Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 519 Bullets are expensive

Based on the obvious footprints left behind, Chen Shu, Yu Maiken, and others found their way to a spot about thirty meters outside the entrance of the cave where they were hiding.

Yu Maiken put away his smoking gun, squinted at the cave entrance, and chuckled, "What an unlucky fellow. They won't dare to run out recklessly now."

Chen Shu, who was lying on the side, peeked out and saw a corpse lying motionless with half of its body exposed at the entrance of the cave.

"Good marksmanship."

Wang Hao, standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded. This method was completely different from the training he received at the Shenzhen Police Academy.

At the very least, you should grab a megaphone and shout something to try and get them to surrender!
How can someone be killed without a word?
Noticing Wang Hao's unusual behavior, Yu Maiken explained, "This kind of person's brain is already damaged. Even if he's locked up in jail for ten or twenty years, he still won't change his ways. When he's released, it'll be our own people who die."

"None of your leaders have any objections?"

"A leader? Do you see any leaders here?"

"Jingle Bell!"

Just then, the satellite phone in Yumaike's arms rang, and was then cut off; the action was quite practiced.

He looked back at the shocked Wang Hao: "At the crucial moment of a gunfight, you can't spare a hand to answer the phone. What's that saying again?"

Didn't you just hang up the phone when you had a free hand? Wang Hao had a mouthful of complaints stuck in his throat, feeling very uncomfortable.

Wang Hao was curious how the special investigation captain would react without orders from his superiors: "Captain Yu, what's the next step?"

Yu Maiken chuckled: "Do you know why we let the rats into the hole before?"

"Catch them all?"

"Correct."

"How do you plan to play?"

“Simple, throw grenades into the hole. Our bullets are very expensive, so we should save as much as possible.” With a relaxed expression, Yu Maiken turned to the deputy captain and ordered, “Gather all the grenades in the team and bring them to me.”

"Are grenades cheaper than bullets?" Wang Hao was speechless.

Yu Maiken paused, then looked at Chen Shu, who was expressionless and staring straight at the cave entrance: "I'm going to go with Officer Chen to blow up those sons of bitches!"

Chen Shu remained silent, which was taken as tacit agreement.

Inside, Wang Hao froze, his handsome, square face frozen in shock. He seemed to hear something inside him collapsing, crumbling away with a deafening roar.

Yu Maiken reached out and patted Wang Hao on the shoulder, comforting him, "Here, it's either you or me. We're all used to it, and you have to learn too."

Wang Hao glanced at Chen Shu, who had been keeping his lips pursed and barely speaking since Xiao Qiang's death, and nodded silently.

Two bulging bags were brought up, and the deputy captain explained, "The one on the left is full of hand grenades, and the one on the right is tear gas, stun grenades, and the like."

Yu Maiken nodded in satisfaction, then deliberately took the bag on the right first and looked at Chen Shu with a smile.

Chen Shumo silently took the bag on the left and weighed it in his hand.

Yu Maiken thought to himself that it was good, his eyes full of appreciation, but he still reached out to exchange bags with Chen Shu, and casually made up an excuse: "You've never used this thing before, you'll be happy if you smash your own people."

With a gentle pull, the bag didn't budge.

Pull harder, but the bag still won't budge.

Yumaiken looked up in surprise, only to be greeted by a pair of resolute and decisive eyes.

Chen Shu uttered a single word: "Go!"

After the two left, the vice-captain led the other team members to open fire to provide cover. Bullets poured out at the entrance of the cave as if they were free, suppressing any movement inside, and no one dared to make a sound.

Chen Shu and Yu Maiken reached the edge of the cave entrance, and Chen Shu threw in grenades one after another, interspersed with tear gas grenades.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Chen Shu threw the first two grenades very smoothly, but when helpless screams kept coming from inside the cave, he couldn't help but slow down his movements, and eventually even stopped.

Yu Maiken, who was standing to the side, saw this and snatched the bag from Chen Shu's hand. His face changed instantly, and he said fiercely, "Chen Shu! This is war! If you hold back, when these scumbags risk their lives to rush out, it will be our own people who die! Don't you think the death of one cockroach is enough?!"

After saying that, Yu Maiken decisively stepped past Chen Shu. In order to scout the attack rhythm that Chen Shu had delayed, he stretched half of his body out of the wall to cover the area, threw a grenade inside, and peeked out to investigate the enemy situation.

"boom!"

"Bang! Bang!"

A series of gunshots immediately rang out from inside the cave. "Ah!"

Yu Maiken clutched his bleeding right forearm and fell to the ground. The bag he was carrying fell to the ground, and the hand grenade inside rolled away.

He gritted his teeth and waved to the team members who were lying in ambush not far away. In an instant, bullets rained down on the cave entrance, a standard display of suppressive fire.

Well-trained.

Yu Maiken suppressed his voice, shoved Chen Shu's arm away, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Chen Shu, it's not just you! Everyone here has lost a comrade! My whole family was slaughtered by them! This is war, if you're still acting like a woman who can't take it or let it go, then get the hell out of here!"

After saying that, he struggled to his feet, only to fall to the ground again, but he still crawled towards the grenades scattered on the ground.

Seeing Yu Maiken still fighting for his life despite his crippled right arm, Chen Shu's forehead veins bulged with anger. After a few seconds of silence, he slapped himself twice across the face, then sprinted to the bag, grabbed the grenade bag, and rushed to the edge of the cave without the slightest hesitation.

At that moment, a large cleaver suddenly came into Chen Shu's view, followed by a pair of red eyes and an extremely distorted face.

Those inside the cave finally realized that if they stayed inside any longer, they would be blown up sooner or later, so they risked their lives and rushed out.

With a strange cry, ignoring the rain of bullets outside, he raised his knife and slashed at Chen Shu, who was lying on the ground.

At this moment, Chen Shu was lying prone on the ground beside the cave entrance to avoid the bullets. He was holding a grenade with the pin already pulled in both hands. He had no way to dodge at all and could only stare wide-eyed as the deadly blade came crashing down from above.

"boom!"

"Boom!"

Just at the critical moment, several crisp gunshots rang out from behind, and the blade that had been raised high and was about to fall deadly was deflected.

Then blood splattered from his head, and he collapsed next to Chen Shu, convulsing uncontrollably.

Chen Shu turned around.

Seeing that Yu Maiken was already sitting on the ground, he raised his gun, aimed at the fallen man, and fired another round of shots.

After firing, he used his teeth to bite the barrel and chamber a new round.

"What are you doing, you idiot! Keep throwing!"

Chen Shu came to his senses.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

At first, screams echoed from inside the cave, but later only the rumbling of explosions remained.

More than ten minutes later, a faint aroma of meat wafted from inside the cave.

The wind of the Gobi Desert blew against his body, dispelling the gloom in Chen Shu's heart. He felt clear-headed and had a clear conscience.

Since joining the team for research in NX, although he roughly knew about the situation there, he only felt a sense of heaviness in his heart and did not have any profound feelings about it.

After all, this place is far away, ten thousand miles away from his hometown, Dongzhou.

However, with the outbreak of the Keji Coal Mine incident, Chen Shu realized that he had made up his mind to bring the perpetrators to justice.

It was for the sake of the dozen or so innocent lives lost, and also for his own belief in becoming a police officer. If he had swallowed his anger and cowered back in Dongzhou with the investigation team, this matter would have become a lifelong regret for him.

"I can't control everything in the world, but at least I can control what's in front of me."

The deputy captain, holding a shield, led a line of armed men into the cave to clean up the battlefield.

There were no more gunshots inside.

After the battle, Yu Maiken sat on the ground with his right arm hanging down, took out his pocket watch with his left hand and kept stroking the surface, falling silent like Chen Shu.

Chen Shu seemed to have exhausted all his strength, lying sprawled on the muddy ground, gazing at the deep blue sky and panting heavily, lost in thought.

Upon seeing this scene, Wang Hao suddenly felt tears welling up in his eyes.

As if afraid of disturbing the two, Wang Hao tiptoed over, carefully straightened his clothes, and then offered them a cigarette and lit it.

Special Investigations Captain Yu Maiken raised his uninjured left hand and gently pushed, offering the first cigarette to Chen Shu.

(End of this chapter)