Chapter 195: No Place to Escape, Start! Train Capture Operation!

It was clear that the time for entering the station was almost over.

Yet, there was still no report of the butcher passing the train station’s facial recognition system.

This situation… undoubtedly made the current operation suddenly more difficult. Immediately confirming and finding the butcher’s identity became the most important task at hand.

In Su Ming’s mind.

The butcher, dressed in a full suit and carrying a briefcase, must have disguised himself as a commuter traveling between cities to escape the gradually shrinking net surrounding him.

Although the bug had been discovered earlier, Su Ming did not reveal this, intentionally leaking the information about the tour groups to the butcher.

The goal was… to mislead the butcher into thinking that the police were searching the departure points of the provincial tour groups, encouraging him to leave Suzhou by pretending to be a commuter traveling between cities.

He wanted the butcher to remain cautious and not use another route to escape Suzhou, relying on his excellent counter-surveillance skills.

From the start until now, the entire plan had always been under Su Ming’s control. The butcher was absolutely unaware that the police already knew he planned to escape by pretending to be a city commuter.

But now, with no report of the butcher entering the Suzhou train station, this situation was undeniably strange.

So, after confirming that the original plan had no flaws and that the butcher, who was eager to escape Suzhou, would not give up such a good opportunity, Su Ming began to have an idea…

Perhaps, due to his outstanding counter-surveillance skills, the butcher, when about to enter the train station, booked a new ticket under a different identity as a precaution.

After all.

From the police’s perspective, even if they could identify the suspect’s new identity through the ticket information, if the suspect booked a new ticket under a completely different identity just one or two minutes before entering the station, then all previous preparations for the capture would be in vain.

Just like now…

Due to the prior notification from Liu Yang, all the staff at Suzhou train station only considered the three known identities the butcher might disguise himself as.

Therefore, all their energy and attention were focused on monitoring these three identities.

At this moment, if the butcher had used a new identity to book a ticket, he would easily avoid the police and station staff’s scrutiny and detection.

It was like setting a huge net to catch a grouper, only to have the fish turn into a crab, easily slipping through the net right under their noses.

…

Upon receiving Su Ming’s command.

An Quan immediately began typing on his laptop, fully aware of how important the current time was. Every second counted and couldn’t be wasted.

He quickly ran the script and sifted through the recent ticket booking information.

Twenty seconds later.

An Quan looked up, so flustered he even forgot to adjust his black-framed glasses, and quickly reported.

“I found it, Xiao Ming.”

“Seven minutes ago, a man named Lei Qianming, who hadn’t had any social activity in the past two years, and had no records of hotels, internet cafes, transportation, or tourism, just booked a ticket for the 7:00 train from Suzhou to Modu City, with seat number 11A in car 5.”

“If there’s no mistake, this Lei Qianming must be the butcher’s current identity.”

Hearing An Quan’s words, Liu Yang immediately grabbed his phone from the center console, speeding toward the entrance of the Suzhou train station while dialing the earlier staff contact.

After two waiting beeps, the phone was answered, and Liu Yang urgently shouted.

“Quick, check!”

“Has a passenger named Lei Qianming entered the station through facial recognition just now?”

“Remember… just check if he entered the station, don’t do anything else, and don’t attempt to arrest him on your own. We need to avoid drawing his attention.”

After a few seconds, the staff on the other end reported back with results that made Liu Yang’s expression grow even more serious, prompting him to ask anxiously.

“What?”

“Lei Qianming entered the station through facial recognition five minutes ago? He’s already passed the ticket check and is now heading to the 7:00 train to Modu City?”

“No, we can’t let the train depart…”

Before Liu Yang could finish his sentence, Su Ming, with a calm demeanor, interrupted him and decisively said.

“Senior Liu.”

“If the train doesn’t depart on time, it will definitely make the butcher suspicious, and then capturing him alive will become several times more difficult.”

“The situation isn’t that bad yet. There are still six minutes before the train departs, which is enough for us to take the special channel and board the train. And now we’ve already confirmed the butcher’s identity.”

“On these shorter morning trains, there are usually quite a few empty seats in each carriage. You and the others should wait in a carriage further away from the butcher and avoid being noticed.”

“I will board the train under this disguised identity and sit in a seat in the same carriage as the butcher, waiting for the right moment to act.”

At this point, Su Ming turned to An Quan, asking immediately.

“Quan Ge.”

“I need you to give me the information about the other seat the butcher booked for the 7:00 train. Given the butcher’s excellent counter-surveillance ability, although he is now using Lei Qianming’s identity to board, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s sitting in the seat assigned to Lei Qianming. There’s still a chance he might be sitting in a seat booked under a different identity.”

“It’s even possible that these two seats are in different trains.”

“One could be in carriages 1-8, the other in carriages 9-16.”

“As long as we make the wrong choice, we can’t turn back. We won’t be able to approach the butcher through the train cars, and we’ll have to wait until the train stops in Modu City to continue the operation.”

“However, no matter how cautious and counter-surveillance savvy the butcher is, how many escape routes he’s built for himself, this time, we’ll definitely capture him on the train!”