Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 274 Brothers, we're on the same side!

8 PM, Maple Leaf Residential Building 8, stairwell

Li Yunqi, who had come here to pick up goods many times before, was now standing in the stairwell on the fourth floor, leaning against the railing and panting heavily. He was originally full of courage in the police station, but now that he was actually at the scene, he was a little timid and dragged his feet for a long time before finally reaching the third floor.

In the past, whenever he arrived at Building 8 of Maple Leaf Community, he would leap up two or three flights of stairs, his mind filled with the memory of that crystal-clear little packaged O and the explosive feeling that was ten thousand times more exhilarating.

This time, he helped the police arrest someone, and although the police promised not to send him to a drug rehabilitation center, he not only showed no fear, but his mind was full of drugs. This is truly a great irony.

"Hey."

Li Yunqi sighed softly, ending his rambling thoughts, and started walking upstairs again.

Let's take it one step at a time, or just give up and do whatever we want.
When they reached the fourth floor, they knocked on the security door. Old Xi opened the door from the inside and let Li Yunqi into the room.

Li Yunqi entered the room, remembering the request Chen Shu had made to him earlier. He was about to make up some excuses to stall for time when two men suddenly jumped out from the small room behind him. One of them grabbed him and slammed his head to the ground in an instant, while the other skillfully began to search him, pulling the cell phone out of his pocket in the first move.

Oh no! People are going to die!
Old Xi must have found out I was eating dog food!
Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!
In an instant, Li Yunqi felt ice-cold all over, his mind went blank, and he was restrained like a dead pig, manipulated at will without any reaction.

He watched helplessly as the two men searched his body, stuffed a strip of cloth into his mouth and tied it behind his head, then lifted him up from the ground and carried him to the hall a little further inside.

As he was led into the hall, Li Yunqi saw a middle-aged man with a buzz cut and a robust build sitting on the sofa, watching a television program. The man turned to look at him with a smile.

That look in his eyes was filled with the joy of a hunter catching his prey, or rather, the pleasure of getting something for nothing by having it delivered to his doorstep.

From a distance, Li Yunqi noticed two men in the west corner of the room, their mouths gagged, hands cuffed behind their backs, and squatting with their heads down.

ah? ah!
Could these people be police officers too?

Did they arrest Lao Xi and then start fishing?
That's why they gave me a low price of 500 yuan and asked me to come to their door within a limited time.

Li Yunqi froze on the spot. When he tried to say something, he realized that his mouth was stuffed with a strip of cloth and he could only make "woo woo" sounds.

Judging that it was about time, Chen Shu led the group up to Building 8 and proceeded to the fourth floor at a normal pace. When they reached the third floor, Wang Chongming and Li Chaoyang stopped and prepared for a surprise attack.

Going up the stairs leads to a north-south corridor, where four households are arranged in a row. Except for house number one, the other three households have one or two bags of garbage placed in front of their doors.

Xiao Zhang, a staff member of the property management, was not intimidated. After climbing to the fourth floor, he went straight to room 402 where Lao Xi was renting. When he passed Chen Shu, Chen Shu grabbed him.

Chen Shu pointed to apartment 401, the only apartment without a garbage bag at the door, and said in a low voice, "Check this apartment first, then go to 402."

This is to avoid having "eyes" near the stairwell.

It's not uncommon for drug traffickers to install highly disguised surveillance cameras in stairwells or on the ground floor of buildings to monitor the outside world. These machines are readily available on Taobao; a quick search will reveal countless options. They're not expensive, and certainly much more cost-effective than hiring human "eyes."

Times are progressing, and so are those who traffic in O2.

Seeing that Xiao Zhang was knocking slowly and deliberately, Chen Shu pulled him aside and pounded on the security door: "Open the door, open the door, I'm here to check the water meter."

Making a lot of noise would help lower the guard of the real target—the person inside number 2. Luckily, number 1, which had no trash bags on the ground near the entrance, was indeed empty.

Chen Shu knocked on the door for a while and then stopped. He walked to the door of room number 2 and deliberately made room for Xiao Zhang in front of the peephole on the security door. He gave Xiao Zhang a look, indicating that he would knock on the door this time.

Next time, we need to find a professional locksmith to help with the case; that would definitely make things much easier. It's just a matter of cost. Chen Shu suddenly thought as he watched Xiao Zhang banging on the door, both nervous and excited.

Is anyone home? Is anyone home?

"Who is it? What can I do for you?"

A man inside immediately responded, clearly having been standing by the door for some time.

Xiao Zhang coughed a few times, flipped through the folder in his hand, and said with a hint of impatience, "I'm from the property management of this community. There are only four households on your fourth floor, how come you used more than two hundred tons of water last month? That's too outrageous! Is there a leak in your house, or is the water meter broken? Who's going to pay for this water bill?"

Haha, more than 200 tons of water a month, do you run a bathhouse?

At the crucial moment of the arrest, for some reason, Chen Shu couldn't help but complain in his heart when he heard Xiao Zhang mention the amount of water used.

"Oh, sorry. We definitely won't be using that much water this month." Just as the man finished speaking, the security door creaked open.

This was the moment they had been waiting for. Chen Shu, who had been waiting outside the door, suddenly pushed it in. With a muffled thud, the man who opened the door stumbled and was knocked to the ground by the door.

Chen Shu rushed into the living room.

At this moment, two young men sitting on the sofa opposite the door in the hall, cracking sunflower seeds, looked up blankly at Chen Shu, who had suddenly rushed in, and Wang Chongming, Li Chaoyang, and others who followed him in.

Another man, sitting on the sofa with his back to the door, was completely oblivious, still staring at the large television in front of him, and casually remarked:
"Xiao Liu, go with them to check the water meter."

Good heavens, this old man actually hired people for a small business of only 1,000 yuan. Doesn't he consider the costs when he does business?

It's a 3v3 situation, and the opposing team is a notorious drug trafficking gang known for their recklessness. The situation is extremely dire. We must immediately seize control of the entire arena with overwhelming force!
This is a life-or-death job; we must not be careless at all!
Chen Shu acted decisively, lunging at the three people in the living room. He first kicked the closest man, who was facing away from the others and watching TV, to the ground. Then, he stepped forward and kneed the man's left shoulder, which was on the ground. He grabbed the man's neck with his left hand and pulled out a Type 64 pistol with his right hand, pressing it against the back of the man's head. He shouted fiercely:

"Police! You all better behave yourselves! If anyone moves, I'll shoot them on the spot!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Wang Chongming and Li Chaoyang quickly pulled out handcuffs and restrained the others, then Xiao Qiang and Zhu Chaoran, who were guarding the second floor, also rushed up.

The small house was crammed full of police officers and drug traffickers.

The situation was brought under control, and the hall immediately fell silent.

The person in charge, Chen Shuchang, breathed a sigh of relief; everything was alright now.

At this moment, Chen Shu heard the man he was pressing down on utter a line of words with great difficulty.

"Secretary Chen... uh... one of us!"

(End of this chapter)