Chapter 218:
“What’s the situation today? Why are there military unit people all over the street?”
Before the Blue Team sergeant could open his mouth to ask, Ma Qitong rolled down the car window and took the initiative.
The Blue Team sergeant didn’t expect the people in the car to ask him, and he was immediately stunned.
“Can’t say.”
The sergeant, coming back to his senses, refused to answer Ma Qitong’s question.
“Lady, on your way back, did you see…”
Before he could finish speaking, the Blue Team sergeant saw three burly men sitting in the car.
Although the three men in the car were wearing civilian clothes, the military smell on them was too strong.
The stubble of short hair shaved close to the scalp, and the eyes that occasionally sized him up all revealed the special identities of the three men in the car.
The sergeant’s hand hanging by his trouser seam made small, quick gestures toward his comrades.
“What do we do?” Xiao Zhuang, sitting in the back seat, leaned close to Lao Pao and asked softly.
Don’t think the sergeant who stopped the car acted secretly; to Chang Ning and the others, it was too obvious.
Lao Pao didn’t respond to Xiao Zhuang right away; he first looked at Chang Ning sitting in the passenger seat.
Chang Ning seemed not to see that Blue Team sergeant at all; he was closing his eyes to rest right now.
It was unknown whether he was really asleep or just pretending.
Seeing Chang Ning like this, Lao Pao frowned.
At a time like this, he couldn’t wake Chang Ning up. Suppressing the anger in his heart, Lao Pao gently tapped a few times unhurriedly on Xiao Zhuang’s leg.
It was Morse code; the meaning Lao Pao conveyed to Xiao Zhuang was: hold position.
“Hey! What did we see on the road? If you don’t say it, we’re leaving.”
With that, Ma Qitong really started the car, making a move to leave.
The Blue Team sergeant had discovered suspected Red Team scouts on Ma Qitong’s car; their warehouse was very likely done by those guys in the car.
At a time like this, how could he let Ma Qitong drive away?
“Suspicious personnel acting covertly, like they did something guilty.”
The sergeant’s eyes scanned toward Chang Ning and the others in the car, but unfortunately, he couldn’t see anything.
Chang Ning seemed really asleep; facing the Blue Team’s interrogation, he didn’t even open his eyes.
“Sorry, I was focused on driving and didn’t notice the people on the road.”
While talking to the Blue Team sergeant, Ma Qitong’s heart was panicking badly.
She thought Chang Ning and the others’ arms dealing had been exposed, and the soldiers by the road were there to arrest them.
“I think the people in your car look pretty suspicious!
Get out for inspection!”
Several arriving Blue Team soldiers surrounded the car.
Ma Qitong’s inner panic was now visible on her face; her hand gripped the gear stick tightly.
Clearly, she planned to force through the Blue Team checkpoint!
Just as Ma Qitong released the clutch, Chang Ning’s big hand tightly wrapped around her hand on the gear grip.
“Relax,” Chang Ning said.
Then he opened the car door and got out.
“Sergeant, no need to be so nervous.”
Chang Ning said calmly, without any awareness of being surrounded by the Blue Team.
“You really aren’t an ordinary person!”
Chang Ning’s words not only didn’t relax the Blue Team sergeant, but made the atmosphere even more tense.
Ordinary people can’t identify military rank.
Scanning the armed Blue Team surrounding them, Chang Ning fully relaxed.
“You really misunderstood us; we really are ordinary people. We just recovered our ordinary person identities recently.”
“Cut the crap! Hand over your identification.”
The sergeant wasn’t prepared to keep talking with Chang Ning.
“Who brings ID when going out to play? But I can give you the ID numbers; you can still check the information.
By the way, we just retired this year.”
The last sentence seemed directed at the Blue Team sergeant, but actually was reminding Xiao Zhuang and Lao Pao.
“Write it down.” The Blue Team sergeant said.
When Chang Ning took the notebook, he even gave the Blue Team sergeant an innocent smile.
Retrieving the notebook, the Blue Team sergeant handed it to a soldier beside him and instructed him to check Chang Ning and the other two’s information.
The Blue Team was fast; soon there was a result fed back.
“You can go.”
After carefully reading Chang Ning and the other two’s information, the sergeant waved his hand, signaling the Blue Team to clear the road and let them pass.
Through the car window, watching the Blue Team gradually pulling away from them, Lao Pao and Xiao Zhuang’s taut nerves finally relaxed.
“You kid, if you have any ideas, can you give a heads-up in advance!”
Lao Pao couldn’t hold back his anger at Chang Ning’s acting without prior consultation, stretching his arm to pound a few fists on Chang Ning’s solid back.
“Exactly! If you hadn’t reminded us at the end, I wouldn’t have known how to handle it then.”
Xiao Zhuang’s resentment toward Chang Ning this time was no less than Lao Pao’s; mainly, Chang Ning had gone too far this time.
If one of them hadn’t guessed Chang Ning’s meaning, exposure would have been instantaneous.
“It was sudden; I’ll say it in advance next time.”
Speaking of which, Chang Ning was also puzzled; in the original plot, there was no scene of being stopped and questioned by the Blue Team.
But it couldn’t be ruled out that it existed but was cut by the director in the end.
Knowing this time it was indeed their side’s issue, Chang Ning’s attitude in admitting the mistake was very positive, without arguing for himself.
The reason the three could pass the Blue Team’s verification was that the ID numbers they provided had issues.
The information carried by the ID numbers wasn’t theirs, but that of comrades who retired from Night Tiger this year.
The Blue Team could find some things following the information provided by Chang Ning and the other two, and the information itself wasn’t fake; it just depended on the Blue Team’s ability to match it up.
Clearly, the Blue Team didn’t check further, and Chang Ning and the other two slipped through.
“Where are we going next?” Ma Qitong asked.
Looking at Ma Qitong’s pretty face full of collagen, Chang Ning surprisingly saw an excited expression on it.
What the hell!
As the daughter involved in selling powder, shouldn’t she be nervous encountering this? What’s with that excited look?
“Cough cough~”
Lao Pao, sitting in the back seat, pretended to cough; with Ma Qitong’s identity, they couldn’t continue contacting her.
Even without mentioning her sensitive background, treating her as an ordinary person, Chang Ning and the other two weren’t suitable to have too much further contact with her.
Their three’s identities were too sensitive after all.
“Just drop us back at the hotel; then we can sleep beautifully.” Chang Ning said.
Now the traffic routes out of the city all had Blue Team checkpoints; it wouldn’t be easy for Chang Ning and the others to leave, so better to rest at the hotel for a night.
Thanks to Ma Qitong, Chang Ning and the others’ accommodation conditions weren’t bad; though not a star-rated hotel, it was considered high-end in the county town.
“Alright.”
Hearing Chang Ning planned to go back to the hotel, Ma Qitong was a bit unhappy.
She didn’t want to go back so soon.
She wasn’t stupid; she knew it wasn’t realistic to have Chang Ning and the others take her along.
Leaving so quietly, her father would be anxious to death.
An enraged father making some extreme move would be hard to clean up then.
So tonight might be her last time seeing Chang Ning.
Thinking of this, Ma Qitong’s mood worsened.
