(October 3) countdown to the 88th day

In the urban-rural junction south of City C, there is a farmhouse gathering area covering an area of nearly 1,000 acres, which integrates tourism, entertainment and leisure, business banquets and other functions, and has become the first choice for residents of City C for weekend vacations in recent years.

Before the planning policy of this farmhouse gathering area was officially introduced, Niu Ge obtained important information through special channels and spent less than 200,000 yuan to build two simple residences. As soon as the municipal government's planning policy was announced, the land price in this area skyrocketed, with the highest increase reaching 15 times. Brother Niu saw the opportunity to sell one of the residences and make a lot of profits, while the other residence was converted into a farmhouse and hired someone to take care of the business on his behalf.

After the residence in the Lotus Garden in the city was discovered by the police, Brother Niu finally escaped and sneaked back to this farmhouse overnight and hid in a dark room. This refuge is Brother Niu's last and most secret place in City C.

The police have issued a city-wide wanted warrant, but Brother Niu, who has completely exposed his identity, does not want to die in the world, he plans to make a last stand and take the initiative.

After the death of his wife, Brother Niu and his daughter, who is still in elementary school, lived in a villa area in City C and hired a nanny to take care of housework all year round. As a former police officer, Niu Ge knows very well that the villa area is already under police surveillance.

That night, he had just lurked near the villa area, and his subordinate Duan had just driven to the door of the villa area according to his instructions. Unsurprisingly, he also spotted a vehicle that appeared to be being watching the villa.

Duan Gang drove the car into the gate of the community, but the three police officers in the car did not take action. Brother Niu judged that the police did not intend to attack Duan Gang, but wanted to put a long line to catch him as a big fish. And this is precisely Brother Niu's opportunity.

In less than half an hour, Duan Gang drove out of the gate of the community slowly and turned right into a main road. One of the police officers continued to stay at the gate of the community, while the other two police officers drove their cars to slowly follow Duan Gang's vehicle.

Brother Niu had already explained to Duan Gang the route of travel after leaving the community. He drove a shortcut and guarded the intersection where the two cars were about to pass, and when Duan Gang's car and the police car passed through the intersection one after another, he slowly drove into the main road and followed the police car far behind.

Further 800 meters along the main road, there is an underpass tunnel. The tunnel is about 1.5 kilometers and the exit is an intersection. Turn right at the entrance of the underpass tunnel to enter a service road. There are three alleys on the right side of the auxiliary road where you can turn right, and about 500 meters along the auxiliary road, it is a commercial pedestrian street.

Niu Ge judged that there may be police vehicles guarding the exit of the tunnel, and it is very difficult for Duan Gang's car to get rid of tracking after passing through the tunnel. At this time, Brother Niu found another suspected police car through the rearview mirror. Looking closely, there was a familiar face in the car, which was none other than Cheng Zhiyuan, a police officer from the Castle Peak Police Station. Brother Niu was sure that Cheng Zhiyuan did not find out that he had been disguised, and he should have come to support and track Duan Gang's car. He kept his speed and followed unhurriedly behind the police car in front of him.

About 500 meters away from the tunnel entrance, two cars identical to Duan Gang's car turned into the main road from the street on the right, one in front of the other, and sandwiched Duan Gang's car in the middle.

The sudden change caused Cheng Zhiyuan's car to quickly overtake Brother Niu and join the back of the police car that was tracking in front. Brother Niu guessed correctly, Cheng Zhiyuan didn't find himself.

Duan Gang's car and the front car that rushed to support kept exchanging leading positions, and the last car kept changing lanes behind to block the view of the police car behind.

At about 150 meters from the mouth of the tunnel, Brother Niu deliberately used his mobile phone that might be in a listening state to issue a brief command, "Quickly pass through the tunnel!" After sending the instruction, Brother Niu turned off his mobile phone.

After receiving the order, Duan Gang understood and retreated from the front parking space to the rear parking space. The car in front of him accelerated into the underpass tunnel, and Duan Gang's car suddenly turned right into the auxiliary road on the right, and the car behind also entered the auxiliary road immediately, covering Duan Gang's car.

At the same time, a police car immediately drove into the underpass tunnel, and Cheng Zhiyuan's car followed closely behind Duan Gang's car and another car into the right side of the auxiliary road.

At the second alley on the right side of the auxiliary road, Duan Gang's car suddenly turned into the alley and accelerated forward. The car behind slowed down and slowly turned into the alley, intentionally or unintentionally blocking the view of the police car behind. Cheng Zhiyuan's car came to the entrance of the alley and turned in.

Brother Niu drove quickly into the third alley, and just when he reached the exit of the alley, Duan Gang had already parked the car at the exit of the second alley and walked quickly to the entrance of the third alley. Niu Ge took Duan Gang, quickly turned left into another main road, walked about 200 meters, and turned right again, completely getting rid of the tracking.

Almost at the same time, Cheng Zhiyuan found the abandoned Duan Gang's car, and called another police car to continue to follow the identical car behind Duan Gang, while he drove to search for Duan Gang.

After getting rid of the tracking, Brother Niu drove to a predetermined location, deliberately turned off the engine, and let Duan Gang get out of the car to check.

Duan just got out of the car and opened the hood to check for engine failure. Brother Niu also got out of the car immediately, came behind Duan Gang, took out a wooden stick, and hit Duan Gang's head hard. Duan Gang didn't have time to struggle and slipped to the ground. Brother Niu took out another dagger, inserted it into Duan Gang's lower body, and with a powerful turn, he cut off Duan Gang's male-root by root. Duan Gang was already out of breath. Brother Niu took off Duan Gang's shirt, took out a whip, and whipped it hard. He threw down a piece of A4 paper with a few lines printed on it—

Death Verdict

Sinner: Duan Gang

Crimes: Apathy, greed, **

Verdict: Combined punishment for three crimes, death penalty

Methods of execution: cane, flogging, palace punishment

Implementation time: October 3

Executor: Righteous Killer

Brother Niu quickly drove away from the scene and came to the river. He parked his car on the ramp down the river, took women's clothes, shoes, vanity cases and other items from his backpack and threw them indiscriminately on the back seat. He dropped the handbrake, closed the door, and slowly pushed the car down the ramp into the water.

Seeing that he was completely submerged in the river at the end, he took advantage of the night to sneak back to the farmhouse.