Chapter 19 Shut Up_1

The sudden sound of gunshots came from behind the restaurant.

After three consecutive gunshots, someone shouted, "Come out! Come out!"

John was stunned, his hand dropping the taco, pressing against his chest, but Gao Guang knew John's gun hung on the left side of his ribs; he could draw a pistol just by reaching into his clothes.

John was about to make his move, but the drug dealers inside hadn't managed to open the tunnel entrance yet, so the middleman hadn't been caught. Drawing a gun now would be nothing short of suicide.

The drug dealers outside heard the gunfire and almost immediately stormed into the restaurant, first two of them, and definitely more to follow.

Gao Guang felt that if shooting had already started, not running at this point would seem quite unreasonable.

So now was the time to run, which would fit the abundant experience of Americans dealing with shootings, and would seem normal, reasonable.

Thus, Gao Guang suddenly ducked and said in extreme panic, "Sh*t, they're shooting, run!"

Gao Guang got up and bolted forward, not forgetting to pull the dumbstruck John along, shouting urgently, "Are you deaf? They're shooting! Run!"

The two drug dealers behind Gao Guang had an expression that said "as expected." Indeed, this was the normal reaction of tourists to a shooting, correctness and reason all in order.

In fact, John seriously intended to draw his gun and start shooting, but Gao Guang grabbed his hand pressed against his chest, yanking John's body so he almost tumbled to the ground, making it impossible for him to shoot.

John was extremely shocked, but he was neither stupid nor sluggish. Although he was greatly puzzled and contemptuous of Gao Guang's actions, with four or five more drug dealers charging into the restaurant, he had no choice but to start running with Gao Guang.

The two of them rushed out of the restaurant one after another, with John instinctively heading towards the hotel, but Gao Guang again grabbed John, urgently saying, "The other way, this way!"

"You're the one running the wrong way, you coward and a complete idiot when it comes to directions!"

The Captain and the others were waiting at the hotel, so John was right to run towards it, but Gao Guang had a different plan, and so he had to pull John in the opposite direction.

"Shut up, do you not understand a pincer attack?"

Some drug dealers rushed over, but others stayed put. They seemed to know the situation with the middleman and didn't need too many people entering, so they stayed outside to wait, also effectively cutting off any possible escape route for the middleman.

Some drug dealers looked toward the panicked Gao Guang and John but didn't stop them. At that moment, someone came out of the restaurant and shouted, "Found him, bring the hydraulic cutters and the torch over from the repair shop, quick!"

Gao Guang heard the drug dealer's shout, and as John approached him, he whispered angrily, "Have you lost your mind? You coward, now..."

"Shut up!"

Gao Guang harshly cut off John's words, then continued while running, "You can't understand a word they're saying! Shut up and listen to me. The middleman is still in the tunnel; staying there won't give us a chance to take him out. Use your brain, with battles behind and eating up front, even a fool would know something's wrong. If the middleman doesn't die, we're the ones who'll be dead!"

No one could deny that Gao Guang had a point, and John could only say with frustration, "Then we'll have to wait for them to bring out the middleman before we act."

Gao Guang whispered, "They have at least thirty men; I don't want to die."

"Coward!"

"Shut up! Idiot! I have a plan!"

The two argued heatedly as they ran about fifty meters, then Gao Guang slowed down and urgently said to John, "Come here, come here."

Gao Guang ducked behind a power pole, took a deep breath, and then said to John, "Give me your phone, quick, hurry up!"

John took out his phone, but with an annoyed look said, "Get lost! I can make the call myself."

Gao Guang snatched the phone from John and then said to him, "I have a plan, do you?"

John's fist was almost in Gao Guang's face, but when Gao Guang asked this question, the fist finally stopped, and he looked at Gao Guang puzzled, asking, "What's your plan?"

"Shut up!"

Gao Guang swiped on John's phone, then irritably held it in front of John, saying, "Unlock it, quick."

John, doubtful, pressed his fingerprint, and Gao Guang took back the phone, thought for a moment, and quickly dialed 911.

That's right, in Mexico, the emergency numbers for the police, fire department, and medical emergencies are also 911.

"What are you doing? Are you calling the cops? Are you insane?"

John tried to grab the phone again, but Gao Guang stepped back and yelled, "Shut up! Don't get in the way, you idiot!"

Having scolded John, the call connected and then a mechanical female voice said, "This is the 911 emergency center."

Gao Guang raised his voice and, with his rudimentary Spanish and the fastest speech he had ever used, said, "I've been robbed, I've been robbed!"

"Where are you?"

Gao Guang paused for a moment, then continued in a rushed voice, "I'm at... I'm at the Acuvario Hotel, no no no, I'm at a restaurant south of the Acuvario Hotel, what's its name, it's a taco restaurant! I've been robbed, hurry up and come!"

His voice was hurried and panicked, but John couldn't understand. He was so anxious that he was scratching his head, but he was also afraid that the drug dealer would notice Gao Guang's movements and be drawn over, so John was really dying of anxiety.

Then John saw Gao Guang suddenly raise his voice, speaking in English with utmost panic, "I've been robbed of five hundred and sixty thousand US dollars! Cash!"

After stating an amount in fluent English, Gao Guang switched back to stuttering Spanish and continued, "I've been robbed of over five hundred thousand US dollars, all in cash, packed in a brown bag, that's the money I just won at Puebla Casino, you have to help me get it back, listen, I'm a United States citizen, you have to help me find that money."

Gao Guang rambled on while John anxiously paced around. He really wanted to say something, but after receiving a glare from Gao Guang, he could only raise his hands, making a helpless gesture towards the heavens above.

"Okay, sir, I have dispatched the nearest patrol officers to head over. Are you injured? Is your current situation safe?"

"The bag with the money is a large brown leather bag, looks like a normal travel bag on the outside, but inside, there's a large sum of money..."

Gao Guang glanced at the restaurant, where someone had entered with hydraulic cutters not long ago, and now someone with a cart was pushing a gas cylinder and welding equipment into the restaurant.

He guessed the intermediary wouldn't last long, so Gao Guang stopped beating around the bush, stopped describing what the money bag looked like in detail, and immediately said, "I'm not injured, the robbers have run away, there were two of them, one of them had a gun, they took my wallet and my bag, listen, my wallet doesn't matter, what's important is my money bag, hurry up, hurry!"

"Okay sir, our nearby patrol officers are on their way. Please find a safe place to hide and wait for the police to arrive."

"Alright, I've already hidden."

At that moment, John suddenly pointed emphatically towards the restaurant. Gao Guang looked over and could only see a figure being pushed by two people onto a car at the restaurant's entrance.

Gao Guang immediately said, "I've seen the license plate of the robbers' car, the plate number is T6-BAE, a white Ford sedan, there are two people in the car, they drove off towards... uh, northwards."

The dispatcher must have been speechless, responding with resignation, "You should have said that earlier, instead of describing what your bag looks like. Please find a safe spot to wait; our patrol officers are very close to your location, and they are on their way."

"Okay, that's that."

This time Gao Guang hung up the phone very promptly with a click.

John urgently asked, "What did you say? Did you mention the license plate number? Could you see it clearly?"

Gao Guang whispered, "I wrote down the license plate number."

"You remembered the license plate number of all the drug dealers' cars? Are you sure you can remember?"

"I don't have that good a memory, but there were only two cars in front of the restaurant, I can remember two cars, can't I? They put the intermediary in that white sedan, isn't that right?"

The sedan started up and headed north. Gao Guang sighed and handed the phone to John, saying, "Call the Captain, quick."

John dialed a number, but before he could speak, Gao Guang snatched the phone back and whispered, "Captain, the intermediary is in that white Ford sedan, follow from a distance, the police will intercept them, don't rush, decide based on the situation..."

Before he could finish, John suddenly yelled, "Police cars, a machine gun pickup! How did they get here so fast?"

The white sedan had already driven past the Captain's hotel, but three police cars had emerged from a distant intersection, and the second one was a pickup with a machine gun mounted on top.

The drug dealers' car and the police car drove straight towards each other, and to John's utter astonishment, without any warning, the machine gun on top of the police car opened fire on the white sedan.

Gao Guang was startled; he thought the police car would stop the drug dealers' car, but he didn't expect them to open fire outright.

The gunfire was loud, and bullets enveloped the white sedan. Gao Guang put the phone down and handed it to John, saying, "From here on out, it's out of my hands, do what you have to do, but I think the intermediary is as good as dead."

John took the phone, dazed, just as he heard the Captain still calling through the handset in an urgent voice, "What's happening? What's going on? Hey, what's the deal with those police cars!"

John's mouth opened, but he replied blankly, "Uh... I'll shut up, let him tell you."

Gao Guang took the phone and said, "Um, it's a bit complicated to explain right now, but it looks like everything should be fine. We're hanging up now; we've got to ditch the phone."

At that time, the drug dealers' car stopped and began to reverse. Drug dealers not in the car started to duck into the nearest hiding spots, and two police cars had pulled up alongside the white Ford, but at that moment it seemed the police had realized something was wrong. The two police cars quickly began to reverse, but fortunately, the drug dealers had been caught by surprise, and no gunfire was exchanged between the two sides.