Chapter 83. Case 14: Late night tailgating

At first, I thought Hu Zongren was joking, this is not a police movie, where is there so much tracking. Still, I subconsciously looked behind me in the rearview mirror. Hu Zongren turned his head, looked at the back of the car and said, this car has been following us since we got on the highway, and when we entered the gas station, the other party was also waiting at the edge of the service area, and he followed as soon as we left.

The highway is a one-way street, everyone walks in one direction, and why should I be allowed to refuel and others are not allowed to rest in the service area. So I said to Hu Zongren, are you mistaken, we don't know each other here, how can someone follow you, besides, why are you and me following you? Hu Zongren shook his head and said, absolutely yes, it's the white van. Then Hu Zongren said to me, if you want to prove it, it's very simple, let's slow down a little bit, you can see if it's going to overtake or slow down with us.

Although I still have some doubts, Hu Zongren and I are good buddies who know each other well, so I think even if his intuition is wrong, then it's a good thing for us to be careful. So I followed what Hu Zongren said, and gradually slowed down the car, but it didn't seem very deliberate, because if someone was really following us, it would be easy for the other party to notice. Then I looked at the car behind me from the rearview mirror. Although it was night, but it was not to the extent of late night, so the number of cars on the highway was not very small, but most of the vehicles that were blocked by me usually played a left turn signal, overtaking from my side, my speed was only about 70, after a few cars whizzed around me, I saw a van-like vehicle from the shape of the lights began to follow me far behind, because it was night, there were no street lights on the highway, so I could not distinguish the color of the body.

Hu Zongren said, it's the car, did you see it? I nodded, and it seemed that Hu Zongren's sense of self-defense was stronger than mine. I asked Hu Zongren, we haven't offended anyone recently, who will follow us? Hu Zongren said Then how do I know Lu Dao, Bacheng is those old monkeys of the Xuanyuan Society, after all, the land we stepped on this time is in Sichuan Province, and it seems reasonable for people to send people to follow them. I said that it was easy to say, wasn't this business brought by them? Hu Zongren didn't speak, but sank his body slightly, and then used the cushion of the co-pilot's seat to cover most of his face and body, and looked secretly.

Hu Zongren said, you are slowly speeding up now, looking at the road. So I started to press the accelerator slightly, because it was a manual car, so when changing gears, the car trembled slightly because of the speed, but soon I raised the speed to about 110. I was obsessed with road trips with a few riders for a while, and road trips were often like driving a train, one car followed another, and when told to be on the road, novice drivers generally didn't make it to the end of the fleet. Because when the speed of the first car is about 70 miles, the tail car has to wait until about 90 miles to not get out of the line, which is a strange phenomenon, so I still don't understand what is going on. So when I was at 110, if the van behind me was really following us, he would have to be at least 120 to avoid being thrown off. When the car turned a corner, and then entered a tunnel about 2000 meters long, I followed the yellow light in the tunnel to look at the rearview mirror again, as Hu Zongren said, a white van is speeding up to follow us, about 200 meters away from the position of the rear of my car, but because the highway, especially the reference in the tunnel is relatively single, I can still see his trajectory very clearly, until this time I was sure that this car is really tracking us.

Hu Zongren said, thinking about it carefully, it seems that when we went down the mountain from Master Deng and their village to Pengnanchang, and were about to find a way back, the car stopped at that intersection. I said I don't remember anyway, but you say that it seems that this guy has been following us since Pengnan, why does he want to follow us, is he spying on us? Hu Zongren said how do I know Lu Dao, I just saw the car parked in the service area when I was at the gas station just now, and no one got out of the car, and I didn't go to refuel, you said that if you are tired of driving and resting, what is the reason for us to go, he immediately followed.

I didn't say anything and continued to drive. Hu Zongren said, you change to the traffic lane now, then slow down a little bit and try again. I did, and as expected, the van was still following us, and he could spot us even if we slowed down. Always follow me at a distance of about 200 meters. I looked at the road sign on the highway and found that there was a toll station a few kilometers away that could go down, so I said to Hu Zongren, let's do it, when I arrived at the ramp of this toll station, I turned on a double flashing light, pretending to be unable to find the road and stopped on the triangular sandwich road, which was a fork in the road, if he wasn't following us, at least he would choose a road, either continue to drive or get off the road, no matter which way he goes, let's just change the way to get rid of him. Hu Zongren nodded and said, You are so smart, you have eaten brain platinum recently.

I didn't have time to talk to him, so I continued to keep this pace until I reached the ramp where I could get off, I pretended to be unable to find the way, turned on my double flashing lights, and slowly drove to the triangle between the ramp and the highway, and then I continued to look at the van in the rearview mirror, and soon he noticed that I had stopped, and then made a move that neither Hu Zongren nor I expected. Instead of continuing off the highway or getting off the road, he slowed down far away, then leaned into the emergency lane, turned off his lights, and stopped.

As a driver, I know what kind of consequences are easy to cause if you don't turn on the lights on the highway at night, but from my point of view, the van is parked in an open place on a curve, which means that if there is a car coming from behind, you will be able to see the van from a long distance, and the color of the van is white, as long as the other driver is on the lights, it is generally very easy to identify. I asked Hu Zongren what to do now, this guy stopped his car, and it was clear that he was going to follow us. Now I'm completely sure that this person is stalking, but I don't know what to do with it.

Hu Zongren turned his head and said to me, you give me a cigarette. I handed it to him and asked him what kind of cigarette are you smoking at this time, Hu Zongren lit it, did not answer me, but opened the car door at once, and walked towards the van while smoking. So I have been saying that Hu Zongren is a crazy man, he can still swagger on this highway, I pressed the window and shouted at him a few times, he didn't agree to me, I secretly scolded in my heart, re-ignited the car, according to the refraction of the curve lights I calculated the position of the car that was about to appear behind, after confirming the safety, I hung up the reverse gear, and directly reversed the car to the van, after all, it was four wheels, although it was thrilling, but I still rushed to the van before Hu Zongren.

Obviously, the driver of the van didn't expect that we had spotted him, and when he was about to set the car on fire and escape, I had blocked his way, and I had already turned on the lights and flashed double-flashing, so it was relatively safe, so I jumped out of the car and rushed to the van to pull the door of the cab.

This action was very dangerous, I knew it, because I was less than three feet behind me, which was the driving lane, and cars began to whizz past me, and I was a very afraid of death, so I was still hairy at the time. Through the window I could see that the driver was a man with a woolen hat, about the same age as us, he saw me pull the door, so he immediately locked the door from the inside, and then leaned over to lock the other side of the door, and then looked at me through the window in the car, and soon he found that Hu Zongren also rushed over like a hooligan, so he began to panic a little, took out the phone and started dialing.

Hu Zongren walked up to me and said, why don't you get in the car and arrest this guy? I said he locked the door. Hu Zongren pushed me aside, then leaned his face to the window, slapped it vigorously a few times, showed a false smile, and then made a gesture to trouble you to open the window. Probably because the phone was not connected, the man put the phone aside, then rolled down the window about three fingers wide, and then said to Hu Zongren lying on the window, who are you and what do you want to do. Hu Zongren smiled and said, We should ask you this sentence, right, you have been following us from the beginning, who sent you?

When Hu Zongren asked, I went around to the front of the car and wrote down the license plate number of the car, which started with Chongqing A, which means that it is a local vehicle in Chongqing and belongs to the main urban area. The man continued to pretend to be stupid with Hu Zongren, and he shouted loudly, you guys get out of the way, or I'll call the police! Hu Zongren shouted into the car window, you still have to call the police, you report, I am here to watch you report! Despite Hu Zongren's words, the man still didn't pick up the phone, and judging from the expression on his face, he seemed to be a little flustered.

I saw that the man had no intention of letting go or opening the door, and I could not tolerate this kind of stalking at night, because it meant that someone was watching us in the dark, which made me feel terrible just thinking about it, and since I had caught the stalker, I couldn't say anything and let him go. So I opened the trunk of my car, took out the small fire extinguisher that the vehicle management was equipped with from the tool box, shouted to Hu Zongren, and then threw it to him and asked him to continue. Hu Zongren immediately understood what I meant, he took the fire extinguisher in his hand and knocked on the window of the car a few times, and asked the man inside, "Can you open the door?"

The man remained still. Hu Zongren said, very good, unplugged the safety bolt, first sprayed at the front windshield of the van, and then reached out and broke the windshield wiper on the windshield. I knew what he meant, he was trying to prevent this guy from suddenly bumping into him directly, so he blurred his vision first. Hu Zongren walked to the window again with a fire extinguisher, the man's expression looked a little panicked, it was obvious that he didn't expect Hu Zongren to be an outlaw at all, he shouted loudly, you... What the hell are you going to do!

As soon as the words fell, Hu Zongren slammed the base of the fire extinguisher against the glass on the side of the cab.