Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 411 The Villainous Police Cat (Please Subscribe)

"Isn't it possible?"

Zheng Mingxing suddenly stood up as if he had just thought of something.

Li Yiduo and Lu Dingping stared at him in astonishment, only to see Zheng Mingxing pace back and forth for a moment before putting down his phone and smiling helplessly.

"That brat! And Fang Yun, you really know how to cause me trouble."

Zheng Mingxing's expression returned to calm, and he slowly sat down.

Lu Dingping also thought of something and inexplicably shuddered.

"Mimi, where are we going?"

Li Siyu followed behind Lin Ge, looking somewhat uneasy. It was her first time in Xizhong City, and Mimi had led her through a maze of turns, quickly getting them lost. They had been on the main street just moments before, and now, in the blink of an eye, they were on someone's rooftop!
"The No. 2 bus that stops on the eighth floor is truly a unique feature of Sichuan Province. In Jixi County, most of the houses are single-story and not very noticeable, but once you get to the city, you realize just how incredible this architectural marvel really is."

Lin Ge was also quite shocked. To be honest, he had no idea where he had ended up following the scent. He had inexplicably walked and walked until he found himself in someone's rooftop parking lot. Who knew where he would end up if he kept walking?

Anyway, Lin Ge is now only focused on one thing: the smell is definitely right.

We must find that money before the Xizhong City Public Security Bureau and the City Finance Bureau do, otherwise, if they find the target first, how will Jixi County get any of the money?

Lin Ge never imagined that his colleagues in the Public Security Bureau would one day become his competitors. For this three million yuan, the police in Xizhong City had become his and Fang Yun's enemies.

All of this stemmed from Fang Yun's plea to Li Siyu.

That woman really knows how to use every means at her disposal.

She snatched back the opportunity to cultivate mandarin oranges from neighboring Peng County and Jiangpu County, and secured the site selection for the railway station from Santang County. And this time, she's going to forcibly take three million yuan in cash from the Xizhong Municipal Finance Bureau for the construction of a school.

However, this step involves facing a group of elite police officers from the Xizhong City Finance Bureau, who, unwilling to accept defeat, have sought help from the Xizhong City Public Security Bureau. These officers aren't fools; they can easily see through Fang Yun's little scheme.

Previously, the case was in Jixi County, and the Xizhong Municipal Finance Bureau was powerless to help. But now that the money has been hidden in Xizhong City, they certainly won't let it go so easily.

"Mimi, isn't what we're doing a bit inappropriate?"

Li Siyu was extremely nervous, glancing left and right as if she were a thief.

Fang Yun dragged her to lunch, but little did she know that the meal was a trap. Fang Yun's words were heartbreaking, and Li Siyu was moved. In a daze, she didn't know why, but she agreed to Fang Yun's criminal request to help her take away the three million yuan.

"I was completely out of my mind at the time."

Li Siyu tapped her head in frustration, wondering how she had been persuaded by that County Magistrate Fang. Although Jixi County was indeed very poor and pitiful, that was no reason to go against the police in Xizhong City!
"It's alright! To be honest, three million is just a small amount of money for a prefecture-level city! The municipal finance bureau is causing trouble because this hole is hard to fill. They'll give up once the money is in Fang Yun's hands. So as long as we evade the police in Xizhong City, this matter won't even come to light. Whoever finds the money first will be the winner."

Lin Ge wasn't particularly nervous.

Ultimately, neither side in the game was a bad guy, and neither side made any clear procedural mistakes. The final wrangling was just a normal clash between the city and the county. Compared to those legendary county heads who blocked or even robbed the city's finance bureau or government office for the sake of the county's people, Fang Yun's methods were child's play.

Besides, so what if I'm wrong?

Who would bother a female auxiliary police officer or a cat?

Fang Yun said that if he failed, he should accept the consequences. How could Lin Ge possibly feel any pressure?
Of course, just in case, Lin Ge didn't remove the collar. That way, if he were caught by the Xizhong City police, he could immediately call Nie Guoqiang for help.

"Mimi, slow down!"

Seeing Lin Ge continue walking forward on his own, Li Siyu quickly followed.

"Ow!"

Without turning his head, Lin Ge called out, his ears perked up.

He didn't know why, even though he found nothing unusual in his nose and ears, he felt something was wrong ever since he arrived in Xizhong City. It was as if a pair of eyes were constantly watching him from somewhere, making him feel a chill all over his body.

But Lingo turned around several times, yet found nothing.

Feeling somewhat uneasy, Lingo stopped following the scent and started wandering aimlessly.

For a while, this actually helped me shake off the eerie gaze. But for some reason, after a few minutes or ten minutes, the uneasy feeling would return.

This feeling of being relentlessly pressured made Lin Ge feel numb all over.

What is that cat doing? Circling around?

Inside a heavy SUV, four police officers looked at each other, momentarily confused about what the cat in the video was doing.

For the past forty minutes, it has been circling back and forth along Xinhua Middle Road. Just now it was at the Xinhua Road underground intersection, but then it suddenly turned onto Chenghua Second Road. Just when you thought its destination was on Chenghua Road, it inexplicably went up a few stairs, made a big turn, and returned to the surface side of Xinhua Middle Road near Sanmin Lane.

Then, after another round of circling, the cat found itself back at the 18th-floor rooftop parking area on Xinhua Middle Road. Although the elevation difference between this location and the previous one was seventy or eighty meters, it perfectly overlapped with the original location on the map.

"Are you lost? After all, there aren't many people from other places in Sichuan who can figure out the way."

The driver felt that his stakeout trip had been a complete waste of time and money on fuel.

"No way! That's a police cat!"

The auxiliary police officer sitting in the back seat couldn't believe that the famous police cat from Chu Province, which was so well-known in the police system and wanted to be seen by police officers all over the country, was actually a terrible navigator.
At first, we thought it had discovered us! What's going on? Were we just overestimating it?
The criminal investigation captain, sitting in the passenger seat, sighed and said disdainfully, "Sigh! Another internet celebrity piece, just something to grab attention! Bah, we were even planning to test its effectiveness with the 4D Skynet system, but we were just overthinking it! It seems like following the cat to find the stolen money is a joke. We'll have to see how Captain Ji handles that money."

"Shall we stay here and look at the pretty girls? To be honest, the girl with the cat is really pretty, especially her temperament, which is completely different from girls from Sichuan Province."

The driver couldn't help but smile.

The criminal investigation captain frowned, looking helplessly at his two bachelor subordinates. "I told you, that girl named Li Siyu has a boyfriend. Besides, Sichuan Province has always been known for its beautiful women. There are so many pretty girls in Xizhong City, aren't they enough for you two to find girlfriends?"

"Spicy girl, spicy girl, spicy girl la la la la la~"

"Labor and management on the Shu Road~"

The two young bachelors looked at each other and started singing together.

The air in the carriage suddenly fell silent, followed by a burst of laughter.

“You guys!”

After a long pause, the criminal police captain rubbed his tears of laughter, unsure of what to say.

Well, this is something... girls from Sichuan province do seem to be a bit spicier. Hahaha~ *burp*, it seems like my wife is also...

Whether married or not, the four men exchanged glances, and a heavy feeling settled over them.

Ugh.

After confirming the true abilities of the cat from Chu Province, the atmosphere in the car relaxed. Everyone joked with each other, and the atmosphere became more relaxed.

"Wait a moment!"

Another forensic investigator sitting in the back seat suddenly exclaimed, pointing to the surveillance screen above the passenger seat where the vanity mirror had been, "The cat is gone! What happened? It was just curled up in Li Siyu's arms a moment ago, how could it be gone in the blink of an eye?"

"Watch the replay!"

The criminal investigation captain's face darkened.

The relaxed atmosphere in the carriage vanished instantly. The other two dared not joke anymore, and all three, except the driver, were focused intently on the surveillance footage. However, the playback seemed normal; the cat, tired from walking, jumped into Li Siyu's arms and snuggled, showing none of the hard-working nature of a police officer. Li Siyu began walking down the stairs along Xinhua Middle Road, and from beginning to end, she couldn't see anything unusual.

But when she reached the end of the stairs and turned a corner, and the camera automatically switched to the second camera, the cat in her arms disappeared!

The two cameras combined had a blind spot of less than two meters, yet the cat managed to find an opening. Worse still, none of the surrounding cameras could detect the cat anymore. Logically, any movement should have detected it, but it truly vanished completely from the network of cameras.

"Slow down the video tenfold to see if someone passing by picked them up."

The criminal investigation captain gritted his teeth.

This four-dimensional Skynet system was imported from abroad by Xizhong City at a cost of over 100 million yuan! It was originally thought that it could make all criminal activities nowhere to hide, but it has only been officially put into use for a few days and it has been slapped hard in the face by a cat?

However, no matter how many times the video was played, the three of them stared wide-eyed, but still couldn't figure out how Lin Ge had disappeared.

The criminal investigation captain slammed his fist on the dashboard.

"Ouch~"

Letting out a lazy yawn, Lin Ge rolled over in the stroller. The thing beneath him was a bit hard, so he nudged a few large cabbages to make himself more comfortable.

The old ladies in Sichuan Province are really something; they chat like they're arguing. Three old ladies were walking side by side, and none of them noticed that there was a cat hiding in the grocery cart in the middle.

And these grocery delivery carts in Sichuan Province are amazing; they can even climb stairs. Lin Ge lay inside without feeling much of a bump, but he wondered why the old lady hadn't noticed that the vegetable basket was more than ten kilograms heavier.

"My wife is just quiet, you can't get a word out of her. When she pisses me off, I slap her across the face! That'll teach her a lesson for daring to buy my son useless appliances. She can sweep the floor herself."

"Haha, you're willing to part with her? It's rare to marry a woman from Hangzhou, she speaks so softly, she's so much more gentle than any of our Sichuan girls. If you get divorced, see where you'll regret it."

"What's with marrying a second wife from the West? It'll turn your son into a henpecked husband too!"

"Ha ha……"

A group of elderly women burst into laughter.

The old lady who was mocked wasn't angry; after all, she had come specifically to show off her good daughter-in-law. If she were to actually hit her, she wouldn't have the heart. Besides, a daughter-in-law is meant to be cherished; what difference is there between her and a biological daughter?
"The Sichuan Women's Alliance, they've all turned men into henpecked husbands. Seriously, are men in Sichuan already used to being bullied by their wives?"

Lin Ge hid in the vegetable basket, secretly sighing.

I was planning to hear more gossip, but serious matters came first. I had finally managed to pull off a clever escape with Li Siyu's help, and I couldn't afford to be discovered again.

Moreover, the feeling of being watched was gone, indicating that they had successfully shaken off the police from Xizhong City. Without Li Siyu as an obvious target, it shouldn't be so easy for them to find them again.

The roads in Xizhong City are so winding and confusing, it's hard to find your way around. I don't know what Chunqing City is like, but I imagine it's probably not much different. Ugh, it's really unfriendly to cats from other places.

Just as Lin Ge was worrying about finding his way, he suddenly realized he was lucky. A few old ladies chatting led him back to the lowest level of Xinhua Middle Road.

Taking advantage of the fact that the old ladies weren't paying attention, he suddenly jumped out of the vegetable basket.

"Ok?"

The basket suddenly felt lighter, and the old woman paused, looking back again. The cabbages inside weren't missing, so what had just happened? Good heavens, was she seeing a ghost in broad daylight?

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I'm thinking of going to the temple to pray tomorrow, would you guys like to come?"

"There's no time for that!"

As the elderly women walked away, chatting amongst themselves, Lin Ge secretly peeked out from behind the KFC Colonel's backside.

Just as he was about to leave, his heart skipped a beat. He looked up and saw a round camera on a pole by the roadside turning in his direction. He quickly retreated back.

Two minutes later, the camera turned in another direction, and Lin Ge ran out and sprinted away. A Chihuahua at the intersection was startled by the cat that darted out like lightning; it was about to bark when the cat disappeared.

"So many cameras?"

Lin Ge sprinted along, avoiding pedestrians while focusing on the rotatable spherical cameras along the roadside. He vaguely remembered that these cameras in Zhangzhou were used by traffic police, mainly to check for illegal parking. He just hadn't expected that Xizhong City would actually use them as part of a comprehensive joint defense system.

Ok.

Lin Ge hadn't thought of this before, but after encountering several such cameras whose rotation frequency and timing were rather disordered, he became certain of his guess.

So the reason why I felt I was being watched was because of these ubiquitous cameras?

"Nishi-Shige City is really rich!"

Lin Ge sighed, having once again evaded a camera.

This thing's rotation speed is still too slow for a cat, and its blind spots are larger than expected. It can even evade most surveillance cameras by simply walking close to parked cars along the roadside.

It's a tool meant to protect against people, but it's still two points short of being effective against cats.

Lin Ge thought smugly, completely unaware that the criminal police captain on the other end of the surveillance camera was so angry that he almost threw his phone.

A cat just vanished right under his nose. Specialized equipment purchased specifically to deal with the unique terrain of Xizhong City—this is all the equipment worth over 100 million yuan is capable of?
If the target is indeed a criminal suspect, wouldn't this result be a slap in the face to the Xizhong City police?
“You didn’t say that last week! You kept an eye on that phone thief from Chongyang Road all the way to Duodao Fourth Road, watching him until he pawned his phone at a pawn shop. We swooped in and arrested both the pickpocket and the receiver of stolen goods. You were full of praise for this system back then.”

The technical police officer muttered a few words of dissatisfaction under his breath.

"But it's not working now! What does that mean? It means this thing still has flaws and needs improvement! How did those five kids manage to evade the cameras? Your technical department still hasn't given me an explanation, and now you're doing it again? You stay here and keep a close eye on things, everyone else come with me to find the cat! You're always thinking about enjoying the air conditioning in the car, you're getting lazy! Hurry up, it's freezing outside! Get out here!"

With that, the criminal investigation captain angrily slammed the car door and stormed out.

The other two exchanged a helpless glance and quickly got out of the car to follow.

Lin Ge certainly didn't know that his casual action unexpectedly made the Xizhong City police realize that they had to break free from the convenience and laziness brought by technology and rediscover the hard-working spirit that police officers should have.

If it weren't for Ling Ge, the Xizhong police might not have realized their mistake until a cunning or even cruel criminal, taking advantage of loopholes in the surveillance cameras and police negligence, committed a terrible crime, and it would have been too late for them to regret it.

From this perspective, Lin Ge did do a good thing this time.

However, having abandoned Li Siyu under threat from the Xizhong police, Lin Ge is now in trouble. He has successfully located the secret hideout of Zhou Zhihai and the other children in Xizhong City, but he is at a loss as to how to take away the three million yuan in cash.

This is the residential compound for employees of the State Grid Corporation of China in Xizhong City, located not far from the State Grid headquarters. The company is wealthy, and the buildings are only three or four years old, very new. I've even heard that utilities like water and electricity are waived within certain limits. It's quite possible that such housing won't be demolished for ten or twenty years, and there won't be any harassment coming to the door.

But how exactly did Zhou Zhihai and his group of young people manage to get such a nice house? This remains a question that puzzles Lin Ge.

Could it really be a house that Shu Cheng embezzled?
Lin Ge, puzzled, followed the trail left by the five children deeper into the residential compound. Cigarette butts, spilled drinks, and large footprints on the walls were all crystal clear clues to him. But these kinds of company-owned apartments were precisely outside the community's oversight.

The self-management model of the community, with dedicated personnel from the workplace, makes it easy for people to become complacent due to a lack of responsibility. Even with electrified barbed wire fencing around the community, it cannot change the fact that it has become a perfect hiding place for lawbreakers.

When Lin Ge entered, the security booth at the entrance of the residential area was empty. Even though there was a gate at the entrance, it could only stop honest people, not bad people.

This thing is a joke for cats.

Soon, Lin Ge entered the courtyard and walked several dozen meters to the entrance of his destination. It was a simply furnished house on the first floor. Through the gap in the curtains, he could see a messy large bed and a large amount of bright red cash scattered on it.

"Sigh! A few brainless and ignorant fools, with such little vigilance, they can only let the later thieves take advantage of them."

Lin Ge sighed.

(End of this chapter)