Upon receiving Qingmu's call, Shi Dazhuang immediately instructed Peng Jiahu to contact the Municipal Bureau's Information and Communications Department for technical support to track and locate the phone Qingmu was using.
The city bureau's technical staff quickly discovered that the phone number belonged to an overseas maritime satellite phone. To avoid delays, instead of coordinating with the overseas telecommunications company to request location information, they used technical means to directly crack the satellite system and locate Qingmu's position.
After learning the general situation from Qingmu, Shi Dazhuang told Qingmu not to hang up the phone.
He told Peng Jiahu, " The Medicine Granny is just a nobody; there must be a big fish behind her. Have someone from the Municipal Bureau's Information and Communications Department check the recent call records of that satellite phone and track those calls, especially similar maritime calls."
Peng Jiahu immediately communicated with the technical staff of the Information and Communications Department, and then began to arrange the arrest mission.
In general, county-level cities do not have their own dedicated anti-drug squads; instead, they have anti-drug teams under the criminal investigation teams. However, Southern Yunnan is a major drug-affected area, and many counties have established regular anti-drug brigades with a considerable number of personnel. Ruihekou was once the strongest of the county teams, achieving numerous feats under the leadership of Shi Dazhuang and Peng Jiahu. In particular, during Yu Gang's undercover work, they dismantled several large cross-border gangs, leading to a significant decrease in drug trafficking cases in the area.
Shi Dazhuang and Peng Jiahu were known as the Lion and Tiger in Southern Yunnan, striking fear into the hearts of drug traffickers. As a result, in the past two years, foreign drug trafficking groups have largely avoided the drug trafficking route to Ruihekou, leaving only a few small drug dealers, most of whom are local drug users.
Ruihekou is gradually becoming peaceful, and the province has positioned it as an undeveloped treasure of Southern Yunnan, preparing to vigorously develop its tourism industry. Based on this, some people in Baoteng City Bureau have proposed merging the Ruihekou Narcotics Enforcement Team into the Criminal Investigation Team and transferring Peng Jiahu to the city team as its captain.
Therefore, the original anti-drug squad of dozens of people has been reduced to only a dozen or so. This time, Peng Jiahu brought eight people to Mangdian, which means he brought most of his belongings with him.
"I'm afraid you don't have enough manpower!" Shi Dazhuang said worriedly.
Although there is no evidence yet to prove that Mu Ka has returned, Shi Dazhuang can't think of anyone else who would react so strongly upon hearing that Yu Gang is a policeman.
Many people don't know or even know who Mu Ka is, but Shi Dazhuang does.
Mu Ka is Mu Kuo's half-brother, and both of them take their mother's surname. Mu Ka went to the United Kingdom with his biological father when he was 12 years old. At 18, he was admitted to Imperial College to study biochemistry. After graduating, he worked in South America for three years before returning to Mianyue to work in a laboratory.
In the police database, Mu Ka exists only as Mu Kuo's brother, with only a few words mentioned in the file.
However, Yu Gang had received intelligence long ago that Mu Ka was an important figure in Wu Suotun Group. The laboratory where he worked was established with Wu Suotun's investment. Ostensibly, it conducted scientific research, but secretly it mainly carried out high-purity drug extraction experiments, providing technical support for Wu Suotun's drug processing base.
Yu Gang had warned Shi Dazhuang that Mu Ka was a more dangerous guy than Mu Kuo. Shi Dazhuang reported this to his superiors, but because there was no evidence to prove Yu Gang's statement, and Mu Ka had never been active in the country, Mu Ka was not added to the wanted drug trafficker list.
Peng Jiahu had certainly heard some things, but he was dismissive of them, thinking that Mu Kuo was nothing special, let alone his brother. A man who had studied in London, even if he really helped Wu Suotun, would at most help weigh the heroin and manage the accounts.
Shi Dazhuang shook his head and said, " Tiger, you can't be careless! If it really is Mu Ka, he might be difficult to deal with. Besides, he's always been by Wu Suotun's side, and his sudden entry into the country this time is of unknown purpose."
"Let's see when we meet; right now it's all just speculation!" Peng Jiahu said.
Shi Dazhuang said, "It's best to be careful."
At this time, the Municipal Bureau's Information and Communications Department reported that they had located several maritime telephones of the same model, all currently positioned in the Ruihekou area. Due to the lack of support from overseas satellite communication companies, they were temporarily unable to provide real-time location updates and could only track the phones when they made calls.
Peng Jiahu informed Meng Yan to lead a team to provide support on the perimeter, while he would lead a team into the mountains to capture the suspect.
Shi Dazhuang wanted to say that he would go with Peng Jiahu, but when he thought of Yu Meiren, he swallowed the words he was about to say.
Meng Yan had taken almost everyone from the police station away, leaving only the household registration officer Xiao Zhang, who was injured but still insisted on working. Shi Dazhuang was worried about leaving Yu Meiren alone there; if Mu Ka went crazy and came to Mangdian Police Station, it would be troublesome.
"Don't worry, Abbess, if it really is Mu Ka, I'll definitely catch him this time." Peng Jiahu said while putting on his bulletproof vest, "You take good care of the Beauty and wait for my good news!"
Two off-road pickup trucks, kicking up thick dust, drove into the woodland in front of the small wooden building, and more than a dozen people got out of the vehicles.
The man in the lead was in his thirties, dressed in a white Armani linen casual outfit, with Phnom Penh glasses perched on his nose. His short, tousled hair was styled to one side with hair gel, giving him a somewhat celebrity-like appearance.
He looked very refined and polite, like a college student on vacation in the mountains.
" Mu Ka, isn't that the Medicine Granny?" a burly man covered in tattoos said as he approached him.
In the open space not far in front of them, Madman dressed in filthy, tattered clothes was tearing and biting at the Medicine Granny, muttering something incoherently as if he were eating large chunks of meat.
The Medicine Granny lay motionless on the ground, half of her face mangled and bloody, one eyeball popped out and hung by her ear, and half of her nose was missing. Her left hand reached towards the small wooden building, her five fingers leaving five deep scratches on the ground, while her right hand stubbornly held a delicate, orchid-like finger gesture.
Mu Ka slowly walked to the Madman's side, glanced at the old woman on the ground, and covered his nose with a handkerchief. Then he pulled out a pistol and shot the Madman dead.
"Boss, isn't this Madman one of the Medicine Granny's men? He's the one who planted the bomb." The subordinate asked, puzzled, "How did he end up killing the Medicine Granny instead?"
"It's out of control." Mu Ka kicked the Madman away, squatted down to look at the dead Medicine Granny, then stood up and looked in the direction of the cabin.
He walked to the front of the small wooden house and picked up a satellite phone from a nearby tree branch. The phone was still in use and was almost out of battery.
Mu Ka sneered, tossed the phone into a puddle some distance away, then pushed open the door of the small wooden house and went inside.
He climbed the wooden stairs to the second floor, looked around carefully, and found half a lit match on the floor. He then picked up a cigarette butt in the corner of the room, glanced at it, and sneered, " Paramount cigarettes and matches, trying to pass Shanghai Bund!"
"Boss, the back door is open, should we go check it out?" the subordinate asked.
"No need, that's Du Juan's territory. Whoever goes there is doomed." He said, going downstairs and back to the pickup truck. He directed, "You take a few brothers and come with me to Mangdian. The rest of you stay here and lie in ambush. When the police arrive, fight if you can. If you can't, run towards the Nangou River. Once you cross the Nangou River, it's Mianyue. The police here won't dare to chase you there."