Chapter 29 Ambush in the first quarter

"Hey, old Jim, you're late." On March 18, 2005, at five past ten in the evening, Hamburger Platz subway station. "Sorry, Wenzel, I missed a bus." Old Jim was carrying a strange long and narrow schoolbag—it was finally decided to ask him to borrow it from a friend after we discussed it in advance (who made him have friends who love golf): After you catch the killer, use it to place the murder weapon. "Hey, I say, old Jim, that doesn't quite look like a golf club bag! Where did you borrow it?" "Hey, amateur golfers use amateur bags - there are no rich people among my friends, and it's not uncommon for them to use fishing nets to hold clubs!" Old Jim patted the huge white narrow canvas bag, and I quipped.

"All right, old Jim. Let's go over our battle plan again." I took out the block map of the area - the part of Bianca Street was marked by us: yesterday, we went here for a field survey - all open parking lots and underground passages, bus and subway stations have been marked by us. Fortunately, Bianca Street does not have the kind of gardens in the middle of the street that often span several streets-this makes our workload a lot lighter. For tonight's action, I also made an additional diagram that looks more concise: Bianca Street Diagram Wenzel made this diagram and it really doesn't look very pretty - I did this poor crafting class assignment with letter stickers for bookmarks, blank tape stickers, and gray washi tape: Rep The golden part of the underground passage is even taken from the tin foil on the cigarette pack.In spite of all the trouble and ungratefulness, I managed to get two copies out, and gave the better-looking one to old Jim.

From this specially made schematic diagram, we can clearly see—there are four open parking lots on Bianca Street (replaced by the letter P)—among them, the parking lot near the end of the street is "Folik" (Author's note: Flic, which means "police" in French) The customer parking lot of a chain supermarket.We know that the supermarkets in Liberty City are only open until eight o'clock in the evening at the latest.There are no all-night pubs near the parking lot, and there are no all-night casinos or hotels. We also checked again in the previous two nights: this parking lot is open after nine o’clock (that is, the supermarket’s After the staff are off work), there will be no more vehicles entering or leaving.

The open parking lot next to the 371/375 bus stop on Bianca Street is in principle exclusively used by the three apartment buildings in charge of No. 29, 31 and 33 on this street.But in fact, No. 30, 32, 34 and even No. 36 across the street (these buildings are in charge of the Engobe property (author's note: Engobe, the French meaning of "glazed material") - they are in the city's In any residential area, there are inextricable battles) Some tenants also park their cars here in order to save the annual rent of the parking space-this is entirely caused by the mistakes made by the property management company at the beginning of the building : The three buildings in Isalal can only accommodate fifty households, but there are nearly two hundred underground parking spaces!

In contrast, the parking lot next to the 79/772 bus stop has much fewer parking spaces-this open-air parking lot transformed from a street basketball court can only accommodate a pitiful 16 Cars: Most of the parkers are residents who live nearby and do not have enough garages. The open-air car park next to Hamburger Platz is slightly larger - probably due to the proximity to the subway station (replaced by the letter S), the parking spaces in this car park are always in high demand.The parkers are all car-owning class in several office buildings on Hanau Street who live farther away—in order to save gas money, they choose to use the subway to complete most of the journey to work, and only use the subway from the subway station to the place of work. Drive on that stretch of road.The downhill route from Volos Street (from the traffic zoning map, it seems that the distance from Volos Street Metro Station to Hanau Street is relatively close) to Hanau Street is quite bad; and, most importantly: the entire Volos Not a single open parking lot on the street! – Therefore, it is undoubtedly very important for this group of people who are too lazy to move their legs to get a parking space in the Hamburger Platz parking lot after get off work.

All of the above have been investigated long before I handed in the "Important Report on the March Serial Homicide Case" - it was originally a preparation for the convenience of the superior to deploy the police force, but now it has become our Action guide: However, the work that should have been shared by many people is now performed by only two volunteers. I asked Handik to take two days of sick leave for me; and old Jim just took his attendance card away-anyway, no one will take his attendance card for statistics at the end of this month to see if he Enough to get this month's attendance bonus.

We were busy all day Tuesday - we knocked on almost every door from 29th to 36th and issued a warning to residents living near the 79/772 bus stop on Bianca Street to arrive at 10 Don't go out casually on the night of the eighth day, and don't come back too late.We kept showing our police badges to prove we weren't some bad salesman from somewhere.In the end, I even carried my police badge all the time-for the first time this day, I felt the weight of the police badge. We also got in touch with the police officer who was patrolling Bianca Street that night, Wale Keiler of the Sixth Bureau—he was a solid guy.We proposed that he keep an eye on the underpass near Hanaustrasse and the customer parking lot outside the Flickr supermarket: he happily agreed, and said he would take two of his best colleagues along for the patrol, telling us not to fear for his safety.

In fact, the part that Waller is in charge of is almost harmless—according to my previous investigation, basically no one will go there after midnight (the cautious "Romeo the Scythe" must have investigated this street—he probably Nor will they choose such a place where it is likely that they will not be able to wait for any prey). Old Jim is responsible for keeping an eye on the open-air parking lot next to the 79/772 bus stop on Bianca Street and the Hamburg Square-the attitude of the residents living in this part is generally higher than that of the underground parking lot of the Isalal property. The nearby ones have to cooperate; in addition, the parking spaces in the square parking lot will no longer have the possibility of flowing after the competition during off-duty hours, and there is a patrol team in the square that is responsible for night patrols: Old Jim's workload does not seem to be too heavy .

The thing to worry about, of course, is the underground car park attached to the Issalal property – half the residents didn’t open their doors to us, even if we showed our police badges.In the apartment buildings on Ngob’s property, there are quite a few night shift workers working in the carton factory on Poit Street: of course they will paste on the car windows “Carton Factory Night Pass”-”Romeo the Scythe” If you noticed this during the investigation, the underground parking lot here would naturally become the best place to swing a knife. Naturally, I am in charge of this place. I will go through the entire underground parking lot near eleven o'clock to make sure no one has hidden in it beforehand - after that, I will hide in a corner on the top floor of the parking lot where I can secretly monitor the entrance and exit of the parking lot, quietly Awaiting the arrival of our possible guests.

I hadn't forgotten the underpass near Hamburger Platz—in fact, that's where old Jim had to watch: so it turns out his job wasn't really easy either. The underground passage was located in a place that didn't look very safe—the street light on one side of the passage was broken, and facing the exit of the passage was a small bakery that closed early at six o'clock in the evening.On both sides of the bakery, there are several empty houses that are causing headaches for real estate agents and cannot be sold. Another exit slanted to the left, where the bushes were thick, and there was a dilapidated public telephone box, next to which stood a vending machine for cigarettes: tar lovers' strong desire for tobacco at night significantly increased the "scythe" Romeo" chooses the possibility here.

In order to facilitate communication, we borrowed two relatively small walkie-talkies from our colleagues in the Ministry of Communications—since old Jim didn’t carry a gun, the only thing he could do when he saw a suspicious person was to use the walkie-talkie to send a signal to me : Old Jim and I were worried about this, because Romeo the Scythe had plenty of time to swing his knife while I was rushing over. "Ha, what if I were still an agent? The situation would be different. Wenzel, tell me, can I stop him with my bare hands?" I shook my head—it was too risky to face a bloodthirsty and ruthless "shadow killer" with a Toyo sword. After much deliberation, we had to contact the patrol squad that was in charge of patrolling the Hamburger Square that night, and they expressed their willingness to assist us in the "capture of habitual robbery at night" operation (this time, we had to lie - such a big event, they must Dare not to report: besides, Hamburger Square is under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Bureau, and we don't want to make things too complicated): In this way, when old Jim sees suspicious people, he only needs to notify them directly. The captain of the patrol squad also said that they could assign an extra person to assist Old Jim in his work-I am very willing to do this, but Old Jim refused: "It's all right! Young man, I'm enough alone—don't look down on the old guy." Old Jim seemed complacent about his own obstinacy.