The explosion attracted everyone's attention. After reacting, Jiangzhou and others ran directly towards the place where the explosion occurred. The explosion came from the pond behind.
After Lin Shuyue ran a few steps, she felt something was wrong. She grabbed Ye Xueyu. Ye Xueyu stopped and looked at her with red eyes: "Ah Yue, what's wrong?"
Lin Shuyue said to Ye Xueyu: "Ah Yu, something is wrong. Did you notice? The explosion was too coincidental."
Ye Xueyu didn't notice, Lin Shuyue said: "Ah Yu, do you remember that when the explosion sounded, Jiangzhou was checking the host computer."
Ye Xueyu really didn't notice it. She was taking pictures and chatting with Lin Shuyue at that time. The reason why Lin Shuyue noticed it was that she was taking pictures of Jiangzhou and the others.
Lin Shuyue pulled Ye Xueyu back and ran. When they arrived, they saw a man lighting a match. There was a circle of black marks around the machine room that had just been dry. There were also two barrels lying horizontally in the yard, dripping liquid. The whole air was filled with a strong smell of gasoline.
Ye Xueyu put the camera in Lin Shuyue's hand, ran over, raised her foot, and the man stood up quickly, and the burning match fell vertically. Ye Xueyu's pupils shrank slightly, and before she could react, the man rubbed his wrist and attacked.
The match fell to the ground, just a little bit away from the gasoline line. Just a gust of wind would ignite the gasoline line.
Lin Shuyue didn't look at the two people who were fighting. She walked over directly, stomped out the match that was still burning, and then put the two cameras into the system backpack under the cover of her bag.
Ye Xueyu was still struggling with the man who tried to ignite the fire. Ye Xueyu was able to be a criminal police officer because she was excellent in all aspects. For example, now, four or five minutes had passed, and she was not at a disadvantage at all.
The man obviously didn't expect that a female police officer would be so difficult to deal with. After being kicked and staggered, he took out a pistol from his pocket, pointed the gun at Ye Xueyu, and pulled the trigger without thinking.
They were too close, and Ye Xueyu had a little time to dodge. At the critical moment, Lin Shuyue ran up and pulled her, then kicked the man over and hit him on the head with a brick. No matter how fast the man's gun was or how good his kung fu was, his body's instincts couldn't resist under Lin Shuyue's brick attack, and his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Ye Xueyu also came to her senses at this time. She took out handcuffs from her pocket, and together with Lin Shuyue, dragged the man to the tree outside the yard, handcuffed him to the tree with his back facing the tree.
"He is Wang Bingchang." Ye Xueyu had seen Wang Bingchang's photo before coming here.
Lin Shuyue took a look at the good and evil radar. Wang Bingchang's good and evil radar was as high as 90%.
Ye Xueyu took out the walkie-talkie to inform her colleagues who had gone far away. After a while, the police came back, and some of the people in Hang Jiabai's group were still wet all over.
Hang Jiabai took out a flashlight and shone it on Wang Bingchang. After confirming that it was him, he informed the large force coming from the village.
Ye Xueyu also asked about the explosion she had just heard.
Jiangzhou said: "The explosion point is near the pond behind. The road between the two ponds was blown up."
"Are any of our men injured?"
"No. We had just walked out of the fish pond at that time." A policeman who followed Hang Jiabai had a sad look on his face.
"Continue the search." Hang Jiabai said as he turned on the power switch, but the moment he turned on the power switch, he paused.
Lin Shuyue and others followed his gaze and looked over. In the darkness, the bright red countdown seemed particularly dazzling.
Countdown 56 minutes.
Ye Xueyu immediately took out her cell phone and called. The person on the other end of the line responded immediately and promised to send a bombing team immediately. But it took nearly 35 minutes to get from the city to Lujia Village, which was too long.
Jiangzhou and others escorted Lin Shuyue out of the old house. But as soon as they left the old house, they saw a group of Liuwu villagers holding flashlights and looking at them. Standing in the front was a skinny old man in his fifties. Lin Shuyue's good and evil radar showed that his good and evil value was as high as 30%.
The villagers behind him had a lowest score of 5% and a highest score of 20%.
His eyes fell solemnly on the uniforms of Jiangzhou and others. Without saying a word or asking a question, he waved his hand, and the villagers of Liuwu Village put away the shovels, crowbars and other tools in their hands.
They surrounded Jiangzhou and the others. After ten minutes of confrontation, they heard the roar of an airplane overhead. They all looked up and saw people jumping out of the airplane. The sirens wailed and the road in Liuwu Village was illuminated by street lights. The people in the police car got out. The head of Liuwu Village waved his hand and the villagers made way for them. The head of the village stepped out of the crowd and negotiated with the people in the police car.
Ye Xueyu breathed a sigh of relief: "Everything is good in villages, except that the clan concept is too strong."
Lin Shuyue agreed with this. Guangdong Province really values clans. In her previous life, even in 2023/2024, many people still put family rules before national laws. Now it is 2004, and this family concept is even more important.
Take the people in Liuwu Village for example. They may not know what Brother Liu and his group are doing by renting the old house, but because Brother Liu is the leader, a native of Liuwu Village, and the rent is so high for an old house that cannot be rented out and turned into farmland, they turned a blind eye to what Brother Liu and his group did.
A group of people were waiting here, and four or five police cars arrived one after another. The lights of the cars illuminated the whole place as bright as day.
Wang Bingchang had already woken up. He was escorted out. Seeing such a big scene, he smiled, showing his big white teeth: "Don't waste your energy. You can't dismantle that bomb. It is the best bomb I imported from Southeast Asia."
The people in Liuwu Village glared at him, especially those who rented out the house to him. Although they no longer lived in the old house, not living in it and having it blown up were two different concepts!
Wang Bingchang could usually treat the people from Liuwu Village as brothers, but in his heart, he never took these people seriously.
A city bureau leader in a white shirt looked at Wang Bingchang and said, "Wang Bingchang, you underestimate China's police and technology."
Wang Bingchang laughed and was kicked by the policeman who was escorting him. "I don't look down on you. I'm just testing you. Leader, I have buried more than 50 boxes of mines in this area of Liuwu Village. Go and clear them. Otherwise, what will we do if someone gets blown up? Hahahaha."
The faces of the city bureau leaders changed drastically. They thought that the time bombs placed by Wang Bingchang were already the limit, but they didn't expect there were landmines!
The villagers of Liuwu Village were also in a state of panic. They had never thought that there were landmines in the village, and there were so many of them! When they thought that those landmines were buried in their land and they could be killed at any time, the villagers of Liuwu Village felt their hearts pounding.
Some of the timid ones have already left the crowd.
The remaining people huddled together. The head of Liuwu Village stared at Wang Bingchang and said, "Brother Wang, I think I have been very kind to you. But you installed mines on our land. Isn't that unfair?"
Wang Bingchang didn't know when two bruises appeared on his face. He said, "Old man, you treat me well. What kind of a jerk are you? You want a bribe of 10,000 yuan a month from me, otherwise you'll report me. Go ahead. If you go, I can still respect you as a man."
Hearing about the 10,000 yuan monthly bribe, the profit-oriented villagers of Liuwu Village could not help themselves. The people standing next to the village chief looked directly at him and questioned: "Uncle Zhenlin, are you really asking Brother Wang for so much money?"
Ten thousand yuan a month is not a small amount of money, which is 120,000 yuan a year. If the accounts of all the people in the village are added together for many years, it would only be 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. Among the 30,000 yuan, a share goes to the village chief's family.
Thinking of this, the people of Liuwu Village could no longer hold back. In the face of interests, they temporarily forgot about the bombs in the soil.
The village chief had been through a lot, and faced with the villagers' questions, he remained calm. But his silence was a sign of his agreement.
Wang Bingchang saw this and added: "Do you know where the ID information of those who died in your village but did not cancel their household registration has gone? Do you know why there are always a few people in your village who go out to work and lose contact every few years?"
"They were all sold to me by your respected Uncle Zhenlin. Liu Xiaobing, your father is now mining in a mine in Southeast Asia, hahahaha." Wang Bingchang said as he was pushed into the factory.
When Liu Xiaobing heard that his father was sold, he raised a shovel and went to the village chief, ready to hit the him. The village chief could not stand being hit by a half-grown child, so he grabbed the shovel and said, "Liu Xiaobing, are you going to rebel? Wang Bingchang said that on purpose. He was arrested, so he didn't want us to have an easy life."
Liu Xiaobing didn't care about that. He was only twelve years old. He didn't want to listen to Liu Zhenlin's nonsense. He still looked at Liu Zhenlin with hatred. Liu Zhenlin's sharp eyes fell on the silent villagers: "Why, you also believe what he said?"
No one said a word. Just when Liu Zhenlin was getting angry and wanted to continue speaking, the leader of the Municipal Bureau had already called the troops stationed nearby.
Every profession has its specialties. The police are good at catching criminals, but few people know how to defuse bombs except for the bombing team.
These fifty boxes of mines can only be dealt with by more professional troops.
The words of the municipal bureau leader instantly brought back the villagers' rationality. Their village is far from the city center, and the development of factories and commercial buildings has nothing to do with them for the time being. Although the people of Liuwu Village have a Pengcheng household registration, they still rely on farming for their livelihood.
How can they survive with so many mines buried in the fields? Some villagers who were already dissatisfied with the village chief immediately rushed out and said, "You old man! It's all your fault. If you hadn't rented the house to these irrelevant people, how could our fields be filled with mines? It's all your fault, all your fault."
The village chief was attacked by the crowd, and the police were also frightened by this scene. After all, this reversal was too fast and too extreme.
Lin Shuyue instinctively picked up the camera to take pictures. Ye Xueyu stared blankly at her colleagues who stepped forward to break up the fight, and then said to Lin Shuyue: "I take back what I just said. Some people's clan values are not strong enough, and interests are more important."
It was hard for Lin Shuyue to disagree with this statement: "This old man deserves what he got." After all, it was a 30% good and evil value, so he definitely had never done anything good. It was normal for him to be beaten, and Lin Shuyue did not sympathize with him.
The villagers were pulled apart, the troops arrived, and the city bureau leaders were meeting with them.
"There are two types of time bombs. In addition to the timer, there is also a manual switch. Officer Hang from our unit touched the manual mechanism. In that room, there is very important information. Captain Hang, I'm counting on you."
"You're too polite, Director Wang. We will do our best." The man in the explosion-proof suit said this and left with his troops.
Lin Shuyue was walking out of the village with the villagers who had been evacuated. She turned her head to look at Ye Xueyu, who knew something about the relationship between Hang Jiabai and Lin Shuyue.
She softly apologized to Lin Shuyue: "I'm sorry, I didn't tell you."
Lin Shuyue did not speak. She understood Ye Xueyu. If Wang Bingchang had not revealed the bomb in the village, the police would not have told the villagers specifically to avoid causing unnecessary panic.
As the villagers were evacuated out of the village, in the dark night, Lin Shuyue watched the soldiers and police officers in blasting suits holding mine detectors, turning on their headlights in the darkness, and dismantling the mines buried in the ground bit by bit.
The dismantling soldiers have already removed the landmine. Once this landmine was removed, the faces of the soldiers and police present changed dramatically.
They were not unfamiliar with this type of mine. There were still millions of mines buried along the border between China and YN. This type of mine was small, like an old-fashioned switch box, and its characteristics were that it was numerous, small, and dense.
No one cheered when the landmine was removed, but instead everyone felt heavier in their hearts.
Lin Shuyue kept looking at the watch on her wrist. The countdown to the time bomb dismantling time was 56 minutes, and there were still three minutes left. There was still no good news from Hang Jiabai.
Time passed by minute by minute, and Lin Shuyue felt that these three minutes passed too slow.
Everyone present was extremely anxious. A city bureau leader walked around with his hands on his hips. No one, including the villagers, spoke. As time passed, they finally realized the horror of the landmines.
Lin Shuyue simply sat on the ground, and she suddenly thought of her previous life. She was in class that day, and her grandmother took her home. Her father was wearing a red flag and lived in a wooden box that was only 30cm long. They said that her father was killed by a homemade mine made by a criminal while chasing him.
Lin Shuyue buried her head in her knees, her hands shaking uncontrollably.
"Five seconds left." Someone spoke, Lin Shuyue raised her head and began to count.
Five seconds passed and no explosion was heard. Everyone gradually relaxed and the city bureau leader put down his hands from his waist.
Lin Shuyue also stood up from the ground, but before she could stand firm, a huge roar came from the direction of the old house, and a black cloud was clearly visible in the dark night.
The city bureau leaders dropped their walkie-talkies to the ground, took off their hats, and everyone present, regardless of gender or status, had tears in their eyes. The soldiers who were clearing mines also stopped and stood up from the fields.
Lin Shuyue only felt darkness in front of her eyes. Ye Xueyu ran over from somewhere and hugged her. Lin Shuyue opened her mouth but could not say anything.
She looked at the direction of the explosion, and the mushroom cloud slowly rose and rose. Her mind became blank at this moment. She couldn't even remember what Hang Jiabai looked like, and only tears were falling down worthlessly.
There were obviously a lot of people there, but the scene was extremely quiet; even the sound of crying was silent at this moment.
"Sizzle…"
There was a crackling sound of electricity coming from the intercom, and everyone's eyes were focused on the intercom lying quietly on the ground.
About a minute after the explosion, a voice was heard by everyone, accompanied by the sound of electricity: "Report to the leader, the bomb has been dismantled, no one was killed."
The scene was silent. After a while, cheers rang in Lin Shuyue's ears, and she followed suit and shouted.
"Aaaaaaaaah!"