Chapter Thirty-Seven: Completing the Task

  Yin Zhilin returned to the command center and began working. He instructed the female police officer in charge of technical support to place a sound wave detector next to the bug, tapped on the bug, and the sound wave detector emitted a sound. Yin Zhilin opened up the satellite map on his computer, judged the distance that the bug's signal could travel based on its power, combined it with the direction from which the detector detected the sound, and locked down the target area.

  "Captain, target locked in the forest one kilometer northeast of the area, nothing can be seen on the satellite map." Yin Zhilin reported through the earpiece.

  When Xie Xiaoshuai and his team arrived at the target area, they didn't find anything. Several people searched in a blanket style, and finally found an instrument in a hollow tree, which was confirmed by Yin Zhilin to be a signal amplifier. The function of this amplifier is to amplify the received signal and then transmit it to the receiving terminal.

  "This cat head is really cunning, Yin Zhilin, you continue to investigate the direction of this amplifier's transmission, I want to see what kind of formidable role this cat head is." Xie Xiaoshuai pulled a wild grass from the ground and put it in his mouth.

  Yin Zhilin and the female police officer started busying themselves again, their hands flying swiftly across the keyboard.

  A few minutes later.

  "Captain, I've found it. Proceed five or six kilometers in this direction. Based on the analysis of satellite maps, there is only one abandoned brick kiln that is suspicious." Yǐn Zhìlín immediately stood up to report.

  A group of people marched over mountains and through forests, walking for nearly an hour before arriving at their destination. The commander of the assault team arranged for a sniper to find a vantage point, while the technical support team launched a specialized reconnaissance drone to observe ahead.

  As a result, nothing was found in the brick kiln, only a mobile phone was found on a platform, and a note was placed next to it. The note read: Please listen to the recording on the mobile phone.

  "After turning on the phone recording, a frantic voice came out, speaking in English: 'Dear Chinese police, is the game of cat and mouse fun? Of course you are the mice and I am the cat. It won't take long before you hear the explosion sound that you least want to hear, and then everything will be silent. Hahahaha..."

  Facing such a provocation, Xie Xiaoshuai was extremely angry after listening to it and prepared to smash the phone on the ground. Li Gang immediately stepped forward and hugged Xie Xiaoshuai's arm: "Captain, this is a Water Fruit brand mobile phone, I've been wanting one for a long time, but the army regulations don't allow us to use mobile phones, so can I borrow it to play with?"

  Yin Zhilin suddenly appeared, snatching the phone from Xie Xiaoshuai's hand: "Haha, watermelon phone, now I see where you're going to run, this idiot is really arrogant enough, actually daring to leave the phone here."

  Li Gang was puzzled and asked: "The mobile phone is already here, how can you still investigate?"

  Yoon Ji-hyun, however, was an expert in this area and immediately guided the female police officer to coordinate with Interpol to enter the central database of several international mobile phone manufacturers to find location information of the phone in the database, and soon had a lead.

  "Haha, I didn't expect that there would be so many Apple fans among this group of terrorists. After checking the databases of several mobile phone manufacturers, we found a total of six location information records. Although I'm not sure if each and every one of them has a mobile phone, this is already enough. Next, we can start real-time monitoring of their movements." Yin Zhilin's mood also relaxed, and the female police officer looked at him with an expression of admiration.

  "Alright, well done. Assault team, the rest is up to you." Xie Xiaoshuai was very satisfied and gave orders to the assault team.

  At this time, the group of people disguised themselves as foreign businessmen and opened a high-end minibus to pretend to inspect the market. They were warmly welcomed by the local government. They walked on the road with swagger, and no one suspected their appearance.

  Several hours later, the task force found Mao and his group. They set up a checkpoint on a national highway, stormed into the minibus, killed all the small fries on the vehicle, and captured Mao alive. They searched out a large amount of C4 explosives and various firearms and ammunition in the luggage compartment of the minibus.

  With his hands cuffed behind him, the two men escorting him looked at Cathead in confusion: "How did you find me? I thought I had been secretive enough."

  "You shouldn't have used this phone, but you won't have a chance to make the same mistake again." Xie Xiaoshuai waved his hand with the watermelon phone.

  Lu Xue, who was filming beside him, looked at Xie Xiaoshuai with a different gaze. Xie Xiaoshuai's calm and commanding movements in this mission made her feel incredibly handsome. In Lu Xue's eyes, Xie Xiaoshuai's image became even more majestic, almost like a heroic figure.

  Back at the base, Xie Xiaoshuai and the assault team received a warm welcome. Tian Kai personally led them to the conference room, where the entire operation had been recorded and presented to the chief for viewing. At this time, the chief was already waiting for their return in the conference room, seemingly to commend them in person as the head of the anti-terrorism department.

  As soon as they entered, a first-level police supervisor stood up and led the applause: "Welcome back to the anti-terrorism squad's first victory." The others in the conference room also stood up and applauded together. All members of the anti-terrorism squad and the Sha Hu Xiao team stood at attention and saluted.

  "Comrades, your several months of arduous training have not been in vain, the results are remarkable. I've watched this operation and to be honest, it was extremely impressive. The public security's assault team, for the first time combining with special forces' special operations, had an unexpectedly good effect. Regarding this operation, I've already reported to the minister, the minister is very satisfied and also very grateful to the special forces comrades, you helped us cultivate such an elite assault team, in the future they will be the instructors for all new anti-terrorism assault teams, training the special police of various provinces, cities and counties, allowing our public security force to reach a new level." The head of the counter-terrorism department saluted the Sand Fox Team.

  "This is what we should do, since the task has been completed, we should also return to our troops." Xie Xiaoshuai returned the salute.

  "No rush, attend the celebration banquet tonight and leave early tomorrow." The anti-terrorism director's firm invitation.

  Xie Xiaoshuai had no choice but to agree. If he were to turn around and leave without regard for the leader's generous invitation, it would be very impolite.

  Back from the conference room, Xie Xiao Chui still had his equipment on and hurriedly ran to find Lu Xue, preparing to bid farewell, wanting to spend more time with Lu Xue while there was nothing going on.

  Knock on the door, Lu Xue was arranging her news draft in the room, seeing Xie Xiaoshuai standing fully armed in front of him couldn't help but say: "You're really handsome."

  Xie Xiaoshuai hehe smiled foolishly and scratched the back of his head with his hand.

  "What are you standing there for? Come in and talk." Lu Xue stepped aside, inviting Xie Xiao Chui to enter.

  "I'm leaving tomorrow, back to the troops." Xie Xiaoshuai said in a low voice without entering the door.

  Lu Xue didn't respond, and the two people just stood there in silence, staring at each other.

  Lu Xue spoke first, breaking the silence: "When can we meet again?"

  "I don't know, but you can write me a letter, what words can be said in the letter."

  "Can you make a phone call?" Lu Xue's face was full of hope.

  "We can only call internal lines, external calls are not getting through." Xie Xiaoshuai shook his head, also helpless.

  "It doesn't matter, I'll come visit you at your unit later." Lu Xue was actually quite outgoing.

  "Well, you're busy, I'll head back first."

  Just as Xie Xiaoshuai was about to turn around, Lu Xue suddenly rushed into his arms and started crying. Xie Xiaoshuai's hands were suspended behind Lu Xue's back, unsure of where to place them. When he heard Lu Xue's sobs and felt her body trembling, he slowly lowered his hands and gently patted her back.

  Lu Xue cried for a while, and then Xie Xiaoshuai just held her quietly like that, without saying anything. Lu Xue suddenly broke free from Xie Xiaoshuai's arms, kissed his face, turned around and closed the door.

  Xie Xiaoshuai stroked the face that Lu Xue had kissed, savoring the scene from just now, and silently smiled foolishly. Immediately after, he knocked on the door again: "Give me your phone number, I'll find a way to call you when I get back." In less than ten seconds, a note slipped out from under the door, Xie Xiaoshuai carefully put it in his pocket, turned around and left.