Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 203 Another Life Lost
"Three years."

The girl spoke calmly, and if it weren't for the fact that she was sitting on the outer wall of the eighth-floor rooftop with her legs swinging, no one would notice anything unusual about her.

"I always feel like crying, and I can't sleep at night. When I finally fall asleep, I have the same nightmare over and over again, and then I suddenly wake up in the dark, thinking that they are still beside me."

they?

Who are they? Are they a nightmare?

Chen Shu stood still. The girl had a desire to confide in him, so he simply listened.

"I failed the college entrance exam and got into a very bad university. I broke down as soon as I entered the school gate. I couldn't control my emotions. When I entered the classroom and saw those normal students in the sunlight, I felt even more dirty and worthless."

Dirty and wretched?
At this point, Chen Shu made a preliminary judgment that the girl must have experienced something bad three years ago, which led to her developing depression.

Judging from the condition, it's probably quite serious!
"Officer, do you have someone you like?"

The tone shifted so quickly? A romantic entanglement?

We need to contact Li Chaoyang immediately to confirm the girl's identity!
Chen Shu's mind raced with thoughts of how to get the little girl to come down to him, but he replied aloud, "Yes, definitely! They like me too, and they're always worried about me getting hurt or tired."

Pulling his phone out of his pocket, he quickly typed a WeChat message with the lightning-fast speed of a StarCraft player, achieving an APM of 200 back in the day, and sent it to Li Chaoyang, who was on his way. He instructed Li to notify the staff on duty to check all residents of the Chanyun Commercial Building on Jiefang Street and screen for local girls aged 17-19 from Dongzhou. Once the personnel were identified, he was to immediately contact the girl's parents.

"The girl may be involved in a romantic relationship dispute."

After finishing his last sentence, Chen Shu put his phone in his pocket, trusting that Li Chaoyang would know how to handle the situation.

Why are they worried about you?

Chen Shu, whose mind wasn't on chatting, was stumped by the girl's question. He suppressed his anxiety and answered seriously, trying to get closer to her: "This should be mutual, right? The premise of 'why they worry about me' is that I usually worry about them too."

The girl said "Oh" and then fell into deep thought.

Chen Shu was covered in sweat. Although his body was exhausted from the sudden and violent rush up the stairs, his spirits were extremely high. He dared not not be excited, for sitting in front of him were the flowers of the motherland, young lives as beautiful as flowers.

In reality, most people who attempt suicide hesitate before acting; this is a struggle stemming from the primal human instinct for survival. Police interventions to persuade or stop them are simply to give them another chance to choose, another chance to regret their actions.

The rope tied around Chen Shu's waist tightened abruptly twice, and Chen Shu realized that Zhu Chaoran and the others had arrived at the top floor. Turning his head, he saw Zhu Chaoran's signature big, fat head peeking out from the gap in the iron gate, looking around curiously.

He glanced at the girl, thinking that time wasn't so tight yet, and backed away towards the iron gate leading to the top floor.

He turned around, opened the iron gate, and went into the building. He saw Zhu Chaoran, who had already tied the rope around his waist and abdomen, and was skillfully continuing to tie the thick rope to the iron railing of the stairs.

When Chen Shu studied at the provincial police academy in his early years, he learned a variety of rope-tying techniques applicable to different environments and practical requirements in police physical education classes. However, since he had never actually practiced them over the years, he had long forgotten these skills.

At this moment, apart from the fact that the binding method on Zhu Chaoran's body and the binding method on the iron railing are clearly two different rope-tying techniques, nothing else can be seen.

"Huff, Chen, how is that person? What's the situation now?" Yan Chenxi, who had just run up to the top floor, grabbed Chen Shu's forearm and asked breathlessly. "The situation isn't good."

"Then I'll go over and take a look."

Chen Shu grabbed Yan Chenxi's arm: "It's not that I don't trust you. You're too young. If something unexpected happens, you can't afford the consequences."

You'll be ruined, both in your career and your life.
Yan Chenxi forcefully shook off Chen Shu's hand and said angrily, "What time is it? Why are you still talking about this nonsense?"

Chen Shu stared into her eyes and said in a deep voice, "Don't rush, I have something more important that I need you to do. I wouldn't trust anyone else with this task; I can only rely on you!"

"You're not just making up some excuse to fob me off, are you?" Yan Chenxi quieted down and looked at Chen Shu suspiciously.

Chen Shu adopted a determined expression and said confidently, "I just sent some clues to Li Chaoyang. He can basically confirm the girl's identity information, and if nothing unexpected happens, he should be able to contact her parents in about ten minutes. So your next task is to cooperate with Li Chaoyang to find a breakthrough from the girl's parents!"

There are four households per floor. If you take down the bottom two floors of an eight-story building, there are probably only about twenty-four households left. It should take about ten minutes to screen the households!
Yan Chenxi hadn't expected that Chen Shu would have already devised a rescue plan and put it into action in such a short time. No longer in a hurry to leave through the iron gate, she nodded and accepted the task.

Chen Shu gave Yan Chenxi Li Chaoran's phone number and told her to find a quiet place on the floor below to contact him.

After Yan Chenxi's figure disappeared at the top of the stairs, Chen Shu walked a few steps to Zhu Chaoran's side, his eyes fixed on the rope tied to the stair railing, and asked, "Fatty, can you handle the strain?"

"Brother Shu, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't done carelessly. Are you planning on..."

Zhu Chaoran was initially shocked, but seeing Chen Shu's serious expression and the lack of any hint of joking, he gripped the thick rope tightly and gritted his teeth, saying, "It can withstand it!"

The big boy who had been following him around joking and laughing for the past six months had somehow developed a sense of responsibility that a man should have.

Chen Shu nodded: "Okay!"

Zhu Chaoran glanced down at the old security guard who was plopping up the stairs, and said to himself with self-reproach, "But I might not be able to pull him up by myself."

Chen Shu looked closely at Zhu Chaoran's chubby face, whose ears were barely visible, patted his shoulder, and comforted him, "That's enough."

He glanced at the time and added, "When the firefighters or the girl's parents arrive, don't let them go outside directly. Wait for my notification. Okay, when they arrive, pull the rope three times. If I pull it back three times, then you let them in. Otherwise, absolutely do not make any rash moves. Don't let any other unrelated personnel in!"

Having explained the situation, Chen Shu asked Zhu Chaoran, who clearly possessed professional rope-tying skills, to untie the ropes that Zhu had previously haphazardly tied around him and to re-tie him.

Chen Shu patted the newly tied, noticeably textured thick rope, took a deep breath, and turned to leave through the iron gate.

Unlike previous battles between police and criminals, those were real, hard-fought fights. Today's encounter on the rooftop was also a battle, a psychological war. The only stakes were one thing: a precious young life.

Perhaps, if we lose, we'll have to lose another one.

Salute to firefighter Chen Jianjun! May he rest in peace, and may there be no more emergencies in heaven.

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(End of this chapter)