Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 504 Decryption
The Gobi Desert, the canteen.

After several days of research, the prison visit has come to an end, and the NX research project has also come to a close. Today is also the day to return to Donghai Province.

Chen Shu, Zhang Wei, Jiang Hai, and Zhu Li chose a table by the window and chatted casually while eating their cafeteria food.

"Actually, the food here is alright. Although we have to bring goods from the city every day, to be honest, I'm already very satisfied with what I can eat in this Gobi Desert."

While eating, Zhang Wei chatted about interesting things in prison, showing no trace of the exhaustion and breakdown he had shown when drinking with Chen Shu the day before.

Perhaps it's about hiding it deeper, or perhaps it's about truly letting it out.

Knowing that they were about to set off back to Donghai, Jiang Hai only focused on eating meat, wishing he could stuff all the local mutton on the table into his stomach.

Julie only picked up a few bites of food before putting down her chopsticks, resting her chin on her hand and leaning against the table: "It's a bit boring here."

Zhang Wei smiled and said, "Since you've come all the way to NX, I suggest you take a trip to the XXX Desert after your research. The name means 'a place you go in but never come out' in the local language. If you have time, you can go."

Julie sighed softly.

Zhang Wei paused, assuming that Julie didn't like these attractions, and frowned as he racked his brains to introduce other interesting local places.

Sitting opposite her, Chen Shu couldn't help but chuckle to himself, knowing that Zhang Weiquan was wasting his time; "Zhu Wuchang" really wasn't after the local scenery.

After the four finished lunch, it was time to part ways. Zhang Wei escorted Chen Shu and his group to the prison gate. Chen Shu also gave Zhang Wei all the travel bags he was carrying, along with the local specialties from Dongzhou inside.

Before leaving, Chen Shu shook Zhang Wei's hand firmly, with a mix of encouragement and teasing: "Do a good job! I'll promote you to deputy squadron leader when we get back!"

Zhang Wei saluted Chen Shu and replied firmly, "Received!"

After putting his hand down, Zhang Wei smiled and said, "I know you're worried about me, but you don't need to make empty promises. I know everything. I have a wife and kids waiting for me at home. I won't do anything rash, and I won't disgrace the Donghai police."

Chen Shu nodded, his expression serious: "You should be focusing your attention more on those corrupt officials."

Zhang Wei paused, then frowned: "Why?"

Chen Shu smiled wryly: "They're all people who came from within the system. They came later, and in the end, they left before you. Isn't that infuriating?"

"This is a little embarrassing."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

The mainland cruiser roared away, leaving a trail of exhaust fumes.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Lin Dakai said, "Wang Hao, thank you for your hard work these past few days. You've been driving us around every day, which must have caused you a lot of work delays. Thank you!"

Wearing sunglasses, Wang Hao steered the car with a relaxed air and said, "Professor Lin, to be honest, it's a really nice job to accompany you around. I wish you could stay a few more days."

Then, she suddenly changed her tone and pretended to sigh, "Once you leave, I'll have to go back to my day-night, night-night road work. Sigh, what a pity."

Lin Dakai laughed heartily: "Let me remind you. Work is important, but don't overwork yourself. You need to take good care of your health."

Jiang Hai chimed in with a chuckle, "Yes, yes, Teacher Lin is right. Hao-ge is young and strong, he mustn't ruin his health, otherwise the girls in Shenchuan will be heartbroken."

Wang Hao laughed and scolded, "You dare to tease me? You brat, you want to smoke one of my cigarettes?"

Upon hearing this, the others burst into laughter.

Laughter.

The traffic was smooth all the way, and the car drove steadily. Lin Dakai and the others either closed their eyes to rest or slept soundly.

Although he was on the train, Chen Shu slept exceptionally well because he was embarking on his journey home. When he was jolted awake by a jolt, he found the midday sun shining brightly into the car, making him feel dizzy.

Upon waking up, Chen Shu took out his phone and casually scrolled through his WeChat Moments, thinking to himself that the Nx trip had gone quite well, and he had even made some nice friends among the police officers.

Immediately recalling the voice message he received from Captain Zhao in the hotel lobby two days ago, Chen Shu quickly switched to the main WeChat interface and scrolled down to find Captain Zhao's profile picture.

At this moment, Chen Shu reopened WeChat and listened to the voice message he had only heard half of before. The more he listened, the more serious his expression became.

In the voice message Zhao sent to Chen Shu, he mentioned that the two cases they had worked together to deduce last time had been verified to involve XXX.

Based on the clues, they found XXX's hideout, discovered the raw materials used to make XXX at the scene, and reconstructed a map obtained at the scene.

They suspected that XXXX might be the location for the next XXXX attack by this group of XXX. Finally, Captain Zhao hoped that Chen Shu could find clues from the existing information gathered about XXX, so as to arrest them all before the XXXX operation could take place.

Chen Shu opened the PDF and carefully flipped through each page.

In particular, there was an operation report from the Special Investigation Team signed "Yu Maiken".

In his report, Yu Maiken conducted a very detailed analysis based on the information seized by the police at the temporary stronghold in XXX, and made a realistic and reliable prediction about the final retreat direction of XXX.

Chen Shu looked down at the documents and casually asked, "Wang Hao, do you know Yu Maiken from the Special Investigation Team?"

"I know him, but he may not know me."

Wang Hao, who was driving non-stop on the flat road, was feeling sleepy and worried. When Chen Shu asked him a question, he immediately answered.

"He's a Kyrgyz (a fictional ethnic group in this novel), and a college student, but I heard he's a tough guy, and also the youngest captain in the history of XXX. By the way, do you know XXX? They used to belong to XX, but in the last two years they were reorganized and transferred to our XX, and their ranking is even higher than XXXX."

Chen Shu suddenly asked, "Has this person worked in criminal investigation?"

"Criminal investigation? Let me think, I'm not quite sure."

This person is indeed a man of both literary and martial talents. Chen Shu nodded, skipped over the matter, and focused all his attention on examining the document that Zhao Dui had XXXXX.

Based on the analysis of the previous two cases, this group's anti-XXXX is not weak, and they know to XXXX immediately after committing the crime.

Then why would they throw the torn map into the trash can at the outpost?

Wouldn't it be better to just leave them lying around on the street and let the wind blow them away? Or it would be convenient to burn them with a lighter. But the fact that they're all neatly arranged like this is like yelling at the police who are about to come and search me, telling them to hurry up and piece together the puzzle so they can trace it back and find out everything I've done.

Besides, this map, which has been repeatedly revised and annotated, clearly took XXX a lot of time and effort to create, so why would they be willing to discard it? This lightweight map won't get in the way of carrying it around.

This kind of evidence delivered to his doorstep was like a pie falling from the sky, and Chen Shu was very suspicious of it.

The carriage fell silent again, except for the faint snoring of Lin Dakai, Jiang Hai and others.

"I see!"

Chen Shu suddenly stood up.

"boom!"

"Ouch!"

Chen Shu's head hit the roof of the car, and he saw stars instantly.

He rubbed his head and sat back down, giving the group of people he had suddenly woken up an apologetic smile before quickly typing a reply to Captain Zhao.

Limited by the small screen of his phone, Chen Shu, who could only examine maps inch by inch before, discovered the clues behind it.

"Team Leader Zhao! The map you found is deliberately misleading! XXX's target is definitely not in XX!"

“Take a look at those places that have been crossed out. Most of them are just XXXX, and the places with words next to them are just crossed out with a few strokes!”
"But right next to a place in the Gobi Desert, besides the place marked with XXX, there was another place below that had been deliberately covered up with XXX."

"I suspect that this XXX originally contained text underneath!"

"Why are other places just crossed out, but this place is repeatedly covered up as if afraid others will see it?"
"Who are we afraid of seeing this? We're afraid that the person who wants to see this map will see it! To get their attention!"
"What the words are written is not important. There are many other words on the map, including several lines of text next to the target XX."

"But the text next to this location was severely smeared."

"If time permits, you can test the order in which the pen was written on the map in an experiment."

"This location must have been recently erased! It must have been done around the same time as the handwriting that circled XX."

"So, this place is their real target!"

Chen Shu switched from WeChat to Gaode Maps, looked at the location several times, confirmed the location name, and then sent it after pressing a few more words.

"KeX Coal Mine!"

(End of this chapter)