Volume 1: The Fierce Tiger Leaves Its Leash Chapter 30: Urban Pursuit (Part 1)

  "Is this the way?" The driver felt a bit annoyed at today's military passenger who didn't specify his destination. Who takes a taxi without saying where they're going?

  "That's right, just drive along this road and don't go too fast." Ling Tianxiang, sitting in the front passenger seat, kept staring at the black "Victory" sedan with a government license plate in front of them.

  Karamay East Road, in the direction of Chaoshui Gou Park, a black "Victory" sedan was speeding through the traffic flow. There were five people in the car, three of whom wore military uniforms. In the back seat, sandwiched between two soldiers, was the dispirited Luo Chuzhang. Not far behind the sedan, Ling Tianxiang was sitting in a taxi heading in the same direction.

  "Old brother, you have to tell me where to go, right?"

  "What's the point of talking so much?" Ling Tianxiang was also annoyed by this talkative driver, he took out two 100-yuan bills. "Just drive according to my instructions, nothing else is your concern."

  When he saw the money, the driver naturally understood and 200 yuan was enough for him to drive around the city.

  The "Victory" sedan drove all the way up to Wēnquán Xī Lù, then turned south onto Shuǐmò Gōu Lù. After driving onto Qīngnián Lù, it turned onto Wǔxīng Lù and finally stopped in a hutong across from the Shaanxi Building. In fact, the "Victory" sedan had made a big detour and could have simply turned right at Kèlāmǎi Dōng Lù.

  "Don't stop, keep moving forward." Ling Tianxiang smiled secretly, the other party was obviously trying to figure out if someone was following behind.

  During the training of the "Snow Leopard" squad, Ling Tianxiang and his team received tracking and anti-tracking training, considering that they might carry out combat operations in cities in the future. When he found that the other party was circling around, he let the taxi driver slow down to avoid being discovered.

  The "Victory" sedan drove into a villa area, and Ling Tianxiang asked the driver to stop the car in an alley next to Xinjiang Textile College before getting out of the car.

  "Brother, I'm afraid this amount of money won't be enough?"

  "Not enough?" Ling Tianxiang gritted his teeth and gave the driver another 100 yuan, not wanting to waste time on this small matter.

  The driver who got the money immediately drove the taxi away, in less than half an hour, he earned 300 yuan, in his eyes, Ling Tianxiang was just a big fool who had just come out of the army.

  Walking back along the Wuxing Road for a few hundred meters, Ling Tianxiang discovered that the security guard at the entrance of the villa area was not an ordinary security guard. He looked like a soldier who had undergone rigorous training. In addition, there were many surveillance cameras on the walls of the villa area. It was clear that this was no ordinary villa area, and those living inside must be important officials.

  After circling the villa area for half a circle, Ling Tianxiang stopped at a secluded corner and carefully observed the operating rules of three nearby surveillance cameras. Ten minutes later, Ling Tianxiang discovered that there was a blind spot in the monitoring not far away, roughly every two minutes or so, there would be about ten seconds of time when all three cameras would not focus on the wall corner. The wall was about two and a half meters high, and it was impossible for an ordinary person to climb over it within ten seconds, but for Ling Tianxiang, ten seconds was already more than enough.

  After figuring out the pattern, Ling Tianxiang patiently waited for a while. When all three cameras were facing in other directions, Ling Tianxiang quickly rushed out of his hiding place. As he approached the wall, he placed his left foot on it and then jumped up high, swiftly grasping the top of the wall with both hands. With a burst of strength, he flipped over the wall. The moment he landed, Ling Tianxiang rolled into the flowerbed in front of him. The entire movement was smooth and took only 5 seconds.

  The area of the villa district is not very large, with only over a dozen villas, each with its own separate garden, and an interval distance of about 15 meters in between. The villas are divided into three types, the largest covering an area of approximately 250 square meters, with three floors up and down, and the smallest also exceeding 150 square meters, with two floors up and down. In addition, there are several teams of patrolling security guards inside the villa district, it is clear that these security guards are not ordinary people, but all are professionally trained soldiers.

  Ling Tianxiang crouched in the shadow of the flower stand, carefully observing the security patrol route and calculating the time it took to pass by. At the same time, he was also searching for that black "Victory" sedan. But he soon discovered that almost every household outside had a black "Victory" sedan parked outside. Moreover, the license plates on those sedans were not visible, which made Ling Tianxiang feel a bit headache. Finding the target among more than a dozen villas was not much easier than finding the enemy commander in a large military camp.

  What to do? Is it going from door to door, or catching a "tongue" to ask about the situation? Ling Tianxiang was a bit hesitant, after all, this wasn't fighting in an enemy camp, but taking action in his own country. Those security guards were soldiers, and strictly speaking, they were also Ling Tianxiang's comrades-in-arms. He couldn't treat them like enemies, so he naturally couldn't be ruthless. But searching door to door was not only time-consuming, it was also very dangerous.

  Soon, Ling Tianxiang noticed that the patrol routes of the four security teams in the villa area were all carefully designed. Perhaps outsiders couldn't see any problems, but Ling Tianxiang saw it at a glance. This was someone's deliberate arrangement, and those security guards were likely to be special forces, or at least not much worse than special forces.

  After some thought, Ling Tianxiang also felt that there was nothing strange about this. The people living in the villa area were all high-ranking cadres, mostly generals and senior officials of the intelligence department. Their identities were extremely confidential, and security work had to be done properly. Security work couldn't afford to be even slightly lax. Even if regular troops were dispatched to perform guard duties, this wasn't anything unusual.

  Thinking of this, Ling Tianxiang also hesitated a bit. If he rushed out rashly, he couldn't guarantee that he could find his target without harming those security guards. At the same time, he didn't want to really fight with these soldiers either. Should he withdraw first and think of another way?

  Just as Ling Tianxiang was hesitating about whether to retreat, a sedan drove in from the direction of the gate. The sedan finally stopped outside a villa with an area of about 200 square meters and two floors. Ling Tianxiang immediately cast his gaze over there. When he saw the person getting out of the car, he immediately sneered. It was really a case of "treading on iron shoes without finding a place", and someone had voluntarily pointed out the direction to Ling Tianxiang.