Chapter 64 — Clues to the Robbery
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The city management bureau had installed surveillance cameras on all the major streets, subjecting these stretches of road to round-the-clock monitoring.
The city management bureau had installed surveillance cameras on all the major streets, subjecting these stretches of road to round-the-clock monitoring to keep watch over sanitation, traffic flow, and the like.
At the time, Qiu Lingshan had also thought of obtaining footage from the traffic police, but to her frustration, the traffic police cameras only activated at red lights, capturing records of vehicles in violation; at all other times they were switched off.
So Qiu Lingshan had been forced to give up — never imagining that Yang Huaijun would think of borrowing the city management department's surveillance footage to crack the case.
It looked simple enough, but it proved one thing: she had not been careful enough! Matters that seemed to have nothing to do with the work at hand often played an unexpectedly crucial role at the decisive moment.
With the surveillance footage, everything became much easier. The city management bureau's round-the-clock cameras had only recently been activated and were still in the trial operation stage, so few people knew of them — the kidnappers could not possibly have known.
And in fact, they clearly had not known. On the stretch of road Zhang Xiaohang was responsible for, shortly after the first car, a Song A74, passed by, a second vehicle — a commercial van with the plate Song A74 — drove through. That was undoubtedly the getaway vehicle!
After that it was simply a matter of following the trail to its source, narrowing down the approximate area where the kidnappers' vehicle was located! Why only approximate? Because the city management's round-the-clock cameras were installed only along roads within the urban districts; remote streets had no need of them. So they could only judge the kidnappers' rough location from the final footage.
Even so, it was enough. The scope had been narrowed to a manageable range, and searching would be that much easier...
Zhong Yongliang spent the whole day in dread. He had never imagined that a transfer student who looked like a country bumpkin could be so vicious. Yesterday the kid had crossed him, and this morning he had beaten Zou Ruoming, one of the school's top figures. He had expected the boy to die a miserable death — only for Black Panther, the man he himself had brought in, to be the one beaten half to death!
He had expected the boy to die a miserable death — only for Black Panther, the man he himself had brought in, to be the one beaten half to death!
At this moment Zhong Yongliang finally understood what a difference in true strength meant. Black Panther had a gun in his hand and still couldn't beat Wei Zhao. What could he himself possibly do to the boy?
And yet, right now, he could not afford to look too weak in front of Zhang Naipao and Gao Fu. He hated Wei Zhao down to the marrow of his bones — and feared him just as deeply.
By ordinary means, there was certainly no dealing with Wei Zhao. If he wanted to wipe away this humiliation, he would have to think of something else.
"Brother Liang, how is this Wei Zhao so fierce..." Gao Fu said, somewhat aggrieved. "But that Black Panther is way too pathetic, isn't he? I thought he was supposed to be something, but he's about the same as us yesterday!"
"Exactly. He's got a gun and he's still that useless. If I were him, I'd have just shot that brat Wei Zhao dead!" Zhang Naipao said furiously.
Gao Fu and Zhang Naipao had never run with the underworld. They had only ever heard Zhong Yongliang talk about how formidable Black Panther was. Seeing him today, they thought he was nothing special, so they felt no particular shock.
The one truly shaken was Zhong Yongliang. He alone knew best just how skilled Black Panther was — and now Black Panther had suffered one setback after another at Wei Zhao's hands...