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

Chapter 434 Run, Teacher! (Seeking monthly votes)
November 1th, 9:5.

Jinquan Road, Xima Lane.

A team of plainclothes criminal police officers led the way, while a squad leader in charge of investigation walked alongside Zhou Changyuan.

“Around 8:30 p.m. last night, before the local police station had conducted its investigation, someone saw a man wearing a military overcoat go into the small clinic in front.”

Zhou Changyuan asked, "What did the doctor at the clinic say?"

"He said Kong Sheng didn't go to his clinic, which is definitely a lie. Captain Fu is questioning him."

A large crowd had gathered outside the clinic, some in plainclothes, some in uniform, and a police dog crouching nearby, sniffing around in the corner.

The doctor in the white coat was pressed down on a long bench. Fu Mingyuan pointed at his nose and asked, "Old Liao, you've been practicing medicine in this area for decades. I know very well who you are."

There's no need to protect a murderer, do you hear me? Tell me the truth, has Kong Sheng been here?

The man being questioned was an elderly man in his sixties with a goatee. He had very sharp eyes. After looking at the police officers surrounding him, he replied, "What Kong Sheng? I don't know him."

Kong Sheng, a math teacher at a coal mining vocational school!
Don't try to deny it. Everyone around here knows him, and they say that Kong Sheng always comes to you for treatment and medicine when he's sick. You're telling me you don't know him?

"If you don't know me, you don't know me. I don't have anything to tell you."

“I’m saying you…” Fu Mingyuan gritted his teeth.

At that moment, two police officers ran out of the clinic, each carrying a trash can.

"Director Zhou, Captain Fu, take a look at this."

Zhou Changyuan put his hands behind his back, looked down, and saw that the wastebasket contained blood-stained gauze, medical cotton, cut pieces of trouser leg fabric, used syringes, and small injection bottles.

Fu Mingyuan's gaze sharpened, and he reached out to take out a medicine box. He saw that it contained painkillers, as well as a broken ampoule.

"Old Liao, what's this?"

The doctor didn't even look at it: "It's for the patient."

Who is the patient?

"forget."

"You forgot? The evidence is irrefutable! You still want to protect Kong Sheng?"

The doctor turned to Fu Mingyuan and stared at him: "Then arrest me, you bunch of idiots!"

"Who are you scolding?"

"I'm going to curse you!"

Just as Fu Mingyuan was about to handcuff the man, Zhou Changyuan waved his hand and asked, "Old comrade, we know you know Kong Sheng. It's fine if you don't tell me, but I want to ask you, do you know what Kong Sheng did?"

The doctor stared at him and asked, "Are you the ringleader?"

"Yes, I am Zhou Changyuan, the deputy director of the Danan County Public Security Bureau."

"Then why do you arrest good people and not bad people?"

Zhou Changyuan's pupils contracted: "Who's the good guy, and who's the bad guy?"

"You know it in your heart."

Fu Mingyuan interjected, "Old Liao, you're too old for that. You don't need to go against us. I'll just say it straight: Kong Sheng killed someone. He's a murderer. It won't do you any good to protect him."

The doctor's gaze was icy: "I don't know the person you're talking about. I only know a teacher who is very kind to his students. Whenever his students are sick, he brings them to me for treatment."

One night, a student developed a high fever and became unconscious. It was the dead of winter and snowing.

That teacher carried his students on his back to come to me. He was sick himself, but he couldn't bear to spend money on treatment.

"I've lived my whole life, I know exactly who's good and who's bad. I don't need you to teach me."

“I…” Fu Mingyuan’s words caught in his throat.

Zhou Changyuan sighed and went into the alley.

A group of police officers immediately surrounded them.

Zhou Changyuan said, "Kong Sheng received treatment at this clinic at 8:30 last night. I guess he ran away after dawn. He couldn't have gone far, so he came here with a map to take a look."

Fu Mingyuan took out a map from his pocket; it was hand-drawn by himself.

“We are right here now, in Xima Lane behind Jinquan Road. The police and joint defense team from the local police station searched this place, but there were no police dogs at the time, and the incident happened suddenly, so the search was not very thorough.”

Zhou Changyuan said, "Kong Sheng wants to run, but he has a leg injury and can't run far. Besides, he must have left the clinic before dawn."

Fu Mingyuan asked, "Director Zhou, we've been searching all day, but we haven't found him yet."

Zhou Changyuan pondered and said, "It's probably still in this area. Jinquan Road, Xiaping Road, and Jianxin Road are all the main roads with alleys and lanes, and residential areas are connected to residential areas. Moreover, the Coal Mine Vocational Technical School and the faculty dormitory where Kong Sheng lives are all in this large area."

Therefore, he is very familiar with this area, and…

Zhou Changyuan glanced at the doctor sitting on the bench and continued, "He's 100% guaranteed to have someone helping him!"

Fu Mingyuan took a breath: "Could he be hiding near the faculty and staff area? After all, that's the place he knows best."

"What did Captain Yang say?"

"I just contacted Captain Yang, who said he had already been to Kong Sheng's house, but Kong Sheng showed no signs of returning home."

The one who answered was Jiang Bala, who, along with Fu Yun, had been assigned by He Jinbo to carry out the arrests here.

He Jinbo, along with Jiang Jianbing, Xu Guoliang, and Gong Biao, went to the back mountain of Panying Coal Mine to retrieve the body. Technical officers from the Municipal Bureau also went to the villa to investigate the scene.

Zhou Changyuan pondered for a moment and said, "We have already surrounded this large area. Kong Sheng cannot escape. He must be hiding somewhere."

First of all, Lao Fu, tell the armed police officers at the checkpoints to make sure they keep all the checkpoints in good order. Every vehicle entering and leaving must be thoroughly searched, and absolutely no one should be allowed to leave!
Secondly, arrange for personnel to immediately go to the homes of those who are acquainted with Kong Sheng, and search every single house thoroughly. Make sure to search every possible hiding place in these homes, such as the bathroom and kitchen.

Every group that comes to search must be recorded. If they miss anyone, I will make trouble for them. If they find someone, they will be rewarded!

Finally, the municipal police and armed police units deployed police dogs to search house to house. "Get moving!"

The person in charge present immediately nodded and began to take action.

The handler, who was holding the dog on a leash, took a blood-stained gauze from the wastebasket and let the police dog sniff it briefly. Then, the police dog started running around in the alley.

Seeing the search party disperse, Jiang lit a cigarette and asked, "Old Fu, which group are we with?"

Fu Yun replied, "Team Leader He didn't assign us any specific tasks, and Director Zhou doesn't seem to care about us. Why don't we just go search with our own comrades?"

"Our own comrades?" Jiang Bala frowned. "Isn't it just the two of us?"

"I was talking about police dogs, they're from the same unit."

Jiang Bala rolled his eyes: "Explain yourself clearly, how can a police dog be called a comrade? And you're comparing it to a human?"

"Nonsense, our city bureau's police dog is more precious than the two of us! What does that dog eat, and what do you eat? Let me tell you, a few days ago there was a car accident on the road outside our branch, and no one from the traffic police or the police station came. Two groups of people caused trouble on the road."

At that time, several members of the joint defense team came to our detachment and asked us for help. They said that only by sending regular police officers to the scene could the situation be calmed down.

Old He didn't want to get involved, and besides, nobody wanted to go. Guess what happened in the end?

"What's wrong?"

"At that time, Lao He was smoking in the yard when he saw our team's police dog wandering out of the backyard, looking as idle as a puppy."

Old He couldn't stand the dog, so he called over the auxiliary police to take it away. It's perfectly reasonable for a regular officer to be assigned several auxiliary officers to respond to a call.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Bala nearly choked to death on a puff of smoke.

"Cough cough, holy crap, He Jinbo is so damn ruthless."

Fu Yun laughed along, "Back then, didn't you see the faces of those joint defense team members? Didn't you take leave that day? I was at the brigade. Old Jiang and Old Xu were laughing so hard they couldn't stand up straight."

Jiang Bala laughed for a while, calmed himself down, and said, "Hey, back to this case, Kong Sheng is really a man."

“That’s right.” Fu Yun sighed.

They exchanged a glance, both understanding that they were reluctant to arrest the person themselves. Other cases would be different, but in this case, they did feel a bit of compassion.

As Jiang Bala and Fu Yun were walking in the alley, the walkie-talkie on their waistbands suddenly rang.

"...clues were found on Xiaping Road and Dongning Lane. In the stairwell of Unit 7, Building C, Zijin Residential Area, police dogs found blood-stained gauze!"

This message was continuously relayed among the search personnel via walkie-talkie.

Jiang Bala and Fu Yun quickly started jogging.

When they arrived, the Zijin residential area was full of police officers and plainclothes officers who had rushed there.

Zhou Changyuan and Fu Mingyuan stood downstairs at Unit 7.

"Shallow this entire area!"

Fu Mingyuan responded and began organizing people to set up checkpoints in the adjacent buildings.

A local security officer spoke up: "Director Zhou, Captain Fu, Zhang Qiang's family on the second floor, his child attends a coal mine vocational school, could he be at their house?"

"Come with me!" Fu Mingyuan pulled out his pistol.

Then, about ten people quickly followed and ran upstairs.

By this time, it was almost dark, and the hallway was dimly lit.

The security guard led the way to the door of room 203.

"Knock on the door!"

Fu Mingyuan gave the order, and about ten people hid on either side of the door.

The security guard knocked on the door: "Old Zhang, Old Zhang's wife, are you home? Old Zhang?"

A moment later, the door opened, and Fu Mingyuan led his men inside.

The woman who opened the door was startled: "What are you doing? Who are you?"

Seeing that no one was in the room, Fu Mingyuan put away his gun and asked the woman, "I'm asking you, is your child studying at a vocational school for coal mines?"

The woman nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?"

"What's his name?"

"Zhang Hua".

Who was his math teacher?

"Teacher Kong, Kong Sheng, what's wrong?"

Has Kong Sheng ever been to your house?

"No, I just got back from my night shift at the factory at nine o'clock. My husband went to work too."

Where is your child, Zhang Hua?

“He…” the woman frowned, “He went out this morning.”

"went out? Where did they go?"

As soon as Fu Mingyuan asked this question, a shout suddenly came from downstairs.

"Down below, people are running out of the residential area!"

"Arrest him! Quickly!"

"Surround them! Stop them!"

Fu Mingyuan's heart tightened, and he quickly ran downstairs. All the personnel who had previously set up checkpoints in each building started running.

Fu Mingyuan followed in their direction and then saw a figure in a military overcoat running as fast as he could towards the door.

"Stop him!"

"Stop, don't move!"

"Run again, and I'll shoot!"

Zhou Changyuan saw the plainclothes officers chasing ahead, raised his gun, and shouted, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Take them alive!"

At that moment, Jiang Bala and Fu Yun happened to be blocking the direction in which the man was escaping.

They exchanged a glance. Although they were reluctant, they were, after all, criminal police officers and it was their duty.

Then, the two of them pounced on him.

The man was immediately pinned down, and police officers who rushed over surrounded the arrest scene in layers.

Immediately afterwards, Fu Mingyuan ran over and pulled the person up.

A young face appeared before everyone, flushed red, with bulging eyes, shouting loudly towards the edge of the crowd: "Run, teacher! Run, teacher!"

　I suspect the earlier parts of the plot might need major changes, and the editor reminded me to take it easy. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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