It seems that the villain is targeting me.

“This is a difficult matter,” she said.

Officer Landuo has extensive experience in handling cases and understood Xiao Niao's concerns almost instantly:

No matter how many people they bring, once the police rush into the factory, the children will immediately become hostages.

The nature of this criminal gang had risen to the most dangerous level at this time: they were armed with guns and were extremely vicious. According to the law, each convicted criminal should be shot three times.

It is absolutely possible that they will launch a crazy massacre in a desperate situation.

"—Don't act rashly," Lando blurted out subconsciously, "Just wait where you are, the police support will be here soon..."

[Hmm… I really want to hold on until that heroic SWAT officer comes over and shoots all the bad guys…]

"But unfortunately,"

Xiao Niao held the deformed water pipe behind him and looked towards the door of the operating room.

The door was banged hard, and someone outside was loudly asking what was going on inside the house.

She said self-deprecatingly, "Ha... Looks like my luck isn't very good."

"I've been discovered by them."

As if realizing that something had happened in the operating room, the people outside began to try to break down the door violently.

The door panel was hit, and the lock, which was originally quite strong, creaked under the heavy weight.

In fact, there are very few people coming to the operating room.

Because surgeons require a relatively quiet working environment, and organ removal surgery takes a long time, it is normal to have a long waiting time.

Originally, the bird could have delayed for a while longer.

But I don’t know which guy who had nothing to do suddenly wanted to come and take a look, and he found that something seemed to be wrong with the operating room.

After knocking out the two people in the house, Xiaoniao immediately went back and locked the door.

——This good habit of closing the door gave her some room for buffer.

Xiao Niao calmly said into the intercom, "I can't wait for the SWAT support. In a few minutes at most, those people will break in."

Lando almost broke her voice: "You——"

"Listen, Officer Lan," the voice on the other end of the intercom became somewhat vague. "Hold me to the intercom. I'll send you a signal. Wait for my signal."

"Remember what we said before? I'll investigate inside, and you guys wait outside for the opportunity," she said. "We'll work together from inside and outside."

Landuo recalled what Xiaoniao had told her before entering the meat processing plant: when the signal sounds, it is the best time for the police to launch a raid.

I didn't intend to die.

Captain Lando only remembered that when the other party said this, his expression was unexpectedly calm, as if he was confident about what would happen next.

You have to believe me this time, Officer Lan, Xiao Niao said, look, since you knew me, have I never let you down?

Lando's hands began to tremble.

She didn't even care that Chen Xiaoya was right next to her, and yelled at the bird: "This is different from what we said at the beginning--"

"You never said you would go into the underground facility!"

In fact, in the plan described by Officer Xiaoniao Tonglan, she would not even enter the meat processing plant.

However, plans always fail to keep up with changes - this is a universal understanding.

Just as Xiao Niao did not expect that Aqiong would face a death crisis at this juncture, Lando did not expect that a simple tracking would turn into the final encirclement and suppression of the trafficking gang.

But by chance, an accident may become some kind of new turning point.

[Let's not talk about this for now. Let's wait for the signal. I might not be able to stay on the line any longer.]

"I should be able to hold out for fifteen minutes," Xiao Niao said his final words into the intercom. "If you don't take action after this, then this will be my last words."

With a slight beep, the intercom returned to standby mode.

Xiao Niao exhaled, fiddled with the equipment in her hand a little, then put it on the floor and kicked it lightly to an inconspicuous corner behind the operating table.

"...This should be enough, right?" she asked.

"Yes," the system replied, "enough to receive the signal."

That's about it, Xiao Niao thought, Aqiong hid himself, and No. 4 was sent back into the ventilation duct.

All the required items have been exchanged, and fifteen minutes should be enough to set it up.

White ash was constantly falling from the wall near the door frame, and the strong impact caused the door frame to show signs of cracking.

The door lock has become loose and won't hold for much longer.

But Xiaoniao felt unusually relaxed.

She slowly sat down on the chair, her tone a little lazy: "Tongzi, you mentioned nerve gas and anesthesia before.

Medicine...did you violate any rules in this exchange?"

【Well. 】

The system murmured suspiciously.

[According to a rather vague classification, what we bought wasn't a powerful lethal weapon, nor was it beyond the technological scope of this era...]

"So?" Xiao Niao raised his eyebrows.

System: […As long as you don’t report it to the Master Control, you won’t be discovered.]

After thinking for a moment, Tongzi added, "Number Four can't tell anyone about this, or we'll all be demoted and doomed."

"You don't have to worry about that," Xiao Niao muttered softly, "It's almost obsessed with the idea of organizing it, and it's more afraid of mission failure than anyone else..."

For this, this 14-pound fat cat is now lying in the ventilation duct without hesitation.

The system sighed, not knowing what it had thought of.

[…Bird, I know you have your own ideas. You wouldn't do something so dangerous if you weren't 70% or 80% sure.]

The door was kicked open and the vicious thugs rushed in.

But you have to...

The system muttered to itself.

【At least, take care of yourself a little more. 】

Chapter 54: Lao Li: I Provoked You [Please refresh

Outside the meat processing plant, several middle-aged men were gathered together bragging and playing cards.

They didn't use a table, so they just spread a layer of newspaper on the dusty floor, and from time to time someone would excitedly throw poker on it.

Old Li, who was in charge of driving and escorting the "goods", was also among this group of middle-aged men, but he did not go forward to play cards. He just leaned against the tire of the truck, squinting his eyes and watching the battle.

Several people were smoking cigarettes, their eyes fixed on the poker, and their mouths were not idle either.

"Hook!"

"Ha, king bomb!"

One of them seemed to have particularly good luck and had played all the cards in his hand in a short while. After the game was over, this person picked up a box of cigarettes that was used as a bet on the newspaper and came over to Lao Li.

"Old Li, I haven't seen you shipping much these days."

The man handed over a cigarette and lit it for Lao Li. "Didn't you say there was a big deal before? Could it be that you didn't reach an agreement?"

Old Li took a puff of his cigarette comfortably, and after a while, he exhaled a swaying smoke ring.

He didn't respond to the man's words, but just casually waved the hand holding the cigarette, "Alas, things are very tense recently, and business is not good."

The middle-aged man then sighed: "Yeah, it's not easy to make money these days..."

He and Lao Li are close relatives, and because of this relationship, he is closely involved in the meat processing plant's secret "business".

The middle-aged man certainly knew what kind of business Lao Li was doing, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

In remote and impoverished areas, human trafficking is commonplace.

Since they have been accustomed to seeing abducted women and children since childhood, it seems natural for them to get involved in trafficking crimes after they grow up.

In fact, most of the people in the trafficking gang are relatives from the same hometown.

The people playing cards on the ground were all from Lijia Village, and each of them knew the inside story to some extent.

People like them who come from remote and poor villages would not be surprised even if they knew that Lao Li and his men were trafficking people. Instead, they would think that they were particularly righteous and would not forget to help their fellow villagers even when they became rich.

Not only will they not call the police, they will also cover for Lao Li when the police arrive, buying time to escape and destroy evidence.

The two were smoking and chatting when Lao Li suddenly noticed someone not far away waving at them and walking towards them while waving.

Old Li immediately became alert: these human traffickers have always been very wary of unfamiliar faces.

——Especially since this is their base camp.

"Hey, who is that?" He pointed in that direction with his cigarette.

The middle-aged man turned around and saw a young man wearing black work clothes and a baseball cap - when he walked a few steps closer, he could see that it was a young girl.

The girl waved and called out, "Uncle Li, Uncle Li!"

Old Li subconsciously glanced at the person next to him: "Is this someone you know?"

But before the middle-aged man could answer, the young girl walked around the people sitting on the ground playing cards and came back with a smile.

"Uncle Li," she waved in front of Old Li, her tone full of sincerity, "You didn't recognize me? I'm Xiao Chen."

Xiao Chen?

Old Li quickly screened through his mind: he had too many relatives and friends, and it was difficult for him to figure out who the young man in front of him was.

But soon, he wouldn't have to worry about such things anymore—in fact, in a little while, he wouldn't have to worry about any problems in his life.

No one could see the girl's movements clearly - even Old Li, who was facing her, only vaguely saw her stretch out her hand.

Next, he shuddered as if he had seen a living ghost, and looked at the young man in front of him with disbelief.

If Xiao Niao were here, he might recognize who the person in front of him is.

This person had left a deep impression on Xiao Niao, and she would probably have shouted out, "Dr. Chen?!"

Dr. Chen did not wear a mask today, nor did he have any intention of covering his face.

Her temperament is similar to that of the girl who tenderly took care of the little one in the hospital.

Bird people are completely different.

She doesn't look like a human, but like a ghost crawling out of hell.

Old Li's narrow eyes widened, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his body began to tremble constantly - he should have wanted to say something, but not a single word came out of his throat.

Old Li touched his neck awkwardly.

Then he realized that at this moment, death was already an established fact.

The middle-aged man stood two steps behind Lao Li.

From his perspective, just as 'Xiao Chen' was speaking, Lao Li suddenly froze, and then began to shake uncontrollably as if he were having an epileptic seizure.

The young girl seemed to be frightened by Lao Li's sudden change of events and took a step back slowly.

The middle-aged man was a little frightened, and he subconsciously stepped forward to check on his companion's condition.

"Hey, Lao Li," he worriedly held the other's shoulder, "Are you okay? Why did you suddenly start shaking?"

Old Li did not answer him, but turned his head with a strange expression and buried his head deeply.

"Tick...tick..."

what sound?

The middle-aged man lowered his head.

A black and red dot appeared on his leather shoes.

Then more similar liquids rushed down one after another, impatiently, like a water balloon punctured from below, flooding his calfskin shoes.

Looking more closely, Lao Li's collar seemed to be wet by something, and the originally light blue fabric became particularly dark.

He finally realized that it was blood, warm venous blood, and the thick smell of rust penetrated his nostrils, making him scream in horror.

He could never have imagined that someone would dare to commit a crime in this place in front of so many people.