After receiving a report from the public, a cardboard box was found in People's Square, suspected of explosives.

I took Lin Zifan and the captain of the criminal police team, Officer Wang, to the scene of the crime.

"A cardboard box is suspected to be explosives? Shouldn't people's first reaction when they see a cardboard box be to pick it up and see what's inside? Lin Zifan said in a deep voice.

He said exactly what I wanted to say, because this kind of thing has happened to us countless times, and how outrageous it is.

There are always some people who like to sensationalize the public as if they have a serious illness in their brains, even if they will be seized by the public security in the end, they will not be afraid to report to the whole country.

"Maybe in the context of the current martial law in the whole city, there is a person who deliberately left a cardboard box in the flower pond of the People's Square, bringing panic to everyone and attracting people's attention." Lin Zifan added.

Officer Wang was driving, and he said lightly: "The carton is a waste box picked up from the garbage can, and it is not tightly sealed, and the criminal police team members have gone to the scene to check, and they vaguely saw something like a wire through the gap in the carton." The crowd has been evacuated and the patrol EOD team has arrived at the scene. ”

"Can you find out who put the cardboard box there?" I made up my mind and asked seriously.

"It's already been called for monitoring, but the flow of people in People's Square is still relatively large, and it hasn't been found." Officer Wang said in a deep voice.

I sighed a little helplessly: "I really should let everyone go home, go out less or don't go out until the police catch Meng Xiang." ”

Officer Wang also sighed and said helplessly: "No way, you can't let Ningzhou City be closed because of an explosion, now just by stepping up patrols, the citizens have begun to panic." At present, rumors are rife, the Internet police are very busy, and some shopping malls have already seen citizens buy food and supplies in large quantities, and the police have immediately issued a notice, claiming that the increased patrols are just a normal routine inspection of the public security organs, but the citizens do not believe it at all, and some people have already linked this incident with the bombing case a few days ago. ”

"Alas, this is the power of public opinion, and the herd mentality is the most common psychology among citizens." Lin Zifan also sighed.

For a while, the sighs in the car came one after another.

"It seems that this People's Square EOD operation can only make the citizens panic even more." I looked out the window and muttered.

"In order to avoid panic among the masses, we concealed the news and publicized that it was an explosive disposal and emergency drill, and we have now completed the evacuation of the onlookers in People's Square." Officer Wang said, turning the steering wheel and parking the car a hundred meters outside People's Square.

Sure enough, there was a long cordon 100 meters away from the People's Square, and there were police on duty to maintain order at the scene, and persuade everyone not to watch and go home early.

But for the citizens, daily life is boring enough, how can they easily let go of this opportunity to watch the excitement? Everyone stood outside the cordon, inside and outside, taking pictures with their mobile phones.

The police didn't let them take pictures, so they secretly took pictures, and pressed the gourd to float the scoop, and no one paid attention to the police's obstruction.

There were even people who started live broadcasts, but in the end, the people who broadcast were taken away by the police.

Within the cordon, a police tent has been erected at a safe distance to serve as a temporary command post for the EOD operation, and ambulances and fire vehicles are on standby.

Officer Wang took Lin Zifan and me to pick up the cordon, walked into the People's Square, and walked straight towards the police tent.

In the tent, the head of the EOD team of the patrol special police detachment and other officers of the criminal police team were busy nervously.

"What's going on at the scene?" I walked into the tent and asked seriously.

"A cardboard box was found in a flower pond a hundred meters away, and something in the shape of a wire was found in the cardboard box, suspected to be a bomb. The area around the explosives is open and can be used to approach the EOD robots. "The head of the EOD team explained to me.

In the tent, all kinds of instruments are in constant operation.

On the table built next to it, there is a computer-like display screen that can monitor everything in People's Square.

There is also a display next to it, which is used to control the EOD robot, and through the remote control of the EOD personnel, it can issue some commands to the EOD robot.

Since the circumstances of the bomb and the method of detonation are not yet clear, the EOD team has activated electronic jamming devices to block the signals around the People's Square to prevent someone from detonating the bomb by remote control.

The EOD robot has its own anti-electronic jamming device, which will not be affected by signal shielding.

As the EOD robot slowly moved, it approached the mysterious cardboard box in the flower pond.

In the tent, after the EOD team gave instructions to the EOD robot, a camera probe slowly rose from the head of the EOD robot to scan the entire carton.

The entire monitoring probe uses X-ray fluoroscopic interval photography, which can easily penetrate the carton and see some of the inside of the carton.

Soon, the scanned images of the EOD robot were transmitted back to the computer screen in the tent.

Everyone immediately gathered in front of the computer and observed the situation in the cardboard box.

That's right, inside the carton is indeed a bomb.

"It's a time bomb, and according to the timer, it will explode in fifteen minutes. The bomb uses a one-way trunk circuit, there are no interference lines, and the explosives use a mixture of detonators and explosives, and the whole explosives look very rudimentary, and even if they explode, the power is very small compared to TN.T and C4. The EOD team looked at the bomb carefully through the computer screen and said seriously.

"Can it be demolished?" I took my nerve and asked a crucial but seemingly nonsense question.

The EOD team members turned their heads, looked at me, and showed a very determined look: "Yes, this is the most primitive and ordinary time bomb, as long as the main road of the bomb is destroyed, it can be dismantled." ”

Later, he told me in a different way: "It is the red and blue line bomb that we most commonly see, as long as the principle of the circuit is clear, the corresponding wire is cut, and it will be dismantled." ”

Looking at the EOD team's relaxed expressions, my heart was also relieved.

This EOD operation can be said to be very simple.

But it's this that doesn't just make me feel a little curious. Could this very simple bomb be made by Meng Xiang?

With his technology, this bomb is simply pediatric, and even he can make it with one hand.

I frowned, thinking about it.

The EOD team members control the EOD robot, gently open the cardboard box, gently grab the time bomb in the flower pond, and place it on the ground extremely smoothly.

The next step is to defuse the bomb with an EOD robot.

Through the remote entry of a code from a member of the EOD team, the robotic arm of the EOD robot changes, and the palm of the hand becomes a pair of wire cutters.

The EOD team members took their hands off the keyboard, grabbed a mechanical lever next to it, and operated it carefully and carefully.

After careful circuit analysis, the bomb can be completely defused by simply cutting the red line.

The wire cutter in the hand of the EOD robot gently clamps the red line.

Cut it vigorously.

The bomb exploded in an instant!