Starting with dissecting ghost stories

"Xiao Lu... what exactly happened? Why do I feel like they're investigating us..."

In the technical team's office, the policewoman who used to love gossip leaned close to Lu Wenying's ear and whispered a question.

"I don't know either," Lu Wenying said as she wrote on the paper in front of her, deep in thought.

After he notified everyone else and his colleagues returned to their respective offices, the people his uncle brought began to stand guard at the door of each office.

This is no different from entering a private room.

This case is indeed significant, but compared to other serious crimes in the province and the country, it doesn't really rank among the top, so there's no need for such a large-scale internal investigation.

Unless there's something else going on.

Lu Wenying carefully wrote down every doubt she had in mind on the paper. When there wasn't enough space on the front, she turned it over and continued writing on the back.

Just as she was about to sign and put her fingerprint on the document, several members of the special task force entered the office.

They all had a rather professional-looking SLR camera hanging around their necks, some were film SLRs and some were digital SLRs.

Moreover, Lu Wenying was immediately drawn to the all-black camera held up by the person at the front.

The Nikon D70? The new model that was just released at the beginning of the year? The one with six megapixels?

Is this project team's funding really that high?

What are they filming?

"Comrades from the Municipal Bureau, those who haven't finished writing, please continue writing. You don't need to pay attention to us." After saying this, the man in the lead holding the DSLR camera began filming.

Having finished writing, Lu Wenying began to observe them.

Cabinets, desks, corners, ceilings... their cameras were basically pointed at every part of the office, first capturing a panoramic view of the office, and then showing each specific location.

After filming everything, they started filming the police officers who were writing documents.

When the man with the Nikon camera walked up to Lu Wenying and raised his camera, she finally couldn't contain her curiosity and asked, "Comrade, what are you looking for? I can help."

"Oh, it's nothing, don't mind us, just take some pictures." The man simply smiled at Lu Wenying, then pointed the camera at her and pressed the shutter.

The sound of the camera shutter made Lu Wenying feel as if an electric current had flashed through her brain.

She seemed to vaguely sense something, but she couldn't connect the dots.

Surveillance cameras, DSLR cameras, figures disappearing from the footage... my senior's DV camera.

"rub!"

Lu Wenying suddenly stood up, an action that attracted almost everyone's attention. Noticing that others were looking at her, she said somewhat embarrassedly, "No...it's nothing."

She then sat down again.

Could it be that the disappearance of the figures in the video is not a coincidence? Has the provincial department encountered this situation in other cases as well?

If my senior brother wasn't a photography enthusiast like me, then why did he carry a DV camera with him?

Could it be that my senior brother has already noticed this situation? He used to work in the provincial department!

But...that's not scientifically sound...

Am I overthinking things?

Lu Wenying sat there thinking. Before long, someone came and took away everything that everyone had written.

Lu Wenying and the others were also ordered to stay where they were and not to go anywhere. Everyone looked at each other, wondering what they had done wrong.

After about ten minutes, people began to be called out one by one for individual questioning.

Soon, Lu Wenying's name was called.

She got up, followed the members of the task force to the conference room, opened the door, and went inside.

In the conference room sat several members of the task force, led by Lu Lingyun.

The documents that the others had just written were placed on the table in front of Lu Lingyun. After the conference room door was closed, Lu Lingyun nodded slightly, pointed to the table in front of him, and said, "Sit down."

With no outsiders present, Lu Lingyun no longer maintained his previous seriousness, but instead said with a smile, "Wen Yin, you wrote the most detailed report. Tell me your thoughts on this case."

Lu Wenying nodded, stood up, and began to report all the suspicious points in the case that she thought were there.

Finally, Lu Wenying gave a summary.

"I still feel that there is a third party involved in this case... Li Ya could not have done so much by himself. I bought all the surveillance cameras and dismantled them, but I didn't find anything unusual, and the hard drive was not touched."

"If there really is a third party... I think it's most likely someone inside the police station."

Lu Wenying believes that this was also the idea of ​​the task force; otherwise, it would have been impossible for them to start a thorough internal investigation as soon as they arrived.

But to her surprise, after she voiced her guess, the members of the task force exchanged glances and made eye contact. Finally, Lu Lingyun nodded slightly and said:

"Want to join the task force? We need a trustworthy local comrade to help liaise with the municipal bureau."

"I want to!" Lu Wenying nodded repeatedly.

Joining the task force meant that she could continue to be in charge of the case, which was what Lu Wenying hoped for.

"From now on, you must keep everything you hear to yourself and not tell anyone."

"receive."

"There's no mole in the police station, and the case is most likely indeed committed by Li Ya, but there might also be a third party involved," Lu Lingyun said slowly and deliberately.

"But...this doesn't make sense! Nobody can be under our noses..."

"Just because the person isn't good enough doesn't mean other things aren't good enough." Lu Lingyun shook his head.

"Huh?" Lu Wenying was stunned.

"Welcome to the Provincial Emergency Public Health and Environmental Safety Supervision Office. Of course, this is just a nominal position; your actual post will be transferred to the Ninth Category Case Investigation Detachment of the Provincial Criminal Investigation Corps. You can also call it the Ninth Detachment..."

Lu Wenying felt her head buzzing.

Lu Wenying certainly knew what the eight categories of cases were...

Intentional homicide, intentional injury, rape, robbery, drug trafficking... these are the most basic facts.

But what is Category 9?

Lu Wenying knew how many detachments were in the provincial department; including the police dog base, there were a total of six detachments.

The fact that so many numbers were skipped in the middle to establish a new Ninth Detachment indicates that its administrative budget and personnel deployment are completely independent of other detachments.

Lu Lingyun stood up. He knew all too well how confused other frontline police officers would be when they heard about this branch. Even he himself was initially clueless.

But that's enough to prove that they are the most special detachment.

They are facing the most unusual kind of crime, where the perpetrators may not even be human.

But their mission remains unchanged.

That is to protect the lives and property of the people.

"If there's anything you don't understand, you can learn about it later. Let's go to the scene first." Lu Lingyun stood up, picked up his thermos, and suddenly remembered something. He looked at Lu Wenying and said, "Wenying?"

"Uh... Captain? Deputy Director? Old Lu?" Lu Wenying's brain was still overloaded, and she couldn't distinguish the titles for a moment.

"Just call him 'boss'," Lu Lingyun said with a smile. "Let's invite Shen Xing out for dinner tonight."

"Don't tell anyone I've come."