Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 494 The back door isn't for people to use.
The main entrance of the bar.

Ignoring the waiter's calls, Li Mingzhao strode inside.

Just as the waiter was about to dissuade him, a team member reached out and stopped him.
"We're looking for someone."

Without the group member exerting any force, the waiter was pushed aside and leaned against the bar.

Upon entering the bar, Li Mingzhao looked around.

This is a music bar featuring live music performances, and a band has already taken to the stage, looking like they're about to put on a show.

The audience was packed, with every seat filled.

Each table was surrounded by a diverse group of guests, some drinking heartily, others chatting and laughing.

Most of them were focused on the stage, clearly intending to put on a show.

After a brief pause, Li Mingzhao took out his phone, glanced at it, then determined the direction and walked straight into the inner area.

Just as he reached a corner, another group of three people slowly walked towards them.

However, the two groups did not merge.

The three group members stopped a short distance behind Li Mingzhao and his group, watching the guests drinking and chatting below the stage warily.

Li Mingzhao stopped walking as he approached the door of a private room.

A young man standing at the door frowned when he saw three strangers arrive and said:

"This private room is taken."

Although he was dressed in civilian clothes, his posture and demeanor clearly showed that he had received military training.

He had barely finished speaking when a hand reached out from the opposite side.

By the time he realized what was happening, the hand had already landed on his face, pushing him backward.

"Boom!"

The young man hit the back of his head against the wall and passed out without uttering a sound.

As Li Mingzhao let go, Ye Lin immediately stepped forward and touched the young man's neck, then raised her hand and touched his neck again.

At this moment, Xiao Yi and his two companions walked over from the other side and joined them.

Seeing this, Li Mingzhao took a step back, waved his hand at the door, and made an "attack" gesture.

The team members understood, and as Xiao Yi kicked down the door, they all raised their guns and rushed into the house.

"do not move!"

A loud shout rang out, followed by a burst of gunfire.

The "bang bang bang" sounds drowned out the music and were particularly jarring in the bar.

At the same time, gunshots rang out in the center of the bar.

Several guests who were drinking and chatting in the audience were suddenly shot and fell to the ground. Without exception, all of them were tightly gripping guns.

"what!!"

A sharp female voice rang out, and the bar erupted into chaos.

Some people lay down on the ground, while others fled in all directions, with some running towards the bar entrance.

Just as they reached the bar, several armored vehicles with the word "SWAT" printed on them suddenly drove up and completely blocked the bar entrance.

The gunfire lasted for a full minute before gradually subsiding.

At this moment, Li Mingzhao was standing in the private room, looking around.

"Where is Ying Xuelian?" He looked at Xiao Yi and the others.

"I didn't see it," a team member immediately replied.

"I didn't see her when I came in."

The other group members also shook their heads, indicating that they had never seen Ying Xuelian.

“Impossible, the signal is clearly coming from this room.” Li Mingzhao looked around again.

After confirming that Ying Xuelian was indeed not there, he took out his phone from his pocket. After some maneuvering, he moved to a sofa while keeping an eye on the screen. Putting the phone down, he reached into the sofa cushions and began to grope around.

A moment later, he used two fingers to pull out a locator about the size of a little fingernail.

Ying Xuelian has been exposed!

Li Mingzhao's face turned very ugly, and his brows furrowed into a knot.

He and Ying Xuelian agreed that once they saw the two agents, Wild Fox and Bloodhound, they should immediately send a signal, and the National Security Bureau would launch an arrest operation as soon as possible.

The signal was received, which means that Ying Xuelian was exposed after meeting the two agents.

It goes without saying that the two agents were carrying devices that could identify signals.

They removed the tracking device from Ying Xuelian, secretly placed it in the gap of the sofa, and then took it away.

Li Mingzhao stared at the corpses lying haphazardly in the private room, his face grim, a fierce murderous glint flashing in his eyes.

Clearly, the people in the private room were completely unaware of the GPS tracker.

They unwittingly became scapegoats for the two agents.

The gunshot here will buy them enough time to escape.

Wait ~
Something seems off.

Li Mingzhao suddenly raised his head and looked at Xiao Yi:
"You came in through the back door?"

"Yes," Xiao Yi nodded in response.
"The road from the back door to here was clear, and we didn't see a single person."

He knew what Team Leader Li wanted to know—whether they had encountered any suspicious people on the way—so he emphasized that point.

Didn't they escape through the back door?
Li Mingzhao frowned and looked at another group of people:

"Have the special police officers at the front gate arrived yet?"

"We've arrived," one of the team members replied.

"The main gate has been sealed off by special police, and no one is allowed to enter or leave."

They called in the special police, firstly to maintain order, and secondly to prevent anyone from sneaking among the guests and escaping through the main entrance.

In contrast, this wouldn't happen with backdoors.

Because the customers who come to the bar have no idea where the back door is, and they also have a group of people who are specifically there to flank them from the back door.

"They didn't even come out through the main gate?" Li Mingzhao muttered to himself.

Even if they were able to break through the SWAT team's blockade, it would inevitably lead to a gunfight; there's no way things would remain completely quiet.

The group members present clearly realized this as well, and all looked puzzled.

Are they still in this bar?
The bar is only one story high, and all the windows are sealed off, so there is no possibility of escaping by jumping out of a window.

"Call one of the bar's staff over here, quick!" Li Mingzhao ordered.

Soon, a man who looked like a foreman was brought over.

Li Mingzhao arrived at the door of the private room, looked at him, and asked:
How many exits does this bar have?

"Two," the man replied, adding as he went:
"However, people are not allowed to pass through the back door."

Upon hearing this, Li Mingzhao immediately pressed for an answer:

"Why can't people pass?"

The man, who appeared to be the foreman, was very talkative and spoke very clearly. Upon hearing this, he immediately explained:
"Our manager said that after the dragon's energy enters the site, it needs to circulate and exit through another outlet, which is called: 'draining water'."

"Otherwise, the negative energy will easily accumulate in the venue, affecting the feng shui and fortune of the bar. So that back door is for the convenient release of negative energy."

What nonsense... Li Mingzhao naturally didn't believe such a load of rubbish.

Where is your manager?

The man glanced behind Li Mingzhao and replied:

"It's in the private room right behind you."

(End of this chapter)