Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 189 Wolves Go Up the Mountain
The low-lying bushes and thickets caused Lingo a lot of trouble.

He was, after all, a cat with short arms and legs, and it wasn't easy for him to cross those waist-high weeds covered in thorns.

However, after jumping two or three times, the two clever police dogs seemed to realize their boss was in trouble. They barked and ran in front of Lin Ge, using their bodies to push aside the thatch and clear a path for him.

The remaining police dogs also spread out in a fan shape, searching forward at trained intervals. They paid no attention to the low bushes and sharp thorns, crouching low and crawling laboriously through the branches.

Lin Ge saw all of this, and for a moment, besides wondering why he was recognized by these police dogs, he felt more excited about leading his underlings across the battlefield.

The wolf pack tactics shown on TV look simple, but only by participating in such a passionate and wild team can one truly feel that unstoppable momentum, the thrill of charging forward, and the bloodlust. At this moment, nothing could stop this team's advance. Lin Ge even had a wild desire to kill a bear if they encountered one. At the same time, the protection and obedience of the police dogs gave him a sense of security, as if he didn't need to worry about any danger.

"Ouch!"

He couldn't help but look up and shout.

"Wang!"

"Wang Woo!"

The police dogs also started barking.

The loyal wolf pack exuded a strong sense of loyalty and deference to their leader, further fueling the curiosity and amazement of the police officers below the mountain.

"Is this... the birth of the Beast King?"

A young policeman murmured to himself; he was a fan of online novels.

"Hehe... If I didn't know the leader was a cat, I would have thought it was a tiger! That roar is so strange!"

"This is an unusual phenomenon; such animals are never ordinary."

"Hehe, have all the police dogs in Zhuzhou been lured away? Or should we bring this Elvis back so our police dog team has another leader and our strength is enhanced?"

"I think it's a bit risky."

The police officers whispered among themselves.

Only the trainers, who had been abandoned by their comrades, stood there all alone, each one on the verge of tears.

Their partners actually abandoned them.

This is...this is just too heartbreaking!

The training captain clutched his heart, exchanging glances with the pitiful-looking trainers beside him, feeling that he shouldn't have come today.

"What are you all standing there for? The police dogs have been deployed, so you think you're all off now? Have you made any preparations? Are the mountaineering team, drones, and metal detectors all ready? The police dogs are searching the mountains, so you're not going to do anything?"

One of the leaders roared in dissatisfaction.

The police officers, heads down, scattered in a disheveled manner, quickly getting back to their duties. Even the officers who had lost their police dogs were unceremoniously assigned to manual labor.

Sun Chang covered her mouth and chuckled to herself.

Looking up at the mountainside again, a strange light shone in her eyes. Wow, amazing! Leading police dogs and cats like these on missions would be incredibly impressive, wouldn't it? Compared to that, her previous dreams of being a criminal investigator seemed rather uninteresting.

Unfortunately, my internship is not over yet, and I don't know what kind of work I will encounter next, or what kind of partners and teammates I will meet.

Waaah... I'm so reluctant to part with Mimi, what should I do?
On the other side, Lingo and his police dogs quickly searched a large area.

This area is the closest to the mountain road and is also the place that Lin Ge estimated was most likely to be where the body was dumped.

Unfortunately, the perpetrators seemed to be more cautious than expected. Even though the police, based on various clues and psychological profiling of the criminals, identified these two mountains as the most likely hiding places, they still found nothing.

This inevitably made Lin Ge somewhat anxious.

Because this large area contains more than a dozen similar mountains. Searching for them one by one would be incredibly tiring and difficult, not to mention the time commitment involved.

If the target's remains cannot be found quickly, the best course of action for the police is to send reinforcements, using more manpower and resources to complete the task. With a search effort covering the entire area, finding the target will certainly be much easier.

However, this would not only consume a huge amount of resources and funds, but also make Lin Ge lose face.

What's the point of being imposing if you don't achieve anything?
With that in mind, Lingo led his pack of police dogs back, rested briefly, drank water, ate food, and received supplies, before moving on to another unsearched area.

Meanwhile, the police also sprang into action, laboriously venturing into the forest to assist Ringo and the police dog unit in a more thorough search. Two more hours passed, and Ringo had led the police dogs through the second area, choosing a flat spot on the hillside for a short rest.

There's no need to run back down the mountain this time, firstly because it's too far, and secondly because it's not time for our second meal yet.

And it was only thanks to Lingo leading the team that the police dogs knew how to decide when to rest, how to decide the direction of the search, and how efficient they would be.
As is customary, without a trainer leading the way, they simply run around aimlessly across the mountains and fields, searching haphazardly like blind cats stumbling upon dead mice. When they get tired, they come down the mountain to whine to their trainers, wasting time and energy in vain.

They are animals after all, and their thinking is not as advanced as that of humans; they can't think that much.

Now that Lingo is leading the team, these drawbacks are gone.

Police dogs with a leader are incredibly efficient.

After resting with the police dogs for about ten minutes, Lin Ge walked around the dogs a couple of times, getting to know them all.

The German Shepherd that Lin Ge had slapped was surprisingly getting along very well with Bei Bei. The two dogs were licking each other's fur and rubbing against each other. If they weren't both female, Lin Ge would have thought that these two were about to do something shameful in broad daylight.

The other police dogs also had their own partners, and they were all playing and having a great time.

They rarely have such freedom. They work very hard on their daily tasks or training. Even when they do get a rare moment of relaxation, a human comes along to get in their way and insists on interacting with them.

This time, however, there wasn't a single person in sight within a kilometer or two!
The wildness of the animals was unleashed, and their vitality became even more vigorous.

"Ok?"

Lin Ge suddenly paused, and a strange scent wafted by in the whistling wind.

Beibei's ears perked up, twitching continuously as she turned to look in the direction Lin Ge was staring at.

Soon, more and more police dogs regained their composure and stared in the same direction.

If someone were to witness this scene, it would surely astonish him. The way all the police cats and dogs tilted their ears and turned their heads at the same time gave off a tense feeling, like a wolf pack about to begin its hunt.

"Why would a stranger appear on this mountain at this time?"

Lin Ge squinted, suppressing his impulse. He knew very well how lively things were down the mountain, and he also knew that the police's actions couldn't be kept secret from the surrounding residents. So, was going up the mountain at this time intentional or deliberate?
Or perhaps... we had no choice but to come?

Jumping down from a dead tree branch, Lin Ge silently and slowly walked toward the direction from which the scent was coming.

"Woo..."

The police dogs also stood up, grunted, and followed closely behind Lingo, heads down, bodies and tails straight, quietly approaching the target location together.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

A dark-skinned man, dressed tightly in his clothes, struggled through the bushes while cursing.

This is a place that no human can walk on; it's extremely difficult to squeeze in and move around freely. Not to mention the thorny trees along the way, the slopes with drops of half a meter or a meter are enough to make people hesitate to go in for fear of getting hurt.

Even so, the person gritted his teeth and endured it, and even unconsciously sped up after glancing back.

We have to hurry!

No one doubts the power of the state apparatus; they simply harbor wishful thinking. They believe their actions will go undetected, that the police are complacent, or that the police are incompetent—they do everything in their power to deceive themselves.

Now that it has already happened, the most important thing to do is to hide the traces as soon as possible!
As long as the police don't find evidence, they pose no threat to themselves. Probably...

The man forcefully stomped on a thorny vine, his body curled up as he struggled to squeeze through the thicket of thorns. He accidentally pricked his ear with a dry thorn, wincing in pain, but then breathed a sigh of relief as he saw his destination so close at hand.

It was a naturally formed crack in the ground, created by soil collapse. It was about two meters deep and very long, stretching forty or fifty meters to the left and right.

Such soil cracks can easily turn into landslides or mudslides, but they are also natural hiding places.

Throw the object into the crack, then fill it with the surrounding soil—no shovel needed—and you can complete a concealment task without anyone noticing. Ten days to two weeks later, the treated land and vegetation will regenerate; who would know there's something hidden underneath? If you're lucky, a heavy rain might soften the soil, and the cracks could cause it to slip and slide, completely burying the body deep underground, most likely never to be discovered.

That was the man's original plan.

But... when he secretly saw so many police dogs down the mountain, he still panicked.

After hiding and lingering for more than an hour, still feeling uneasy, he decided to risk sneaking out and, before being discovered by the police, go through the trouble of cleaning up all traces one last time.

(End of this chapter)