Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 282 Start taking action

This is a fairly large courtyard, surrounded by concrete walls over two meters high on all sides, with several layers of barbed wire strung on top. The entrance is a thick, three-meter-high iron gate, which looks extremely sturdy. In contrast, the shabby sign next to it, advertising a pig farm, seems carelessly hung up to deceive people.

Looking from outside the wall, there are about three or four houses inside. Except for the middle house, which is three stories high, the rest are single-story houses. Near the single-story houses, there are two things that look like water towers.

Chen Shu, dressed in a yellow delivery uniform, drove an electric scooter with a company-issued delivery box on the back, looking every bit like a typical delivery guy, slowly making his way over.

After parking the car, Chen Shu stood outside the large iron gate with the takeout bag in his hand and knocked on the gate.

"Boom, boom, boom."

"Boom, boom, boom."

The sound was quite loud even in the quiet night.

I knocked for quite a while but there was no response. If I didn't know there was definitely someone inside, a normal delivery guy would have just hung the package on the door and left.

Chen Shu increased the force of his knocking and continued banging on the door.

Just then, the sound of a door opening suddenly came from behind Chen Shu.

Chen Shu turned around and saw a tall, thin man walk out of the house across the street. He walked straight up to Chen Shu and scolded, "Can't you make a phone call in the middle of the night? All that banging and calling, can't a person get any sleep?!"

Chen Shu assumed it was his neighbor and apologized politely. He was just thinking about how to call the other person when the person on the other end reached out and took the takeout bag from Chen Shu's hand.

Chen Shu asked with some doubt, "Hmm? You?"

“We’re all in this together, just give it to me.”

The tall, thin man didn't bother to explain. He turned around, pulled out a key, and inserted it into the lock of the iron gate. With two clicks, the gate opened, and he went inside.

A black, tubular object was faintly visible sticking out of his back.

Could it be a pistol magazine?
"Bah!"

Chen Shu gasped, staring intently as the tall, thin man walked into the house, knowing that this man was the criminal gang's eyes and ears.

Taking advantage of the few seconds it took for the iron gate to open and close, Chen Shu glimpsed the general environment inside.

On the west side of the courtyard, there was a large, detached house with a faint light seeping out; it was very likely a drug manufacturing workshop. The other rooms were all dark, either empty or occupied by people sleeping with the lights off.

Chen Shu turned the car around and returned to the temporary ambush point at high speed. At this time, Li Da, the captain of the special police brigade, and Xu Chaofan, the deputy director of Dongming Police Station, arrived with their men.

The streets were deserted late at night, but suddenly more than twenty people squeezed into a small open space at the street corner. If any drunk person accidentally wandered in, they would be scared out of their wits.

Chen Shu parked his car on the side of the road, and Xu Chaofan and Li Da, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly came over.

“The house opposite the gate of the courtyard also belongs to them. When I went there to deliver food, a tall, thin guy came out. Who knows if there are other eyes watching from inside the house. Also, the iron gate of that courtyard is very thick and heavy. Our breaching tools definitely can’t break it open.”

Li Da suggested, "I see that the walls around these houses aren't very high, so why don't we just climb over from the back!"

"There's barbed wire on the wall, making it difficult to remove. Another problem is that the guy with the eye might be carrying a gun; we need to take him down first. Otherwise, when we move in a bit, with so many of us, he could sneak up on us and attack us—it would be too dangerous."

There's a gun!

Li Da, a former SWAT officer with a natural sensitivity to firearms, asked with great interest, "What (wooden gun)?"

Chen Shu gestured: "It's a piece of wood with an iron pipe attached to the front, it looks like a fire poker, probably a five-shot shotgun." Don't let Chen Shu's simple description fool you, one shot from this kind of shotgun can take down an adult, and if it hits the leg, the entire kneecap can disappear!
The group exchanged glances, realizing that the situation was getting a bit tricky.

Zhu Chaoran, who appeared out of nowhere, rubbed his hands together and interjected, "Same as always, check the water meter!"

The scene became quiet for a while.

Xu Chaofan didn't think twice and asked directly, "Chen Shu, what do you suggest? We'll do whatever you say."

Everyone's attention turned to Chen Shu, who was dressed in a food delivery uniform.

"Jingle Bell."

The phone rang, and Chen Shu took out the real delivery guy's phone and answered it.

"Damn it, we're missing two portions! Look around, maybe you left them in your car!"

It was very quiet around, but the voice coming from the phone was very loud, and everyone around could hear it clearly.

Chen Shu quickly apologized, "I'm so sorry, please wait a moment. Oh, boss, I'm so sorry, I actually have an extra bag of food in my car, it's just enough for two portions! I'll bring it to you right away, please wait a moment."

"hurry up!"

"toot toot"

Chen Shu put down the phone and said with a smile, "Look, the door is open now."

An electric scooter chugged along the night road, and the delivery guy in the driver's seat frowned as he turned the right handlebar all the way in, but there was no way to increase the speed any further.

The delivery guy sitting in the back seemed relaxed and joked, "Tsk tsk, Chen Shu, slow down, slow down! Be careful the delivery is late, or you'll get fined."

Although Li Da was jokingly teasing Chen Shu, Chen Shu was still grateful for Li Da's previous strong support.

Since the suspects may be carrying dangerous weapons, and they are already engaged in dangerous work, during the arrest operation, one of them might become desperate and pull out a five-shot burst, firing five shots in quick succession, which would be difficult to handle.

Therefore, Chen Shu planned to trick the iron gate open by himself, capture the tall, thin man with the weapon, and then let the others rush in to arrest the man.

He was too shy to give such a dangerous order to his subordinates, but since he was the one in charge and a minor leader, he decided to take matters into his own hands after thinking it over.

Unexpectedly, Li Da, a special police officer who always followed orders, stepped forward, forcibly took off the deliveryman's uniform and put it on himself, put on the yellow helmet, patted Chen Shu on the shoulder, and casually said "Let's go," as if this trip was just like a routine patrol, nothing special.

Chen Shu snapped out of his daze and replied with a smile, "I have no money, but you can take my life."

"Hahaha."

In a short while, the two stood in front of the large iron gate.

Just in case, Chen Shu first carried the plastic bag containing the takeout and knocked on the door of the house across the street for a while. When there was no response, he returned to the iron gate, took out his phone, and called the person.

After hanging up the phone, the two stood quietly in front of the door, waiting for the iron gate to open.

A gentle breeze blew by, and Chen Shu glanced at the composed SWAT captain standing beside him, and felt that he was no longer nervous at all.

(End of this chapter)