Criminal Psychology Book 1

Chapter 26: Bomb

Luck was both the most reliable and unreliable thing in the world. When it was good, it could make one feel omnipotent, but when it was bad, it could make one feel as if they were never going to get back on their feet.

So, if possible, people rarely took chances.

Lin Chen also thought that if they were lucky, the teenager was just playing a prank on the police, and they might encounter a crisis like a false alarm, maliciously causing car accidents, chemical leaks, or other such crises.

However, they now had a carload of children.

This was truly bad luck.

"Captain, two hours. It's been two hours since the bus has been missing!" Wang Chao had seen many things and dealt with a lot of crises, but a bus carrying twenty-six children that had just gone missing still made him panic. "Within these two hours, if the bus was hijacked, it could be anywhere in the world!"

Xing Conglian finally managed to break free from all the continuous phone calls. When he hung up, his eyes were cold and his tone raw. "Talk properly. Think carefully before you tell me the exact radius," he said to the technician.

Wang Chao sprang up in fright, snatched the white paper from Lin Chen's hand, and continued to calculate.

"At an average speed of 80 kilometers an hour, the two-hour drive should be an area within a radius of about 160 kilometers," Wang Chao said as he ran to the laptop and quickly typed up a piece of code. "Excluding the reed fields and traffic jam roads, the area they might reach is..."

The enter key was tapped softly. The center of the green topographic map was slowly covered by a red fan-shaped area.

"Take us to the surveillance center and line up all vehicles passing through the toll booths from within this radius." Xing Conglian spoke to the chairman while turning the display screen towards him.

The chairman felt depressed. He had been in office for three years, but never had there been a large-scale incident. Suddenly, the police came to tell him he needed to shut down the highway for no precise reason. While he thought it was an exaggeration, with a school bus gone, could there really be such a coincidence in this world?

He still had some hope in his heart. "Captain Xing, no need to get excited. Every vehicle is equipped with GPS. You'll know where the bus is if you just check it. How could it be lost..."

"GPS?" Xing Conglian looked at the chairman coldly. "Just now, my colleague told me that the GPS shows the bus should be in a reed field!"

"That's impossible. The bus can't drive into the reed field."

Hearing this, Wang Chao stared wide-eyed and looked at Xing Conglian in disbelief. "Fuck, we were fooled by the GPS this morning. Captain, it's not really that kid!"

"Even if the GPS fails, each bus is equipped with an autonomous call for help system. If something happens, our management center will automatically receive an alarm. There hasn't been an alarm now. The bus should be fine. It may have broken down halfway and couldn't be contacted. Maybe they're in a blind spot where mobile signals can't reach!"

Xing Conglian stared straight at the middle-aged man sitting on the sofa. He emphasized his tone as he spoke. "Take, me, to, the, surveillance, center."

The Hongjing Highway surveillance center was on the first floor of the administration building. There were nearly a hundred staff stationed year-round there. As far as the eye could see, dense display screens stretched dizzyingly, and in the middle of the hall was a huge LED screen half the size of a basketball court, covering the entire area.