Chapter 43: Only One Can Live
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The number on the display inside the elevator stays at fifty-one.
The elevator doors slowly opened, and I walked up the steps to the rooftop in a tactical search maneuver with guns in both hands.
At this time, my brain was blank, but I still maintained the most basic sanity, which has become my knee-jerk reaction since I became a police officer for many years.
I slowed down and took a closer look at the fire door in front of me.
There were no obvious bomb marks on the door, and there were no leads, although Meng Xiang's bombs were all unconventional, but none of the bombs I could imagine were found.
I handed the police pistol to my right hand and gently grasped the doorknob with my left hand.
Behind this door is the rooftop.
But what's behind this door? No one knows.
Single-player tactical search is a must-have subject for our detectives, and I gently turned the doorknob and a door slowly opened.
The harsh sunlight shone through the crack in the door and was a little dazzling.
I crossed my hands with my gun and carefully examined the situation on the rooftop.
Because the gunman is right-handed, and from the perspective of human constitution, when a person holds a gun, the body turns to the left more quickly and sensitively than to the right, so when conducting a tactical search, it is necessary to search from right to left.
This is the same as hand-to-hand combat, when you have to hold a knife in your backhand, holding a knife is a contest, and holding a knife in your backhand is killing.
As the fire door on the roof was slowly opened, I had one foot on the roof, and the sun was dazzling and the breeze was constantly blowing on the roof.
At the same time, the rooftop was empty.
My heart chuckled, aren't Meng Xiang and Li Meng here?!
After making sure that the rooftop in front of me was safe, I completely came to the rooftop.
That's when I realized that on the left side of the rooftop, there was a corner.
I switched back to holding the gun in both hands, circled the outside to make sure my perspective was maximized, and slowly searched to the left side of the rooftop.
Walking around the corner, I was stunned by the image in front of me.
Li Meng sat on a chair with gray electrostatic tape on his mouth, and an iron chain tied to his body, a lock on the top of the chain, and the other end of the fence on the rooftop.
What shocked me even more was that Li Meng's body was tied to a bomb.
There was a timer on the bomb, and the countdown was twenty minutes.
But this is a bomb made by Meng Xiang, it will definitely not be as simple as timing, behind this timer, there must be something else.
Li Meng also saw me at this time, she was struggling desperately, but her body was firmly locked by chains, and she couldn't make more violent movements.
Her mouth was covered with static tape and she could only make a whining sound, tears sliding from the corners of her eyes, but they were quickly blown away by the wind.
Seeing this, I didn't have time to think rationally, so I walked forward quickly, wanting to check the customized bomb device on Li Meng's body.
At this moment, a cold voice suddenly came from my ear: "Don't move. β
My body shuddered, and I immediately held the gun in both hands, and aimed it at the corner on the left.
Meng Xiang, this bomb maniac, this robot in the six-pointed star organization, finally appeared in front of me.
But to my shock, he also had a bomb strapped to him.
The countdown is also twenty minutes.
I thought a lot about the situation before I came to the rooftop, but I never thought that he would plant a bomb on himself.
"Don't move, the bomb will explode."
Meng Xiang made a game-like voice like a child.
At this moment, I could only point my gun at Meng Xiang, and I couldn't do anything else.
"You are Qin Mu of the Serious Crime Team, I have heard the name for a long time, you put away the gun, if you kill me, the bomb will explode immediately." Meng Xiang sneered, there was no fear on his face, and he paced around the rooftop very naturally.
I am now five meters away from Meng Xiang, and I am sure that I can kill him with a single headshot without harming the bomb on his body.
Because as long as you don't hit the bomb, it won't explode.
At least that's what I thought, but it's clear that I'm underestimating the imagination of this bomb maniac.
"You've seen a bomb, a mercury bomb, a thermometer bomb, but I'm sure you haven't seen a heart rate bomb, right?" Meng Xiang sneered and looked at me faintly.
I frowned suddenly, and slowly stood up, but still holding the gun in both hands, aiming at Meng Xiang's head.
"Heart rate bombs, it's detonating equipment. It is a device that detects heart rate, and this device is tightly attached to the chest, so that as long as the heart is beating, the bomb will not explode. As soon as the heart stops beating, the bomb explodes immediately. Moreover, the bomb on me and her is a sub-mother bomb, and once the bomb on my body explodes, then the bomb on her body will explode immediately. So, Team Leader Qin, are you still going to point a gun at me now? β
After Meng Xiang finished speaking, he raised the corner of his mouth slightly and stared at me seriously.
He said very clearly that once Meng Xiang died, the bomb on Li Meng's body would explode immediately.
I took a deep breath, put away the gun in my hand, inserted it into the holster around my waist, and asked in a deep voice, "Don't you want to talk to me?" Now that I'm here, how do you want to talk? β
"Don't be nervous Team Leader Qin, your name is really thunderous to me, I can often hear your name from the mouth of the artist. Looks like you're a legend! But I'm not interested in you at all as a legend. I believe you must know my identity information very well, what you investigated is not wrong, Meng Bochao is my father, he abandoned my mother because of cheating. Then after my father was imprisoned, Qi Xuehui's heart was undisturbed, and she didn't even visit my father in prison, saying that she had no way to declare to the outside world that she was in a lover relationship with a criminal, but she still lived in the house that my father bought for her. Meng Xiang said lightly.
I looked at the bomb on Li Meng's body, there were still fifteen minutes left.
"So what?" I asked directly.
"So, I think in this world, there is no so-called love at all, it's just using each other, women use their bodies in exchange for money, and men use money to control women, hehe, it's all dirty transactions." Meng Xiang's face changed significantly, and his emotions became excited.
"What the hell do you want?!" I asked sharply.
"I want you to make a choice!" Meng Xiang also raised his voice and shouted at me.
"What choice?!" I asked earnestly.
"You!" Meng Xiang stretched out his hand and pointed at me, and then he pointed at Li Meng.
"And her! You and her either die together! Or only live one! Meng Xiang let out a hysterical roar.
After speaking, he picked up a black package from the corner of the wall and threw it to me, and said coldly: "Open!" β
I looked at Meng Xiang, then at the black package under my feet, and finally at Li Meng, who was struggling beside me.
I squatted down and slowly unzipped it, and inside was a bomb, and the countdown on it was synchronized with the countdown on Li Meng's body, and also with the one on Meng Xiang's body.
"This bomb, and the bomb on her, has a special remote control device, as long as one of the two bombs explodes, then the other will automatically stop. However, if both bombs do not explode during the countdown to zero, they will explode together. Meng Xiang said with a smile.
He gave me a choice, and at the same time, he was enjoying it, enjoying the difficulties that others were making their choices......