Chapter 23: Hidden escape routes in the maze
"That's it." The leader of a small group of armed men said.
Sun Ming looked at the electromagnetic door that had been damaged and asked, "Where does it lead?" ”
"Team leader, behind this is the passage of the residential area of the mall, which can lead to the underground parking lot." The leader of the armed men continued.
"Open it directly."
Sun Ming gently pressed the frame on the right side with his white-gloved hand, the glasses glowed with a faint green light, and the team members also used firearms to break the electromagnetic lock, but after opening the door, they were not in a hurry to enter, but gave up their places.
Sun Ming lowered his head and walked in slowly, through his glasses, all the scenes in his field of vision were magnified by a certain multiple, and some small details became more obvious.
His pupils dilated slightly, and all kinds of inconspicuous traces gradually put together into obvious patterns in his mind.
There are footprints, dense streaks swept by a broom, and possibly traces of small animals such as mice.
The most important thing is, of course, the footprints, and he quickly locked on the latest line of footprints, all the way down to the bottom. He followed the footprints, against the wall, and leaned down.
"Don't go in the middle." He motioned to the team members.
In his field of vision, a new footprint belonging to a man appeared a little more often, and there were different directions, obviously back and forth many times.
Sun Ming pulled his collar and said to report the situation: "Command center, this is the tracking team Sun Ming, the robber is likely to have stepped on the point in advance, and there are repeated footprints of him when he escaped from the stairs, which may be premeditated." ”
With that, he waved his hand forward: "Let's go a little faster."
Following the footprints all the way to the emergency passage leading to the parking lot, the light was weaker, but with the help of glasses, the details in Sun Ming's vision were still clear.
It was only after walking for a long time under the magnified field of view that his head began to feel a little dizzy.
The scene of the passage surprised him a little, the footprints were even more messy than before, and even covered up the footprints that had been followed all the way before. He frowned, and the details in his mind began to be continuously combined and disassembled, and finally gradually peeled off the footprints that he had tracked before, pointing deeper into the place.
"Let's go."
Until he came to the fire window around the corner, he squatted down, took a closer look, and took out a bottle of fluorescent powder from his clothes and sprinkled it evenly on the ground, and the team members behind him did not dare to come forward.
With the help of phosphor, the details in the field of vision were more obvious, but the result made him frown, and there was a trace of a pair of high heels, and it came from other directions, and then he may have walked back in the same direction as the robbers. The yardage does not match Su Yue's, and in addition, the footprints that originally belonged to Su Yue have disappeared.
He reported upwards again: "Command center, Sun Ming reported that there may be more than one robber, there are new high-heeled shoe prints, and Su Yue's footprints have disappeared, and the scene is a little messy, but I don't feel that there are more fierce traces of resistance, please locate the scene and send someone to do further on-site investigation." ”
This is Lu Yuansheng's early preparation, he first wore high heels and left traces in advance, so as to form traces of a "third person", these misinformation can effectively slow down the progress of the security department's investigation and waste their manpower.
Sun Ming stood up and emphasized to his teammates behind him: "Walk against the wall and bypass this piece." ”
Taking a big stride over the tracks, he continued to follow the suspect's footprints and new high-heeled shoe prints, turning the corner and coming to the elevator room, where the high-heeled shoe prints on the ground had been in and out of the elevator, and the suspect's footprints he suspected were still moving forward.
He took off his glasses and looked at the elevator floor, -2, which is the real floor, Sun Ming suspected that the suspects were covering up the real floor where the owner of the high-heeled shoes had gone. He reported the news to the command center, and at the same time had the elevator cordoned off and the surveillance footage was retrieved.
Another piece of bad news soon came from the headset: all the residential surveillance had been replaced.
He wanted to send people to investigate the residential area, but there were not enough manpower, and the command center said that the police had been dispatched to help maintain order at the scene, and a group of members of the Ministry of Security could soon be released to search the residential area.
After thinking about it again, Sun Ming left one of the team members in the elevator room, and then led the others to continue to track the footprints of the kidnappers, he believed that as long as all the exits were controlled, it was impossible for the accomplices in the residential building to escape, and the suspects who might use the underground garage to escape were more important at this moment.
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While Sun Ming was busy in the garage, the owner of the footprints was already preparing to start the final battle with the hot pot, and the original table full of ingredients was now only three or two plates of side dishes and seafood that needed to be cooked for a longer time.
Lu Yuansheng rested a little first, he didn't dare to eat too much. I opened my phone and looked at it again, there was no new news, and the time was only five o'clock, only about twenty minutes had passed, and I was able to eat so fast thanks to the help of Miss Su on the other side.
In order to stay a little longer, Lu Yuansheng called out to Su Yue, who still wanted to continue the meal, and said, "Take a break, why do you eat so fast, it's only five o'clock." ”
Su Yue had no choice but to withdraw her hand and replied, "I thought we were in a hurry." ”
Then she lowered her voice: "Moreover, there is no mobile phone, and I have an expressionless face at you, and you don't speak, what else can I do but eat." ”
Lu Yuansheng thought about it and decided to talk to her a little, but there were some topics that could not be said in this store, so he turned off the network on his mobile phone, opened the memo, and first typed in a line of words: "What do you want to say?" ”
After typing, Lu Yuansheng pushed the phone from the desktop to Su Yue's side, and the other party also understood at once, and replied on the screen: "Was my father invited you over?" ”
"I don't give out employer information."
"Who is trying to get me?"
"The Ministry of Security, and maybe someone else."
Seeing the words "Ministry of Security", Su Yue was obviously a little stunned, this is the highest level of law enforcement agency, it is particularly mysterious, every time it appears in the news, it means that something big has happened.
"Why?"
"I don't know."
"Can you really escape?"
"As long as you're obedient."
"Do they have superpowers like you over there?"
Lu Yuansheng didn't want to answer this question, so he pressed back to delete the question, and then pushed the phone back in front of the other party.
Su Yue watched the question she had just typed into a blank space, so she had to type something else: "Is there anything I can know?" ”
"I'm only responsible for getting you out."
"What about after you get out?"
"Someone else will come to meet you."
"Who?"
"I don't know."
"How are we going to get out then?"
"Take the subway, I'll lure the garrison away, and you can go in later."
Although Su Yue was very happy to talk to this not simple kidnapper, there were few useful words in the other party's words.
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When Lu Yuansheng and Su Yue asked and answered, the commissioner of the countermeasures bureau was also in place.
Outside the mall, a medium-sized car is parked, and there is an inconspicuous hole in the trunk behind the car, and some yellow bees climb out of it from time to time and fly around.
In the back seat of the car is a woman wearing a dark, wide-sleeved Hanfu, who is an A-class team supported by the Countermeasures Bureau, and the beekeeper "Queen Bee" codenamed "Sucrose" in this operation. A three-dimensional map of the mall and its surroundings floated on a flat screen in front of it, with an unknown number of dots moving, each representing a scout bee. Not only can the scout bees search for mission targets, but they can also build a three-dimensional map of the scout environment with the tiny instruments they carry.
The driver in the car was a huge man, wearing a hood and a robe, which made people feel hot to look at, and the co-pilot also placed a large box like a coffin. He is another member of this A-class team, the "living dead" codenamed "Coffee" in this operation.
A small wasp flew in from the half-open window, and it buzzed up and down next to Sucrose's ear, as if to express something, Sucrose nodded as if he understood, so he picked up the headset and said, "Command center, this is Sucrose, the commissioner of the countermeasures bureau, we found some of the target's clothes at the nearest bus stop." ”
The driver's fingers gripping the steering wheel were gently tapping the steering wheel, and his fingers were a little special, as if they were wrapped in a layer of dry dead skin, and a dry dark face was buried under the hood. His hoarse voice rang out in the car and asked, "Will there be a fight?" ”
"Who knows, the little ones I brought in the car this time are harmless, on a hot day, it's best not to fight, and I will be killed by a bunch of little bees." Sucrose cut her hair, and in addition to revealing a snow-white forearm in the wide sleeves, some small black figures were revealed from time to time.
"Besides, didn't the director tell us that this time we should cause less trouble? Just let the guys from the Ministry of Security do it themselves. ”
With that, Sucrose stretched, her movements were a little big, and there were a few black hornets the size of thumbs in her clothes that were startled, and flew out of their cuffs to check on the situation twice, and then quickly flew back again.
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Lu Yuansheng's arrangement of measures has once again taken effect, and the area that needs to be considered by the Ministry of Security has been expanded again.
At this time, Sun Ming, who was searching in the garage to no avail, and was about to transfer to the residential area for a search, turned blue after hearing the new news from the countermeasures bureau. Because more than thirty minutes have passed since the incident, he has achieved nothing, but others have found obvious traces of the target outside the mall, what does this mean? It means that the other party may have run away a long time ago.
But he calmed down a little and suddenly thought of a possibility: "Change your clothes!" ”
It is possible that Su Yue took the initiative to change her clothes halfway and then returned to the residential area to hide, but it is not ruled out that she was taken to the residential area by a third person, just like the previous inference, Su Yue's clothes were taken outside the mall by the kidnappers for confusion.
Either way, it clearly points to residential areas.
It's just that...... There are a total of thirty-five floors in the residential area, including the shopping mall area and the basement, a total of forty-two floors, looking at so many buttons in the elevator, Sun Ming felt sad for a while.
He held his hand on the door to prevent the elevator from closing, and at the same time close to the elevator button to observe carefully, but even after magnification, it was still a little unclear, so he took out another bottle of spray and sprayed it slowly on the floor key. Turning up the magnification of his glasses a little more, he finally saw the residual lipid and fingerprint traces on the buttons.
"The recent traces should be on the seventh floor, the eleventh floor, the thirteenth floor, the seventeenth floor, and the twenty-third floor." Sun Ming silently noted down the possible floors, but then he could only go to the corresponding floors to search carefully.
However, if you want to trace Su Yue's traces just by the footprints of high heels, it is a little underestimating Lu Yuansheng and Xiaoyuan's plan. Lu Yuansheng had already disguised the corresponding footprints, which was enough to waste a lot of their time.
Lu Yuansheng and Su Yue were full of food and drink, look at the time, five o'clock, it's almost time to go.
The two walked out of the hot pot restaurant, Su Yue affectionately hugged Lu Yuansheng's hand, at this time the number of people in the mall slowly increased, in addition, Lu Yuansheng also found a special change, there were a few more little wasps in the sky above the mall and in some hidden places.
"It turned out to be the beekeeper who came." Lu Yuansheng recognized the belonging of these little wasps.
He was not in a hurry to leave, but returned to the hot pot restaurant and borrowed a few tissues from the waitress.
Su Yue was a little curious, but Lu Yuansheng just smiled slightly, didn't explain, just took the other party to pretend to wander around the mall, and slowly walked towards the subway while observing the changes in the mall.
It's just that there is a curious little yellow hornet swaying towards them, and Lu Yuansheng deliberately slowed down his pace and waited for it.
At the moment when the little wasp approached, Lu Yuansheng's three fingers pinched the tissue and swiped through the air, quickly catching the little wasp, even Su Yue, who was beside him, didn't see his movements clearly.
Lu Yuansheng carefully wrapped the little wasp, this was their next talisman, and it needed to be kept alive, which would reduce the possibility of encountering other tracking bees.
Each wasp is connected by pheromones and has an ultra-miniature locator that triggers an alarm and a siege from other wasps if it dies.
Lu Yuansheng made a "shh
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Sun Ming still had his face on his shoulder, and appeared in front of the elevator entrance of the residents on the fifth floor of the mall, and on the ground in front of him, a small wasp was squirming to explore the floor, and through his glasses, he could also see a series of obvious high-heeled shoe prints.
Obviously, he'd been tricked for a long time, and if it weren't for the fact that the Bureau of Countermeasures had backed him up with a scout bee, he might still be wandering around the floors with the rest of the team.
I heard that there was a serious mistake in a major project, and now we are trying to find a way to remedy it.
If there is no further result, he will have to give up his position as the leader of the second group.
Sun Ming could only hope that the little wasp in front of him would be able to discover something new.
It's just that it backfired, and the little hornet finally lost the trace of the target in the mall, and Sun Ming knew that the footprints of the targets were no longer noticeable. The subjects are cunning and don't know how to hide their scent, the only thing they can track is the dust stuck to the soles of their feet in the basement.
He sighed, and used the neural network to send a message: "The tracking has failed again, the target should be to enter the mall, request to concentrate all forces on the entrances and exits of the mall, and increase the reconnaissance force in the mall, you must be careful of the other party's diversion from the mountain." ”
Sun Ming looked at the time again, at 5:35, as usual, maybe he had already gotten off work.
"Off work?!"
He had a flash of inspiration again, and the flow of people in the mall will inevitably increase significantly after work, which is likely to be the biggest opportunity for the other party to escape from the mall.
In particular, the most densely populated area is the shopping mall subway station.
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Sun Ming finally guessed correctly this time, but Lu Yuansheng had already led Su Yue to the snack street in front of the subway station.
At this time, the flow of people has gradually increased, people coming home from the subway in the mall after work, people coming and going to the mall to play after work, so that the business of the snack street has become prosperous, and there are even long queues in front of several popular snack bars on the not wide road.
Lu Yuansheng found a corner with few people, took out a card and whispered: "Do you remember what I said before, I'll go in first in a while, and you can follow later." This is an old-fashioned bus card, swipe this to enter the station, do not carry out face verification, the face system has been modified in this time period, you can rest assured. After entering the station, find the fastest subway to board, and I will arrive at it later. ”
Su Yue took the bus card and said with some concern: "Are you sure?" ”
Lu Yuansheng didn't answer, he took off Su Yue's hat, turned it back to its original side, and at the same time arranged Su Yue's hair, so that a strand of hair naturally hung down on her temples, covering her cheeks, and adjusted her bangs to make her face show as little as possible. Su Yue's final appearance looked a little cute, especially the slightly red cheeks.
Lu Yuansheng put on the mask and hat at the beginning, and this iconic appearance is believed to be particularly recognizable in the eyes of some people.
He finally said, "Don't worry about me, just relax." ”