Chapter 64 — Clues to the Robbery Case
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The Urban Management Bureau had installed surveillance cameras on all the main streets, keeping each section under round-the-clock watch to monitor sanitation, traffic flow, and the like.
At the time, Qiu Lingshan had also thought of requesting footage from the traffic police, but unfortunately their recording equipment only activated on red lights, capturing nothing but violations, and remained switched off at all other times.
So Qiu Lingshan had been forced to give up, yet she never imagined Yang Huaijun would think of borrowing the urban management department's surveillance footage to crack the case.
Although it looked simple, it proved one thing: she had not been attentive enough! Matters that seemed irrelevant to the job often played an unexpectedly decisive role at critical moments.
With the footage in hand, everything became much easier, for the urban management's round-the-clock cameras had only recently been activated and were still in trial operation. Few people knew about them, so the kidnappers could not possibly have known of it.
In fact, they clearly did not. On the stretch under Zhang Xiaohang's responsibility, not long after the first car with the plate Song A74 passed, a second commercial van bearing the plate Song A74 drove through. That had to be the vehicle the robbers had ridden in!
What followed was a matter of following the trail, narrowing down the approximate area where the kidnappers' vehicle was located! It could only be approximate because the urban management's round-the-clock cameras were installed solely on downtown streets, with no need for them on remote roads, so the robbers' general whereabouts could only be judged from the final footage.
Even so, it was enough. Once the area had been narrowed to a certain extent, the search became much easier...
Zhong Yongliang had spent the whole day in fear and dread. He had never expected a transfer student who looked like a country bumpkin to be so fierce. After offending him yesterday and beating Zou Ruoming, one of the school's leading figures, that very morning, he had assumed the boy would meet a miserable end, only to find that Brother Black Panther, whom he himself had called in
He had assumed the boy would meet a miserable end, only to see Brother Black Panther, whom he had brought in himself, beaten to a pulp by him!
At this moment Zhong Yongliang finally understood what a difference in strength meant. Even with a gun in his hand, Brother Black Panther had been no match for Wei Zhao. What could he himself possibly do to such a man?
Still, he could not afford to look too cowardly in front of Zhang Naipao and Gao Fu. By now his hatred for Wei Zhao had sunk to the bone, yet so had his fear!
Ordinary methods would certainly never settle Wei Zhao. If he wanted to avenge his past humiliation, he would have to make other plans.
"Brother Liang, how come this Wei Zhao is so tough..." Gao Fu said with some displeasure. "But that Brother Black Panther is such a coward, isn't he? I thought he was really something, but he was hardly any better than we were yesterday!"
"Exactly. Fancy being so useless with a gun in his hand. If I were him, I'd have put a bullet in that punk Wei Zhao!" Zhang Naipao said indignantly.
Gao Fu and Zhang Naipao had never run with the underworld. They had only heard from Zhong Yongliang about how formidable Brother Black Panther was, and seeing him today, he seemed nothing special, so they did not find it particularly shocking.
The one who was truly shaken was Zhong Yongliang. Only he knew in his heart just how skilled Brother Black Panther was, and yet now he had suffered repeated losses at Wei Zhao's hands...
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