Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 409 PUA (Part 2)

Training Course.

After reprimanding Ma Bowen, Xie Chi asked Chen Shu, "Captain Chen, can I ask why you gave him this third-class merit? You solved the case, so it's only right that you take it."

The third-class merit award isn't actually that significant; colleagues at work can easily earn it by being modest and achieving the title of "Outstanding Civil Servant" for three consecutive years. However, it's not insignificant either; even veteran criminal investigators at the Criminal Investigation Department might not be able to earn it after solving several murder cases.

Chen Shu was in a good mood and said a few more words: "If the assault team is to achieve results, we need to give these team members some incentives first. Chen Chuan's family is rich, so he always has a nonchalant attitude towards work. However, the kind of person who loves face and likes to show off, so this time I invited a TV station to give him some exposure. Once he becomes famous, his relatives and friends around him will shower him with praise. We don't need to urge him for the year-end competition; he'll put pressure on himself. Look, he's already run the 400-meter obstacle course in under two and a half minutes, which would have been impossible before."

“Ma Bowen just graduated from police academy. He is full of ideals and ambitions, and young people value honor the most. I have been through the same thing. I know that young people of this age are eager to do something to impress their leaders and show everyone. It is no exaggeration to say that if I were in his position when I was young, I would have worked even harder and been more driven than him.”

After talking about these two people, Chen Shu then fell into consideration about the personnel arrangements for other projects.

I'll just go for the sniping myself. These things are fed bullets anyway. I'll give myself half a month to feed myself until I'm sick of them. I guess the results won't be bad!

The bomb disposal robot was assigned to Xu Mingliang. Although he's usually a pretty laid-back person, this is a technical job, and it has little to do with work attitude. With him in charge, success is almost guaranteed.

The drones were handled by Zhang Qing, who was recruited from outside the university. His major in university was computer science, so he should have some connection with drones.

Combat skills are best left to those transferred from the military, but Yang Chang is a former cook, so he probably lacks those skills. Zhao Mingfeng looks thin, but she seems to be a member of the armed police special forces.
Over here, Xie Chi frowned and deliberately mocked, "I didn't expect a young man like you to have such complicated thoughts and play such deep tricks."

Xie Chi, who is over fifty, jokingly referred to the twenty-seven-year-old Chen Shu as a "young man."

Coming to his senses, Chen Shu glanced at him sideways, a half-smile on his face: "So the instructor is allowed to use PUA tactics, but I, as the captain, can't do something underhanded? At least in essence, I also want our brigade to achieve some results."

Upon hearing this, Xie Chi, who had been smiling, turned serious and said, "To be honest, when you first came to our brigade, I mentioned it to Li Da. I felt that it was a waste to put such an outstanding young man like you in the special police force. I was afraid that you would give up on yourself after coming here. Then that whole mess happened, and you were dismissed from your post. Sigh."

Xie Chi paused for a moment, then said happily, "Fortunately."

However, Chen Shu's idea was exactly the opposite.

The girl who cried a lot in the hostage situation at the old train station, the miracle girl who was rescued from the spaceship accident, the murderer Old A who thought of his family until his death, and Jiang Hai who ate human flesh on the eve of applying to police academy—one person and one event after another flashed through Chen Shu's mind like a slideshow.

If he weren't a policeman.
"Fortunately, I'm a police officer," Chen Shu murmured.

Xie Chi, who was standing to the side, didn't react for a moment and looked at him suspiciously.

"Brother Shu!"

In the distance, Zhang Yang, having finished filming, turned around, stretched his arms out to the sky, and waved them repeatedly, giving Chen Shu a long greeting.

Oh yes.

And then there's this unreliable, audacious female reporter who actually dared to leave the country and go to the Silver Triangle to gather some firsthand information on scams.

Chen Shu snapped out of his thoughts and smiled and waved back.

"Being a policeman is great."

After training, the group was on their way back to the SWAT team. SWAT officer Pu Shu was responsible for driving the vehicle; he was the provisional driver for the assault team. Although he was only a driver, Chen Shu, adhering to the principle of utilizing people's abilities, still assigned him a combat skill event.

Five kilometers unarmed and five kilometers armed cross-country.

Persuading him was relatively easy because this team member came from a wealthy family. It was said that his family owned a well-known four-star hotel in the city, and he usually drove the same brand of car as Chen Chuan to and from get off work. He was young and dressed fashionably.

However, he always smelled of alcohol when he clocked in for work every morning.

Chen Shu guessed he was probably a womanizer and a nightclub regular, and using the principle that physical strength and physique equal sexual attraction, he easily won him over with a bit of persuasion. Since he was a driver, he also curbed his drinking at night, which was a win-win situation.

In reality, all of this was just for show. Chen Shu knew that this young man genuinely loved the job of a special police officer.

Otherwise, who would give up their huge family business to become a thankless auxiliary police officer in this godforsaken place like the SWAT team?

Chen Shu handed Chen Chuan a clean towel and asked with a smile, "How are you feeling?"

"It's alright, not as hard as I imagined." Chen Shu took the towel without ceremony, vigorously wiped his face, and his voice came from behind the towel.

Yang Chang, a former soldier, sat in the back row by the window, patted his increasingly round belly, and said like a senior teacher, "Young man, in our army, there's a saying: 'Better to run five kilometers than four hundred meters.'"

The five kilometers Yang Chang mentioned is the common five-kilometer run without equipment, while the four hundred meters is naturally the event they are training for today—the four hundred-meter obstacle course.

The reason why these soldiers spread this word so widely is that long-distance running doesn't require much skill; as long as you put in the effort, your results will generally be good.

The 400-meter obstacle course is different. It requires not only explosive power but also endurance, coordination, and agility. If you don't master the technique for any obstacle, lose focus while performing the movement, or don't allocate your energy properly, it's very common to fail on the first try.

Furthermore, there is a significant risk of injury during training. Fractures are quite common, and it is said that some veterans even hit their heads directly into a low wall (like a dog hole) while trying to save time during competitions, and subsequently became vegetative.

Chen Shu turned around from the passenger seat and patted Yang Chang's big belly: "Captain Yang, if you can lose this belly fat, I think our team will win the competition at the end of the year with ease."

"Absolutely." Although he knew Chen Shu was just being polite, Yang Chang accepted it without ceremony, puffing out his beer belly as he did so. "Back in the day, I was involved in all this stuff at the military region level!"

"Haha, keep bragging!"

"Captain Yang, what place did you get back then?"

"Could this be a competition representing the cooking department?"

"Get out! You have no manners!"

The atmosphere inside the carriage was lively, with the special police officers releasing the fatigue and tension brought on by their training.

Chen Shu sat in his seat, his gaze fixed on the street scene outside the car window, feeling somewhat pressured.

After all, other special police detachments also have retired veterans and newly assigned graduates from police academies, not to mention the little monsters in the assault team directly under the detachment, and there's the competition at the end of the year.

Hang!
(End of this chapter)