Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 258 Search
When Lin Ge arrived at the Happy Shake Bar with Zhang Yong, it was already afternoon.

In other words, Xie Lili has been out of contact for almost a day, which is a very worrying time and a time when all sorts of terrible things could happen at any moment.

At this moment, no one cared about how useless this woman was, how unsuitable she was to be a police officer, or how lazy and cunning she was. Everyone's biggest concern now was Xie Lili's safety; they needed to find her as quickly as possible and then give her a good scolding at the police station. Whether she got into this mess because of her own stupidity or deserved it was a topic for later discussion.

"Xie Lili was born into a single-parent family!"

Zhang Yong didn't go into the bar. Instead, he called Xie Hua and then circled the bar wall looking for the back door. As he walked, he said expressionlessly, "Her parents divorced shortly after she was born, and she was raised by her father with great difficulty. And her father was a policeman! The reason for the divorce was that police work was too demanding, and he couldn't take care of his family, leading to his wife's loneliness and infidelity. Heh... that's nothing, she was just a woman! But just a week before Xie Lili's college entrance exam, her father died in the line of duty. What was originally a simple argument escalated because he was drunk and couldn't control his emotions. The prisoner smashed a brick into his head when he tried to stop him, and he didn't even make it out of the hospital..."

Lin Ge paused, completely surprised that the seemingly颓废 and incompetent Xie Lili had such a story behind her.

"Hehe... Now you know why the Municipal Bureau didn't fire Xie Lili even though she was acting like this, right? No matter how she was transferred from the Municipal Bureau to Baimiao Police Station and then to Zhanghe, no one treated her like an outsider."

Zhang Yong finally spotted a small door. Although he wasn't sure if it belonged to the bar or the shop next door, he lowered his voice and said, "Xie Lili inherited her father's police badge number. But you'd never guess that she only learned of her father's sacrifice three days after the college entrance exam. At the time, the higher-ups were worried it would affect her exam, so all the police in the city helped keep it from her. Even I... when I was on duty at the exam site, I lied to her... 'Xie Lili, your dad asked me to cheer you on!' Haha... We lied to her, saying her dad was away on a business trip. We didn't tell her in person because we didn't want her to be distracted during the exam. It was even me... who suggested that she have three days of fun with her classmates after the exam before dealing with her father's affairs..."

Lin Ge looked up at Zhang Yong in surprise.

No wonder Zhang Yong didn't refuse at all after Nie Guoqiang assigned Xie Lili to him.

No wonder Xie Lili was so irresponsible at the Municipal Bureau and Baimiao Police Station, and even did so many ridiculous things, yet she still worked as a police officer without being dismissed or even criticized.

This wasn't about Xie Lili's own face, nor was it because Xie Lili had any particularly strong interpersonal relationships behind her!

The only reason was that Xie Lili's father had entrusted his daughter to everyone.

"I just didn't expect that although this child listened to us and chose the police academy, she would have this kind of work and life attitude after graduating. Maybe... she didn't really want to be a police officer at all? Perhaps this uniform only reminds her of unhappy things..."

Zhang Yong tugged at the iron gate, only to find it locked and impossible to open. However, there was a row of windows along the top of the gate. Peering through, he could see a messy warehouse inside. Shining a police flashlight inside, he could see many bottles of various brands of foreign liquor.

"Heh...bottled foreign liquor, huh?"

Zhang Yong sneered and kept the matter in mind, planning to extort a late-night snack from his friend at the Industry and Commerce Bureau when the opportunity arose.

However, this kind of environment is probably just a bar's warehouse, not its back entrance. Otherwise, unless the bar doesn't want to continue doing business, once the bottling of imported liquor is exposed, why would wealthy people still come to this place to patronize it?
"Ow!"

Lin Ge suddenly let out a low growl, then turned and hid in the gap between two houses, which was only a dozen centimeters wide.

Zhang Yong immediately released the iron gate and took two steps back. Just as he straightened his sleeves, he saw a man and a woman walking out from around the corner, embracing and laughing. Behind them was a burly, tattooed waiter who was seeing off guests.

“What are you doing…”

Upon seeing someone nearby, the waiter glared at them, ready to explode. But then, seeing Zhang Yong's police uniform, he swallowed his angry words.

"Officer, what can I do for you here?"

The host greeted them with a warm smile and was exceptionally polite, so much so that a couple who hadn't gone far ahead turned around in surprise, as it was the first time they had ever heard this person speak in such a gentle voice.

"Don't pry into police matters!"

Zhang Yong glared at him, showing him no respect whatsoever. Seeing the man smirking and about to leave, he stopped him again, saying, "How many people usually go in and out of this back door? Also, did you see a drunk young woman being led out of here today?"

"No, no! Officer, this is a legitimate bar!" The waiter quickly waved his hands, anxiously explaining, "Picking up a drunk person or anything like that is impossible here! Although we know there are quite a few customers at the back door, we usually ask those who are drunk to use the main entrance. Hehe... After all, there are security cameras at the main entrance, you know what I mean. As for those who use the back door, it's usually because the two parties are of similar status... Officer, you should understand, hehe..."

In the end, even the host couldn't help but laugh.

Zhang Yong shook his head, unable to criticize this kind of moral issue. It's like that couple walking away earlier; the woman was old enough to be the man's mother!

"Was anyone drunk or not fully conscious who walked out of this door today?"

Zhang Yong asked again to confirm, and while doing so, scanned the waiter's face with his police mobile terminal. Surprisingly, this guy had no prior criminal record. Despite being covered in tattoos, he was unexpectedly a law-abiding citizen.

Seeing the waiter shake his head, Zhang Yong asked another question: "So... does your bar have any other exits? The bar provides food and drinks, it's impossible for all of them to be transported in through this small door, right? Trucks can't get in here."

The man hesitated for a moment, then quickly said after being glared at by Zhang Yong, "Indeed... there is one! But that exit is inside the staff passage, which is generally inaccessible to customers! There are also security cameras in the staff passage; your colleagues inside have already checked." Zhang Yong looked at the man in surprise. Had he already connected him to Xie Hua and Qian Wei in the bar? He clearly knew why he was there, yet he was pretending to be clueless?

"hey-hey……"

The guy with the grill just bowed and smiled humbly, leaving Zhang Yong with no way to vent his anger.

But regardless, now that they'd found the back door, they should at least take a look. Zhang Yong turned and called to Lin Ge, "Mimi, let's go! Mimi? Hmm? Where did she go?"

The dark cracks in the wall were now empty of cats.

While Zhang Yong and the waiter were exchanging veiled insults, Lin Ge had already squeezed through a crack in the wall to the opposite side of the building. He vaguely smelled a scent that resembled Xie Lili's, but under the strong smell of alcohol, he couldn't be completely sure. Lin Ge couldn't even determine which direction the scent was coming from; he simply followed the crack to its end and found himself in a parking lot within a residential complex.

This is a residential area located directly behind the bar, consisting entirely of seven- or eight-story buildings that look quite old.

However, unlike other similar residential communities that seem to want to fill every inch of space with buildings, this community has quite a wide distance between buildings. But there is virtually no greenery, so the entire roadside is used as a parking area, and parking lines have even been painted on it.

Lin Ge looked around and suddenly saw the couple he had seen at the back door of the bar earlier, kissing on the side of a Lexus. The older woman was holding the young man tightly in her arms like a giant gorilla, opening her blood-red mouth and biting him.

The young man was like a submissive child, too timid to move, obediently letting the woman bully him while letting out whimpering sounds like crying.

This sound made the older woman even more excited.

"Holy crap, they really don't discriminate against raw or cold foods! How can someone their age tolerate that? Are they born like a duck?"

Lin Ge stared in shock until the two men's actions became even more obscene, at which point he quickly turned around.

"Mimi!"

Zhang Yong's voice came from the other side, gradually approaching and startling the illicit couple. The older woman quickly opened the passenger door, pushed the young man inside, touched his face and chuckled, before turning around and getting into the driver's seat.

At this moment, Zhang Yong also rushed over with his phone. It turned out that this bastard had actually tracked the collar's location.

Lin Ge glared at Zhang Yong, clearly annoyed.

Zhang Yong glanced at Lin Ge and breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the surrounding residential area, he suddenly seemed thoughtful. He quickly called Nie Guoqiang, while simultaneously looking around carefully, wondering if Xie Lili might be trapped in one of the apartments.

After all, Mimi, known for her super-strong sense of smell, has already smelled this way.

Lin Ge frowned, somewhat unsure of what to do. Xie Lili's scent was mixed with the smell of alcohol, and given that this area was likely also used by a bar, there were countless unfamiliar smells and strong stench of alcohol, making it difficult for Lin Ge to make a judgment.

Lin Ge even strolled around the entrance of the residential area, but couldn't smell Xie Lili's scent any cleaner, so he had to return disappointed.

"We're not very lucky; there aren't any security cameras here! Aren't these people worried about their cars getting scratched?"

Zhang Yong sighed, relieved that there was a paid fence at the entrance of the community. Inside, an old man had set up a makeshift bed with two chairs, his feet propped up on the table so his head was obscured, and he was having a great time playing on his phone.

They knocked on the door and went in to ask, but the old man knew nothing. His phone was plugged in and playing a live stream of beautiful women dancing. The old man didn't seem embarrassed at all, just chuckled and said he was just someone who collected money and didn't care about anything else.

Soon, Nie Guoqiang arrived with everyone from the institute. Qian Wei also came out of the bar's cargo door and shook his head regretfully at Zhang Yong.

Even with this guy's keen eye for catching thieves, he couldn't find Xie Lili in the bar, so it's highly unlikely that Xie Lili is still inside. Furthermore, although the bar is quite large, there aren't many places to hide, which undoubtedly reduces suspicion.

"The only possibility is that Xie Lili was taken out of the bar from here. Although there are no surveillance cameras in the residential area, there are a few on the street outside. Have Chu Ting keep a close eye on them. Hu Zhengping, take the parking data from the security room back to Li Yiduo and have him check the vehicles that passed through this gate in the past 24 hours. Then contact the traffic police to confirm the identities of their car owners. The rest of you, come with me to investigate this residential area. If Xie Lili hasn't left, she's definitely still in here."

Nie Guoqiang made a decisive analysis and issued an order.

Just as Zhang Yong was about to let Mimi go with him, he suddenly saw Lin Ge turn his head and stare intently at a red Lexus in the parking lot. Thinking there was something wrong with the car, Zhang Yong went over to check the windshield, and immediately turned back, disgusted by the sight.

Fuck!
With so many police officers outside, how dare this woman still play around?

(End of this chapter)