The first person to bring the news was someone who went to the police station to inquire about the news.
This morning, someone called the police claiming that their refrigerated truck had been stolen. The police have opened a case and are currently looking for the missing refrigerated truck, but nothing has been found yet.
The second news came from the surveillance side.
Lin Zhiming's men called up surveillance within several kilometers of the parking lot, and finally discovered a box-type pickup truck that was extremely suspicious. After that, Lin Zhiming's people conducted an investigation on the movement trajectory of the box-type pickup truck.
After tracing, it was found that the car is still in the imperial capital.
This is undoubtedly very good news for Lin Zhiming.
At this time, the third news came.
The traffic police have set up cards at various highway entrances and exits. Once a small truck wants to enter or exit the imperial capital, it will be stopped by the traffic police for inspection.
This is equivalent to ending the possibility of the small box truck leaving the imperial capital.
Lin Zhiming passed the order directly and mobilized all the forces in the imperial capital to trace the small box truck.
More than half an hour later, Lin Zhiming received another good news. The small box truck had been found and was currently located on the North Third Ring Road of the Imperial Capital.
Lin Zhiming's men were already chasing the car, but because it was the rush hour and the North Third Ring Road was heavily congested, they were unable to intercept the box truck in a short time.
After receiving the news, Lin Zhiming immediately set off for the North Third Ring Road without any hesitation.
Ten minutes later, Lin Zhiming's figure appeared on the expressway of the North Third Ring Road.
Lin Zhiming did not drive because during the rush hour, driving was definitely not as fast as running.
"The minivan is currently located at the Liangmaqiao section of the North Third Ring Expressway, with license plate number C.56375." His subordinates sent Lin Zhiming the latest news about the minivan.
Lin Zhiming rushed directly towards the position given by his men. His speed was much faster than the cars on the expressway.
A few minutes later, slowly moving traffic appeared within Lin Zhiming's sight.
After Lin Zhiming adjusted the mask on his face to ensure that he would not be recognized, he jumped directly to the nearest car, then accelerated and jumped to another car.
Bang bang bang!
Lin Zhiming jumped on the roof of a car and moved quickly through the traffic. Not long after, he saw a small box truck.
The license plate of the minivan is exactly the same as the license plate issued by my subordinate.
Lin Zhiming was overjoyed. He accelerated, jumped up high, and landed heavily on the carriage of the small truck.
There was a thud and the car seemed to vibrate.
Lin Zhiming turned over and jumped from the car to the side of the driver's seat, smashing the window with a punch.
In the driver's seat, a man in his forties was startled by the sudden appearance of Lin Zhiming and screamed.
"Stop the car." Lin Zhiming said.
The other party stopped the car decisively.
"Brother, don't kill me, don't kill me. I have a wife and children at home, and a 70-year-old mother to support..." the driver said excitedly, raising his hands in the air.
Seeing the driver's appearance, Lin Zhiming frowned.
This driver didn’t act like a robber!
"Get off the car and open the carriage." Lin Zhiming said to the driver.
"Yes, yes!" The driver nodded repeatedly, then opened the door, jumped out of the car, and walked to the back of the car.
Lin Zhiming followed the other party to the back of the carriage.
Then, the driver opened the car in front of Lin Zhiming.
As soon as the carriage door opened, a strong smell of seafood hit my face.
Lin Zhiming jumped directly into the carriage.
There were several foam boxes in the carriage, but there was nothing in these foam boxes.
Not a single stalactite was seen in the entire carriage.
not here!
Lin Zhiming's pupils shrank, then he turned around and got out of the car, and said to the driver, "Where are the things in the car?"
"What's in the car?" the driver asked in confusion.
"Don't pretend to be stupid, where are the stalactites on the car?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Brother, I really don't know what stalactites are there. I was just asked to drive here. How would I know what stalactites there are on the car?" the driver said excitedly.
"Were you invited to drive?" Lin Zhiming asked with a frown.
"Yes, someone paid me to drive this car around the imperial capital. I was thinking that I could get money just by driving around. I would be a fool if I didn't do this good thing, so I took the job.
I really don’t know what’s in this car, brother,” the driver said.
"Who paid you to drive around the imperial capital?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"I don't know him either. That person just asked me to drive the car out of a parking lot on the North Third Ring Road more than an hour ago, and then drive around the imperial capital. That's all." The driver said.
Lin Zhiming frowned and looked at the driver in front of him. The driver didn't look like he was lying.
If it is true as the driver said, then it is possible that he was misled when he was in the parking lot.
Lin Zhiming tried hard to recall everything that had happened before.
Suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.
He finally understood why the other party used an iron box to load the stalactites instead of directly using a car. Because if he used an iron box to load the stalactites, he would naturally associate the iron box with the stalactites. When he got to the parking lot, he saw those stalactites.
The first reaction to the empty iron box is naturally that the stalactites in the iron box have been moved away.
But, are those iron boxes the same ones that contain stalactites?
What if someone placed a few empty iron boxes in the parking lot first?
"Oh no, I've been fooled!" Lin Zhiming clenched his fists angrily.
Obviously, the robbers did not transfer the stalactites to the minivan when they arrived at the parking lot. They may have continued carrying the stalactites to other places, and the empty iron box they left at the scene was completely misleading.
He asked him to focus on the small box truck.
Now that I wasted more than an hour in the minivan, I gave the robber more than an hour to escape.
It is estimated that they have already left the imperial capital, and their transportation may be cars, minibuses, or even trucks...
"Do you still remember what the person who gave you money looks like?" Lin Zhiming asked the driver.
"I remember that he was quite tall, and his skin was a bit dark. Although he looked like a native of Long Guo, he always had a strange accent when he spoke, like a foreigner speaking in Long Guo dialect," the driver said.
"Oh?" Lin Zhiming raised his eyebrows and asked, "In other words, the other party may be of Chinese descent?"
"Yes, yes, he may be of Chinese descent! Because people from Longguo don't speak so bluntly in Mandarin." The driver nodded.
"This matches the characteristics of the robbers they mentioned before. Obviously, the robbers should all be foreigners. Even if they are discovered, the specific identity of the robbers cannot be determined in a short time. Moreover, foreign experts can be mobilized
If someone comes to the Imperial City to rob me of my things, it is obvious that the other party is unlikely to be a local force from the Dragon Kingdom. In other words, the other party may be an overseas organization. One of the overseas organizations that I have a problem with is the Tree of Life and the other is the UKC Alliance.
, but the Extremely Cold Ice Spring is of no use to these two organizations. It is impossible for them to take the risk to come to the imperial capital to steal my stalactites. Since it is unlikely to be them, who could it be?" Lin Zhiming frowned and thought.
With.
The next moment, a flash of light suddenly appeared in Lin Zhiming's mind.
"Since the other party dares to steal my stalactites, they must know the function of stalactites. Otherwise, it is impossible to take the risk of snatching an unknown thing. The stalactites come from the Protos tribe. Apart from me, the only one who knows the role of stalactites is Proto.
People from the S tribe, or people related to the Protos tribe... There is only one person in the world who may be related to the Protos tribe!"
Lin Zhiming's eyes suddenly became sharp.
He already had the answer in his mind as to who stole the stalactite.
At this moment, Lin Zhiming's men arrived one after another.
"Take this man for interrogation. Also, let him spell out a picture of his employer as much as possible." Lin Zhiming ordered his subordinates, then turned and left.
Not long after, Lin Zhiming met Dong Jian.
"Master, I heard someone said that there are no stalactites in the car?" Dong Jian asked.
"Well, we all fell into the trap. Maybe those empty iron boxes in the parking lot were used to lure us!" Lin Zhiming said.
"So that's it. Under the circumstances, we didn't have enough cool heads to judge whether those empty iron boxes were the ones used to hold stalactites. Their grasp of our mentality was very accurate!" said Dong Jian!
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"Yeah, but I already know who they are." Lin Zhiming said.
"You know? Who is it?" Dong Jian asked in surprise.
Lin Zhiming leaned close to Dong Jian's ear and whispered a few words.
Dong Jian's pupils shrank slightly, and then he said, "If they really stole your stalactites, then... it would be really difficult to get them back."
"Well!" Lin Zhiming nodded and said, "Actually, based on their relationship with us, if they ask us to borrow, it is not impossible to lend them a few stalactites, but they chose to rob them directly, which proves their concern for stalactites.
The demand is also huge, and it is certain that they know stalactites very well. It is possible that when we were collecting imperial green jade and rubies, they judged based on our actions that we wanted to make stalactites, and then they have been keeping an eye on them since then.
According to our progress, after we have produced all the stalactites, they will come back to reap the benefits! According to this inference, they are 100% the ones who stole our stalactites!"
"What you said makes sense. Otherwise, we have not leaked any information about stalactites to the outside world. There is no reason for them to know that we are making stalactites!" Dong Jian said.
"What I'm more curious about now is, why do they need stalactites?" Lin Zhiming said in a deep voice.