Chapter 516: A Surprise

In the office, Lansi dealt with the call from Pang Da.

He did feel a bit surprised by the news provided by Pang Da, but it was not unreasonable.

What he is curious about now is Pang Da's attitude. He has been trying to win over Pang Da, but Pang Da's performance is not that good; he is always wandering outside Lansi's control range; he doesn't want to be controlled by Lansi.

The most important thing in making friends is to be able to open your heart.

Lansi turned to look at the azure sky outside the window and lit a cigarette, "You just want to notify me of this news, or do you want me to help you?"

Pang Da didn't answer him immediately. He is not a fool. Those who can be selected and stand out from more elites from various law enforcement departments have an IQ at least within the normal range.

He understood what Lansi meant. If he said, he just wanted to tell Lansi this news.

Then it is very likely that they will return empty-handed tonight, and then Wei Bo will fly into a rage of incompetence and attribute this terrible result to someone leaking the news.

Pang Da has handled many cases related to smuggled wine and privately brewed wine. In those underground brewing workshops, including those in private homes.

The moment you walk in, you can smell that very special fragrance after crops are fermented.

Very fragrant, very rich.

Some people, in order to avoid being discovered, will close their doors and windows tightly, but the more they do this, the more the fragrance of fermentation will slowly spread to the surroundings.

Some people directly open doors and windows, keeping the brewing place in a ventilated environment. Although this is very effective, more people can smell this smell.

Even if Lansi's people withdrew and moved away all possible evidence and traces, they would still know that there seemed to be someone brewing wine there at least in the past week.

So the first answer is not a good choice.

The basis for the reconciliation between him (Pang Da) and Weber is that Weber can capture this big case, thereby letting his uncle operate in the State Prohibition Committee, so that Weber has the opportunity to be chief.

But if he can't get this big case, he has no qualification to compete with Chief Dai Er, and the reconciliation between him and Pang Da will also be void.

Then, it seems there is only one correct answer, after excluding one wrong answer.

This is what Lansi hopes for, he knows.

Once he has such a request, it is equivalent to him leaving a handle in Lansi's hands. This handle doesn't need any paper document explanation, nor does it need any recording or photo, just need him to say it.

More than ten seconds passed quickly. Many things flashed through Pang Da's mind: the encounters during this period, Lisa's encounters, and Weber's difficulties and reconciliation with him.

He had never had such a strong desire to obtain a higher status and more power!

"Help me."

"Help you with what?", Lansi continued to ask.

Pang Da's heavy voice came from the receiver, "Help me solve Weber."

Before saying this sentence, this sentence seemed to have a special magic, making it very difficult for Pang Da to say it.

Actually, he didn't know that what made it difficult for him to say it was his bottom line. His bottom line was preventing him from doing so, but clearly, his bottom line was not hard, at least not harder than desire.

The bottom line was easily pierced and broken. After breaking the bottom line, everything seemed to become easy.

The bottom line is like that membrane, it is extremely difficult before it is broken, and after it is broken, everything becomes moist.

"After Weber dies, I am the agent most qualified to move up. By then, I will catch some suspects, send them to prison, and no one can pick out any fault in my promotion by one level, and this matter can also end here."

"I have been thinking about this problem for the past few days, Lansi. You are very right, we are friends."

"Friends should help each other!"

Lansi couldn't help laughing after listening, "I am very happy that you can figure this out, Pang Da. Not only is there no hatred or hostile relationship between us, but we should be the most complementary sides!"

"Don't rush too far forward at night to avoid accidental injury."

After hanging up the phone, Pang Da calmed down and cleared his head. Countless images flashed through his mind, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

An afternoon was enough for Lansi to make various responses.

The abandoned farm was actually on the edge of being abandoned. Lansi's own winery had already moved to a valley further away, more hidden than the farm.

And the wind in the valley is very strong, which helps to blow away the smell emitted during fermentation and distillation, and it is easier to hide.

The farm side is because many tools are not convenient to dismantle and move, so it is still being used temporarily. Even if it is really abandoned, it will not affect the subsequent production and sales.

Especially the Lawrence farm has also started to provide wine for Lansi's wine system. He has sufficient supply now, so he doesn't have to worry about not having enough if one farm's winery is missing.

The two major groups of the Hazardous Materials Investigation Bureau are all preparing for the raid at night, but they don't know who the target of this mission is and where it is.

Weber had secretly been there once. He saw traces of trucks passing by on the ground, and there was a faint fragrance of fermentation and distillation hidden in the air.

This is indeed a winery.

Weber was excited all afternoon. He had already talked to his uncle on the phone, confirmed this news, and the fact that the winery did exist. They talked about the problem of Chief Dai Er.

His uncle told him that Dai Er's influence and presence in Congress and New Jincheng had been weakened to the extreme.

He did do a few beautiful things, but he also did quite a few stupid things, and the mayor's matter also implicated him.

For the masters in Congress, they never lack handy tools.

Every year, there are more than ten thousand young people who graduate from Elite Alliance colleges, whether it is family background, relationship network, or personal ability, who are very outstanding, waiting for their summons. The higher the level of people, the less they lack talent.

Dai Er has no replaceability. His relationship with the mayor is too close. Even if they are not as closely connected as they were in the past, his value in the eyes of the Congressman masters has basically become zero.

Senator Cleveland didn't even make a phone call to the mayor during his time in Jincheng, let alone meet him, and his status in Congress is constantly improving.

Even if some people have a little contact with Chief Dai Er, they won't offend Senator Cleveland for a toolbox full of tools.

Politics, especially in the issue of standing in line, simply doesn't exist with reason and cause.

I don't like this person, but you talked to him, so I don't like you either!

No need to reason, and I don't care why you talked to him, but you just talked to him, that's all!

So now Chief Dai Er is a bit awkward, and someone is already eyeing the position under his butt.

If Weber can catch a big case, a big case that can alarm the Congressional Prohibition Committee, then Weber's uncle can help him operate it to see if he can go up another level.

Chief Dai Er made enough mistakes before. When no one was looking for trouble with him, those mistakes were trivial.

But when someone wants to look for trouble with him, those mistakes are fatal!

This news was very exciting to Weber, and he became more and more looking forward to the action at night.

Six o'clock, by reason, is the time to get off work, but at Weber's request, people from both major groups stayed behind.

He ordered some food for everyone. A large amount of fast-food boxes were sent to the Hazardous Materials Administration. This money must be paid from the action funds, not his personal expense.

The food standard was not bad, customized at the price of one dollar per person, with bread, vegetable salad, half a fruit that was sour to death, and some beef cubes and fries.

This might be the first time everyone had dinner together with other colleagues in the office. Pang Da sat in his position, eating these foods absent-mindedly.

Everyone felt it was delicious—the fast-food restaurant boss actually knows better than ordinary housewives how to make people express strong praise for food!

It doesn't have to be healthy, but it must be delicious!

"Do you know something?", his neighbor colleague asked, "Weber let you go to his office, do you know something?"

"Can you satisfy my curiosity before we leave and set off?", Pang Da glanced at her, "No comment!"

"Don't make me beg you!", his neighbor used a tone with a hint of playfulness to ask again.

If it were other things, Pang Da would have said it, but this matter, he couldn't let his suspicion become greater.

If he told these colleagues, there might be someone among them who would sell him out, or tell others without thinking it was selling him out, that he revealed news about the mission, so he wouldn't say anything.

Once Weber has an accident, the Prohibition Committee and his uncle will definitely attack the local Hazardous Materials Administration because of this. He cannot become a scapegoat.

He shook his head again, "No comment, you will know soon."

Seeing that he really didn't want to say, the colleague didn't pursue it anymore. At six-thirty, everyone started preparing for the mission.

Accompanied by the group leaders of each action group entering the conference room, the atmosphere in the hall became slightly serious.

About ten minutes later, the group leaders of each group came out of the office. They required all agents to check their weapons, ammunition, and then prepare for action.

It is forbidden for anyone to make phone calls, forbidden for them to leave people's sight, even if they go to the toilet, they need two people to go together!

At the same time, they also knew the destination this time, the abandoned farm in the suburbs.

At a glance/p>

The night in the second half of March came as early as in autumn and winter. Before seven o'clock, the sky was already completely dark. Police cars without sirens left the Hazardous Materials Administration one after another.

For a time, all bars in the city became terrified. Who knows if they found some bar's location and planned to launch a surprise attack.

They often do this kind of thing, impossible to guard against.

Until more than ten minutes later, people relaxed a little. They heard that those cars left the city.

They don't know what's outside the city, but as long as they aren't coming to find trouble with them, they are very satisfied.

Seven twenty-five, the convoy arrived at the periphery of the abandoned farm. They brought two police dogs specifically for searching for alcohol.

The two police dogs had become restless. Because they were muzzled, they couldn't make a sound now.

But from their constantly shaking bodies and restless expressions, it could be seen that there was something Weber wanted to find nearby.

In the dark night in the distance, under the moonlight, one could vaguely see some building groups of the farm, among which there were faint lights in two warehouses!

Weber considered coming during the day, but they were too conspicuous during the day with so many people. They might be discovered by the winery's people before they even got close.

These people would definitely arrange some mobile outposts outside to guard against the investigation and discovery of the Hazardous Materials Administration.

Although there are many inconveniences at night, the night also provides protection for them.

The ground in the farm is not easy to walk on, plus the muddy roads pressed by trucks make it harder for the police to pass, so Weber required everyone to walk over.

The distance of two or three hundred meters is not far, the key is that one foot is deep and one foot is shallow, and just walking a few steps, one can feel the shoes obviously becoming much heavier.

It's just that Weber himself also walked along, so everyone had nothing to say.

This case is obviously big. The chief and senior agents attach great importance to it, so even if they have some complaints, they won't say them out.

The case is solved, the credit is shared equally, and everyone can get a bonus.

The closer they got to the abandoned farm's warehouse, the stronger the fragrance produced by fermentation and distillation in the air. Everything was no problem. The only problem was, why were there no guards here?

No sentry is fine, why wasn't there even anyone on duty? Is it because the weather is still cold?

The weather in March is not cold, it's above zero. Weber stood in the wilderness with the wind blowing, and inexplicably, a chill surged up.

The weeds that were half a person high or even a person high kept shaking under the blowing of the wind, touching him, giving a very eerie feeling.

Because there were many of them, they wouldn't have this feeling when they weren't paying attention, but now he noticed it, and always felt that there seemed to be something in the bottom of his heart peeking at him!

He rubbed his arms and continued forward.

The two major groups had already surrounded the two warehouses. Pang Da showed a look of doubt on the side. He didn't know how Lansi planned to deal with Weber, but he decided to follow Lansi's instructions and not get too close.

Following the end of the action group's action arrangements, several people slammed open the warehouse doors, and then all they heard were warnings like "Hazardous Materials Investigation Bureau," "Raise your hands."

There was no one in the warehouse. This was beyond people's expectations, but there was a lot of wine here!

Weber came to a wine barrel. He found a blunt object from the side and smashed it against the wine barrel. After smashing it a few times, it was smashed open with a mouth.

The strong wine flowed out from inside. He reached out and took some and put it in his mouth, and his face suddenly turned slightly red.

"Whiskey!"

"Clear it up, how much wine is here!"

Soon they cleared it up. One hundred and twenty wine barrels. These are all small Bart barrels, with a specification of two hundred and fifty liters, but in reality, it will be slightly less and won't be filled.

Filling it up easily leads to the wine barrel itself cracking. Most wine barrels will leave a space of about three to five liters to ensure that it won't crack due to collision, vibration, or fragmentation during transportation.

"How much money is this worth?", Weber was excited listening to these people's reports, "What about the warehouse on the other side?"

There were about seventy or eighty barrels of whiskey in the other warehouse, adding up to a full two hundred barrels!

"More than fifty thousand worth of wine!", Weber's heartbeat had already started to accelerate. A case of fifty thousand might not be able to alarm Congress, but if he could catch some people, let them confess more smuggled wine and funds, and accumulate some historical sales.

Then this case of illegal private brewing of wine with a case value of at least over a million would definitely be able to alarm Congress.

If he tried to fight for judicial support again, let those main culprits be sentenced to death, as a "negative example" to warn society, then alarming Congress would be inevitable!

Weber had already seen what he wanted, beckoning to him not far away, and his whole person became excited!

"Search it. There can't be no one guarding so much wine. See if they are in the surrounding rooms..."

Soon the surrounding warehouses and houses were all searched. Although traces of people living there were found, not a single living person was found.

Weber guessed that they might have alarmed these people when they came, causing them to escape in advance. Not catching anyone made Weber's mood not as excited as just now.

"We found some things in a house..."

Soon some account books and a locked box were sent to Weber. He first flipped through the account book.

The account book wrote some shipment records, when how much goods were shipped to whom. Some key information inside used codes, but roughly it could still be seen that this was a winery with a huge throughput!

Then his gaze fell on the locked iron box. It was about a foot square, and it felt heavy in his hand. There should be quite a few things inside.

What locked it was an ordinary lock, which was pried open very easily, and then it was placed in front of Weber.

As the initiator and commander of the entire action, this kind of thing was definitely handed to him to open first.

"Hope the things inside can give me a surprise!", he said to the people around him, and then placed both hands on the sides of the iron box lid and began to exert force.

In the process of it being slowly opened, Weber thought of many things.

For example, there might be some codebooks inside, some contact information, some more important things that would make it convenient for them to catch the winery owner.

People around all took the initiative to lean over, eyes tightly fixed on the constantly opening iron box.

When the lid was slightly lifted, Weber clearly felt some resistance. He frowned slightly, lifted it upward with force, and that resistance disappeared in an instant.

Immediately after, the lid was lifted upward violently, revealing the true face of the things inside.

Weber stared wide-eyed at the things inside, countless emotions surged in his chest, and finally condensed into one sentence—

"Holy Crab!"

Pang Da, who was smoking outside the building, turned his head curiously, and immediately a wave of air blew him away!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 517 =====