377 Never Expected
Orange County is also a small city by the sea, but there are many beaches and cliffs here.
The beach is not as delicate as the one in Santa Monica, so it is not as famous as the one in Santa Monica.
Chen Rui drove the car to the edge of a cliff near the sea and briefly searched for the two bodies.
No documents were found, so the two bodies were simply thrown into the sea.
I was just about to find a place to hide the treasure in the car, but unexpectedly the phone rang.
When I saw the number was from Karen, I quickly picked it up.
"Honey, where are you?"
I heard the sizzling sound of electrical interference coming from the other end of the phone.
Chen Rui knew that there must be many police around her.
"I'm chasing those guys. I want to see where they are fleeing to?"
"Well, Mr. Chen, we need you to come back immediately."
Someone snatched the phone from Karen's hand, and a male voice said.
"I am Police Officer Murphy. In order to ensure your personal safety, please do not continue the pursuit and come back immediately."
"All right!"
Chen Rui pretended to be dejected and then hung up the phone.
He turned around and got in the car, but before going back, he went to a place, which was a warehouse he rented before.
This is after he and Yang Qian divorced, they divided some furniture for storage.
He rented a warehouse and had exactly half a year left on the lease.
He hid all the treasures in the car in this warehouse.
Then he went back home and waited for him to return home.
The entire house has been surrounded by more than a dozen police cars.
When he saw him push open the door and get out of the car, several police officers immediately surrounded him and asked him to take notes.
Regarding this situation, Chen Rui had already made countless drafts before, so he didn't panic when dealing with it.
"Mr. Chen, did you have any enemies before?"
The person leading the questioning was a tall, bald white police officer.
"Well! When it comes to enemies, I can't call them enemies. Even...you know, police officer."
"We are in the second-hand goods and antiques business, and sometimes we have to participate in some family auctions."
"During an auction, it is inevitable that some people will be offended. I remember the last time we attended a family auction in San Francisco."
"We offended a lot of people that time, and we were followed and chased on our return trip."
"Fortunately, we got rid of those people and didn't cause any damage, so we didn't call the police."
When Chen Rui said this, the bald police officer felt relieved.
"Have you offended the Mexicans?"
The police officer asked again, and Chen Rui glanced at Karen.
Karen gave him a look: "Ricky, I've shown our surveillance video to the police officer."
Karen is very smart. After Chen Rui left, she erased half of the surveillance video.
The scenes of the man in black breaking into the door and Hector and the others following behind are all reserved.
But the subsequent clips of the shootout between the two sides were deleted by her.
She had told Chen Rui all this, so Chen Rui knew it now.
The bald man must have seen the images of Hector and the others, so he asked this question.
"Well, I participated in a warehouse auction in Chicano before, and I did offend a few Mexicans."
He said half-truthfully.
When the bald man heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Tell me, how did you offend me?"
"Well, you know the police officer, when we were participating in the bidding, we intercepted a few warehouses that they were optimistic about..."
Bald Murphy couldn't help but slap his thigh when he heard what he said.
"This should be it!"
"Man, I'm not telling you, there is some money you really shouldn't earn, you know..."
This bald Murphy is actually a real person. He winked while talking to him.
"You also know the reputation of those guys. They are notorious for being stingy, and they will retaliate against you."
"This time I am definitely here to seek revenge! Fortunately, you are tough enough and drove them all out."
"You are lucky this time, who knows what will happen next time?"
"But don't worry, this is Orange County, this is Irvine, not Chicano where they can be lawless."
"Next time something like this happens, just call this phone number."
Murphy said, handing a card to Chen Rui.
Chen Rui took it and carefully put it into his pocket: "Thank you, police officer."
"Okay, that's it for today!"
"In recent years, you two had better not run around."
"Also, if you have friends, you can move to your friend's house for a few days."
Officer Murphy has already understood the situation at the scene and has a rough judgment on the case.
As for Chen Rui and Karen, they both look like good old people at first glance.
After all, these two people, one is white and the other is Chinese, are both typical images of good citizens in American society.
Because of doing business, he provoked Mexican gangs and suffered retaliation.
There are countless cases like this that occur in the United States every year.
The police will definitely not be able to control them anyway.
Today I can only record it on the record and then go back and check again.
As for when there would be results and whether the case could be solved, he did not dare to give Chen Rui and the others any guarantee.
He only hoped that Chen Rui's counterattack this time would make those Mexicans remember something better.
Just don't come over and provoke them easily in the future.
Anyway, if no one was killed in the case, it is not considered a big case.
And there are countless home invasions and robberies like this happening in Los Angeles every day.
Even in Irvine, which has always had a good public security situation, cases like this are increasing day by day.
The police's response is to use rhetoric, but as long as no one is killed.
If the case does not involve big names, they usually lift it high and drop it gently.
How could Chen Rui not see that the police were obviously trying to fool him and didn't want to take care of the case at all?
In his opinion, this is better, and he just doesn't want the police to get too involved in this case.
That's it, you fool me and I fool you, that's fine!
The police evacuated in droves, and their houses were symbolically sealed with yellow seals.
Although it was still late at night, neither of them had any sleepiness.
"What to do next?"
Karen looked at the damaged door and asked Chen Rui.
Chen Rui found a second-hand door lock from the warehouse on the first floor and replaced it.
After locking the door, the two of them felt a little more at ease.
"Call Nelson and tell him to be careful."
"After arriving in Los Angeles, don't come here anymore, let alone contact you."
"Let him get a new phone card and we will contact him then."
"I'm worried that the people this time were sent by Lehman. We can't stay in this place any longer."
"Pack up your belongings and leave here before dawn."
Chen Rui said to Karen, who nodded seriously.
"Then where should we go next?"
"Please contact Lao Fang. I heard him mention it the last time we had dinner together."
Chapter completed!