The First Order

Chapter 992 - Calling card

Chapter 992: Calling card

In order to quickly monitor how Luo Zongren went about his daily life in the surveillance footage, Wang Yun even requested the soldiers to play back the recording at 16 times speed. The recordings spanned a month, so even if they were played back sixteen times faster, it would still take a person nearly two days to finish watching everything.

Fortunately, this also included the nighttime surveillance footage, so Wang Yun could get some rest and leave it to the other soldiers to monitor the goings-on during those periods. If Luo Zongren appeared, they would just have to inform Wang Yun.

The soldiers working could not even see the figures of people on screen clearly anymore. Meanwhile, Wang Yun was still watching intently.

Everyone in the conference room realized Wang Yun’s energy seemed to be visibly waning and was worried something would happen to him. However, only Wang Yun himself did not feel so. “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely be able to go on for another three days. I’m a superhuman, not a normal person. I’ll definitely find Luo Zongren within three days!”

By the afternoon of the next day, Wang Yun’s eyes were deeply sunken and his entire person looked like he had withered.

However, he calmly muttered to himself, “Going to work, leaving work, buying groceries, going home, shopping at the bookstore. The bookstore he visits is always the same one, but while he goes grocery shopping at random locations, the people serving him are always the same. However, it seems like there’s nothing suspicious about them. Tell Future Commander to check on the bookstore, but be careful as the other party might spring a trap.”

After the news reached Luoyang City, Ren Xiaosu quickly led his men to the bookstore Luo Zongren always went to.

After the intelligence agents surrounded the bookshop, Ren Xiaosu walked towards it.

But just as he was about to push open the door, he remembered Wang Yun’s warning. “You must be careful. The other party might spring a trap.”

Ren Xiaosu summoned “Old Xu” while he slowly stepped back.

Old Xu pushed open the door and entered. In that instant, the door handle activated a transparent fishing line that had been set up on the inside. With a click, a trap was triggered by the opening of the door.

A huge wave of heat burst out from the bookstore. Amid the loud explosion, the glass windows on the street were shattered by the unstoppable shockwave. The alarms of the vehicles parallel parked also started blaring.

The residents living on this street cautiously poked their heads out to have a look, but they did not know what was going on.

The bomb that was planted in the bookstore was powerful enough to instantly devour a 30-man platoon. Fortunately, Wang Yun had alerted them in advance, and Ren Xiaosu also happened to have a power like Old Xu.

Ren Xiaosu stood in the distance and watched all of this quietly. All the pain Old Xu suffered was transferred back to him at this moment. However, his expression did not show any signs of pain. Instead, it darkened.

This opponent was much more difficult to deal with than he had imagined.

Moreover, the most detestable thing was that even though the other party knew he was being pursued all over the city, he did not try to escape immediately. Instead, he deliberately set a trap by relying on his day-to-day activities which he deliberately created in the past to mislead his pursuers.

Truly, this was probably one of the most duplicitous opponents Ren Xiaosu had ever encountered, and the previous one was even Black Robe.

“Tell Wang Yun that it was a trap like he expected,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Over at the Northwest, Wang Yun felt like he had discovered a treasure after receiving this information. A lot of people even felt he was a little too happy when he learned about what happened.

Zhang Xiaoman wondered, “What are you so happy about? Didn’t we just lose another lead?”

“Lose a lead?” Wang Yun smiled tiredly. “This is also a clue.”

Actually, in Wang Yun’s opinion, as a mastermind hiding behind the scenes, the less information revealed, the better. Only by hiding without hesitation after committing a crime and not making any unnecessary moves could the criminal avoid being tracked.

But now that the other party had set up an ambush in the bookstore, it was just like the “calling card” of a criminal. In Wang Yun’s eyes, it was actually an inferior move.

Wang Yun said with a smile, “Whatever else he does now, they can actually serve as new evidence for us to follow. In this way, I can profile his character through his actions.”

Leaving behind the playing card and setting up the bomb in the bookstore, all of this seemed to be telling Wang Yun that the mastermind who had been lying low in Luoyang City for two years was starting to grow a little restless.

The other party was only 29 years old. Although he was extremely good at investigation and counter-investigation, he was still not sophisticated enough!

Suddenly, Wang Yun felt that the other party was like a child who enjoyed showing off. He firmly believed he could ferret out the mastermind.

Wang Yun continued to observe traces of Luo Zongren’s day-to-day life for the past month. During that time, Luo Zongren should have come up with a plan of action. The other party knew very well that the assassination of Jiang Xu in Luoyang City would immediately cause a huge commotion. In that case, he would definitely want to determine whether his backup plan would work.

“To him, what should a perfect safe house look like?” Wang Yun pondered it. “It should be along the way from his work and home and have no need for him to take any unnecessary routes to see if it’s safe or not. It’d be best if it’s on the first floor because that’d facilitate excavating a basement and also be convenient for him to be aware of any commotions outside. It’s best if it’s situated in a blind spot of the surveillance cameras so it’s easier for him to hide. It can’t be too far away from the bookstore because he’d want to hear the explosion with his own ears. To him, the explosion should sound as beautiful as a symphony!”

Wang Yun suddenly shouted, “Rewind Camera 181’s recording to the prior day, then play it back at 32 times speed.”

After a while, Wang Yun suddenly shouted again, “It’s here! For the past half a month, Luo Zongren has been looking straight ahead every time he passes by this place. But as he was getting close to making his move, he couldn’t help but glance at the blind spot of the surveillance cameras on the right side of the road twice.”

The others in the conference room looked at one another. With the speed at which the recording was being played back, they could not even see Luo Zongren’s figure. They did not know how Wang Yun was still able to see that the other party was looking elsewhere at this playback speed.

Wang Yun shouted to the Great Hoodwinker, “Quick! Confirm where this place is and get Future Commander to hurry over. The enemy’s safe house is nearby. I’m very sure of it!”

The Great Hoodwinker quickly contacted Luoyang City. When Ren Xiaosu received the news, he immediately rushed to the vicinity of 74 Triumphant Road. This location was not too far away from the bookstore. If Luo Zongren were hiding here, he would be able to find out whether the ambush he set up at the bookshop was successful or not.

When Ren Xiaosu rushed over, he had Yang Xiaojin get into position first. Meanwhile, Old Xu jumped onto the roof and surrounded the target’s location from the other side.

In the end, Luo Zongren was even bolder than Ren Xiaosu had imagined. When he had just rushed to the vicinity of 74 Triumphant Road, a middle-aged man in a brown jacket walked towards Ren Xiaosu.

Ren Xiaosu did not stop moving. When the other party saw Ren Xiaosu, his expression remained the same as well.

But when they went past each other, Ren Xiaosu’s eyes turned red.

City Crusher!

Before the middle-aged man could react, Ren Xiaosu hit him in the main artery of his neck. The force was so precise it could knock a supernatural being unconscious without killing him.

Ren Xiaosu squatted down and pulled out all of the enemy’s teeth with his bare hands before confirming that two of them were inlaid with suicide pills.

Then he had the intelligence agents strip the person naked and shave off his hair as well. Only after ensuring there were no longer any places for him to hide anything was Ren Xiaosu able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Ren Xiaosu started laughing. In truth, he really felt it was so worth it to have a talented man like Wang Yun join the Prosperous Northwest.

When the Great Hoodwinker was passing on the information to him just now, Wang Yun had suddenly snatched the phone and instructed, “Future Commander, when you rush to 74 Triumphant Road, you must pay attention to all pedestrians who walk past you. The target loves to selectively plan and observe the traps he sets. After he hears an explosion go off, he might even disguise himself as someone else. If you don’t discover him, he’ll feel extremely satisfied. This feeling has hooked him.”