PFC Chapter 54 The chilling surveillance
Chapter 54 The chilling surveillance
"Officer! Please don't wrong innocent people! We are all law-abiding citizens!"
Seeing this, the young man quickly said something.
"Uncle Qin, listen! This might be a spy from Japan!"
The fisherman immediately pointed at the young man and said.
"What's going on here? Can someone explain?"
The middle-aged man in the police uniform was not affected by the fisherman's words, but instead looked at the group of about thirty people in front of him who were clearly not part of the same group.
"Let me tell you! Let me tell you! We saw a tiger cub on the street, then called the police and had them come and catch it and release it back into the mountains."
When the tiger cub tried to run away, we thought we'd make it easier for the police to catch it, so we followed the tiger cub.
However, the little tiger was too agile, and we couldn't catch up with it, so we followed it here.
It just barked towards this door, and we heard the sounds of two adult tigers and a tiger cub coming from inside, so we just called the police and are waiting for them to arrive.
"Officer, look, this is my call log. No criminal would call the police before you arrive, right?"
The young man quickly spoke, trying to clear himself of suspicion.
When he showed the call log on his phone, the middle-aged policeman nodded, already believing him to be about 70-80%.
"Uncle Qin, see? I told you so! That guy is definitely up to something! This is absolutely illegal hunting of wild animals! And it's a Class I protected animal in China! He should be sentenced to at least three to five years in prison!"
Upon hearing this, the fisherman was overjoyed and quickly said...
"Good thing you didn't cause me any trouble. Xiao Zhang, get the pliers and cut this lock."
The middle-aged policeman's lips curled slightly, and then he decisively gave the order.
"Captain Qin...shouldn't we get some approval from above?"
At this moment, a young policeman with clear eyes asked, bewildered.
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged policeman couldn't help but rub his temples, feeling a bit of a headache.
"Give me a damn note! Opening this door is a group third-class merit! Didn't you hear they just called the police? By the time you get the note, the cooked duck will have flown away!"
The fisherman, however, had fewer concerns and spoke frankly.
"Ahem... Be mindful of the impact."
The middle-aged policeman coughed twice and said in a low voice.
But he couldn't suppress the smile on his lips.
Upon hearing the fisherman's words, some of the police officers who were still confused immediately brightened up and quickly took out pliers from their police car.
Seeing this, Cang Nian quickly moved aside.
With a snap, the heavy lock was broken off and fell to the ground.
As the gates opened, everything inside the factory was revealed.
In the iron cages, some wild animals looked haggard, while others seemed numb.
Animal hides, tiger heads, bear paws, tiger bone powder...
Upon seeing this, the middle-aged policeman's smile vanished.
"Xiao Wu, go back and check the surveillance footage immediately. None of the criminals who did these things can be let go! Catch them tonight!"
The middle-aged policeman acted swiftly and decisively.
……
Early the next morning, a batch of fresh food was transported from outside into the factory.
Cannes has no zoo, so the rescued animals have to stay there.
And Cangnian, naturally, was also locked up with Tiger Mom.
According to the police officers who came and went, the rescued animals are kept in captivity until they recover their health and are able to survive in the wild before being released back into the wild in batches.
So, it's unclear which department is paying for it, but the rescued animals are able to eat nutritious and palatable food.
The good news is that, according to animal experts who arrived overnight, the Cang Nian family is in good health and can be released back into the wild now.
In addition, the police were very efficient, arresting all the criminals in the poaching gang in one night, and finding the original habitat of the rescued animals from their hunting records.
Therefore, at noon today, once the armed police are ready, they can send Cangnian's family back to their original habitat!
Cangnian overheard these conversations from the police officers guarding the area.
There are also some news items that have little to do with Cang Nian, such as the fact that those poachers not only committed the crime of poaching and trading wild animals, but also killed people and trafficked people in the past. They were a group of itinerant criminals who escaped punishment because the criminal investigation methods were not mature enough in the past.
But this time, they were completely ruined because of this incident, and the previous cases were also solved, which is a significant contribution to the fight against crime.
Therefore, it was almost a certainty that the police team led by the middle-aged policeman, whom the fisherman called "Uncle Qin," would receive a collective second-class merit.
Soon, the tiger tasted beef for the first time, and a police transport vehicle arrived outside.
Because of the immense energy expenditure along the way, Cang Nian, who weighed only seven kilograms, managed to eat two kilograms of beef, making his belly bulge out.
Once loaded onto the transport truck, Cang Nian was already looking forward to going home.
……
Meanwhile, at the Cannes Police Department.
Outside, the entire criminal investigation team was excited.
But the team leader, Qin Changyi, and the fisherman were still sitting in the monitoring room.
On the separate monitoring screen to the side, several images were playing repeatedly.
The first scene shows a fisherman's pickup truck following a poacher's truck into the city.
On the back of the fisherman's truck, a small black, white, and orange tiger was clinging to the roof, seemingly observing the truck in front of it.
The second scene shows the fisherman's pickup truck and the poacher's truck parked in an empty alley.
The black, white, and orange tiger cub, unnoticed by anyone, jumped off the truck bed and disappeared into the nearby bushes.
A moment later, a dark shadow darted out from the bushes and jumped to the junction of the truck cab and the trailer. A few seconds later, the little tiger climbed onto the roof of the trailer, in a blind spot for those standing on the ground.
The last scene shows the truck driving away from the industrial park, and the little tiger on the truck bed is gone.
"Uncle Qin, do you think... this little thing might actually be a spirit?"
The fisherman said with lingering fear.
Although his aged physique might not seem to pose any threat to him, an overly intelligent animal can inspire genuine fear.
"According to the poachers' statements, they hunted the three tigers—two large and one small—yesterday afternoon. Their habitat is a full 130 kilometers away from Kangcheng. Even excluding the road section, it's still more than 50 kilometers as the crow flies, and you have to cross the River Cam..."
It ran all the way from its habitat with a clear purpose: to rescue the three tigers. And if the previous speculation was correct, no one could catch it if it wanted to escape. So its wandering around the city center, being spotted and watched, and then luring a group of onlookers back to the facility where the animals were held—it was all carefully planned.
Qin Changyi spoke slowly, feeling increasingly uneasy as he spoke.