Chapter 298 Flying Kill
Zheng Yu's trip to Korea was very low-key, so low-key that it didn't appear in the local news. This was also because of his low rank. He had energy but was still in the accumulation stage. Zheng Yu didn't even go through the sprained ankle channel. He came out of the VIP channel, accompanied by a male assistant in his twenties named Hans.
Xue Mi and her team greeted Zheng Yu and introduced the four members of her team, who would be Zheng Yu's personal bodyguards in Korea. As they walked out of the airport, Xue Mi explained to Zheng Yu that Duanmu and his team were also in the project. Zheng Yu was calm and did not meet Duanmu. He said that he had an appointment with the deputy mayor for lunch and would go to the hotel to rest first.
There are four groups of people involved in the Zheng Yu project. The first group is the personal bodyguard group led by Xue Mi, with 6-8 people. The second group is the mobile group led by Duan Mu. The third group is the field team of New York Security, who are responsible for the perimeter work. For example, if Zheng Yu wants to take the elevator downstairs to catch a car, they have to keep an eye on this route. The number of people is unknown. The fourth group is the support group, which includes both intelligence and technology.
Cui Jian and others were equipped with satellite phones, special intercoms, personal buzzers and other equipment. Overall, they looked much more professional than Dayin Security.
As a member of the House of Representatives, Zheng Yu was not entitled to official security, so he paid for the bodyguards out of his own pocket. Fortunately, he was really rich and didn't care about these small expenses.
There were five cars in the convoy, with Dayin Group as the last car, and the driver was of course Gui Yi. When Gui Yi saw Zheng Yu getting in the car, he said, "Duanmu, your father looks so young."
Duanmu said: "Politicians care a lot about their appearance."
Cui Jian was in the co-pilot seat and said, "As an illegitimate son, you can destroy him before he becomes president."
Duanmu said: "Maybe this is why he asked Xue Mi to assign the project to me."
Five cars were driving on the airport highway, flashing their hazard lights, indicating that they were a convoy and refusing other vehicles to cut in. Similar situations are often seen in wedding cars. However, the five cars were of different makes, styles and colors, which did not attract attention. In normal driving, convoys generally do not use the fast lane, so the speed is not considered fast.
Cui Jian looked to the right for a while and asked, "Is that a drone?"
Duanmu picked up the telescope and looked for a while: "Yes, an ordinary civilian drone." This type of drone cannot hang heavy objects, let alone weapons.
Cui Jian asked: "What's the point of observing our convoy?" Zheng Yu did not stop on the way, nor did he hide his itinerary, and left the airport openly.
Duanmu said: "We haven't figured out the reason why Zheng Yu was issued a golden hunting order."
Cui Jiandao: "He should talk to you, maybe you can ask him to tell us the reason."
Duanmu said: "Let's try it."
Xue Mi: "Call Langya."
Xue Mi: "Calling Langya, that's you, Duanmu."
"Ah?" Duanmu picked up the intercom: "Aren't we Canine Fang?"
Xue Mi said, "Overtake the leading car and go see what's going on."
"Understood." Duanmu said, "Gui Yi, get in the first car."
Gui Yi easily passed four cars, and then they saw a small farm vehicle traveling in the same direction 200 meters away. There was a poster hanging on the back of the farm vehicle with Zheng Yu's head on it and a sentence in English next to it: Since you are here, don't leave.
Duanmu picked up the intercom and asked, "What do you mean? Do you need us to intercept the farm vehicle?"
Cui Jian said on the intercom: "This is an illegal act and may cause a serious traffic accident. Our driver may be held criminally liable for this."
Cui Jian is not talking nonsense this time. Stopping a harmless vehicle at 80 km/h is likely to cause a traffic accident, and there is no guarantee that the other party will deliberately cause a traffic accident. According to the law, he can only keep evidence and sue the other party. After all, the other party's words do not contain any threatening meaning. Maybe he loves Zheng Yu and hopes that he will stay in Korea to shine?
Xue Mi said: "No, you remember the license plate number, follow the car and look for possible clues. After all, we still don't know who the enemy is." Xue Mi was like Duanmu. In the past week, they sorted out all the information they could know about Zheng Yu and conducted a comprehensive interview with Zheng Yu's assistant, but they didn't find anyone who wanted to kill Zheng Yu.
The bigger question is, why did the gold hunt appear during Zheng Yu's visit to South Korea? Why couldn't it be carried out in the United States?
Is it possible that Zheng Yu directed and acted in the film himself to increase his own popularity? Basically, there is no such possibility, because the Golden Hunting Order is a bounty order, and no one knows how many killers have accepted the order except the Golden Hunting Order website.
Duanmu replied: "Okay, we will find out the situation." Although they all knew that it was basically impossible to get useful information from the farm vehicle driver.
Cui Jian reminded: "There's a small hill four hundred meters away."
The drone flew towards a small hillside, which was bare and stood on the left side of the road. There was a man sitting on the hillside, wearing black clothes and his face seemed to be covered.
The convoy was getting closer and closer. The man in black stood up and watched the convoy passing in front of him. At this time, the people in the convoy also saw him. Xue Mi was extremely surprised: "Qi Sha? Am I seeing things?"
Cui Jian said: "No, it is indeed Qi Sha's disguise." People in the industry often pretend to be Qi Sha to kill people, and Cui Jian is not surprised by this. But is it meaningful? Qi Sha's influence is within the circle, and people in the circle know that Qi Sha will not attack non-targets. Qi Sha who attack non-targets are all fake Qi Sha.
Duanmu took the intercom and said, "This is psychological warfare. I think the other party wants to put enough pressure on us. Maybe they want to scare Zheng Yu away, or maybe they want to force us to adjust our security plan. I don't think we should take it to heart."
Xue Mi did not respond.
Everything went smoothly afterwards. The convoy went to the hotel. Choi Duan-gu left the convoy and caught up with the farm truck. Half an hour later, he talked with the driver of the farm truck for a few minutes. As expected, the driver of the farm truck confessed that someone called him and gave him 600 million won, asking him to make some arrangements and wait at the airport. Someone instructed him over the phone to put down the posters on the back of the truck at the appropriate time and keep a distance from the convoy.
Cui Jian looked at the call number, which was a virtual number dialed through the Internet, but to everyone's surprise, the driver provided a clue that should not have been there: the person he was talking to was a woman, and her Korean was not very good, and he also heard the sound of a bell in the background.
Duanmu asked: "The sound of the bell? Is it the sound of the temple bell or the bell tower bell?"
The driver, who was in his forties, shook his head and said, "I don't know. There was a ding, a pause, and then another ding."
Cui Jian looked at the call time on the driver's phone again: "The bell rings at exactly nine o'clock? Temples usually only ring in the morning and evening. We should be looking for the bell ringing. This place should be far from the city center."
Duanmu praised this: he has grown smart again. Duanmu asked for a while, but got no other information. He gave the money to the driver, who got in the car happily and left, eating at various restaurants.
The two got in the car, and Gui Yi drove to the hotel. Cui Jian said, "Why do I feel that this project is very strange? Strange things, strange people, it sounds like they have bad intentions towards VIP, but in fact they didn't do anything. Is this what a real killer does?"
Gui Yi agreed and said, "Definitely not. The killer hides his knife."
Duanmu and Cui Jian looked at Gui Yi: "What is a hidden knife?"
Gui Yi said: "Don't draw your sword lightly, as it will draw blood. Before a good killer draws his weapon, no one knows he is a killer. After he draws his weapon, no one still knows he is a killer, because those who know are already dead."
Cui Jian asked: "What about the bodyguard?"
Gui Yi said: "In ancient times, bodyguards usually guarded the house and yard, and they often appeared in novels with words like bullying men and women. In martial arts novels, the killer may be the protagonist, and the bodyguard is definitely a supporting role, and most of the time, bodyguards are not good people."
The phone rang, and Duanmu answered: "Hello." Five minutes ago, the hotel front desk called and said that they had received Zheng Yu's package. Xue Mi sent someone to the lobby to check and found a sealed cardboard box. After a simple scan, they suspected that there was a bomb in the box.
Now the hotel has evacuated everyone, Zheng Yu has been transferred to a backup hotel, Xue Mi asked Duanmu team to go to the original hotel to investigate the situation and confirm whether there is a bomb in the carton. Xue Mi also asked Duanmu team to pay attention to the onlookers, as the person delivering the package may be mixed in the crowd to watch the excitement.
Duanmu held the phone in his hand and asked, "Is this the strategy of wearing out the enemy from the Thirty-Six Strategies?"
Gui Yi thought for a while and asked, "Is there a strategy to tire out the troops among the Thirty-Six Stratagems?"
Duanmu didn't answer, but seemed to be talking to himself, asking: "What on earth does the other party want to do by doing all this?" The professional killer must know that he cannot send a bomb to Zheng Yu through the hotel system, so why would he do this?
In comparison, Cui Jian was much calmer. As more and more mysteries emerged, his interest in reasoning became lower and lower.
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A cordon was set up outside the hotel. In the lobby, a bomb disposal worker in an explosion-proof suit reached into a cardboard box, ready to take out something in a glass container, but stopped halfway and took out a walkie-talkie to call: "There is a balance device inside, I guess it is activated by light." When the cardboard box is opened, the light triggers the balance device. Once the left or right tilt angle exceeds the standard, it is very likely to trigger a bomb.
The commander asked, "There's no way to transport it?"
The bomb disposal officer looked at the explosion-proof box beside him. As long as the bomb was placed in the explosion-proof box, the damage caused by the explosion could be greatly reduced. He replied, "Not sure."
The commander asked, "How many bombs are there?"
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The bomb disposal officer took a flashlight and looked at it for a while: "The bomb is in the lower part, estimated to be between one and two kilograms."
Cui Jian was on the second floor opposite the hotel. He handed the telescope to Duanmu: "A real bomb, or a very real fake bomb."
Duanmu took out his phone and called Xue Mi: "Let me ask you a question. Was the backup hotel prepared from the beginning? I'm worried that the killer deliberately forced the VIP to the backup hotel."
"I trust my team." Xue Mi was talking on the phone as she walked towards Room 708. In front of her was Zheng Yu and two bodyguards.
A food delivery cart came out from 710. The male waiter pushed the cart a few meters and saw customers coming from the opposite direction. He consciously pulled the cart aside to make way for Zheng Yu and the others.
The aisle was not narrow, but it was not wide either. It was originally large enough for two bodyguards and Zheng Yu to walk side by side. In order to avoid the food delivery cart, one bodyguard left his position and walked in front of Zheng Yu.
When the two parties passed each other, the male waiter nodded and greeted: "Good morning."
Zheng Yu looked at the male waiter politely and nodded.
The two parties passed each other, and the male waiter kept his hands on the food delivery cart. Suddenly, he pulled out a sharp serrated steak knife from under the plate with his left hand and stabbed it into Zheng Yu's back with his backhand.
Almost at the same time, gunshots rang out, Xue Mi held the gun with both hands, and a bullet hole appeared on the male waiter's forehead. Xue Mi's cell phone fell to the ground, and she could still hear Duanmu's questioning voice.
A bead of sweat ran down Xue Mi's left beard. If it weren't for the male waiter's "Good morning" with a heavy accent, if he had been 0.5 seconds slower, the steak knife would have gone straight from Zheng Yu's back to his heart.
Xue Mi held the gun in both hands and took a deep breath. It took her a long time to calm down. What affected her mood was not the life-and-death moment just now, but the threat she intuitively felt from her opponent.
First, the opponent made the team suspicious, and then sent a bomb gift, forcing the team to send Zheng Yu to the backup hotel. The backup hotel is different from the planned hotel. In the planned hotel, at least one field bodyguard is arranged at the gate, lobby, elevator, and corridor to continuously monitor the surrounding situation.
Xue Mi used a local identity to book the backup hotel room 708. The only people who knew about this were her personal bodyguard team and Zheng Yu himself. Apparently, this information had been leaked in advance.
The killer is a Vietnamese. His younger brother is studying abroad at Hancheng University. He arrived in Hancheng a few days ago under the pretext of visiting relatives. No information about the hotel or hostel he stayed in was found.
Room 710 is an empty room and the door lock has not been broken. It is not clear how the killer entered room 710.
A few hours later, Zheng Yu checked into the villa hotel and rented two villas on the left and right. The field bodyguards set up roadblocks at both ends of the road, installed surveillance cameras, and began patrolling the area.
The police investigation has made new progress. The killer is named Ruan San, and he is a killer serving Yue Hei. Because of his gambling addiction, he owed Yue Hei a lot of money. If he did not pay back the money within three months, Yue Hei would attack his family. The police believe that this is the reason why Ruan San carried out the suicide assassination.
Yuehei didn't know Ruan San's purpose in coming to Hancheng this time, and was basically sure that Ruan San was a flying assassin. The police therefore suspected that someone had organized an assassination gang with Southeast Asian killers as the core.
Zheng Yu lived in Villa No. 2, and the field staff and technical bodyguards lived in Villas 1 and 3. Cui Jian, Duanmu, and Gui Yi were assigned a small room on the first floor of Villa No. 1.
The weather was hot, and Gui Yi went to take a shower after running outside for most of the day. Cui Jian threw a magazine at Duanmu who was standing by the window: "Don't you want the special agents to check it out?"
Duanmu replied: "This is my business, not the special forces' business. This Ruan San is not a professional killer, but a desperado with some experience in killing. This means that there is a support team behind Ruan San. This team not only knows Zheng Yu's itinerary, but also has the ability to open up a backup hotel battlefield for Ruan San."
Cui Jian said: "This is the most disgusting part of the bounty. You have no idea about your opponent. He could be a top assassin, a father trying to raise medical expenses for his family, or a desperado who was just released from prison. Let me ask you, how can the Golden Hunting Order stand out among so many websites?"
Duanmu came back and poured water: "Because of the 100% assassination rate?"
Cui Jian nodded and said, "Huang Zhuiling's website gets a 30% commission. Assuming the bounty this time is 300 million, that's a commission of 90. For the sake of the website's reputation, Huang Zhuiling would rather pay 90 than let this assassination fail."
"That's superficial." Duanmu said, "90? No, even if it's 900 million, Huang Zhuiling is willing to pay."
At this point, Duanmu's eyes lit up and he called Xue Mi: "I have a guess: Huang Zhuiling provided technical and logistical services to the killers. By tracking Ruan San's life trajectory in the past few days, it is possible to catch Huang Zhuiling's staff."
Xue Mi: "Okay, I'll contact the police."
Duanmu hung up the phone, and Cui Jian said coldly: "I have a guess?" You are as shameless as a two-headed dog.
Duanmu smiled apologetically, sat down next to Cui Jian, and said, "I have always admitted that you sometimes have brains."
"Thank you for the compliment."
"You're welcome."
(End of this chapter)