Chapter 1574 Xie Laohou (1/2)
Such a big auction site would naturally have a surveillance camera, but Li Du and Zhong Dapao's status did not qualify them to check it out. The Myanmar police would not bother inspecting the surveillance record just to find an unknown missing person.
After leaving the site, Li Du looked outside. More and more vendors came to the scene. It seemed like a market inside the site, but it was a real market outside. There were many food caravans on the street that caused a traffic jam.
It was mealtime, and these food caravans were here to earn some money from the patrons. The annual public jade auction was akin to the New Year celebration and the 11.11 big sales in Hpakant town, rolled in one. All the people who participated in the auctions were rich. They treated money like water and liked to give tips, and it was the easiest to earn money from them.
Li Du went to the intersection of the streets to find Brother Wolf, and asked, ”Did you see Da Mao anywhere here?”
Brother Wolf shook his head and said, ”No, is Da Mao missing?”
Li Du said, ”Yes, he was not on the site. I guess he was taken out.”
Brother Wolf whistled, called a group of bodyguards to gather up, and said, ”Go and check out the surveillance camera. Boss, do you know what time exactly he went missing?”
Zhong Dapao, who was beside him, was exulted. ”You even installed a surveillance camera here?”
Brother Wolf said, ”We installed two surveillance cameras to collect information, just in case.”
The Markelov brothers copied the images from the car's hard drive and transferred them into the computer, where they searched through the record carefully.
They began to look for him starting from 8.30 AM. More than 10 minutes later, Liu Zi looked, pointed at the screen and said, ”Here, can you enlarge the image? This is Da Mao.”
The equipment was simple; there were only video and no other functions such as enlarging. They just slowed down the video and watched frame by frame. Fortunately, the image was considered pretty clear, and they soon determined that it was indeed Da Mao.
Da Mao did not look like himself. He was wearing a baseball cap and a wide T-shirt, and it would be hard to tell who he was from any other angle if he wasn't sometimes looking around right in the direction of the cameras.
If the identity of Da Mao was uncertain because of the change of clothes, the person next to him still looked the same he had when he met Li Du and others, which made it easier to confirm.
Li Du's guess was right. It was Master Dao and his men who abducted Da Mao. The two people beside Da Mao were Lu Dayou and Xiao Liao!
”F**k them!” Liu Zi was in a rage. ”They can't run away from us, damn it. Shall we go straight to their den and beat them up?”
Zhong Dapao said, ”Call the men, I'll go and look for someone to check out the situation.”
Li Du stopped him and calmly analyzed, ”What do you think these people took Da Mao for? Da Mao did not have any trouble with them, did he?”
”No, why would he?”
Li Du continued, ”Then it is obvious that they are trying to get back at me. I got a lot of money from them and they want it back.”
”They didn't kidnap him to ask us for ransom. They dare not do that, or the police and you would give them a lesson.”
”Why would they dare to do that when they know that taking him away will irritate you and even put them in court? Are they not afraid of you? And what do they want to gain by taking Da Mao? They want money. Can you think of any way having Da Mao in their hands would help them earn money?”
Zhong Dapao was a little thrown aback by the questions thrown at him, but he was able to survive in Hpakant for so long not just because he was bold and not afraid of death; he was also very cunning and knew how to read through people.