A gust of wind came and made a huge roaring sound. Even the people sitting in the car clearly felt that the off-road vehicle was shaken by the strong wind.
With a "click", the neon sign symbolizing the culture of the gas station on the dirt wall not far away from the crowd was instantly torn apart by the strong wind. A tornado blew, and the light sign flew into the sky as if it was flying.
, and the old dilapidated earth wall now only has the word "deduction" left.
Whether to continue to hunt Lin Wanshan or return to Savior Ye the same way, no matter which decision is made at this time, it means that the task force will face a huge price.
Therefore, everyone looked at Zheng Jianghu, waiting for the other party to give the final instructions.
Even though Lin Wanshan was responsible for many lives and committed countless crimes in Mobei City for many years, Zheng Jianghu, as a policeman, always kept in mind his fundamental mission, which is to give priority to saving people under any circumstances. (
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So, when everyone's eyes turned to him, Zheng Jianghu gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Drive and return the same way!"
After all, the French Open is open to all. No matter where Lin Wanshan escapes, he will be caught one day. However, once the best opportunity to rescue his companions is missed, their lives cannot be recovered no matter what.
Everyone got the order and immediately sat back in the car. Zheng Jianghu had just started the off-road vehicle and when the headlights turned on, a figure in the distance attracted his attention.
Zheng Jianghu looked forward, rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and suddenly realized: "The surname is Xu! What... is he doing? Why didn't this guy get in the car?"
Everyone followed the sound and found Xu Tiannan pushing a shabby motorcycle out of a metal warehouse at the gas station.
The shape of this motorcycle looks a bit like a product of the last century. The old body is covered with dust and stains. When Xu Tiannan pushed it through the strong wind, the rear fender also flapped a few times in the strong wind.
Finally, it fell down very humiliatingly.
"Hey! Xu! What are you doing?" Zheng Jianghu got out of the car and ran in the direction of Xu Tiannan. However, the sandstorm was gradually approaching, and the stronger and stronger wind made him stagger around.
He walked up to the other party and said loudly: "You are looking for death! Can't you see that the sandstorm is coming?"
Xu Tiannan ignored the other party, but got on the motorcycle alone and turned the key. A faint light came on from the headlights.
Seeing that the other party ignored him, Zheng Jianghu forcibly held the other party down and asked loudly: "Hey! I said you are looking for death! The sandstorm tonight is at least level 8! It is impossible for you to ride a motorcycle and arrest him.
!”
Xu Tiannan glanced at the other party and said resolutely: "Shui Gen is still in Lin Wanshan's car, I'm going to save her!"
"No!" Zheng Jianghu pressed the head of the motorcycle hard and said sternly: "You are like you. Before you could catch up with Lin Wanshan, you were blown into the sky by a tornado and fell to death! Since you are a member of my task force, then I will deal with it
You are responsible and I must not watch you die!"
Xu Tiannan said: "You are responsible for your team members, and I am also responsible for Shui Gen. There is no room for negotiation on this point. Lao Zheng, get out of my way!"
For a long time, the two of them stood in a stalemate, motionless.
Xu Tiannan said solemnly: "I'll ask you one last time, will you give in or not?"
"Impossible, there is no way I can just watch you die!"
"I'll count to three. If you don't get out of the way, don't blame me for being ruthless."
"three……"
"two……"
"one……"
After the words fell, Xu Tiannan gritted his teeth, suddenly turned the front of the car, and forcefully turned off the accelerator of the motorcycle handlebar, preparing to force a breakthrough, but unexpectedly, after a moment, the motorcycle still did not move at all.
Zheng Jianghu frowned and said, "Xu, let me ask you something."
"you say."
"Don't you... know how to ride a motorcycle?"
Xu Tiannan was stunned and felt his face was a little hot, but he still said stubbornly: "Does it have anything to do with you? Get out of the way or I'll hit you to death!"
Zheng Jianghu pointed to the handle on the left side of the motorcycle and said: "You have to hold the clutch with your left hand first, then adjust the gear switch to neutral with your left foot, and then step on the starter with your right foot, so that the motorcycle can start..."
"Huh?" Xu Tiannan raised his head and looked at the other person, hesitatingly saying: "The motorcycle... can't it be driven away with just a twist?"
"That's an electric car you're talking about, and it burns gasoline."
"..."
Following the opponent's method, Xu Tiannan finally started the motorcycle. After driving a few meters, a strong wind suddenly hit him. The motorcycle tilted a few times in the wind, and finally fell down with a "bang".
On the ground.
Ignoring the astonished looks of the people around him, Xu Tiannan got up again and stepped on the starter again. However, this time the motorcycle could not start for some reason.
Gotta turn off the fire.
Suddenly, a pair of strong arms wrapped around him, and with Zheng Jianghu's cursing voice, he sat down behind him.
"Old Zheng, you..."
This was the first time that Xu Tiannan felt that this outrageously rough man in front of him actually had a tender and tough side, and he couldn't help but feel touched again. He was about to say something, but heard Zheng Jianghu say: "Shut up! I'll take care of you."
Go save Shui Gen!"
Xu Tiannan showed a flattering smile and said: "Well... thank you! Ah! Ah!"
Before he finished speaking, Xu Tiannan felt the opponent's force like a bulldozer pushing him up and down, and soon he was pushed onto the motorcycle's fuel tank. As a last resort, he had to shrink up and lie on the front of the car, trembling like a
A child who is asking his parents for toys.
Shifting gear, clutching, and starting in one go, Zheng Jianghu skillfully drove the motorcycle over and said to everyone: "You drive back immediately, and he and I will chase Lin Wanshan!"
As the motorcycle drove towards the border road, Xu Tiannan hurriedly smiled and said: "Hey...Old Zheng, I can't tell you are a nice person!"
Zheng Jianghu's face turned red, as if he was not used to being spoken of like this, but he still said in his usual fierce and stern tone: "Xu, I will be killed by you sooner or later!"
…
The sky in the west is dark, and only a ray of moonlight shines on the earth through the clouds. You can barely see clearly that the border road extends to the distant sky, just like the dark road that everyone has experienced in nightmares, terrifying,
It's dark and there's no end in sight.
The two chased each other on a motorcycle. However, less than 5 minutes after driving out, with less than 10 kilometers left on the mountainous road, there was a sudden explosion from the tires of the motorcycle, and the entire body began to rotate uncontrollably.
It started shaking.
Fortunately, Zheng Jianghu used his bison-like strength to stabilize the front of the car. After swaying for a few times, he finally managed to stop the motorcycle.
After the two got off the motorcycle, they checked and found that air was leaking from the front wheel of the motorcycle. Zheng Jianghu turned on the flashlight to check and found that the surface of the rubber tire of the motorcycle looked as if it had been scratched by a sharp object, exposing the air.
A small but neat tapered incision was made.
"Damn it! This must be the fault of that gas station just now! These cowards deliberately put tire spikes on the road in order to earn money for tire repairs!"
Xu Tiannan did not respond, but looked at the Tarbahatai Mountains in the distance, wondering what he was thinking.
"Xu, what are you doing?"
Only then did Xu Tiannan come back to his senses and asked, "Old Zheng, where is that ahead?"
Zheng Jianghu was stunned and explained: "The mountain-ring road! This mountain is Tarbahatai Mountain. As long as Lin Wanshan and his gang bypass this mountain-ring road, they will reach the border after walking dozens of kilometers!"
Xu Tiannan asked again: "How far is it from us to the mountain-ring highway?"
"About... about ten kilometers, what's wrong?"
Xu Tiannan said: "This is very strange. From the time we hunted down Lin Wanshan tonight, the time spent at the gas station plus the time spent by the thug who got out of the car and fought with us did not exceed 20 minutes in total. Is it possible that Lin Wanshan and the others were...
If a truck leaves more than 20 minutes earlier than us, can it cross the mountain in front?"
Zheng Jianghu said: "How is that possible! The total length of the mountain ring road is at least 40 kilometers! How could they climb over it so quickly?"
"So that's the problem!" Xu Tiannan explained: "Vehicles on the mountainous highway go around the mountain, and they always face us. But just now you kept asking me to sit in front of the motorcycle, but I didn't see it.
There are car lights on the mountain, don’t you think this is a problem?”
As soon as he said this, Zheng Jianghu also felt a little strange. Logically speaking, this place is less than 10 kilometers away. Even in the daytime, you can occasionally see the sunlight reflected in the rear car mirror on the mountain, but just now the two of them were driving towards the mountain.
At that time, I still didn’t see any light from the car lights.”
Xu Tiannan said: "Give me the flashlight, quickly!"
After getting the flashlight, Xu Tiannan ran against the strong wind back to the location where the motorcycle's tire had punctured. After some searching, he found the half of the three-edged nail that had been inserted into the asphalt road. At the same time, it could be seen that the gas station was
In order to increase the success rate of punctures, the gang actually inserted three triangular nails side by side on this two-lane road with a width of less than 8 meters.
Later, Xu Tiannan found several brake marks in front of the triangular nail on the right side of the road. Some of them gradually integrated with the ground after being exposed to wind and sun for a long time, but just these few marks
Among the traces, there was a very obvious brake mark about 15cm wide.
So Xu Tiannan waved his hand and motioned for Zheng Jianghu to come over.
"Old Zheng, look at this brake mark. The mark is clear and shows the drag marks left on the road after the tire 'locked up'. This part of the drag mark eventually gradually turned into a rolling mark where the tire texture can be seen again, indicating that the driver was
After the tire burst, emergency braking was performed, and after stabilizing the body, we drove forward for a short distance. At the same time, we can also calculate the front and rear wheelbase of the car based on the direction of the front and rear wheels of the car, and we get:
From the front and rear wheelbase, it can be deduced that the wheelbase of this car is about...3300mm."
While explaining, Xu Tiannan measured the distance with his arm, but found that Zheng Jianghu's eyes were distracted at this time, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his mind, so he asked: "Hello? Did you understand what I just said?"
Zheng Jianghu opened his mouth slightly, shook his head and said, "How about... you speak some human language?"
"Okay!" Xu Tiannan simply stopped explaining and said directly: "Based on the 3300mm wheelbase, the length of this car is about 4.2 meters. If nothing else, this brake mark is exactly what Lin Wanshan and his minivan left just now.
Down."
Zheng Jianghu finally understood and immediately said: "You mean, Lin Wanshan and his car also had a punctured tire?"
Xu Tiannan nodded.
"I'll go! Didn't you tell me that this would be the end of it?" Zheng Jianghu moved his body and asked, "Do we need to look for their trucks around now?"
Xu Tiannan nodded again.
Zheng Jianghu looked around and found that there was a roadbed about 2 meters high on the edge of the road, so he jumped down like a monkey and started searching along the road.
Xu Tiannan was worried that he would not be able to get back up after going down, so he had to follow him all the way above the highway. After the two of them walked about 200 meters, they finally saw a large downhill slope beside a drainage ditch. This downhill slope was directly connected to the highway above.
And just at the end of the corner of the slope, there was indeed a minivan full of bullet holes parked.
"This is the car! People named Xu, please stay away!"
After seeing the truck, Zheng Jianghu immediately became alert, pulled out a pistol from his waist and moved slowly over. However, after some inspection, he found that there was no one in the truck, so he put away the gun and said to the other party: "Safety, come here!"
At this time, the wind of the sandstorm was getting stronger and stronger. Xu Tiannan could hardly stand steadily when walking. He walked over with difficulty and said loudly: "The three people at the gas station did not die unjustly! The left front wheel of this car was damaged.
The triangular nails punctured the tires. It seems that Lin Wanshan and others tried to hide the vehicle in this culvert after the tires were punctured."
Zheng Jianghu also nodded, "If you hadn't discovered the clue just now, and if we hadn't also had our tires punctured, maybe we would have foolishly chased into the mountains now!"
The two checked inside and outside the car and found no signs of a fight. This was good news, indicating that Murong Shui was safe at least for now, but had just been taken away by the other party.
Xu Tiannan touched the wheel hub and said loudly: "The wheel hub is still warm, the other party should not have run far yet!"
Zheng Jianghu glanced at the end of the road. In a very distant place, a dark mountain range appeared in his field of vision. He raised his voice and said: "Ten kilometers from here, as long as you pass through this mountain, you will reach the border. But
They definitely didn’t dare to go through the checkpoint on the mountain road without immigration procedures, so this group of people probably planned to go directly over the mountain! But they will definitely not be able to go through such a strong wind!”
"That's right!" Xu Tiannan said loudly: "These people must be hiding somewhere now and waiting for the wind to stop before setting off!"
As they spoke, the two of them looked to the northwest at the same time. In this vast wilderness, the only place to stay was the ancient city with thousands of years of history, 5 kilometers away - Desert City.
