Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 340 Boasting for a Lifetime
The commander, unwilling to waste any more time, stepped forward and stared intently at Chen, saying, "Officer Chen, please don't make things difficult for me. You're all alone. If you continue to disrupt our work, don't blame us for not giving you face."

Standing behind Chen Shu, Zhang Yang, still furious, took out his phone and started filming the scene, saying recklessly:
"Dignity? You're the ones who abandoned dignity first! I'm going to record this video right now and post it online for everyone to judge!"

Before the leader could even speak, several young men from the spacecraft department rushed forward to snatch the phone.

"what!"

Startled, Zhang Yang dropped her phone and wrapped her arms around Chen Shu, who was standing in front of her, from behind.

"Stop it!"

Two streams of anger shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. Chen Shu was furious and, for the first time, shouted at these major departments and leaders.

The atmosphere at the scene plummeted to freezing point, but the argument between them was temporarily suppressed by this shout.

Despite having the superior numbers, the commander felt a growing sense of unease. He scrutinized the young SWAT officer before him, observing the man's fearless gaze, and a strange, unrelated thought inexplicably surfaced in his mind.

This policeman has a murderous aura; he must have killed someone before!

The commander suppressed his wild thoughts, shook his head, and signaled for everyone to go up and take the two people away.

At that moment, another SWAT officer forced his way in.

"What are you doing? So many of you bullying a girl, is this something a human being would do? How are you going to work like this after this?"

Although it was meant as a question, the tone was flippant, and the way this person said it even had a hint of joking.

Chen Shu asked, "Chen Chuan? What brings you here?"

Chen Chuan smiled, took two quick steps to stand beside Chen Shu, stretched out his right hand and made a "yeah" gesture, and said to the commander with a grin, "Sir, we have two people now."

As the saying goes, you can't hit a smiling face. Chen Chuan's sudden intrusion actually eased the tense atmosphere between the two sides a little.

The commander was completely bewildered by the new SWAT officer, wanting to get angry but unable to, which was truly frustrating.

Just as he was hesitating, someone leaned over and told the commander that there were more than a dozen of their team members running towards them.

The commander knew that the situation was difficult to resolve at this point, so he could only sigh and instruct someone to go to the temporary command post to report the situation and ask the higher-ups for a decision.

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and everyone dispersed.

The crane operations on site have also been temporarily suspended.

Li Da and Xu Mingliang arrived with about ten SWAT team members. Director Wang, who had been standing not far away for a while, also came over.

Li Da asked casually, "Why has everyone left?"

Chen Shu looked at Chen Chuan with considerable surprise, pointed at him and said, "That leader just now was a real deputy high-ranking official. You can brag about that for the rest of your life."

Director Wang nodded: "Indeed, it is at the deputy senior official level."

The moment the words left his mouth, the entire room fell silent, and everyone's eyes turned to Chen Chuan. Chen Chuan was slightly flustered inside, but his face remained calm, and he even gave a cold "humph" through his nose.

He glanced guiltily at the departing figures of the deputy director of the spaceship department and his entourage, and finally felt relieved.

He straightened his back and shouted, "Absolutely! What good is a high-ranking official? We have the right to go anywhere in the world and we're not afraid of anything!"

Chen Chuan made good use of this hard-won opportunity.

In a tearful and impassioned account, Chen Chuan quickly recounted the events leading up to his single-handed rescue of Chen Shu and the others. He finally managed to shake off the stereotypical image of lazy, untrained officers within the brigade and make a name for himself.

Everyone tactfully surrounded him, leaving only Chen Shu and Zhang Yang behind.

Chen Shu gently patted the delicate hand that was still wrapped around his stomach and smiled, "Yangyang, it's alright, everyone's gone." "Huh? Ah!"

Zhang Yang half-opened his eyes, looked around, and saw that the people from the spaceship department had really left. The surrounding area was filled with familiar faces from the Zhengming District Special Police Brigade. Although they all had their backs to them, they had clearly witnessed the embarrassing scene from earlier.

Once she relaxed a little, she realized she was still holding Chen Shu, so she quickly let go with a "Yay!" and said, "I'm going to the press conference," before scurrying away.

Chen Shu walked to the side, bent down, and picked up the phone Zhang Yang had previously dropped on the ground. He didn't have time to call out to him and could only watch him leave. Turning back to look at the dilapidated ship's cabin still lying across the bridge, a vague unease crept into his heart.

About ten minutes later, a spacecraft department staff member in civilian clothes ran over with a firefighter and said to Chen Shu, "You and the firefighters go up to search and rescue. Search one compartment, and we'll hoist it up."

On the overpass!

Special police officers and firefighters swarmed like ants on the wood, a dense mass of people lying inside and outside the cabin, each one wishing they could tear the hull open and inspect it again.

Chen Shu stood on the high point and looked around slowly.

At this point, it became clear that firefighters were indeed far more professional than police officers in search and rescue. Besides the difference in equipment, their operational capabilities were also visibly vastly different.

When firefighters encounter complex debris from hulls, if the tools at hand are not convenient or suitable, they simply roll up their sleeves and dig with their fingers.

Chen Shu felt pain just looking at it.

The search of the topmost cabin was completed in about forty minutes.

The crane started working, and the huge mechanical arm grabbed and pulled steadily, lifting the cabin directly off the viaduct.

Just as Director Wang had predicted, the debris inside the suspended hull kept falling from the sky as the mechanical arm swung.

If there are really people inside, it is indeed dangerous.

Chen Shu watched the crane operate, knowing that if no new survivors were found after all the cabins were lifted out, he would certainly be held accountable and severely punished afterwards.

Chen Shu said self-deprecatingly, "He managed to mess up something of this caliber; he'll be bragging about it for the rest of his life. But it's alright, at least I can sleep soundly at night."

He breathed a sigh of relief, focused his attention, and continued to lead everyone in searching the cabins below.

He and a firefighter had previously used video life detectors and sound detectors to search the collapsed stern compartment several times, but the results showed no survivors.

Even if they lift the rear running gear and cabin that were trapped on top and start a new search and rescue operation, the chances of success are probably slim.

Chen Shu stood on slightly higher ground, quietly watching the special police officers and firefighters remove the landslide debris, which had piled up like a small mountain, piece by piece.

After some of the hull debris was moved aside, stainless steel luggage racks were found underneath, with five or six corpses buried beneath them.

There was no movement at all.

Everyone was silent for a while, then wiped their clothes with their hands. Although they weren't much cleaner, it was at least a sign of respect for the victims.

Two people work together to move one body at a time, then two more people join in to continue moving, in an orderly manner.

Suddenly, under everyone's watchful eyes,
A small hand reached out from between several corpses, trembling but strong.

In that instant, as if his heart had been violently clenched, Chen Shu's fingers trembled as he pointed at the small hand, and with all his might, he shouted:

"Someone!!!"

This is a miracle of life.

His eyes were filled with tears.

(End of this chapter)