After everything was done, Luke and Selina went back into the car.
The county police were closing in, and they didn't want to be treated as robbers.
Less than a minute later, the county officers covered them and subconsciously looked around when they saw the four robbers on the ground.
They surrounded the robbers and hid in the car, pointing their rifles around warily. Two of them stepped forward and kicked away the guns in the robbers' hands, before they shouted, "Clear!"
After a series of shouts, the county police slowly surrounded the robbers. Some of them were still on high alert, but two of them quickly took off the guns and threw them away.
At that moment, the two officers who had been flanking the robbers finally arrived from the side, panting. The officers were all dumbfounded.
“w？ t？ h！” (What the hell?) Big Nick's face was full of shock and dismay. "Who handcuffed them? You guys?"
The two officers who had been flanking the robbers shook their heads. They had been out of breath from running, and it hadn't been easy for them to arrive.
Besides, they weren't capable of capturing four ferocious robbers unscathed.
Only then did Luke sit up straight and knock on the window to open it slightly.
All of a sudden, a bunch of guns were pointed at him.
Luke was calm. In any case, his car was bulletproof, and he could handle a misfire.
That was also why he was sitting in the car and didn't roll down the window.
Big Nick narrowed his eyes and stared for a moment, before he asked in disbelief, "You're … PD?"
Luke raised his hand and gestured at them. Nick came back to himself and pressed his hand down. "Put down your guns. We're on the same side."
In this situation, there was no doubt that Luke was on the same side.
Seeing that they had put down their guns, Luke opened the window and said, "These people wanted to rob me, so I fought back. That's not too much, right?"
Nick was stumped. "You …"
But looking at Luke's calm face, he suddenly realized what was going on.
Big Nick wasn't a good, innocent officer; he was even more skilled at crooked tricks than Luke was.
Now that Luke said that, the robbers' arrest had nothing to do with him, and was all thanks to Nick and his team.
Nick's face immediately relaxed. "Everything's fine. Um, how did you … "
Luke raised his hand. "Nick, your men are injured. I happen to know a thing or two about first aid. I have some medicine and bandages here. Do you need my help? "
Nick slapped himself in frustration. "F * ck!" He was so surprised that he forgot that there were still a few colleagues lying on the ground.
At Luke's reminder, he quickly nodded. "That's great. Uh, thank you. "
Luke smiled and said that it was fine. He took the first aid kit from Selina and gave her a look.
Selina nodded. After Luke quickly closed the door, she got into the driver's seat and took over the surveillance. She also called Elsa to report the situation.
Luke reminded her with his eyes that she wasn't that stupid.
The county officers weren't completely reliable. She could stay in the car and report the situation, which would ensure their safety.
Ten minutes later, the ambulance finally arrived and took away Nick's injured men.
Luke drove past Nick and greeted him. "Nick, you must have a lot of things to do. I won't bother you anymore."
Nick nodded bitterly. After thinking for a while, he said, "About your matter … Call me tomorrow. We'll set up a time to talk."
Luke nodded and drove away.
"Nick and his team found a lot of old bills in the robbers' car just now, but they soon realized that they were mostly counterfeit notes." Watching Big Nick disappear in the rearview mirror, Selina said, "So, the robbers tricked the county officers?"
Pondering for a moment, Luke shook his head. "They might not be the robbers. If they were that smart, they wouldn't have been stuck here. Judging from their behavior, they didn't expect Nick to catch up to them at all. "
Selina asked, "Then what's with the counterfeit notes that Nick and his team found?"
Luke chuckled. "Based on what we just learned, you can tell us."
Thinking for a moment, Selina said in a low voice, "The county officers suffered heavy casualties, and the robbers were all killed. Clearly, both sides thought that the counterfeit notes were real money. Could it be the garbage truck driver? "
Luke happened to pick up the phone. "Hey, boss, how did it go?"
Elsa said a few words on the other end of the line and hung up.
Luke said, "I have good news for you. Elsa stopped the other garbage truck and brought it back to the department. Just now, they found a few bags of old hundred-dollar bills. "
Selina was stunned. "Am I right?"
Luke chuckled. "No, we've investigated the garbage truck driver. He did go to work as usual, and there's nothing unusual about him. He did take the same route today. According to his schedule, he would've taken the garbage to the dump an hour after he left the Federal Reserve branch. He didn't show any abnormalities during our questioning. "
Selina frowned. "If he's one of the robbers, or if he knew that we intercepted so much money in the garbage truck, it would be hard for him to hide his emotions."
Luke nodded in agreement.
That wasn't something that could be controlled by reason.
As the saying went, "Greed blinds the mind" and "Men die for money". That meant that when the profits were too great, people wouldn't even care about their own lives, let alone completely control their emotions.
Luke had asked Elsa to take more people to clean up the garbage truck, and had also asked Dustin to supervise the operation, because he didn't want the robbers to be greedy if there were too few people involved.
A pile of green dollars in front of them was far more tempting than the monotonous numbers in their bank accounts.
Selina frowned. "So, who is this guy?"
Luke chuckled. "Do you need me to give you an answer?"
Selina raised her hand. "No, I'll figure it out myself. The answer can't be that complicated, or you wouldn't be telling me directly. Wait, one of the robbers escaped. It's the black man who entered the Federal Reserve branch! "
Luke didn't say anything.
As if encouraged, Selina had an idea. "He was in the Federal Reserve branch when the robbers used the cash truck to enter the vault. He was clearly an important part of the operation, but he didn't come out with the robbers. Just now, this guy secretly unlocked his handcuffs and escaped from Nick's truck while they were fighting. "
Luke nodded. "Anything else?"
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