Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 491 Farewell
That night, the willow trees outside the hotel rustled softly, and it was very quiet.

As the first warm rays of dawn shone on Chen Shu's face, and the clear, melodious chirping of birds filled his ears, he awoke from a deep sleep.

Stretching lazily, Chen Shu turned around and saw Jiang Hai still fast asleep under the covers. He suddenly realized that coming to do research once in a while wasn't such a bad thing.

I had breakfast at the restaurant on the second floor of the hotel, and it was a rare treat to see thick congee cooked in a clay pot. The congee was served with prawns, eels, and scallops, which are not commonly found locally.

Having been eating mutton and lamb chops every day for the past few days, Chen Shu had been feeling unwell in his stomach for a while. Last night, he woke up to find that the bottled water in his room was already empty.

I'm currently experiencing a dry mouth and an empty stomach.

The thick, sweet porridge, cooked at just the right temperature, slid into Chen Shu's stomach, and he ate with great pleasure.

Just then, footsteps came from behind.

"Brother Shu".

Hearing the familiar voice, Chen Shu knew it was Shelly.

This guy is completely different from the internet celebrities Chen Shu usually imagines. He gets up early and goes to bed late every day to be busy with live streaming, and he really treats being an internet celebrity as a career.

It's just that ordinary people still view livestreamers with prejudice.

Chen Shu turned around, quickly circled around, subconsciously looking for a selfie stick or brightly colored clothing, but found nothing.

Upon closer inspection, one could see a young woman with no makeup, wearing a white dress, standing smiling beside them, holding two cups of coffee.

Her face was fair and flawless, as if sculpted from ice crystal. Her nose was small and delicate, her lips were full, and when she blinked, her thick, interlaced eyelashes were like a brush.

It gives people a feeling of first love.

The familiar features and voice finally confirmed to Chen Shu that the young girl in front of him was Shelly, the internet celebrity who had been hanging out with them all this time.

"Shelly, I almost didn't recognize you in that white dress." Chen Shu, a former police officer, felt a little ashamed for not recognizing Shelly at first glance.

"Brother Shu, don't say that. People might think we're in some kind of relationship. But I don't mind." Shelly put her coffee cup on the table, covering her mouth with her hand and chuckling.

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Shelly pulled out a chair and sat down, pushing a cup of coffee toward Chen Shu: "Brother Shu, you treated us to dinner last time, this time it's my turn. It's not easy for me to earn money, so please don't think it's too little."

Shelly, wearing a pure white dress today, gave Chen Shu a slightly different feeling.

She's better suited to clothes without logos, and she actually looks good without makeup, Chen Shu thought.

Chen Shu took the coffee, not noticing the selfie stick and phone Shelly had been carrying with her, and joked, "Aren't you going to do a live stream today?"

"Yeah, no live stream."

Shelly lowered her head, hooking the small handle of the cup in her hand, turning it clockwise for a while, and then counterclockwise back.

"Brother Shu, actually I wanted to ask you something last night."

"Ah."

"I've seen all your videos online. They're like movies. You're incredibly brave and incredibly cool!"

Chen Shu, who was praised to his face, touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.

Why are you so brave? It's like you're not afraid of anything.

Shelly, who appears cheerful, is a popular online influencer, loved by everyone, and can chat with anyone, is actually a very introverted and timid person.

Shelly was a little nervous; this question had been swirling in her mind for a long time. From her part-time jobs during college to her entry into the live-streaming industry, she had been repeatedly asking herself whether she had bravely challenged her already unfortunate life and ultimately turned her life around, or whether she had cowardly chosen the most effective but shameful shortcut.

She was lost in thought, somewhat anticipating the answer the man in front of her would give, even though she had already made her decision last night.

Chen Shu didn't deliberately keep people in suspense; he had seriously considered this question long before he became a policeman, after his first hasty rescue of someone from a river.

He even experienced this back in junior high school when he and his classmates helped the girls in their class fight off some thugs from outside the school, and they ended up getting beaten up with black eyes and swollen faces.

"The best way to make a person brave and strong is to have someone you want to protect. At that time, I was a police officer, and my responsibility was to protect them."

After they finished speaking, both of them fell silent.

Chen Shu took a few sips of the coffee Shelly had brewed; it was bittersweet.

Shelly thought of her brother who supported her education.

Ultimately, at that time he was just a destitute college student. The tuition and living expenses he needed to earn through part-time jobs already took up all his spare time. Yet, even under such circumstances, he insisted on dropping out of school to support his younger sister.

My brother is very brave; he's always protected me. Now it's my turn. Shelly held the cup in both hands, gazing at the milk flower pattern on top of the coffee.

"Today I'm heading to the coal mine to find my brother." She looked up at Chen Shu, her eyes shining, and smiled sweetly. "Goodbye, Brother Shu, thank you."

"By the way, my surname is Ma, and my name is Ma Xiaoli."

Nighttime, in a remote mountainous area, on a small hill.

A pair of black leather boots with rubber covers were stomped hard on the hilltop. Several small pebbles rolled down the small flat area on the hilltop with a "drip-drip" sound as the boots hit the ground, all the way down the dark, bottomless abyss.

A pair of completely emotionless blue eyes then appeared.

Black Hawk stood atop the hill, looking down at the bustling, brightly lit mining area below with a cold smile.

Behind him stood many tall figures.

They bent slightly, their sharp, gleaming eyes following Black Hawk's gaze down to the coal mine work area. Their suppressed, beast-like breathing sounded unusually jarring in the cold night.

Creepy.

A limping figure approached from behind, his tone somewhat excited: "Mr. Black Hawk, shall we make our move tonight?"

Black Hawk squinted at the noisy work area below the mountain: "No rush, the sandstorm is coming soon, we'll act then. Hmm, I'll find a reason to go down there and scout it out in the next few days. This is our main battlefield, we can't just do things recklessly."

"Let's go."

Black Hawk withdrew his gaze and, along with his many bloodthirsty "beasts," turned and disappeared into the darkness.

Late at night, at the Forensic Science Room of the Keshi City Public Security Bureau.

During the day, I collected a large amount of transparent tape from the garbage mountain. After discarding the tape that was obviously too short to bind hands and feet, there were still quite a few samples left that needed to be extracted.

To speed things up, at Zhao's insistence, Tursunjan stayed up all night to extract fingerprints from the transparent tape.

Every time Tursunjan successfully extracted a fingerprint, he would hand it to Zhao, who was anxiously waiting behind him, to be scanned in the next office in an attempt to find the suspect in the fingerprint database.

The fingerprint database contains a large number of people's fingerprints.

The owners of these fingerprints have all been punished by the public security authorities, or were taken in for questioning while loitering on the street, or had them collected by the police while entering or leaving the country, or while applying for household registration.

After a night of work, many fingerprints were not recorded, and those that were found did not seem to have a motive for committing the crime.

However, the immediate priority is to list all the suspects whose identities can be confirmed and wait for the next step of further investigation.

Personnel screening has been the most direct, tedious, but also the most useful method identified by investigators for decades.

"Yawn~" Tursunjan took a long nap, unable to stay awake all night, and was now extremely exhausted.

"grass!!!"

A loud shout suddenly came from the next office, echoing throughout the office building.

Tursunjan's spirits lifted, knowing that things must be looking up.

He rushed next door and saw Captain Zhao glaring with bloodshot eyes from staying up all night, shouting angrily, "Tursunjan! The kidnapping and the motorcycle driver murder were committed by the same person!"

"same person?"

Tursunjan was slightly surprised and walked closer to the computer screen to look at the personnel information.

Team Leader Zhao repeatedly switched between the two windows, only to find that the personnel information on both windows pointed to the same person.

Elke.

Having identified the suspect, Captain Zhao dared not relax for a moment. Elke's audacity was extraordinary, committing crimes one after another in such a short period of time.

"He'll commit more crimes, and big ones at that! It'll probably really be like Officer Chen said, this case involves ketamine!"

Team Leader Zhao's eyes were sharp, and he said with certainty, "We must find him by any means necessary! After dawn, contact the kidnapped boy immediately and see if we can get any information out of him!"

After saying that, Captain Zhao fell into a slump again. He scratched his head and sighed, "Sigh! Last time we were working on a murder case, it was because we couldn't find this person."

Tursunjan nodded in agreement, then had a sudden inspiration. He hurriedly returned to the testing room and took out the roll of transparent tape that had detected Elke's fingerprints. He decided to extract all the fingerprints on it and test them again, as there might be fingerprints of other people involved in the case on it.

Kidnapping cases are unlikely to be committed by one person alone. If we follow the clues, we might be able to solve the case!
(End of this chapter)