Police officer Chen Shu.

Inside a Santana car at the entrance of the Connor Group.

While eating bread, Chen Shu flipped through the statements and case files of several people.

Li Meng looked conflicted: "We're already at their workplace, why aren't we going in to arrest them?"

It's so hard for him.

He kept shouting to arrest the suspect, but Chen Shu didn't bother him. When the suspect gave up and was about to drop the case, Chen Shu dragged him to the suspect's workplace.

Once he finally mustered the energy to arrest people again, Chen Shu sat leisurely eating bread in front of the other person's workplace.

"Hmm, you didn't have lunch either, want some?" Chen Shu ignored his grumbling and casually handed him a slice of toast.

Li Meng turned her head to look out the window, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

Nearly an hour later, Chen Shu glanced at the time, knowing Li Meng was upset, and explained with a smile:

"Where are we going to arrest someone in the middle of the day? What if they're not resting in their company dorm or running errands outside? If we go in, we'll just alert them. Let's go arrest them!"

Li Meng asked suspiciously, "Why do I feel like you deliberately chose a time when there were many people, and went in to arrest them in such a high-profile manner?"

Chen Shu curled the corners of his lips: "You're overthinking it."

......

Connor Group, a workshop office

The office door was closed, but a group of workers wearing blue uniforms with the words "Connor Corporation" on them were crowded outside. They were jostling to look inside through the floor-to-ceiling window by the door.

Inside the office, a middle-aged man in a suit sat in a chair, looking timidly at the two police officers in uniform: "What are you doing? I didn't rape anyone!"

He paused, then repeated weakly, "I didn't rape!"

"Boom!" The crowd outside the window stirred slightly for a moment, then quickly quieted down.

Chen Shu took out the elevator photos related to the case and placed them on the table in front of the man, pointing with his finger: "Xu Long, take a look for yourself."

Xu Long didn't dare reach out, quickly glanced at the photos on the table, and immediately fell silent. However, he didn't budge an inch from his seat.

Standing opposite Xu Long, Chen Shu bent down and leaned forward, placing his hands on the desk. Staring into Xu Long's eyes, he slowly said, word by word, "You have two choices now. One, obediently cooperate with us; two, obediently let us take you away."

Since you're going to leave anyway, I advise you to save some face.

Xu Long's pupils constricted. He stood up slightly but then slumped back into the chair, his lips trembling. "I didn't, I really didn't. I thought she wanted to..."

Chen Shu watched coldly without saying a word.

This time, he didn't have to wait long. After hesitating for a moment, Xu Long struggled to stand up, gritted his teeth, and followed the police out the door with trepidation.

When I go out and face a crowd, I feel like I want to bury my head in my stomach.

......

Zhongshan Police Station, Interrogation Room

Six hours have passed since the suspect, Xu Long, was summoned to the Zhongshan Police Station by the police.

Chen Shu glanced at Li Meng, who had insisted on squeezing into the interrogation room: "What are you doing in here? Why haven't you left yet?"

Li Meng replied naturally, "Aren't they just here to give a statement? We happen to have two police officers."

He leaned closer mysteriously, lowering his voice, and asked, "Why did it take so long to interrogate him? Are you trying to put invisible pressure on him, forcing him to put pressure on himself?"

Chen Shu was both amused and exasperated: "I'm sleepy, I want to go to sleep!"

Li Meng said "Oh" and sat back down, turned on her computer, opened her laptop, sat up straight, and looked like she had Chen Shu completely under her thumb.

Chen Shu couldn't figure out what this deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade was up to, why he had been following him around all day.

He shook his head, temporarily putting the matter aside, and began to look directly at Xu Long, the suspect in the archery case, who was sitting in the center of the interrogation room.

"Name?" Chen Shu asked methodically.

"Huh?" Xu Long didn't react.

"Snapped!"

Chen Shu slammed his hand on the table and shouted, "I'm asking you! Your name!"

Xu Long was startled, wondering why the police officer who had called him by name that afternoon was now asking for his name again.

He dared not question it, and his reply was barely audible: "...Xu Long."

Chen Shu shouted angrily, "Louder!"

Xu Long was startled again and answered in a shrill voice, "Officer, my name is Xu Long, Xu Long!"

Chen Shu nodded in satisfaction. The show of force before the interrogation seemed to have worked quite well.

Their demeanor was alright. But these were all overused interrogation techniques from the Criminal Investigation Department... Li Meng, standing to the side, was used to it and touched her nose.

He didn't think much about it. Since graduating from the police academy, Chen Shu had been working his way up in the police station, but he had never stepped into the criminal investigation university.

Chen Shu stepped down from the interrogation table and slowly circled around the chair where Xu Long was sitting.

Xu Long's eyes followed Chen Shu's figure, cold sweat dripping from his forehead, his hands clenched into fists on the small table on the interrogation chair, his fingertips turning white.

The interrogation room was unusually quiet, with only the creaking of Chen Shu's leather shoes on the wooden floor.

"Officer, I really didn't..."

Xu Longxian couldn't help but break the silence of the interrogation room.

"Oh? Are you sure? You didn't see that photo?" Chen Shu asked with a playful expression.

Xu Long glanced at the surveillance camera in the upper left corner, pursed his lips, and after a long while, finally managed to speak with difficulty: "I'm sure, absolutely sure. We were just joking around. I gave her the money back later, I compensated her..."

Chen Shu pointed a finger at Xu Long's forehead, and Xu Long's head swayed back and forth as he was touched, but he dared not resist in the slightest, or rather, he forgot to resist.

"You were drinking that day. Are you sure your memory is clearer than the security camera footage? Are you really sure?"

Xu Long involuntarily stretched his neck and widened his eyes, wanting to look at the policeman who was talking to him right next to his ear, but he didn't dare to look. In the end, he could only glance at the ground.

The policeman's shiny black leather shoes filled his pupils; his mind was a mess, his consciousness filled with the photograph the policeman had placed on his desk that afternoon.

In the photo, he forcibly picks up a woman wrapped in a white bath towel and drags her out of the elevator.

The woman,

The woman,

She clung tightly to the elevator door, refusing to let go!

Xu Long's scalp tingled instantly, his adrenaline surged, and cold sweat rolled down his face.

The policeman continued tapping his head, his confident tone sending shivers down his spine: "You, Xu Long, are going to jail. At least three years."

He's going to jail.

He's going to jail!

I'm going to jail!!

Xu Long suddenly collapsed onto the tall interrogation chair, where he gripped the small table across the chair like a lifeline with both hands.

The air seemed to thicken, and he stiffened his neck, turning his head inch by inch until his gaze finally settled on the policeman who was staring at him with a half-smile.

That smile, like a firelight in the darkness, prompted him to instinctively reach out and grab it.

"Officer, what should I do?"