You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 408 Car Accident on a Rainy Night!

The quartz clock on the wall showed 10:30.

In the quiet office, the red landline phone on the desk suddenly rang.

"Ding-a-ling-a-ling, jingle-a-ling-a-ling..."

Gao Jie yawned and reached for the phone receiver.

The officer on duty at the police station said on the phone, "Is this Captain Gao?"

"it's me."

"We received a report of a car accident on Linping Road. Please go there immediately."

"Linping Road?"

Gao Jie muttered something to himself, then his mind suddenly cleared, and he abruptly stood up: "What car? Is it a red Audi sedan?"

"I don't know. The person who called the police said that a car had overturned on the side of Linping Road."

"Okay, I'll be right there!"

Gao Jie hurriedly put down the phone receiver, and Zhao Peng had already run behind the door and grabbed a raincoat.

"Uncle Gao, could this be Comrade Feng's car?"

Gao Jie frowned and did not answer.

He didn't even put on a raincoat; he grabbed the motorcycle keys from the table and rushed out of the office.

The two ran to the parking shed, pushed out the motorcycle, and after Zhao Peng sat on the back seat, Gao Jie braved the rain and drove towards the main street outside.

Linping Road is a major road connecting Xingye District and Tayan District. In the middle, there is a piece of wasteland enclosed by barbed wire, where a new commercial building is planned to be constructed next spring.

Gao Jie's heart tightened as soon as he heard about the car accident on Linping Road.

Feng Xiaocai lives in Tayan District. To drive back, you have to go through Linping Road. She left at 10 p.m., and only half an hour has passed.

It's very likely her car!
Gao Jie drove very fast, and the rain stung his face.

Don't get into any trouble!

He prayed silently, his body and heart feeling icy cold.

Even his wife and children couldn't remember his birthday, but Xiao Cai always remembered. After get off work, she would buy him a cake and come to celebrate his birthday.

In Gao Jie's heart, there was no one closer than her!
The motorcycle sped along, the dim streetlights casting long shadows of the two people on board.

In the night sky.

The rain gradually disappeared, and the snow particles turned into flakes of snowflakes.

Fifteen minutes later.

Gao Jie drove to the target location and slowed down. Zhao Peng, who was in the back seat, held a high-powered flashlight and shone it on the roadside.

On the left side of Linping Road is a wasteland enclosed by barbed wire, and on the right side is a row of roadside trees. Below is a slope, and below the slope is a road. Across the road is a residential area.

The motorcycle had traveled about 100 meters when the beam of a powerful flashlight suddenly shone on the rear of a vehicle.

“There!” Zhao Peng pointed in front of Gao Jie.

Gao Jie looked up and saw a black sedan.

The vehicle overturned at the bottom of the slope between two roadside trees. If it weren't for the trees on the slope, the vehicle would definitely have rolled to the roadside below.

Gao Jie let out a slight breath, drove the police motorcycle over, and stopped. He looked around and saw that some vehicles passed by, but none of them stopped.

Moreover, there was no one on the road, and the person who called the police was not here.

Gao Jie instructed, "I'll go down and check. There must be someone in the car. You call an ambulance right away."

"Okay." Zhao Peng nodded.

Gao Jie took the flashlight from Zhao Peng and slid down from beside a roadside tree.

The slope where the car overturned was only three meters above the roadside. The soil on the slope was slippery, but trees and thorns grew below, preventing the car from rolling onto the road below.

If it really rolls down, it's a drop of over ten meters, which is quite dangerous.

Gao Jie landed at the front of the car; the sedan rolled sideways, not upside down.

He shone his flashlight on the car and saw that it was a black Mercedes-Benz S600, a car driven by wealthy people. In a provincial capital like Qincheng, there probably weren't many of them.

The driver's side window was rolled down, only about the width of a hand, but due to the angle, it was impossible to see what was inside.

Gao Jie slid to the side of the car, placed his feet on the tires, and the car wobbled slightly.

He steadied himself and shone his flashlight inside.

In the blinding light, he saw two people in the driver's seat. The man, wearing a long black coat, was lying sideways by the right door, and a woman, wearing a brown mink coat, was curled up beneath him.

Gao Jie shouted, "Can you hear me? Wake up! I'm a traffic policeman, wake up!"

He called out several times, but no one inside answered.

Gao Jie slammed on the tires and looked at the trees blocking the way under the car. The car was supported by large bricks and stones used for building embankments, presumably to prevent landslides. This stabilized the car.

He gripped the car door handle, trying to open the door, but couldn't. He then threw himself onto the car and tried to pull the driver's left arm.

"Hey, wake up!"

"Can you hear?"

He reached out and grabbed the other person's clothes on the upper arm, pulling hard. As the car swayed, the other person's head, which was leaning against the right door, suddenly drooped down.

His left side of his face was covered in blood, making it impossible to see his features.

Gao Jie took a breath and planned to use the flashlight to shine it into the other person's eyes.

He swept the beam of his flashlight across the area and then stopped breathing.

The blood on the driver's face was not caused by the collision, because Gao Jie noticed that his left cheek was sunken and the flesh about the size of a thumb was turned outward.

Gunshot!

He was shot with a handgun!

Gao Jie was startled and turned to shout at Zhao Peng, who was standing on the side of the road above, "Did you call an ambulance?" "Coming right away!"

Gao Jie wiped the rain off his face: "Call the Xingye District Criminal Investigation Brigade, no, call the Qincheng Branch."

As Zhao Peng climbed down, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Murder!"

"Fuck me!"

Zhao Peng was startled. He quickly pulled his foot back, sat on the ground, and took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

Gao Jie turned around and continued fiddling with the car door, shouting, "Hey, can the lady inside hear me? Wake up!"

"Wake up!"

He can't tell whether the woman is also dead.

Just as Gao Jie was about to shout again, a faint voice suddenly came from inside the car.

"Mom...Mom, Dad..."

It's a child's voice!
Right in the back seat of the car!

Gao Jie was stunned. Then, he climbed into the car and shone his flashlight into the back seat. There was a six or seven-year-old boy lying under the seat. He was pale, his eyes were half closed, and his hands were tightly gripping the edge of the seat.

"Don't be afraid, I'm a police officer, I'm here to save you."

Gao Jie gasped, spread his legs, moved his feet to the rear tire, and after regaining his balance, he tried to open the car door again, but still couldn't open it.

He considered whether to smash the car window first, but then he thought that the car was a crime scene and smashing the glass would pollute the scene.

Besides, the vehicle is supported by large rocks and trees underneath, so it shouldn't fall down anytime soon.

But the child's voice kept calling, faint as a mosquito's buzz: "Mom, Mom..."

"Go to hell with this pollution scene! I'm just a traffic cop, not a detective!"

Gao Jie cursed and looked up, shouting, "Zhao Peng, bring me the baton from the back of the motorcycle."

"Okay, okay." Zhao Peng stood up and ran to the car.

On his way back, he threw the baton he was holding down.

After Gao Jie received the car, he shouted inside, "Kid, cover your head and hide in the innermost part. I'll count to three, and when I count to three, I'll smash the car window and rescue you. Respond when you hear me."

"Okay, I... I heard you..."

"one two Three!"

Gao Jie gripped the baton upside down and smashed it against the car window with his other hand.

"Oh!"

……

I smashed it several times, but the car window didn't react at all.

After smashing it more than a dozen times, the glass cracked, Gao Jie's wrist started to hurt, and the car body shook.

He wiped the rain off his face, gritted his teeth, and continued to pound away.

Finally, a hole appeared in the car window. Gao Jie turned his hand over, pried open the burrs next to it, and then reached in to knock on the car door.

But it still wouldn't open; the car door was locked.

To open the door, there must be a button on the center console, but you can't reach it by sticking your hand out of the driver's side window.

So Gao Jie continued smashing the car window, and after making a large hole, he shone his flashlight inside.

"Child, come here quickly, give me your hand!"

The boy, who was crouching in the back seat of the car, raised his right hand. Gao Jie quickly grabbed him and then used all his strength to pull him up.

When he was halfway through pulling him out, he reached out with his other hand, grabbed the boy's upper body, and dragged him out by force.

At that moment, a sound came from under the car, the large rock supporting the rear tires began to loosen, and the rear of the car began to fall down.

Gao Jie quickly lifted the boy up, and Zhao Peng, who was standing on the road, reached out and took the child.

"boom!"

A stone under the car fell onto the road below.

Gao Jie jumped onto the slope, and the rear of the car slid down, while the front of the car straightened up.

The rear of the car kept falling down and landed on the retaining wall. The front of the car was about to roll over, but the car body was stopped by the trees below.

Gao Jie climbed onto the road with lingering fear, panting heavily, his breath coming out as cold white mist.

He glanced up at the boy sitting on the side of the road. He was short, trembling, and his expression was panicked. His teeth were chattering.

Zhao Peng was putting a raincoat on him and quietly comforting him.

Gao Jie wondered if the car wouldn't fall if he didn't forcibly break the window.

Is the woman in the car still alive?

She must be dead, because when Gao Jie checked her, although the woman was lying face down, he saw that her head was turned to the back, and there was a gunshot wound below her neck.

Both of them were shot dead.

The boy squatted to one side, calling down the slope, "Mom..."

Gao Jie let out a breath and stood up; he was soaked to the bone.

At that moment, the piercing sound of police sirens rang out from the direction of Xingye District.

He ran over and saw a Mitsubishi SUV parked on the side of the road with a red, detachable police light flashing on its roof.

After the driver's side door opened, Yang Jinwen got out of the car with a serious expression and carefully looked around the road...

　My child had a fever last night and it hasn't gone down yet. A blood test showed it's influenza A. I don't know if I infected him. The community needs to report this. Everyone needs to be careful this autumn and winter, please take care of yourselves!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)