Police Chen Shu

One day ago, early in the morning.

Compulsory Municipal Public Security Bureau (county-level city), command center.

The policewoman responsible for answering the phone placed a freshly printed A4 paper on the desk of the leader on duty with a stern look on her face.

"Director, I received a call from the railway police three days ago, saying that two Wei people who were acting suspiciously got off the train at our volunteer station. This is the identity information of the two Wei people."

"Three days ago?"

The bald director was constantly scrolling through Douyin. When he heard the report from his subordinate, he did not realize the seriousness of the problem and just said "I understand."

The policewoman frowned slightly, suppressed the anger in her heart, and said, "Director, why don't you take a look? The original destination of these two Wei tribesmen was Dongzhou, but they got off the bus here."

The director's eyes were still on the phone screen, he raised his hand to interrupt the other party's speech, and said lightly: "The case three days ago? It was Lao Hu's shift that day. When you go to work tomorrow, you can just give him these information. Let's Yeah, just mind your own duties."

As he said that, he freed up a hand to push back the information that was originally placed in front of him: "It's been three days, and no one knows where they are. To be honest, there is no need to worry about it anymore."

The policewoman took a deep breath and continued to explain: "We just received a call from the public, saying that there were people from the Wei tribe searching for matches?"

"Matches?" The director seemed to be a little interested. He raised his head and stared at the ceiling. "Why are they buying matches? Barbecue? Why not buy a lighter?"

Seeing that the director's head finally left the small screen of the mobile phone, the policewoman sped up and said, "Director, this is what happened."

The director raised his head and turned his head clockwise a few times, and then counterclockwise a few times. There was a clicking sound in his neck. It turned out that he had lowered his head to browse his mobile phone for too long, which caused some discomfort in his neck.

He didn't even listen to what the policewoman said. He lowered his head immediately and said with an impatient tone: "Why do you care about this? There are no controls on matches now, so just let them buy them. Xiaoli, we can get tens of thousands of people here a day." People, among whom there must be thousands of foreigners, if we are in charge of everything, do we still need to rest? In other words, if we are robots and don’t need to rest, do you think we can manage it?"

Snapped!

The policewoman finally couldn't help it and slapped her palm on the table. The director was so shocked that the cell phone in his hand almost slipped under the table.

"Director! There are people from the Wei tribe buying boxes of matches from us today. What if a fire breaks out in a densely populated area?"

The director was stunned, then smiled, and finally put the phone aside: "Don't worry, if you really plan to set a fire, people won't buy matches. Think about it, lighters, flamethrowers, etc. are not better than matches. ?”

"Then why did you buy so many matches at once?"

"There are so many sales going on in our city every day, including scissors, kitchen knives, hammers, etc. Are you prepared to check every single transaction?"

"Director, but the police at the railway station also suspect that there is something wrong with these two Wei people. Do you think we should report this situation to the anti-terrorist brigade?"

"They only have two old men, and they don't even have a top soldier, so what can they do? Oh, yes, they can call and report to the anti-terrorist detachment."

"Director, this kind of communication is inefficient and error-prone. How about we report it directly to their detachment?"

"How many people are there in their team? It's midnight, and you even reported to the superior about buying a match. You're going to be laughed at. There's no need." The director pondered for a moment, wondering whether he would come up with something, this stupid guy It was designated that he would not be allowed to rest, "Let's do this. You will report the situation to the Xingdao later and ask them to send someone to find out the situation."

The detachment belongs to the municipal bureau, and any report must be approved by the leaders of their county and city bureaus. If you bother the bureau leaders in the middle of the night, or it is such a trivial matter of buying and selling matches, you will definitely get a look.

Xiaoli is young and ignorant, so he can't just mess around with her. The Criminal Investigation Brigade is a unit of our own bureau, so it is best for them to come forward for both reasons and circumstances. They are professional investigators anyway.

The director added: "You just report it and say that you suspect that some foreign residents may have set the fire, and ask them to send someone to investigate. Well, pass along the information from the railway police, saying that the case is complicated, the personnel are complex, and it is extremely dangerous." It may trigger mass incidents. Let them be sure to understand the situation."

"Huh?" The policewoman who was recording raised her head and asked doubtfully, "Director, does this have nothing to do with a mass incident?"

The bald director smiled greasyly, like an old fried dough stick: "Just a few more words, write them all, the more truthful they are, the better. Listen to me, that's right."

Downstairs, Criminal Investigation Brigade, duty room.

"Lao Liu, the command center forwarded a police report, saying that someone bought a large amount of matches and might be suspected of arson. Let's go check it out."

A detective wearing glasses put down the phone and waited for the clattering printer to print out the police information. When he took it into his hand, he realized that the suspects were two Wei people.

Lao Liu sat in front of the TV with a cigarette in his mouth and played the PS5 game "Old Head Ring" with a controller. He said disapprovingly: "Are you kidding me? Using matches to set fire? I'm afraid this person has just been released from prison after twenty years." Come on. I'll go and die again! Hey, this Valkyrie is really difficult to get!"

Glasses shrugged, also feeling that this police situation was a bit boring, but since the police situation came from the command center, according to the rules, they had to mobilize the police to investigate. It doesn't matter whether we can find anything or not.

The procedure must be followed through.

Glasses took the information and walked to Lao Liu and stood watching him play the game.

"Lao Liu, why are you using a shield to fight the BOSS from beginning to end? Are you tired? Why don't you use weapons?"

"It's a long night, just killing time."

After another dead round, Lao Liu threw away the controller angrily, then took the police information handed over by his glasses and browsed it quickly.

"Two people from the Wei tribe? We have to go and have a look. Haven't you found out where they live?" Lao Liu grabbed the information he had just printed and rummaged around to find it, but couldn't find it.

"No. I guess I didn't stay in a hotel. Maybe I stayed at a relative or friend's house."

"Well, but the relationship section is also blank, so there's no way to start with it."

"How about we start the video back investigation from the train station?"

"Okay, then let's hand it over to the visual reconnaissance team when we get to work tomorrow morning. You can scan it with your eyes. This is quick. Let's go through it ourselves first."

Lao Liu and Jing Jing returned to the computer and quickly searched through the Sky Eye system. They found several videos of the two Wei people walking on the street.

Lao Liu pointed to the latest video and said: "She should live near here. Let's get up early tomorrow and go over there. Maybe we can get some clues."

The next day.

The two got up early, first left a message for the people from the visual investigation team to assist in the investigation, and then ran to the street where the suspect last appeared yesterday through the Sky Eye system.

After questioning along the way, we visited all ten hotels and guest houses one by one. Several of them said that they had indeed received two Wei people, but they did not allow them to check in.

The clues were cut off and the investigation could only be terminated. Lao Liu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and wondered if he could find something to do in the afternoon, such as going fishing with a few friends.

Lao Liu looked at the time and saw that it was already past eight-thirty, which meant he was officially off work. The following time was compensatory time for the staff on duty, so they no longer had to continue working.

He greeted the glasses and went to the street breakfast shop together.

The sun was shining brightly, and there were more and more people bustling on the road, but there was a reassuring atmosphere spreading, which also infected the two of them as police officers.

Especially when I have just finished my shift and the night watch, I get up early in the morning and go out to search for the platoon. Although I don't find any clues, this feeling of protecting one side can still put people in a good mood for the day.

After sitting down, we waited for the waiter to bring two bowls of noodles.

While Lao Liu slurped down the noodles, he told his glasses to make a work record of the police investigation. This was considered to have closed the case, and the two of them could go to get off work peacefully.

After finishing the noodles, Lao Liu wiped his mouth and prepared to pay the bill and leave. However, a call came from the team. He saw that it was from the Visual Investigation Squadron, and he knew that he had a clue about the case involving the Wei people.

Before answering the phone, he joked towards the glasses: "Our city purchases tens of millions of dollars worth of surveillance every year, and it seems to be somewhat effective."

Glasses affirmed: "Of course, the maintenance fee costs more than 10 million per year, but it's money well spent. It makes handling cases much easier."

Lao Liu picked up the phone and hung up after a few minutes.

On the phone, the co-police officer of the video investigation squadron gave a brief introduction to the situation, saying that they had located the whereabouts of a Chinese man who was traveling with him and found out his hotel accommodation information in recent days. The two Wei people should be with him. living together.

Subsequently, relevant hotel and personnel information was sent to Lao Liu's mobile phone.

"The compensatory leave is cancelled. Let's go and get to work."