Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 400 Hehe, you're lucky.
Chen Chuan turned around and saw that the person who came was Ma Bowen, who had been arranged by Chen Shu to lead the team to escort the couple who ran the food stall to Zhongshan Police Station.

"Bowen, come in quickly." Overjoyed, Chen Chuan hurriedly called out, walking quickly to the door and pulling Ma Bowen to the table where Chen Shu was sitting.

With more people around him, Chen Chuan's aura increased.

He stared at Chen Shu and said quietly, "Shu, are there enough people now?"

Chen Shu wasn't a rigid person. After all, he was now in the SWAT team, and he couldn't just remember the rules and regulations and ignore the sacrifices his brothers had made. Anyway, it was Li Meng who led the team upstairs first, and the case was subsequently handled under their Criminal Investigation Department, so she didn't owe Chen Shu a favor.

He stood up, patted the bewildered Ma Bowen on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "Bowen, we've identified the suspect in the case—the owner of the steakhouse next door. We're going to make the arrest now."

"Yes!"

Even the slow-witted Ma Bowen finally realized what was happening, stood at attention abruptly, and shouted back.

He had previously stripped naked and crawled into the extremely filthy and stinking sewers to retrieve the dismembered body parts, a task that nearly broke this promising police academy graduate. It's impossible that Ma Bowen's mentality wasn't affected to some extent, but at the time, one of those standing beside him was a brigade leader, another was a police officer dispatched from the municipal bureau, and the rest were auxiliary police officers.

If he doesn't step down, who will?

Now that his hardships had finally come to an end, and he was able to follow Captain Chen to catch a murderer, Ma Bowen was so excited that he almost burst into tears.

This is the kind of work a true SWAT officer should do!
This kind of opportunity, let alone the sewer, next time it would be a septic tank, I'd jump in without hesitation!
Chen Shu took out his police terminal, retrieved a photo of the owner of the steakhouse next door, and handed it to Ma Bowen for review. He then instructed Yan Chenxi and Jiang Hai to stay at the food stall and wait for his call.

Yan Chenxi nodded obediently in agreement.

Jiang Hai, half-hidden behind his sister, remained silent, but his expression was somewhat complicated. He glanced at Ma Bowen, who was beaming with excitement, and then at Chen Chuan, who was squatting on the ground retying his shoelaces, ready to go.

He was somewhat eager to try.

"Understood, Brother Shu," Jiang Hai replied, bowing his head.

I simply said I understood, but Jiang Hai, who didn't agree to bow his head, smiled in an almost imperceptible curve.

After the three were ready, they called the SWAT team members who were waiting at the entrance of the food stall into the house and made the same arrangements.

The three then went directly to the steakhouse not far away next door.

It was late, and the shop was about to close, but thankfully the lights inside were still on in the distance.

Through the large, transparent glass windows facing the street, you could see that there were no customers inside the store. The only waiter was sitting in a corner of the empty lobby, fiddling with his phone. After glancing at the screen, it looked like TikTok.

Upon entering the steakhouse, the three of them exchanged glances. The steakhouse owner, who was standing behind the counter, was clicking away on a calculator, counting "three! two! five!" without noticing them at all.

With Chen Shu giving a slight nod, the three of them rushed straight to the front desk and pinned the boss to the table without any hesitation.

"Snapped."

"Click."

A pair of trendy transparent-framed glasses fell to the ground and was accidentally stepped on and destroyed by Chen Chuan, who rushed up to arrest someone.

The boss remained calm and showed no sign of resistance.

Chen Shu, whose head was being pressed down, asked, "Police officer. Are you Gao Shou?"

Gao Shou, his cheek pressed tightly against the table, remained silent, his gaze fixed calmly on the shop entrance, numb.

After Ma Bowen took out handcuffs and handcuffed him behind his back, Chen Shu signaled the special police officers who followed behind to also lock up the steakhouse's only waiter and keep him away from the owner.

Chen Shu and Chen Chuan put on gloves, turned on their body cameras, and began a thorough search of the steakhouse.

Heading straight to the kitchen, Chen Chuan spotted a large freezer in a corner. Inside were rows of meat chops packaged in transparent plastic bags, looking like steaks for customers. Suddenly realizing something, Chen Chuan's face turned deathly pale, and he slowly twisted his stiff neck to look at Chen Shu approaching from behind.

Knowing what the other person was thinking, Chen Shu remained calm and pouted, "You should be glad you ordered the tomahawk style."

Chen Chuan thought for a moment, then relaxed his furrowed brows.

The two took everything out of the kitchen and checked it one by one, but found nothing related to the human body. There were no bones, nails, hair, or anything like that.

As expected, the crime scene was in apartment 502 upstairs.

However, Chen Shu was unsure about the meat chops and couldn't make a decision. He repeatedly reassured himself that Gao Shou wouldn't be so heartless as to do something so outrageous.

"These frozen steaks shouldn't be expensive, right?"

Perhaps thinking of the couple next door who secretly went to the market to buy smuggled goods in order to save money, Chen Shu hesitated for a moment and comforted himself.

"I doubt the boss would skimp on the cost of these raw materials," Chen Chuan advised. "Trust your luck; it'll definitely be good."

The only young male waiter in the steakhouse saw three burly men rush in, first handcuff his boss, and then rudely call the police outside to handcuff him as well. Next, they ransacked the place, clearly searching for something. The waiter, terrified, crouched in a corner, only daring to lower his head and stare at his toes, not daring to make a sound.

If it weren't for several well-equipped SWAT officers guarding the store entrance, this young man would probably have run away.

"Is all the meat in your store here?" Chen Shu asked the male waiter, pointing to the pile of meat patties that had been thrown from the large freezer onto the floor.

The other party didn't respond.

Chen Shu walked over, dragged him to the pile of meat chops, and repeated the question.

The young waiter nodded frantically, his voice tense: "Officer, it's all here, it's all here. I don't know anything about it."

Chen Shu was still troubled by the origin of these meat chops. He glanced at Gao Shou, who was slumped in the corner and silent, and decided to suppress his doubts and discomfort and wait for the forensic doctor from the Criminal Investigation Department to come and collect the samples for identification.

Identifying all this meat piece by piece would take a lot of time. This disgusting task should be dragged on as long as possible. Maybe we can just dump the case on the criminal investigation department and forget about it in the blink of an eye.

While waiting, Chen Shu went behind the front desk and picked up the ledger that was originally laid out on the table.

I looked through it and found it was the daily steak purchase and sales records.

Chen Shu swallowed hard. Having won second prize in a math competition in Dongzhou City during junior high, he was extremely good with numbers. He even gained an extra ten points on the high school entrance exam, which allowed him to barely reach the cutoff score for Dongzhou No. 1 High School, the best high school in the area.

The initial pride has turned into frustration.

Suppressing a strange sense of oppression, Chen Shu quickly scanned the ledger and discovered an extremely shocking piece of information.

Purchases are far less than sales.

Chen Shu immediately ran to Gao Shou, who was slumped on the ground in the corner by the wall, and grabbed him by the collar, lifting him up and shouting, "Where did all the meat come from? Where did the pork chops we ate for lunch come from?!"

Gao Shou, who had been keeping his head down, raised his head slightly at a 45-degree angle, looking at the policeman holding him up in front of him with his eyes on his forehead, and chuckled twice in a sarcastic tone.

"You're lucky, officer."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shu released his grip, and Gao Shou, who had been being held up, collapsed to the ground like a pile of mud, his mocking laughter fading away.

"Hehe, hehe, you're lucky. But some people are less lucky."

(End of this chapter)