Animal Detective

Chapter 196 Chasing and intercepting
"Is everything okay?"

Chen Chao was also terrified and turned pale.

Shen Xin shook his head. Looking in the rearview mirror, he saw the middle-aged man who had called the police almost crawled onto the police car using both his hands and feet.

"Where did he go?" Chen Chao asked, gripping his pistol tightly.

Shen Xin shook his head, took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and then started the car.

It's safer in the car.

As they drove forward, they both turned their heads to look at the same time.

There was no sign of a tiger behind the wall.

"Go around it," Chen Chao said, pointing ahead.

Shen Xin drove around, turned right, and after driving less than thirty meters, slammed on the brakes.

To the right, in the alley, behind a car parked in front of a house, half of a tiger's body was visible.

Its hearing must be very acute; the sound of the car engine had already alerted it.

He glanced back and immediately darted out.

His running posture was truly full of power; he disappeared behind the courtyard wall in a single step.

Shen Xin quickly drove forward.

Across rows of houses, a tiger was running, its agile figure visible.

Soon, it came to a dead end, stopped abruptly, and turned back.

Shen Xin wanted to back up, but Sun Jingyi and his group's car was blocking the way behind him.

"Stop chasing it." Chen Chao hurriedly pressed Shen Xin down and said, "The more you chase it, the more it runs away. It's already past six o'clock, and people will be getting up soon. Don't startle it, or something terrible might happen."

Shen Xin stopped.

That makes sense, but we can't just ignore it.

Just like Chen Chao said, it's already past six o'clock. There are many elderly people in the village who get up early.

Good heavens, if you push open the door and there's a tiger outside, that could be fatal.

Chen Chao scratched his head vigorously and changed his mind, saying, "Then drive slowly."

As he spoke, he rolled down the car window and shouted to Sun Jingyi and the others behind him.

Tell them to disperse and not follow, then block the intersections of the village's main roads.

Also, Wang Xin, ask the support from Houxia Police Station to arrive as quickly as possible. Once they arrive, try to notify the villagers and ask them to stay at home and not go out for the time being.

Or if there's a village group or something, please let us know.

Only then did he instruct Shen Xin to drive slowly, searching for traces of the tiger.

Sun Jingyi and his group reversed and left, while Shen Xin also turned around and drove slowly, searching for traces of the tiger.

Some courtyards have walls, some don't.

It's alright if there's nothing there; the door is tightly closed.

The worst are those with yards; those two-meter-high walls are so high, a tiger could easily leap over them.

Shen Xin thought about his own abilities.

Cruel crocodiles are effective at building goodwill, but what about tigers?
That should work, right?

I just sat in the car and threw some food to the tiger; maybe that would calm it down.

The thought of food made Shen Xin's heart skip a beat again.

This tiger has been out for six hours. Is it hungry?

Just then, the tiger suddenly darted out from the road ahead.

"This way."

Chen Chao quickly pointed, then grabbed the walkie-talkie in the car and shouted, "Xiao Sun, the tiger is heading your way."

When Shen Xin opened the road, he saw a tiger running on the village road.

At the end of the road was the police car driven by Sun Jingyi.

This created a pincer movement.

Sun Jingyi may have chosen to sound the horn in an attempt to stop the tiger.

The tiger suddenly stopped and turned to run away.

But as soon as they turned around, they saw Shen Xin's police car again.

It turned its head and jumped into the farmland on its left.

In the morning light, it moved nimbly and swiftly across the fields, creating a beautiful scene, but Shen Xin's heart sank.

How to pursue this?
"Turn around." Chen Chao hurriedly pointed behind them, indicating that they needed to take the main road to catch up.

But just as they drove to the village entrance, several police cars arrived.

It was the support from Houxia Police Station that arrived.

Chen Chao peeked out and gestured for them to follow, then set off along the main road to chase after the tiger. But they were too far away, and soon the tiger disappeared without a trace.

Chen Chao flipped through the map, figuring out where to chase after them.

And so it went on until the main force arrived.

Fire trucks, ambulances, and a special police unit.

Moreover, it wasn't just the branch's special police brigade; the municipal bureau's branch also came.

Lu Youwei and Sun Zhao arrived, and even their immediate superior, Zhao Hongjie, came.

It was already fully light.

On the unnamed road between Qiba Village and Daijiatang, Zhao Hongjie asked Chen Chao about the situation with a serious expression.

He didn't bother to pursue the matter further.

A circus tiger unexpectedly escapes; no one could have predicted that.

"Deploy drones, and check nearby surveillance footage, search!"

"Then blockade the nearby major intersections to form an encirclement."

"We also need to contact the village committees of Daijiatang and other villages and ask them to find a way to contact the villagers and persuade them not to go out for the time being."

Zhao Hongjie calmly issued the order.

Find the tiger first, then we can discuss solutions.

After giving the order, he instructed someone to urge the experts from the forestry bureau and the zoo to come over quickly with tranquilizer guns.

Ding Yuwei also came to help. She found Shen Xin and asked him anxiously how he was doing.

"Don't even mention it, it scared me to death."

Shen Xin recalled what had happened at the factory gate earlier; if the tiger had been startled, it would have pounced on everyone.

At human speed, there's no way they could escape.

Zhao Tianxing was also there, grinning, and said, "This thing can hide in any corner and there's no way to find it. Even police dogs wouldn't be able to help."

He remembered reading online that tigers have a bloodline advantage over dogs.

Shen Xin thought that using police dogs to chase tigers, regardless of whether there was any bloodline suppression, would just be feeding the tigers even if they caught up.

The special police detachment brought two drones to search around Daijiatang and Qiba Village.

Support is still arriving, including people from the Forestry Bureau and the Zoo.

We brought the tranquilizer gun, but the problem now is finding the tiger first.

After flying for more than ten minutes, it was spotted.

It's still Daijiatang.

North of Daijiatang, there is a ditch, quite wide, about three or four meters.

The drone has now discovered that, along the river ditch, northeast of Daijiatang, there is what appears to be a duck farm.

The area is decent, surrounded by walls on all four sides. To the north is a large duck shed, in the middle is a bathing pool, to the southeast is the entrance, and then there is a row of bungalows against the east wall, which should be the residential area.

And now, the tiger has jumped over the wall.

In an instant, chaos erupted.

One side of the duck house should be semi-open, but the tiger crawled right inside.

It was like stumbling into a buffet restaurant; I could vaguely see ducks running around everywhere.

"Hurry up!"

Zhao Hongjie didn't have time to look closely and told everyone to set off quickly.

The crowd roared and fled.

Shen Xin drove Ding Yuwei, Zhao Tianxing, and the others.

Zhao Tianxing even joked in the car that if the tiger ate a few ducks and got too full, it probably wouldn't attack people.

It must have not eaten enough at the circus, which is why it ran out to find food.

Shen Xin thought to herself, "If only it were this easy."

It is obvious that people live in this duck farm.

With such a commotion, what if someone gets injured when they come out?

But now that the top leaders have arrived, it's not my place to worry about it.

Shen Xin only hoped that this matter could be resolved satisfactorily, that the person was safe, and that the tiger was safe too.

Just a few minutes away, police cars came roaring to a stop on the road outside the duck farm.

As soon as Shen Xin got out of the car, he heard the roar of a tiger and the quacking of ducks.

Most importantly, someone was shouting for help!

What I feared most came to pass; something really did happen.

(End of this chapter)