In Sanlin Street, at a scrap collection station facing the sea, an old man in his seventies came out with a flashlight and met Lao Yang and others at the door.
"Were you the one who called to report it?" asked Lao Yang.
"Yes, I called Xiao Liu at the patrol point. Aren't you trying to catch a fugitive?" the old man nodded in response.
"Yes, there is a fugitive." Old Yang immediately got straight to the point: "What clues do you have?"
"It's not an important clue." The old man replied clearly, "I'm on night watch here, so I have two dogs. But in the past two days, the two dogs seem to be hungry. They keep crying out of hunger and keep running out to the beach to pick up garbage..."
Tang Baiqing was stunned when he heard this: "What kind of clue is this? What can two dogs prove?"
"Stop making noise!" Lao Yang waved his hand to interrupt the other person.
"I have raised these two dogs since they were little. I know what shit they are going to do as soon as they stick their butts out." The old man replied confidently, "I live here alone. They eat whatever I eat... If they weren't starving, they would never go to the beach to pick up garbage. This time they were starving and someone took away their food."
"Anything else?"
"I felt something was wrong, so I walked to the beach yesterday and saw that the two broken car mats that were thrown at the factory gate were gone." The old man turned around and pointed to the beach and said, "Over there."
"Did you go?" asked Lao Yang.
"Am I sick?!" The old man frowned and replied, "I don't even know who the person who stole the dog food is. If I run into him, how can an old man like me defeat him?"
Old Yang pondered for a while, looked back at the third floor where Tang Baiqing killed people, and suddenly asked: "Do you think it's at the beach?"
"Yes, there is no one over there. Other places are scrap collection points and there are night watchmen." The old man nodded.
"Can you take us over to have a look?" Tang Baiqing asked.
"I'm not going. You guys go by yourselves." The old man waved his hand: "What if there really is someone there and he wants to take revenge on me?"
"Just over there?" Old Yang asked, pointing at the seaside.
"Yes!" the old man nodded.
"Let's go and take a look." Old Yang ordered immediately.
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Late at night, Lao Yang, Tang Baiqing and four others followed the direction the old man pointed and walked less than two kilometers before arriving at the garbage dump on the beach.
This garbage storage area is full of harmless domestic garbage, which is used for reclamation projects on the coastline. It is also related to the Su family, because the sanitation garbage is sorted before being transported here by workers.
The radiation area of the storage point was very large and had a strong stench. After Lao Yang and others got there, they intentionally hid next to a garbage dump.
"You don't have to follow us, we can just go over and take a quick look." Old Yang pulled out the pistol from his waist and whispered to Tang Baiqing.
"Okay." Tang Baiqing nodded.
"Call the police station and ask Eryang on duty to bring someone over." Old Yang then instructed his colleagues, "Check your guns and be careful."
"This is something that has not even been decided yet, do we still need to notify Eryang?" The police officer next to him frowned and asked back.
"No, what the old man said is quite reliable. I feel like we have really found the clue." Old Yang replied completely based on his experience and intuition: "Be careful. If you find anything abnormal in advance, don't move yet. Wait for someone to come. This way it will be safer."
"good."
The police officers following Lao Yang were all experienced. After a brief discussion, they immediately dispersed and entered the garbage area. Tang Baiqing, who could not help much, stayed outside and waited.
If a normal person were to search such a large garbage area, it would probably take more than three hours to finish the search, but Lao Yang and the others were different. They were all criminal police officers who had been working for many years. Their personalities might not be that good, but their professionalism was still very strong.
Lao Yang and others entered the garbage area and only needed to take a quick glance at the surrounding environment to roughly determine where it was suitable for hiding people, where it was convenient for suspects to move around, and where the complex terrain was conducive to escape.
The four veteran police officers kept a visual distance and searched for about twenty minutes. Suddenly, one of them stepped forward and found Old Yang. He whispered, "Brother Yang, this way."
Lao Yang and others heard the noise and moved over. The police officer pointed to a row of huge hollow cement pipes not far away and said, "There are footprints in the wet soil over there. There are quite a lot of them."
The beach was wet and had a lot of loose gravel, so any footprints would be particularly obvious. Lao Yang bent over and glanced over there, then immediately rushed over with his gun.
The pile of cement pipes was about four meters high. The hollow width of each pipe was about the same as the sewer entrance. These pipes were stacked together, looking like horizontally placed honeycomb briquettes.
The four searched for about a minute, and someone on the left suddenly shouted, "We found it!"
Old Yang ran over when he heard the sound, raised his head and looked at the second layer of the cement pipe. He saw a plastic bag and two worn-out car mats placed side by side inside.
"Right here. The car mat is for sleeping. It's too cold to lie on the cement pipe." The police officer on the left immediately climbed up, reached out and opened the plastic bag, squatted and moved outside, and took a look in the moonlight: "It's leftovers. Damn it, he didn't take this thing away, he must come back."
When Lao Yang heard this, he immediately called out in a low voice: "Quick, get out, quick!"
The police officer put the plastic bag back in place, bent down and withdrew.
"Let's go, squat over there and wait for our people to arrive, wait for him to come back." Lao Yang called out and retreated with his gun.
The four men immediately retreated and hid on the side of a garbage dump, occupying a position from which they could observe the situation in the cement pipe area.
"Hurry up again and ask where the people from the police station are." Old Yang ordered with sweat on his forehead.
“Tramp!”
Tang Baiqing came over from behind and asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
"I have a good feeling about this." Old Yang whispered back, "There must be someone living here, and it's probably that guy."
"That's good, that's good." Tang Baiqing nodded repeatedly.
The police officer next to Lao Yang took out his phone and was about to call his colleague on duty at the police station when he suddenly heard light footsteps coming from the south side of the pile of cement pipes.
"Don't move, don't move!" Lao Yang held the other person's wrist.
Under the moonlight, the burly Big Bear walked quickly towards the pile of cement pipes with a white plastic bag in his hand. In the moonlight, one could vaguely see two pieces of clothing in it.
"It's him, he's back!" Old Yang recognized Da Xiong at a glance and ordered excitedly, "Spread out, seal off the area, and wait for our people to come."
The three police officers nodded, and Tang Baiqing whispered eagerly, "Let's catch him now! Five people can't catch him alone. We don't need to wait for the police station, right?"
"Don't make a noise. He's a bit strong, and he's probably familiar with the terrain nearby..."
Just as Lao Yang whispered back, Da Xiong, who had already walked near the pile of cement pipes, suddenly stopped.
In the moonlight, the big bear looked down at the messy footprints on the gravel ground and suddenly took a step back.
"Why doesn't he leave?" Tang Baiqing was a little confused.
The big bear stared at the ground for a while, took two steps forward with obvious hesitation, and looked up into the cement pipe where he lived.
A faint light shone into the cement pipe, and Big Bear saw a lot of yellow sand and footprints at the entrance of the pipe.
“Swish!”
This time, Big Bear didn't hesitate and turned away.
"Fuck it!"
Old Yang suddenly jumped up: "This kid is very careful, he saw it. Catch him!"
The three policemen rushed out immediately after hearing the sound, while Tang Baiqing turned his head and glanced around, picked up a worn shovel, and rushed forward with Lao Yang.
The big bear looked back, then swung his legs and ran away.
"Break him, kill him!" Tang Baiqing gritted his teeth and roared viciously.
"Kang!"
Gunshot.