Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 436 Yan Chenxi's Invitation (Part 1)
As the weather grew hotter, Chen Shu returned to his office at the SWAT team under the scorching sun.

He was so hot that he felt dizzy and lightheaded. As soon as he entered the room, he took off his training T-shirt, revealing his muscular body. Then he grabbed both ends of the shirt and twisted it, squeezing out a lot of water.

This stillness and movement inadvertently revealed the great physique he had developed over the past year in the SWAT team. His high, firm muscles were both strong and possessed a flowing, beautiful line, while his abdominal muscles were clearly defined, with a subtle sheen like warm jade.

Compared to just a year ago when he was transferred from a police station with irregular work hours, Chen Shu's transformation is remarkable.

"Brother Shu."

Hearing the shout behind him, Chen Shu turned around naked and saw Yan Chenxi, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, sitting on the sofa by the window, half of her body bathed in sunlight. Her fair face seemed to glow, and even the fine hairs on her face could be seen.

At this moment, the young street director, who held absolute power in Yangyi Street, stared at the shirtless Chen Shu with a stiff, flushed face. Her eyes involuntarily glanced quickly at Chen Shu's (fierce) chest, where she noticed a rather long scar.

Yan Chenxi, who was initially a little embarrassed, was instead drawn to the scar. She asked nervously, "Brother Shu, what happened to this long scar on your body?"

Chen Shu coughed lightly and said self-deprecatingly, as if chatting with his former colleagues, "Back when I was on a call at the station, I was trying to catch a mental patient who was wielding knives all over the street, and I accidentally got slashed by him. Heh, I got slashed for nothing."

Mentally ill patients are a significant and dangerous group that police officers at local police stations have to deal with. Sometimes they have episodes at home, and their families' first instinct isn't to call a psychiatric hospital, because that costs money.

According to Yu Yu, a community police officer at Zhongshan Police Station, his biggest wish is to get along well with the director of the mental hospital. Firstly, so that the mental patients in his jurisdiction can be accepted and provided with convenience, and secondly, so that a good position can be reserved for him.

It means he's almost driven mad by these mentally ill people.

Yan Chenxi sighed upon hearing this, her gaze still fixed on the scar on Chen Shu's (the perpetrator's) forehead, and asked softly, "So this is what police work is like. How do you deal with mentally ill patients like this?"

As she spoke, she thought of her younger brother, Jiang Hai. After the tragic lesson of the dismemberment case at the steakhouse, he still resolutely wrote down the six characters "Donghai Police Academy" when filling out his college application for the early admission batch.

As the older sister, Yan Chenxi felt sorry for her brother, but she still approved of his choice. Being a police officer is a profession that contributes to society, and being reasonable is a given; Yan Chenxi, who also works in the police force, naturally wouldn't object.

"Usually, if no one is hurt, they are sent to a mental hospital. However, some mental patients are not really stupid; they just think about random things. You have to coax them to go to the hospital. Yeah, like coaxing a child."

"What if you can't soothe them? Or what if the hospital won't admit them in the middle of the night? Will you have to take them back to the police station and stay with them overnight?"

Seeing that Yan Chenxi had shifted her attention, Chen Shu joked to ease the atmosphere, "Hehe, I've hardly ever lied since I was a child, until I became a policeman. I learned to lie without batting an eye. Sometimes it's to get statements from criminal suspects, and sometimes it's just to get these mental patients to cooperate and go to the hospital."
"If the hospital won't admit them in the middle of the night, according to what our older colleagues used to say, we'd have to let down the people in the neighboring county. Anyway, these kinds of people can't be sent to the institute; it's too easy for them to cause trouble once they're in jail. We've learned this the hard way."

The phrase "I'm sorry to our brother unit" implies that they secretly take the person to a corner in a neighboring district and dump them there. Although this practice is indeed inappropriate, it is a helpless move for some police officers now that the detention and repatriation stations have been abolished.

After all, it's the middle of the night, and a police station only has three or four officers on duty. It's really impossible to dedicate a single officer to watching this mentally ill person; sometimes even one officer isn't enough. If they don't keep an eye on him, something bad is highly likely to happen. There was a fairly typical case before. For example, when a normal person bangs their head against a wall, their body automatically has a subconscious and inertial protective action to avoid the situation. But when a mentally ill person bangs their head against a wall, they just smash it directly, and there have even been cases of them smashing it with the back of their head without the slightest hesitation.

Chen Shu was well aware of the awkwardness between the two of them earlier. Seeing that Yan Chenxi was still staring at his chest without blinking, he could only awkwardly talk about the past, turning his back to the sofa where Yan Chenxi was sitting, and walking towards the wardrobe next to the bookshelf.

With a "whoosh," Chen Shu heard a rustling sound behind him, followed by a few quick footsteps, and knew that Yan Chenxi had walked up behind him.

"Brother Shu, that injury must have hurt a lot back then."

Chen Shu turned around, looked down at Yan Chenxi who was standing with her head down, looking at her with heartache, and slowly raising her jade hand to touch the scar on his (fierce) face. He licked his dry tongue, wanting to say something.

"boom."

At that moment, the office door was opened from the outside, and the two separated at an extremely fast speed, as if struck by lightning.

"Brother Shu, let me tell you, you're not allowed to agree to things so easily anymore! People who kneel down like that are the most hateful, because you don't know..."

A radiant figure in a red dress and high heels gracefully entered the office. Zhang Yang, with her oval face and warm, jade-like eyes, glanced around the room and was surprised to see Chen Shu, shirtless, and Yan Chenxi, her face flushed with embarrassment, standing together. The rest of her words were immediately cut off and swallowed back down her throat.

The sudden shock of the scene made her momentarily forget the words she had prepared to say to Chen Shu.

"What...what are you doing? You're not doing anything wrong, are you? Did I come to the wrong room? I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry." Zhang Yang was a little dizzy.

Chen Shu, realizing what was happening, waved his hand and took a few steps back. Then he quickly stepped to the wardrobe, opened the door, and took out a change of police uniform. With his back to the two women, he tried to appear calm and explained, "Nothing. I just finished training and went back to the office to change into dry clothes. I didn't know Yan Chenxi was sitting in the office waiting for me."

Yan Chenxi, who had been looking down, felt a pang of disappointment, but remembering that other women had come in, she couldn't let herself be outdone. She composed herself, smiled, raised her head, greeted Zhang Yang casually, and then hurriedly left.

Watching Yan Chenxi leave, Zhang Yang felt inexplicably irritated, and the initial joy of rushing to the SWAT team vanished forever.

Although Chen Shu's explanation in front of them was reasonable, Zhang, a reporter who had experienced many ups and downs and the coldness of human nature, felt bitter and couldn't express his feelings.

This is the end of the bonus chapter. Thank you again for your support, brothers.

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