Chapter 5 16 straight and crooked 2

  The hostage managed to escape from the third floor when the suspects were not paying attention, and sprained her foot while rushing downstairs. She brought out very important information that four suspects ran to the third floor, where a gold shop was holding a morning meeting, and 13 people were taken hostage.

  Qin Minghui needed more details, he looked at the little girl who was trembling with fear and asked gently: "Little girl, don't be afraid, can you remember what the other person looks like?"

  She shook her head: "They all wore black hoods, just like terrorists on TV..."

  "What kind of weapons do they have?"

  "There was a gun with a very thick barrel, long, and two more long ones. One of them had a handgun, and another one had two round things hanging from his waist, like hand grenades." The terrified little girl tried her best to recall, but she didn't know much about weapons and couldn't provide any more information.

  At least she provided the exact location of the suspect, which was particularly important for the SWAT attack. At this time, the fire department also brought the building drawings over. Qin Minghui found the location of the gold shop on the drawing and needed to come up with a complete plan.

  Just as Qin Minghui was thinking of a solution, another loud gunshot suddenly rang out. Qin Minghui looked up to see a suspect sticking his head out from the third floor: "Doctor! I need a doctor!"

  Qin Minghui immediately judged that Peng Sizhe had hit one of the suspects in the previous exchange of fire. This intelligence was correct!

  He urgently needed a doctor to save his partner, but Qin Minghui couldn't provide him with one that quickly. He wanted to take advantage of the suspect's weakness and negotiate with him, hoping to resolve the incident without bloodshed.

  SWAT never wants to see casualties, whether it's police officers, hostages or suspects, but this is just a perfect hypothesis. In actual handling, there will be many uncertain factors interfering with the negotiation work, and it's possible that the suspect will change his mind in the next second...

  Qin Minghui needs to grasp the right degree, neither provoking the suspect nor being able to perfectly resolve the situation through negotiation. He thought for a moment, picked up the loudspeaker and shouted: "I am the person in charge here, you can talk to me about anything."

  "I want a doctor! Get me a doctor right now!" The suspect was extremely agitated.

  "Calm down, what happened? There is no doctor on site, but if you need one, I can immediately find one for you from the hospital."

  "Someone's been shot! Where's the doctor? Get me a doctor, quick!" The suspect yelled angrily.

  The sniper who has occupied the high ground of the building opposite the mall reports: "I have confidence in hitting the target."

  Cheng Te Li looked at Qin Ming Hui with inquiring eyes, waiting for his command. Qin Ming Hui slightly shook his head, not wanting any more casualties today.

  "Sniper, stand by, do not fire, repeat, do not fire!" Cheng Te Li gave the order in a low voice over the intercom.

  The sniper heard the order, the crosshairs of his scope firmly locked onto the suspect's head, but he relaxed his finger on the trigger and replied: "Roger that."

  "Who's injured? I need to know who's injured. Please don't harm the hostages, what demands do you have that we can discuss." Qin Minghui saw Cheng Te Li give the order and opened up the loudspeaker again.

  "My brother was shot by the police! His hand is broken! Fucking hurry up and find me a doctor..."

  "I'll get a doctor for you right away, please calm down, can we send someone up to help your brother down..." Qin Minghui knew he wouldn't agree, but that's how negotiations work, no matter what, they had to keep communicating with the suspect to extract more information.

  "Stripes are unreliable, Old Four! There must be a sniper opposite! You're asking to die!" Qin Minghui tried to maintain contact but was interrupted by another suspect who dragged and pulled Old Four away from the window.

  "Sniper reporting! Two suspects spotted, confident of taking them out! Please instruct!" The sniper across the street saw through his scope that one suspect was trying to drag away the other suspect by the window, but the latter struggled and they were entangled. This was a great opportunity to take out two with one shot!

  "Sniper, hold fire! Repeat, do not open fire!" Qin Minghui closed the loudspeaker and gave orders through the intercom.

  "Sniper understood!" The sniper relaxed his finger on the trigger again, exhaled softly and readjusted his breathing.

  Although the communication was interrupted, Qin Minghui obtained two very important pieces of information: one suspect is called Lao Si, his brother was shot and injured, possibly seriously, Lao Si needs to save his brother's life, but the other suspect is likely their leader, at least it can be confirmed that they have started to show divisions due to the wounded person, how to take advantage of this division?

  However, at this point, Qin Minghui thought that using the doctor as an opportunity would be a good way to get the SWAT team close to the suspect's location on the third floor, making it easier to launch an attack.

  Lao Si was dragged back into the gold shop, his brother Wei Jie's face was deathly pale, his left wrist had been shot through by a bullet, and a trail of blood led from the stairs all the way to inside the gold shop. Wei Jie's ulna and radius were both broken by the bullet, leaving only skin holding them together. Lao Si simply wrapped a towel from the counter around it hastily, but this still couldn't stop the bleeding. Wei Jie leaned against the edge of the counter in the gold shop, his right hand clenched tightly around his left, but his body was still covered in a large pool of blood.

  Wei Jie weakly said to Lao Si: "Brother! Brother! What should I do? I'm about to collapse!"

  "Weijie, hold on! Brother will think of a way to save you! Must think of a way to save you!" Lao Si wanted to calm down, but seeing his brother's defeated face, lips getting whiter and whiter, he panicked again, turning his head to shout at the people at the entrance of the gold shop: "Big Brother, quickly think of something, Weijie can't hold on!"

  Big brother looked back and saw that he had no way out now, the mall was surrounded by police, unless he grew wings, how could he escape the police cordon?

  Another suspect nervously looked at the hostage squatting in the corner and urged: "Big brother, big brother, think of a way quickly!"

  "What the hell can I do?! Xia An, keep an eye on the hostages, don't look back!" Big Brother yelled at him. His plan didn't include this scene. After rushing into the mall in a panic, he found that the terrain was complex and had accidentally taken people hostage after bursting into the gold shop. However, they hadn't prepared anything to control the hostages, so they could only make them crouch in the corner. He was afraid that the hostages would jump up and resist.

  But in fact, his worries were unnecessary. The girls working at the gold shop were all squatting on the ground, holding their heads tightly with both hands, and didn't even dare to look up at the suspect's face...

  When the suspects were in a state of panic, Qin Minghui's voice came from the stairs: "Old Four, Old Four, the doctor you wanted has arrived. Don't shoot, let us go up."

  Lao Si immediately heard and responded hastily: "Quickly come up! Quickly come up!"

  "Don't come up! Fourth brother, be careful they might have a trick!" The big brother stopped the fourth from continuing to speak, hid behind the wall of the shop, and nervously stared at the stairs.

  "Big brother, Wei Jie is dying quickly, let the doctor come up!" Old Fourth panicked, watching his younger brother's head slowly tilt to one side, he anxiously supported his head again: "Wei Jie, hold on, brother is thinking of a way!"

  "Lao Si, if you don't let the doctor pass, then bring the wounded over here. I have no ill intentions..." Qin Minghui shouted again from the stairs.

  "Don't let him pass, Fourth Brother! If he passes, the police will catch you!" The eldest brother still opposed. Fourth Brother turned his head and stared at the eldest brother with wide eyes, as if he didn't recognize him!

  "Fourth brother, don't look at me like that! I didn't want Wei Jie to die either! You're going out there is sending yourself to death!" The big brother looked at the fourth brother's eyes, feeling a chill.

  Qin Minghui poked his head out from the stairs and took a look, it was a rare opportunity, he waved his hand towards the back, Qin Xiaoyu and another SWAT member quickly crossed the corridor, hiding behind a corner, guarding the passage.

  The gold shop is located in a corner of the mall, decorated with an antique flavor, and is right at the intersection of two corridors. The special police had to find a way to control the corridor, surround them, and another team of special police came up from other stairwells, also controlling another corridor. Now the suspect has come out of the gold shop and has nowhere to escape.

  "First aid kit! Get me a first aid kit!" Lao Si thought for a moment, then made another request: "Get the doctor to bring over the first aid kit..."

  "Lao Si, how can you guarantee the doctor's safety? Alright, release the hostage and I'll let the doctor go over..." Qin Minghui followed the plan, starting to haggle with him. As long as the hostage was safe, everything else would be easy to handle.

  "You think you can trick me into releasing the hostages! Fourth brother, don't listen to him, if you release them, the SWAT team will rush in immediately!" The big brother vetoed Cheng Te Li's suggestion again.

  "Lao Si, if you don't release the hostages, how can we believe that you will guarantee the doctor's safety?" Qin Minghui didn't respond to Big Brother's words at all, doing so because he wanted to stir up conflict between Lao Si and Big Brother.

  "Big brother! Wei Jie is dying! Hurry up and get the doctor over here!" Fourth Brother was almost wailing, Wei Jie's lips were getting whiter and whiter, the blood from his wound couldn't be stopped no matter what.

  "Lao Si, I've brought the doctor to you. You need to show your sincerity. We don't want any more casualties. I'm helping you..." Qin Minghui began to induce Lao Si.

  "Damn it, you can't trust any of these bastards! You're trying to stir up trouble between us brothers!" Big Brother has indeed been traveling the world for many years and quickly picked up on Qin Minghui's underlying tone!

  "If you don't agree, then we'll withdraw first and you can discuss it among yourselves." Qin Minghui decided to retreat in order to advance.

  "Big brother! Big brother! Please, I'm begging you, Wei Jie is really going to die!"

  "I'm releasing three hostages... you... you let the doctor come over..." Big Brother thought for a moment, now he can only use the hostages to exchange for the doctor, otherwise it would be even harder to deal with Old Fourth's betrayal.

  "Three won't do! One doctor for 10 hostages!" Seeing the other side give in, Qin Minghui let out a breath of relief, and the haggling began.

  "Are you out of your mind?!" The big brother yelled: "Three hostages for a doctor! I guarantee the doctor's safety!"

  The other side took another step back, Qin Minghui thought for a moment and said: "7 hostages! I want to exchange 7 hostages!"

  Qin Minghui understood that the other side would not release all the hostages, but the fewer hostages they had, the more space the special police had to maneuver. If a shootout were to occur, the hostages would block the line of fire and interfere with the special police's assault.

  "Only 5! Just 5!" the big brother shouted.

  "Big brother! Wei Jie is really dying! Give him 7 people as hostages! Big brother, hurry up and give them to him!" Wei Jie had already gone into shock, no matter how much Old Fourth slapped him, he didn't respond. Old Fourth panicked and shouted at Big Brother.

  Outside were the special police, inside was the injured person. Big brother's nerves had almost been compressed to the limit, he felt like he was going crazy. He turned his head and roared at Old Fourth: "Shut up!"

  Lao Si was startled by the shout, but he shouted back: "This isn't your brother, how did you promise us brothers back then!"

  Qin Minghui felt that the timing was about right, and he tried his best to rescue a few more hostages. As he listened to the two arguing, he secretly asked through the intercom: "Third group, where have you arrived?"

  At this time, Peng Sizhe and Gao Commander were working hard to pass through the ventilation duct on the ceiling. The ventilation duct led directly to the storage room behind the gold shop. Their mission was to sneak into the storage room and coordinate with the SWAT team in front.

  Peng Sizhe and Gao Commander took off their bulky bulletproof vests and helmets, only wearing a ordinary special police cap. In order to travel light, they didn't bring long guns either, each carrying a small handgun. They struggled to crawl through the ventilation ducts, hearing Qin Minghui's inquiry, Gao Commander reported in a low voice: "We haven't reached our position yet."

  The commander was on the verge of collapse, and it wasn't until now that he realized being tall had its drawbacks. The ventilation duct could barely fit one person crawling through, and to avoid making any noise that might alert the suspects, he could only move slowly with his elbows. The duct was also filled with dust, which made him want to sneeze, but he couldn't even cough!

  Peng Sizhe slowly moved forward with his handgun and tool pack, he had already seen the ventilation opening. Peng Sizhe moved to the side of the ventilation opening, waved his hand back, and Commander Gao handed him a probe.

  Peng Sizhe inserted the fiber optic probe of the surveillance device into the ventilation pipe, and the suspects were all attracted to the store, unaware of the situation on the side of the janitor's room. Peng Sizhe made a hand gesture towards the back, and Commander Gao pressed down on the intercom, reporting in a low voice: "Team 3 is in position, ready to enter."

  Qin Minghui heard the report, and his chances of winning increased by a few more points. However, he still had to work with Peng Siche and Gao Shuai to attract the suspect's attention and let them pass through the most dangerous few meters!

  Qin Minghui shouted again on the stairs: "Old Fourth, how did you decide? I only need 7 hostages, and you can save your brother..."

  "Shut up! I'm in charge here!" The older brother cut off Qin Minghui's words harshly.

  "What have you decided? I don't want any more casualties. Release the hostages, and I guarantee your safety!" Qin Minghui began to make concessions.

  "Does what you said count?" asked the older brother.

  "I'm the director, the person in charge here, of course I have the final say... As long as you release the hostages, I'll give you a doctor and guarantee your safety, but you must ensure the safety of the hostages and the doctor!"

  Qin Minghui and his brother were negotiating, Peng Sizhe had already used a screwdriver to remove the grid of the air vent. He carefully put the grid aside, the continuous crawling and mental tension made him sweat all over, he lightly took a breath, unexpectedly the dust stirred up by this breath rushed into his nose, Peng Sizhe was stifling, strongly holding back a cough...

  The high commander was a bit strange, at this time Peng Sizhe should have gone down from the air vent, but he saw Peng Sizhe covering his mouth with his hand and his face was red with suffocation. He lightly patted Peng Sizhe's calf, signaling him to hurry up.

  It was right under the suspect's eyelids. If any of the suspects looked up and took a glance, they would have discovered that the ventilation grille had been dismantled.

  Peng Sizhe suppressed his cough and started to act. He secretly climbed down from the grid, and Commander Gao made a final report on the intercom: "Group 3 is ready to go down." Then Peng Sizhe slipped into the storage room.

  Peng Sizhe and Gao Commander carefully avoided the clutter in the room, pulled out their pistols, gently cocked them, opened the safety, and pushed to the edge of the door. Peng Sizhe held his pistol in his right hand and rested his left hand on the doorknob, ready to open the door and rush out at any moment. Gao Commander was vigilant behind him. Now they needed to wait patiently for the next command. At this time, they could hear the faint sobbing of the hostages outside the storage room, muffled by the thin plywood partition. Peng Sizhe had already seen the suspect guarding the hostages about a meter away through the gap in the door.

  "Three teams, standby in place!" Qin Minghui's command came through the headset.

  The big brother finally agreed to Qin Minghui's plan, using 7 hostages to exchange for the doctor. The named hostages were relieved and ran towards the stairs in a hurry, while the remaining hostages couldn't help but burst into tears.

  "Don't cry! You're not allowed to cry!" Xiao An was furious, holding a gun and beating the hostage. The hostage didn't dare resist, could only hold his head and curl up into a ball to avoid the beating.

  Peng Sizhe let out a slight breath of relief, most of the hostages had left, so they wouldn't block his charge route. Now he just waited for the order to be issued, and how he would coordinate with the front assault team to launch a surprise attack from behind.

  "The hostages are released, where is the doctor?! I want the doctor!" Laosi shouted anxiously as he saw all the hostages running down the stairs.

  "The doctor will be right over, don't worry..." Qin Minghui replied with a sentence, handing the first-aid kit to Cheng Teli and warning: "Don't use the gun unless absolutely necessary!"

  Cheng Te Li took off his police uniform, put on casual clothes and a white coat, disguising himself as a doctor. He placed a 92 handgun in the hidden compartment at the bottom of the first-aid box. He nodded to Qin Minghui and said: "I will definitely complete the task."

  SWAT teams have all learned emergency bandaging and first aid. Cheng Te took the first-aid kit from Qin Minghui's hand, took a deep breath, and walked up the stairs.

  "The doctor is coming up, don't shoot!" Qin Minghui shouted.

  "Halt, you're a strip of wood!" Big Brother shouted when Cheng Te-li was halfway there.

  "Cheng Te Li stopped and slowly opened his white coat, letting him see that he had no weapon. 'I'm just a doctor,' he said. 'I'm not a policeman...'"

  "What's in the box... what's in the box?" His brother's nerves were taut, he found it hard to trust anyone now.

  "Gauze, hemostatic agents and emergency medicine... If you don't let me go over there now, that casualty may not make it..." Cheng Te Li replied calmly.

  "Come quickly, come quickly, Wei Jie is in a bad way..." Lao Si exclaimed anxiously at this time, not caring what his elder brother said.

  Cheng Te-li's shirt button had a miniature camera, Qin Minghui clearly saw the location of the suspects in the handheld monitor. He said into the intercom: "One suspect is at the door, two suspects are by counter one, and another suspect is guarding the hostage by counter two..."

  Cheng Te-li walked into the gold shop and saw the wounded man, who was now showing typical symptoms of severe blood loss, with a pale face and muscle weakness. He had already entered deep shock. Cheng Te-li opened the first-aid kit, took out a tourniquet and did some initial hemostasis, then removed the wet towel that covered the wound. Wei Jie's wrist bone was completely shattered. Cheng Te-li tightly wrapped it with gauze and finished the bandaging, saying: "He must go to the hospital for surgery, otherwise his hand can't be saved!"

  "Shut up! You want to trick us into going to the hospital!" the big brother yelled.

  His hand bones are completely fractured, the radial artery is ruptured and bleeding excessively, he's now in a state of shock. If we don't give him blood transfusions immediately, he'll definitely die! Cheng Te Li urged anxiously.

  "Let Wei Jie go to the hospital, big brother, let Wei Jie go to the hospital!" Lao Si was almost frantic, after Cheng Te Li finished bandaging him up, Wei Jie seemed to have come back to his senses a bit, and softly groaned.

  "You can't go!" the elder brother shouted.

  "With the medical conditions here, I can't guarantee that he'll survive, he has to go to the hospital!" Cheng Te Li explained, but unexpectedly this sentence enraged Big Brother, who suddenly grabbed a hostage and put a gun to their head: "You must have a way, if you can't think of one then she'll die! Think of something quickly!"

  "Calm down, calm down, I'm a doctor, I take responsibility for every word I say. There are no emergency medical conditions here, his condition is very bad, he must be given blood..."

  "Bring the blood here to transfuse... You must be able to transfuse blood..." The big brother was furious, and didn't care that Old Fourth was begging pitifully, the hostage had already been scared into trembling with fear...

  "Command center... the situation is getting out of control..." Qin Xiaoyu saw through the periscope that things seemed to be taking a turn for the worse, but the suspect's attention was all focused on Cheng Te Li, and if they launched a surprise attack now, there was still some chance of success.

  "Wait in place..." Qin Minghui saw on the monitor that his brother's emotions were getting out of control, but there was a hostage blocking the way. If the special police appeared, the hostage would likely be harmed...

  "I really can't transfuse blood here... his condition is complicated... and he needs to undergo a bone grafting surgery... otherwise his hand..." Cheng Te Li tried to persuade, but he also felt the scene was losing control, Da Ge's spirit had reached the edge of collapse, if he didn't have a hostage, Qin Xiao Yu should have launched a surprise attack by now, but suddenly Da Ge grabbed the hostage, and the situation became complicated...

  "You can't do anything?! You can't do anything?! Then I'll think of a way for you!" The big brother was finally thoroughly enraged, since being blocked here, he had already understood his own ending! Rather than die alone, he'd drag down a scapegoat too! He pressed the hostage to kneel on the ground, pointing a gun at her head: "I'll think of a way... I'll count to three... 1... 2..."

  "Listen to me, listen calmly, there are no medical conditions here. If we send him to the hospital now, he still has a chance of survival..." Cheng Te Li persuaded bitterly...

  "Don't make me shout 3... Can only save him here... 2... Did you hear? I've already shouted 2... Don't make me shout 3..." Big brother has started his hysterical roar!

  "Command center... Suspect's emotions are out of control, please instruct..." Qin Xiaoyu looked a bit anxious, Cheng Teli's persuasion had the opposite effect now...

  Qin Minghui is now facing a difficult decision, Cheng Te Li can no longer control the situation, but Qin Xiaoyu and another assault team still need some time to move forward. The current position of the suspect is not suitable for the SWAT team's assault, how to ensure the safety of the hostages? Peng Siche and Gao Shuai of the third group seem to be able to launch a surprise attack from behind, but their current assault route is also blocked by the hostage and another suspect...

  "Bang!" The big brother fired a shot at the floor: "You think I'm joking, I don't joke with you!"

  "You listen to me, there are no medical conditions here..." Cheng Te Li's words had not fallen, and he saw the big brother turn the muzzle towards the hostage's head. Now any persuasion could not stop him from shooting the hostage! At this time, Cheng Te Li was also unable to quickly take out the pistol from the first-aid box, and he could only stare at a hostage being shot in front of him with his brain smashed!

  Peng Sizhe and Gao Commander had been listening to their quarrel in the storage room, this gunshot made everyone's nerves highly tense. Peng Sizhe quietly turned the doorknob and opened a gap at the door. He saw his brother pointing the gun muzzle at the hostage's head.

  Qin Minghui was still thinking when Peng Sizhe suddenly opened the door, and High Commander was startled, but his training instincts made him follow. The two rushed out of the storage room, and Xiao An, who was guarding the hostages, did not expect that there were special police hiding in the storage room. His instincts made him turn the gun around, wanting to warn the others, but he only managed to shout: "Big..." before he didn't have a chance to finish the sentence. Within three meters, Peng Sizhe's 92 handgun fired two shots in quick succession, accurately piercing his chest. As Xiao An fell to the ground with his back facing upwards, his fingers were still on the trigger, and the gun barrel emitted a burst of flames. "Tut-tut-tut" The bullets drilled out a string of bullet holes in the ceiling...

  Big Brother was startled by the person who rushed out from the side of the rubble as he cocked the gun, and when he turned the muzzle, Commander Gao had just flashed out from the rubble. Commander Gao didn't have time to think, two bullets were already rushing towards Big Brother, hitting him right in the head, Commander Gao saw his head burst out a mass of red and white stuff, splashing onto the wall and collapsing to the ground...

  Peng Sizhe stepped over Xiao An's body, rounded the counter, and Lao Si never thought that the SWAT team would appear from behind. By the time he reacted and wanted to grab his gun, Peng Sizhe had already come over from the edge of the counter. He heard a loud shout in his ear: "Police! Put your hands on your head!"

  Lao Si still wanted to struggle, rolling and crawling to grab the gun leaning against the counter. Cheng Te Li kicked the gun away with one foot, blocking his way and knocking him down. Lao Si struggled in vain for a few moments before being firmly pinned to the ground by Cheng Te Li...

  "Three teams report! Scene is secure! Hostages are safe......" In the few seconds that flashed by like lightning, what seemed to Commander Gao like several centuries had passed. Seeing Peng Sixi and Cheng Teli subdue the last suspect, Commander Gao let out a long sigh of relief and reported over the intercom...

  The rest of the SWAT team took away the hostages, Qin Minghui also arrived at the scene. Two suspects were killed, one was captured, and another needed to be rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. This result wasn't bad, but he couldn't get excited about it.

  "Who allowed you to open fire?!" Qin Minghui asked.

  Gao Commander lowered his head and didn't speak, Peng Sizhe also didn't say a word. Qin Minghui pointed at Peng Sizhe: "Peng Sizhe, ah Peng Sizhe, it's you again..." It was unclear whether he was praising or dissatisfied.

  ……

  Lin Chaohui and Bobby were among the onlookers, watching as the suspect was led out, police clearing the area. Turning to ask Bobby beside him: "You're against them, what are your chances of winning?"

  "Spear and shield have no comparability." Boby replied.

  "We'll be meeting them soon..." Lin Chaohui muttered to himself.

  "We make trouble, they deal with it, that's all." Bobby shrugged indifferently.