Chapter Seventeen Death, Closer Than Ever Before

  As the three men walked into that small house and closed the door, I quickly passed through the long corridor to the hall. That elf-like woman saw me and smiled strangely again.

  I was so nervous that I didn't have time to get angry, walked to one side and dialed Zhou's phone number.

  "Boss, I'm Shen Shangyu. That man called Lin Ge is indeed at the club, and the buyer has also arrived, you guys hurry over."

  Zhou's team quickly said, don't alarm them first, the police will arrive soon.

  I stood in a dimly lit corner of the front desk, my eyes occasionally gazing out and inside the long corridor, with bated breath, my heart pounding rapidly.

  I'm shocked, that old woman who's around thirty years old is actually laughing with a twisted face, swaying her hips and walking towards me, opening her bloody big mouth makes me want to vomit.

  Her hands, which had long since lost their elasticity, grasped my shoulders, and she said with a flirtatious tone: "Hey, handsome guy, why are you out again? Do you have an old flame or not? If not, then let me keep you company tonight?"

  Damn it, I almost fainted. Just as I was about to remove her rough and coarse hands from my shoulders, I suddenly remembered the mission of this trip. Suppressing the intense churning in my stomach, I patted her face with my hand and put on a playful tone: "Sis? I think you're my little sister? I'm here tonight just to relax..."

  I was making small talk with this old woman while waiting for Team Zhou to arrive and rescue me, then catch the drug dealer.

  About ten minutes later, two police cars appeared at the entrance of 'Yinyin Leisure Club', and more than a dozen policemen jumped out, one of whom was Captain Zhou.

  Without saying much, Captain Zhou gestured for me to follow him, and together with the police, we rushed in. Meanwhile, two others split off to block the back door.

  As soon as I followed in, I heard a dull thud, which was the sound of the stairway door leading from the first floor to the upper floors being kicked open.

  The door was kicked open, the woman immediately wrapped her head in a sheet and crouched on the ground, while the man was struggling to put on his pants, unable to zip them up, with a pale face and a look of despair. Officer Zhou left one policeman to watch over them, and led the rest of the people to rush into that mahjong room.

  The door of the mahjong room was kicked open by Zhou's team: "Don't move! We are police!"

  The mahjong room was in a mess, everyone was handcuffed, and that guy named Sha Qiang shouted loudly: "Playing mahjong is not against the law, is it?"

  "What's all the fuss about? Go back to the office and have a clear talk. What's not against the law, do you guys understand the law? That pile of money on the mahjong table, is it for wiping faces?" Captain Zhou didn't mention anything about drug trafficking.

  In the midst of the smoke and fog, I suddenly realized that something was off. Only six people were caught? The four playing mahjong plus the three who came in later should have made seven people. Where was the other person?

  The window behind was half open, and I shouted: "Head, it's not good, another one ran away!" Without waiting for Zhou to speak, I jumped out of the open rear window. At this critical moment, my excellent skills honed from three years of crawling in police school were revealed.

  The back of 'Yin Yin Leisure Club' is actually the Tuo River. I saw two figures chasing each other on the riverbank in front, with the person behind wearing a police uniform, obviously my teammate.

  I was like an arrow off the string, running forward at full speed and soon caught up with that teammate.

  My chubby teammate saw me catching up and stopped, panting, with the gun in his hand pointing at me: "Don't move, I'm a policeman!"

  I wasn't wearing a police uniform, I was a stranger with a unfamiliar face and dressed in a sloppy manner, he misunderstood me and thought I was one of them. I quickly told him: "Brother, we're on the same side, catching drug dealers is what matters!"

  No sooner had my words fallen than I heard a "bang" and saw that fat comrade clutching his chest, falling straight down in front of me. About fifty meters away from me, at the edge of the forest, stood a middle-aged man with a ferocious face, with smoke still rising from the muzzle of the gun in his hand.

  My mind went blank, I was stunned, death had never been so close to me before!

  "Bang!" Another gunshot, this one aimed at me. In the darkness, I could even see the sharp bullet flying towards my forehead. I wanted to dodge, but couldn't move my feet.

  I think I'm going to die, and the next second my body will fall. Tomorrow, the whole county will be filled with my name, Comrade Shen Shangyu, a newly appointed police officer, died in action during a drug crackdown before he even got started...

  Suddenly the wind picked up, and at a critical moment, a woman with long hair suddenly appeared in front of me, pushing me to the ground with one hand, and the bullet whizzed past my head.

  I was frightened and couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but I vaguely felt that her figure was very familiar.

  I fell to the ground, and in a daze, I saw the woman's figure rush forward like a gust of wind, instantly arriving beside the man with the gun. Without seeing her make any moves, she flipped her wrist, and the gun was in her hand. Then, with a beautiful kick, she knocked the stunned middle-aged man to the ground. The entire movement was clean and efficient, without any hesitation or delay.

  I narrowly escaped death, staring blankly, the residual consciousness in my mind made me jump up from the ground like a carp, and quickly pounced on that middle-aged man.

  The long-haired woman saw me subdue the middle-aged man and disappeared from my sight without a word.

  She disappeared so quickly! Who? Who is she?

  I didn't have time to think, Zhou's team had already brought a group of teammates to chase after him, and the middle-aged man was caught, who was Lin Ge, the leader of the drug escape.

  That night, back to the rental house, it was already past three o'clock in the morning.

  I locked myself in the bathroom, washing away the stench of sweat with water, and before my eyes kept flashing the painful and distorted expression of that fat teammate who was shot and fell to the ground in front of me. Life and death were so close, just a matter of seconds. If... if it weren't for the appearance of that ghostly woman, I would probably have become an icy corpse by now...

  Damn it, it's too scary! Being a detective looks glorious on the surface, but executing tasks is fraught with danger. A kind of inexplicable fear quietly flows around me!

  I don't know what that old man was thinking, why he forced me to make such a major decision, making me choose a career path full of death?

  After taking a bath, I buried my head deep in the quilt, resenting the old man's ruthlessness and mourning the innocent death of my fat teammate.

  "Drip... drip...", the phone's message alert sounded. At this moment, it suddenly rang out, no different from a midnight alarm bell.

  I sprang up from bed like a conditioned reflex, and with a "click", I turned on the light. I reached under my pillow to grab my phone and saw that it was a message from Qin Su'er: "Yu Ge, are you okay?"

  I'm fine, what's up? Screw it, damn close call, almost kissed the grim reaper.

  I didn't respond like that, but Qin Su'er's message in the dark of night warmed my heart and moved me to tears, knowing there was still someone out there who cared about me.

  I quickly replied to her message: "Su'er, I'm fine, just missing you... Missing you so much that it's making me weak..."

  A minute later, Qin Suer replied to my message: "Yu Ge, you're so poor-mouthed... but I like it... Tomorrow you don't have to go to the Le Fan Tian bar to find me, I'll come to your rental house to accompany you when it gets dark."

  I was so moved that tears streamed down my face and I replied: "Thank you! Su'er. Why don't you move over and live with me?"

  I sent the information over and stared nervously at the phone screen, hoping to get Qin Su'er's affirmative reply. But I was disappointed, Qin Su'er didn't respond to my message again.

  I slammed my phone on the bed, turned off the light and thought to myself: "She didn't agree to my request, will she be annoyed with me and not come see me tomorrow night?".

  I fell asleep in a daze.

  Considering my excellent performance, Zhou team gave me another week off.

  This time, I became a fighting hero in the criminal police team in a daze. Although there were several times when I wanted to tell Captain Zhou clearly that it was not me who caught the drug lord Lin Ge, but someone else. But as soon as I opened my mouth, I was interrupted by the praise of my teammates, and I had no choice but to let it go.

  A week later, I rushed to the criminal police team to go to work. Due to the outstanding performance that night, almost all colleagues in the criminal police team could call out my name, and I became an idol in the hearts of my colleagues. Listening to it made me feel a little proud.

  Zhou's team assigned me an office, where there were four colleagues, plus me, five people in total. We were all young people who had just graduated from police school not long ago. Lin Jie, Liu Er Mao, Guan Ting Ting, Duan Juan, three males and two females.

  As soon as I walked into the office, Guan Tingting enthusiastically greeted me and walked over with a steaming cup of tea, her face beaming with sweetness: "Shang Yu, your performance that night was too brave, I really admire you, have a cup of tea?"

  I had long heard that Guan Tingting was a flower in the criminal police team, and hurriedly took over the teacup, feeling honored and surprised. My god, this is the police flower's spilled tea!

  It can be seen from Lin Jie and Liu Er Mao's jealous eyes that the two of them have never enjoyed such high treatment before.

  I deliberately said indifferently: "Thank you." Then I sat down in front of the office desk, pretending to be deep, sipping tea and admiring the layout of the office.

  Actually, I had been keeping an eye on Guan Tingting with my peripheral vision all along.

  Wow, a truly deserving beauty cop! The bulging parts are bulging, the protruding parts are protruding, slender and elegant, super yy-inducing. If I could do something with her, it would definitely be great*, she and Qin Su'er are absolutely two different types.

  Seeing Guan Tingting's beautiful appearance, my habit of indulging in wild fancies recurred.

  Suddenly, Liu Ermao's strange and eerie voice rang out in the office: "Yu Ge, you were so brave that night, it made my heart flutter, why don't you be my boyfriend?"

  I figured it out, Liu Er Mao is learning Guan Tingting's voice and chatting with her.