today's island

At seven o'clock, no explosion was found on Panshan Street. They waited for several minutes before they got a call from the Public Security Bureau, saying that the explosion had returned to Jianghe Street.

As soon as Sun Yan picked up the phone, before he finished asking, Lu Yuanzhe reached out and pressed the speakerphone, and immediately gave Lu Yuanzhe a blank look.

"In a sewer, there was a biogas explosion. Fortunately, the surrounding shops were not busy in the morning, and not many pedestrians noticed it. Only the road surface was affected." The police colleague on the other end of the phone briefly introduced.

"Is that thrown in before?" Sun Yan asked.

"I don't know, I'm still looking for witnesses." The colleague replied, "Don't come here now, I will inform you when I have news."

"Understood." Sun Yan hung up the phone and looked at Lu Yuanzhe dissatisfied, "I heard everything, what's your opinion?"

"No, I'd better go and see my convenience store surveillance." Lu Yuanzhe smiled. He just came here to inquire about the information, but he didn't have any clue.

"What's so strange about this?" Sun Yan glanced at him, "Just to lure us around."

"It's not that simple." Lu Yuanzhe didn't want to get entangled with him, so he returned to Cheng Mo after replying to him.

Wan Yi has arrived, and Cheng Mo is watching him investigate those young people who have paid in the supermarket.

Playing in reverse order, they saw the business peak in the second half of the night at around [-]:[-], with dozens of people coming in and out.

These people came from the KTV. In order to cooperate with the police, the KTV closed its business early. Usually, they can sing until 05 o'clock. Today, they started urging everyone to leave at 30:[-].

Halfway through, Wan Yi pressed pause, pointed to a chubby boy wearing a hat and mask and asked, "Isn't this guy a bit strange? Not many young people still pay in cash now, and he still has a backpack."

This person was wearing a gray down jacket and carrying a black canvas bag. Instead of buying Coke, he bought a chicken bun.

"Yeah." Cheng Mo nodded.

"I'll try to track it down." Wan Yi took a screenshot and sent it to other colleagues watching the surveillance.

Seeing Wan Yi's progress, Lu Yuanzhe greeted Sun Yan: "Sun Yan, I'll take someone to Jianghe Street to have a look, and I'll leave this to you."

"Didn't they let you find out before going?" Sun Yan scolded him disdainfully.

"Let me go and have a look. You are enough here." He shrugged and snapped his fingers to call Cheng Mo to follow.

Cheng Mo didn't ask anything, and immediately followed.

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Lu Yuanzhe didn't want to leave to avoid Sun Yan, but because the environment of this place is relatively uncomplicated, and he hasn't asked about the characteristics of the prisoner until now, probably no one really saw it clearly.

As for the investigation and monitoring, Wan Yi is enough, and it is useless for him and Cheng Mo to stay here, why not go and see why the prisoner made a special trip back to Jianghe Street.

As soon as he arrived at the scene of the crime on Jianghe Street, he found a bunch of policemen surrounding a trash can at the intersection.

"What's going on?" He leaned over and flashed his police ID.

"I found the perpetrator's backpack." The police colleague told him.

After all, there was a sewer can that turned the gun back, and they tended to put it away in advance, so they wanted to take the bomb-sniffing dog around and pick up the leaks.Unexpectedly, the bomb-sniffing dogs didn't go far, and stopped in front of a trash can. They dug out a black canvas bag from it, which was exactly the same as the one carried by the young man in the convenience store.

Hen Jian turned over the bag with gloves on, and just by turning it over, he could shake out a smell of gunpowder. No wonder the bomb search dogs could smell it in one go.

"Just throw away the bag?" Lu Yuanzhe was a little confused.

"Maybe carrying 24 bombs at a time is heavy and unsafe, and there are some in other backpacks?" Cheng Mo guessed, and sent Wan Yi the situation here, asking him to pass on to other investigation and monitoring colleagues, and find the right person up.

"It should be." Lu Yuanzhe nodded, "But where are the other bags? Are you going home to get them on the way?"

They immediately adjusted the nearby surveillance. According to the video, the prisoner left Panshan Street on foot before [-]:[-], and seemed to have taken a taxi elsewhere. The other end leaves.

The bag is now empty, but after confirming the search characteristics, it didn't take long for the surveillance cameras everywhere to find traces of the backpack prisoner.Following this bag, everyone figured out the prisoner's cross-dressing routine.

The prisoner was always wearing the same down jacket, gray on one side, blue on the other, and three different baseball caps. He changed clothes back and forth on Jianghe Street, attacked several shops along the way, evaded the police many times, and finally took a taxi to the city at around three o'clock. next stop.

Comparing the traffic monitoring on Jianghe Street and Panshan Street, they found the taxi the prisoner took, but it took a while to contact the driver.

After locking on to his figure, everyone realized that in the surveillance, he kept his head down, vacillating and stopping many times, and it seemed that he was not a habitual criminal who avoided surveillance.

Follow his route, throw the can into the sewer, and go straight to the intersection where he abandoned the backpack, which shows that everything is planned.

"He went to get a new bomb?" Lu Yuanzhe frowned as he watched the video sent by the map investigation team. He was in a hurry, as if he was rushing to the next stop.

Following the direction he left, they all turned their heads and glanced at the road behind them.

"Maybe take the subway, which is the fastest means of transportation." Cheng Mo said where Lu Yuanzhe's line of sight fell. There is a very obvious sign here. Walk 200 meters ahead to the subway. "He threw away his backpack , it’s very likely that you can’t pass the subway.”

"You won't blow up the subway?" The colleague was very nervous.

"This kind of homemade bomb can't pass the security check." Lu Yuanzhe comforted.

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At 07:30, Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo got on Metro Line 1 together.The surveillance coverage in the subway was wider, and the suspect was clearly photographed getting off at Yong'an Avenue Station, but he had already left.

Yong'an Avenue is the interchange station of Line 1 and Line 2. Not only that, but the ground is also the most prosperous commercial street in the island city, and it is within walking distance to the city center, which is really not to be neglected.

It was rush hour, and the subway was crowded with office workers, leaving little room for Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo to exchange cases.The two of them could be considered tall in Daocheng, but they were still squeezed so that they couldn't move at all. I am afraid that only people with a height of more than 1.9 meters have the right to look around the dense crowd here.

You can't talk about bombs in front of everyone, but Lu Yuanzhe couldn't bear to stand in silence for more than [-] minutes, so he could only talk to Cheng Mo frequently in a low voice: "It's a bit strange, I thought I could get around us Six or seven hours, he should be an expert, but when you find him, you can find that he is a little flustered."

"Yeah." Cheng Mo nodded, his smooth hair swaying in front of his eyes, "Especially in Panshan Street, he doesn't seem to have planned it as well as in Jianghe Street, places like convenience stores should be able to stay away, he It's not wise to just pay cash to avoid us."

"Besides, Panshan Street is not far from the subway station, so there's no need to make a special trip." Lu Yuanzhe is still familiar with the subway in Daocheng, "Maybe someone designed it for him, and he only stayed in Jianghe Street until now The things in the bag were used up, and as a result, there were more and more people in Jianghe Street, he really panicked, so he changed the place temporarily."

"It's possible." Cheng Mo agreed.

"Then it's not easy..." Lu Yuanzhe sighed softly, "If he had his own plan, and later changed part of it temporarily, wouldn't we not be able to understand his purpose even more?"

Before the two of them continued talking, they saw a light flickering in the crowd.

Cheng Mo was taken aback and didn't react for a while, but Lu Yuanzhe quickly understood, and the seriousness of talking about the case with Cheng Mo just faded away, and smiled at the girl who was avoiding his sight at the source of the flash: "Remember to turn off the sneak shot." Flash."

The crowd burst into laughter, and the girl who secretly took pictures lowered her head and waved her hands with her little friend: "I didn't take a picture, I didn't take a picture."

Lu Yuanzhe reluctantly turned his body to the side, blocking the girl's sneak shot.And Cheng Mo opened the backpack in his arms, took out a mask and put it on, then took out another one, and forced Lu Yuanzhe to put it on as well.

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Opposite Yong'an Avenue Station is the famous Sea Pedestrian Street in Daocheng. One end is the wide Daoxin Square and the other end is lined with office buildings. It is the most prosperous area in Daocheng.

At 08:30, the traffic jam here became a several-kilometer-long train, and the subway was also crowded, and the entire traffic entered a short period of paralysis.While Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo sat on the benches by the roadside eating steamed buns, looking at the walkway lined with tall buildings and crowded with pedestrians, they both felt very small.

Before the two of them arrived, they heard that the bomb-sniffing dogs at Yong'an subway station had found the prisoner, but a few minutes later, they received a call saying that they had caught the wrong person. On the side of his backpack, the man provided a complete alibi, and his height and shape did not match.

When they arrived at the station, the innocent passer-by had already been let go.Surveillance showed that the prisoner changed into a black coat and a camouflage backpack, and indeed exchanged a bomb for someone else's drink.

The monitoring failed to pinpoint the prisoner's whereabouts, so they took a short break for a few minutes while eating breakfast.

"To be honest, it's been a long time since we mobilized half of the island city for a collective search." Lu Yuanzhe said with emotion.

After all, it is the city center, the police dare not neglect, all road surveillance is followed by people, as long as the prisoner appears under any camera, he will be caught immediately.There were also people led by Sun Yan searching inside the unmonitored building, and even Su Xiaozhi came over, following the female colleagues of the criminal investigation team to investigate places that were inconvenient for boys to enter.

At first, everyone was full of confidence and wanted to take down the prisoner in one fell swoop within an hour or two when the traffic in the city center was paralyzed, but half an hour later, there was still nothing.

So what if you can’t sit on the subway and are blocked for several kilometers on the ground?In such a bustling city center, looking for a person who only has the characteristics of height and body shape, even if he stands still, is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

"He said it was a prank, but he didn't appreciate the crime scene; he said it was revenge, but he didn't specify a target." Lu Yuanzhe was still confused about the purpose of the prisoner while eating the buns, "He was already scared, and he didn't dare to go into the subway station himself. , why continue?"

"There may be some reason why he can't turn himself in. He didn't ask for it at all, it was more like being forced." Cheng Mo speculated.

Lu Yuanzhe agreed with this conjecture, but he really couldn't understand the circumstances under which he would be forced to do such a thing.Relatives and friends as hostages?Have you been pinched?

It would be fine if the criminals committed crimes for many days, after all, they left so many clues, and after investigating one by one, they would always find out their identities and start looking for them.But now they are faced with at least 24 bombings separated by an hour, and the time is too tight.

"Can you change your mind? If he still wants to commit crimes here, he has to change his outfit. It can be seen that his backpack can't fit his clothes. How will he change his outfit this time?" Lu Yuanzhe thought, time is running out now, and he has to start from Find shortcuts in details.

"Buy now? There are clothing stores everywhere here." Cheng Mo speculated, and quickly denied his opinion, "He doesn't look that rich."

The prisoner's clothes are all worn out. If he is really willing to spend a lot of money to commit crimes, he will probably buy a few new sets of equipment to avoid personal traces such as his hair.

"Where is it hidden? Is there a place here that is sparsely populated and will not be turned over for hours or even a day?" He asked Lu Yuanzhe, "For example, the utility room?"

"What do you think?" Lu Yuanzhe smiled, looking at the tall buildings opposite, "Everything is expensive here, and the utility room must be the most frugal and fully utilized utility room. There are no trash cans, and they are cleaned several times a day Woolen cloth."

This is the most prosperous place in the entire island city, even if you want to hide in any corner for a kiss, you must avoid being surrounded by people, let alone hide anything.

"The prisoner is so cautious, he dare not put it in a place where people might break in." He analyzed, then frowned, "Is there such a place?"