People of the Jianghu!
Alvin thought he'd run into a couple of clueless thieves, but he never expected to meet "people of the Jianghu"!
Cai Wang, a station chief with a background in criminal investigation, easily caught the scent of the Jianghu on the two hapless captives.
Rather than people of the Jianghu, these two were more like men who scraped by on the fringes of society.
They walked the edge of the law, making a living by using their better-than-average knowledge of criminal law to their advantage.
Alvin had seen far too many people like them...
By the time Alvin broke the tenth finger of one of the men, he was ready to crack...
But Cai Wang's arrival interrupted Alvin's style of interrogation, leaving the two of them with shattered kneecaps.
Cai Wang pushed past Frank, who was blocking his way, and walked over to Alvin...
He took the old man's phone Alvin handed him and looked through the text messages and call history. Cai Wang drew in a sharp breath.
Alvin hadn't been bluffing when he said they'd been "lying in wait."
While they were eating, the two men had already worked out a plan for an ambush with their people waiting behind them.
They planned to ambush Alvin and the others on the mountain road when they headed to the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon.
Words easily flagged by monitoring systems, like "police" and "explosives," had all been replaced with code in the messages.
But anyone who understood Chinese could piece together what they were planning, even if they had to guess at a few parts!
Cai Wang slipped the phone into his pocket, ready to take it back as evidence...
Then the veteran police officer angrily walked up to the two would-be robbers, who thought they could