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Chapter 6 Chapter 5 The Weird Snack Bar

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Batu arrived in the morning. When he walked into the hotel, he almost bumped into a fat man at the door. Batu took a step back, and the fat man looked him up: "Tourist, huh?" Batu said coldly: "It can be said that it is." Fatty's attitude was very arrogant: "I am Detective Shiwan from the town. I ask you a question, and your answer should be correct!" If Batu's hands were not carrying luggage, he must have punched him at this moment; at that time, he didn't say anything, but just turned sideways and walked by Shi Wan's side. When he entered the room, he stretched his waist and took off his coat. He is a very alert and careful person. When he took off his coat, he suddenly found that the collar of his coat seemed to be flipped Pass.He froze for a moment, and gently opened his collar.Under his collar, there was something about the size of a fingernail that looked like a flat button.This thing, Batu can tell at a glance that it is an eavesdropping device.This was the first accident after he arrived.

Batu didn't remove the wiretapping device, he just thought: who put this thing under his collar? Judging from the situation along the way, it seems that only Inspector Shiwan met at the entrance of the hotel.However, since he is the local detective, why should he do this? Batu didn't understand what was going on, but he could also know that since he entered Tikalong Town, someone had been paying attention to him and monitoring him!Batu didn't try to destroy the bug, he just folded the collar, thought for a moment, then opened the suitcase, and took out some delicate tools. Using those exquisite tools, he gently unscrewed the small bug, checked the circuit carefully with a magnifying glass for a moment, and then moved a few very fine metal wires.

Batu's work is the procedure of changing a bug into a radio. When he put down the tool, he immediately heard a slight voice, it was a woman's voice: "Well, I've been in the cave all day, I'm suffocated!" Another man's voice said: "With me by your side, will you still feel bored? Don't talk nonsense, let our employer hear it, and he will be punished." The woman said: "What kind of person is our employer?" The man said: "I don't know, I only saw them once, they are dressed like the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, for the sake of high salaries, they live in caves, what are they afraid of-eh, what? The red light for the road barrier is on, please notify the security room!"

After the man's words, Batu heard another burst of chaotic footsteps. Then, all voices were completely silent. Batu knew that his trick had been discovered, so he pulled down the bug and stomped it under his feet. That conversation made him know that the cave was an important clue. So he left a letter and put a note in the pillow, then left the room, handed the letter to the manager, and set off to investigate the caves. Batu’s experience in exploring Yandong is similar to mine, except that I walked to the right, while he walked to the left cliff. He searched thirty-four caves along the way, some big and some small, but Jim didn't realize that when he came to the beach, the situation was similar to what happened to me. He went into a snack bar next to the beach and asked for a drink.

According to his own account, he had walked back to town as soon as he had finished his drink. But in fact, he drank that glass of drink for seven days! I drank a glass of beer for one day, and his glass of drink for seven days! This is all incredible, and no one will believe it if it is told.But it's an ironclad fact! After Batu finished speaking, we were silent, and Paul said: "Then, the matter is very simple, we should start with those two restaurants!" I looked at Paul for a long time before I said, "Yes, your work can start!" Paul showed a puzzled look: "Me?"

I said: "Yes, you can go to any one of those two restaurants, and the route to go is also to walk along the caves, and search each cave in detail along the way." "Well," Paul shook his head immediately, "I don't want to lose a few precious days!" "You must lose, this is your job!" I answered him loudly, "And you just accepted the offer, Batu and I will watch you secretly to see how you lose a day or more." Paul had no choice but to say: "Okay, then, at least wait until tomorrow, not now!" Both Batu and I agreed: "Okay, tomorrow."

We barely slept that night.The three people expressed their opinions, and finally came to several conclusions that everyone agrees with: (1) Inspector Shi Wan is suspicious! (2) The snack bar by the beach is suspicious! (3) There is a group that is engaged in ulterior activities in the caves in the cliffs near the town. (4) The organization of this institution is very strict. Since we have these four conclusions, we also decided that if the result of observing the restaurant tomorrow fails, then we will start again on the big fat man Shi Wan. Early the next morning, Paul left the hotel. He carried a wireless communication device and kept in touch with us.Batu and I lingered in several bars in the town for two or three hours.

Our purpose is to hear what the residents of the town have to say about the "Red Moon". However, the residents of the town never mentioned this matter. If you asked them, they would gossip about him and ignore him. Of course, we had no results. We didn't go to the beach on the left until we heard Paul say that he had reached the beach. Half an hour later we were only fifty yards from the eatery where Batu lost seven days.We took a look at the environment and saw that there was a row of thick bushes behind the restaurant, and the bushes could hide the two of us. On the top of the bushes, there is a small window. If we hide in the bushes, we can use a small periscope to observe the situation in the restaurant.

We got into the bushes, Batu immediately took out a metal pipe, put one end of the pipe to the window, and he watched from the other end of the pipe. He looked at it for a while, then handed the small periscope into my hand, I looked up, and saw that it was a very ordinary restaurant, two couples were talking softly, and the shopkeeper was a man A short middle-aged man, propping his head on one hand, was dozing off. We watched for fifteen minutes, and saw the two couples leaving the snack shop one after another. Then we got a signal from Paul, who said, "I'm already on the beach!"

Both Batu and I became nervous. Batu handed me the periscope, and he himself took out a small rocket launcher. I looked around attentively, and saw the shopkeeper straighten his body. Suddenly, he came to the door and looked out.With that kind of action, he was clearly waiting for someone! A thought flashed through my mind: Did he know that Paul was coming? The guy didn't look at it for a long time before he retreated. Not long after the shopkeeper returned, Paul walked in with a very ugly expression, and one could tell that he was very nervous.Poor Paul, this must be the first adventure of his life.

Pavel entered the shop, sat down, and raised his hand: "Beer. Oh, I'm very thirsty after coming back from those caves." The owner agreed, and after a while, he brought a large glass of beer, came to Paul, and put the beer on Paul's table. The situation was the same as when I was in another restaurant. Then I saw Paul pick up the glass. He must be really thirsty, so when he picked up the glass, he drank. I myself lost the day while drinking beer, so I was nervous when I saw Paul's beer.Sure enough, at this moment, I saw the innkeeper, behind Paul, tiptoe towards Paul!Moreover, he was holding a rather large wooden stick in his hand! He is obviously going to have an unfavorable action against Paul! I couldn't help but hesitate in my heart, because I couldn't decide whether I should go out or just keep watching.For a while, it was difficult to make a decision, so I handed the periscope to Batu, hoping that after showing him the situation in the store, he would make the decision. However, at this moment, outside the bushes, a loud shout suddenly sounded: "People hiding in the bushes, get out!" It was Inspector Swann's voice. If it was just Inspector Swann's voice, we could have ignored it, but at the same time we heard two clicks, the bolt being pulled, an old-fashioned rifle as it is loaded. However, a gun is always a gun, and you must not underestimate it just because it is old-fashioned. Batu and I glanced at each other. Batu put away the periscope very quickly, and the two of us stood helplessly. stand up. When I stood up, I immediately looked to the window, and saw that the shop was empty, Paul was gone, and so was the shopkeeper! Due to the sudden change in the situation, our goal was of course not achieved, and our situation became very embarrassing. Not only did two policemen appear in front of us, pointing their rifles at us, but Detective Wan also held the pistol in his hand. Inspector Shi Wan's eyes were narrowed into two slits: "We welcome tourists, but we definitely don't welcome people who act sneaky!" We had no way of defending ourselves, because we hid in the bushes and of course "moved furtively".If you want to reason, it seems that in this small town far from the emperor, Detective Shi Wan has the power to handle everything, and we can't make sense.Therefore, Batu and I didn't say anything, but we exchanged a wink.We were at the back of the small shop at this time, and there was no one in the back of the small shop. Inspector Swann could be said to have thrown himself into a trap! We were all silent, and Shiwan shouted again: "Now, raise your hands!" Batu raised his hand first, because I was standing beside him, so I could hear two "chi chi" sounds when he raised his hand, and two anesthetic needles were shot out. And I immediately started it, jumped forward, slapped Shi Wan's wrist, and knocked it down quickly! The pistol in Shi Wan's hand fell to the ground, and the two young police officers fell to the ground at the same time. I kicked the gun towards Batu with a kick. Batu picked up the gun and pointed it at Shi Wan. Shi Wan's complexion changed drastically, and he shouted, "If you do this, you may be sentenced to forty years in prison!" Batu said coldly: "Drag your two subordinates into the shop. If you don't do this, it may be worse than forty years in prison!" Shi Wan gasped and stared at Batu, but he finally gave in. He led the two unconscious police officers one by one in each hand, walked around the bushes, came to the door of the small shop, and walked in. The small shop was empty, Batu ordered Shi Wan to sit down, and shouted: "Okay, what kind of tricks are you playing? Tell me honestly, and speak quickly!" Shi Wan was still talking hard: "You treat the police officers of the Spanish government like this, you—" Before he finished speaking, Batu said: "Don't be hypocritical, you are not only employed by the Spanish government, I'm afraid you are also employed by another group, and the salary is quite considerable!" Shi Wan was stunned, his eyes were wide open, and it really made people wonder how his eyelids could have such great strength to prop up the fat on his eyes and make his eyes wide open. His attitude changed completely at that moment. He lowered his head and said, "Who are you? Do you all know?" Batu sneered, "I know everything. Do you know Mr. Therons? We are his personal representatives." I don't know who the person Batu mentioned was (I found out afterwards that he was a person with great potential in the Spanish Ministry of the Interior), but Shi Wan's complexion became even uglier. His teeth chattered, and he said in a "dede" voice, "This... this... my... my salary is really too low, and my girlfriends... are too many." I couldn't help laughing, this is really a very cute place.Just imagine, after a police officer has been arrested for corruption and has been arrested, he actually defends himself with "too many girlfriends". Isn't this extremely ridiculous? Especially when such a thing happened to a fat man like Shi Wan, it would make people laugh even more. I patted him hard on the shoulder: "Okay, if you want to keep your girlfriend, you should tell me all the facts!" Shi Wan spread his hands: "Actually, it's nothing, I just accept instructions and do some harmless things, such as..." When he asked for the word "for example", there was a bit of embarrassment on his face: "For example, if you stole a letter from the hotel, watch your actions, put a... wiretapping device, etc. Wait." Batu asked, "How did you get the instructions?" "Phone, whenever I need to do something, there is always a phone call to give instructions first, and that phone is a woman's voice." "Who is paying you?" "The money arrived from the post office on time." Batu said: "Then, who was the one who connected with you in the first place?" Shi Wan smiled wryly: "No one, it's also the phone—" Seeing our disbelieving expressions, he hurriedly said: "It's true. Now, I don't dare to tell lies anymore, never dare." Batu and I looked at each other, and we both felt that he was indeed not telling lies, but he might not be telling the truth either.Both of us stopped pressing him and just looked at him coldly. This made him feel extremely mentally threatened, and he shook his body, as if trying to get out of our eyes. But his disturbed expression made our eyes sharper.Finally, after a minute, he gave in, and he sighed, like a balloon starting to deflate: "Well, I can tell you that my heart is also curious." We asked for a while, but still didn't understand what he meant by saying this, and he said: "I also want to know who is contacting me on the phone. In a town, it is very easy to trace the source of a phone call." thing." I was overjoyed in my heart, it's rare that he didn't tell himself and said such a thing, I hurriedly said: "Then, who is it?" Shi Wan pointed to the snack shop and said, "It's the wife of the owner of this snack shop." "Where is she now?" I asked again. Shi Wan shook his head and said, "I don't know, then I really don't know." Batu asked again: "Then, which secret passage did the owner escape from?" Shi Wan still shook his head and said, "I don't know, I don't know." I thought about it for a while, and felt that it would be useless to keep Shi Wan here any longer.The most important task now is of course to search this restaurant, because we already know that it is the fulcrum of an organization, no one is seen here, and the order to direct Shi Wan is also issued from here. So I raised my hand and said: "You can go, don't forget to take your subordinates with you, after you go back, you must not panic and make a fuss, understand?" Shi Wan nodded again and again, shaking his fat body, and walked out. Batu and I started to act immediately after Shi Wanyi left. Batu took out a detector from his bag, which is a kind of detector that is extremely sensitive to electric current. When something approaches, it will make a "beeping" sound. Generally speaking, secret doors and secret passages are mostly controlled by electricity, so it is very effective to use such a detector. I also started to act, I didn't use the detector, I just knocked everywhere with my fingers, we checked the store first, and found nothing, then we went to the back, and there was a kitchen behind, and there was also a kitchen in the kitchen. Not a single person. There is a back door in the kitchen, which leads to the back yard. That is where we hid just now. It is impossible for the owner and Paul to leave from here. If it is said that they left through the main entrance, the possibility is extremely slim. Because if Paul was not knocked out, he would naturally struggle. If Paul had been knocked out, then when the shopkeeper dragged him out, others would definitely attract attention. The shop owner and Paul must have left through a secret passage in the shop, it must be! But why did we find nothing under our close inspection? We went back to the store again, and a few diners came in, but they were kicked out by me and Batu.We continued to search, and just as we were about to turn the store upside down, we suddenly heard a person coldly at the door leading to the kitchen: "Friend, are you satisfied?" Batu and I were taken aback by the sudden voice. We straightened up together, and the one standing at the door was the owner of the shop. Batu's reaction was really at its peak. When he saw the owner of the shop, he jumped up and slammed forward with a "hoo". past. But the owner of the store is not slow, he flipped his hand, and immediately there was a gun equipped with a silencer in his hand, and he fired a shot immediately. Batu's body suddenly fell from mid-air and rolled on the ground. I quickly took a step forward, came to Batu's side, and bent down. My actions, no matter who looked at it, seemed to be checking whether Batu was injured. And when I bent down, I turned my back to the shopkeeper, so that it would be less suspicious. However, as soon as I bent down, I suddenly fell down, with my hands propped on the ground, my feet were already raised up, and I strangled the owner's neck. The owner has fallen to the ground. And Batu jumped up vigorously. I saw him lift his foot and step down hard. At the same time, I heard the sound of the owner's finger bones breaking. When I turned around and stood up, Batu One foot stepped on the back of the shopkeeper's right hand, and the other foot stepped on the back of the shopkeeper's neck. I picked up the pistol. Batu said: "Wei, are you not injured?" I said: "No, there are two of us, if we were injured instead, it would be unreasonable!" Batu laughed sympathetically, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you get Paul? Why did I lose so many days when I was here last time?" The innkeeper hummed, but made no sound. Batu said sharply, "If you don't make a sound, I'll break your finger. Can you bear it?" In fact, Batu hadn't taken any action yet, but the shop owner had already yelled strangely: "No, no, I can't bear it, I can't bear it, ouch, my finger is broken!" The owner of the store was still so fierce just now, but when he suddenly asked, he became so pus-filled, which was really unexpected, and Batu was also stunned for a while, and raised his foot: "Okay, then tell the truth-" —” He didn't finish his sentence, only to hear the shopkeeper suddenly shouted: "Don't kill me, don't kill me!" He said "Don't kill me" these two times, obviously not at me and Batu, because anyone can see that neither Batu nor I intend to kill him, so why is he yelling so strangely? Is he trying to distract us and get away with it, or is someone actually trying to kill him? Batu and I immediately jumped out together. Because under such circumstances, we are not afraid that the shopkeeper will run away. What we are afraid of is that someone will kill the shopkeeper. And when the assassin finds that it is just as easy to kill us, then of course the killer will turn to the two of us instead. The reason why we both jumped out at the same time is because we both thought of this at the same time. However, it was quiet all around, and there was no one there. We concluded that it was the shopkeeper's trick, so we turned our heads at the same time and looked at the shopkeeper who was lying on the ground.If you don't look at it, you can see that both of them are stunned! The shopkeeper is dead! He was dead indeed, and although there were more than two yards between us and him, we could tell at a glance that the owner of the shop was dead!The owner of the store is dead!The owner of the store had a terrifying face, his eyes were staring, and the eyeballs almost protruded from the sockets. How did he die?This question immediately arose in my mind.As for Batu, he is obviously more realistic than me. I was just thinking: how did the shop owner die, but Batu has already walked forward and came to the shop owner's body to check why he died. I hurried forward, and we checked for three minutes, but the owner of the shop didn't seem to have any injuries at all. Batu found some insignificant things in his coat pocket. We saw someone approaching the restaurant again, and I suggested: "Batu, we should go, otherwise, we will cause trouble." Batu seemed reluctant to leave, but I quickly pulled him: "Come on, there are no clues here, let's go to the place where I lost a day." Hearing these words, Batu was willing to jump up, and ran out from the back door with me, along the road, and ran for three to five hundred yards all the way. We stopped running when we saw that no one was chasing us. Batu sighed: "Oh, what a shame, I didn't find anything, but lost Paul instead, what should I do?" I smiled wryly: "Right now, we can only imagine the good side, and hope that Paul will not be in danger, but just lose some time like us." Batu said: "I hope so, but—" I patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be discouraged, let's go to that restaurant to drink beer and see what's going on." Batu said: "Should the two of us go into the shop together, or go in alone and watch outside the shop alone?" I thought for a while and said, "It's hard for us to decide now. It's better to get there first and then make plans." Batu nodded in agreement, and we came to the road together, and after walking only ten yards, we saw a very beautiful milk-white sports car parked on the side of the road. The front of the sports car was inlaid with many colorful signs, Batu smiled and said, "Have you seen it? This must be the car of a bullfighter. The richest person in Spain is the bullfighter. Let's borrow his car." Come and use it, he probably can afford to lose it." I smiled, and I never objected to "borrowing" the car in an emergency. The two of us jumped into the sports car, and Batu used the lily key to easily drive the sports car away. We drove straight forward, and after driving for two miles, we turned around. On the other side, when the car pulled up on the side of the road, it was about thirty yards from the eatery where I "lost the day" last time. I was on the way, and I already had a plan, so when the car stopped, I said, "According to the situation just now, the owner used a wooden stick to knock Paul unconscious first, and then took him away." Yes, then, it is better for the two of us to go in, and it will be difficult for them to attack." Unexpectedly, I just said the first point, and Batu shook his head and said: "No, your policy is wrong. We don't make it difficult for them to attack, but make it easier for them to attack!" I was stunned for a while, and Batu said again: "It's difficult for them to attack, so they won't attack, and if they don't attack, we will get nothing. So, we want them to attack. It's better that way, you Watch from the sidelines while I go into the shop." I thought about it, and Batu's words were reasonable.But I still can't help but smile bitterly, because if there is any accident, then even Batu will not be there, and I will be left alone!
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