Chapter Fifty-One Unexpected Change

  "Foolish... These guys are crazy, they're doing this as if they're betting with their own lives." Upon hearing this, Liu Li couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion.

  "Yes, this gang of scoundrels is using their own second half of life to make a big gamble. If they win, they'll have a good time for a while; if they lose, then their lives will be ruined." King Mingzhong sighed and nodded in agreement before continuing to brief Liu Li on the case.

  According to the victim's description, except for the inconsistent license plate of the vehicle driven by the suspect, all other characteristics of the crime match, so it can be confirmed that this criminal suspect who committed crimes across four counties is the same gangster.

  This gang of thieves specifically targets grain purchasing stations near roadsides and medium-sized supermarkets by the highway, committing robbery crimes. If the victims do not resist, they rob and leave, without wasting any time.

  If they encountered even slight resistance, the gangsters would use knives to injure their victims. During a robbery at a supermarket, one of the gangsters shot and injured the resisting owner with a handgun, which suggests that the gun was real.

  After the incident, Guxian County Public Security Bureau carried out a full-scale deployment throughout the county based on the direction of the suspects' getaway car. All police forces were deployed to set up checkpoints and intercept the suspects, ensuring that every intersection had police presence.

  The director attaches great importance to it and has ordered that all off-road vehicles appearing in the control area, regardless of license plate, vehicle type, color, number of people in the vehicle, or driver's identity, will be temporarily detained and prohibited from driving.

  After listening to Wang Mingzhong's introduction, Liu Li had a slight understanding of the case. Coincidentally, just as Wang Mingzhong finished speaking, they arrived at the scene of the crime. At this time, Liu Wei was carefully investigating the scene, and the victim's wife was telling Ren Dongchao about the course of events.

  This gang of criminal suspects was relatively cautious and did not leave any clues when committing the crime. After patrolling around, Liu Li didn't find anything in the office where the case occurred, so he went outside.

  Liu Li walked onto the highway in front of the grain purchasing station, where the suspect had previously stopped his car. At this time, Zhao Jie had just finished investigating the scene.

  "How's it going? Any discoveries?" Liu Li asked.

  Zhao Jie shook his head: "There's only one saliva stain at the scene, and apart from that, not even a cigarette butt was left behind. That saliva stain should have been left by the thug in charge of keeping watch on the car, but the mark has already dried up and can't be extracted. Alas... these thugs' anti-surveillance awareness is quite high."

  After listening to Zhao Jie's investigation results, Liu Li's eyes lit up. He asked Zhao Jie to go and survey other places. After Zhao Jie left, Liu Li walked over to the spot where Zhao Jie had mentioned a phlegm stain. Indeed, on the surface of the road, there was a shallow mark that should have been left by someone spitting on the ground.

  Looking at the solidified phlegm in front of him, Liu Li slowly squatted down, seeing that there was no one around, his colleagues were all busy, he quietly scratched his finger and dripped his own blood onto the phlegm.

  When the blood merged into the phlegm, Liu Li's ability was activated again. A ripple like a wave of water flashed in front of his eyes, and after the ripple disappeared, Liu Li felt that his consciousness appeared inside the driver's cab of a car.

  It turned out that Liu Li's consciousness had indeed attached itself to the driver's shadow, and through the shadow, Liu Li saw the appearance of the four robbers. The four of them were not very old, with an average age of around twenty years old. Although their faces still looked a bit childish, their expressions carried a hint of evil.

  At this time, the four people seemed to be arguing about something. However, because Liu Li's ability couldn't hear the dialogue of the thugs, he could only judge the reason for their argument based on the gestures of the thug in the front passenger seat.

  Liu Li saw the person in the passenger seat next to him, with an anxious expression, shouting something at the driver while occasionally pointing at the dashboard in front. The two thugs behind also leaned forward, pointing at the buildings outside the window and expressing something.

  Following the direction pointed by the accomplice in the passenger seat, Liu Li knew where the problem was. It turned out that the water temperature gauge on their off-road vehicle showed that the current water temperature had exceeded 90 degrees, and the front hood had already started to smoke.

  In other words, the engine of their car broke down. Probably for this reason, several scoundrels in the car were blaming the driver, presumably because he had not checked the vehicle properly, which caused it to break down at this time.

  A few people quarreled for a few sentences, Liu Li saw the driver start to pull the car over to the side of the road, the hooligan in the passenger seat pulled out a handgun, and the two hooligans behind him were holding a sack, armed with weapons looking outside the car.

  Seeing this, Liu Li judged that the bandits wanted to hijack a car on the road. Now they were looking for a suitable vehicle. When the driver of the vehicle stopped the car, he put on his hood and pushed open the door to walk out.

  When the villain walked outside, Liu Li's ability had just ended. However, through his ability, Liu Li saw where the villain was standing and was suddenly shocked because he had just been to that place once before.

  That was the entrance of a supermarket, just a short while ago, Liu Li had just dropped off Lin Shuang and her mother at the entrance of this supermarket, letting them go shopping inside. At this moment, Lin Shuang and her mother were probably still inside the supermarket...

  By the time he got here, Liu Li's consciousness had returned to his body. He shouted loudly at several people who were investigating the scene not far away: "Zhang Tao stayed to deal with the scene, and everyone else followed me immediately."

  Liu Li drove the police car at high speed, and after more than ten minutes, he and the third squadron arrived in front of the supermarket door. Although they were already very fast, they still came one step late.

  It turned out that when the thugs were about to rob the vehicle, they saw that there was no security guard in this supermarket. Seeing this situation, the four of them suddenly had an idea and decided to do one more thing before leaving, so they rushed straight to the supermarket's cash register.

  Just as the robbers rushed into the supermarket to rob money, the manager of the supermarket took advantage of the chaos and pressed the emergency alarm. As soon as the alarm sounded, three police officers in the nearby police station immediately received the alarm and quickly arrived at the entrance of the supermarket to handle the situation.

  The police officers in the duty room were used to handling neighborhood disputes, but they had never encountered an armed robbery before. Seeing the situation in the supermarket, they did not report the case immediately, but instead took out their guns and fired warning shots.

  It was this move that shocked the robbers in the supermarket, who saw the police outside blocking them and even opening fire. In a state of panic, the four thugs directly took the supermarket employees hostage.