For the sake of prudence, Zhang Zi'an asked Sun Xiaomeng to send messages back to customers surnamed Qian and Li respectively, asking them in detail where the dog was lost. After a while, I received a reply from them.

After summarizing the information, the three people present summed up a rule, the dog loss incident occurred in Dongcheng District, the location is located near the family hospital of the university, the family home of the hospital and the family home of the state-owned enterprise, the family home like this is relatively old, the monitoring facilities are not perfect, there are many dead ends, the security guards are not very responsible, it is easy to be taken advantage of.

Among them, the customer surnamed Li claimed that although the surveillance did not capture the process of stealing the dog, he photographed a suspicious vehicle, and then sent a screenshot of the surveillance video.

It should not be a coincidence that these three dog throwing incidents either occurred in the early morning or in the evening, because the light in the early morning and evening is the darkest, and the clarity of the surveillance video can be imagined. The screenshot of the video sent by the customer surnamed Li is very blurry, and it can only be seen that it is an MPV with a side sliding door, and there is a crack in the door while driving, which is not completely closed, and there is no other indication that the car is related to the dog loss incident.

The customer surnamed Li complained in the message, saying that he went to the police station in the jurisdiction with the surveillance video to report the case, but the police refused to accept it and persuaded him to go home and look for it again, maybe he was lost.

Zhang Zian can also understand that there are too many things for the police at the end of the year, even if someone is missing, they can't file a case immediately, and generally speaking, it takes 24 hours to do it, not to mention the dog, and there is no evidence.

The surveillance camera was located at a high altitude and did not capture the face of the MPV driver, but it did capture the license plate, although it was also blurry.

Zhang Zi'an thought about it for a while and called Shengke - because today was New Year's Day, he was embarrassed to disturb Shengke's rest, so he called the landline of Shengke's office, and if no one answered, he would wait until the day after tomorrow.

After Zhang Zi'an briefly explained his intentions, Shengke asked him to send the pictures to the designated mailbox, and then wait for the call.

After a while, Shengke called back, saying that the people from the technical department had processed the picture and recognized the license plate, but unfortunately, after inquiry, the license plate was a deck, and the model did not match, in other words, it was a fake license plate, and the ownership of the MPV could not be ascertained.

Sheng Ke on the other side of the phone seems to be very busy, and from time to time his subordinates are asking him to deal with things, despite this, he still said that he would give a mention to the traffic police, so that they should pay attention to the relevant license plates and models, and state that this is not for Zhang Zi'an's face, but because the deck is also illegal.

Zhang Zi'an uses hands-free to make and receive calls, so that Ning Lan and Sun Xiaomeng can hear it. Ning Lan was certainly anxious to find the dog, but when she heard that Sheng Ke had to work overtime even on New Year's Day, she couldn't bear it, and gestured to say forget it.

After a succinct apology and thanks, he hung up.

Ning Lan sighed, "Forget it, I'd better look for it myself." Thank you, Store Manager Zhang, I am very grateful for your willingness to help me so much, so don't continue to disturb people's normal office for our business, after all, Captain Sheng should have a lot of more important things to deal with......"

She is a very reasonable person, and she did not mess around because Zhang Zian knew the captain of the criminal police.

Things have come to this point and they have encountered a dead knot, the other party is obviously prepared, well-prepared, and even the deck is used, even if Zhang Zi'an and Sun Xiaomeng help, they can't help.

Ning Lan looked at the time, got up and said, "Sister Xiaomeng, thank you, I'll go first, today is New Year's Day, you should have a good rest." I made an appointment with my classmates, they were waiting for me at the gate of Marina University, and we were going to go looking for dogs together today. ”

"Sorry didn't help. Sun Xiaomeng got up and sent her out.

Ning Lan thanked Zhang Zi'an again: "Thank you for your help, Store Manager Zhang, although Tuan Tuan is irreplaceable, if it really can't be found, I must go to you to buy another dog." ”

As soon as she said goodbye, Zhang Zi'an remembered that the bunch of elves at home were still waiting for breakfast, and quickly got up to say goodbye.

"You're welcome, then I'll go too. ”

Leaving Sun Xiaomeng's clinic, Ning Lan went to meet her classmates, and Zhang Zi'an went to Uncle Li's shop and returned to the pet store with a foam incubator.

While the elves were having breakfast, Zhang Zi'an turned on the computer at the cash register, logged in to the background of the official account, and edited a message group to send out: The Spring Festival is coming, and there have been repeated dog theft incidents in Dongcheng District recently.

After a while, more than one person left a message confirming that some neighbors had lost their dogs in the past few days, mainly near urban villages.

Others scolded the dog thief for losing his morality, and he would definitely bump into a ghost when he walked at night in the future.

A few minutes later, Xiaoxue also reposted this message on her Weibo page, urging everyone to pay attention to the safety of dogs.

Although the store is open for business today, there are few customers who come to the door, and they may be taking advantage of the rare three-day holiday to rest or hang relatives or something, and most of the nearby shops are not open.

Zhang Zi'an continued to read the Abyssinian cat breeding manual left by Cathy, but he couldn't calm down.

He simply put down his manual, got dressed again, grabbed his baseball and baseball gloves, and prepared to go to the green field for his daily game. The weather was not good, it was cloudy, and it was very cold, so he didn't call the elves to go out together.

Locking the roller shutter door, he led Zhan Tian out the back door.

The back door of the pet store is a secluded alley that leads to a green area on the right, surrounded by an old-fashioned residential area to be demolished. The houses in these old-fashioned residential areas are not well sealed, the winters are very cold, and there are not many residents living here, most of them are old, young, sick and disabled.

The green space was as empty and desolate as usual, and there was no half of it.

Zhang Zi'an played with Zhan Tian for a while, and obviously felt that Zhan Tian's nervous excitement was much stronger than when he first came, which was specifically reflected in the speed of response to his password and the efficiency of execution. This is not to say that the SWAT team will not train dogs, but the SWAT officers have more important things, and it is impossible to delay daily training and tasks for a dog.

Zhang Zi'an knew very well that it was unlikely that Zhan Tian would return to his peak state, as long as he could let it live normally.

"Zhan Tian, come back!"

He threw a baseball, fought back, fed it beef jerky as a reward, and so on. The force of his throws is getting bigger and bigger, and the landing point is constantly changing, but Zhan Tian can always complete the task well.

Whoosh –

He threw the baseball out again, this time not getting it right, and the baseball slammed into the fence and bounced off the alley at the entrance and exit of the green.

Zhan Tian excitedly chased the past, turned the corner, and disappeared into the alley.

Zhang Zi'an didn't care, and when Zhan Tian came back, he picked up his phone and glanced at the time. It's not early, it's almost time to go back, I haven't had a daily boxing class today, and I haven't played hide and seek with Xinghai.

However, after waiting for a while, Zhan Tian did not return.

The force he threw just now was not small, and the baseball flew a long distance, but even so, Zhan Tian should have come back, could it be that the baseball was stuck somewhere, and Zhan Tian couldn't hold it? This is also possible, sometimes the baseball he threw was stuck on the branch, and he had to bring a ladder to climb the tree to get it.

After waiting for a while, Zhan Tian still didn't come back.

Zhang Zixin seemed to have a bad premonition, and raised his voice and shouted: "Zhantian, come back!"

Usually, as long as he shouts, no matter whether Zhan Tian has a baseball in his mouth or not, he will return to him and wait for orders.

Before the words fell, Zhan Tian in the alley suddenly let out an enraged roar, and almost at the same time, the roar of a car engine was heard in the alley.

it!

Zhang Zi'an's scalp was numb, and 10,000 alpacas rushed through his heart, trampling his careful liver to a thousand holes.

It wouldn't have been so unfortunate for me, would it?

He ran to the entrance and exit of the green space, secretly regretting it as he ran, and wished to slap himself awake -- this old residential area to be demolished has no monitoring and no security, isn't it the favorite place for the dog gang to commit crimes? Why did he ignore this fact so carelessly? He was even embarrassed to remind others not to let the dog out of his sight, it was really a boat capsized in the gutter, and he was slapped in the face!

If Zhan Tian is taken away, when Fu Tao from the police dog nursing home asks about Zhan Tian's recent situation, what will he answer......

Zhang Zi'an's physical strength was much better than before, and he rushed out of the green space and into the alley in one go.

The black shadow flashed in front of him, and he almost collided with something, and he was so shocked that he was in a cold sweat, and he flashed to the side quickly, but when he looked at it, it turned out to be Zhan Tian.

"Zhan Tian, are you okay?" he was surprised and delighted, and said in his heart, could it be a false alarm?

Something wasn't quite right with Zhantian, and it barked anxiously at the other side of the alley, as if it saw some enemy.

Zhang Zi'an also looked over, only to see an MPV dragging smoke and dust and disappearing at the end of the alley, judging from the appearance, it seems to be the one in the video screenshot of the customer surnamed Li. He subconsciously wanted to take out his mobile phone and take a picture of the license plate, but after thinking about it, the license plate was a fake license plate, and it was useless to take a picture.

"It's okay, Zhan Tian, it's okay. ”

He hugged Zhan Tian and tried his best to calm its emotions.

If you look closely, the hair on Zhan Tian's neck seems to have been scraped by something against the direction of hair growth, and at first glance, the skin under the hair is also slightly red.

Zhan Tian angrily shouted a few times in the direction where the MPV disappeared, and then he was unwilling to stop screaming.

"Zhan Tian, let's go home first. ”

Zhang Zi'an was shocked and tied a leash to Zhan Tian, and just took two steps, but found that Zhan Tian seemed to be very interested in a soft mass on the ground, sniffing around, unwilling to leave.

Zhang Zi'an is very sure that there was no such thing on the ground when he came before, probably left by those dog gangs.

He picked it up and pinched it, it looked like a rice ball, and it looked like a donkey rolling or something like a pastry, it was soft and smelled a little fragrant, I don't know what it was made of.

The course of events was roughly sketched out in his mind.

The gang drove into the alley, slowing down at a low speed, or stopping the car but not turning off the engine, looking for a dog in the alley that could be targeted, and then they saw the battle sky running out of the green area and smoking a baseball. They thought that Zhan Tian was an ordinary German herd, and they also threw bait at it like an ordinary dog, this bait probably has an irresistible attraction to dogs, ordinary dogs will run over to pick up food when they smell the bait, and these people will take the opportunity to give out the glove dog, a set of quasi-children.

However, Zhan Tian is not an ordinary dog, although he was discharged from the army early, he is still a candidate for a former ace police dog, and he will not pick up and eat food thrown by strangers. Its vigilance has always been high, and the bait did not work. That group of people may be Li Lingzhi faint, unwilling to let go of this virtuous pastor with good blood and appearance, after all, it can be worth a lot of money, so he drove up and tried to take Zhan Tian away, but it was cleverly evaded, and barked loudly to attract Zhang Zi'an's attention.

The gang was a thief, and when they saw that the momentum was wrong, they immediately stepped on the accelerator and accelerated their escape. Zhang Zi'an, who rushed over, only ate the exhaust fumes of the car.

Zhang Zi'an felt a little pity, if it was Zhan Tian before he was injured by a flashbang, it is estimated that he would have pounced on it fiercely, and stopping this gang of dog thieves can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people.

"Let's go, Zhantian, let's go home. He put the bait in his pocket and led Zhan Tian to return to the pet store from the back door, but Zhan Tian stopped at the door, staring at the direction where the MPV disappeared. He dragged it several times, but Zhan Tian didn't move.

Zhang Zi'an frowned, squatted down and asked, "Zhantian, do you remember their smell?"

Zhan Tian turned his head and let out a loud snort, and then continued to stare into the distance.

He understood what Zhan Tian meant, it wanted to chase after him.

As a former ace police dog candidate, Zhan Tian must have received professional scent recognition training, and he must have graduated with extremely good grades, otherwise he would not have been selected into the extremely demanding SWAT force.

To be honest, Zhang Zi'an was also very angry with this group of people, and they all bullied him, but he was calmer and would not be dizzy because of this. He mainly considered two points, one was whether Zhan Tian could follow the smell to track the past, and the other was whether he could bring those people to justice after chasing them.

Especially the second point, since the other party is a gang, the number should be no less than three people, or even more, he and Zhan Tian are one person and one dog, and their strength is a little thin. Zhang Zi'an has a little attainment in Wing Chun, but he has too little actual combat experience, in case the other party has a murder weapon such as a fruit knife or a brick, he and Zhan Tian will be in danger - the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, he has not suffered actual losses, and he cannot take such a big risk on the spur of the moment.

It's not appropriate to ask Sheng Ke for help, after all, it's still uncertain whether Zhan Tian can track down the other party, Sheng Ke led people to mobilize the people to come over but pounced, and it was difficult to end the game.

If the old tea is shot, it will definitely be foolish, but if the old tea behaves too well in broad daylight, I am afraid it will cause trouble, so it is better not to.

In any case, it is necessary to decide as soon as possible, otherwise the smell left by the other party will soon dissipate.

Thinking of this, he asked Zhan Tian to wait at the door, and he leaned into the house and greeted, "Feimars, go out with me." ”

Feimas was lying on the side of the recliner and napping boredly, and it listened to Zhang Zi'an's solemn tone and immediately followed.

Facing the puzzled eyes of Fina and Old Cha, he didn't have time to explain, just said, "I'll come back later, and I'll say that lunch may be late today." ”

"Huh?" Fina just wanted to complain, but Zhang Zi'an had already closed the back door.

He took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Sun Xiaomeng, asking for Ning Lan's mobile phone number.

"Hey, is it Ning Lan? I'm Zhang Zi'an, the manager of Qiyuan Pet Shop. He dialed the phone.

"Ah, hello. Ning Lan was obviously a little surprised, "Store Manager Zhang, is there something wrong?

There was anticipation in her tone.

"No, but I may have found some clues, and you and your classmates are still looking for them near Binhai University?" Zhang Zi'an asked.

"Well, yes. ”

"How many are there?"

"One, two, three...... There are ten people plus me. She said, faintly hearing other people's voices through the megaphone.

There are really a lot of people, it seems that Ning Lan is very popular in the class and is quite popular - Zhang Zian estimates that most of the ten people are boys.

"Okay, you guys come over as soon as possible and meet at the intersection of Zhonghua Road. I saw the car just now. He said.

Ning Lan was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly said, "Okay, let's go over immediately!"

Hanging up the phone, Zhang Zi'an patted Zhan Tian, who was eager to try, "Zhan Tian, it's up to you." ”