Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 363 Disguise
Chen Chuan, who had insisted on squeezing onto the command vehicle with Chen Shu from beginning to end, pretended to listen attentively in the corner, but his mind was completely blank. He didn't want to listen, nor did he intend to.

His thinking was simple: just stick with Chen Shu when things go on. This was a habit he had developed over the years and couldn't change. He had long forgotten about Chen Shu telling him to go with Yang Chang to the second team.

However, when he heard Chen Shu asking Ren Guoqing about the shooting, he still perked up his ears and leaned closer.

Before the operation, Ren Guoqing discussed several key points with Chen Shu, and finally gave him some instructions before departure:
“Chen Shu, this is a murderer who is also carrying a weapon. In principle, it is permissible to kill him.”

Guns don't have eyes. This doesn't mean that if you aim accurately and perform well in training, you can hit exactly where you point in real combat. The situation on the ground is extremely complex. Once you start firing a gun, you can't be absolutely certain that you'll only wound and not kill, or that you'll only aim for the legs and not kill.

If you even have this thought, putting aside the question of whether you can hit the target accurately, you are very likely to be shot or hacked to death by the criminals while you are aiming and hesitating. There are precedents for this; it's a bloody lesson.

Chen Shu was taken aback. For a grassroots police officer, firing a gun wasn't exactly a good option, for reasons everyone understood. However, now that Ren Guoqing, the captain of the criminal investigation team, had given the order, allowing Chen Shu to act freely, it was a good thing.

After all, a leader took responsibility.

"What, scared?" Ren Guoqing asked with a squinty smile, his tone deliberately provocative.

"What's there to be afraid of? He's just a murderer with a gun. Back in Kim Jong-un's time..."

Chen Shu could tolerate it, but Chen Chuan, hiding in the corner, could not. This young master Chen, who had a great reputation in the Municipal Bureau, didn't care whether Ren Guoqing was a captain or not, and directly confronted him.

Hey, in the municipal bureau, captains are a dime a dozen, what's so special about that!

"Chen Chuan!"

Chen Shu slightly turned his head and said in a deep voice to stop Chen Chuan. Then he put his feet together, straightened his head, and said crisply, "Received!"

Silver Triangle? That should be it. It seems this kid caused quite a stir back then. Ren Guoqing nodded in satisfaction, knowing that the young special police officer in front of him was not intimidated by his previous statement of "permission to kill," which was also the main reason why he temporarily changed the on-site commander from Li Meng to Chen Shu.

Experience is far more important than ability, especially since Chen Shu is quite capable.

"Shoot to death" is actually the same as killing someone.

It is very difficult for ordinary people to bear the psychological trauma after committing murder, including law enforcement officers and police officers. Although they carry firearms all year round, most police officers would hesitate when it comes to actually firing a gun at someone.

Firing a shot is one thing, but killing someone after firing a shot is another matter entirely.

The danger is such that a slight misstep could ruin an excellent young police officer. Therefore, municipal public security bureaus typically have a psychological counseling room staffed by specialized psychologists to treat police officers who develop psychological problems after firing a gun.

Ren Guoqing, standing by the provincial highway, watched Chen Shu, who had changed into civilian clothes, lead his team toward Tengqiao Town with anticipation.

After handling so many cases over the years, even he, an outsider, knew Chen Shu's boldness and meticulousness. Even his daily mantra, "Safety first," had become synonymous with him.

At the branch office, people always addressed him as "that Chen Anquan, oh Chen."

But he has suffered quite a few injuries in recent years. Ultimately, it's because he is too self-centered. To put it nicely, he is courageous and willing to take the lead, but in reality, he doesn't trust his comrades and always thinks he can handle everything on his own.

Hopefully, Chen Anquan will return safely this time.

Chen Shu, along with Xu Mingliang, Zhang Qing, Ma Bowen, and two others, disguised themselves as diners and headed towards the Nanong Erjiao Restaurant. Chen Chuan, ignoring warnings, clung to them again, but this time Chen Shu gave him a severe scolding.

Feeling humiliated in front of everyone, Chen Chuan angrily ran into a small alley next to the restaurant and hid there, oblivious to everything. Two detectives who had been assigned to guard the windows happened to be there. Seeing the familiar police officer from the city's technical investigation department passing by, they quickly approached and offered him cigarettes. Unlike the local police station's security officers, detectives often sought help from the city's technical investigation department when their cases required the use of scientific and technological investigation methods. Therefore, detectives generally relied on the technical investigation officers for assistance.

Yang Chang's second team kept a distance of about ten meters from Chen Shu and the others ahead, and followed them, also dressed as diners.

According to the plan, Li Meng and the others were to follow Yang Chang, entering the venue at a distance of about ten meters, and were responsible for guarding the two passages and the toilet entrance.

But the young and promising Li Meng couldn't bear it any longer. She felt that being "guarding the toilet" was a disgrace to them, as serious criminal investigators. If word got out, how could they ever face their colleagues again?
When this case comes up, everyone will smile and say, "Oh, those toilet guards."

Thinking about this, Li Meng became somewhat annoyed.

Therefore, after the discussion in the command vehicle ended and he returned to the criminal police team, he did not give the criminal police the order to guard the toilets. He only said that the arrest operation would be carried out by the special police, and that the criminal police only needed to guard the kitchen and other passages.

Actually, "guarding the toilet" is not a derogatory term. When people realize they are being arrested by the police as soon as they enter the room, they subconsciously avoid the front and back doors leading to the outside and tend to escape to the toilet.

Firstly, toilets are private spaces in daily life, providing a sense of security; secondly, toilets usually have windows.

Chen Shu led a few people into the restaurant. The first thing they saw was a large table in the middle of the hall, with dozens of people gathered around it. The noise was deafening, and it was clear from a distance that they were gambling.

Several people sat in chairs, each surrounded by gamblers craning their necks to look at the card table, noisily throwing coins around.

Chen Shuchao gestured towards the lobby and joked in the local Dongzhou dialect with the female boss who came to greet him with paper and pen, "Aren't you afraid the police will come knocking on your door if you open your business like this?"

The female boss chuckled and said, "Where would we get so many police officers in this remote place? There's only about ten thousand yuan on the table. Who cares if they come or not? Besides, I'm doing business openly and honestly. What does it have to do with me?"

Chen Shu nodded in agreement: "That's business acumen of yours. These people will be hungry after gambling, so they'll definitely eat here."

The female boss scoffed dismissively and didn't reply, clearly disapproving that these people hadn't eaten or drunk much.

After ordering, Chen Shu said, "It's a bit noisy here. Boss, could you please arrange a quieter place? Hmm, that place is quite nice, there's only one other table of people there."

Following the direction Chen Shu pointed, the proprietress looked over and said, "Hmm? That corner isn't cleaned much; it's covered in dust. Let's go upstairs to a private room."

Chen Shu noticed that when he pointed to that corner, a middle-aged tattooed man sitting at that table also looked directly over.

Hehe, it's you. Chen Shu, who had previously reviewed the case details in the command vehicle, knew that this highly vigilant man was their target, Old A.

The reason he stood at the order counter and chatted with the proprietress for so long was twofold: first, to attract Old A's attention from the side so that the second team and Li Meng's group could enter smoothly; second, the longer he and the proprietress chatted at the store entrance, the less likely they would be to arouse the other party's suspicion when the proprietress led him to a corner later.

Chen Shu shook his head: "I prefer to sit in the main hall. The private rooms are too small and stuffy, I'm not used to them. Boss lady, could you help me pick out a table?"

"You're just like that person who came before, you're both pretty strange!"

The proprietress rolled her eyes at Chen Shu, then turned and walked towards that corner with a playful smile.

Chen Shu followed the proprietress to the corner where Old A was sitting, with Xu Mingliang, Zhang Qing, and the other three following behind.

Old A glanced over a few more times and saw the young man leading the group and the middle-aged proprietress getting along very well, like regular customers. He then turned back to continue eating and chatting with his friends.

(End of this chapter)