John Forest on the southern foot of Red Mountain is the oldest native forest reserve in Western Australia and the closest forest park to Perth Airport.
Although it is called a park, there are not many public facilities inside. There is only a road built along the hillside, which is often visited by mountain bike enthusiasts. The Beetle drove around the city for a whole morning and arrived here near noon. It parked in the parking lot of a public swimming pool on the south side of the forest.
In the adjacent parking space, Sama's Ford SUV was parked, but there was no one in the car at this moment.
Yuan Xiaoxiao didn't rush to get off the car, but stared at the positioning signal on her mobile phone.
Samar suddenly ran from the westernmost part of Perth to the easternmost part. It didn't make sense that he was here to swim. The more logical inference was that Luke had probably arrived.
If he hadn't known in advance, Sama's behavior this morning would have seemed like he was trying to shake off the possible tracking and meet someone. But from Yuan Xiaoxiao's "God's perspective", it was exactly the opposite, and it was clear that he was deliberately trying to lure the "observer" to appear.
At this moment, the small bright spot on the phone screen has crossed the road and is moving northward into the John Forest. The only sound in the earphones is the sound of the light passing through the grass and bushes, nothing else.
"How will you lead me to appear?"
I have to say that the "God's perspective" that I got unexpectedly as a "boyfriend" is really useful. As long as you look at any plan from a different angle, you can always find flaws. Yuan Xiaoxiao's mouth curled up slightly, but only for a moment, and suddenly realized that there seemed to be a badger on the roof of the car.
The smile disappeared quickly before it even appeared. Yuan Xiaoxiao sighed and got out of the car with a gloomy face.
The badger had disappeared from the roof, leaving only two deep scratches and three small holes the size of chopsticks. If the mechanic saw this, he would definitely scold me.
"Come out! I'm not asking you to pay the compensation, why are you hiding?"
Yuan Xiaoxiao stood beside the car with her arms around her shoulders and shouted. However, she didn't know whether the badger was really not there at the moment or didn't want to show up. She waited for a long time but there was no movement.
"Did he lose his grip and fall down?"
Yuan Xiaoxiao frowned and recalled that after leaving the city, she did not hear any movement on the roof of the car.
"Bah! You deserve it! Instead of just following your lazy master's live broadcast, you join in all the fun!"
Someone muttered and returned to the car.
There is a supermarket next to the public swimming pool and near the parking lot. At this moment, a camouflage hat was floating in front of a row of shelves in the supermarket, and finally stopped in front of a shelf full of snacks.
He left in such a hurry that he didn't even think about lunch. Wang Ping could stand working on an empty stomach, but his stomach couldn't. Not long after he left the city, when the sun was directly overhead, his stomach started growling.
Yuan Xiaoxiao didn't hear any noise at that time, because he was curled up in a ball on the roof of the car, starving in agony.
He jumped up and grabbed two plastic-wrapped instant chicken legs, and then a bag of beef jerky. A badger dug into his T-shirt pocket and pulled out two hard paper bills that looked like plastic paper. He calculated the price and angrily raised his middle claw at a bag of spicy strips on the shelf. What a wicked person! They actually sold it so expensively.
There was no one in the supermarket at the moment, it was very quiet. After all, it was lunch time, and the public swimming pool was a mystery in the coastal city of Perth, so when a badger checked out, he found that the store owner sitting inside looked drowsy.
"Da Da~"
Wang Ping grabbed the edge of the cash register and knocked impatiently.
"Hmm..."
The white uncle sitting on a chair inside seemed to be awakened for a moment, squinting his eyes to glance at the cashier, then picked up the barcode scanner to scan. But when he looked up and was about to speak, there was no one in his sight, so he leaned back with his mouth open.
Wang Ping squinted his eyes and waited for a long time, but only heard snoring.
"Damn, with your attitude, no wonder business is so bad!"
Glancing at the amount displayed on the cash register, a certain badger angrily slapped the banknote, grabbed the things and left. This was the change when he went shopping with Wang An yesterday. At that time, Gu Xianyu and Wang An were both carrying things, so he put the money in his pocket.
After a while, a shop owner woke up from his nap and looked at the banknotes on the cash register with a confused look on his face. But Wang Ping had already disappeared.
Wang Ping did a lot of surveillance when he was in the security team. Sometimes he was watching poachers, but most of the time he was watching animals. The latter was even more difficult than the former. After all, animals can smell strange smells, but people can't.
He climbed up a eucalyptus tree at the edge of the parking lot and found a comfortable fork to lean on. A badger took out a camera and pointed it at Yuan Xiaoxiao's car, while he was chewing a chicken leg until his face was covered in oil.
"I guess Old Han will be here soon?" He thought with some boredom as he chewed the top of the bone, making a crackling sound.
Lao Han was indeed on his way, but he was still some distance away.
When he found that the tracker was leaving quickly, Han Daxia knew that the badger must have climbed into someone's car, most likely Yuan Xiaoxiao's. Suddenly leaving the hotel at this time must have something happened.
He was afraid that it would be too late to contact the informant, and Lao Han had originally intended to exclude the informant he "borrowed" from this matter, so he took a car himself to chase after him.
At this moment, in the city ten kilometers away from John Forest, a taxi was parked on the side of the road, waiting for someone to withdraw money on the roadside.
After a while, Old Han came back dejectedly. He suddenly remembered that he couldn't withdraw RMB from the ATM here.
The driver looked at him through the window. Although he didn't say anything, his eyes seemed to contain thousands of words.
"Shit, what are you looking at? Would I owe you that little bit of money for the bus fare? Take me to the nearest bank where I can exchange foreign currency!"
"no problem!"
The driver shrugged his shoulders, glanced at the meter in front of him, and changed the subject: "How about not using the meter? I'll pay for the trip to the bank!"
"Please treat your brother-in-law!" Old Han roared, "I'll pay the price! I don't need your treat!"
Before Wang Ping waited for Lao Han to arrive, Yuan Xiaoxiao got out of the car and walked straight to the forest park in the north.
Wang Ping frowned as he looked at the familiar belt tied around someone's legs and the small satchel on her waist. He then put away the camera and quietly followed her. When he passed by a trash can, he threw the licked clean packaging bag into it.
In the woods, Samar climbed up a tree and buried the tracker in the tree hole. Luke, dressed in cowboy clothes, stood behind her with his hands behind his back. When she came down, he pointed to the north and turned away.
When they were out of monitoring range, Luke asked, "Do you have a gun?"
"I only have a pistol." Sama pulled out a pistol from his waist and handed it over, then took out two magazines.
Luke raised his hand to take it, then pointed to the north and held out his hand again: "Give me the car keys, you leave from this direction and take a taxi back."
"team leader?"
Sama frowned and asked doubtfully, "Don't we have a better chance if we two do it?"
Luke narrowed his eyes slightly, somewhat unhappy with Sama's attitude. Before this, she would never question his orders casually. But he reacted in an instant and realized that this was not the time to be pretentious, so he smiled and said gently: "Your role is to go out and disrupt the sight of her accomplices, so that I won't be attacked from all sides. Go!"
"yes!"
Sama no longer hesitated, nodded, and turned to run northeastwards towards the mountain road. But after a hundred meters, his brows began to frown and his pace gradually slowed down.
"The captain just said 'her'. Does he know who is following me?"