Chapter 598: What a Fine Coordination

This voice changer is really troublesome… Yu Dazhang couldn't help feeling a bit irritated.

Especially with this kind of electronic synthesized voice, it stays at one pitch the whole time—you can't pick up any change in the other party's emotions at all.

Still, Yu Dazhang could tell that the other party had already identified him as a police officer.

On the road heading to the western suburbs.

He used his own phone to call Lu Zhongxin.

"Master, my next destination is the Western Suburbs Hotel."

Yu Dazhang spoke quickly:

"I figure that place is just an observation point the other side set up. What they really want me to go to is some fork in the road out in the suburbs."

"And that fork in the road is definitely one without surveillance."

No matter which city's outskirts, there are plenty of country lanes—some of them lead to only a single household.

And the vast majority of these country lanes have no surveillance.

"Understood."

Lu Zhongxin replied in a serious tone:

"Next we'll keep close watch on every fork in the road near the Western Suburbs Hotel, with priority on lanes that don't have surveillance equipment installed."

After saying that, he added one more line:

"The suspect Yu Chong has already been caught. We cornered him at the escalator on the second floor of the shopping center. Neither suspect was carrying a weapon—officers have been assigned to conduct an on-site interrogation."

A very wise move… Yu Dazhang remarked to himself.

In an arrest operation of this scale, even if the suspects had guns on them, it wouldn't have done them any good.

Rather than putting up pointless resistance, they might as well surrender.

Carrying no deadly weapons will also count for a lighter sentence later on.

Twenty minutes later.

Yu Dazhang arrived at the Western Suburbs Hotel and parked the car on the open ground outside.

He didn't deliberately stall for time; the whole way he drove at a normal speed.

Now he could confirm the other side wasn't tailing him. Wu Rui and Yu Chong had both been caught, and they didn't have enough people left to run a tail.

If that's the case, arriving early or late makes no difference—the other side's call comes at a fixed time anyway.

Sure enough, after he arrived, the other side didn't contact him right away. About five minutes passed before the phone rang again.

Yu Dazhang glanced at the caller display, then tapped answer.

"Your position?" The electronic synthesized voice came through the phone.

Yu Dazhang looked out through the car window but spotted no suspicious people around—not even any police.

"On the open ground at the entrance of the Western Suburbs Hotel," he answered truthfully.

The person on the other end, hearing this, gave him instructions:

"From there, get on the road to the south, then head east. Park the car at the entrance of the second lane."

"There's a drainage ditch next to that intersection—easy to spot."

The other side clearly didn't even give Yu Dazhang the chance to play dumb, directly spelling out the features of the intersection.

Before Yu Dazhang could reply, the voice on the other end went on:

"Officer, I hope you'll cooperate properly. So far we haven't harmed the hostage—we just want money. Don't push us into a corner."

So professional… Yu Dazhang was so choked by those words he couldn't get a reply out.

"You have only five minutes. Be quick. If after five minutes your car isn't parked at that intersection, I won't contact you again."

The other side didn't give him a chance to respond either—after speaking, they simply hung up.

Yu Dazhang put down the phone, started the car at once, and floored it out of there.

The time the other side gave was a bit tight—even a moment's hesitation could mean missing it.

Five minutes later.

He had just parked the car at that intersection when his phone rang.

The moment he answered, the electronic synthesized voice came through:

"Get out of the car. Leave the engine running."

Yu Dazhang, hearing the other side's instruction, froze for a beat.

Get out of the car?

Aren't we handing over the gold here?

He had assumed the other side would have him toss the gold by the roadside, or drive down that lane and leave the gold somewhere with no one around.

But he hadn't expected that they wanted not just the gold, but his car as well.

That had to be it!

Sure enough, after Yu Dazhang got out of the car as instructed, the electronic synthesized voice sounded again:

"Leave the car. Keep walking east along the road."

This time, Yu Dazhang hesitated.