I am a super cop

Zhao Qing, who was driving, saw the huge monster passing by his car and instantly stepped on the brakes.

As the mine car passed by, it also brought some dust. Zhao Qing was very careful and always kept the vehicle in a safe driving state.

In this way, it took everyone half an hour to finally drive the pickup truck to the bottom of the mine.

It was only then that everyone realized that when they looked up from the bottom of the mine, it felt like they had arrived in an underground city.

The height of the surrounding mine edges gives people a huge sense of oppression.

At the bottom of the mine, there are many mobile houses, and many workers are resting in them.

This is completely different from the workers you have seen before.

Zhao Qing parked the car to the side and everyone got off one after another.

"Hey." Zhao Qing suddenly stopped a worker passing by and asked, "Did you go up to check just now?"

"What? What kind of verification?" The worker was puzzled and said slowly:

"It takes at least 40 minutes to drive up from here. We usually come down to work and don't go up until very late. How can we have the chance to check there?"

"In other words, you didn't go up there just now?" Zhao Qing felt a little strange when he heard that.

After all, according to the bald man and Xu Gong, there are very few workers in the mining area, and basically all of them have been checked.

But obviously, these people did not go up.

So Gu Chen picked up his phone, clicked on the photo of the deceased, and asked the worker in front of him, "Have you seen this person?"

"This person?" After a moment of hesitation, the worker observed carefully for a few seconds and said thoughtfully:
"It seems familiar."

"What do you mean it looks familiar? Have you seen him before?" Zhao Qing asked quickly after hearing that.

The miners seemed to be a little angry as they saw that Gu Chen and others were wearing police uniforms, but Zhao Qing was wearing casual clothes.

So the miner said helplessly: "What do you do? Are you a policeman?"

"I am the town secretary." said Zhao Qing.

"Oh, it's the secretary. I don't remember it very well. Why don't you ask someone else? I have work to do."

As soon as he finished speaking, the worker left the scene immediately.

"Huh?" Zhao Qing seemed unhappy to see the worker leave like that, and said unhappily, "What the hell is this guy doing?"

"Forget it." Gu Chen didn't care and said:

"The question now is, we have to find out whether these people have seen the deceased."

"Since these people haven't gone up to check, let's investigate here."

"Yeah." Lu Weiwei nodded silently, then took her cell phone and walked towards the group of people who were doing their homework.

After finding a place where workers gathered, Lu Weiwei took out her phone and asked:
"Have you seen this man?"

"No."

"what about you?"

"We haven't seen it either?"

"Have you seen it?"

"No."

……

After asking a lot of people, everyone's answer was denial, which made Lu Weiwei feel a little frustrated.

Officer Wang also crossed his arms and observed the people working here. Then he found an elderly worker sitting in a corner smoking, so Officer Wang walked over and asked:

"Brother, have you seen this person?"

"No."

As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, before he even showed the photo, the older worker shook his head.

"No, you said you haven't seen it before I even took out my phone?" Officer Wang was also a little dissatisfied as he had seen such things in his life.

The older worker continued to shake his head: "They haven't seen it, and I haven't seen it either."

"No, you didn't even look at it." Upon hearing this perfunctory answer, Officer Wang became very unhappy.

But the older worker seemed to be stubborn and said he had never seen it, which made Officer Wang very embarrassed.

Seeing this, Lu Weiwei quickly sat down next to the older worker and said politely:
"Brother, we are currently handling a case. This man drowned in the reservoir near the town not long ago. We are investigating his identity."

"So, I need you to identify him, so please take a close look and see if this person looks familiar to you?"

Because Lu Weiwei spoke particularly gently and politely, and her appearance was also extremely outstanding, the older worker looked at Lu Weiwei's beautiful face a few more times, sighed, and then began to observe her carefully.

After a moment, the older worker said, "In principle, I haven't seen it."

"Uh……"

Hearing the older worker say this, Lu Weiwei was a little confused: "What do you mean in principle I haven't seen it?"

"I have seen it, but I cannot say that I have seen it." Gu Chen observed the older worker and realized his difficulties.

The older worker smiled and said, "Don't ask me any more. I just haven't seen it."

"Did someone greet you and ask you to say you don't know him?" Yuan Shasha also took a step forward, as if that was what she meant.

But the older security guard continued to shake his head: "Don't ask me, I've made it clear enough."

"What do you mean?" Zhao Qing seemed to have figured out the trick, so he quickly stepped forward and asked:
"Did Xu Gong ask you to say that? Is that right?"

"If it's not you, then who is it?" The older worker didn't seem to know Zhao Qing and couldn't help but ask another question.

Zhao Qing quickly replied: "I am the town secretary."

"Oh, Secretary, I don't know you even if you are the Secretary. I have never seen you. I have already made it clear enough just now. It is not easy to get a job."

Although the older worker said nothing, it seemed that he had said everything.

This is tantamount to a crazy hint, indicating that he can only answer this way, but he deliberately lets everyone know that he has no choice but to say this.

Gu Chen also understood the reason. The older worker also wanted to keep his job, so he quickly replied:

"Thank you."

Gu Chen turned around and walked directly to the middle of the group of workers, showed the picture of the deceased in his cell phone album again, and asked:
"I'll ask again, have you seen this person?"

When everyone saw Gu Chen's serious attitude, the atmosphere seemed to become tense all of a sudden.

Everyone looked at each other and seemed to be communicating with their eyes.

"No... I haven't seen it." The tall and thin worker shook his head first.

When the others saw this, they all shook their heads in denial.

"Okay, I suspect that you are intentionally concealing the truth and interfering with the investigation. You all should pack up your things." Gu Chen was not polite to these people.

When everyone heard this, they were also a little confused.

It seemed that he had not yet figured out the situation from Gu Chen's words.

Officer Wang then came over and translated, "What we mean is that you should pack up and follow us to the police station."

"No...no, are we going to the police station if we don't know each other?" A fat worker was a little unhappy.

Officer Wang didn't bother to be polite and said directly, "This involves a murder case. We must investigate it thoroughly. The deceased had been in the mining area and someone had seen him." "The people above have already made some confessions, and even gave false testimony in front of us police and was caught. We will handle it ourselves."

"But if you guys are also lying, then we have no choice but to take you all to the police station for investigation, because we suspect you are related to this murder case."

"no……"

Everyone was also frightened by what Officer Wang said, and they suddenly became a little panicked.

Everyone looked at each other, seemingly unsure of how to handle the situation.

One of the fat miners quickly confessed: "We have actually seen this person before."

"Then why did you say you had never seen it before?" Lu Weiwei asked without being polite.

"Because... because we don't want to cause trouble." At this moment, the fat miner lowered his voice again.

Lu Weiwei raised her eyebrows and asked, "What do you mean?"

"We are short of funds in our mining area and our mining is weak. We are going to negotiate with outside investors, so we can't let anything go wrong."

"So the leader has told us that if we meet you, we can only say we don't know you."

Faced with Lu Weiwei's serious expression, everyone felt helpless.

Lu Weiwei sighed and said, "So, this is why you said you don't know him?"

"That's right." Everyone nodded silently, feeling somewhat helpless.

Lu Weiwei also sighed and said, "How did you receive this information? Was it Engineer Xu?"

"Yes." The fat miner nodded silently and said, "We received the news in the work group, and then asked everyone in the mining area to pass it on to each other."

"After all, our jobs are at stake."

"I think you are really confused." Zhao Qing was a little angry when he heard it, and hurried forward and said:
"You are lying, you know that? The police are investigating a murder case. If you lie like this, aren't you telling the police that you have something to do with this death?"

"No no."

When everyone heard this, they became anxious and quickly waved their hands to deny it.

Officer Wang also said unhappily: "You have your reasons for saying this, but you must understand that this is a murder case, a serious murder case."

"It doesn't mean you can just get away with it if you don't know this person. We will eventually investigate you."

"Comrade police, we are all saying this in accordance with the leader's request. After all, our mining area really doesn't have much money left, and we haven't received any salary for more than two months."

"They said they would pay it back in one lump sum once the funds for later investment are in place."

"We are all generating electricity with love now. If there is an accident in the mine, we may all lose our jobs."

"Yes."

When someone said this, it immediately resonated with other miners, and everyone expressed their helplessness.

Gu Chen walked up to the fat miner and asked, "Have you seen this man?"

"I have seen it." The fat miner nodded silently.

"Where have you seen me before?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Right... right here."

"Here? You mean at the bottom of this mine?" Lu Weiwei was also a little surprised when she heard it.

The fat miner nodded silently and said without hesitation: "Yes, when this person came here in work clothes, we thought he was a new colleague?"

"Because everyone is busy with their own work, they are not very clear about his identity."

"I feel like he should be a relative of a certain leader, right? Because he's here and doesn't look like he's working."

"What does that look like?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"He looks like a leader, the kind of leader who comes here to inspect our work," said another tall and thin worker.

"In other words, you have all seen this person in the mining area?" Lu Weiwei continued to ask.

Everyone looked at each other and nodded silently in approval.

Lu Weiwei sighed and said unhappily, "So what kind of work did this person do after he came here? Where did he go in the end?"

"no job."

In response to Lu Weiwei's question, everyone answered in unison.

The fat worker continued, "He came here to walk around and ask us how the situation is here and how the ore mining is going."

"We thought at the time that this guy must be a new worker. Maybe he came here to get familiar with the environment."

"But we weren't familiar with each other, so our answers were rather perfunctory."

"Then what?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Then he went around everywhere and asked us staff members questions whenever he saw us."

"We asked him which department he was from, and he said he was a new worker, saying that his leader asked him to get familiar with the environment or something."

"Anyway, there are many workers here, scattered in various jobs."

"Because the mining area is so large, it's not easy for everyone to see each other on a regular basis, especially since the working hours are staggered."

“So it’s normal that we feel like we haven’t seen it before.”

"What happened next? Where did this guy go?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"He took a mine car up there, and we never saw him again," said the tall and thin worker.

"So what's the situation here?" Gu Chen also walked forward and asked.

Everyone looked at each other, somewhat hesitant.

Seeing this, Zhao Qing also hurriedly urged: "Just say it when I tell you to."

"There's not much work, and it was very busy at the beginning, so everyone was slacking off." said the fat worker.

"What do you mean?" Lu Weiwei was a little curious.

So the fat worker continued to explain: "There is not much mining equipment here, and the daily workload is very simple, so we don't need so many people."

"But everyone is afraid of losing their jobs. After all, they earn a day's pay for a day's work. In addition, the mine leaders also said that they are waiting for investment. Once the investment money arrives, new equipment will be put into the mine."

"In this way, our mining efficiency will be greatly improved and more workers will be recruited."

"So everyone is just slacking off? Pretending to be very busy at work?" Officer Wang suddenly realized what was going on after seeing all this.

Everyone looked at each other and nodded silently.

"I understand." Officer Wang seemed to have just woken up from a dream and said slowly:
"So you're all performing? I thought you were busy just now."

"That's just a show for you guys." The tall and thin worker said something extra.

Officer Wang also smiled slightly: "Is this also what your leader told you to do?"

“Yes.” It seemed that the police had now discovered the truth, and since they were also investigating the murder, everyone’s answers began to become sincere.

The tall and thin worker also said slowly: "Because the leaders above have told us that when we see outsiders coming in, no matter who they are, we must pretend to be busy."

...(End of chapter)