Chapter 123 Underground Market
After putting down the phone, Ma Tao said that he would take us to a place, and when we asked where it was, he said mysteriously that he would know. Ma Tao took off his police uniform, and after changing into civilian clothes, he took us to the entrance of the police station, where there were already many criminal policemen in civilian clothes, about 20 people.
After driving for dozens of minutes, we finally stopped in a very remote old neighborhood. Ma Tao asked us all to get out of the car, and after all the criminal police gathered, Ma Tao said that he would act according to the original plan, and immediately, all the criminal police ran away. Jiang Jun looked at the criminal police who ran away and asked Ma Tao if he was on any mission.
Ma Tao then told us that he had found a large underground trading market, which was very hidden, and the police searched for a long time to find it. This underground market was originally a garage, but the neighborhood weakened and the mall was abandoned, so a large number of people used the underground garage to conduct illegal transactions, including some goods that were prohibited by laws and regulations from private transactions, such as large quantities of snakes.
Snakes are a dangerous animal, but not all snakes are trafficked. According to the appraisal agency given by the appraisal agency, the snakes that Sun Xiang put in the village were not artificially bred snakes, and it was illegal to trade them on a large scale without a license, and it was on this basis that we started with the black market.
Ma Tao sent out to investigate the people in many ways, and finally uploaded back the news this morning, Ma Tao is very smart, he did not directly arrest the people in the underground trading market, so as not to startle the snake, in order to collect evidence in depth, Ma Tao is ready to take us to pretend to be a buyer to mix into the underground trading market.
Ma Tao walked us to the underground garage and introduced the operation to us. The police have taken control of the sellers and buyers of several trading markets and have obtained a lot of information about the trading markets from them. The trading market must be introduced by the market's regular customers before trading, so everyone is basically tight-lipped, and the police have struggled to find such a place.
There are already a lot of criminal police ambushes near the underground garage, and after we have mixed into the underground garage and investigated clearly, the criminal police will arrest them. There are many sellers in the underground market, and Ma Tao not only sent so many criminal policemen, but also more than 20 plainclothes criminal policemen who were ambushed nearby to prevent us from being in danger.
When we arrived, Ma Tao had already ordered the block to be cordoned off.
There are almost no people in the neighborhood, and the buildings around it are ready to be demolished. We walked for a long time, wandering around the alleys, and finally came to the front of an old shopping mall. When I looked up, the seven- and eight-storey shopping mall building had been demolished for a large part, and the outside of the mall was fenced by construction workers, and there was a sign on it that said "Demolition is dangerous, please do not approach".
Jiang Jun looked at the crumbling building and sneered: "I'm really not afraid of death, in order to make money, don't die." ”
"The building isn't that easy to fall down, let's go down." Ma Tao said: "We should have been in their sight, everyone be careful." ”
After Ma Tao finished speaking, he led us to stride forward, and we found the entrance to the underground garage, and we had just arrived here when several people walked towards us. I held Xu Yi's hand, if there was danger, I could still protect her, Ma Tao didn't ask Xu Yi not to come, he must have made all the preparations.
A few people who came asked who Ma Tao was, and Ma Tao said a name we didn't know, and the other party nodded and let us in. The eyes of those people kept glancing at the few of us, but in the end they didn't say anything. There was still a short distance to the underground garage, which had long been deserted, so there were no lights.
We didn't dare to speak too loudly, because Jiang Jun's gentle cough would echo in the garage for a long time. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the other party, we pretend to take a natural step forward. We were a group of four, and three pairs of leather shoes were on the ground, and the sound reverberated rhythmically.
After walking into the garage for a while, we could barely see clearly, and Ma Tao stopped with us. Jiang Jun whispered to Ma Tao that this place was weird, and it would be dangerous for him to bring Xu Yi in. Ma Tao shook his head and replied in the same soft voice that he had investigated in detail, and although this trading market was large, it was only an illegal transaction, and it did not involve crimes of the nature of the underworld.
Ma Tao reassured us, and he also told us that the criminals guarding outside the mall should have all been controlled by the police. As he spoke, a beam of light struck us, and we immediately became vigilant. The light source was far away from us, and with it the sound of footsteps.
The other party shouted at us and told us to pass.
Ma Tao and Jiang Jun walked in front and protected us behind. Although Ma Tao said that there would be no danger, his hand was naturally placed on his waist, ready to pull out his gun at any time. After walking in, we finally saw the appearance of the man, a man in his forties, he was very short, and his legs were lame.
The man blamed Ma Tao and told him not to bring so many people next time. Ma Tao pretended to laugh and asked him to take him to the transaction quickly. We followed the man for a while, and the underground garage was also very large, and since there was no light, several of us were very careful.
Slowly, we heard the sound of people talking, and as we walked forward, the louder it became, and finally, we saw the light source. On the ground of a parking lot, there are at least dozens of flashlights, and there are many people sitting next to the flashlights, and there are quite a few people standing in front of them, as if they are talking about something.
As soon as we came, everyone stopped talking and stared at us nervously. The person who led the way smiled at everyone: "Don't be nervous, your own people." When the leader said this, everyone was relieved, and the discussion started again, and I listened carefully, everyone was bargaining, and the goods they traded were all prohibited by law.
Ma Tao told us on the road that in order not to make the other party vigilant, he did not directly tell the other party that we were here to see snakes, but casually said other illegal goods. Soon, the leader found a seller, who was very polite to us and took us to his stall.
It was said to be a stall, but it was actually just a stool, and there was nothing in front of him. Ma Tao was puzzled and asked him if the goods were not ready. I looked around and there were no goods in front of everyone, so it was supposed to be a place to talk, not a place to trade money and goods.
Sure enough, the seller explained to us that he would only take us to see the goods if we were sure that we were going to buy them. Ma Tao pretended to bargain with him a few times, and then decided to come down, the seller said that he would take him to see the goods, Ma Tao told him not to worry, saying that he also wanted to talk to other sellers and buy something else.
It seems that Ma Tao is not the first person to do this, and the seller did not suspect anything, but also expressed understanding and asked him to hurry up.
So Ma Tao took us around the area openly, and the sound of bargaining continued. Ma Tao found the person who led the way and said that he wanted to buy something more. The person who led the way was naturally happy and asked Ma Tao what he wanted to buy.
"Snakes." When these words were spoken, the entire underground market was silent, and everyone stared at us. My heart sank, worried about what they had discovered, and I noticed that Ma Tao's hand was on his waist again.
The passer-by gave us a strange look and asked, "Snakes can be bought at the regular trading market." ”
Ma Tao pretended to be calm: "The regular trading market can't buy the snake we want to buy." "This is the truth, Ma Tao has sent people to find the regular trading market, where all the snakes sold are artificially bred for human consumption.
The leader thought for a long time, and then asked, "Do you still dare to buy snakes now?" ”
"Why don't you dare?" Ma Tao said with a smile.
The leader sighed and said that the police were recently investigating people who bought and sold non-captive-bred snakes because of a connection to a murder. Ma Tao and we were very surprised, we didn't expect these people to be so well-informed.