Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 512 There's a guy!
Luke Town is a small town located at the westernmost edge of Hakka City. Further west, all that remains are roads in poor condition, resulting in very little pedestrian traffic and, naturally, few vehicles.

However, this is the only passage for vehicles leaving the passenger area and heading west.

At this time, about a dozen police officers wearing reflective vests were stationed on a road, checking passing vehicles and pedestrians. Occasionally, a few armed officers would take advantage of the gaps to jump around a few times, breathing out white puffs of air to warm themselves up.

The road conditions were slightly better where the checkpoints were set up, but the asphalt surface was still full of potholes. The highway was a two-lane road in both directions, with shallow ravines carved by humans on both sides, overgrown with weeds, and beyond that, an endless expanse of barren Gobi Desert.

Because it was a temporary checkpoint, only a few canvas tents were provided. One side of the tents bordered the Gobi Desert, and the other side was a pedestrian walkway. The walkway was equipped with a simple security gate and a facial recognition system; pedestrians needed to swipe their ID cards to pass.

Ten meters ahead of the checkpoint, there are signs and reflective cones indicating that vehicles should slow down for inspection, and speed bumps are laid on the ground. The shiny spikes make it impossible to doubt its interception capability.

Lao Cheng, the captain of the patrol team, is conducting an inspection at this temporary checkpoint.

"This operation was a bit rushed. Have you brought all your equipment?" Lao Cheng asked the checkpoint leader with his hands behind his back.

"Chengda, everything's ready!" The person in charge answered the captain's question without thinking, with a hint of pride in his tone. "After each team returns to base, we put the equipment for the next day's mission in the vehicle. This shortens the response time and makes it easier to check the equipment."

After saying that, he excitedly wiped his nose, which sounded a bit snotty.

Old Cheng looked up at the setting sun in the west: "Did you bring your fur hat and cotton coat? We don't know when this mission will end yet; we might have to stay up all night."

NX experiences large temperature differences between day and night. During the day, the sun shines brightly and people can easily get by wearing just a light jacket. However, at night, snow can fall suddenly without warning or any reason.

I was in a hurry when I went out on a call and didn't think about staying up all night, so I didn't bring any warm clothes.

The person in charge hesitated for a long time, and in the end could only laugh awkwardly.

Old Cheng glanced at the two police cars parked by the roadside and said with a wry smile, "Send someone back to the station with me in a bit, and then I'll send another car to pick up your clothes. Go over there and ask your team members if there's anything else you need to bring."

"Thanks, Chengda!" The person in charge jumped up with joy upon hearing this.

As the two were chatting, a taxi drove up from a distance.

Old Cheng was taken aback, unable to understand why a taxi would be driving this way at this time of day. He glanced instinctively to the west, where all he saw was the vast, silent Gobi Desert.

The taxi stopped at the checkpoint, and the driver and passenger got out and went to the security gate to cooperate with the police inspection.

The older man looked at her from afar and the more he looked, the more something seemed off. The female passenger looked familiar, but he couldn't quite place her. When he got closer, he realized that she was the female forensic doctor who had come to conduct research earlier.

"Forensic Doctor Zhu, what is this?" After thinking for a long time, Lao Cheng pointed to the taxi parked on the side of the road, his mind full of questions.

Julie was frank, but she had clearly forgotten Lao Cheng's name. She said coldly, "I heard from the forensic doctor in your department that Chen Shu ran west with the special investigation team, so I had the driver bring me here."

That kid Tursunjan!
How can you have no sense of propriety at all when it comes to what you should and shouldn't say!

This girl looks like a novice; how can we send her to the front lines? She's just causing trouble.

Old Cheng cursed under his breath, but on the surface he was still quite polite. After all, they were guests who had come from afar, and they were also colleagues, both police officers who served the people.

"Forensic Doctor Zhu, they all travel over mountains. You won't find them if you just drive aimlessly on the highway like this."

Julie, however, disagreed and even seemed a little impatient: "If we go further west, I can just call Chen Shu and he'll come pick me up."

So she was planning to force him out. Did she really not know that there would be no cell phone signal in the Gobi Desert? Lao Cheng was both amused and exasperated. He waved away the driver standing to the side and said, "I'll take you there."

The two got into the well-maintained BAIC Zhanqi off-road police car and drove west amidst the resentful sniffling of the person in charge of the temporary checkpoint.

The road, which was already bumpy, got worse the further west you went, and eventually there was no road at all. Off-road vehicles could only drive on the rocky roads that were squeezed between mountains.

The vehicle was in poor condition; it was less of a "bumpy ride" and more of a struggle to stay afloat. Julie, however, didn't seem to mind. Despite wearing her seatbelt, her head was repeatedly hit by the roof and windows.

Having witnessed all of this, Lao Cheng asked curiously, "Forensic Doctor Zhu, how did you convince that driver to give you a ride?"

Remembering Chen Shu's catchphrase from two years ago when he helped her solve a murder case, Julie's originally cold face immediately broke into a smile: "Money power!"

In order to have a better view and make it easier for people in the distance to see him, Chen Shu had no choice but to stand alone in the wind.

Although I was wearing a leather hat borrowed from Yumaikena, the whistling cold wind still blew hard into my neck.

Not long ago, Team Leader Zhao received a call from Lao Cheng, who said he was bringing the female forensic doctor who had come to investigate to meet up with them.

Upon hearing the news, Chen Shu's first reaction was that he had misheard. Then, he suddenly recalled the scene two years ago when Zhu Li insisted on following them to investigate a murder case, and he felt that this was more in line with the stubborn nature of this second-generation official.

Chen Shu smiled wryly, took out his phone, and glanced at it a few more times. It already showed the "2G" signal, which meant that he would soon be fighting against those K elements.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but let out another long sigh.

There was no way to persuade her otherwise; the only thing I could do was to make her obey orders and stay obediently at the back of the line without running around.

But will she obey orders?

Chen Shu let out one long sigh after another.

In the distance, a blue and white SUV drove towards them. As it got closer, a man and a woman jumped out of the vehicle.

The man was Lao Cheng from the patrol team, and the woman was naturally Zhu Li.

Chen Shu, who had prepared countless reasons to persuade Julie to leave, was speechless by one sentence from her, leaving him completely helpless.

"Chen Shu, I've been assigned to serve as your emergency physician. If you don't believe me, you can ask him."

Along the way, I heard forensic doctor Zhu make a lot of phone calls. At first, they were quite normal, and he addressed everyone as "uncle" or "elder brother". But when he answered the phone later, he started addressing everyone as "department head" or "general manager".

Lao Cheng was completely dumbfounded and still felt lingering fear.

He swallowed hard a few times and forced himself to say, "It was Director Liu who called me, and that's exactly what happened."

Chen Shu was speechless. Although he knew that Zhu Li was a second-generation official, he did not expect that her influence would be so great, extending from the East China Sea to NX. The second thing he did not expect was that Zhu Li's parents were also so unreliable, letting their daughter into such a dangerous situation without even realizing it.

Is it possible that like daughter, like father?
Chen Shu shook his head, unwilling to think about it anymore. He thanked Lao Cheng and led Zhu Li into the ravine.

Before I could walk far, Lao Cheng called me back.

Lao Cheng took a Type 95 rifle from the trunk and caught up with Chen Shu, then slung the rifle over Chen Shu's shoulder without a word. Before Chen Shu could refuse, Lao Cheng took a Type 92 pistol and several magazines from his own belt and stuffed them all into Chen Shu's arms.

"Is this appropriate?" Chen Shu held the heavy weapon, feeling a warm glow in his heart.

He knew that Lao Cheng had taken a huge responsibility by entrusting these two items to him, and if anything went wrong, Lao Cheng would be in deep trouble as well.

Gun control in the East China Sea is a responsibility that can be taken to the skies!
Lao Cheng patted Chen Shu on the shoulder: "Brother, we don't follow these rules here in NX. As long as you can take down KMT members, nothing is a problem. Hehe, calling you 'little brother' to take advantage of you a bit, isn't that fair?"

Chen Shu hugged the weapon in his arms tighter and said sincerely, "Thanks, Brother Cheng!"

(End of this chapter)