The chef, his face contorted with indignation, the fat on his thick neck jiggling, cried out, "That damn Guo Datou! I introduced him to business, and he turns around and messes with me! I'll mess with him..."
He wanted to kill the whole family, but seeing the police nearby, he didn't dare to say anything threatening.
"Call the police station back." The officer gestured to his colleague, "Notify the boss to bring reinforcements."
Once the call was connected, Yuen Long Police Station dispatched a total of six police vehicles.
"It's all over...it's all over...it's all over!"
With sirens blaring, they stormed off towards Fugui Seafood Restaurant.
More than 30 police officers and eight police dogs, fully armed, surrounded the three-story restaurant.
The driver had already unloaded the goods at the door and was standing next to the fish basket smoking, waiting for the restaurant staff to come out and receive them. When he saw the police car coming, he was so scared that he wanted to run away, but the streets were already blocked by police cars parked across them.
The police had a clear objective: they first surrounded the driver.
"Check the fish baskets, don't let a single fish escape!" the lead officer ordered the search.
The driver, feeling guilty, thought he had been reported for extortion. He knelt down on the ground, his voice trembling and stammering, "Ah... Sir, what are you doing?"
The police officer stared at him coldly without saying a word.
There were hundreds of fish in the basket, and the mouths of more than twenty fish at the bottom of the basket were clearly torn. The officers skillfully gutted the fish and quickly found the medicine bottles. A drug expert was on site. He unscrewed the caps, carefully examined the bottles, and then had each one sniffed by a police dog before reporting back to the officers.
"Boss, this batch of medicine is exactly the same as the medicine at Shunxing Restaurant. The type of medicine is relatively new and I'm not familiar with it. I guess it's painkillers or anesthetics. I need to take it back for testing to determine its ingredients."
"Are they all dangerous drugs?"
“Every single one of them is. Jimmy can smell it, and the proportion is huge!” the expert said, stroking the dog’s head beside him.
"Arrest him!" the officer shouted, pointing at the driver.
"You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law!" one officer said righteously, while another officer immediately handcuffed him.
The driver twitched his lips, wanting to explain that his fish were caught from the sea without going through a middleman, and that the poison might have been secretly hidden in the fish by the mainland boy earlier.
However, he has extorted money from mainland Chinese, and there is irrefutable evidence. If he dares to tell the truth, all the extortion cases from the past few years will be exposed, and he will definitely go to jail. If he doesn't tell the truth, it seems he will also go to jail.
So the question arises: which charge will result in a longer prison sentence? Being legally illiterate, he didn't know, so he dared not speak up and would wait to consult a lawyer before making a decision.
The police officer turned around, his face suddenly contorted with rage.
"Immediately seal off the entire restaurant! Don't let a single rat out! Search every inch of it!"
He personally led the team, with police officers and dogs rushing into the lobby. Instantly, several gunshots rang out from inside.
Two police officers remained outside the restaurant entrance, their walkie-talkies constantly crackling with voices:
"Someone on the second floor resisted arrest. He was armed with a weapon of mass destruction, a Guan Yu broadsword! He has been taken down. Boss, congratulations, you'll be promoted soon!"
Listening to the voice on the walkie-talkie, the handcuffed driver's mind went blank; he couldn't understand what was going on.
"I'm innocent!!"
The driver broke the silence, shouting in a shrill, panicked voice, "It's not my fault, it really isn't my fault! Sir, although the restaurant owner is my cousin, he looks down on poor relatives. He only gave me this job because of my mother."
I had no idea he was involved in illegal business; I was just a fish deliveryman!
"If you have a grievance, go tell the judge! The police are only responsible for arresting people, not for finding you guilty!" The two officers looked at him mockingly, took out their notebooks and pens, and began to take notes.
“But we can interrogate you. Just so you know, you have the right to have a lawyer present before you speak.”
"I'll be innocent when I see the judge, even more innocent than Little Dragon Girl! Anyway, it's none of my business. I'm a law-abiding citizen, I have a clear conscience, and I don't need his mother's lawyer!"
The driver's tone was filled with grief and indignation; the extortionate air he had displayed earlier had vanished, replaced by a face streaked with tears and snot.
The sight of a thirty-year-old man crying uncontrollably was somewhat comical.
"Still have a clear conscience? Even my police dog Jimmy doesn't believe it, let alone a judge! As an employee and a relative, he's the kind of person the jury hates the most and the judge shows the least mercy."
One of the officers gloated, "Be honest, tell the truth, and you can get a shorter sentence."
"What's the minimum sentence I'll get?" The driver was so frightened that he revealed his ignorance of the law, asking a stupid question.
"According to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, the minimum penalty is a fine of HK$500,000 and imprisonment for three years, while the maximum penalty is a fine of HK$5 million and life imprisonment!"
"The sentence will be no less than twenty years, and as for the fine, it will definitely be enough to bankrupt you!" Another officer chimed in with the same act.
"You might as well shoot me!" The driver was so terrified that he went mad and suddenly broke down. He jumped up from the ground, put his hands behind his back, and ran away as fast as he could.
The two officers were startled and instinctively drew their guns. One of them, probably a new recruit who had never caught a thief before, was so excited that he jumped around with his service weapon in his hand. He lost control and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, the other man was skilled; he raised his gun, aimed at the driver, and shouted, "Stop! Don't run anymore, or I'll shoot!"
"Bang!"
This was a warning shot. Except for the Special Duties Unit (SDU), Hong Kong police officers generally don't shoot suspects; they're just wasting bullets.
Hearing the gunshot, the driver ran even faster. Passing a police car parked across the road, he unleashed his life force, leaping over the police car and successfully shaking off the three officers surrounding him.
With the wide road right in front of him, the driver felt a surge of excitement. But he got too excited and didn't realize he had already entered the intersection. A sudden screech of brakes reached his ears, and before he could even look up, his body was thrown into the air by a roaring truck.
"boom!"
The driver flew through the air in a wide arc before crashing headfirst into a lamppost. As he hit the ground, the flicker of life in his eyes was extinguished as fragilely as a candle.
Pedestrians across the intersection saw the car accident and gathered around to watch. Li Ling, holding the camera he had taken, squeezed into the crowd and filmed the whole incident.
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