two closed in on Zhou Xiaotian.

  "'60" was dealt a good hand, he stared at the cards in his hand and pulled hard, two cards collided with a crisp crackling sound, shouting: "The foreign devil's gun scared away the emperor, I don't believe that evil."

  The excited 'six zero year' suddenly looked up and saw two big men standing behind Zhou Xiaotian, holding hunting guns, and was stunned.

  One of them was bald, with a long scar on his face, looking very fierce. The other was a round-headed and big-eared bald man, whose facial muscles were twitching due to tension.

  In 1960, he stared blankly at these two people. Judging from the weapons and attire of these two men, they were not police officers. What kind of people were they? However, what they wanted to do should be obvious by now.

  Two men with hunting guns saw 'Liu Ling Nian' raise his head and look at them, the scar-faced man smiled at 'Liu Ling Nian', his smile was not much better than that of a little devil from hell.

  "Officer Zhou, we meet again." The bald man said, tapping Zhou Xiaotian's shoulder with the muzzle of his gun.

  Zhou Xiaotian was stunned, this voice he was very familiar with. A year ago, the notorious bandit Zhao Tian from Mo Bei led a group of robbers to raid a gold shop in the county town where Zhou Xiaotian was stationed, killing two employees and stealing gold bars and jewelry worth over one million yuan. To crack the case, Zhou Xiaotian led his team to monitor and track down Zhao Tian for more than a month before capturing him. In the ensuing gun battle, Zhou Xiaotian killed Zhao Tian's younger brother Zhao Kong and captured Zhao Tian alive.

  "Zhao Tian, how did you come out?" Zhou Xiaotian didn't turn his head back and asked while putting down the cards in his hand.

  "It doesn't matter how I got out, now you slowly turn around, don't have any other thoughts, if you make a move, I will kill the others without hesitation." Zhao Tian spoke very slowly, his voice was long and drawn out, just like it came from a distant wilderness.

  Sitting below Zhou Xiaotian's home were his two colleagues, who slowly put down the cards in their hands. The scar-faced man pointed a gun at one of them and said, "No one move, or I'll kill this cop first."

  Zhao Tian took out handcuffs and cuffed Zhou Xiaotian, then reached into Zhou's chest and pulled out a Type 64 pistol. After checking the magazine and finding it had bullets, he slung his rifle over his back, holding the pistol in one hand and using the other to pull out two more pairs of handcuffs, which he used to cuff Zhou's two companions behind their backs.

  Without Zhou Xiaotian's order, the two did not dare to resist. They knew that these three people were fugitives and would shoot and kill at any time.

  The man standing at the door, seeing that three policemen were handcuffed together, took off his backpack from behind, pulled out a dozen or so pairs of handcuffs and threw them on the ground, saying: "Gentlemen, cuff yourselves."

  This was the first time I had seen such a scene, no one dared to resist, and in a short while, more than a dozen people were handcuffed together.

  The scar-faced boy slung his rifle over his shoulder, took off his backpack and started collecting the scattered money everywhere. Everyone glared at him with furrowed brows as their money was taken away, not a single person dared to speak up.

  After collecting the money, Knife Scarface noticed that the number of people was wrong. He said while packing his backpack: "Tian Ge, the number of people is wrong, how did an extra woman appear?"

  Zhao Tian looked at Wu Mei and asked: "Girl, didn't you come with them?"

  The fifth sister reacted quickly, her face pale, and her voice slightly trembling as she nodded and said: "I, I came during the day, this is my family's contracted place, I'm in charge of coming early to prepare."

  "Is there anyone else here?" Scarface asked.

  Xiao Fei feared that Wu Mei would get hurt, so he stepped forward and blocked her way, saying: "No need, just the few of us."

  Dàozhēng liǎn ér jiàn wèn Wǔ Mèi zhù Xiǎo Fēi chāhuà, bù gāoxìng de shuō: "Nǐ xiǎo zǐ zhǎo sǐ ya, wèn nǐ le ma?"

  Translation:

  Knife-scarred face saw Five Sisters asking Little Fly to interject, unhappily said: "You little devil looking for death, did I ask you?"

  Xiao Fei didn't say a word, but he stared at Knife Scar with his eyes fixed on him, standing motionless in front of Fifth Sister.

  "Alright, alright, less nonsense. Get their phones out and let's get out of here quickly."

  The scar-faced boy showed an indifferent expression on his face and said, "Tian Ge, what's there to be afraid of? In this desolate mountain wilderness, even if we kill them all, no one will know."

  "Come on, hurry up and get moving, let's get out of here before someone shows up and causes trouble."

  Scarface started searching everyone's body, when he searched Wu Mei, he deliberately touched her all over, Zhu Xiao Fei was furious and shouted: "You damn bastard, get your dirty hands off me."

  Dàobā liǎn er yī lèng, tā méi xiǎng dào zhù xiǎo fēi réng gàn mà tā.

  When Scarface was stunned, Zhū Xiǎofēi kicked Scarface's belly with one foot, and Scarface sat on the ground with a thud.

  The scar-faced boy, enraged with shame, scrambled up and slapped Zhou Xiaofei twice, leaving five bright red fingerprints on his face. Blood gushed out of his nose and flowed down the corner of his mouth.

  "Dare to kick me? You're looking for death." Scarface raised his hand and pressed the muzzle of the shotgun against Zhu Xiaofei's head.

  Xiao Fei was terrified in his heart, but he endured it and didn't show it in front of Wu Mei. He stared at the scar-faced man with a stubborn gaze, waiting for him to fire.

  "Fourth brother, have you forgotten what we came here for?" Zhao Tian pushed forward, opening the knife-scarred face and pointing at Zhuo Xiaofei's shotgun.