Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 275 In-depth Investigation of Major Cases
9 PM, Room 402, Building 8, Maple Leaf Residential Complex

There was a small coffee table in the living room, surrounded by a circle of police officers.

Chen Shu casually picked up O from the coffee table, dissolved a small amount in mineral water, and dripped it onto the urine test strip. After a while, a red line appeared, indicating a positive result.

"OK, it's definitely O."

Chen Shu tapped the coffee table to confirm that Lao Xi had hidden O in the rented room, and then everyone dispersed. The police officers from Dongming Police Station were busy cleaning up and tidying up the scene, while the police officers from Zhongshan Police Station curiously looked at and touched O to pass the time.

Xu Chaofan, whose neck had been pressed down, pounded his neck and complained, "Director Chen, how can you arrest people like this? Oh dear, I'm really having a lot of bad luck. I was happily fishing, but I didn't expect to bring you, this shark, up with me."

Chen Shu shrugged, equally speechless. Who would have thought that the person holed up in the drug dealer's house would be a policeman also trying to set a trap? It was truly a case of mistaken identity—family members not recognizing each other!
It turns out that the Dongming Police Station arrested O drug trafficker Lao Xi last night. In order to make one last push to meet the quota at the end of the "Breaking the Ice" operation, Deputy Director Xu Chaofan came up with the idea of ​​sending mass WeChat messages to lure people in.

They were sitting in Lao Xi's rented room, just waiting for the 24-hour deadline to pass before sending Lao Xi to the detention center. As for the drug users who received the limited-time price reduction promotion, they could come or not, as many as they wanted; Xu Chaofan would profit anyway.

Now that two families from the same system have made a big blunder, Xu Chaofan figured that it was about time for Lao Xi to make his move, so he decided to close the net.

Xu Chaofan's haul was indeed quite good. Old Xi was the dealer, plus two others who took the bait, so even though he was beaten up by Chen Shu for nothing, he was still beaming with joy and ready to call it a day and head back to the station.

Chen Shu was different; he brought out a large group of people from the station, but all they caught was an ox user. What a waste of police resources!

Seeing that the guys from Dongming Institute were packing their bags, Chen Shu, in his impatience, pulled Xu Chaofan into an empty bedroom and tempted him:
"Brother Xu, you've caught Lao Xi, and you've also caught the people he was using. But haven't you thought about following the trail and taking down his suppliers as well?"

Xu Chaofan laughed and said, "Why do you think I went to his house to fish for these small fish and shrimp? It's because this old man is stubborn and didn't mention a word about going online."

Generally speaking, cases involving O are life-or-death matters, which makes the suspects extremely cautious and have a strong sense of counter-investigation. In addition, the requirements for the chain of evidence are extremely high. Therefore, the police need to carry out a long period of meticulous investigation. The bigger the case, the more time is required.

Police stations face a heavy workload due to the large number and variety of illegal and criminal cases they need to crack down on, including overtime and shift work. Therefore, after arresting suspects involved in O-related cases, police stations do not keep cases pending; they simply don't have the time or energy for that. They basically arrest as many suspects as they can.

Having worked all night and only gotten one drug addict, Chen Shu was unwilling to give up. He shamelessly suggested to Xu Chaofan, "Brother Xu, why don't you let me try? We can talk here, it definitely won't delay your detention."

"I've been asking all day and it's no use. You think you can do it in a little while? I'll cut off your head!"

They were all old friends, and although he complained, Xu Chaofan eventually waved his hand and agreed.

Old Xi looked to be in his forties, with a pointed face, messy hair, thin arms, and bluish veins that looked like they were about to bulge out of his skin. He also had a tattoo on his left arm. He sat down in the chair with his head down and didn't say a word.

Who is your superior?

Chen Shu shifted back and sat on the corner of the table, looking down at him and asking.

Lao Xi didn't say anything.

This is actually quite abnormal. Suspects involved in O-related crimes are usually the ones who inflict the most harm. After being arrested by the police, they will try their best to drag others down with them. Putting aside whether they are thinking of redeeming themselves through leniency, there are quite a few who are motivated by revenge.

They will think that their downfall is the fault of those who brought them into this circle, so they want revenge and to drag others down with them.

Chen Shu took Lao Xi's phone and looked through the information inside over and over again.

Old Xi saw Chen Shu looking through his phone but didn't react at all, his head still raised and unmoved. This made Chen Shu believe that there wasn't much to find on the phone.

Chen Shu locked his phone and put it aside. Xu Chaofan had probably turned the phone upside down as well, so there was no need for him to waste any more time.

He decided to try a different approach. Xu Chaofan had definitely tried the normal methods, but obviously, they hadn't yielded results. Go online?

Where is it available?

In today's society, how come we can't even contact people online via mobile phone?

Or rather, it was never even launched!

Be bold, Lao Xi himself is the online one!

Why did Lao Xi suddenly increase the price of the goods he delivered to Li Yunqi for two years to 800 yuan, a fourfold increase from 200 yuan?

Because he no longer sells individual orders!

Either they wanted to use a high price to make Li Yunqi give up and find someone else, or they were used to wholesale and simply increased the profit of individual orders.

Chen Shu paced around the room, circling the chair where Lao Xi was sitting, step by step, faster and faster.

Amidst the lightning and thunder, he suddenly had an inspiration!

Zhu Chaoran had previously mentioned that a month ago, an elderly man on the third floor who was suffering from insomnia called the police, saying that the upstairs residents were making a lot of noise, "thump thump thump," in the middle of the night.

Just now, when we were pretending to check the water meter, Xiao Zhang, a staff member of the property management, said while looking through the folders to try to get the door opened, "The water consumption on the fourth floor last month was very abnormal, it was too high."

Lao Xi's reply was, "Not this month."

Later, Chen Shu recalled that he only thought that Lao Xi knew that after he went to the detention center, no one would use water at home, so there wouldn't be much water bill this month.

But upon closer examination, I realized that today is already the end of the month!

"Not this month?" How could he not? He only entered the detention center today; if he didn't, it would be next month!
Furthermore, the fact that the elderly man downstairs didn't call the police this month indicates that there was no noise coming from Lao Xi's house this month.

The production of O will generate noise and also requires tap water.

Therefore, the conclusion is that Lao Xi himself was online, so he wasn't online. The manufacturing plant was located here, but it was moved away at the end of last month or the beginning of this month!

Thinking about it this way, everything makes sense.

However, it is obvious that there is no trace of O in the house where Lao Xi is living now, not even a little bit.

This is impossible.

Chen Shu's eyes darted around, his eyelids twitched, and he felt that he had touched the edge of a major case, just one step away from the final step.

He was extremely excited. His hands trembled as he pulled out a Liqun cigarette from his pocket, lit one, and looked at the pale-faced old man sitting next to him as if he had seen a beautiful young woman.

Seductive!

(End of this chapter)