Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 418 Changes in Zhengming Brigade

The sniper competition venue.

After the competition ended, Zhang Zhongzhen leaned against the wall, unlike the other participants who rushed to the target to check their shooting scores.

As a commando team that incorporates shooting behind glass into their daily training, Zhang Zhongzhen has no shortage of practical experience, and he is determined to win this third round of the sniper competition.

What made him hesitate was that Chen Shu, who was one shooting position away, did not even give him a moment to wait for the target reporter to report the results after he finished shooting. He picked up his Type 88 rifle, checked it, and left, as if the results of the competition were not important to him at all.

"Zhongzhen! Well done! Right on the nose, haha! Definitely the winner!"

Disregarding the decorum expected of a battalion commander, Wei Hengyuan ran to the target position before the target announcer could even respond after Zhang Zhongzhen finished shooting.

Wei Hengyuan jogged over to Zhang Zhongzhen's side and patted him hard on the shoulder.

Zhang Zhongzhen, whose hand had been slapped painfully, glanced at Wei Hengyuan and sensed that the captain had suddenly become cheerful, no longer as somber as before. He then turned his gaze to the departing figure of Chen Shu.

"Chen Shu? I thought he was so great, haha, he's still a bit lacking under pressure." Wei Hengyuan scoffed.

"Oh?" Zhang Zhongzhen narrowed his eyes and asked casually, "Where did he hit?"

"Where? Haha, he missed the target!"

Zhang Zhongzhen's pupils contracted slightly, shocked by the sudden news. He leaned forward slightly and asked, "Missing the target? Even if the glass causes the bullet's trajectory to deviate, it's impossible for an experienced sniper to miss the target!"

Based on their previous performance in the first and second rounds of the sniper competition, where they took the top two spots, Zhang Zhongzhen concluded that Chen Shu's performance could not possibly fluctuate so much.

"Hehe, after seeing your score, I went to check his target. At first, I didn't believe it, but I looked at it repeatedly for a long time and couldn't see any bullet holes! It must have missed!"

As Wei Hengyuan was speaking enthusiastically, he suddenly saw Zhang Zhongzhen's body stiffen abruptly, his eyes slowly widening as he stared at the temporary rest area of ​​the Zhengming Special Police Brigade in the distance, revealing an expression of disbelief.

He rarely loses his composure like this. What was he thinking?
Out of curiosity, Wei Hengyuan went out and stood shoulder to shoulder with Zhang Zhongzhen, looking in the direction of Zhengming Brigade.

“Wei Da.” Zhang Zhongzhen’s bitter voice rang out, “Chen Shu deliberately gave up the sniper competition.”

"Give up? Why give up? Let's not even mention that winning would add five points to their team. Just for the honor of being the Sniper King, he can give it up?" Wei Hengyuan asked with an incomprehensible and unbelievable expectation.

"By giving up the sniper competition, he could exclude me from the final team assault event; secondly, he planned to personally lead the team in the next team event and then surpass us with the ten points from the team competition."

Zhang Zhongzhen's tone was very confident.

"You mean Chen Shu gave up his personal honor and then waited for an opportunity to compete with us for first place in the overall score?" Wei Hengyuan understood what Zhang Zhongzhen meant.

This situation cannot be described simply as "a prodigy." After much deliberation, Wei Hengyuan could only admit that Chen Shu had indeed put the team's honor before his personal gains.

This, compared to Wei Hengyuan's previous actions that only considered his own interests, makes one feel a little guilty.

Suddenly, Wei Hengyuan's face darkened.

Zhang Zhongzhen was clever and adept at reading people. After all, the man standing in front of him was his direct superior, and he secretly considered Chen Shu a rival, yet he was unwilling to admit defeat. Everything suddenly became clear: Chen Shu's deliberate miss in the third round was to secure his place in the final team project.

And the price for this is the title of "Sniper King".

"Wei Da, don't worry. Even if Chen Shu leads the team, it won't have much impact on the final result. After all, he's just an ordinary policeman from the local police station. Even if I'm not there, our elite soldiers can easily defeat their makeshift team as long as they perform at their normal training level."

For the assault teams directly under the detachment, it is their usual pride to regard the members of other district and county brigades as mere figureheads on street patrols.

Zhang Zhongzhen did not linger any longer, bid farewell, and left for the commando team's temporary rest area.

"I really didn't expect him to do this." Wei Hengyuan slightly hunched his back, looking at Chen Shu standing not far away in the sunlight, surrounded by members of the Zhengming Special Police Brigade, and sighed inwardly.

A simulated residential building serves as the site for the hostage rescue team's project assessment.

Standing not far away, Zhang Zhongzhen snorted coldly: "I knew that the reconnaissance and training group couldn't come up with any new projects. It's just the same hostage rescue in the simulated kidnapping case as in previous years."

Wei Hengyuan punched his palm and laughed loudly: "We train this kind of exercise every few days. I'm sure even if you're not here, the elite soldiers won't let us down."

Zhang Zhongzhen said leisurely, "Hehe, it's a sure thing."

Wei Hengyuan turned his head and looked at Li Da, the captain of the Zhengming Brigade, who was sitting diagonally opposite him in the stands. Seeing the other man's calm expression, a little bit of worry involuntarily surfaced in his heart.

Zhengming Brigade's temporary rest area, spectator stands.

Zou Qing jogged into the rest area, excitedly shouting, "Li Da, great news!"

Li Da, who was sitting upright gazing at the Zhengming team members competing below the residential building, snapped out of his reverie and asked, "What's going on?"

“Zhang Zhongzhen didn’t go to the team that was competing; he’s sitting here with his own team right now,” Zou Qing said excitedly, pointing to the rest area of ​​the first team diagonally across the street.

"Li Da, they didn't even send their team leader up for this team project. They're really underestimating us. Hehe, if they lose to us in the team project, wait, let me calculate the score."

Looking at Zou Qing's rosy cheeks as she seriously counted the scores of the two teams on her fingers, Li Da was stunned and somewhat dazed.

According to the competition rules, this was to be expected. However, he did not expect that Zou Qing, an office worker who worked nine to five, would be so concerned about the team competition. Her active participation and sense of team honor were truly rare.

Perhaps since Chen Shu arrived, the Zhengming Brigade has gradually changed. Xu Mingliang, who had been complacent since being transferred from the branch to the brigade, actively prepared and won the traditional bomb disposal event; Pu Shu, a rich second-generation who owns a four-star hotel and came to the SWAT brigade just to experience life, underwent two months of closed training and made a stunning debut, becoming the only SWAT officer in this competition to win a single event as an auxiliary police officer; Zhang Qing, a socially recruited police officer who constantly regretted his past and complained that police salaries were lower than those of IT professionals in the provincial capital, usually wore glasses and had the air of a programmer, was surprisingly discovered by Chen Shu and contributed to the brigade's drone project, earning two points. Having gained attention, scored points for the brigade, and earned the respect of his colleagues, Zhang Qing never mentioned his former company again.

The same team, the same players, but things have changed a lot since Chen Shulai came.

Li Da's pupils flickered slightly as he snapped out of his reverie. He seemed to be speaking to Zou Qing, or perhaps muttering to himself, "I remember, we were always last place. Zhang Zhongzhen wasn't as good as him, and back then, I wasn't as good as him either."

Standing on the stands, Zou Qing saw Chen Shu leading the team towards the competition arena in the distance. Her oval face lit up with a sweet smile, and she pointed with her slender finger, excitedly jumping up and down as she exclaimed:

"Team Leader Chen is on the field! Oh no, we're on the field!"

(End of this chapter)