Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 754 "Lying flat" refers to completing work normally.

Soon after, the local police in charge of the investigation arrived at the scene. It was chaotic, and the corridor was full of people.

Chen Shu pulled Chen Chuan, who was looking around, aside and whispered, "This is someone else's territory. Don't act like it's your own home. Go, go sit over there and have a few cigarettes."

Chen Chuan was indignant, thinking, "If you, Chen Shu, can enter the room at the crime scene, why can't I?"
However, seeing Chen Shu also sitting obediently at the end of the corridor with a cigarette in his mouth, he didn't say anything more and just stood there smoking to pass the time.

Chen Shu watched the local police working inside from afar, thinking that the deceased was most likely to have committed suicide. He wasn't the male lead in a crime drama, so how could he possibly encounter a murder case every now and then?

They are all strange and difficult cases. In reality, in 80% of murder cases, the murderer will voluntarily surrender to the police within a few days of the incident.

It must be said that the "every murder case must be solved" principle put forward by the Dongzhou Public Security Bureau has an extremely powerful deterrent effect.

Chen Shu felt a little worried and couldn't help but look back at Chen Chuan, who was watching with a gossipy attitude. He thought to himself: This kid Chen Chuan is always talking nonsense about his "Conan-like physique". With that big mouth, he can't be right every time, can he?
If Zhu Yiba's side cannot find a breakthrough in the hotel's server room surveillance footage, then there are only three paths left: forensic autopsy, on-site investigation, and investigation of the deceased's social relationships.

Based on past experience, the chances of solving a case through autopsy and forensic examination are extremely slim, if not impossible. The focus should be on investigating the victim's social relationships.

The room reeked of alcohol. We should start investigating from the friends who drank with the deceased that night, or from the moment she entered the hotel, and review the surveillance footage to see what her activities were like.

Huang Mao was new to the job and, without the support of his superiors or the cooperation of his colleagues, he didn't know how much police force he could mobilize to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the victims.

Chen Shu was lost in thought, and his emotions became somewhat neurotic.

"Huh?" Chen Shu was nudged by Chen Chuan's elbow. When he looked over in confusion, he saw the other man raise his chin towards the room in the corridor.

Following Chen Chuan's gaze, Chen Shu noticed that Huang Mao was idly standing in the crowded corridor, scrolling through his phone. He didn't look like a policeman at all. Poor Huang Mao's former platoon leader was still huddled in the sweltering computer room of the hotel, helping him go through the surveillance footage frame by frame.

Chen Shu quickly went over and pulled Huang Mao aside, telling him the whole story.

Huang Mao was innocent, but not stupid; he understood the situation in just a few words.

Huang Mao chuckled as he listened, then pulled out a crumpled pack of cigarettes—the brand was unknown—from his inner pocket and respectfully offered them to Chen Shu and Chen Chuan.

Huang Mao could tell that the two men were only talking to him out of concern for him and out of respect for his platoon leader, Zhu Yiba.

Otherwise, these two police officers from out of town on vacation wouldn't have needed to cause themselves any trouble.

Seeing that the other party still didn't take it seriously, Chen Shu said solemnly, "Yellow Hair, it's not a big deal if you don't handle or can't handle other small cases, after all, you just came from the Armed Police, and there are always special circumstances. But for cases involving lives, if anything goes wrong during the process, as the police officer in charge, at best you'll be dismissed and taken off your uniform, and at worst you'll go to jail for dereliction of duty!"

Huang Mao was somewhat surprised. Following Zhu Yiba's previous address to Chen Shu, he asked, "Brother Chen, isn't this a secure job? As long as I clock in and out on time every day, no one can fire me, right? Go to jail? No way! I've seen people online saying that if you get into the system and don't just sit back and relax, that's a complete waste!"

Chen Chuan, a professional "lying down" officer from the Zhengming Special Police Brigade, lit a cigarette, put on a big brother's air, and lectured, "There's a technique to lying down. You think doing nothing is lying down? That's just asking for death." Chen Shu almost laughed out of anger. How thoroughly had Huang Mao been brainwashed by those toxic motivational quotes online?

Lying down and doing nothing is easy, but doing it without getting targeted is very difficult. If you act like a dead dog at work, your boss might be furious but can't do anything about it. But there are always some positions that can be incredibly frustrating.

Regardless of whether the leaders dare to do it or not, just to give other comrades who are working hard some psychological compensation, and to prevent those who are lying down from ruining the overall environment, we will never let those who are lying down be happy.

Thinking about it now, it explains why Huang Mao, a new policeman who was transferred from the People's Armed Police, was assigned here.

Huang Mao, adhering to the "lie flat" mentality, was assigned by his superiors to the Criminal Investigation Brigade to handle major cases. Everyone knew how much responsibility and blame he would bear for murder cases.

This obviously difficult approach, at this point, shows that the problem still lies with Huang Mao himself.

Unless someone like Chen Chuan has powerful connections and a strong background, as long as he doesn't go too far, he can do whatever he wants. After all, getting someone with such connections into the grassroots special police brigade is already a favor to the unit leaders, so what more could he ask for?
Chen Shu said with great distress, "Huang Mao, we police officers can't just lie down. When other companies or institutions have problems, at most they get punished and fined, and at worst they're transferred. But if we police officers make a mistake, we can end up in jail!"

After Chen Shu said that, the blond-haired guy who had been so smug just now immediately wilted and became a little scared.

"Really?" Huang Mao was skeptical. After all, on the internet, there were many articles and internet celebrities advocating that one must lie down to work if they want to join the system, otherwise all the years of hard work and study would be wasted.

"Can I still lie to you?"

“Chen Da, but when I’m at work, I sometimes hear my colleagues from the police station who come to handle cases complaining that they want to lie down whenever they have free time.”

Huang Mao pretended to be deep in thought, then said seriously, word by word, "I'm pretty sure they all said they wanted to lie flat."

Chen Shu rubbed his forehead and sighed, "Sigh, they're just talking big, trying to impress you, a newcomer. Seeing is believing, try making them actually lie down and see what happens."

Huang Mao actually recalled for a while, and said with certainty, "Brother Chen, it really is true. Our brigade's logistics officer is a woman, and people say she's also lying down, and she leaves work on time every day!"

As the deputy captain, Chen Shu knew the work of an office clerk all too well. Even a relatively low-level department like the Special Police Brigade could make Zou Qing, who had formal training, complain endlessly, let alone the more complex frontline law enforcement brigade like the Criminal Investigation Brigade.

Chen Shu sighed, "These days, as long as you don't work overtime, just completing your work normally is considered 'lying flat'! They're just being self-deprecating, don't take it personally!"

Chen Chuan chuckled, handed a cigarette to the dumbfounded blond-haired man, and joked, "Is the internal affairs officer in your brigade a woman? You're a grown man in your prime, comparing your lying-flat posture to a woman's, aren't you ashamed?"

Chen Shu recalled the teachings of Zeng Hong, a senior police instructor, when he was at the police station, and slowly said, "Actually, slacking off is just you slacking off. The number of police cases won't decrease because of your slacking off. The only result is that you will bully your other colleagues. If you don't want to work, do you think others will want to work? When cases come, who will do the work? Who will take responsibility?"

"Think about it, is this fair?"

(End of this chapter)