Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 204 The Last Straw

Jiefang Street, Chanyun Shopping Mall!

Stepping out of the iron gate, Chen Shu still couldn't think of a truly effective solution; he only had three options left.

First, if there's enough time, wait for Li Chaoyang to contact the girl's parents to come and help; second, try to delay as much time as possible until the firefighters arrive, as they have far more experience and equipment than the police in handling such situations; finally, if there's no time, Chen Shu can only rely on the thick rope tied to his body and take a gamble.

In any case, we have to get closer to make it work.

"Officer, if you move again, I'm not going to talk to you anymore."

The words sounded affectionate, but the tone was utterly flat. There was no fuss, no weeping, and seemingly no lingering affection.

They needed to talk about something to buy time and wait for reinforcements. Chen Shu stopped and offered some gentle words of reassurance, trying to steer the conversation towards studies and life.

Introverted and insecure people are like this: they won't even frown when standing on a rooftop or bridge, but once someone shows them concern, they will feel grateful and tell them all about their grievances and hardships.

Especially when Chen Shu, who is usually a stern and unapproachable police officer, speaks gently and persuasively, it creates a great impact on the person's already drastically changed mindset.

According to the script, if each side provides a ladder, the rescue can be achieved.

The police completed their mission, and the victim was given a new lease on life.

But at this moment, the girl found these exchanges about studying and life boring and lost the desire to continue talking with Chen Shu. She ignored him and just stared downstairs silently, as if something extremely interesting was attracting her attention.

At that moment, Chen Shu noticed a cell phone casually tossed aside beside the girl.

In today's society, from sixty-year-old seniors to six-year-old children, everyone is truly inseparable from the little gadget that is the mobile phone.

Chen Shuxin devised a plan, attempting to stall for time while waiting for reinforcements.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!"

Seeing the girl looking over, Chen Shu pointed to the phone beside her and asked, "Are you so bored right now? Want me to get you a power bank?"

The girl took the phone without even looking at it, chuckled, glanced briefly in the direction downstairs, and casually tossed it away.

"Here!"

Chen Shu was startled: being able to throw away a cell phone is definitely not a good sign!

After throwing away her phone, the girl became quite engrossed in the moment. She shifted her position forward, leaving only half of her body on the wall, and began to dance and entertain herself.

Most people have some degree of fear of heights!

Chen Shu squinted at the excited woman, convinced that this was definitely not her first offense, and that she must have committed similar acts several times in the past.

This kind of person really can't play by the rules.

She may have felt wronged, and under self-pressure, she treated this as a game. Walking on the edge of life and death, the mental stimulation she experienced repeatedly exceeded her psychological threshold, which manifested in her increasingly outrageous behavior in reality, truly "courting death."

Chen Shu looked at the girl sitting on the wall, swaying in the strong wind, and knew he couldn't wait any longer.

Ever since she carelessly tossed her phone away, the countdown had begun. Jiefang Street, downstairs at the Chanyun Shopping Mall!

Li Chaoyang, the police officer on duty at Zhongshan Police Station, arrived at the scene.

Through Xiao Lin, who was left by the roadside, they learned that Chen Shu had led his men to the top floor.

Looking up at the long-haired woman in a long dress sitting on the rooftop, Li Chaoyang estimated the approximate landing point and arranged for several auxiliary police officers to set up the air mattress and begin inflating it.

According to the original design intent of the air mattress by Zhongshan Institute, it can only rescue people jumping from the third or fourth floor. At any higher height, the mattress may just be for show.

Learning from the command center that the fire brigade would arrive in about ten minutes, Li Chaoyang had no choice but to grit his teeth and inflate the bed first, doing his best to fulfill his responsibilities.

Looking around at the crowd, some were taking pictures upstairs with their phones, while others were calling their friends. The lively scene downstairs and the lonely person on the rooftop formed a stark contrast, creating two completely different worlds.

He shook his head and ran over to set up the air mattress with the auxiliary police officers.

"Jump already! If you're so capable, then jump!" someone egged on, accompanied by a whistle.

"Hurry up and jump! Why aren't you jumping yet!" someone shouted upstairs, eager to see what would happen.

"Yeah, yeah! I've been waiting for over half an hour, please hurry up! I still have to go home and cook." The other person's voice wasn't loud, but it was also teasing.

Fortunately, the top floor is high up, so the sound shouldn't reach there.

Li Chaoyang, who was squatting down cheering, got so angry that his nose twisted. He immediately jumped up, ran to one of the men, pointed at his nose, and shouted, word by word, "Watch your mouth! I'll remember you!"

When someone is thinking about (over), even strangers will look down on them, and they might even face merciless ridicule. This could be the last straw that breaks their mental defenses.

Inside the iron gate on the top floor!
Zhu Chaoran carefully tied the thick rope to the iron handrail inside the building and to himself, then opened the iron gate and nervously stared at Chen Shu's back.

In the six months since he joined the police force, he has followed Chen Shu to arrest kidnappers, beat thieves, race cars, and handle incidents. He has experienced so much and so much that it far exceeds the sum of his previous twenty years.

He was young, so he was curious;
He was young, so he was afraid of death.

"With Brother Shu taking the lead, he'll hold up the sky even if it falls!"

He had always followed Chen Shu, and even Xiao Qiang, in handling cases. Over time, he had grown accustomed to this life and this role of hiding behind others.

He never imagined that one day he would be the only one standing behind Chen Shu, holding onto his lifeline.

At this moment, he was too tense to see anything but Chen Shu's dark blue back. His right hand, gripping the thick rope, made a small clockwise circle, then added another loop of rope around his forearm, tightening his grip on the rope, and thinking of nothing else.

After Yan Chenxi contacted Li Chaoyang, she learned that the girl's parents were both away on business and were on their way back, but it was clear that they would not make it in time.

Holding the phone that was still connected with the girl's mother, Yan Chenxi was about to walk out of the iron gate to talk to the girl herself when Zhu Chaoran, who had a serious expression, stopped her: "Grid leader, Brother Shu said that only firefighters and the girl's parents can go in."

"What! What is he thinking?!"

Yan Chenxi was genuinely annoyed to see Zhu Chaoran, who was covered in thick ropes and squatting in a horse stance. Just as she was about to use her position as the grid leader to put pressure on him, she couldn't help but follow the other's shocked gaze and look towards the iron gate.

Chen Shu suddenly pounced like a tiger, leaping towards the spot where the girl was sitting!
(End of this chapter)