Chapter 106: Empty
The drawings were quickly brought back, and Nishikujo Ruri carefully compared them for a while, and confirmed: "It is a temporary sewer system built in 1923, and it is completely consistent with this map!"
She hurriedly went through the documentation and confirmed it even more - the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 was so badly damaged that the sewer system was almost completely destroyed, so the sewer was temporarily rebuilt in the city's reconstruction work, but it was simply dug shallower and smaller because of the urgency - at that time, millions of people were displaced, the plague was rampant, and there was no hurry, and soon the sewer system was eliminated, some of it was merged into the new sewer system in the future, and some of it was directly blocked and landfilled, and it became abandoned.
In other words, this sewer system is no longer used, it exists above the current sewer system, and ordinary people cannot find the entrance.
After Nishikujo Ruri was confirmed, he rolled up the drawings and said, "Kitagawa, let everyone prepare to go!"
Kitagawa Jiro hesitated for a moment and said earnestly: "Group leader, please think twice!"
Nishikujo raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Kitagawa Jiro bowed his head and said, "Group leader, please wait for the network department to track it down! ”
"You mean to track down the person who left this picture first?"
Kitagawa Jiro glanced up at her, lowered his head again, and said, "Yes, Kumitou! It's good if we go and can't find anyone, but what if it's a trap? After all, this news is coming from a suspicious source!"
Nishikujo Ruri groaned, she was a little excited after drinking, and she finally had a relevant clue - no matter how it came about, it was a clue after all, ten thousand times stronger than not knowing it - and she was indeed not calm enough, in case she rushed away and plunged headlong into the pile of explosives...... Thanks to Jiro Kitagawa for the reminder.
She glanced approvingly at Jiro Kitagawa: "You're right, but I still feel like I have to go." Whether it is a real clue provided to us by someone or a trick set up by the enemy, it is a trick that we must deal with, and only then can the case be advanced, but we must be more careful...... Beichuan, our pressure is already very high, and there can be no more kidnappings!"
After speaking, she looked at Kitagawa Jiro's chubby face and was still full of hesitation, and said softly: "The above is ready to transfer me away!"
She's going to transfer this case, although someone from above takes care of it, so as not to fall into a bottomless swamp. But on the other hand, I have to admit that I am a little disappointed in her ability, and even began to doubt it - I can't give the public a satisfactory explanation for so long, so it's better to go somewhere else to gild, and give this place to someone who can solve everyone's troubles, and give it to someone who has the ability.
She didn't know how many favors, exchanges, and factions were involved, but she didn't want to be disgraced anyway!
In the same way, there is also an opportunity in danger, and if she succeeds, this credit will be enough for her to move up the next level.
Kitagawa Jiro suddenly understood that time was running out, and he didn't have time to catch the hacker first, even if there was danger, he had to fight - they were the ones who shared the honor and disgrace with Nishikujo Ruri!
He stiffened his body and said loudly, "I understand! Then I suggest applying to my superiors for a special emergency attack unit." ”
Nishikujo Ruri was stunned for a moment, nodded slowly and said: "Those people are better equipped than us, and they are more professional than us in dealing with this kind of thing, but they are just ......"
It's just that if nothing is gained, the impact will be too great. The Special Assault Unit is directly under the National Police Agency, but stationed on the territory of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a professional unit that conducts anti-terrorist operations, with a total of 300 personnel, and is generally referred to as the SAT for short.
Nishikujo Ruri originally wanted to only use the people of the Nishikujo Group and the ordinary police officers of the nearby police station, and she had the authority to mobilize these people, but if she wanted SAT support, then she couldn't be the master, and she had to report to the top and communicate and coordinate with her superiors.
She was decisive by nature, and her mind quickly turned around between falling headlong into a trap, losing face, and taking great credit, and decisively said: "I report to my superiors, and you also take the people in the group to prepare!"
Then she took out her personal phone, dialed the number, waited for a moment, and then said in a soft voice, "I'm really sorry, Chief Ikeda, to disturb you so late...... Yes, Uncle Ikeda...... Thank you, my grandfather is in good health and went to play golf yesterday...... Uncle Ikeda, I would like to report to you on the current situation of the serial kidnapping case...... Yes, we have found a place with major suspicions, and we want to investigate it immediately, but there is a certain danger and we need the cooperation of the SAT...... Yes, yes, thank you, I'm waiting for your message!"
She cut off the call and directly dialed another number: "Hello, I'm Nishikujo Ruri of the special case, I'm looking for Your Excellency the Deputy Supervisor......"
There was also a rush outside the office door, and Kitagawa Jiro shouted loudly for everyone to check their guns, go to get body armor and helmets, and organize vehicles to be grouped.
Everything is going well, this case is currently a hot potato, and it has become an international case, there is a suspicion of terrorism, and the use of the SAT is not too much of a request, no matter which faction above, wants to get this matter done quickly, and there is no quarrel for long - before three o'clock in the night, Nishikujo Ruri sat in the tactical command car of the SAT.
The SAT did not come with all the members, after all, it was only a preventive investigation, they only came with a squad of more than 40 members, divided into four squads: assault, sniper support, technical support and command, with varying numbers.
In addition, Ruri Nishikujo also asked for the cooperation of the Sewer Bureau, and asked them to provide several employees who were familiar with the layout of the sewers on the Upper East Side, and discussed how to enter the abandoned sewers.
These employees got together, studied the map sent by the hacker and the sewer map in 1923 for a long time, and finally marked three points in the electronic map on the car, one of which explained slightly excitedly: "If you enter from these three points, you will advance towards the center together, and the enemy will have nowhere to escape...... As he spoke, he looked at the dense instruments and screens around him, just like the scene in a spy movie, and couldn't help but ask again, "Officer, who is this going to arrest?"
Nishikujo Ruri ignored him and asked rhetorically, "Can you dig in quickly?"
"Yes, not far from the ground. ”
The task of these people has been completed, and Nishikujo Ruri looked at the squad commander sent by SAT and asked, "Do you have any questions?"
The commander was polite and smiled: "No, Nishikujo Police Department, we will take care of everything." ”
Nishikujo Ruri said uneasily: "There may be an ambush, or there are hostages, and your people should be vigilant." ”
"Rest assured, we are professional. The squad commander smiled confidently, turned his head and sat down in front of the screen, instructing his men to take their positions. The SAT team planned to carry out blasting excavations from three points at the same time - in order to prevent the grass from startling the snakes, the method of searching the entrance was not adopted, and hundreds of people surrounded the search during the day, and it was difficult not to be discovered by the other party.
At the same time, because of the problem of intelligence sources, I did not choose to directly blast into the place marked on the map, so as to prevent me from plunging headlong into the barrel of explosives.
By the time the Nishi-Kujo Group had led the Upper East Police Department's officers to set up a quarantine area, and the few snipers were in place—eighty percent of them weren't needed, but they still had to—there was a muffled thunder in all three places at the same time, and the SAT soldiers had already surrounded the sand before the smoke cleared, and began to clean up the debris, dropping air detectors, probes, and self-propelled robots.
Ruri Nishikujo seemed to calmly look at the screens in the car and the heart rate display of each team member, but she only felt a slight sweat in her palms.
She didn't mind taking a risk and went down a little bit, and she was confident in her skills, but unfortunately the SAT commander didn't allow it - she hadn't been trained as a team, and she was more likely to go in and kill her own people than the enemy, and she didn't need the help of a layman like her.
The confidence of SAT commanders is not without reason, they are long-trained elites, meritorious anti-terrorist troops, and assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, pistols, tactical vests, tactical helmets, bulletproof shields and all kinds of modern equipment, individual soldiers are armed to the teeth, and there are advanced command systems, mobile self-organizing tactical communication networks, and real-time interaction between individual soldiers and individual soldiers, between individual soldiers and command vehicles, video, voice, positioning recognition, physical condition and other data - How could this not be able to defeat a group of gangsters who kidnapped old men and old ladies? No hostage is afraid, and SAT made a name for itself by successfully rescuing the hostages.
I'm afraid they're not down there!
Some of the ground straddles collapsed due to the blasting - the road surface in Tokyo has often collapsed, which has a lot to do with the haphazard repair of sewers over the years due to the rain - but after the three teams of SAT confirmed that the passage was in the correct position and that there were no anomalies or ambushes below, they began to enter, and the assault team began to investigate the center under the cover of the technical support team.
There was silence in the command car, except for the coarse and thin wheezing sound in the public channel, which brought a lot of pressure to everyone.
"Touch the platoon forward, don't be careless! There may be civilians below, and you are not allowed to fire first without an order! Repeat, you are not allowed to fire first without an order!"
"Group A received, everything is normal at the moment, nothing found!"
"Group B received, everything is normal at the moment, nothing found!"
"Group C received, currently ...... O group, there is a sound!"
The team commander zoomed in on the video footage of Group C, only to see that the video was constantly shaking slightly, and in front of the night vision device was a miserable green and purple channel, which was very short, far less tall and wide than the modern sewers, and the edge of the bulletproof shield occasionally popped out from under the video, making people look a little scary.
"Group C, report the situation!Team AB speed up!"
"Group C reported that there was just a hydroacoustic sound, but it is currently gone, and no moving objects have been observed. ”
Ruri Nishikujo said softly, "Could it be the echo of the two groups of AB stepping on the puddle?"
The team commander glanced at her but didn't answer, and instead asked, "Keep looking!" As soon as he finished speaking, another voice suddenly joined the call, "There is a splash on the ground at 10 o'clock!"
Suddenly, the picture shook even more violently, but it was only a dark green color in the night vision goggles, and there was no sign of human or animal activity at all.
Could it be a mouse? Nishikujo Ruri was puzzled when he noticed that two people in the video came out of the crowd with bulletproof shields and looked at the place where there was a splash just now.
It's just that in an instant, the two people who were cautiously searching flew back upside down as if they had been hit by a truck, and suddenly the picture shook violently, and the shouts were chaotic, "Where is the enemy?"
"No one!"
"At 10 o'clock, fire!"
Nishikujo Ruri Huo Ran got up, listening to the sound of gunfire in his ears, and there was only a miserable green on the picture in his eyes, and there was no one!